We want to thank the workers from CORE and the CORE supervisor, Mitch Brown, for their wonderful efforts the past couple of days at the Wilcox Cemetery in the Town of Genoa near North Lansing. We are so grateful to this agency for its help and the encouragement it gives our volunteers in keeping the cemetery cleared and looking like somebody cares about it.

It has been a struggle in recent times for my husband, John, and his brother, Donald Lane, to continue to mow and maintain the front third of the cemetery. They have been doing so for more than 20 years and their ages are 78 and 87, and it has been discouraging to realize their ability to continue to do so is not certain.

Last year, a work crew organized by the Armstrong family cleared brush, etc. at the perimeters and in the back areas as well as obtained and set new stones for some of the Revolutionary and Civil War veterans. Their help is limited to mostly annual efforts because of constraints of distance, etc. even though it has been most welcome and helpful.

It is a great surprise and so encouraging to John and Donald recently when they pulled up to do the mowing and trimming to find the CORE crew hard at work.

We talked with Mitch Brown at the site and discussed CORE's plans for future work at the site with the cooperation from Mr. Frank Sellen from the Town of Genoa Highway Department in hauling away brush, etc.

Improving the appearance of the cemetery is an honor to those who came before us and those who fought to secure this country and settled it in the face of tremendous hardship and sacrifice.

Helen D. Lane

Locke