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General News: New Wall of Excellence Planned

The monument to Blair already was missing several letters when this photo was taken in 2006.
The monument to Blair already was missing several letters when this photo was taken in 2006.
May 12, 2010

By David DeRita

The Cornwall Town Council voted on Monday evening to rename and renovate a monument dedicated to Olympic speed skater and Cornwall celebrity Bonnie Blair. The council agreed to change the name of the monument from the “Wall of Honor” to the “Wall of Excellence” in order to allow other outstanding residents to be added to the monument on the hillside next to Ring’s Pond in the town park.

In addition to replacing Blair’s worn inscription with a new bronze plaque, the project will include a plaque for General David Petraeus. Blair was born in Cornwall but moved to Champaign, Illinois, at a very young age while General Petraeus was born and raised in Cornwall and attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.



Comments:

Boy, what a dumb use of Town money. Creating a wall and a plaque for someone who was simply born in Cornwall and then moved away and excelled at a sport?

I bet if you asked Gen. Petraeus, he'd rather see the town keep their money and use it for something important rather than yet another monument or memorial.


posted by Ted Warren on 05/12/10 at 11:54 AM

Why not just clean off the front and leave it as the cozy little structure that it is. Quit fiddling with it. Use the money to pay somneone to paddle out and flip the 'gator head' right-side-up.


posted by Kate Benson on 05/12/10 at 7:35 PM

"..someone..." (eyes are to old to see the 3 pt font on the screen...)


posted by Kate Benson on 05/12/10 at 7:37 PM

ok il'qwert whl im ahed


posted by Kate Benson on 05/12/10 at 7:38 PM

I agree with T. Warren, Ms Blair was simply born in Cornwall and her family moved away when she was about six months. Is Cornwall so desperate to have a claim to fame that all you need is to be conceived and born here to have a plaque. Maybe you should get in touch with Blair and see if she would like to contribute to the plaque, or NYMA, or anything else to do with Cornwall, it is her home town after all. Ugh.


posted by Cassidy Jones on 05/13/10 at 12:32 PM

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