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Evening at the Museum, Tuesday, Oct. 12th

The October Evening at the Museum program will be held Tuesday the 12th at 7:00 p.m. at the Washington Historical Society Museum, 4th and Market Streets in downtown Washington.

The program “Why Should I Care about Cemeteries?” will be presented by Marc Houseman, Museum Director and president of the Franklin County Cemetery Society. The presentation will focus on the work being doing by the cemetery society to preserve, record and restore cemeteries in the Franklin County area.

The program is free and open to the public. For more information you may call the historical society at 636-239-0280.

Finney Cemetery Wednesday the 6th

Reminder: Finney Cemetery, mowing and trimming Wednesday, October 6, 2010, at 10:00 a.m.

"Evening at the Museum"

The next "Evening at the Museum" at the Washington Historical Society will feature the work of our cemetery society. The program will be Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. at the museum at 4th and Market in downtown Washington.

Please mark your calendars and plan to attend.

St. Borgia Work Schedule

At last evening’s meeting we set the following work dates for St. Francis Borgia Cemetery in Washington. We are hoping to finish up the Borgia project soon.

Saturday, October 2, 2010 beginning at 9:00 a.m. ‘til ?????
Thursday, October 7, 2010 beginning at 5:00 p.m. ‘til dark
Saturday, October 9, 2010 beginning at 9:00 a.m. ‘til ?????

We Need You Friday and Saturday!

We are looking forward to having a full working crew at St. Francis Borgia Cemetery in Washington this Friday beginning at 5:00 p.m. and Saturday beginning at 9:00 a.m. We need all of you to help in order to get this project knocked out. We will be assisted by members of church’s cemetery committee and others, so please plan to be there for a good ‘showing’.

New Date/Old Date--Work Days at St. Borgia

The re-schedule date is Friday, September 17 (with the following day, Saturday, remaining a work day as previously scheduled).