By Kimlye Stager | Coolidge Examiner
COOLIDGE — Local veterans groups came together last month to take their first big step into making their memorial park a reality.
The park would honor the veterans who are buried at the adjacent Heritage Valley Memorial Park Cemetery, along State Route 287, on plaques while also adding recognition for other Coolidge-area veterans who are not.
Doug Stinson, Disabled American Veterans chapter junior vice commander, said the plan for the actual park is to be 50-by-50 feet if the cemetery agrees to donate a little more land for additional tables and benches.
It has a black fence around it, purchased off Facebook Marketplace by a man who received it from a Mesa school. There’s a lot left over and if no veterans groups need it, they plan to put it back on the marketplace with those funds going toward the park.
Stinson believes around 350 spaces will be available for veterans per section with six sections planned at this time.
