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Last week, 15 to 20 communityminded volunteers showed up at the Masonic Cemetery outside the town of Washington, armed with gloves, clippers and chain saws and ready to work cleaning up the debris from the site. Some were Masons, some wives of Masons, some had loved ones buried in the cemetery and some were just good hearted folks willing to lend a hand on a worthwhile project. They all deserve appreciation and recognition for their efforts.
The cemetery has been able over the years to keep prices for burial plots down at a level that low and moderate income families in Rappahannock can afford.
But to accomplish this, the local , Masonic Lodge has been forced to rely on volunteer labor to maintain upkeep. There’s just not money to pay for outside help. And generally, the labor has come from the Masons themselves.
Gibson Whorton, the Lodge s cemetery chairman, was impressed with the turn-out to help on last Thursday and Friday’s clean-up project. "They did a wonderful job!” he said, praising the ladies in particular.
But the work isn’t finished yet. There’s still brush that needs to be cut
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