White Plains Mayor Tom Roach and New York State Senator Shelley B. Mayer recently hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the city”™s Veterans Memorial Garden, which is located in the publicly accessible green space behind White Plains City Hall.
“Our city hall rotunda serves as a veteran”™s memorial, with plaques reflecting many of the conflicts our residents have served in. Our new Veterans Memorial Garden is a complement to the rotunda, a peaceful setting where members of the community can remember, respect and honor the contributions and sacrifices of veterans who heroically served our country and protected our freedom. It also offers us the opportunity to display a historic deck gun from the USS Maine donated to the city by the White Plains Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The Common Council and I are grateful to Senator Shelley Mayer who provided critical state funding necessary to design and construct the Veterans Memorial Garden,” said Roach.
Mayer said, “”¦I am pleased to have been able to secure $62,000 funding from the State Senate to bring this beautiful garden to fruition”¦”
