The Friends of Silverbrook Cemetery will meet this Thursday, March 18th at 7pm. We will meet in the Small Meeting Room at the Law Enforcement Center, as the large room is in use that night.
Monthly Meetings
The Friends of Silverbrook Cemetery meet the third Thursday each month at 7 p.m. at the Niles Law Enforcement Center, located at Main St and Silverbrook Ave.
In addition to discussing progress made with our restoration and education projects, we feature a Guest Speaker. Past speakers have given talks about the history of Niles, gravestone restoration, and biographies of leading citizens. Many of our members also have interests in genealogy and local history. Members, nonmembers, and guests are always welcome to attend at no cost.
The Friends of Silverbrook Cemetery will hold their February meeting Thursday, Feb. 18th at 6pm at the Niles Community Library, as the Law Enforcement Building meeting room is unavailable this week. Carol and David Bainbridge will give a presentation on their efforts to save the Vandalia Bonine house and the Underground Railroad history it is a part of. Please come - it is fascinating stuff!
Thursday January 21, 2010 at 6 p.m. (an hour earlier than our regularly scheduled Monthly Meeings), we will have have an Open House at the Law Enforcement Complex in Niles, located at Silverbrook Ave. and Main Street. We will showcase our accomplishments for the past year, including what we have done on our Beautifcation and Restoration projects, the Silverbrook Legacies article series in the Niles Daily Star, and expansion of our website. This will be an opportunity to meet the current and future volunteers!
As always, our meetings are open to the public. Coffee and refershments will be served.
Our next Monthly Meeting will be Thursday November 19 at 7 p.m. at the Law Enforcement Complex in Niles. The meeting after that will be on Thursday December 17. We are planning to continue meeting this winter, as weather permits! Watch this space for changes and updates.
In addition to on-going business, we are looking for speakers on the topics of local history, cemeteries, genealogy, and other topics of interest to our members and the community. If you have ideas or would like to present, please contact us at president@friendsofsilverbrook.org. As always, our meetings are open to the public.
Friends of Silverbrook Cemetery will hold its July meeting this Thursday night, July 16th, at 7pm at the Law Enforcement Center. Come and see some of Candace's notebooks and pictures of recent stone restorations. The guys just repaired a really large, damaged marker, using a tripod to lift the whole thing! Also we will have pictures of the John Gipner garden, planted by the Four Flags Garden Club. It is awesome!