Aurora-based radio show host Rick Crandall, who spearheaded the effort on the Colorado Freedom Memorial more than a decade ago, announced this past Saturday that he reached his $400,000 goal for the construction of the memorial.
On Friday he hosted a successful, all-day fundraising event at Dry Dock Brewing Co.
“As we were getting close to wrapping up the day, fairly pleased with our effort on our Colorado Freedom Memorial radio-thon, we received a surprise call from a couple that were touched by what they heard yesterday and pledged to make up the difference between what we raised and the $400k goal,” he wrote in an email.
The second incarnation of the memorial is planned for four acres of empty land at Springhill Park near East Sixth Avenue and North Telluride Street in Aurora and will be the first of its kind to commemorate every Colorado resident who died or went missing in each conflict since the Spanish-American War in 1898. Trees will surround the memorial, and the site will also include a shelter, rest rooms and a kiosk where families can find where a name on the memorial is located.
Read the story recently published in the Aurora Sentinel about the memorial here.