Planting Day 2025 at Veterans Memorial Circle | Main/Auburn roundabout
Schedule
Sat May 10 2025 at 08:30 am to 04:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
1500 N Main St, Rockford, IL, United States, Illinois 61103 | Rockford, IL
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Join our #CircleOfHope as we come together — for the seventh year in a row — to honor our veterans and military families in our community by planting thousands of flowers at Veterans Memorial Circle: the unusual veterans’ memorial bordering the Main/Auburn roundabout.DATE and TIME
Saturday, May 10, 2025 – rain or shine
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
REPORTING TO DUTY
There are no assigned shifts, and we have no formal registration in advance.
Simply show up and join us for as long as you can.
Sign in at the GREEN TENT in front of Greenwood Cemetery.
We will provide:
- tools
- safety vests
- gloves
- water
- snacks – M&Ms and mini Hershey bars (two classics from military rations).
ASSIGNMENTS
At the check-in station, you will be directed to a work area:
- the circle under the flag at the center of the roundabout
- the fronts of the four monument walls
- the medians north and south of the roundabout on North Main Street
- the four raised beds in front of the businesses on the southwest side of the roundabout
- the long bed on Auburn Street in front of Greenwood Cemetery
- the bed at the entrance to municipal parking lot on the south side of the roundabout
If you have a group of family members or co-workers, or friends from a community organization that you’d like to work with, let Ernie Redfern, project supervisor, know soon as possible. Ernie will make sure you all have the same work zone.
Email [email protected] or call Ernie at (312) 404-6452.
WHAT TO BRING
Your favorite gardening tools and gloves—if you’d prefer to use your own. Please make sure your tools are marked.
PARKING
Greenwood Cemetery near the Auburn Street entrance—please proceed respectfully!
Side streets on the NE, SE and SW quadrants of the roundabout.
After 2 p.m., when North End City Market closes, the city parking lot on the SE quadrant of the roundabout.
QUESTIONS
Email project co-chairs Ernie Redfern at [email protected] or Helen Redfern at [email protected].
Call Ernie at (312) 404-6452 or Helen at (708) 420-0800.
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Where is it happening?
1500 N Main St, Rockford, IL, United States, Illinois 61103Event Location & Nearby Stays:
