TAOS, N.M. – Volunteers and veterans are helping lead an effort to build a new Veterans Memorial Park in Taos.
The Albuquerque Journal reports the nonprofit group Not Forgotten Outreach Inc. is taking the lead in a coalition that plans to begin work this spring.
Earlier this year, the nonprofit received a $23,000 grant from the Christopher & Dana Reeves Foundation. The grant will underwrite the construction of an Americans with Disabilities Act-accessible walking trail crossing over a spring-fed drainage waterway.
Taos VFW Post 3259 will place a World War II anti-aircraft cannon in the park with help from a donation from Robert Medina & Sons Concrete and Sand Inc. The cannon is similar to those used by the New Mexico National Guard 200th Coast Artillery during World War II.
Taos County, which includes the Taos Pueblo and Picuris Pueblo, has a population of more than 3,000 veterans.
