Colony Club Of Ocean City Volunteers For Wreaths Across America

CAPE MAY COUNTY, NJ — The Colony Club of Ocean City participated in a national effort to honor the service of veterans by placing wreaths on graves at the Gerald M. Thornton Veterans’ Cemetery in Cape May County.

Each December, communities across the country come together to commemorate the national Wreaths Across America Day and host wreath-laying ceremonies for deceased veterans at more than 2,100 locations.

Seventeen Colony Club of Ocean City members along with 15 family members and friends attended this year’s wreath ceremonies on Dec. 19 , which included an invocation by military personnel and a verbal recognition by name of each honored veteran.

“The Colony Club was pleased to have the opportunity to join a grateful nation in saying ‘thank you’ to our veterans,” said Cathy Solarski, chair of the club’s Wreaths Across America Committee.

The Colony Club donated funds and sponsored 68 wreaths this year, which were matched with 34 additional wreaths by Wreaths Across America.

The wreaths are hand-crafted of balsam vines and hand-tied with red velvet bows at the Wreaths Across America headquarters in Columbia Falls, Maine, and then shipped to each ceremony location.

Ocean City’s Colony Club is a nonprofit organization that develops and supports programs and projects to improve the community.

The club is part of the General Federation and New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs and plans to expand its outreach efforts in 2021 to include any individuals or other organizations interested in sponsoring wreaths.

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