LANDIS — Those who wish to leave their mark on a future legacy piece of Landis will get their chance thanks to a brick-etching fundraiser for the DC and Frances Linn Park.

“Our committee met on the 23rd of last month and agreed upon the donation amount for our bricks for citizens to purchase at $100 and for $75 for veterans,” DC and Frances Linn Park Committee Chairman Michelle Gray told the Landis Board of Aldermen during its most recent monthly meeting. 

Gray informed the board that the committee had secured an etching company at a rate of $13 per brick. 

“These will be engraved,” Gray said. “There will be three lines, up to 18 characters on each line.”

There will be multiple options for the type of brick that donors want to purchase. Gray explained that if the brick is purchased by, in honor of, or memorializing a veteran, then it will cost $75. 

“These will be placed all throughout the park starting with those that are purchased in memorial to veterans in the veterans memorial area,” Gray said.

The other option will be $100 for a citizen or other prospective donor and those bricks will be scattered throughout other areas of the park.

As long as it is in memorial to a veteran, Gray said that the cost will be $75. 

“If I’m putting my family’s name on it, it will be $100,” Gray said. “If I am purchasing it in the memory of my father who served in the Navy, that would be a veterans (price).”

Mayor Meredith Smith asked “what if one of the local businesses wanted to buy one for everyone of their people, would we offer a commercial rate?” 

Gray told Smith that she would be happy to bring a bulk purchasing option before the committee at a future meeting. 

Gray also told the board that they wanted to roll this project out at the upcoming Fall Festival, which takes place on Saturday. The event will feature a community trunk or treat, kiddie rides, inflatables, face painting, food trucks craft and vendors sales and music. It will be held on North Central Avenue from 2-6 p.m.