Zack Moore holding Pizza Luncheon on Jan. 27 as Eagle Scout fundraiser

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Zack Moore wants area res­i­dents to help con­tribute to a good cause — by eat­ing pizza. And any­one who has parked at Sun­bury United Methodist Church (SUMC) to attend a funeral at Sun­bury Memo­r­ial Park, or to attend an event on Sun­bury Vil­lage Square, will know what that good cause is.

Between SUMC and the Vil­lage cen­ter pedes­tri­ans on the north side of West Cherry Street have to walk out on the edge of the road­way before they can access the side­walk in front of the cemetery.

As an Eagle Scout project Moore plans to build an engi­neered 40-foot long by 10-foot wide foot bridge over Prairie Run Creek that will con­nect the Methodist Church park­ing lot with the side­walk in front of the cemetery.

Con­struc­tion should begin in the spring or early sum­mer, Moore said; and when the project is com­plete the foot­bridge will be turned over to the Vil­lage of Sun­bury and pedes­tri­ans will no longer have to brave vehic­u­lar traf­fic to get from the church to the ceme­tery or the cen­ter of Sunbury.

Moore said the entire project would cost between $25,000 and $40,000, were it not for engi­neer­ing assis­tance, exca­va­tion assis­tance and two 40-foot I-Beams already donated. He’s work­ing on obtain­ing lower con­crete and lum­ber costs, and donated labor.

On Sun­day, Jan­u­ary 27, Moore is hold­ing a Pizza Lun­cheon fundraiser to help off­set project costs.

“The pizza lun­cheon comes with a bowl of salad, one cookie and bev­er­ages,” Moore said. “There will be two pieces of Donatos’ pizza for an adult, or one piece of pizza will be served for a $6 dona­tion for adults and $5 for chil­dren age 7 below.”

The Pizza Lun­cheon Fundraiser will be held in the Sun­bury United Methodist Church mul­ti­pur­pose room, Moore said, and there will be two seat­ings. The first seat­ing will be from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; the sec­ond seat­ing will be from 12:30 to 2 p.m.

Moore said reser­va­tions are needed to know how many piz­zas to have on hand.

“We will have lim­ited seat­ing, so reser­va­tions are required,” Moore said. “We need to know the num­ber of peo­ple com­ing, and which seat­ing they would like to attend. Only a few reser­va­tions will be accepted after Wednes­day, Jan­u­ary 23, and those will be on a first-come first-served basis.”

You can reserve you reser­va­tion email­ing Moore at < BSA.sunburybridge@gmail.com > and put “Pizza Lun­cheon” in the sub­ject head­ing. You can also make a reser­va­tion by call­ing 614–949-6683. But remem­ber, Moore is a stu­dent at Big Wal­nut High School and he can­not answer a phone while in class. If no one answers leave a voice­mail, and Moore promises get back to you.

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