![]() If you find a grocery store that will take people's grocery garbage for free, let us know. Fairmount incurs expenses in disposing people's holiday wreaths, long after the winter holidays are over, and the disposal fee is intended to recover our costs for such disposal, which take several forms. Such dealers install in our cemetery all the time. Your statement that local monument dealers “will not deal with them” is untrue. We charge a nominal recording fee to handle and review the paperwork. We do require that they adhere to our reasonable standards and provide proof of insurance and an insurance bond. Your sloppy phrase, “They charge so much others to install,” does not make much grammatical sense, but if we attempt to translate it, you seem to assert that we charge outside monument dealers installation fees when they install markers or monuments in our cemetery. For installations during the more than 70 years that predated our ownership, which typically had no foundations, we monitor and frequently level monuments that naturally lean over time. All of our new installations have always included foundations, with the limited and purposeful exception of companion markers, which always receive such foundations upon reinstallation, after the burial of the second person. In our 40 years, we have consistently installed concrete foundations under all new markers and monuments and under preexisting ones whenever they have to be removed, to prev ent premature settling. Your statement that “the headstone are not put in with any foundation or base” is untrue. What you wrote was not even an unsolicited “translation” but rather a litany of false statements. Kate Zeman, there was no indication from “Ron” that he needed or requested a “translation” of our clear and unequivocal response. Yes a beautiful location, and office staff is friendly, but the grounds crew could use improvement. No concrete or stone base which is way you see so many sinking into the ground. Plus the headstone are not put in with any foundation or base, just the sod is cut the 3 to 4 inches for the depth of the headstone and it is dropped in the opening. They charge so much others to install and have so many rules and requirements the local businesses that make the memorials will not deal with them. The wreath money making scheme is the same as the headstones. Trash barrels are not emptied on a regular basis, the water hydrants are a hit or miss if they are working that week or not. The flat headstones have been hit and chipped by the mower blades as the desk is too low. In the summer they constantly scalp the lawn because they are too lazy to raise the mower deck. ![]() The cemetery does not take as good of care of the grounds as they want you to believe. Also the rule for imposing the tag fee is not consistent either. At least one grave have been burning a glass and metal kerosene lantern for a year now. ![]() In the summer you find beer bottles sitting on head stones for weeks at a time. Also the rules are not enforced all the time for everyone. (They are artificial and due to the cost refreshed and reused.) jBut others in the area without any tags and not cemetery bought are still there. Wreaths on my family's graves were removed since the 13th when they were placed out. They will came and at random remove what wreaths they believe do not have tags. This is just a means of generating an income stream for them by forcing you to buy the tag or entire wreath - even if you do p ick up your own wreath by Jan 15th. The removal tag fee helps to cover recovery and disposal costs and is included in the price of our beautiful holiday wreaths. ![]() Ron - IF I may translate the cemetery response: hich has been in effect for several decades, relates to the majority of cases in which people place wreaths and then leave it to Fairmount to pick them up once the decorations have become unsightly.
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