Portville Hometown Heroes Banners

07/19/2023

06/25/2023

The Town/Village have begun hanging the banners!! Thank you so very much for stepping up to take this worthwhile project over.

05/31/2023

Great news! It looks like we're close to finalizing a way to get the banners installed and taken down annually!
We will repost when the details are ironed out. (No pun intended 😉)

05/25/2023

UPDATE:
We have been working hard on collecting photos, printing banners, and sorting through existing banners determining which ones need to be reproduced! With that being said, unfortunately, the banners will not be up for Memorial Day Weekend.

Southern Tier Outerwear has been working with those seeking first time banners and this is going smoothly.

We are, however, actively seeking an organization or group of passionate volunteers who are willing to head up the hanging and removal of the banners! This has been done by the same people for five years and they are (understandably) ready to pass the torch!

If you have had a new banner produced by Southern Tier Outerwear, please drop that off at school to the attention of Dave Suain. In the meantime, the school will organize the banners and have them ready for whomever steps forward to take on hanging/removing them each year.

We know this is disappointing for folks, but we are making some very positive steps forward toward success as a community in honoring our veterans.

It is better we have a sustainable long-term reliable plan, than to move forward with patch work. Sometimes you have to take a step back in order to leap forward with a program.

Anyone interested in taking the lead on this worthwhile community service, please contact Coralie McMahon at [email protected] as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding and, as always, thank you to all of our veterans for your service.

04/24/2023

Example of an updated banner created in the Envisioneering Center.

04/24/2023

Welcome to the new site of the Portville Hometown Heroes Banners page! Thank you to Mr. and Mrs. Tom and Denise McCoy for starting and maintaining this program since 2018!

Portville Central School’s Envisioneering Center will be working on recreating existing banners that have become damaged/faded/unreadable with the intention of having them ready to hang by Memorial Day!

For those wishing to purchase NEW banners, please contact Twin Tiers Outerwear in Olean at 716-372-4063.