Routine grounds work at cemetery alarms some
PRESTON, Idaho — A Idaho cemetery undergoing springtime maintenance is dismaying passers-by who have taken notice of oversized dirt clods and dug-up gravestones.
The warmer weather clean-up is a yearly ritual at Preston Cemetery, where workers unearth headstones each fall and replace them in spring.
Record keeper and sole employee for the cemetery Connie Smith tells the Logan Herald Journal (http://bit.ly/NykKMI) that unearthing the stones helps protect them from frost.
She says ice can pile over two feet high atop the red clay soil, destroying the markers.
A concerned visitor from Boise recently pointed out the unearthed stones in a letter to the editor of the Herald Journal and in a YouTube video.
Smith says workers are cleaning up the cemetery to prepare it for Memorial Day visits.