Local community members are looking at the need to reorganize the Fourth of July celebration, Sundown Salute.

This year the celebration finished $32,000 in the red.

There will be a move to have attorney Vic Davis sign over Sundown Salute Inc. that was formed in 1987 to a new board of directors. Funding will also have to be a priority to erase the debt and begin generating the funding needed for a 2017 celebration.

The chief financial officer for the City of Junction City, Cheryl Beatty, has offered a fundraising suggestion she has seen work elsewhere. “In several communities that I’ve lived in we’ve used the idea of selling labeled bricks, and do the brick walk of fame on a sidewalk. People’s names are then engraved in a brick and you sell them for a $100 each, and you can raise quite a bit of money in a short period of time.” Beatty added, “Who doesn’t want a brick on a sidewalk in a town that you want to visit and your grandkids visit and your family can visit and go see.”

The sale of bricks helped fund the Buffalo Soldier Memorial in Junction City several years ago.