The Alki Community Council Board of Trustees, the community organization representing citizens of Alki Beach in Seattle, has announced they are giving free six-month memberships to each person who has purchased a brick, plaque, bench, or was a major donor for the building of the new Statue of Liberty Plaza at Alki Beach or for its ongoing maintenance program.

The gift is in celebration of the first ACC Family Fun Day at Alki Beach on Sunday, September 12. The Plaza Project was completed in 2008.

Since then, funds collected from the sale of bricks and plaques have gone into a separate Maintenance Fund for the plaza, according to a Memorandum of Understanding between the Alki Community Council and the Seattle Parks Department. The gift includes two free quarterly issues of the “Alki News Beacon”.

The Alki Community Council, a non-profit organization that represents citizens in the Alki Beach neighborhood in many areas of community interest, exists to encourage community cooperation and participation in local activities.

By hosting the ACC Family Fun Day for the community, they wish to raise awareness of the values in local community involvement.

The free six-month memberships to the ACC is their way of saying “Thank You” to those donors who gave so generously to create and maintain the new plaza while raising awareness of the goals of the organization and encouraging participation of the new members in the ACC’s activities.

The ACC emphasized that plaza donors would receive this gift, whether they gave money in prior years or are just doing so at the Sunday event. Those present at this September 12th event will also have an opportunity to win one of several gift certificates being donated by area merchants.