A Tresckow man is on a mission to recognize a Junedale man who made the ultimate sacrifice 75 years ago at Pearl Harbor.

On Thursday, Edward Shemansky approached the Carbon County Commissioners to ask for financial assistance in making his dream of creating a black granite memorial for Arthur Joseph Gardner, a 21-year-old U.S. Navy petty officer who died aboard the USS Helena during the Pearl Harbor attacks."Approximately three years ago I had a dream," Shemansky said. "I wanted to have this memorial so we started (raising money for it.)"He went to legislators in the hopes of securing some of the funds needed to make the memorial a reality, but found that no grants or other financial help was available.Since then, he has been working with Gardner's niece, Andrea Andreuzzi, to raise the approximate $3,500 needed for the 6-foot-tall memorial.The pair have been going to various municipalities and stopped at the commissioners in hopes that someone would be able to help them.Commissioners' Chairman Wayne Nothstein wished him luck on his project, but said that unfortunately, the county does not have any such assistance available for this type of project.Shemansky said that there is a fund set up called the Arthur Gardner Memorial Fund at the Land Mark Community Bank, 383 S. Poplar St., Hazleton, in case anyone would like to donate to the cause.Gardner has been memorialized in the Hazleton area, with a portion of Route 424, which connects Route 309 in Hazle Village and Route 93, named the Arthur Gardner Beltway in 1969.