Local volunteers are working to ensure that all veterans laid to rest at Sky View Memorial Park in Hometown are honored Dec. 17 on National Wreaths Across America Day.

The goal for Sky View Memorial Park is to raise enough funds to place 3,600 wreaths on the headstones of all local heroes laid to rest there. But to date, organizers have sponsorships for 900 wreaths, or 25% of the goal.

The deadline to sponsor wreaths to remember those who served to protect the freedoms of the country is today by check and Nov. 29 by donating online.

Checks or money orders should be made payable to “Wreaths Across America” and mailed to Paul and Liz Corinchock, 286 Pump House Road, Weatherly, PA 18255. Cost is $15 per wreath, or three wreaths for $30.

If you wish to sponsor a wreath online or volunteer, visit http://wreathsacrossamerica.org/PA0524. A video with more information may be viewed at https://youtu.be/w2xYq7Ih9qk

This is the third year that Sky-View Cemetery will participate in the national program.

Wreaths Across America is nonprofit organization founded to continue and expand the annual wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery begun by Maine businessman Morrill Worcester in 1992. The organization’s mission of “Remember, Honor, Teach” is carried out in part each year by coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies in December at Arlington, as well as at thousands of veterans’ cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states and beyond.

All Wreaths Across America Day events are nonpolitical events and are open to all.