Belleville council will help pay for the cleaning of approximately 500 headstones that were spray-painted recently at Elmwood and St. James cemeteries.
At Monday’s meeting, council voted to grant $15,000 toward the clean-up effort being undertaken by Campbell’s Monuments.
Meanwhile, the gravestones at Elmwood Cemetery are expected to be cleaned in time for its annual Remembrance Day ceremony being held Wednesday afternoon.
Clean-up will then move on to St. James Roman Catholic Cemetery.