MoDOT worker bicycling to raise funds for memorial

Waiting for MoDOT, by zaskem, on Flickr

Nearly 130 MoDOT workers have died working to make our roads safer and easier to travel, so now the transportation department is hoping to build a memorial in their honor.

A Springfield MoDOT maintenance worker is taking nearly a month of his own vacation time to help raise money to build MoDOT's Fallen Workers Memorial.
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It's those workers and their families Sandgren says he is biking 2500 miles from to remember.

"I carry all my tent, my sleeping bag, air mattress, basically everything I need, and I am going to travel from Anacortes, Washington to Jefferson City," he said. . . . 

To make a contribution to help build the $94,000 Fallen Workers Memorial, make checks out to:

State Highway and Transportation Employees Association of Missouri.
Fallen Workers Memorial
c/o District 7 Highway Credit Union
2901 E 32nd Street, Suite A
Joplin, Missouri 64804