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Home My Public Portal AboutMcCall, Idaho: Cemetery-777,, 5`)-2 r - /y,-y/5 11101. Dy F18noan Grooms Misspelled cemetery sign was removed last week. Misspelled sign removed Even the most well- intentioned projects can go awry, as Tyler Vance recently learned. Vance was the quiet con - tributer of a beautiful wooden sign that appeared early this spr- ing announcing the entrance to the McCall Cemetery on Mission Street. Several weeks ago, members of the McCall City Council began receiving complaints about the word "cemetery" on the sign be- ing misspelled. It seems Vance spelled the word "cemetary," a fact he said that was missed by the 12 -15 peo- ple who had seen the sign as he worked on it as part of re- quirements for an Eagle Scout ranking with the Boy Scouts of America. Vance, who graduated this spr- ing from McCall - Donnelly High School, has since earned his Eagle ranking and is expecting the final confirmation from the national office of the Boy Scouts. At last week's city council meeting, council member Marion Johnson asked the city staff to find out who had donated the sign. Even cemetery ground- skeeper Roy Yoakum didn't know. "Could we not spell cemetery correctly without offending the person ?" Johnson said. "It was a wonderful gift, but can't we real- ly get it spelled correctly ?" When called on Thursday, word had long since made it to Vance about the unfortunate spelling error. He said he and his scout masters, Pete Pearson and Bruce Roycer, had been holding out because they had been told it could be spelled either way. "We're in the process of taking it down," he said. "It's important that it's done right." By Monday, the sign was gone. "It's really embarrassing, but that kind of thing just happens," said Vance, who was a top stu- dent at McCall - Donnelly, winn- ing several national awards. "We couldn't figure it out," he said. "My parents and scout- masters and a lot of other people saw the sign while we were mak- ing it," he said. "Nobody said anything." Vance said a correction would be made on the sign as soon as possible so that the sign could be replaced to mark the cemetery.