Knights at Work — The Lord's Prayer Signs.

KofC Team Members Bob Harmon, Dan Spielbusch Sr., Harry Venneman and Dave Diskin. Not Pictured (because he took it) Charles Schettler.

Dave Diskin Repairing the Bottom of a Sign Post

During the past weekend KofC Council 760 replaced the fourteen The Lord's Prayer signs, that stretch about 4/10th's of a mile east from Xavier Road, on the north side of highway 47.  A group of Knights took on the job of: removing the old signs; scraping and repainting the existing posts; and remounting a set of new 2' x 4' sign panels.  They also repaired a couple of posts and replaced a few of the trim strips finishing off the installation.
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The project actually started several weeks earlier when artwork from the earlier signs was located.  Those earlier images were enhanced to make the lettering more prominent on the backgrounds.  Then the new images were printed on vinyl covered aluminum plates mounted on a corrugated vinyl core.
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This Was the Third Iteration. 
We don't know the exact timing, but the new signs are the third set that have graced The Lord's Prayer along K47 during the past 25 or more years:

1. Felix and Ruth O'Brien installed the first set about twenty-five years ago [1].  These original signs were hand painted and installed along the same 4/10th's mile stretch as the newer ones.
2. About ten years ago, the Kroenke family had signs made and installed that were very similar to the new ones.  Over the past few years, those vinyl-on-aluminum sign panels began to crack and fade.
3. Hopefully the new KofC versions of the signs will last another 10 years, or until the Council or someone else extends the tradition.

​The signs can be difficult to appreciate at 65 miles per hour.  Here is a slide-show gallery of each of the new panels.  Hover the mouse over the pictures to see the slide navigation controls.

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Note:

1. A Follow-up from the original post:  One of our followers, Misty O'Brien, informed us that Ruth O'Brien's sister, Margaret "Peggi" O'Brien painted the original set of signs.  Peggi recalls, they were done in the 1995 - 1996 time-frame; and she is still employed as an artist and sign painter.