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Whitinsville breaks ground for new Armenian Heritage Monument
Pictured from left to right State Rep. David K. Muradian, Jr., Timothy Wickstrom, Board chair of UniBank, Michael Welch, CEO of UniBank, Jim Tusino, Guaranteed Builders Inc., Charles Ampagoomian, Jr., Northbridge Board of Selectmen member, Russell Collins, Northbridge Board of Selectmen chair, His Eminence Archbishop Anoushavan Tanielian, Rev. Fr. Aram Stepanian and Rev. Fr. Mikael Der Kosrofian (Photo: Danold Ampagoomian)[/caption
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I am a first-generation Armenian/American born in Whitinsville to survivors of the Armenian Genocide. My father, Mooshek Ovian, my grandmother, Anna Ovian, and many other family members, also survivors, are buried in Pine Grove Cemetery. My dad started working at Whitin Machine Works as a tool maker after graduating from the eighth grade at the age of fourteen and worked there until he retired at the age of 65. I grew up hearing firsthand about the atrocities perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks…something I will never forget. I look forward to visiting this sacred monument every Memorial Day. Thank you to all who had a part in its creation.