Achievement Awards were announced in December 2000. Eight applicants received cash awards for excellence and innovation in efforts to increase public awareness of outdoor sculpture and the need to preserve it.
All applicants are to be commended for their efforts.
In December 1999, the selectmen recognized the troop's excellent citizenship. Conservation of one the largest Civil War sculptures in the United States was a challenging task that filled the duration of 1999. By the Millennial New Year's Eve, the majority of the project had been completed for 25,000-person celebration. The popularity of the project led to a documentary film for public television. The Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch is merely a sample of the projects that CPF has completed since 1997, when their mission to raise the standards of care for their city's outdoor sculpture was adopted.