Aurora man heading to Las Vegas with truck full of crosses continuing anti
Greg Zanis
Greg Zanis  first heard the news about the Las Vegas shooting when an employee from ArchAngels Biorecovery showed up at  his  door around 7:30 Monday morning with a check from the Aurora clean-up company for $1 200.
The donation was gas money for  Zanis  so  he  could take a pick-up truck filled with crosses to Las Vegas  where at least 59 people have been killed and more than 500 wounded after a gunman opened fire at an outdoor Jason Aldean concert on Sunday evening.
"At first  when  he  told me what happened  I didn't believe  him  " said  Zanis  of  his  early-morning visitor. "And then I just cried."
It wasn't long before the phone calls started coming in to  his  home on Church Road. From the media  of course. And more importantly  from the mayor's office in Las Vegas  asking Zanis to bring his unique anti-violence crusade to the desert city that has become the latest — and sadly  the largest — mass murder site in this country.
 Zanis  is hoping that by Wednesday morning — after  he 's received the identities and photos of the victims and attached them to the crosses —  he  will be ready to head to Vegas  where the crosses will be planted on Sunday.  Zanis  says  he 's already made a trip to the local pantry to get the food  he  will need for the trip. Money is tight  as always  but having made more than 20 000 crosses since this crusade began 20 years ago — all of them chronicled in more than 77 notebooks  Haas noted — the retired carpenter always finds a way to create the white crosses and get them to their destinations.
[TGT]  first heard the news about the Las Vegas shooting when an employee from ArchAngels Biorecovery showed up at  his  door around 7:30 Monday morning with a check from the Aurora clean-up company for $1 200.
The donation was gas money for  Zanis  so  he  could take a pick-up truck filled with crosses to Las Vegas  where at least 59 people have been killed and more than 500 wounded after a gunman opened fire at an outdoor Jason Aldean concert on Sunday evening.
"At first  when  he  told me what happened  I didn't believe  him  " said  Zanis  of  his  early-morning visitor. "And then I just cried."
It wasn't long before the phone calls started coming in to  his  home on Church Road. From the media  of course. And more importantly  from the mayor's office in Las Vegas  asking Zanis to bring his unique anti-violence crusade to the desert city that has become the latest — and sadly  the largest — mass murder site in this country.
 Zanis  is hoping that by Wednesday morning — after  he 's received the identities and photos of the victims and attached them to the crosses —  he  will be ready to head to Vegas  where the crosses will be planted on Sunday.  Zanis  says  he 's already made a trip to the local pantry to get the food  he  will need for the trip. Money is tight  as always  but having made more than 20 000 crosses since this crusade began 20 years ago — all of them chronicled in more than 77 notebooks  Haas noted — the retired carpenter always finds a way to create the white crosses and get them to their destinations.