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Do your shopping at the school Centerville Elementary School on Bay Lane will turn into a mini-mall featuring 25 vendors offering holiday gifts Nov. 4 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Centerville Elementary PTO benefit will include home party representatives from Mary Kay, Pampered Chef, Silpada Jewelry and others as well as home crafters offering wooden and woolen items. 'Can do' Luciani seeks funds for memorials Honoring veterans only part of Centerville man's community service By Paul Gauvin pgauvin@bamstablepatnot.com PAUL GAUVIN PHOTOS LIFE GOES ON - Fall decorations at the entrance to Beechwood Cemetery are the handiwork of village resident Steve Luciani. M arcus M. Haskell died 81 years ago. Carved into the small stone that marks his place be- neath the green, green grass of home in Centerville 's Beechwood Cemetery are the words. "Medal of Honor." He earned the nation's highest military award for valor at Antietam on Sept. 17, 1862, one of the bloodiest days of the Civil War, when, wounded himself , he ventured out from the cover of a stone wall in a hail of gunfire to save a wounded comrade. While Centerville and the nation to this day appreciate Haskell's hero- ism, the Union Army sergeant's spirit more than likely salutes the effort s of Centerville resident Steve Luciani, another kind of serviceman who has taken it upon himself to seasonally decorate the front portal to Haskell's eternal abode ... and then some. Luciani , owner of Coachlight Car- pets at the Centerville Shopping Plaza and the iconic , antique yellow pickup truck familiar to village life, has, like a runner in a relay race , also taken the baton from James L. Childs, who died last year, to finish raising funds for two war memorials - Korea and Vietnam - at the town's Monument Park at Main Street and Park Avenue. A Dorchester native, Luciani is al- ready a village legend when it comes to public service. He not only garnishes the entrance to the cemetery every season by his own labor and at his own expense , he also decorates the narrow traffic island at Old Stage Road and Route 28 with flowers and small s'gns of trivia such as "Maine is the only one-syllable state." His annual tab for flowers in these endeavors is "$3,000 to $4,000" not including from $400 to $800 for pumpkins to herald the harvest season. Luciani is also treasurer of the Centerville Civic Association , serves on subcommittees and has for years morphed into a most believable Santa Claus around the Christmas holiday and at the association's annual Christ- mas Walk to be held this year from 4 to 7 p.m. on Dec. 10 in the village Center on Main Street. But for now, Luciani is preoccupied with raising funds for the memorial that his friend , "Jimmy" Childs, had begun before his death. "He had raised $10,000, but we need another $10,000 to complete the project to have it ready for dedication next Memorial Day," Luciani said. To that aim, he and members of the Monument Park Committee, which includes Mrs. Elna Nelson, decided to conduct a "50-50 Raffle. " The plan is to sell 200 tickets at $100 each, thereby raising $20,000 to be shared evenly by the raffle winner, at $10,000, and $10,000 for the monument projects. Luciani rolled up his fund-raising sleeves about three weeks ago and has already sold 131 tickets, with 69 left for takers who believe in memorializing the sacrifices of Korean and Vietnam veter- ans - and that 200-1 odds aren't bad. Monument Park , in the village 's histori c district , already has three me- morials, Civil War, World War I and one for World War II. 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