Why the Lady Liberty Statue returned to City Hall?

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   Lady Liberty Statue was moved in 1999 for a City Hall renovation, and briefly relocated to the police operations center, but on Independence Day, a copper replica of the Statue of Liberty returned to where many residents believe is its rightful location.
   About 200 people attended a ceremony Monday outside City Hall to celebrate the statue's return. A fire department ladder truck unveiled the statue which rests on a new concrete base. Volunteers donated the effort and resources to restore the statue to its original condition and return it to City Hall.
   Leonard Lemasany was among the Cub and Boy Scouts who raised money to present the statue to the city, and among four of those scouts who attended Monday's ceremony.
   During the restoration process done by an expert in Fort Collins, several layers of paint were removed. The paint began peeling while it was at the police center because a time capsule in the base of the original statue disappeared after it was moved in 1999, great care will be taken to protect a new capsule to be inserted at a later date and to record the items placed within. One of the items to be placed in the new capsule is a commemorative Liberty neckerchief slide, or bolo, that was made for Scouts in 1950.
   Organizers said about 300 statues were made by a Chicago company in 1950 as part of a campaign known as Strengthen The Arm of Liberty to celebrate the Boy Scouts' 40th anniversary.

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