Dedecker considers message she’ll leave

LOVELAND — As she does her work, Loveland bronze sculptor Jane DeDecker likes to think of the messages she’ll leave behind, since the material she works with has a lasting quality.

DeDecker wants the message for her latest endeavor, the Women’s Suffrage National Monument, to particularly make an impact today and for decades to come. The monument, which DeDecker will complete with a design team, will be called the Every Word We Utter Monument and be located in Washington, D.C.

“It’s really time to have this monument there,” said DeDecker, a sculptor for 36 years and the owner of DeDecker Studio in…