ALLENDALE TWP. — Following months of division over a Civil War statue depicting a Confederate Soldier, the Allendale Township board heard the first report from a committee it formed to address a possible solution to tensions in the township. The committee, consisting of several area residents, proposed three potential outcomes for the future of the statue during a meeting Monday, Feb. 22. The statue depicts a Union soldier and Confederate soldier back to back, with a a slave child kneeling in between them. The potential outcomes: Replacing the statue depicting the Confederate soldier with an obelisk or column inscribed with phrases and viewpoints from the Civil War era.