Public display




I have never written before but feel this delicate subject needs addressing. It concerns the longterm memorial display on Lindero Canyon near Bowfeild. I myself showed my sympathy with flowers on this makeshift memorial site when this person, unknown to me, was unfortunately killed.

Now it is seven months this year that it is a depressing memory forced on the public in which we must see twice a day, coming and going to our destination, and it is a several-foot-high display of deteriorating flowers and baskets.

If everyone who had a loved one killed on a street or highway erected a several-foot-high memorial display, we would all be on a downer by the time we got to work or our destination.

We have enough depressing situations with the economy, job losses, loss of our loved ones or emotional situations in our own private world.

There should be a short time limit for this display before it becomes a public deteriorating, depressing eyesore that interrupts the beauty of our oak-tree-lined streets with center flower arrangements that are a welcome, relaxing and uplifting beautiful scene.

I understand your grief, but please honor your loved one privately and not a forced, long-term public display on private streets.

We need an ordinance, if there isn’t one already in place, enforced, that limits private memorials on public streets and sidewalks.

Kristine Harris
Oak Park



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