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Earlier today, Gibson-Strong put out a call for help getting rolls of plastic to cover the memorial. It is expected to rain this evening and she wanted to make sure the memorial wasn’t ruined, and thanks to other members of the community it won’t.
“I don’t have the money to buy all the plastic,” Gibson-Strong said. “I need to preserve it.”
Amanda Duritsch heard the call.
Duritsch had left over window plastic sitting on her dining room table. She said she was scrolling through Twitter when she saw that someone needed help covering the memorials.
“I just wanted to help,” Duritsch said.
Later, the staff at Ned Peppers bought tarps to cover the memorials. The Red Cross also brought tarps to East Fifth Street.
On Monday, Gibson-Strong heard Ned Peppers and Hole in the Wall were planning to open. She wanted to move the memorials out of the way.
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She wanted to make sure nothing was thrown in the trash or damaged.
After painstakingly moving each item from the door of Ned Peppers, Gibson-Strong sat in front of the memorial and cried.
“These babies ain’t even in the ground yet,” she said.
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