I walk past this spot every day on my way to work. Unfortunately, the owner of the parking lot doesn't do a great job of keeping up with the weeds or the trash. Now the dead weeds mingle with the trash and clutter the sidewalk.It was a pleasant surprise to see the chalk and flowers memorial on the spot where Chauncey Bailey was murdered two years before. I noticed that two of the flowers even had Rainforest Alliance certified logos on the wrappers.
When I passed by at lunch time, only one of the flower arrangements was left, and it had been pushed to the edge of the sidewalk in a larger pile of dead weeds and trash. I grabbed it off the pile and placed it back at the top of the heart, on the edge of the sidewalk. That evening when I passed by after work, they were all gone and it looked like the pavement had been half-heartedly swept.
It's pretty sad that this reporter doesn't have a decent plaque or bench to memorialize his life, or bring attention to his death. Perhaps my highly motivated and active neighbors in the Gold Coast/Grand Lake district could organize a trash pickup and keep the downtown area a bit cleaner.
