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EndNotes archive for March 25, 2011

FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 2011

Lewis and Clark High School drama students, Liz Connelly, 17, and Jon (cq) O'Grady hang messages on one of six trees along 6th Avenue between Washington and Stevens Streets, March 25, 2011 in Spokane, Wash.  After hearing about the Spokane Public Schools' replanting project, Nancy MacKerrow (right), of Spokane, whose daughter, Suzie Stephens, an LC grad who was killed while crossing a street and hit by a bus in 2002, helped gather students from the drama, advanced art ecology, special education, debate and Japanese Club to plant trees and adorn them with tree-grams. MacKerrow head sup the Susie Forest project and has organized the planting of 119 trees in Spokane and through out the world in honor of her daughter.  (Dan Pelle / The Spokesman-Review)

Growing grief: The Susie Forest

Nancy MacKerrow, a Spokane woman, lost her daughter Susie Stephens in 2002 when she was hit by a bus in St. Louis. She was 36, a bicyclist, a mountain climber, a world traveler and an activist, ironically, for the rights of pedestrians and bicyclists. Nancy…

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