Our plans to honor and remember our children are coming together in a most amazing, very special, and wonderful way.
The Speckeins, Heidens and the Wencl’s will be attending the “6th Annual Como Neighborhood Picnic” put on by the U of M and the Como Park neighborhood on Saturday, September 20th.
It will be held in Van Cleve Park, right across the street from the house where the kids lived. There will be food, music, games and resource tables! We will be manning a resource table handing out fire safety literature to anyone we can. We’ve put together a flyer that I hope will get our message across.
In addition we’ll be handing out candy — specifically lifesavers — do you get our play on words? Lifesaver candy goes along with “lifesaving” information!
It is the perfect way for us to remember and honor our kids. It will be held in their old stomping grounds — they loved the U … it will be fun, we’ll be able to do some good, and we will honor and remember them … all at the same time.
On Friday, the 19th I will be doing a news story with Darcy Pohland of WCCO. Darcy has the U of M beat and I did a story with her a couple years ago. We will talk about the picnic, our fire safety handout, and of course the 5 yr anniversary.
I find people are scratching their heads and saying … how can you do this? But I say, how can I not do this? This is a golden opportunity to pass on life saving information … there’s no going back … I can’t change what happened 5 years ago … but I can do something to change the future … and I can talk about my girl … 5 years later and I still have opportunities to talk about my girl … there’s no way to express how special that is. Most of all, I know it is what Liz would want. She will be cheering us on from above … that is for sure.
Kim
LOVE LIVES ON 
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