The new Storytelling Garden will offer a place to gather and share stories near the Healing Garden.
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Eddie Schmitz and Sue Ann Cornwell work daily to preserve and develop the downtown memorial to Route 91 Harvest festival shooting victims.
The hardest thing about creating “Love and Courage?” Not its size (more than 6 feet tall). Not its weight (almost 3,000 pounds, including its base). Not even the incalculable artistry and physical labor required to transform two massive slabs of fossilized New York bluestone into ethereal angel wings.
“This is my happy place,” Cheyenne Kelly said smiling, looking around the Vegas Roots Community Garden, which hosted the second annual Grow Your Own Festival on Saturday. “And I love seeing it flush with so many people.”
A number of Las Vegas businesses are committed to donating the proceeds of your purchases to those affected in the Las Vegas shooting.
Gail Schomisch, co-owner of All Fired Up in Las Vegas, is organizing a tile-art project for the memorial garden , which is being built on South Casino Center Boulevard.
At this time on Wednesday, the land in the Arts District was a barren lot. By Friday, it’s expected to be transformed into a memorial garden to the men and women killed in this week’s massacre on the Strip.
