Bench removed from girl’s memorial site
PHOTO PROVIDED BY JANET BALDIZZI
Madison, Rick and Elizabeth Heineman decorate Sarah-Dian's memorial site Tuesday at State Road 776 and Toledo Blade Boulevard. A bench advertising a bee-removal service was removed from the site Monday.
A bench blocking the “Drive Safely” marker and makeshift memorial for 7-year-old Sarah-Dian Heineman has been removed.
The bench, owned by 25-year beekeeper Earl Russell of Russell Bee & Hornet Removal Service, was at the corner of Toledo Blade Boulevard and State Road 776 in Port Charlotte — the same location where the North Port girl was killed in a 2009 car wreck by an impaired driver.