Kali Moore Memorial Garden

Some of you may remember Creston's own Kali Moore, the daughter of a faithful and beloved Christian Denise Moore in our town. Denise is one that always has a good word and never a bad word for anyone or any situation. She is one of a kind, a real Barnabas. Kali, who was also faithful, was killed in a tragic accident last summer along with two of her friends. The fourth person survived but was injured.

Being a grant writer, I know of this program our local Des Moines news TV station has due each April 1, called the KCCI Project Mainstreet Grant. It is very competitive, but they like small projects that can be completed in a summer. They come out and interview the community before and after the project and put it on TV. Well, we applied via the church of Christ as a sponsor, and we were one of five projects selected for $3,000 for a perennial memorial garden. A summer that is going to be very busy as it is will now be even busier, as we design and build this thing to honor these youths and others that die so tragically. It will be a great project for the church to go out and do something in the public eye that makes a real lasting difference.

Thanks be to Denise and to my wife Angie for their help and for those that did support letters.