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The city this week informed Sheryl Hawkinson, who operates the day care center where two children were killed earlier this year, that a memorial plaque dedicated to 4-year-old Sierra Soto and 3-year-old Brandon Wiener can be erected.
“It’s such a relief to hear we can put it up,” Hawkinson said. “We’ve felt like everything we have tried to do has met with some resistance. It’s been one thing after another. The whole year has been a struggle.”
The plaque, which measures 18 inches high and a foot wide, will be at the corner of Santa Ana Avenue and Magnolia Street, where Steven Allen Abrams drove his car onto a playground in May. Abrams killed Sierra and Brandon and injured four other children and a teacher’s aide, authorities say.
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