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ST. PETE BEACH â The city has been forced to suspend its memorial bench program after it became the victim of its own success and popularity.
Public Works Director Mike Clarke said over the years the program has been so successful that there are now 87 city-approved memorial benches on the beach, mostly in Pass-A-Grille.
âBench spacing on the sand has become quite crowded and, for that reason, the program has been suspended,â Clarke reported. âHowever, Public Works continues to receive requests for consideration. The emotional attachment families have with the beach and loved ones who have passed is very evident.â
During a March 23 commission meeting, City Manager Alex Rey told commissioners that âwhile the city is still getting requests for memorial benches, all the possible places on the beach where a bench can be placed has been saturated.â
A bench dedicated to a much-loved Helston resident was found vandalised on Saturday morning. The memorial bench, which had been dedicated to Heather Pett, was discovered by a dog-walker over the weekend and is the second case of a bench being vandalised in a fortnight. The bench, which had a plaque memorial for Heather, had originally been located at the site of Helston Royal British Legion Club where Heather had been a volunteer and regular darts player. However, when the RBL club closed down the benches were moved, unbeknown to those who had organised them.
The bench is the second to be vandalised in a week. Picture:Facebook/Kayleigh Seddon Armstrong
Memorial bench installed for Covid victim in Hearts Delight Road, Tunstall, where he used take his daughter each year on her birthday
A new memorial bench has been installed in memory of a popular dad who died from coronavirus.
Stuart Charlesworth, from Bapchild, will be forever remembered at the spot where he took his daughter Rebekah, 11, every year on her birthday.
Stuart Charlesworth and his daughter Rebekah on her birthday last January (2020)
Stuart - known by many as Charlie - had been taken to hospital after having a week-long temperature and spent three weeks in its intensive care unit.
Ten months on, his wife Emma said a memorial bench had been installed in Hearts Delight Road, Tunstall.