The “ghost bike” is gone from the spot where Albany bicyclist Grant Keith Garner was killed four months ago, and so are the other parts of the roadside memorial that showed up a few days after his death. I noticed them missing on my ride Thursday afternoon. When I inquired, I learned that the Linn […]
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Tags: bicyclist killed, ghost bike, Grant Keith Garner, Linn County Road Department, roadside memorial
Tags: bicyclist killed, ghost bike, Grant Keith Garner, Linn County Road Department, roadside memorial
A memorial to a troubled man
Dozens of times over the last few months, I’ve ridden the bike past a roadside memorial where the Cox Creek Path comes out on Salem Avenue. Wind and weather have reduced the shrine to a small pile of rubbish, but you can still tell for whom it was put up.
Tags: Albany police, Donald Keith Sawyer, roadside memorial, Union Pacific