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Memorial from page 1A
Road Task Force, comprised of police, residents
(including Altman) elected officials
from Brentwood, Livermore, Contra Costa
and Alameda counties as well as the State Assembly
and State Senate.
The effort led to the installation of vertical
delineators, a public awareness campaign,
roadside speed indicators, and the establishment
of a designated safety corridor and
double fine zone. Along with stepped-up
police enforcement, the changes dramatically
improved safety on the 16-mile stretch of
roadway. The most recent fatalities there occurred
in 2006.
In observance of the five-year anniversary
of his mother’s death, Enriquez, along
with some friends, spent a weekend repainting
the white cross and replacing the collection of
plastic sunflowers and other flora at the site.
Just days later, a neighbor driving home on
Vasco Road called Jeff Altman with some sad
news.
“I hadn’t even seen it yet when I got a
phone call from a neighbor who was driving
home and saw that it had been ruined,” said
Altman. “The cross had been pulled out – the
Story from page 1A
my dad and said, ‘Isn’t that how many
you bought?’ It was a nice thing for him
to do.”
Writing the book, said Agno, was
therapeutic and comforting. It is his hope
that readers will come away with the same
feelings after reading his story. “I just want
to make a difference in people’s lives,” he
said. “I just want to deliver kids out of
base was cemented in – and the flowers had
been disturbed. I called the sheriff’s department,
not that they will be able to do anything,
but it was very upsetting and hard to
understand why anyone would do that.”
And it is in fact the family’s considerable
efforts to safeguard the roadway that makes
the desecration of the memorial especially
painful.
“The first thing that I thought, of course,
was ‘poor Cameron,’” said Jeff, referring to
the vandalism of the site. “I was upset that my
son had just spent all that time out there fixing
it up for his mom. But on a personal note, we
as a family have spent so much time on legislation
to make the road better and safer, it
makes it doubly hard. I know it was kind of
a random thing, but it still makes you think
about humanity and what makes people do
those kinds of things.”
Says Enriquez, if vandals want to destroy
the memorial again, they’ll find it a lot
harder to do.
“No one is going to stop me from rebuilding
it,” said Enriquez. “I am actively going
to make it bigger, stronger and better. I’ll
rebuild it as many times as I have to.”
harm’s way and to let people know that
anyone can change their lives, that you can
turn anything bad into good, and that it’s
God’s hand that carries us through.”
“God’s Hand” is available at bookstores
nationwide, and can be ordered through
the publisher at www.tatepublishing.com/
bookstore, or by visiting www.barnesandnoble.com,
or www.amazon.com. Audio
versions of the book are also available.
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