9/11 Victims Inspire Park Beautification

Volunteers are transforming the garden, which dates back nearly a century, recapturing some of its original beauty in memory of the victims of 9/11, and its personal for Jayna Powell who wears an image of one victim whose life was cut short at the age of 27. Honor Elizabeth Wainio is from Catonsville and I am also and she was on Flight 93, said Powell, Before the plane crashed, she called her mother on the phone and talked to her mother until they were running into the cockpit. Volunteers here learn Elizabeths story-a graduate of Catonsville High School and Towson University who had landed a job in New York with Discovery Channel Stores and was returning from a business trip to San Francisco when her plane was hijacked. Their sweat equity has far more value than simply cleaning up a corner of Clifton Park thats nearly been forgotten. So I worked with that family, recalled Powell, and I said to her mother, Whats the best thing we could do to remember and honor Elizabeth and all the other victims? and she said, I dont want revenge. I dont want hate. I think you should go out and make a difference in the world. Civic Works performs cleanups, like this one, throughout the year, but the focus on 9/11 has special meaning, especially involving Mothers Garden. A park dedicated to the mothers of Baltimore in the 1920s on the heels of World War I where more than a hundred thousand soldiers lost their lives. It kind of transformed into mothers that have lost their children in violence in Baltimore, said Powell, and now its just a garden for mothers and so when I told Esther, who is Elizabeths mother that, she was very touched by that. She cant really come on 9/11. Its too hard, but she said, Im going to go to Mothers Garden. I want to see what you all did in Elizabeths name so I think its cool that were at Mothers Garden for all the mothers who lost people on 9/11.