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Updated: 09/05/2012 08:01:35AM

Bench removed from girl’s memorial site

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PHOTO PROVIDED BY JANET BALDIZZI
Madison, Rick and Elizabeth Heineman decorate Sarah-Dian's memorial site Tuesday at State Road 776 and Toledo Blade Boulevard. A bench advertising a bee-removal service was removed from the site Monday.

By ELAINE ALLEN-EMRICH

Staff Writer

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A bench blocking the “Drive Safely” marker and makeshift memorial for 7-year-old Sarah-Dian Heineman has been removed.

The bench, owned by 25-year beekeeper Earl Russell of Russell Bee & Hornet Removal Service, was at the corner of Toledo Blade Boulevard and State Road 776 in Port Charlotte — the same location where the North Port girl was killed in a 2009 car wreck by an impaired driver.

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