OSHTEMO TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Five or six times a day, Heidi Vallier drives through the intersection of Stadium Drive and 4th Street in Kalamazoo County’s Oshtemo Township.
“I see Zelena’s memorial right at this corner,” she said of the daily drive.
The intersection is where tragedy struck in 2012. Zelena Amaro, 18, was killed after a truck collided with the car she was riding in.
In the years since, her friends and family built up a makeshift memorial — an impressive one with painted rocks, decorations and a cross standing about 5 or 6 feet tall.
Vallier didn’t know Amaro, but she lost her own son in 2011 and says the memorial means something to her.
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