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Monument Planned For 20 Killed In Limousine Crash

By LIBBY CUDMORE

Ian Austin/AllOTSEGO.life Josh Loden, whose family owns the Apple Barrel, looks at the touching makeshift crosses at the site of a fatal crash that took the lives of 17 young people plus three others, and envisions a permanent monument there. He’s participating in a fund drive to make that a reality.

SCHOHARIE - Within days of the Oct. 6 limo crash that killed 20 people in the parking lot of the Apple Barrel Country Store, memorials began to spring up.
“There were 20 crosses, and wooden deer that John and Anita Borst built,” said Josh Loden, Apple Barrel director of operations. “The people Matt (Coons) worked out with built a cross, and people who came to pay their respects would sign it.”
Now Loden and the Reflections Memorial Foundation are raising money to install a permanent memorial to the crash victims, who were en route to Brewery Ommegang when the modified 2001 Ford Excursion limousine they were riding in plowed into a parked car in the Apple Barrel parking lot before crashing into the ravine.

 

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