Wayzata, MN’s new September 11th Memorial

In its “Plymouth and Wayzata’s 2021 Year in Review”,  Jason Jenkins and Kristen Miller of HometownSource.com describe the new September 11th Memorial in Wayzata, Minnesota’s Panoway Park, which contains pieces of the World Trade Center donated by the family of Gordon M. Aamoth, Jr., 32, who was killed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

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Memorial park in Mandeville named for 9/11 victim Lou Williams

A small park in the Beau Rivage area of New Orleans has been named “Lou’s Lot” in honor of Louis Calvin Williams III, who was killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks. Williams was killed while on a business trip that took him to the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

The park has been an unofficial memorial for many years, but was officially named for Lou Williams in a November 2021 ceremony. The dedication was intended to be held on the 20th anniversary of the attacks, but Hurricane Ida postponed it.

“It means a lot to our family to have this spot in his honor,” Janice Williams, Lou’s widow, told Kaydee Krieger for NOLA.com.

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Staten Island ex-NYPD sergeant Sally Spinosa gets prison time for 9/11 benefits fund theft

Sally Spinosa, a former sergeant with the NYPD, lied, claiming that she spent hundreds of hours at the recovery efforts after the World Trade Center terrorist attack, has been sentenced to two months in prison, with two years of supervised release afterwards.

Spinosa faked documents claiming that she worked many hours that she did not work to gain benefit funding, and used them in three separate claims, reports David Luces for the Staten Island Advance.

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