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High School Expands Prairie Garden, Honors Murphy
A garden planted in honor of Sikh temple shooting victims got bigger Saturday in an event that included police Lt. Brian Murphy.
A prairie garden in front of Oak Creek High School—constructed last year to honor Sikh temple shooting victims and promote unity and tolerance in the community—got a little bigger over the weekend.
The school expanded the garden Saturday in an event that also honored police Lt. Brian Murphy, the first police officer at the scene of the Aug. 5 shooting who survived more than a dozen gunshots.
The idea for the garden came from a meeting of school officials and Sikh temple members about how to promote tolerance and diversity in schools.
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Dave Timmer, a social worker in the school district who helped organize the plantings, said the many different flowers and grasses that make up a prairie garden symbolizes the diversity in the world.
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