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APRIL 3, 2015 THE FRIDAY FLYER A-7 The hilltop crosses of Canyon Lake . . .
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the East Bay.
Prior to installing their cross, Corrie
had met a young man from Canyon Lake named Lucas who also had put a cross on the hill in the same general location above the North Ski Area. She says that, on the day before Lincoln’s celebration of life, on one of her regular early morn- ing runs to the North Gate, she noticed a wooden cross lying on the hillside. She says seeing the cross provided much needed comfort in her grief. In the days that followed, Lucas approached her to tell her he was the one putting up the cross. She noticed it had been placed upright and painted. And then it disap- peared.
After the wooden cross disappeared, Corrie saw Lucas putting rocks on the hillside in the shape of a cross and paint- ing them white. She could see the cross from her house, but that too disappeared and she didn’t know why.
When the day came for Lincoln’s cross to go up, she put a note on it that said in part, “Please do not remove this cross. It is in memory of our son and friend of many . . . Please respect this. There are several crosses throughout the hills and this should not be offensive to anyone. Please let it stand here in honor.”
Nevertheless, on their next visit to the cross, the BLM ranger told them it was illegal and they had 15 minutes to remove it, or he would do so. So that’s the story of three crosses on BLM land above the North Ski Area that didn’t survive.
Cross above the East Bay
But that wasn’t the end of the story for “Lincoln’s cross.” On the day of Lin- coln’s celebration of life, Corrie met a new couple moving into the house next
When he learned The Friday Flyer was doing a story about the crosses around Canyon Lake, Justin Cocanour sent his drone up to get this picture of the cross on the hill above Canyon Lake Community Church.
door. In time she learned from the hus- band that they had lost their young son in a tragic accident the previous year. She told him about Lincoln and about
his cross that had to be taken down. Within a few months, the neighbor had obtained permission of the owner of the tallest hill overlooking the East
Bay to put a cross at the top of the hill in memory of his son and of Corrie’s son.
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