“OUR GARDEN OF MEMORIAL GARDEN LOVE, PEACE, HEALING PARTNERING COMMITTEE AND REMEMBRANCE” HIGHWAY

The Delaware Highway Memorial MEMORIAL Garden is embodied by the slogan, “Our Delaware Garden of Love, Peace, Healing and Department of Transportation GARDEN Remembrance.” at the Smyrna Rest Area Delaware Office of Highway Safety The slogan was chosen by a group of individuals who are part of a grief support group known as The MADD Chesapeake Region “ Our garden of love, peace, Compassionate Friends - Brandywine healing and remembrance” Hundred Chapter. Members of this group have lost family members in Delaware traffic fatalities. Victim Services

This special group of people had a large The Compassionate Friends influence on the creation of the garden, its spirit and its availability to the Chapter general public.

The group chose this slogan in order to give the garden its meaning and life. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

We hope families will consider its calming message as they spend quiet as dedicated October 15, 2007 moments within the garden.

For more information contact: DelDOT Office of Public Relations P.O. Box 778 Smyrna Rest Area Dover, DE 19903-0778 5500 North DuPont Highway Phone: 1-800-652-5600 or 302-760-2080 Smyrna, DE 19977 Email: [email protected]

Delaware Highway The garden will feature a special area for the A Personalized Brick Order Form should victims of impaired (drunk, drugs, etc.) accompany this brochure. If it does not, Memorial Garden driving. Please indicate on your Brick Order complete this form and mail it to: Delaware Form if you’d like your brick placed in this Department of Transportation, Delaware The Delaware Highway Memorial Garden special section. This section is available for Highway Memorial Garden, P.O. Box 778, is Delaware’s place of remembrance for both victims of impaired driving accidents as Dover, DE 19903-0778. those who have lost their lives on roads in well as impaired drivers. Delaware. The garden is the first of its type nationwide to include the names of those The garden will be open 24 hours a day, 365 REQUEST FOR PERSONALIZED BRICK involved in all types of traffic fatalities in days a year. the state. ORDER FORM It was created in response to the many ORDERING A BRICK Delaware Highway Memorial Garden requests the Department of Transporta- tion receives regarding the legality of the IN memory OF placement of roadside memorials. A LOVED ONE Name______Roadside memorials are illegal under Delaware’s Clear Zone Act, meaning if Address______they are placed in the clear zone (usually Bricks are offered free of charge to the public, ______10 feet on each side of the paved roadway) with the hopes that families will look to the they must be removed to ensure public garden as a safer alternative to placing, City______State______maintaining and visiting roadside memorials. safety. The Department of Transportation Zip Code______is working to provide families with Anyone interested in ordering an engraved various options for remembering a loved brick is asked to complete the Personalized one. Brick Order Form (attached to this brochure). Once DelDOT receives your order form, it will confirm the fatality with local law Located on the grounds of the Smyrna Rest Bricks accommodate personalization of fifteen enforcement, and then place the order when Area at 5500 DuPont Highway in Smyrna, (15) characters per line including spacing and a sufficient number (50) of bricks have been Delaware, the 11,000 square foot garden is punctuation. Other words such as “IN requested. The brick will be engraved and a creative blend of native trees, shrubs and MEMORY OF” can be added if spacing permits. delivered to the Smyrna Rest Area to be flowering plants. Existing large oak trees (See samples on Personalized Brick Order installed by DelDOT. anchor the seasonal changes of color. Form.) You will be notified by mail once your brick The garden’s pathway is outlined with Only one brick per deceased individual will be has been placed in the garden’s pathway. bricks engraved with the names of placed in the garden. individuals who give the garden its char- acter and significance. Benches are Sample brick: situated throughout the garden for the visitors to use as they reflect in this IN MEMORY OF tranquil setting and pay tribute to the CATHERINE SMITH lives of their loved ones. JUNE 1, 1998