Memorial Garden Completed

Jennifer Raymond writes:

The garden has now been established and is beautiful. Feel free to go and check it out at Windham High School. Also, feel free to add any flowers you would like to. The plaque will be added very shortly. A very special thank you to Adam Mayo is in order. His greenhouses provided all the flowers, special soil, and enriched water! He also helped me to plant the garden this morning. Thank you so much Adam! Also, I would like to thank Jasmin Nicholson for her help in planting the garden. Thank you Jas! I know a lot of you wanted to help out, but life is never perfect and we do not all have the same schedules. At least now, you all can go down whenever you want and plant at your convenience. A very special thank you also to Kerri-Lee Lampron, Danielle Newcomb, and Adam Mayo for their generous donations towards the plaque.

So enjoy everyone and I know Scott is looking down on us and thankful for such a beautiful thing in his memory.

Thanks!

Jennifer Raymond

Plant Sale, Sunday, 6/28, Raymond

A plant sale will be held in Scott's memory at the Raymond Village Library, 3 Meadow Road, on Sunday 9 AM to 2 PM. Please stop by and beautify your yard for Scott!

Update, Sunday evening: The sale was a huge success!! It sold out early, and raised over $400 for the purchase of books on gardening and landscaping for the library's collection, which will be dedicated to Scott. A big THANK YOU to all who purchased!

Scott Libby Memorial Garden

A new memorial project that Jenn Raymond is creating:

Greetings!
I would like to take this chance to let you know of the wonderful thing that is very possibly happening in memory of our dear friend. I had been thinking of a wonderful way to remember Scott on his birthday and forever more, and came up with the idea of a memorial garden at Windham High School. I e-mailed the superintendent about the idea and he thinks that it is a great idea. He is going to run it by the committee, but he thinks that they will all approve. Now I just need some of you to help me out. I need manpower and the donation of flowers. It would be great for all of us to be a part of making this amazing project a reality. I will also need donations for a plaque. The cost of this plaque will be around $60. I figure that if we all chip in $5 or something, we will get the money no problem. Let me know who can help out with this project ASAP and we will set a date.

You may contact Jenn at jferray (at) gmail (dot) com.

Samson Arraigned

Today Samson was arraigned. He was charged with murder, and entered a plea of Not Guilty. The defense lawyer made a request for a speedy trial, and a time frame of September was agreed upon, although no specific date was set.

Lewiston Sun Jounal Story

Scott Remembered in Weekly Mass in Windham

This afternoon, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Windham remembered Scott in their regular Saturday afternoon mass. Scott was prayed for several times during the service, and Nancy, myself (Cousin John) and my wife Mary assisted in carrying the offering and the communion elements to the altar. Many of the congregants were familar to Nancy from her job at Wal-Mart. As always, we appreciate the public expression of support for Scott and his family. Thank you.

Samson Indicted

The Oxford County grand jury has indicted a 23-year-old Windham man on a murder charge in the death of a former employer whose body was found in his car after it was struck by a train while parked on tracks in Bethel.

Story (Lewiston Sun Journal)

Thoughts on this site

This site is entitled "Scott Libby Memorial". I have documented the initial unfolding of the tragic event which took Scott from us too soon, created the photo album, and publicized a few other relevant sites such as Jenn Raymond's touching memorial site and the online obituary text and guestbook. Although called a memorial site, my secondary purpose for the site was as a portal to publicize important information for out-of-towners, notably the memorial service. That purpose is now largely over, at least until a trial date is set, which could be some time into the future.

While I think that important new information should continue to be posted, I find myself currently wondering where to draw the line. Should I continue to post a link to every news story that appears? I doubt that every news story from here to the trial will contain information that is useful to us, Scott's family and friends. Certainly they will not all be easy to read. Perhaps I should only post links to stories that contain new information, not just rehashed from another source? Less clear is what if the information may be new, but consists mostly of distressing details or allegations which do not really contribute much to our understanding of the case? Sensationalism?

I have already made a decision on one aspect of that: I am not going to link to blog articles about the case, which by their nature tend to go beyond the strictly factual, into the realm of reaction, opinion, and even rumor. The case is beginning to lend itself to that, unfortunately, but I don't think any useful purpose is served to us, Scott's friends and family, by documenting all of it. More importantly, although we are obviously not impartial, we also don't want to jeopardize the case by appearing to be promoting a trial by public opinion, or getting involved in the politics that the case has the potential for. If you are interested in that sort of commentary, you know how to use Google.

But, what do you think about news stories? Responsible editorials? Or other purposes for this site? What do you want to know about, or expressly do not want to know about? Feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts.

As always, thank you all for your support to Scott's family and friends during this time.

- John

P.S. I hadn't remembered I had set the comments such that only registered users could post one. I have for now set them to be open, so that anyone can comment, even anomymously. Sorry for the confusion. I will monitor them of course to prevent abuse.