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"Every day, people walk the path along the Seacliff State Beach sea wall to touch or talk to a memorial wall. It's dotted with names and faces of Aptos residents who have passed away.\u00A0\"These are all member of our community,\" Aptos resident Amy Rice said.But this month, state park rangers posted a public notice stating that all memorial plaques will be torn down from the wall if they are not removed\u00A0by August 30. The wall is on private property.\u00A0State Park Ranger Todd Allen said, \"The property owner at this time has decided that it's time to put a stop to it.\"Petition: Click here to sign the memorial wall petition\"I got a good spot, dad had an oceanview,\" a teary-eyed Steve Maciel said. His father Charlie died last year.\u00A0\"That's Charlie's spot. I like to come down and say 'hi' to dad. I can't tell my mother. She's 91 it will break her heart,\" Maciel said.The wall is on homeowner Nicole Richardson's property.\u00A0Richardson\u00A0has been working with the State Parks Department for three years to have them build a separate memorial wall, but so far that effort has failed. Richardson told KSBW that she is sad it came to this.Any memorials seized by state parks can be retrieved for 90 days at the ranger station before they are thrown out.\u00A0Cindy Jewell won't let a wall with so many memories go down easily, and started an online petition called Save the Seacliff Beach Memorial Wall. As of Tuesday afternoon, the petition had 500 signatures, and by Wednesday morning, it had more than 1,500 signatures.\u00A0\"Calling these memorials graffiti is pure insult. There's a big contingent that treasures this wall and the memories that are on it. You just can't take it down and pretend it doesn't matter. It does,\" Jewell said.VIDEO: Aptos memorial wall at Seacliff State BeachAny new memorials added to the wall will be immediately thrown away, state parks officials said.The notice warns, \"Any new inscriptions, writings, signs, plaques, flower vases, or other personal memorials placed on this wall after this notice will be immediately removed and discarded.\"\u00A0"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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