By Gary Meyer

People handle grief in many ways. The friends of Benjamin Grajeda’s family turned their grief into a massive show of support to help pay the costs of the young man’s funeral.

Several benefit car wash events were organized on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 27-29 after Grajeda was killed June 23 in a traffic accident on Highway 166.

Kids were jumping up and down with bright green signs at The Mountain Enterprise parking lot on…

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Kids were shouting and waving car wash signs all day Sunday while others scrubbed to collect donations for the Grajeda family, as a show of support from the community.

This is part of the July 4, 2014 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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