Irish leader to visit Berkeley to honor balcony victims - seattlepi.com

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — The president of Ireland plans to plant a tree in Berkeley on Wednesday in memory of the six college students who were killed when a balcony snapped off an apartment building.

President Michael Higgins and Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates are scheduled to place a pair of strawberry tree saplings in a downtown city park just a few blocks from the Library Gardens complex, the site of the June accident.

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