Girls Inc. to build wall around play area

Andrew Glazer

COSTA MESA -- Nearly a year after a car plowed through a day-care center

fence and struck and killed two children, a girl’s after-school program

has started to raise money for a wall around its own facility.

A foundation created by Cindy Soto -- whose 4-year-old daughter Sierra

was killed by a man police say wanted to “execute” innocent children --

will pay for half of the $10,000 wall.

“After the accident, we really wanted to take a look at the property,”

said Lynn Cornelius Mosich, president of the Girls Inc. board of

directors.

The wall would enclose the rear area of the facility where girls play.

Costa Mesa police officers consulted the Girls Inc. staff about how to

make the center on Newport Boulevard safer.

The Southcoast Early Childhood Learning Center, the site of the tragedy

on May 3, 1999, has since built a block wall around the day-care center.

The Costa Mesa chapter of Girls Inc., part of a 300-chapter national

organization, is seeking donations for the wall.

To make a donation, contact Lynn Cornelius Mosich at Girls Inc., (949)

646-7181.