Church, community remember Liliana, help with healing

Mother and sister of Hanover girl who died in March help open a new indoor playground

By Brandon Stoneburg

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Liliana's mother and sister cut the ribbon for indoor playground in Mount Joy Township on Saturday afternoon. (Shane Dunlap - The Evening Sun )

With a snip of a ribbon, Christina and Autumn Lunsford, the mother and sister of a Hanover baby girl who died in March, opened a Mount Joy Township indoor playground on Saturday.

Roughly 30 kids, including Autumn, sprinted through the ribbon and into the new Street Playground at Intersection Church. They laughed, smiled and played under a street sign that read "Liliana's Way" and next to a mural of a little girl sitting on a stump with a butterfly two little tokens that represent Liliana Lunsford's presence at the playground, said pastor Jeremiah Herbert.

Part of the playground honors the memory of 1-year-old Liliana, who police said died after ingesting alcohol at a York home.

The dedication ceremony came a day after a York man was taken into custody in connection with the death.

"The timing of that news mixed with what we're doing here brought everything back," Herbert said. "It opened up a lot of the pain that our church family felt."

The Lunsfords have been members of the church family for years and Liliana was even blessed and dedicated there.

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