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The original design, made public in 2021, had sailed through the Public Arts Commission and the Palm Springs City Council, and some 400 donors had raised more than half of the memorial’s $600,000 budget.

“I had never once heard that people chose to come to Palm Springs to die. That was very powerful for me — chose to come here because there was a community of support that didn’t exist anywhere else, and continues to this day.”

“So many memorials you see across the country share common elements like a ribbon or whatnot. This stands apart from those others. I think that speaks well for Palm Springs. It’s a unique community.”

USC will host Grambling on Sunday before playing in the Acrisure Classic in Palm Springs next week.

A worker who asked to be identified by only his first initial, “A,” because of fear of being identified as being in the country illegally, decided the day of the clinic to drive from Santa Fe Springs with his parents to the Koreatown clinic.