{"id":90940,"date":"2025-12-17T04:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/90940\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T04:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:05:10","slug":"el-paso-park-renamed-to-trotter-memorial-park-to-honor-young-flood-victims-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/90940\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso park renamed to Trotter Memorial Park to honor young flood victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A park in far east El Paso is being renamed to honor the victims of the July floods in Ruidoso, New Mexico. <\/p>\n<p>The city council on Tuesday voted to rename Fortaleza Park to Trotter Memorial Park in memory of Sebastian Rowan Trotter and Charlotte Emery Trotter, who were just 7 and 4 years old when they tragically passed away in the Ruidoso floods on July 8. <\/p>\n<p>KFOX14\/CBS4 spoke with the parents of the victims about the renaming efforts on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just shows the impact they&#8217;ve made on the community and just how great they were as kids and just how much they were cared for,&#8221; said the parents, Sebastian Trotter and Stephanie Trotter. <\/p>\n<p>They added, &#8220;Something like losing your two kids, it can either make you or break you, it can either harden or soften your soul, and I&#8217;m choosing it to soften my soul.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The Trotters also expressed their desire to build a foundation in honor of their children.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/family-invites-community-to-honor-children-lost-in-ruidoso-floods-at-life-celebration?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Family invites community to honor children lost in Ruidoso floods at life celebration<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sigm-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A park in far east El Paso is being renamed to honor the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-90940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}