The vigil took place Monday evening in Fort Lee’s Monument Park, where people read from scripture, prayed, offered words of comfort and shared personal stories in the wake of the tragic events of Friday, Dec. 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut.
Dozens of Fort Lee residents joined local clergy and community leaders at Monument Park Monday for a candlelight vigil for the victims, family and community members of Newtown, Conn., where a school shooting Friday claimed the lives of 20 children—six- and seven-year-olds—and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Fort Lee resident Kathy Lee, the mother of a six-year-old boy, said her heart was broken, along with those of mothers everywhere, when she heard about what happened in Connecticut Friday, and that no words could possibly comfort the families of the victims. “But we are here for one reason only: to say that we are so sorry for their loss, and that we are so sad for their loss, and that we are crying with them,” Lee said. “Our…
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The Week Ahead: a look at some of what’s going on in Fort Lee this week.
The Fort Lee Board of Education late last week cancelled its regular business meeting originally scheduled for Monday evening, but those who were planning to attend may want to consider heading over to Monument Park instead. There, organizers say, a candlelight vigil is planned for the victims, families and community members of Newtown, Conn., where the second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history occurred Friday, resulting in the deaths of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The Fort Lee vigil is planned as a “gathering to give and receive comfort in light of the Newtown shooting,” providing residents of all faiths—or none, organizers emphasize—an opportunity to “share with neighbors,” pray or simply be silent…
The vigil, which organizers say is for people all faiths—or none—takes place Monday at 7 p.m. in Fort Lee’s Monument Park.
A candlelight vigil in Fort Lee’s Monument Park will take place Monday, Dec. 17 at 7 p.m. The vigil is being held in light of the mass shooting Friday in Newtown, Conn. that left 20 school children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School dead. Touted by organizers as a “gathering to give and receive comfort in light of the Newtown shooting,” the Monument Park vigil will provide Fort Lee residents an opportunity to “share with neighbors,” pray or be silent. It will also include a “message from Fort Lee to Newtown,” according to a flyer being distributed around town, although the physical form that message will take remained unclear, as organizers scrambled to plan the vigil. “Our idea is simple,” said Rev. Allison Moore of Fort Lee’s…
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carol simon
10:42 pm on Wednesday, December 19, 2012
I am writing more for myself than about gun control or mental illness, as the recent horrific incident incites feelings related to my own life experience. I lost my brother, William Simon, to a random heinous crime of murder and the perpetrators were juveniles possessing guns. I just visited my brother’s grave last month as he was murdered during Thanksgiving by teens trapped in a violent … more ›