Candlelight vigil planned to honor homeless
HOMELESS NETWORK OF YAKIMA COUNTY NEWS RELEASE -- The longest night of the year – officially the first day of winter – will begin with a candlelight vigil in downtown Yakima.
The Seventh Annual Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day Vigil will be held Wednesday, December 21 at 5 p.m. in Millennium Plaza, 20 South Third St. The event will remember more than 28 people who died homeless this year in Yakima County.
National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day is a national event co-sponsored by the National Health Care for the Homeless Council and the National Coalition for the Homeless.
Yakima is one of more than 100 cities nationwide to observe the memorial and the Yakima vigil is supported by Yakima Neighborhood Health Services, Keith & Keith Funeral Home, Olive Garden and Starbucks.
The program will include music by community volunteers, with a special selection from local children as a community service honoring the homeless. There will also be a litany written for the occasion by David Hacker. Rev. Eric Anderson, United Christian Church, will offer the invocation, Lowel Krueger, Homeless Network of Yakima County Chair, will open the program with a welcome to community members, advocates, and family members in attendance. The memorial will end with a benediction by Rev. James Engel, Central Evangelical Lutheran Church.
For more information about the memorial, please contact Rhonda Hauff at Yakima Neighborhood Health Services at (509) 574-5552.
The Seventh Annual Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day Vigil will be held Wednesday, December 21 at 5 p.m. in Millennium Plaza, 20 South Third St. The event will remember more than 28 people who died homeless this year in Yakima County.
National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day is a national event co-sponsored by the National Health Care for the Homeless Council and the National Coalition for the Homeless.
Yakima is one of more than 100 cities nationwide to observe the memorial and the Yakima vigil is supported by Yakima Neighborhood Health Services, Keith & Keith Funeral Home, Olive Garden and Starbucks.
The program will include music by community volunteers, with a special selection from local children as a community service honoring the homeless. There will also be a litany written for the occasion by David Hacker. Rev. Eric Anderson, United Christian Church, will offer the invocation, Lowel Krueger, Homeless Network of Yakima County Chair, will open the program with a welcome to community members, advocates, and family members in attendance. The memorial will end with a benediction by Rev. James Engel, Central Evangelical Lutheran Church.
For more information about the memorial, please contact Rhonda Hauff at Yakima Neighborhood Health Services at (509) 574-5552.
