Monday, December 17, 2012
A candlelight vigil will be held at Centerville Elementary School at 7 p.m. Monday.
A candlelight vigil for the victims of Friday's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School will be held Monday at 7 p.m. in Ijamsville, MD, the Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce announced in a news release. Noelle Tate, the mother 5- and 1-year-old girls, organized the memorial to show respect and support for the Newtown, CT, victims and their families. Follow ongoing coverage from Newtown Patch here “I’ve been deeply affected by the tragic events that took place on Friday," Tate said in a statement. "As a mother, I weep at the thought of those children being brutally murdered while innocently going about their school day. I grieve for the parents whose pain will never subside. "I know that there are other parents feeling this way …
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Seneca Valley students, Germantown community pay tribute to Christina Morris-Ward, teen who was struck, killed while walking to school.
Death is one of those things Seneca Valley student Ramatu Kembe doesn’t quite understand, especially the reason it had to come for her friend and fellow classmate, Christina Morris-Ward. "I miss her a lot and I wish she could be with me,” Kembe said. “But there's a lot of things that we don't understand, and death is one of them. I wish I could have just hugged her before she left, but I couldn't." Kembe was one of several to share memories of the late Christina Morris-Ward, 15, during a vigil outside Seneca Valley High School Monday night. Morris-Ward, a sophomore, was struck and killed by a car as she walked to school on Halloween morning. Amid the air of mourning and tears during the vigil was hope that the community would learn from …
Friday, November 2, 2012
“Rocking for Tina” vigil is 5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5, at Seneca Valley High School
(Updated Monday, Nov. 5) Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett plans to attend a vigil for a Germantown teen who was struck and killed by a car during her morning walk to school, county officials announced Monday. Montgomery County Councilman Craig Rice, who lives in Germantown, also plans to attend. (Original) A candlelight vigil Monday will honor the life of Christina Morris-Ward, a Seneca Valley High School sophomore who died Wednesday from being hit by a car during her walk to school. The “Rocking for Tina” vigil was set for 5:30 p.m. on school grounds. "It's so sad," said Yolanda Blaney, a Germantown mom who is coordinating the vigil on behalf of Christina's family. Blaney's daughter Kiyla Senior, a sophomore at Northwest High …
Friday, October 5, 2012
Gaithersburg vigil remembers the 10 lives lost in October 2002.
A decade after the DC snipers cut 10 lives short, family members and advocates who helped them took pause Thursday evening to reflect on those terrifying three weeks in Montgomery and Prince George's counties in October 2002. Dozens gathered for a candlelight vigil at Goshen United Methodist Church in Gaithersburg, one day after the 10th anniversary of the deadliest stretch of the snipers’ reign of terror over the DC region. “We love you, and we’ll never forget you,” said W. Gregory Wims, founder of the Victims Rights Foundation, which helped the families through their ordeal 10 years ago. Andrew Walekar—who said his father, the third victim, was “looking down from the heavens right now”—recalled not the immediate pain of his family’s …
Friday, July 29, 2011
Missing Persons Network and state police mark 20 years since her body was found along I-270.
Sunday marks 20 years since a worker cutting weeds along southbound Interstate 270 in Frederick County found the body of a young woman. The woman, whose decomposed body was found down an embankment at the Baker Hill Road overpass, has never been identified and her killing remains unsolved. The Maryland Missing Persons Network and Maryland State Police will hold a vigil to bring attention to the cold case at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday in the parking lot of the Worthington Farm on Baker Hill Road at Monocacy National Battlefield. The Frederick News-Post has more on the work of the Maryland Missing Persons network and why cases like the one highlighted by Sunday’s vigil remain unsolved. More information on the case and other sketches of what Jane …
AlleyCat
1:50 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012
This is a very sad situation for all involved. Think of the guilt that the driver is going to have to live with although it sounds as if they didn't do anything wrong. Luther Reynolds of the Montgomery County Police Department was quoted in the article saying "We all need to model this behavior as adults". This is so true. I live in the Gaithersburg area and way too often I see families(where the… more ›