Classmates of Gun Violence Victim Will Take Part
SALT LAKE CITY – Mayor Ralph Becker will join Riley Elementary School students this morning at 11:00 at the Sorenson Unity Center to plant daffodils in remembrance of Utahns who have suffered from the effects of gun violence.
The event is part of the YWCA’s annual “Week Without Violence” and is sponsored by the Gun Violence Prevention Center of Utah.
Mayor Becker will speak briefly and then join Riley Fourth Graders and residents of the Glendale neighborhood to plant over 600 daffodil bulbs. The students, who lost their seven-year-old classmate Maria Del Carmen Manchaca to gun violence in July of this year, will sing selections from the Mosaic Project’s “Children’s Songs for Peace and a Better World” before the planting.
WHO: Mayor Ralph Becker, Riley Fourth Grade Students, YWCA Chief Program Officer Keri E. Jones, Gun Violence Prevention Center Board Chair Dee Rowland
WHAT: Daffodil Planting to Commemorate YWCA “Week Without Violence”
WHERE: Sorenson Unity Center (1385 South 900 West)
WHEN: Friday, October 24 at 11:00 a.m.