9-11 Commemoration at Gedney Memorial Sunday, September 11, 2011
September 9, 2011
A commemoration of the events of September 11, 2011 will take place at Gedney Park on Sunday, September 11 at 2:00 p.m.
Town board members Elise Mottel, John Buckley, Robin Stout and Michael Wolfensohn and town Justices Doug Kraus and David Zuckerman will attend.
Program
Welcome by Supervisor Barbara Gerrard
Invocation by Reverend Thomas Lenhart of the First Congregational Church of Chappaqua
The Benack Family will perform “The Rising.”
Pledge of Allegiance
Keynote speaker, Congresswoman Nita Lowey
Reading by Councilman Wolfensohn of the names of New Castle residents who perished in on September 11
Closing Benediction by Rabbi Joshua M. Davidson of Temple Beth El
In attendance:
New Castle Police Department
Chappaqua Fire Department
Millwood Fire Department
Chappaqua Volunteer Ambulance Corps
Westchester EMS
Congresswoman Nita Lowey
State Senator Suzi Oppenheimer
Assemblyman Robert Castelli
County Legislator Michael Kaplowitz
The commemoration at the park is a wonderful tribute for our community to attend. Why not continue the commemoration of 9/11 by attending the “America, We Love You” concert by The Chappaqua Singers at the Chappaqua Library at 4pm this Sunday. It is sure to be an entertaining and moving tribute to our country and to those we lost on 9/11.




