Remembrance Ceremony For COVID-19 Victims On June 9

Press release from the City of Falls Church:

June 7, 2021

Posted on: June 7, 2021

Remembrance Ceremony for COVID-19 Victims on June 9

The Northern Virginia Regional Commission’s COVID-19 Remembrance Ceremony is on Wednesday, June 9, at 6 p.m. on the Fairfax County Government Center ellipse. The ceremony will honor and remember all of the lives lost in the 13 jurisdictions that make up the regional commission. The event will be broadcast live on Fairfax County Government Channel 16 as well as on the Facebook page of NVRC.

“We Northern Virginians have worked collaboratively together to stem the tide of the coronavirus pandemic, but our losses are considerable,” notes David Tarter, chairman of NVRC and Mayor of the City of Falls Church. “We come together to mourn and remember more than 2,350 of our friends, relatives and neighbors lost to this terrible disease.”

The event will host leaders from throughout the region to address the impact COVID-19 has had on Northern Virginia. The ceremony will culminate with a “last alarm” bell service.

NVRC is a regional council of 13 member local governments in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC. These include Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties; the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Manassas and Manassas Park; and the towns of Dumfries, Herndon, Leesburg and Vienna.

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