Mobile to participate in National Moment of Remembrance for COVID-19 victims
Updated Jan 06, 2021;
Posted Jan 06, 2021
Mobile City Councilman Fred Richardson speaks during a grand reopening of Florida Street following a lengthy reconstruction project. The city of Mobile celebrated the completion of two construction projects on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, at Florida Street and McGregor Avenue. (John Sharp/jsharp@al.com).
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Mobile will join the National Moment of Remembrance for the victims of COVID-19 one day before President-elect Joe Biden in inaugurated as the next president.
The event will take place at Tricentennial Park at 4:30 p.m. on January 19. It is part of a national effort to honor the lives lost to the pandemic across the country. At that time, a light for each life lost will glow in memorial to them around the perimeter of Day Lake.
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President-elect Joe Biden speaks at The Queen theater, Monday, Dec. 28, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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The Presidential Inaugural Committee formed by President-elect Joe Biden announced this week that among the inaugural events will be a memorial for the lives lost due to the coronavirus.
The memorial is scheduled to be held January 19 at 5:30 p.m. ET, one might before Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will take the oath of office. The Presidential Inaugural Committee is calling on cities to join by ringing church bells in a ânational moment of unity and remembrance.â