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</style></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div id="zimbraEditorContainer" style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" class="2"><div></div><div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;background:rgb( 253 , 253 , 253 )"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:'arial' , 'sans-serif';color:#080809">Coming Event</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;background:rgb( 253 , 253 , 253 )"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:'arial' , 'sans-serif';color:#080809">Sunday May18th</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;background:rgb( 253 , 253 , 253 )"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:'arial' , 'sans-serif';color:#080809"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;background:rgb( 253 , 253 , 253 )"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:'arial' , 'sans-serif';color:#080809">Please join us on Sunday May 18th at 1 pm at the Maffeo Sutton Park pavilion for a solemn and heartfelt memorial honouring the lives of children who have been killed in Gaza. We also gather to remember all children around the world who have lost their lives to the violence of war — </span><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:'arial' , 'sans-serif';color:#336699">today</span><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:'arial' , 'sans-serif';color:#080809">, and in recent memory.</span><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:'segoe ui' , 'sans-serif';color:#080809"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;background:rgb( 253 , 253 , 253 )"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:'segoe ui' , 'sans-serif';color:#080809"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;background:rgb( 253 , 253 , 253 )"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:'arial' , 'sans-serif';color:#080809">Together, we will hold space for grief, reflection, and hope through moments of silence, poetry, and music.</span><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:'segoe ui' , 'sans-serif';color:#080809"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;background:rgb( 253 , 253 , 253 )"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:'segoe ui' , 'sans-serif';color:#080809"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;background:rgb( 253 , 253 , 253 )"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:'arial' , 'sans-serif';color:#080809">This peaceful gathering is organized by a small, compassionate group of community members in Nanaimo who believe in the power of remembrance and the urgency of peace.</span><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:'segoe ui' , 'sans-serif';color:#080809"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;background:rgb( 253 , 253 , 253 )"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:'segoe ui' , 'sans-serif';color:#080809"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;background:rgb( 253 , 253 , 253 )"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:'arial' , 'sans-serif';color:#080809">Let us come together in solidarity and sorrow, to honor the innocence lost — and to commit ourselves to a more compassionate world. </span><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:'segoe ui' , 'sans-serif';color:#080809"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:115%">For further information: see facebook: Memorial for Children Killed in Gaza</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><br><div><div><img src="cid:9288BC66-E7A8-4A61-959D-63E58C6870AA" style="max-width:100%"></div></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>