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St. Lawrence County organizations, religious groups, colleges plan memorial services, events for 10th anniversary of 9-11

Posted 9/10/11

Colleges, fraternal organizations and religious groups are planning exhibits, memorial services and community events to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. SUNDAY • A Gathering …

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St. Lawrence County organizations, religious groups, colleges plan memorial services, events for 10th anniversary of 9-11

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Colleges, fraternal organizations and religious groups are planning exhibits, memorial services and community events to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

SUNDAY

• A Gathering For Reflection In Words And Music With Orchestra And Chorus, Gunnison Memorial Chapel, St. Lawrence University, Canton, 7 p.m.; readings, a performance of Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber and an open reading of Requiem by Gabriel Fauré for choir and orchestra; free.

• 10th Anniversary 9/11 Memorial Service At ‘New York Remembers’ Exhibit, Flagg Hall, SUNY Potsdam, 8:30 a.m.; free, public invited; exhibit from the New York State Museum and the National September 11 Memorial & Musuem runs through end of Sept.; more info on service: www.potsdam.edu/newsandevents.

• Human 'Memory Chain' To Honor Police, Fire, EMTs Who Lost Their Lives 10 Years Ago, sponsored by Potsdam Elks. Lineup 11:15, start at the Prosh Building Parking lot on Elm Street across from Elks Lodge, up Elm Street to Market Street, onto Main and Park Streets and back to Elm. Fire trucks, police cars, rescue squad vehicles and other emergency vehicles will line the route. Participating first responders are asked to call Steve Davis at 261-4080 or 261-9145.

• Commemoration Ceremony Marking The 10th Anniversary Of The September 11, 2001 attacks, 4 p.m., Markert Memorial in Library Park, Ogdensburg. Benediction by First Baptist Church Rev. Lynn Sullivan; Mayor William Nelson and Roman Catholic Bishop Terry LaValley will speak.

• 9/11 Run to Remember, 9 a.m. from the Massena Fire Department on Andrews Street. Race-day registration starts 8 a.m. Pre-registration at www.peaksportsolutions.com/9-11-run-to-remember guarantees T-shirt. Post-race refreshments. Race benefits Massena Permanent Firefighters Local #2220 ‘Safe Home’ and fire prevention programs. Sponsorships and volunteers welcome. For info contact Ken McGowan, 250-8613, or Josie Hardy, 842-7006.

MONDAY

• SUNY Canton Memorial in Remembrance of Sept. 11, 2001, 8 a.m., Roselle Plaza, next to Miller Campus Center; open to the community. Parking available in Lot 13. Criminal Justice Student Association presents keynote speaker New York State Trooper Robert M. Parcell, assigned to Ground Zero as a dog handler and spent a year in New York City assisting with recovery efforts; Assemblymember Addie J. Russell, Canton Mayor Charlotte Ramsay. All St. Lawrence County fire and EMS personnel invited; Canton and Potsdam fire departments provide ladder trucks from which a huge American flag will fly.

ONGOING

• The "New York Remembers" exhibition is on view in Flagg Hall at SUNY Potsdam through September. Potsdam is one of 30 locations where the exhibit is being displayed as part of a statewide recognition of the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. The exhibits feature historical artifacts from the State Museum and National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum. Weekday visitors are urged to either walk to campus or visit the exhibit before 9 a.m., or between 3 and 9 p.m. The hall is open weekends from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Three exhibitions commemorating 9/11 are at SLU’s Brush Art Gallery and Owen D. Young Library in Canton through Oct. 22, and are free and open to the public. "Re-framing Terrorism" brings together artists from Canada, France, Germany, Iraq and the U.S. "Aftermath: Photographs of Ground Zero" by Joel Meyerowitz features 22 photographs drawn from an archive of pictures that is the only existing photographic record of Ground Zero after the attacks. Selections from "The Day Our World Changed: Children's Art of 9/11," is exhibited on the lower level of the library. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday noon-8 p.m., Friday noon-5 p.m., Saturday noon-5 p.m.