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Audio Slideshow: Westminster remembers Newtown victims with bell ringing

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At 6:30 a.m., two members of Westminster UCC climbed to the base of the church's bell tower and rang the historic bell 26 times to remember those killed in the Newtown shooting.

Westminster joined churches across the nation in this memorial.

Topics: Ethics, Death & Dying
Beliefs: Christian - Protestant/Other
Tags: church bells and shooting victims, newtown shooting, westminster ucc spokane

Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons serves as the editor and community manager of SpokaneFAVS. She holds a bachelor’s degree in print journalism and a master’s degree in communication. She’s reported on religion for about a decade and has written for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas and Connecticut. Over the y...
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  1. pastor andy castrolang | Dec 21, 2012 | 1:25pm

    Thank you so much for doing this, Jon and Verne.  Thank you so much for being with them and creating this moving tribute, Tracy.
    god bless you all.

  2. Tracy Simmons | Dec 21, 2012 | 1:49pm

    And thanks to Westminster for for being the only church in Spokane (that we know of) to do this!

  3. Lou McKee & David Verwolf | Dec 22, 2012 | 6:04am

    Thank you Jon & Vern for commemorating this event with the though of connectedness in this fragile & sacred life.
    from Kavala, Greece

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