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September 7, 2006

Carcieri plans Sept. 11 anniversary events

PROVIDENCE -- Governor Carcieri today announced plans for the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C.

The governor will join with victims' families at 10 a.m. this Monday in the State House Bell Area, where there will be music, poetry readings and speeches by political and religious leaders.

Musical selections will be performed by the Pilgrim High School Choir, Trinity Repertory Company’s Joe Wilson, Jr., vocalist Elizabeth Lewis and flutist John Curran of the Rhode Island Philharmonic music school.

Carcieri will be joined by Rhode Island National Guard Maj. Gen. Robert Bray, Imam Ansari of the Muslim American Dawah Center of Rhode Island, the Rev. Frank Sevola of St. Francis Chapel, and Rabbi Peter Stein of Temple Sinai.

Posted by Steve Peoples  at 12:03 PM | Permalink

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