Here is just one of the many reasons I love being Lafayette… how our community bands together to support others in need.
If you would like to pay your respects to the victims of the Orlando shooting then, this evening at 7:30p.m you can join many others at Parc Sans Souci where members of several community service organizations will be holding a candlelight vigil.
This afternoon community members will paint the Lafayette letters in Parc Sans Souci rainbow starting at noon in preparation for the vigil later this evening.
“Orlando could be anywhere [In the] USA,” said Acadiana Pride member Ted Richard, “It could have been in New Orleans, it could have been in Lafayette, it could have been in Baton Rouge it could have been anywhere. So we want to get our community together to understand that we need to be supportive of each other.”
Community members who are planning to attend the vigil are asked to wear yellow so, “everybody can remember that even through all this darkness we can always be the light,” said Richard.
“We want to come together as a community and just stand united and be one and show the world and the state of Louisiana that we do stand with our brothers and sister even though they are states away,” said Acadiana Pride President Tara Guy,
“No one has the right to take anyone’s life over something that they don’t like.”
“We can’t respond hate with hate we have to respond with love,” said vigil coordinator Joshua Young.
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-Matt@1063RL
