Vancouver vigil for victims of gun violence
When: 3 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 8. Candles will be provided.
Where: St. Paul Lutheran Church, 1309 Franklin St., Vancouver.
Speakers: Columbine survivor Andrea Banister, Vancouver Mayor Tim Leavitt.
WASHINGTON — At an early-learning center in Eatonville, mourners will light candles Sunday to honor Margaret Anderson, 34, the ranger and mother of two toddlers who was shot and killed New Year’s Day while she tried to set up a roadblock in Mount Rainier National Park.
That same evening, at the mall of the University of Arizona in her hometown of Tucson, Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will hold a glow stick and listen to a symphony orchestra at a vigil to recognize the first anniversary of the shooting that killed six people and critically wounded her.
Vigils are planned in more than 30 cities to remember the thousands of Americans who are murdered in the United States each
year, most of them with guns. For gun-control advocates, it will be a day to “light a candle against the darkness of gun violence” and to demand that Congress tighten the nation’s gun laws.