NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Dozens of people will be in Centennial Park Thursday evening to remember the lives lost to gun violence in Nashville. It's called the Season to Remember.
This is the 29th year for the event and organizers say the effort helps families ensure that homicide victims are not forgotten during the rush of the holiday season.
The event is sponsored by the police department’s Family Intervention Program, the District Attorney’s Office, Tennessee Voices for Victims and the U-S Attorney’s Office. During the service, relatives and friends of the victims will place Christmas ornaments on a tree in the Children’s Garden in memory of their loved ones. Every ornament is dedicated to a loved one who their families say were taken too soon.
This has been a tradition since 1995, where families and friends who have lost someone to homicide have come together to place Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa remembrance decorations and ornaments on the special evergreen tree.
MNPD’s Family Intervention Program is coordinating the event and will be on hand early to offer support to family members. These families say not a holiday goes by where they don't remember their loved one, and this is a way they can celebrate the holiday with those they say are forever in their hearts.
The event will start at 5:45 p.m.
Here’s a story offering a great example of how a common cause, and a little creativity, can “intersect” to improve quality of life. Our South Nashville reporter Patsy Montesinos shares how some neighbors decided to take action, following the tragic death of a 77-year-old in a hit-and-run along Antioch Pike earlier this year. See how they used “tactical urbanism” to make the area a little safer for all.
- Rhori Johnston
