Mercer County, MCCC Host 9/11 Ceremony Friday

Mercer County and Mercer County Community College will host their annual ceremony in remembrance of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks this Friday, 11 a.m., on the college’s West Windsor Campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road.

The ceremony takes place in the Commemorative Garden adjacent to the Student Center. In the event of rain, the ceremony will be held in the Student Center.

Steven Gutkin, Associate Director of the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness (OHSP) is the guest speaker. Gutkin previously served as chief of the OHSP’s Preparedness and Critical Infrastructure Protection Bureau, and as executive director of the Regional Catastrophic Planning Team, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He is a retired Deputy Chief of Police from the Fairfield, N.J., Police Department.

Other speakers will include Mercer County Executive Brian M. Hughes, MCCC Board of Trustees Chair Mark Matzen, and MCCC President Jianping Wang. The invocation will be given by the Rev. William E. Coleman Jr, a member of the MCCC Board of Trustees. Musical selections will be performed by MCCC students.

Participating dignitaries will lay a wreath on the college’s memorial bench. Special tribute will be paid to the 30 Mercer County residents who died in the attacks.

Directions and a campus map are available at www.mccc.edu.