Both Aberdeen/Matawan Host 9/11 Services At Noon Saturday

ABERDEEN, NJ — At noon this Saturday, Aberdeen will host its 9/11 memorial service at Aberdeen Town Hall, 1 Aberdeen Square.

Matawan will also hold its ceremony at noon Saturday in Memorial Park on Main Street.

The six Matawan residents who died in the 9/11 attacks were Thomas A. Damaskinos, Edward P. Felt, Virginia M. Jablonski, George P. Mclaughlin, Kenneth F. Tietjen and Lance R. Tumulty, according to CentralJersey.com. Their names are on a monument in Memorial Park.

Aberdeen lost six residents as well.

Later Saturday evening, both Matawan and Aberdeen will be participating in “Light Up the Shore” at 8:30 p.m. that evening, presented by Monmouth County.

Using their cellphones, residents are invited to walk to the shoreline in both towns to light up the skyline at 8:46 p.m. in honor of lives lost.

Aberdeen is telling people to go to Cliffwood Beach or at the adjoining Cliffwood Beach seawall walkway to participate.

Residents of Matawan and Marlboro are also asked to gather at Aberdeen’s two shoreline sites in Cliffwood Beach.

"Light Up The Shore" is being held in all 53 Monmouth County towns at 8:46 p.m. this Saturday. The idea is to have thousands and thousands of lights twinkling from the shoreline to show that New Jersey will never forget what happened that day twenty years ago.

For more information, call Aberdeen Township Public Information Officer John Roman, (732) 583-4200, ext. 130 or visit www.aberdeennj.org.

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