Change Of Venue For Ocean City's 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony

OCEAN CITY, NJ — Ocean City's annual 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony will now be held indoors at the Ocean City Tabernacle 550 Wesley Avenue, Ocean City officials announced Monday evening. It will still take place at 6 p.m.

It was previously scheduled to be held in front of the Ocean City Fire Department headquarters between Fifth Street and Sixth Street on Asbury Avenue. It was moved due to the projected weather forecast for Tuesday.

The ceremony, titled “A Day To Remember,” will include music, prayer and reflections on the memory of lives lost and on the community spirit that was renewed in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. All are encouraged to attend.

This year's special guest speaker will be Rev. Stephen J. Connor, the new pastor at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. In 2001, Father Connor was living in New York City and spent September through December first ministering at ground zero and then at the morgue on the east side of New York.

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