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MCCC to Host Remembrance Ceremony Friday, Sept. 11, 11 a.m.
8/27/15
WEST WINDSOR – Mercer County Community College (MCCC) and the County of Mercer invite the community to attend an annual ceremony in remembrance of September 11, 2001.
The event is set for Friday, Sept. 11, 11 a.m., at MCCC’s West Windsor Campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road, in the Commemorative Garden adjacent to the Student Center. In the event of rain, the ceremony will be held in the Student Center.
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.
Guest speaker is Steven Gutkin, Associate Director of the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness (OHSP). 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.
Additional speakers include 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 alumni.
Directions and a campus map are available at www.mccc.edu.
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Steven Gutkin, Associate Director of the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness |
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