Inland Northwest SIDS group to sponsor candle-lighting memorial

COEUR d'ALENE - A wave of healing light will soon wash over Coeur d'Alene.

The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting, sponsored by the Inland Northwest SIDS Foundation, will be held Sunday beginning at 4 p.m. in the Share Hope Memorial Garden at the corner of Gilbert Avenue and Eighth Street.

The ceremony will unite friends and family around the world in lighting candles for one hour to honor the memories of sons, daughters, brothers, sisters and grandchildren who left too soon.

The formal ceremony will begin at 4:30 p.m. and will include music, poems, a five-candle ceremony and reading of all the names of the children who are being remembered. The Inland Northwest SIDS Foundation will provide candles, cookies, hot chocolate, coffee and programs for all who attend.

Everyone is invited to this family-friendly event. To help plan or share during the ceremony, call or message INWSF executive director Liz Montgomery at 557-4371 or [email protected].

Info: www.inwsids.org or www.compassionatefriends.org