Thoughts and prayers? Don't forget action. There will be a vigil in Williams Park on Feb. 14, 2019 to remember the teens murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Credit: Fabrice Florin from Mill Valley, USA [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Thoughts and prayers? Don’t forget action. There will be a vigil in Williams Park on Feb. 14, 2019 to remember the teens murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Credit: Fabrice Florin from Mill Valley, USA [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Valentine’s Day will mark one year since the Parkland massacre, and, while there hasn’t been much change in Florida’s gun laws, the young voters spurred on by government inaction in the days following the Parkland shooting helped redefine the makeup and balance of our national government last November.

Join others in letting the world know the 17 lives taken at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School haven’t been forgotten at a Candlelight Vigil in St. Petersburg's Williams Park.


Williams Park, 330 2nd Ave. N., St. Petersburg | Feb. 14: 5 p.m. | Hosted by Moms Demand Action and We the Students | More Parkland vigil event info here,  and if you can't attend, here's how you can donate to support buying supplies for the event

This article appears in Jan 31 – Feb 7, 2019.

Cathy's portfolio includes pieces for Visit Florida, USA Today and regional and local press. In 2016, UPF published Backroads of Paradise, her travel narrative about retracing the WPA-era Florida driving...