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Annual Remembrance Gathering

Sweet Pea Project's 3rd Annual Remembrance Gathering
an eco-friendly balloon release in celebration of the short but precious lives of the babies we so desperately love and miss
 
 
 
  
 
Monday, October 15, 2012 at 6pm
Long's Park in Lancaster, PA
 
 
 
 
Please arrive between 5-5:30 to pick up your balloons
This event is free but registration is requested.
 
  
Registration is not yet open for the 2012 gathering.
Please check back at the end of the summer for more info.
  
October 15th is National Remembrance Day for families who have experienced the death of a baby.  In observance of this day, and in honor of all the babies that are so deeply loved and missed, Sweet Pea Project is holding its 3rd Annual Remembrance Gathering.  The event will take place in the grassy field in front of the amphitheater at Long's Park in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  Sweet Pea Project volunteers will be handing out balloons from 5pm until 5:45pm and the release will take place promptly at 6pm.  Come early to ensure time to personalize your balloon.  Compostable seed paper will be provided for you to write a small note to your child. The notes will be inserted into the balloons so that when the balloon bursts, the notes will be reclaimed by the earth and wildflowers will sprout out of your love letter to your child.  

We have taken precautions to make sure that this is an eco-friendly event.  For this reason we must insist that you do not bring your own balloons.  Biodegradable sap-based balloons, all natural vegetable dyed raffia and compostable seed paper will be provided.
 
Several other Sweet Pea Project affiliated balloon releases will be happening across the country this evening, locations will be announced closer to the date of the event.