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Sunday candle lighting in Beloit to honor children who have died PDF Print E-mail
Written by Dan Plutchak   
Tuesday, 06 December 2011 14:20
BELOIT -- Only those who have gone through it truly know what it's like to have lost a child.

Nancy Kreager of Beloit has seen the heartache of a family going through such a tragedy. Her sister from Minneapolis lost a child, and her daughter lost a good friend in the past year.

To help deal with her loss, Kreager's sister became involved in Compassionate Friends, a group that brings other parents who have lost a child together to share their experiences and support each other.

Each December, Compassionate Friends chapters hold a world-wide, candle-lighting ceremony in honor of children who have died.

Kreager had hoped to participate this year, but when she found out there was no chapter nearby, decided to organize a ceremony herself.

The ceremony will take place at 7 p.m. Sunday (Dec. 11) at the Riverside Lagoon on Riverside Drive in Beloit.

Participants are asked to bring their own candle, and there will be a large candle available for people to use to light their candles.

Anyone is invited to participate, whether they have lost their own child or are there for support.

Compassionate Friends says the ceremony is the largest mass candle lighting on the globe. The candle lighting creates a virtual 24-hour wave of light as it moves from time zone to time zone.

Hundreds of formal candle lighting events are held and thousands of informal candle lightings are conducted in homes as families gather in quiet remembrance of children who have died, but will never be forgotten.

The Worldwide Candle Lighting started in the United States in 1997 as a small Internet observance but has since swelled in numbers as word has spread throughout the world of the remembrance, according to the group's website.
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