Youths join annual March for Peace
“I want to feel safe when I go to bed at night,” Caleigh Brown said. “Everyone wants to live in a great community, it would be so simple if everyone came together.” Brown and several other classmates from Washington Park Elementary read essays they wrote about “Building a Better Washington” for the “March for Peace” event. The March was organized by the CommUNITY group.
Members of the Washington High School football team and other community members listen as local officals speak at the third annual “March for Peace” event at McMillan Hall on Washington & Jefferson College’s campus. After several speakers, the group walked about a mile for the march, which was put on by CommUNITY.
Area youths took part in the third annual March for Peace in Washington Saturday.
Washington Park Elementary School students wrote essays under the theme “Building a Better Washington” in honor of the event.
“I want to feel safe when I go to bed at night,” student Caleigh Brown wrote. “Everyone wants to live in a great community, it would be so simple if everyone came together.”
Brown and other classmates read from their essays in front of McMillan Hall on Washington & Jefferson College’s campus.
After the children and several speakers addressed the crowd, attendees walked about a mile, in the event hosted by CommUNITY.