Indio and La Quinta officials will hold a remembrance next month to honor the lives lost during the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 and other commemorative events, it was announced Thursday.
In Indio, a remembrance and a groundbreaking ceremony for a 9/11 Memorial will be held Sept. 11 at 9 a.m. at Miles Avenue Park, at 82540 Miles Ave.
“This year’s ceremony is made even more meaningful as we break ground on Indio’s 9/11 Memorial, a place where our community can come together to remember, to learn and to honor the bravery of those who served and sacrificed,” Mayor Glenn Miller said in a statement. “We hope it will inspire future generations to carry forward the values of resilience and solidarity.”
The ceremony, which will take place after the remembrance, will feature a 12-foot-tall steel artifact from the former World Trade Center in New York that attendees will be able to touch.
Officials said the memorial project aimed to “inspire a sense of collective humanity and community.”
In La Quinta, a 9/11 candlelight vigil will be held at 7 p.m. that day at Civic Center Campus, at 78495 Calle Tampico.
No further details were immediately known regarding the vigil.