Over 1,000 community members showed up Friday afternoon at Lake Mendocino to launch paper lanterns from the south boat ramp at the Festival of Light sponsored and organized by the Greater Ukiah Business and Tourism Alliance and the Army Corps of Engineers.
“We organized this event to bring community together, to create a space where we could find common ground and be together in unity and harmony, and to create a place of peace in a world that does not have peace in it right now,” says Katrina Kessen, GUBTA’s executive director.
“Going into the Memorial Day weekend, some honored those who have given their lives. We had people here tonight who put lanterns out for those they have lost – kids, dads, mothers. Others wrote on their lanterns about their hopes, their dreams, their passions.
“It was all one big beautiful balance of joy and peace and sadness and hope.”
As darkness enveloped the lake, the lanterns (illuminated by electric candles inside) created a pathway of light that extended from the boat ramp all the way across to the lake’s eastern side.
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