FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date:
March 31, 2009
To:
Assignment
Editors/News Directors
From:
Colonial Flag Foundation, Healing Field contact:Lori Oakason, National Director
866-375-3524 lori@healingfield.org
www.healingfield.org
Local
Contact: Glenn Smith 904-422-7161
glenn@thecomputerguyofjacksonville.com
National Exchange Club
contact: Michelle Smolenski,
Communications Director, 1-800-924-2643,
msmolenski@nationalexchangeclub.org,
www.nationalexchangeclub.org;
National Convention Will Fight
Child Abuse with Healing Field Flag Memorial Metropolitan Park will become the
site for 1530 US flags and a field of healing
Jacksonville, FL – Local and national leaders will
gather at Metropolitan Park July 14-18 for a Healing Field® Flag memorial
honoring child abuse victims in America and to support abuse prevention services
in Jacksonville.
The 90th annual convention of the National
Exchange Club will be hosted this year in Jacksonville. Attendees and members of
the Jacksonville Exchange Clubs will volunteer to set up and maintain a
breathtaking memorial of 1530 US flags. Each 3ft x 5ft flag will stand atop 8ft
poles representing a child who died in the US from child abuse or neglect. 146
of the flags represent children of Florida alone.
"We are bringing this to the community to help
raise awareness to all who see it on the impact of child abuse in our country",
said Pam Sudlow, Project Chair and Past National president of the National
Exchange Club. "It is a beautiful and patriotic display to an ugly subject.
These are America's Children, This is America's Responsibility"
This local Healing Field is part of a nationwide
campaign led by the charitable efforts of the Colonial Flag Foundation, creators
of the Healing Field community projects. A Healing Field inspires communities
and service organizations around the country to step up in their own communities
and raise awareness for causes and needs in their own home towns.
Funds raised from the Jacksonville Healing Field
through corporate sponsorships and flag sponsors will benefit the Child Abuse
Prevention Services at the Exchange Club Family Center of Jacksonville and the
National Foundation for the Prevention of Child Abuse.
Volunteers are needed and sponsorships are being
sought. Find out how you, your company, your family or service club can be a
part of this moving experience. Visit the official web site at
www.healingfield.org/plantingtheseed for event schedule and information.
When caring Americans and leaders in our
communities step up to take actions it is amazing what can be done through unity
of purpose and determination to make this a better world, one child at a time.
On Site Press Conference to be schedule in May
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