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Lanterns with finished messages and designs were lined up on the Arcata Plaza on Saturday morning. -
Golih Vang, of Arcata, reflects on her lantern artwork on Saturday morning at the Arcata Plaza. -
The lantern-making workshop on Saturday morning attracted many new-to-the-area HSU students, including Connor McNeil (left), Breea Diamond and Alex Wender. -
Mary McComber, of Arcata, got some design help from her daughter Samara while preparing her lantern on the Arcata Plaza on Saturday. -
Lantern-workshop volunteer Dory Hernandez, of Arcata, received a finished lantern with a current-events message. -
Lanterns with finished messages and designs were lined up on the Arcata Plaza on Saturday morning. -
Prior to the evening program, lanterns were unloaded on the bank of Klopp Lake at the Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary. -
Rick Kruse, of Arcata, began the evening program with a traditional shakuhachi flute performance. -
The Raging Grannies provided the first musical set, followed by more songs, poetry and advocacy presentations in the evening program. -
During one sing-along performance, a volunteer held a sign that provided the words to the chorus. -
After the evening program, volunteers Shiho Brannick, of Eureka, and Tony Wallin, of Arcata, began moving the lighted lanterns into Klopp Lake. -
Volunteer Tony Wallin, of Arcata, helped move the lighted lanterns away from the shore into the gentle breeze blowing across Klopp Lake. -
Andy Sehic, of Arcata, launched her lighted lantern with a message, “Wishing all the people of the world to work on peace …,” on one side and a call for “Justice for Josiah” on another. -
After the evening program, attendees gathered to watch the launch of the lighted lanterns on to Klopp Lake. -
“We are stardust …,” read this lantern’s message. -
It was a night of messages of rememberance for Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims and more recent victims of violence, including this lantern’s “Justice for Josiah” message.
