MEMORIAL/SERVICES FOR Va TECH VICTIMS

WSLS NewsChannel 10
Published: April 16, 2007

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• A convocation service and public gathering is scheduled at 2 p.m. today at Cassell Coliseum on the Virginia Tech campus.

A candlelight vigil is set for at 8 tonight at the drill field at Tech, according to the Tech web site.

In Lynchburg, Mountain View United Methodist Church in Forest, across from Forest Middle School, has scheduled a service of prayer and peace at 7 p.m. today in response to the tragedy.

In Charlottesville, the University of Virginia will hold a candlelight vigil at 7 p.m. in the McIntire Amphitheatre, and the UVa chapel bells will toll for five minutes in remembrance of those killed and injured. The bells will also ring for five minutes starting at 2 p.m. today, to coincide with Tech's ceremony in Blacksburg.

UVa President John Casteen reported in a message to the UVa community Monday that Caleb Euhus, a student from Lynchburg, wrote a poem Monday titled "Tech Wind."

Casteen said the poem "invokes today's fierce winds to combat and assuage the horror and anger that all thoughtful women and men must feel about today's catastrophe in Blacksburg. Echoing sentiments as old as Lamentations, Mr. Euhus calls on nature itself - the very wind - to share this grief. The poem ends with the lines 'Make haughty grass bow down its stalk/ And mourn for all those killed.'"

Sweet Briar College hosted a community gathering Monday night for students to hear the latest updates about the shootings.

• Trinity Family Church, 3433 Ferncliff: Open for prayer