PLACENTIA : Quilt on Display for 6th World AIDS Day

Two 12-square-foot sections from the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt are on display through Wednesday at City Hall to commemorate the sixth annual World AIDS Day on Dec. 1.

The sections are part of the nationwide quilt project that has generated more than 23,000 individual quilts. The quilts are then stitched into panels and displayed across the county.

Included in the project is a quilt square for Bill Tynes, son of longtime City Councilman John O. Tynes and his wife, Clairee. Bill Tynes died of AIDS in 1987.

The council will present a World AIDS Day proclamation to the Rev. Fergus Clarke; William Buskirk, who is infected with HIV, and Sue Mirabal, Buskirk’s sister. The three are active in a North County support group for people with AIDS and their families and friends.

The group, titled PWAs--A Place To Talk, was started last year by Clairee Tynes and Eleanor Brown, who have both lost a son to the disease. PWAs stands for People With AIDS.

The group meets the second and fourth Monday of each month from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the Episcopal Church of the Blessed Sacrament, 1314 N. Angelina Drive.