40 Locals to Attend AIDS Memorial
About 40 Ventura County residents are expected to attend a memorial service at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena from Sept. 22 to 24 to remember those who have died of AIDS.
Local members of the NAMES Project, which created the AIDS Memorial Quilt, will take with them quilts bearing the names of three Ventura County residents who lost their lives to the disease, said Neil Demers-Grey, a spokesman for the Ventura chapter of the NAMES Project.
The individual quilts will later be sewn into the national quilt, which is now the size of 18 football fields, Demers-Grey said. The national quilt displays the names of 12% of the people who have died from complications of the virus that attacks the immune system, he said.
The 1995 AIDS Memorial Quilt will be the largest-ever display of quilts on the West Coast, Demers-Grey said. During the two-day event, AIDS activists will read the names of people who have died of AIDS.
Residents interested in attending the memorial should call 650-9546.
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