April 2015 VRW events

Families & Friends of Murder Victims

Join Us in Honoring Victims of Crime

FFMV’s 16th Annual Memorial

Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 6:00pm

Rancho Cucamonga Civic Center Courtyard

10500 Civic Center Drive

Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730

Partnership

Bring Your Loved One’s Picture and Shoes to Display

We will have a “Clothesline” display Courtesy of San Bernardino District Attorney’s Office/Victim Services If you have a t-shirt already made that you would like to display please bring on the day of event.

Dove Ceremony promptly at 6pm (weather permitting) will be dedicated in Memory of Marcella Leach

Courtesy of White Wing Ceremony Co. Highland, CA

* Speakers San Bernardino County DA - Michael Ramos

* Flerida Alarcón – Chief, Bureau of Victim Services

* Jane Bouffard – Justice for Homicide Victims - JHV

Community resource agencies, please reserve your table by April 20, 2015 Questions: Rose - 909-754-6969 or Rita – 909-2157063

FFMV participants bring 1dozen cookies to share

We will be moved indoor if it rains

VRW 2015 Events

Each April, OVC helps lead communities throughout the country in their annual observances of National Crime Victim'

Rights Week (NCVRW) which will be observed April 19–25, 2015. This year's theme—Engaging Communities.

Empowering Victims.—emphasizes the role of the entire community, individually and collectively, as we support victims

of crime and empower them to direct their own recovery. Promoting victims’ rights and honoring crime victims and those

who advocate on their behalf.

Justice for Homicide Victims – JHV Join Us

31st Annual Memorial Foundation Event

Honoring All Victims of Homicide Sunday, April 19, 2015 11:00am to 1:00pm

Rose Hills Memorial Park, Just inside Gate 19 off Workman Mill Road

San Bernardino County District Attorney

Michael A. Ramos

Cordially invites you to the

2nd Annual

National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Memorial

Monday, April 20, 2015 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

San Bernardino County Government Center Rotunda

385 North Arrowhead Avenue

San Bernardino, California

Riverside County District Attorney’s Office Join Us

At our annual candlelight vigils recognizing

National Crime Victims’ Rights Week

All Candlelight Vigils begin at 7:00 p.m.

TUESDAY, APRIL 21st

Palm Desert Civic Park (Amphitheatre) 43-900 San Pablo Ave., Palm Desert, CA 92260

760.863.8408 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22nd

Harveston Lake Park 40135 Village Road Dr., Temecula, CA 92591

951.304.5680 THURSDAY, APRIL 23rd

Riverside County Historic Courthouse 4050 Main St., Riverside, CA 92501

951.955.5450

Immediately following the Riverside Candlelight Vigil: Memorial Wall Gathering

Riverside County District Attorney’s Office Victim Memorial Courtyard

3960 Orange St., Riverside, CA 92501 For additional information please call: 951.955. 9888 or email at [email protected]

Greater OC POMC Monument and Vigil – Sunday April 26, 2015 6pm

Annual Candlelight Vigil & Names Dedication Ceremony Each year during Victim's Rights Week in April, victims of homicide are honored and remembered with a

very special ceremony. The names of those who have been added to the Memorial Monument that year are dedicated during a candlelight vigil in their honor. The names of all those previously inscribed are

mentioned prior to the ceremony.

The candlelight ceremony honors our Loved Ones as well as all victims of homicide. The event includes speakers, live music, information booths, and a display of memory quilts and loved one's photos. For more

information: (714) 999-7132 www.gocpomc.org

Memory Garden Memorial

Park and Mortuary 455 W. Central Avenue

Brea, CA 92821