8 OCTOBER 22, 2020 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Photos by Dean Moses
Flower mural in Ridgewood
honors lives lost to COVID-19
BY DEAN MOSES
EDITORIAL@QNS.COM
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The Ridgewood and Glendale
communities found a way to
honor those who passed away
due to COVID-19 by building a wall of
fl owers in their memory.
On Friday, Oct. 16, community
members gathered to see the unveiling
of the Flower Wall underneath the
overpass at the intersection of Myrtle
Avenue and Fresh Pond Road.
A collaboration between the Flower
Power Coff ee House NYC and the
Glendale Queens Chamber of Commerce,
the Flower Wall was built
with the hopes that it would bring
the community together. It is also
intended to serve as a place for people
to pin photos of the family members
who died as a result of the COVID-19
pandemic.
Councilman Robert Holden and
state Senator Joe Addabbo attended
the unveiling, where attendees were
given lights to place around the mural.
The lights are expected to stay lit
for two months.
One woman who lost her father, a
survivor of 9/11, to COVID-19, spoke
about the importance of taking the
pandemic seriously.
“A lot of people think it’s not real,
but it is real, and everybody needs
to keep themselves safe,” Katerina
Velesky said.
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