On Sunday August 6th we will have speakers to mark the 61st anniversary of Hiroshima at the Federal building on the corner of Park Street and West Michigan avenue during the second half of the regularly scheduled peace vigil that is there every Sunday from 12-1pm.

On Wednesday, August 9 there will be an event to mark the 61st anniversary of Nagasaki starting at 8pm in Bronson Park, downtown Kalamazoo. There will be speakers and participants will be asked to write their hopes for peace on a piece of paper and attach it to one of 61 candlelit floatillas to be floated in the pond at the center of the park.