The Vance County Coalition Against Violence is organizing a citywide awareness-raising motorcade Saturday afternoon.
The Motorcade for Nonviolence will assemble at the old armory on Dabney Drive at 2:30 and start rolling at 3. According to information provided by organizer Cathy Ringley, the motorcade should return to the armory by 4:30.
The coalition hopes to have at least 25 vehicles follow a route that goes through all four city wards and covers areas that concern the Coalition Against Violence and the Clean Up Henderson Committee. The goal of the motorcade is twofold: to show those areas to motorcade participants and to demonstrate to residents of those areas that the coalition believes that “enough is enough” in terms of gunshots, gang activity and criminal victimization.
“We are taking back our streets and neighborhoods,” Ringley wrote in an e-mail message last month. “We are inviting church groups, civic groups, businesses, community leaders, neighborhood associations and individual families to stand up and be counted in the community motorcade for peace.”
For more information about participating in the motorcade, call Ringley at 213-3746 or event co-chairwoman Evelyn Mitchell at 492-6912.