By Susan Hardee Steger
March 23, 2018 11:00 p.m.
Two students from Marjorie Stoneman Douglas (MSD) High School in Parkland, Florida will be in attendance at March For Our Lives Amelia Island, and one will speak to the marchers that gather at Fernandina’s downtown waterfront on March 24, at 10:00 a.m. The MSD students recently lost 17 members of their high school in a mass shooting.
Along with the MSD student speaker, marchers will hear from Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper, City of Fernandina Beach Chief Jim Hurley, and City of Fernandina Beach Mayor Johnny Miller.
March For Our Lives Amelia Island is a “sibling” march in support of the national March For Our Lives taking place in Washington, D.C. this Saturday. MSD students are demanding legislators make “lives and safety a priority” and are calling for an end to “gun violence and mass shooting.”
The marchers will hear from speakers at Parking Lot C on the southern end of Fernandina’s waterfront beginning at 10:00 and then proceed east on Ash Street, turning north on 6th Street, west on Centre Street, and continuing back to Parking Lot C.
Great event—well attended and very moving. These children are the adults in the room, and wel could learn a lot from them!