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Mayor Sets Gun Violence Awareness Weekend For First Weekend In June

Melrose residents are invited to wear orange during the first weekend in June to recognize National Gun Violence Awareness Weekend.

MELROSE, MA — In a proclamation released Thursday, Mayor Paul Brodeur declared the first weekend in June to be Gun Violence Awareness Weekend in Melrose.

The weekend is meant to honor the victims and survivors of gun violence in the United States and recognize that the country must do more to reduce gun violence.

Mayor Brodeur's announcement specifically cites recent events, including the shooting at a Tulsa, Oklahoma, hospital on Wednesday and the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022.

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Members of the Melrose community who wish to "join the cause," the announcement says, are invited to wear orange from June 3 to June 5, 2022.

Orange became the defining color of the movement to prevent gun violence shortly after the death of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton in 2013. Pendleton's friends started wearing orange, the color hunters wear as a safety measure, to commemorate her life.

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