Photovoltaic lighting has been installed at the Hermosa Beach 9-11 Memorial on the Green Belt at Pier Avenue and Valley Drive.
“The 9-11 memorial in Hermosa is a beautiful tribute to the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives in one of the biggest tragedies our country has ever witnessed,” said Mike Miller of the Kiwanis Club, which purchased the 12-volt lighting system. “The lighting of the memorial is a symbolic gesture that day or night, the people we lost will never be forgotten.”
The memorial consists of a bench adorned with buttons representing each person who died in the attacks and a monument to the Twin Towers, made by Dave Shaw Concrete. Students in the Hermosa Valley Builders Club collected the buttons for the bench, writing to celebrities and politicians among others. Major roles in the bench program were also played by Hermosa Kiwanis, who sponsor the Builders Club, and the Hermosa Beach Police Department’s chaplain program.
Miller, JR Revisky and Rick Koenig of the Hermosa Beach Kiwanis Club and Steve Shea of Native Concepts Landscaping & Design as well as Brandon Rubasky of United Airlines installed the lighting over the weekend.
