<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">Thank you for posting, Dan. I was devastated to learn of her death as well. Below is information from the HOPE (Hyattsville Organization for a Positive Environment) e-mail list about a memorial service for her in Bladensburg, tomorrow (Monday). </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">6. Post article about Joanna Blake</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">    Posted by:  </span><a href="mailto:clearcreek@talk21.com" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">clearcreek@talk21.com</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> clearcreekoklahoma</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">    Date: Sat May 28, 2016 10:15 am ((PDT))</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">Yesterday the Post published this article about our neighbor's death:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/friend-of-local-sculptor-killed-in-crash-the-world-has-missed-out/2016/05/27/a12c3a04-238e-11e6-9e7f-57890b612299_story.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/friend-of-local-sculptor-killed-in-crash-the-world-has-missed-out/2016/05/27/a12c3a04-238e-11e6-9e7f-57890b612299_story.html</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">Another neighbor in Cottage City sent this notice yesterday.  Anyone who knew Joanna, or admired her work, would be very welcome in Bladensburg on Memorial Day.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> Dear Neighbors and Friends of Joanna Blake,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> We  have a Port Towns tradition on Memorial Day to gather at the Peace</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> Cross to pay our respects to those who have given their lives in</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> service.  This is a day that we can come together to remember Joanna</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> Blake.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> The ceremony at the Peace Cross will culminate with a tribute to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> Joanna and we will walk to the Battle of Bladensburg Monument to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> remember her life and mourn her passing (the Monument is located on</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> Bladensburg Rd north of the entrance to the waterfront park.)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> Please join us at the Peace Cross at </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span class="">11:30 am</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span class="">on Monday</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> to share</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> memories and photos, lay a flower, and be together.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> Please spread the word in your community.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> Denise</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> BTW - To contribute to a fund for the family - visit the Cottage City</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> Town Hall and talk to Stan Mosely, our town administrator.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">-----</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">Kirk in Cottage City</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">Of necessity we must be sorrowful when those whom we love leave us in</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">death.  Although we know that they have not left us behind forever,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">but only gone ahead of us, still when death seizes our loved ones, our</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">loving hearts are saddened by death itself.  Thus the apostle Paul</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">does not tell us not to grieve, but 'not to grieve like those who are</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">without hope.'  Let us grieve, therefore, over the necessity of losing</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">our loved ones in death, but with the hope of being reunited with</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">them.  If we are afflicted, we still find consolation.  Our weakness</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">weighs us down, but faith bears us up.  We sorrow over the human</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px">condition, but find our healing in the divine promise.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> - St Augustine</span><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"><br></span></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="410" style="font-size:13.6px;width:5.7in;border-collapse:collapse;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><tbody><tr style="height:26.5pt"><td width="96" style="width:95.55pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:26.5pt"><p><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B_WsXUJf7Td7clpWbmhXemRkRVk&revid=0B_WsXUJf7Td7bU5DYW9aaDBWaTJWdGI0bUx6SnFYeFFxRG1RPQ"><br></p></td><td width="315" style="width:314.85pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:26.5pt"><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(69,129,142)">Sarah Wayland, Ph.D. | <a href="http://www.guidingexceptionalparents.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">www.GuidingExceptionalParents.com</span></a><br>Supporting students with learning differences & their families</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="font-size:13.6px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div>
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