Cinnaminson 9/11 Ceremony to be Held Sunday

Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and Cinnaminson resident Scott Lunn is once again organizing a memorial event to honor local fire, police and emergency workers.

“I’ve always felt strongly about it—how 9/11 affected everybody,” said Lunn, who was the mayor of Barrington, Camden County during the attacks.

Lunn is currently running as an Independent for township committee, but the event is completely nonpartisan and nonpolitical.

The event has been in Cinnaminson for the last five years and has been attended by several emergency workers in town.

“I just felt the community should have a ceremony, and not just as a healing for what happened to America,” Lunn said, “but to really recognize the real heroes in our town.”

Several people touched Lunn’s heart over the years after the attacks, he said, including a young girl he met while mayor who had lost her firefighter father during 9/11.

“She talked about how wonderful her father was, but then, he didn’t come home,” Lunn said.

Lunn also has a friend whose brother was an architect for the original Twin Towers. And he knows a woman who runs a website for search and rescue dogs that helped after the attacks.

“I know her, and to me, she’s like a hero,” Lunn said. “To me, I’m very humbled that we have these great people around us and they need to be recognized.”

Everyone is invited and encouraged to attend the ceremony, which will be held at the gazebo at Wood Park, 4 p.m. Sunday.

Speakers include Deputy Mayor Don Brauckmann, resident Frank Gorman, Rabbi Steven N. Fineblum (Temple Sinai) and Sister Dolly, of the Meditation Center of Cinnaminson.

Local Boy Scout and Cub Scout groups are slated to present the flag, as well as play “Taps.”

Lunn will present a special gift to the emergency workers form the community.

“We don’t forget,” Lunn said, “and we want to bring healing and recognition to the heroes who are out there.”