Lydia Preston, left, Haley Gibson, Marjorie Roper and Revanna Preston, all from Lewisburg, listen as the names of the victims from the Orlando mass shooting were being read during the Love Wins Candlelight Gathering on the corner of Washington and Jefferson street at the Green Space in Lewisburg Friday evening.
LEWISBURG, W.Va. — The heavens opened up and wept with a group of nearly 150 Greenbrier Countians who gathered to memorialize the slain of Orlando, Florida.
Lewisburg’s Center Green Park filled with people Thursday night, some seeking comfort and others simply joining together as a community to try and come to grips with the violence that erupted at the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando over the weekend.
“We remember Orlando, and we love the people of Orlando,” said Father Chris Thompson, an Episcopalian priest and one of the gathering’s organizers. “Remember that love always wins…
