{"id":29347,"date":"2021-03-28T09:43:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T13:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=29347"},"modified":"2021-03-28T09:43:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T13:43:40","slug":"chester-county-honors-those-lost-to-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=29347","title":{"rendered":"Chester County honors those lost to COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13627\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Chester-County-COVID-19-Memorial-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13627\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13627\" src=\"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Chester-County-COVID-19-Memorial-1-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chester County Commissioners\u2019 Chair Marian Moskowitz is joined by Commissioners Josh Maxwell and Michelle Kichline, and other County elected officials, to pay tribute to the 747 Chester County residents who have died because of COVID-19.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This weekend, Chester County honored the memory of the 747 people in the county who have lost their lives to COVID-19.\u00a0 Three memorial tributes are being held at three County parks, marking one year since Chester County recorded its first coronavirus death.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, County Commissioners Marian Moskowitz, Josh Maxwell and Michelle Kichline held a special memorial service at Springton Manor Farm in Glenmoore, where they laid wreaths to honor the 543,975 lives lost nationally, the 24,953 lives lost across the Commonwealth, and the 747 lives lost in Chester County.\u00a0 There, under the Springton Manor Farm great oak tree, 747 pinwheels were displayed \u2013 one for each life lost since the start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur ceremony this morning, here under the great oak tree at Springton Manor Farm, is part of a weekend of county-wide tributes to the people who we have lost over the past year,&#8221; Chester County Commissioners\u2019 Chair Marian Moskowitz said. \u201cOur family, our friends, our neighbors, those who we worked with, and members of our community. We miss them.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In addition to Springton Manor Farm, pinwheel displays have been set up at Warwick Park in Pottstown, and in Nottingham Park, in Nottingham.\u00a0 All three memorial sites have been created as a temporary display, and the County will plan a permanent memorial to all lives lost to COVID-19 at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Chester County\u2019s COVID-19 memorials will be open to the public during normal county park hours of 8:00 a.m. to sunset.<\/p>\n<p>The county has also created a web page dedicated to honoring the memory of those who died of COVID-19, encouraging residents to leave messages, memories and names of family members, friends or colleagues who they have lost.\u00a0 The memorial web page can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesco.org\/memorial\">www.chesco.org\/memorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, Chester County honored the memory of the 747 people in the county who have lost their lives to COVID-19.\u00a0 Three memorial tributes are being held at three County parks, marking one year since Chester County recorded its first coronavirus death. This morning, County Commissioners Marian Moskowitz, Josh Maxwell and Michelle Kichline held a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20,9585,3912,242],"class_list":["post-29347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chester-county","tag-covid-19","tag-featured","tag-memorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29348,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29347\/revisions\/29348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}