The greater Tallahassee community gathered at Cascades Park the evening of Sunday, Nov. 11. The event was in tribute to the November 2nd shooting victims at Midtown's Hot Yoga studio.
Some of Sunday night's speakers knew the victims better than almost anyone. Capital Health Plan head John Hogan worked with Dr. Nancy Van Vessem for a quarter of a century. "Someday soon, all the pain we feel because Nancy's life has ended will be replaced by the joy that her extraordinary life happened," he said, valiantly struggling to contain his sorrow. And then there was Jeff Binkley, FSU student Maura Binkley's dad. "Maura's light, Dr. Van Vessem's light, were not extinguished," he told the crowd of several hundred people. "You all know that and (they) never will be!" he asserted. Among the hundreds of people at the candlelight memorial, Leon County School Board member Rosanne Wood. "We really have to come together as a whole community and a whole nation, and figure this out." she said, "Because this cannot go on!"
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