DETROIT MEMORIAL DAY

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan speaks at a Detroit Memorial Day event to honor COVID-19 victims on Aug. 31, 2020. DETROIT – Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has been invited to take part in an Oval Office meeting with President Joe Biden, the White House said Thursday. The Biden administration’s American Rescue Plan will be discussed at the bi-partisan meeting Friday of governors and mayors, the White House said. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has told Detroit it will be reimbursed about $18 million to cover the city's coronavirus-related costs including money spent on administering vaccines. “I was confident we would get reimbursed at some point.”AdDuggan is a Democrat who this year will seek his third consecutive four-year term as Detroit’s mayor.

DETROIT – The city turned an island park into an extraordinary memorial garden Monday as cars packed with grieving families slowly traveled past hundreds of photos of Detroit residents who died from COVID-19. Mayor Mike Duggan declared a Detroit Memorial Day to honor the 1,500-plus city victims of the pandemic. Gretchen Whitmer said at Belle Isle. Cher Coner’s mother, Joyce, had died of sepsis, not COVID-19, but she couldn’t have a traditional funeral because of virus restrictions. He took it and ran with it,” said Coner, whose mother’s photo is on Belle Isle.

DETROIT – Monday, Aug. 31, 2020 is “Detroit Memorial Day.”This day is to honor the more than 1,500 people who have died from COVID-19 this year in the city of Detroit. A procession of vehicles has been making its way around Belle Isle. About 900 printed photos of victims were lining the road on the island. Watch the city’s daylong service live here with coverage from WRCJ:

DETROIT – The city turned an island park into an extraordinary memorial garden Monday as cars packed with grieving families slowly traveled past hundreds of photos of Detroit residents who died from COVID-19. Mayor Mike Duggan declared a Detroit Memorial Day to honor the 1,500-plus city victims of the pandemic. Gretchen Whitmer said at Belle Isle. Cher Coner’s mother, Joyce, had died of sepsis, not COVID-19, but she couldn’t have a traditional funeral because of virus restrictions. He took it and ran with it,” said Coner, whose mother’s photo is on Belle Isle.

DETROIT – The city of Detroit is holding a memorial day on Monday to honor more than 1,500 residents who died from COVID-19. On Monday, “Detroit Memorial Day,” families are driving their cars in 15 consecutive funeral processions past nearly 900 billboard-sized photos of loved ones staked around Belle Isle. The photos represent a majority of the 1,500 Detroiters lost to the virus between through early August. Portraits of COVID-19 victims line the street Aug. 31, 2020 on Belle Isle in Detroit. (WDIV)Duggan spoke at 8:15 a.m. at the foot of the bridge to Belle Isle.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has declared August 31, 2020 as Detroit Memorial Day to acknowledge residents who have died from COVID-19. The day will be recognized with a citywide memorial featuring large photo boards of passed Detroit residents along a route on Belle Isle. Families and friends are encouraged to drive the route and say goodbye to their loved ones on August 31. The city of Detroit is requesting families to send photographs of their loved ones who have died from COVID-19 so that they can be displayed along the route on August 31. Families interested in submitting photos of their loved ones for the Detroit memorial event can do so before July 31 through one of the following options:Online here,by emailing detroitmemorial2020@gmail.comor by mailing: Detroit Memorial 2020, P.O.