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The Compassionate Friends Candle Lighting Ceremony

The Solano County Chapter of The Compassionate Friends will host the local candle lighting event at The Hampton Inn and Suites in Vacaville.

The ceremony begins at 6:30 p.m. and will feature music, poetry and other remembrances. There will be a social hour afterwards with refreshments, giving all the opportunity to connect with each other.

Annually, tens of thousands of families, united in loss of a child, light candles for one hour during The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting, held the second Sunday every December. Candles are first lit at 7:00 p.m. local time, just west of the International Date Line. As candles burn down in one time zone, they are lit in the next, creating a 24-hour wave of light as the observance continues around the world. 

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