Preparation under way for Pride Day

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A Geneva congregation and two Aurora churches will be partners in Pride Day activities Sunday, June 12.

Unitarian Universalist Society of Geneva congregants will join with members of Aurora’s New England Congregational Church (NECC) and Wesley United Methodist Church to offer a day of family Pride activities and to share in a profound witness to the unconditional welcome of communities.

Aurora’s third annual Pride Parade will step off at noon in downtown Aurora.

The schedule is:

• 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., “Pride Cakes” pancake breakfast at NECC’s Friendship Hall, 406 W. Galena Boulevard in Aurora (cooked/served by Wesley UMC).

• 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., combined community worship service in NECC sanctuary.

• 10:30 a.m. to 10:40 a.m., gather near NECC’s Hawthorne Door/main parking lot area for group walk to parade staging area.

• 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., commUNITY Market vendor fair on Water Street Mall.

Visit www.facebook.com/AuroraILPrideFestival for more information.

—Al Benson

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