Residents will be taking a walk near Temecula to remember those who died of COVID-19 .
The COVID Remembrance Walk is set for 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, at Galway Downs , an equestrian center outside the city.
It is sponsored by Yellow Heart Memorial , which works to hang yellow hearts in the windows of public buildings and helps people create local memorials.
“When I founded Yellow Heart Memorial, my mission was to humanize the numbers and offer hope to a community that was hurting like me,” Rosie Davis, who founded the organization in Texas after losing her mother in May 2020, said in a news release. “I wanted people who had not experienced a loss like this to see our loved ones as individuals, not just a statistic.”
Grammy-nominated singer Justin Michael Williams, who lost his