ARTESIA 9/11 Memorial, INC., a nonprofit organization, will host their first GUNS & HOSES CHARITY SOFTBALL GAME – POLICE VS. FIRE on May 28th at Noon at Brainard Park in Artesia NM.

ARTESIA 9/11 MEMORIAL, INC., has organized this honorable and fun charity softball game to remember those we lost within our community, some of which are pictured here. Our mission is to further 9/11 education and remembrance; provide our community’s firefighters with financial assistance in times of personal crisis; and to identify & provide needed resources and services for our community’s veterans by partnering with local veteran organizations to meet those needs.

ARTESIA 9/11 MEMORIAL, INC. is honored to have as their special guests Kristie Kiernan Bouryal, CEO & Author of the Discovering Heroes© Series and VP of Marketing & Communications with the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, along with retired Lt. John Kiernan, FDNY Elite Rescue Unit and 9/11 First Responder.

This 50’s-era themed softball game, complete with hot dogs, peanuts, Cracker Jacks and sarsaparilla, comes with a dunk tank in which our City’s Mayor Jon Henry and our Fire Chief Kevin Hope, along with

other VIPs from the community, will be dunked to raise funds for charity!
The media are invited to attend the opening ceremony and charity softball game on Saturday, May 28 at12 Noon.

The opening ceremony will feature the National Anthem performed by 16-year-old Carson Troost and God Bless the USA performed by 17-year-old Bailey Rutherford from Artesia High School’s Show Choir; Honor Guard performed by US Border Patrol and a speech given by: