HORSHAM TOWNSHIP, PA — The township has announced the date for its 27th annual Project Blue Light ceremony that honors the fallen police officers of Montgomery County.
Horsham Township officials said this year’s event will be held at the Horsham Township Municipal Complex from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Dec. 9.
The ceremony includes the lighting of a tree on Horsham Road to honor the police officers.
The solemn ceremony features representatives from numerous police departments throughout Montgomery County: The Horsham Township Police Department, The Pennsylvania State Police barracks in Skippack, the Abington Township Police Department, the Hatfield Police Department, the Springfield Township Police Department, the Upper Merion Police Department, the Whitpain Township Police Department, the Upper Dublin Township Police Department, and the Upper Gwynedd Police Department, among others.
Project Blue Light is a nationwide observance begun more than 30 years ago by Dolly Craig of Philadelphia.
In 1988, Craig placed two blue candle lights in the window of her home: one in honor of her son-in-law, Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Gleason, killed in the line of duty in 1986; and one for her daughter Pam, Gleason’s wife, who died in an auto crash in 1988. The couple had six children.
The officers lost in the line of duty are: