9/11 Remembrance events planned Monday in Las Vegas

Here are the events planned Monday in Las Vegas to remember the victims of terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Not all events are open to the public:

— The Las Vegas Fire Department will conduct a Tolling of the Bells Ceremony at 6:45 a.m. at Fire Station 5, 1020 Hinson St. They also will hoist the flag to half-staff.

— Students will assemble at 7:55 a.m. at the Joseph M. Neal STEAM Academy playground to hear a message from their principal, Denise Murray, whose husband was a Port Authority police lieutenant previously stationed at the World Trade Center. Murray and her husband lost 32 of their Port Authority police friends on 9/11.

— A new flag will be placed on the Barbara Edwards Memorial at Palo Verde High School’s soccer field as part of a school-only ceremony at 8:30 a.m. Edwards was a foreign language teacher at the high school in Summerlin. She was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77, the plane that crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11.

— The UNLV College Republicans will hold a 9/11 Memorial Service at 10 a.m. at the Student Union Amphitheater to honor the nearly 3,000 lives lost on 9/11. Earlier, group members will plant a flag in the student union courtyard for each life lost. The flags will remain until 5 p.m.

— Firefighters, a color guard and bagpipers will march at 7 p.m. in downtown Las Vegas. Their route will start at the old Downtown Transportation Center on Casino Center Boulevard, turn left on Fremont Street, stop at the Third Street Stage for a moment of silence, and continue up Third Street to Stewart Avenue.