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List Of Events Scheduled For One Boston Day

BOSTON (CBS) - For the second anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings, Mayor Marty Walsh is asking everyone to perform one act of kindness as part of what his office is calling One Boston Day.

Mayor Walsh will raise an honorary banner on Boylston Street to honor the victims and survivors of the April 15, 2013 on Wednesday morning. He will also visit first responders and attend a blood drive.

There are several other events planned throughout the region on Wednesday:

8:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - The Red Cross will be distributing food at 1033 Mass. Ave

8:15 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. - Walk Boston will have volunteers greeting commuters and handing out "Walk Boston" buttons at Old City Hall

9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. - The Red Cross will host a blood drive at the Sheraton Hotel at 39 Dalton Street

9:30 a.m. - Legacy Place in Dedham will host a one mile walk and participants are asked to bring a non-perishable food donation

10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. - KIND will be handing out complimentary KIND bars at Faneuil Hall

10:15 a.m. - Kindergarten students from the Eliot School deliver cards to firefighters at 392 Hanover Street

10:00 a.m. - noon - 100.7 WZLX's Karlson & McKenzie and the WZLX morning crew will clean up Filipello Park in Watertown

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Volunteers will be making handprints at the West End Community Center

12:00 p.m. - Staff from the Mayor's Office of Tourism, Sports and Entertainment will deliver food and supplies to firefighters at 392 Hanover Street

12:00 p.m. - Students from the Warren Prescott School and the Harvard Kent School will deliver pizza and cards to Boston Police Officers

12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Author Nila J. Webster will present sixth graders at the Oliver Perry School with copies of her book Where the Poems Dance

1:45 p.m. - The Old South Church will host a Service of Resiliency

2:30 p.m. - Staff from the Mayor's Office of Veterans' Services will plant flags at the King's Chapel Burial Ground.

2:45 p.m. - Staff from Greenovate Boston will hold a moment of silence at the 9/11 Memorial, Boston Public Garden

2:45 p.m. - Students and staff will clean-up the garden at the Warren Prescott School

6:00 p.m. - Staff from the Lenox Hotel deliver meals to Boston Police Officers.

Throughout the day: The Museum of Science will be offering free entry for visitors to reflect in the peace of the Butterfly Garden.

For more information visit http://www.onebostonday.org/

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