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Families remember
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published February 19, 2007
Much has changed since the last anniversary of the Station nightclub fire - a 2003 blaze sparked by pyrotechnics for the '80s rock band Great White that killed 100 people in West Warwick, R.I. * * * This past year, the Great White tour manager and the club's two owners pleaded guilty and no contest, respectively, to charges of involuntary manslaughter. The band manager and one of the owners received sentences of four years in prison. The other owner got a suspended sentence, probation and community service. * * * Still, as family and friends gathered Sunday to mark the fourth anniversary of the Feb. 20, 2003, fire, the grief was still fresh. "It never ends," said John Richmond, whose daughter, Kelly Vieira, 40, died in the fire. "It's not something I can shut off like a faucet." About 250 people attended the service on Sunday that included music, an invocation, a recitation of the victims' names and 100 seconds of silence.
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