UPDATED SATURDAY FEBRUARY 14th, 2015: This ceremony has been cancelled due to the snowstorm and will be rescheduled for a later date, which will be announced.

The 100 people who lost their lives in The Station nightclub fire on Feb. 20, 2003 will be remembered in a ceremony this Sunday starting at 1 p.m. at West Warwick High School on Webster Knight Drive.

“We’ll be safe and warm, and we’re still honoring our 100 no matter where we are. I don’t want anyone getting hurt or sick, and our angels wouldn’t want it either,” Gina Russo, president of the Station Fire Memorial Foundation, said in an interview Tuesday.

Many of the prior observances have been held at the site of The Station on Cowesett Avenue in West Warwick. Russo said the site of the fire is snowbound and the gate can’t be opened. Furthermore, she said, if snow could be cleared, she would still have concerns for the safety of people, especially the elderly parents of many of the victims.

But Russo promises some “exciting and good news” at Sunday’s ceremony concerning plans for a permanent memorial at the site of the nightclub. She said the foundation is moving ahead with plans for a memorial, with the first of three phases of construction beginning this spring or early summer. She is hopeful the project will be completed by the summer of 2016.

Russo said the project is in the range of $2 million, although there have been some “tweaks” since plans were revealed. Those plans called for a wind harp that would serve as an arch to the park. Plans for the park will be on display Sunday.

Russo also said a memorial leadership committee will be announced. That committee has scheduled an initial meeting for Feb. 24.

Sunday’s ceremony will open with an invocation by the Rev. Donald Anderson, executive minister of the Rhode Island State Council of Churches. There will be the playing of bagpipes and honor guard comprised of first responders. Russo said the names of the “100 angels” would be read followed by 100 seconds of silence. Songwriter and singer Joe Silva will sing “97 Angels,” the tribute he wrote immediately following the fire.

Russo expects the ceremony and announcements about the memorial should take about 45 minutes. Coffee will be served following the ceremony, and there will be an opportunity for people to mingle and discuss and review plans for the memorial park.