Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Robert and Lucrecia Young heading back to CT as donations come in from around the country.
With messages flowing in from as far away as Ohio, Texas and Michigan, Bridgewater residents Robert and Lucrecia Young are preparing a return trip Thursday to Newtown, Conn., to bring donated toys and stuffed animals to those still suffering in the wake of Friday’s school shooting tragedy. After sharing his story of spending Saturday in Newtown, showing Bridgewater’s support for those suffering, Young said he began hearing from residents across the country who wanted to help as well. “I’ve noticed there’s a lot of division in the country, and this is showing me that when it comes right down to helping each other, Americans hop in and help,” Robert Young said. Young said he already has a Jeep filled with stuffed animals—at least 75 so far—…
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
It will be discussed in the board’s facilities committee.
All crisis management teams in the district met Monday morning to discuss current, and future, security measures in the wake of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, according to Superintendent of Schools Michael Schilder. Schilder said Tuesday that the teams were looking at reviewing current security procedures, while also making recommendations for enhancement. “I compiled those into a format for the board facilities committee,” he said. “There are security issues, and suggestions are coming in that are very robust and detailed.” Schilder declined to give specifics on what is being discussed at this time. Board of education vice president Patrick Breslin said the facilities committee received the recommendations, and will be …
Robert and Lucrecia Young drove to Connecticut Saturday with a goal to just give back.
CENTRAL JERSEY -- A local couple saw the kindness of strangers in January when people donated clothes and other items to them after their house burned to the ground from a fireplace fire—and now in the wake of the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., they are just trying to pay it forward. “I woke up Saturday morning with tears in my eyes,” Robert Young, of Bridgewater, said. “I turned to my wife in bed, and said, ‘Let’s go.’ She asked where, and I said we’re going to Newtown because we have to do something to help.” Young and his wife, Lucrecia Young, headed out on the drive to Connecticut, planning to do whatever they could to help those devastated after the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that took the lives of 20 children…
Monday, December 17, 2012
It is encouraging children to send pictures about banning guns to President Obama.
Bridgewater resident Neha Pallod Limaye is hoping to get one message to the President of the United States—“No badge, no guns.” And to promote that, Limaye has started a Facebook group called Let us Live!, which is centered around that message. The group was created just after the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut Friday, which left 28 people dead, including 20 children under the age of 10 years old. With more than 1,200 members after just starting the group Saturday, Limaye is asking children to draw pictures that can then be sent to President Barack Obama in the White House. “Our intention is to get that message out to the President, to flood the White House with pictures hand drawn by young children, asking…
Friday, December 14, 2012
Michael Schilder directs school staff to follow security procedures as a precautionary measure.
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Friday, December 14, 2012
Superintendent of Schools Michael Schilder released the following message Friday evening concerning the tragedy at the elementary school in Connecticut: Dear Parents and Community, I am writing to you tonight with great sadness. The loss of children in Connecticut today due to a school shooting is an unspeakable horror. While I do not feel that there is any threat to BRRSD, as a precautionary measure, I did issue a directive this afternoon to all staff to make sure all security procedures are being followed in strict accordance with the district's Crisis Management Plan and standard operating protocols. Children are likely to be upset by this tragedy. We believe that if possible, parents should always be the ones to first address their …
A Connecticut town once voted the safest place to live in America experiences horrific violence in one of its elementary schools.
The man identified in media reports Friday as the shooter in the second deadliest school shooting in American history has told friends that he thinks his developmentally disabled brother may have committed the crime, Patch has learned. A close friend of Ryan Lanza who requested to not be identified told Patch that he spoke to Lanza as he was making his way home from work to Hoboken. Lanza also took to his Facebook page to rail against CNN naming him as the suspect in the shooting in Newtown, Conn. “I’m on the bus home now, it wasn’t me,” Lanza wrote. Lanza’s mother, Nancy, a school teacher, is believed to be among the dead. More than 25 people, including 18 students, died in the mass shooting. The shooter was Adam Lanza, 20, the younger …
Robert Young
10:53 am on Tuesday, January 22, 2013
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