Thursday, January 3, 2013
MLS players will travel to town affected by mass shooting to show support for devastated community.
Members of the New York Red Bulls and Major League Soccer will travel to Newtown, CT on Monday to raise funds for the families affected by the tragic Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, league officials announced. Soccer players will use the event to help raise attention, support and funding for these families with “Soccer Night in Newtown.” The shooting, which killed 27 people, including 20 children, had an especially strong impact on San Jose Earthquakes’ player Marcus Tracy, who grew up in Newtown and whose mother once taught at the school. Residents and members of the Newtown Youth Soccer Club have been invited to attend and meet professional soccer players including Red Bulls players Kenny Cooper, Ryan Meara and Heath …
Friday, December 21, 2012
School districts in the region respond to Connecticut massacre by reviewing safety procedures.
At 9:30 a.m. Friday, 26 bells were rung, one each for the lives taken in the hallways and classrooms of Sandy Hook Elementary School during the Dec. 14 shooting in Newtown, Conn. The Friday before Christmas, typically a day reserved for holiday parties and cheer, marked a week since what has been labeled the second deadliest school shooting in America. Just days and even hours after the shooting, school districts in Morris and Somerset counties sprung into action, developing plans to communicate with parents and reaching out to police officers about how to make schools more safe. "Right now, the crucial thing for school boards to do is to look at the security procedures in place," said Frank Belluscio, communications director for the New …
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
In the wake of CT shooting, parents said schools need to find the weaknesses in their systems.
For many parents of children under 6 years old, they said they felt it was unnecessary to talk to them about the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. “My children are 5 and 2-and-a-half,” said Bridgewater resident Jessica Demcsak. “I did not feel the need to discuss the shootings with them because of their age. They did not encounter any news broadcasting at home or in the car, so it was pretty easy to shield them.” Bridgewater parent Liz Marranca said she has also limited the exposure her children—ages 6, almost 4 and 8 months—have had to news and current events. “I just told my just turned 6-year-old that a bad man in Connecticut did something bad and we need to pray for people in Connecticut,” she said. “I …
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—…
clyde donovan
10:57 am on Monday, January 7, 2013
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