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Volume XIII, Issue 1
What if an Active Shooter is in your area?
Call 911 if it is safe to do so!
As we have seen so many shootings at schools and offices in the past few years, the Homeland Security Department recommends that we as citizens be prepared on how to react in an active shooter situation. Read the information below from their learning material and keep it in the back of your mind in case you are faced with a situation. You may also want to tell your children how to respond in case they are at a mall shopping and they too are faced with a violent shooter. Different schools have different policies so you may also want to go to the school where your kids go and see what they want the students to do in a situation where there is a school shooter. Most importantly tell your children to do exactly what their teacher tells them to do. If an active shooter is in your area: * Evacuate: Have an escape route and plan in mind. Leave your belongings behind. * Hide Out: Hide in an area out of the shooter’s view. Block entry to your hiding place and lock the doors. Silence your cell phone. * Take Action: As a last resort and only when your life is in imminent danger. Act with physical aggression and throw items at the shooter. As always call 911 if it is safe to do so. Look for our postcard on more advice if you are in an active shooter situation.
The History of Black History Month ASALH.org Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by black Americans and a time for recognizing the central role of African Americans in U.S. history. The event grew out of “Negro History Week,” the brainchild of noted historian Carter G. Woodson and other prominent African Americans. Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially designated the month of February as Black History Month. Other countries around the world, including * Charlene Duarte * Rusty Columbo * Devon Bailey & Family * Maria Dragon * Vemonda Lane & Family * Charlie * Mr. Mike * Tiffany * Dvora * Ed Giampietro * Kristan David Perez * Tommy & Joe * Geralyn * Little Ryan * Earnest Bowens & Family * Ed & Ruth * Rudy * Lisa * John McLean * Darren * Jan Cerrito * Rev. Patrick O’Shen
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Homeless Internet Star's Struggle
Nicole Brochu How many times have you driven past the guy with the cardboard sign without sparing so much as a glance, let alone a coin from the bottom of the ashtray? I’ll start the red-faced hand-raising — I do it all the time. Ted Williams has me rethinking my apathy of late. For many of us, homelessness, and the addiction and mental health baggage so often keeping its company, is someone else’s problem — a vexing community concern that can loom so large, and seem so hopeless, that worry and sympathy can feel like a waste of energy. In the shadow of that indifference, an entire community has gone faceless to the bulk of a more fortunate society. It’s just easier that way for the rest of us, too busy, too stressed by our own daily troubles to consider an uncomfortable truth: “There but for the grace of God go we.” Then came Ted Williams. In the flash of a viral YouTube video that lit the Internet afire with the hope of second chances, the self-assigned “Man With the Golden Voice” stirred our hearts, and instantly put a face on homelessness and addiction — and the possibility of redemption. For a while there, it seemed all of America was rooting this guy on. A former Ohio radio personality with a successful career and family, Williams admitted in a Columbus Dispatch video report, shot from the side of an intersection he worked with his cardboard sign, that he had lost it all to alcohol, drugs and self-destruction. But he found God, the 53-year-old said, he was more than two years sober, and just waiting for another chance to ride his deep, silky voice back to a normal, productive life. He was ready for a fresh start, if only someone believed in him. And we so desperately wanted to believe.
Detroit design student develops coat for homeless
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Bill Laitner An industrial-design major at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Veronika Scott spent all her cash from summer jobs and then some -- donated by family and friends -- to design and sew three coats, actually, each an improved version of the last. She calls it the Element S(urvival) coat. She is sure it will save lives in Detroit, and someday across the nation and world. As fanciful as that sounds, some people have bought into it. College for Creative Studies Dean Imre Molnar, a former design director for Patagonia, the outdoor clothing company in Ventura, Calif., took one look at Scott’s design in November, and “this stopped me dead,” he said. “This is extraordinary. If this garment is successful in Detroit, it’s going to work across the country and around the world for homeless people, to say nothing of the relief industry. Wherever you have an earthquake, the Red Cross could distribute these things across the
Our Purpose: To Help the Homeless Learn How to Help Themselves
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