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Mid Hudson Times, Wednesday, March 21, 2018
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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Classifieds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Crossword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Letters to the Editor. . . . . . . . . . 8
Meadow Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Town of Newburgh. . . . . . . . . . . 25
Newburgh Heritage. . . . . . . . . . . 10
New Windsor.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Obituaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Police Blotter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Service Directory. . . . . . . . . . . 35
Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
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Students honor shooting victims
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
The Newburgh Enlarged City School
District held a series of events to mark
National School Walkout Day, a day of
action organized by students following
the deadly school shooting in Parkland,
Florida, last month.
The March 14 events included artwork,
town halls, discussions and periods
of silence in memory of the shooting
victims. “It was student driven,” said
district Communications Strategist
Cassie Sklarz. “Administrators let the
students lead.”
Kindness was the theme that day
at Gidney Avenue Memorial School
(GAMS), where students participated in
a “Walk Up” against violence at school.
Students were encouraged to walk up
to 17 students, teachers and staff to say
something kind.
Service was a theme at NFA West,
where students signed up to volunteer at
the Newburgh Armory Unity Center and
write letters of condolence to the victims’
families. NFA West students also carried
out random acts of kindness.
The events were held to honor the
17 students and staff who were gunned
down at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School, where a troubled ex-student,
Nikolas Cruz, 19, went on a shooting fatal
spree on Feb. 14.
Heritage Middle School students sat
in 17 minutes of silence and spoke about
positive steps to take “to set the right tone
and culture in a school,” the district said.
NFA North and NFA Main campuses
Ebony Clark, NFA West co-principal, and social worker Carolee Hamlin sign students up for
volunteer work.
saw hundreds of students walk out of
their classrooms to sit in silence. About
25 students walked out at NFA Main and
stood on the front steps of the building.
None of the students were disciplined for
walking out of their classes.
The students were joined by countless
students from around the country that
day. “We believe that young people of all
ages in Newburgh deserve invitations to
be civically engaged and to peacefully
advocate for themselves and their
communities,” district Superintendent of
Schools Roberto Padilla said in a March 9
posting to the district website.
Earlier this month, the district
held a forum on school safety. At the
meeting, Padilla said the district has
plans to upgrade school building secu