Harrison middle school students
honor first responders
Amid reflections and remembrance 15 years after the 9/11
Attacks, a Harrison middle school has chosen to celebrate the
efforts of first responders as a way of commemorating the tragic
event.
Sixth-grade students at Washington Middle School pooled
their creative energies to design and distribute “survival kits” to
local firefighters and law enforcement officers on Sept. 9. Kits
contained a variety of candies, each selected to honor first
responders in specific ways.
“The peppermint patties, for example, represented ‘keeping
our cool,’ in intense situations,” says Harrison Local 22 State
Delegate Joe Nigro. “It meant a lot that (the students) are
actually learning to appreciate everything that’s going on and
what we’re doing out there.”
In addition to presenting representatives from each department with kits, the students of Mrs. Dunphy’s and Mr. Comprelli’s classes handed boxes of kits for distribution among both
departments.
“We’d like to thank the students and Mrs. Dunphy and Mr.
Comprelli for taking time out of their schedules after school to
honor (first responders),” says Nigro. “It was a fantastic effort.”
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