Friday, January 11, 2013
Students in the Leadership Class have put together Titans Care spirit towels, made possible by a donation from The Motley Fool, and on sale at this weekend's basketball games.
Fans at the T.C. Williams basketball games this weekend will be waving spirit towels as part of a fundraiser for Sandy Hook Elementary School. The Titans Care towels are being sold Friday and Saturday night at the T.C. Williams home games for $5. It’s part of a fundraiser for the Connecticut school’s memorial scholarship fund hosted by the University of Connecticut. The fund was created to help give the gift of higher education to siblings of the children killed at the school last month and to the children of the staff members who were killed. Community partner The Motley Fool paid $1,600 for the 2,000 towels. T.C. Williams graphic teacher Bobby Trout had his students print them in class, according to T.C. Williams teacher and project …
Friday, December 21, 2012
"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," the NRA's Wayne LaPierre said.
In an Friday morning press conference, the Fairfax-based National Rifle Association broke its weeklong silence following the horrific shooting of 26 people at a school in Newtown, Conn., and called for a surge of gun-carrying "good guys" around American schools. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre called for a new kind of American domestic security revolving around armed civilians, arguing that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." "We care about our president, so we protect him with armed Secret Service agents," LaPierre said. "Members of Congress work in offices surrounded by Capitol Police officers. Yet, when it comes to our most beloved, innocent, and vulnerable members of the American …
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
In interview on WTOP Tuesday, Gov. Bob McDonnell says idea should be explored.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said Tuesday that it may be time to explore the idea of arming teachers and other school officials. The Republican governor made his remarks in an interview Tuesday on WTOP. His remarks came during a discussion of the killing of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., on Friday. The governor was asked: "What about the idea of allowing people—adults, supervisors, principals, teachers—to be armed inside the public schools of Virginia?" "I know there's been a knee-jerk reaction against that," McDonnell said. "I think there should at least be a discussion about it." "If people were armed, not just a police officer but other officials who were trained and chose to have a weapon, …
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Alexandrian Cathy Canfield plans to head to Newtown, Conn., to offer her services as a child behavioral therapist didn't reach fruition, but she will be able to offer more than $1,000 to Sandy Hook Elementary.
Child therapist Cathy Canfield casually mentioned on Facebook Saturday morning that she just wanted to pick up and drive to Newtown, Conn., to put her skill set to good use for the town reeling from a terrible tragedy. A few of her friends encouraged her to go, open an online fundraiser to help her secure funds for the trip and even said they would donate money to her cause. So she set up a page on online fundraising site YouCaring.com and suddenly found that she was about $2,100 richer. Canfield, whose Children’s Counseling of Alexandria practice is based in Old Town, had been calling the Sandy Hook Elementary School Board members, a local Connecticut chapter of the American Red Cross and private-practice therapists to try and establish …
Monday, December 17, 2012
Mayor Bill Euille reaches out to Connecticut officials.
Alexandria police will have an increased presence in and around city schools this week in response to Friday's school shooting in Newtown, Conn. The Alexandria Police Department announced the decision Sunday evening on its Facebook page. “There is NO threat but this is being done as a reassurance to the community, teachers, parents and students that we are here to serve and protect,” the statement reads. ACPS school counselors will be available Monday to talk to children who need additional support regarding the Newtown massacre. Mayor Bill Euille held a moment of silence for the victims prior to Saturday’s City Council meeting. He said he placed calls to Connecticut Governor Dan Mallory and Newtown First Selectman E. Patricia Llodra …
Michael Cardin
5:17 pm on Tuesday, January 1, 2013
It's about time that someone leads with some common sense. Gun deaths are not caused by legal gun owners and sane people. We use all kinds of constraints to keep mentally ill people away from guns and they get their hands on one because someone like the mom in CT and now we blame every gun owner. If the weapons were not in the house or locked up the young man would have looked elsewhere for a gun… more ›