People all over the world want to know how to help Sandy Hook families after Friday's horrifying mass shooting. The Newtown Patch has several ideas.
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Monday, December 17, 2012
Follow Inver Grove Heights Patch on Twitter | Like us on Facebook | Sign up for our free newsletter In the wake of the unimaginable tragedy at Sandy Hook School last week, people from all over the world have been expressing support and asking how they can help. That includes people in the Twin Cities, including Eagan. If you want to be notified via email of ways to provide comfort and support during this difficult time, please click on to this post from out sister Patch in Newtown, Connecticut; then in the comments section of that article say "I want to help." The Newtown Patch staff says: "Patch will continue to update this original article with ways to help—posting updates to the story as well as in the comments thread, triggering an …
Police, the Lions Club and a local bike shop have teamed up to restore used bicycles and donate them to families.
Martisha Sanders' 3-year-old nephew Antonio was so happy to receive a donated bike on Saturday that he refused to get off it. So a laughing Martisha wheeled Antonio and his bike through the crowds and back to their seats at the annual Holiday on Main Street celebration in the Veterans Memorial Community Center on Saturday, Dec. 18. Antonio was one of 15 kids to receive a free used bicycle at the event, thanks to a volunteer program operated by the Inver Grove Heights police, the local Lions Club and Bike King. Sanders requested that Antonio's last name be withheld from the article. The program is a second shot at life for the old bicycles, which are all found by the Inver Grove Heights Police Department but have never been claimed by their…
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Wendy Fanning
2:30 am on Wednesday, December 19, 2012
I mean about this horrible incident...they talk about in on the radio here, and my facebook friends keep posting memorial posts about what happened in Newtown...so tha'ts why I well up so many times a day, during the workday so I can't really let go, but when I'm alone.....ugh....can't stop the crying. more ›