Carlson students participate in Day Without Hate New design, same commitment

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In Multiple Activities Throughout The Week To Pledge To Be Kind

BY OLIVIA JEWELL LOVE OLOVE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Students at Carlson Elementary showed kindness by participating in activities for a Day Without Hate. According to the founders, Day Without Hate is a student-led, grassroots organization that promotes e students received Day Without Hate bracelets to serve as reminders to be kind and were encouraged to wear rainbow to show their support. e change to our nearly two dozen publications gives them a cohesive feel, and combined with a change to a more compact size in printing, allows the news content to take center stage, as it should.

Carlson students took a kindness pledge and wrote their names on ribbons that were tied to the tree in front of the school. ey also took part in the Kindness Rock Project, where older students collected river rocks and helped younger students paint kind words on them. e students placed the rocks throughout the downtown area for others to nd.

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