THE LACONIA DAILY SUN, Tuesday, October 22, 2013— Page 9
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Meredith’s ‘walking dead’ on parade The Greater Meredith Program sponsored its second annual Zombie Walk from Prescott Park to Community Park, downtown, on Saturday afternoon and was rewarded with an excellent turnout of the local “walking dead” population. (Mark Chertok/for The Laconia Daily Sun)
from preceding page shooting spree.” At the evacuation center, parents comforted their children. “We came flying down here to get our kids,” said Mike Fiorica, whose nephew attends the school. “You can imagine how parents are feeling. You don’t know if your kid’s OK.” The shooting happened on the school’s campus and ended outside the school building, according to police. “I was deeply saddened to learn of the horrific shooting at Sparks Middle School this morning,” Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval said in a statement extending his thoughts and prayers to those affected. About 700 students in 7th and 8th grades are enrolled at the school, in a working class neighborhood.
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“It’s not supposed to happen here,” Chanda Landsberry said. “We’re just Sparks — little Sparks, Nevada. It’s unreal.” A statement from Nicole Hockley, whose son Dylan was killed in the Connecticut shooting, appeared on the website of gun control advocacy group Sandy Hook Promise. “It’s moments like this that demand that we unite as parents to find commonsense solutions that keep our children — all children — safe, and prevent these tragedies from happening again and again,” the statement said. The Washoe County School District held a session in the spring in light of the Newtown tragedy to educate parents on its safety measures. The district has its own 38-officer police department. No officers were on campus at the time of the shooting. Sparks, a city of roughly 90,000 that sprung out of the railway industry, is just east of Reno.
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