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S erve L umby • L avington • V ernon • C herryville • W hitevale
Vol. 06, No. 07, February 19, 2021
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This Pink Shirt Day, Let’s Lift Each Other Up In 2007, two boys from Nova Scotia took a stand against local bullies and started a movement. When a classmate in their high school was harassed for wearing a pink shirt on the first day of school, David Shepherd and Travis Price decided to do something about it. The teens bought over 50 pink shirts and handed them out to their classmates, creating a “sea of pink” in support of the boy who’d been bullied. That was the first Pink Shirt Day, an event that has since made its way across the country and is now recognized on the last Wednesday of February every year. In 2021, the event takes place on February 24 and the theme is Kindness
Counts. In light of this powerful mesperiodically to make sure they’re sage, here are seven ways we should all doing okay. strive to treat each other every day. 4. Listen. Be a sounding board for 1. Be kind. Treat everyone with friends who need to talk. However, kindness and empathy, regardless don’t offer advice unless they ask of how you feel about them. Evfor it. Sometimes, people just need eryone deserves to be treated with to share what they’re going through respect, even those you don’t like. in order to come up with their own 2. Be inclusive. Make it a point solutions. to be friendly with everyone you 5. Think before you speak — or know, even the people who are difpost. Sometimes we can hurt ferent from you. You’ll make others people without meaning to. Before feel good and could even make an you say or post something on social unexpected friend. media, think about how others 3. Check in. If you know that somemay perceive it, and keep your one in your life has recently gone comments to yourself if you think through a hard time, call or text someone might be hurt by them.
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6. Don’t gossip. Though it’s easy to get drawn into discussions about other people, these types of conversations are best avoided. Even if what you say isn’t meant to be hurtful, it’s unkind to discuss others without their knowing it. 7. Speak up. If you see someone getting bullied, don’t just stand there and watch. Instead, say something. Most bullying incidents stop within ten seconds of someone intervening. Bullying in schools is an ongoing problem, but teaching young people how to treat others is a step in the right direction. F R I D AY Hot Whole BBQ $ 99 Chicken Ea. Garlic Bread $ 99
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