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11.02.2014
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MARYSVILLE PILCHUCK
I have been comforted and uplifted by many of the kids and their ability to bounce back, their ability to see we can still have a bright future. — Nate McClellan, teacher
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By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
OLYMPIA — Back in 1997, those pushing a ballot measure that would have required handgun trigger locks got help from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and one of the company’s rising execs, Steve Ballmer. They gave a little, not a lot. Gates contributed $35,000 and Ballmer $1,000 to an effort that wound up losing by a margin of almost 3 to 1. This year, it’s quite a different story. Ballmer and Gates have each given a $1 million to the Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility in support of Initiative 594 on Tuesday’s ballot. The measure would require background checks on private sales and transfers of firearms. The two men, and their wives, along with venture capitalist Nick Hanauer ($1.4 million), Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen ($500,000), former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ($285,000) and the
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Marysville Pilchuck High School student Kennedy Lentini (left) shares a moment with her boyfriend, Cesar Zatarain, after Friday’s game at Quil Ceda Stadium. Students will return to class on Monday after a week away following the shooting that has claimed four lives.
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Administrators have heeded insights on easing students’ return to their school >>
By Eric Stevick Herald Writer
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MARYSVILLE — When horror strikes a school, Cheri Lovre often gets a call. During the past 16 years, she has helped communities across the country face the psychological trauma of school shootings. “No one should do what I am doing,” said Lovre, director of the Oregon-based Crisis Management Institute. Her calling took her to Thurston High School in her home state in 1998 when a student gunman killed two and injured 25. Along the way, she has been to Columbine High School in Colorado and Nickel Mines Amish in Pennsylvania, where in 2006 a milkman shot 10 students in a one-room school house, killing five. Her latest stop is Marysville Pilchuck High School where, on Oct. 24, freshman Jaylen Fryberg shot five friends, killing three, and then himself. Lovre arrived in Marysville the same day.
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Since then, she has been offering advice to school district leaders, teachers and parents aimed at helping students as they return to campus. She’ll be working behind the scenes Monday when Marysville Pilchuck reopens the doors after a weeklong closure. Lovre said she often can tell within 30 minutes of walking into a crisis if a school district is pulling together or fractured. She has been impressed with the Marysville response. “This is a wonderfully strong district,” she said. “They take an idea. They get it. They run with it.” She urges Marysville Pilchuck parents to have their children return to campus Monday. The longer students are away, the more isolated they might feel later, she said. The goal at MPHS on Monday is to be warm
OLYMPIA — On the morning of Oct. 24, Marysville schools Superintendent Becky Berg traveled to Olympia to begin mapping out how the district would use its share of a federal grant to bring mental health services to campuses. As she prepared to sit down with peers from districts in Battle Ground, Shelton and the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, she got the phone call telling her of an active shooter at Marysville Pilchuck High School. She departed quickly, leaving a room of educators silenced by the stunning news.
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