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Helping Newtown

Monday, December 17, 2012

How to Help Families Affected by Newtown, CT School Shooting

People all over the world want to know how to help Sandy Hook residents following Friday's horrifying mass shooting.

In the wake of the unimaginable tragedy at Sandy Hook School Friday people from all over the world—in Connecticut, California, Canada and much farther away in Australia and India—sent an outpouring of support and want to know how they can help. If you want to be notified via email of ways to provide comfort and support during this difficult time, please post in the comments section: "I want to help." Patch will continue to update this article with ways to help—posting updates to the story as well as in the comments thread, triggering an email notification to commenters—and if you know of an organization or fundraiser providing assistance, let us know in the comments section, too. Already the United Way of Western Connecticut, in …

J. E. Jones

5:11 pm on Thursday, December 20, 2012

There are no or not enough words to describe the unimaginable grief and sorrow that all of you are experiencing during this holiday season. It is hard to deal with death even when it is expected, however, this event has happened so suddenly and so unexpectedly there was little or no time to prepare for the aftermath of such a tragic loss. May God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit comfort all of you and …   more ›

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