Grouped in teams of four or five, employees from global technology company BlueCrest in Danbury worked in teams to put together children’s bicycles at BlueCrest’s Build A Bike Challenge inside the company’s headquarters at 37 Executive Drive, on January 11.
Occupation: I was a radio announcer/program director for WINE AM/FM until the mid-1980s. During this period, I also worked as a club and mobile DJ when there were very few around. I left radio to ...
SilverSneakers, a popular fitness program for seniors, is a way to stay healthy. Unfortunately for some, changes in insurance policies means that SilverSneakers is no longer covered under their plans.
A former resident of Newtown, Janet Seligmann Weiss, now of New Jersey, has recently revisited her late mother's keepsakes, which prompted a flood of fond memories of her family's time in town.
With a new year comes new resolutions, and the C.H. Booth Library is no exception as it starts its read-a-lution challenge to encourage residents to read a variety of genres in 2019.
As Sandy Hook resident Curtis Urbina worked to put some of his personal collection of PEZ dispensers on display at C.H. Booth Library near the start of the month, children and other library patrons looked at the items.
Michelle I applaud and support you for focusing on the issues that impact everyone in the town. The next priority has to be on CT's out of control electricity rates. Your opponent and his supporters are quick to blame the other side of the aisle and have given up on trying to accomplish anything. You need to be the voice at the Capitol that the town needs and has missed for so long.
After your short sighted decisions on bussing, something parents are still feeling the repercussions of, I would not want you making any decisions on traffic.
With all due respect Lynn, while no one's property should be damaged, it is demonstrably false to suggest this issue only happens to Democrat signs. If these comments allowed for photos I could show you some pretty abhorrent examples of what has been done to Republican candidate's signs for years in the past few elections (including local races.) Just today we had a supporter message the RTC that their signs were stolen.
Indeed suicide awareness is important as is asking young people these tough questions. That said, saying that "every suicide is preventable" is not only incorrect, it is overly simplistic at best and downright harmful at worst.
The Alliance of Hope for Suicide Loss Survivors - an online support resource with over 25,000 members worldwide writes frequently about the ramifications of such slogans. Many family members say that prevention messages leave them feeling guilty, upset and fearful of being judged – as if they “dropped the ball.". A few of the many sentiments on their webpage from bereaved family members include:
-“I believe suicide is preventable ONLY if someone shows a sign. …My daughter did not show any signs."
-“As a newly bereaved mother, I find the campaign offensive & repulsive. It places the responsibility on family members and those who are about to take their lives. We obviously would have done something if our loved ones expressed their intentions." -"Awareness yes. Preventable no. There was nothing to prevent what happened to my son. Nothing. And I am so sick of the saying it is preventable."
-"I lost my husband to suicide four months ago. It makes me feel cold and sick in the pit of my stomach when I read ‘suicide is preventable’ because I think: ‘It’s my fault, I let him down.'"
Suicide - especially youth suicide - is a complex problem with no easy answers. It’s possible to prevent sometimes — but not always.