plastic wristbands

The Wheaton College baseball team will play its annual White Ribbon Campaign game on Sunday, April 15 when the No. 6 ranked Lyons host Southern Maine at 1 p.m. at Sidell Stadium. The Lyons will run a These Hands Don’t Hurt program in Balfour Hood this week, where members of the Wheaton community will be able to stamp their hands on a large sheet to signify their pledge to never commit, condone, or remain silent on violence against women and children. Continue reading →

KIND-HEARTED cops across Basildon are going “above and beyond” the call of duty to show support for an injured colleague. Officers across the borough are wearing blue and grey rubber wristbands, displaying the words “above and beyond”. The wristbands were designed by PC Simon Bailey to raise cash to support their colleague Reece Clarke, who was injured in a road accident last year. But as well as helping to raise money to pay for the 19-year-old’s future treatment and Continue reading →

A simple suggestion from a Blaxland boy keen to help his younger brother has snowballed into a full blown campaign for autism awareness stretching across Sydney and beyond. Dylan Forster has always looked out for his six-year-old autistic brother, so it was no surprise when he came up with the idea to sell wristbands at Blaxland Public School to raise awareness and money for the condition. With support from his school that initial thought has grown into a two-week series of events and expressions of interest in similar campaigns at eight Sydney schools and one as far as Albury. The spark for the campaigns occurred when Dylan, 10, came across a bunch of the wristbands in the glovebox. Continue reading →

All this month, KOOL FM is taking part in a Stop Bullying campaign. Members of the KOOL breakfast team were at Chinook Centre on Saturday selling two-dollar wristbands which promote putting an end to bullying. Money from the sale of the pink wristbands goes to the Kids Help Phone Continue reading →

A group of parents and students is selling bracelets, wine, and water to raise money for bronze statues of Chapin at the schools where he worked. The initiatives to honor beloved School Resource Officer Stan Chapin continue. The Stan Chapin Memorial Fund, organized by parents, Chapin's wife and family, Inglewood Junior High and Eastlake High School, is seeking to raise Continue reading →