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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 →

THOUSANDS of people are now sporting wristbands in memory of a teenager killed in a motorbike crash. The multi-coloured bands have helped raise thousands of pounds towards a memorial for Joseph Took. Nathan Goligy organised the wristband tribute as a permanent reminder of his close friend, Joe, aged 18, who died after a motorcycle crash in Abbey Road, Barrow, in February. Since receiving an initial order of 400 bands a fortnight ago, Mr Goligy has since ordered and sold a further 1,400. 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 →

Mrs. Lewis, the Super Friends, and P.A.L. are joining forces to celebrate not saying the R-word.  The R-word is “retarded” this is a very derogatory word and all negative words in general do hurt people, even if they do not show it on the outside.  The National holiday is on March 7th, but here at Cypress we are celebrating Friendship week starting March 5th and ending March 9th.  We do this every year to raise awareness Continue reading →