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The Berkeley Wire: 01.09.13
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Stanford women beat Cal in Pac-12 basketball in Berkeley (Mercury News)
Berkeley and Oakland gear up for restaurant weeks (East Bay Express)
BUSD approves working group to help close achievement gap (Berkeley Schools Report)
UC Berkeley and East Bay Bike Coalition offer bicyclist traffic school (SF Chronicle)
Berkeley Central Arts Passage unveils its first show (East Bay Express)
Producer uncovers story of California’s early Jewish community (Oakland Magazine)
BUSD to review what to do if armed gunmen enter campuses (Tribune)
Nancy Skinner unveils bill to regulate ammunition sales
Assemblymember Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) today unveiled a bill to regulate the sale of ammunition, and said it was time buying bullets required the same scrutiny as buying guns.
Skinner, D-Berkeley, held a news conference on Monday morning outside the Oakland state office building on the day Alameda County students returned to school after the winter break and in the wake of the Dec. 14 Newtown, CT, elementary school massacre.
“Assembly Bill 48 aims to restrict the bullets that are ravaging our communities,” Skinner said in a statement. “Tragic but true, it is easier to buy ammo than to buy cold medicine, alcohol or tobacco. It’s time for buying deadly bullets to fall under the same controls as guns and Sudafed.”
Emeryville Police Chief Ken James, who also serves as the chair of the California Police Chief’s Association Firearms Committee, said: “Like pseudoephedrine is the precursor to methamphetamine, bullets are the precursor to gun violence. If we can control the precursors, we may avert tragedies like the ones at Oikos University in Oakland, Aurora and Newtown.” … Continue reading »
After Newtown: Lockdown drill Wednesday, vigil Thursday
As the community continues to try to come to terms with Friday’s school tragedy in Newtown, CT, at least two Berkeley events this week respond to the deadly shooting.
A vigil to remember the victims took place over the weekend in Berkeley, and messages from school leaders and staff members have been going out daily to members of many Berkeley schools.
Adults, children attend candlelight vigil for Newtown
About 50 people came out to Cedar Rose Park in Berkeley on Saturday evening, despite the rain, to take time to reflect on the tragedy that occurred in Newtown, CT, on Friday. The gathering was organized by Suzanne Teran and Sheela Jivan, who were inspired by a Move.org initiative to hold vigils at the same time across the nation this weekend. Other Bay Area vigils were held in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Richmond, Alameda, and Oakland.
“I think folks appreciated being able to come together as a community — many mentioned that,” said Teran. … Continue reading »
Candlelight vigil today to remember Newtown families
There will be a candlelight vigil in Cedar Rose Park in Berkeley this evening to remember the families of those murdered yesterday in Newtown, CT.
The vigil is being organized by Suzanne Teran and Sheela Jivan. ”We were moved by a message from a MoveOn member to hold vigils around the country at 5:00 p.m. tonight,” said Teran.
‘Today seems like a day to hug our kids a little harder’
Berkeley High’s Principal, Pasquale Scuderi, this afternoon sent an emailed letter to the BHS community in the wake of the tragedy that occurred in Newtown, CT, this morning. In it, he addresses how the school has dealt with communicating news of the mass shooting at an elementary school to BHS students, issues of security on campus, and shares guidelines on how to talk to our children about such a senseless and potentially traumatic incident.
We publish the letter here in full:
Dear BHS Families:
This morning, following the devastating news we all received from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, we made a brief announcement to the staff and students updating our community on what we knew to be the facts, and encouraging us all to support one another as a school community. We simply asked that as a staff and student body we keep our thoughts and positive energy moving in the direction of the families, children, and fellow educators who are in the midst of a tragedy whose dimensions are still nearly impossible to fathom. … Continue reading »
