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Third
Graders
Present
Mayor
Book on
Reducing
Violence
B> MARK R MOSS *
c hrunuh' Staff Writer
It appears that third-gTaders also
have something to say about vio
lence.
Last week. 20 children from
Mineral Springs Elementary School
presented Mayor Martha S. Wood a
collection of "haiku" poems and
drawings that expressed their views
on violence. Elsie C. Holland, the
children's teacher, and other school
officials were on hand to help make
the presentation.
lor ;t month, we have been
-taking this to the max." said Assis
tant Principal Chlories Shore about
efforts ur keep the issue of violence
on the students' mental agenda.
"We knew it would take longer
than a week to get the job done." she
said, referring to the week of activi
ties sponsored by the mayor's Vio
lence Reduction TasVrTorce wlllctr1
ended on Nov. 20.
Shore said that something relat
ing to violence is mentioned during
morning announcements over the
public-address system and the stu
dents have put together posters.
Each page of the laminated
L
Mineral Springs third-graders wait outside Mayor Martha Wood's office last week to present a book they com
piled on ways to stop violence.
book held a poem and a drawing by
one of the students. The drawings
were marked with the familiar red
circle with the slash across the mid
dle that has become the universal
sign of w arning.
One drawing was of a grave
yard with two tombstones, one of
which had 1995 on it. Another
showed a person pointing a gun at
someone.
Third-graders Canary Wilson
and Stacy Cook took turns reading
tht 20 poems to the mayor, who was
obviously pleased.
; "You're going to have to be the
ld&ders of our country." Wood said.
Cook's poem read:
"Violence is a crime
It should be stopped right away
The Lord will help us."
Wood said this is the Advent
season and "the Bible says the little
children shall lead them."
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Mayor Martha Wood is surrounded by Mineral Springs students as a
student , Canary Wilson (in vest), reads poems.
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