Sentences with phrase «mourning event in your community»

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«At a time when our country is mourning the loss of 17 lives in a mass shooting, it is profoundly disappointing that a storied Coney Island institution, with a long history of being a strong civic and community partner, is choosing to host a National Rifle Association fundraising event that includes raffle giveaways of guns.

In the wake of the tragic events at the Boston Marathon, we have come together as families, communities, a city, and a nation, to mourn those lost and attempt to make sense of what is, in the end, a terribly senseless acIn the wake of the tragic events at the Boston Marathon, we have come together as families, communities, a city, and a nation, to mourn those lost and attempt to make sense of what is, in the end, a terribly senseless acin the end, a terribly senseless act.

Right now our focus is on supporting every student and teacher at the school as they mourn their friend and work through the trauma of such an event occurring in their community.

As the nation mourns the loss of life in the recent Orlando shooting, school communities must prepare to help students cope with this traumatic event.

The transitory work, susceptible to entropy and the elements, provocatively re-frames the now - common practice in which a community marks the site of a violent event, a fatality or loss, as a place of collective mourning.