City / County officials plan memorial for Texas shooting victims, County-wide school closures, County Revisits Police Service Laws :: {fictional news article}

 

• The following is a fictional news article intended for story building and writing practice use only.  None of the following is meant to be true, factual,  political, or taken as gospel.

 

SOUTHSTAR GLEN ::
    Citizens county-wide have reacted to the tragic shootings throughout the USA in the past few weeks. Local city officials have decided to restructure Southstar Glen's City Memorial Day parade to act as a memorial for the victims of the most recent Texas shootings of Uvalde.

"We know tensions have rekindled with anger against law enforcement, but we stand with the victim's families and our community," said Deputy McGrew of the Southstar County office. Agencies from all over the state will offer units for the memorial that will follow the Memorial Day parade this Sunday and continue from Main street onward to State Hwy 71. Then the officers and deputies will travel to Uvalde to present the community with a $150,000 community outreach donation.

Schools across Southstar County also closed for an early extension to the Memorial Day holiday. Bill Zent, President of Southstar Glen School District, stated the extension allowed families time to process and talk about the events in Texas. Southstar Glen School District also has been meeting this week on bylaw updates and revised safety protocols. "Our schools will always be our priority of safety," stated Mr. Zent.

Currently, Southstar Glen schools utilize a standardized armed intruder protocol used by most U.S. school districts. New measures may see added resource officers, intruder alarmed doors with automatic unlocking, and scan card entry of students & faculty.

"We understand that locked doors were the initial hindrance at Uvalde. We believe in a locked school during the session. Yet we also recognize our 20-year-old school buildings are prone to problems with that safeguard. Our grounds crews have been wiring doors this week with single activation panic unlocks if an intruder breaches a building or any internal incident." Mr. Zent explained.

County officials also had the task of reviewing the progress of Police Service laws enacted last year. Head county leaders noted that the results were astonishing yet concerningly retrospective. "We are seeing great strides in numbers, which makes us all concerned about how wrong we once were," he said.

Police complaints were down 37%, and Use of Force investigations were over 40% in reductions. Citizen ratings of their police system have also been more positive. With positive news came negative news as the review also noted three new officer harassment cases, which resulted in the termination of the officers from duty. "We have committed to our new Moto of Service before Honor. All three officers willingly forfeited their badge," noted Kerry Stein of County Officer relations.

The Memorial Day parade will start on Main Street of Southstar Glen on Sunday at 11 am with a Veteran's concert in the park at 5 pm Sunday.

05/26/2022...  Southstar Daily Times

My Stance on Guns...

Artwork is © Jolly Jack, Phillip Jackson
 

Changing the title image for a bit.  I'm hoping you won't mind. 

The cold blooded murders from Texas and additional shootings in the last Month or so are unacceptable and need to be taken seriously by both citizens & our government.  Currently - our government is more stacked with NRA and Gun-Happy folks than people willing to make instantaneous changes to Gun Laws. If they won't even just meet us at stronger gun laws for all owners - then ban them all together now before you lose your job serving the people.  yes - the people put you there... not the corporations giving you kickbacks!  At least... that's what we can only hope is the case. 

If your Pro-Gun, save yourself the time and don't bother commenting.  i understand your view & opinion, The USA still gives you that with freedoms.  But those same one allow me the right to call you a supporter of Child Murder.  It's a give and take kind of thing... we give you the choice to be decent humans.. or we take away your toys.

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Hello!!!

It's... been a week. Take that as you wish.
I'm trying to coax myself into the bill-paying mindset, all while listening to the newest Birthday Massacre CD. I got the physical CD ( yep, I'm one of those people.) with the included digital download option for listening on my computer.

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It's been a chaotic start to the year & I've yet to get past the 50% mark on my Udemy HTML5 course. Yet I am also wondering just how relevant are websites still? In means of a personal website, you spend a few weeks writing up and publishing. Opposed to site services like "Carrd" and "LinkTree" nowadays.

I took the better part of an evening working on a Carrd free site for my photography project, SpiritBridge, before the new year. And I found it to have a learning curve, but one that's relatively straightforward to navigate and get a pretty nice result. I now wonder if these websites are the new "In" for web spaces. Would I benefit from creating assets/content for a "Celix Productions" microsite space (Carrd, Link tree, Etc.)? Thus allowing me to later convert to a domain when the time is right & finances are available.

I have already been lobbing back and forth the idea of purging from Tumblr to cut down social media usage. I feel as if Tumblr is not aiding the goals of getting more eyes on my work, projects, and content like Instagram and Twitter could. I also know that I currently feel I'm being spread very thin posting-wise when juggling so many different things online and off.  

Please, voice your opinions on what I am now dubbing "microsite spaces" like Carrd, LinkTree, and others. I hope to start pushing harder on real-life things at home to finally make more headway on the 3-year downsizing project that began in late 2018. Then I can attempt to better wrap my head around where I want to start facing as I start walking forward in things. Baby Steps, right?