Bainbridge students send messages of condolences to Newtown

Parker Hutchinson, a student from Sonoji Sakai Intermediate, and Chris DeBlois, a student from Ordway Elementary, write messages on a poster that will be sent to the survivors of the Newtown shooting tragedy. - Brian Kelly / Bainbridge Island Review
Brian Kelly / Bainbridge Island Review
Parker Hutchinson, a student from Sonoji Sakai Intermediate, and Chris DeBlois, a student from Ordway Elementary, write messages on a poster that will be sent to the survivors of the Newtown shooting tragedy.

December 23, 2012 · 12:19 PM

Students from Bainbridge Island schools gathered at the Bainbridge Island Boys & Girls Club to write messages of hope and condolences on a banner that will be sent to the survivors of the Newtown shooting tragedy.

More than a dozen fourth- and fifth-grade students from the Torch Club met at the club this past week to make the poster.

“I wrote a message that says, ‘We feel bad for you from the bottom of our hearts,'" said Parker Hutchinson, a student from Sonoji Sakai Intermediate.

The club plans to send the banner to a Boys & Girls Club near Newtown.

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