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Authorization to Donate $500 to the Carrboro High School Class of 2021 Mural Project
PURPOSE: The purpose of this item is to authorize the expenditure of $500 from the Town Council contingency fund for the purposes of supporting the fundraising efforts to install a mural for the 2021 Carrboro High School graduating class.
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DEPARTMENT: Town Clerk
CONTACT INFORMATION: Cathy Dorando
INFORMATION: Andressa Thorne and Jane Ogawa emailed the Town Council with the request detailed below:
From: Andressa Thorne [mailto:andressathorne@comcast.net]
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2021 8:20 PM
To: council
; Lydia Lavelle
Cc: jtsuetaki@gmail.com; AndressaThorne
Subject: Request from Carrboro High School Class of 2021
Dear Mayor Lavelle and Carrboro City Council,
We hope this finds you well and healthy.
We are parents of seniors at Carrboro High School and both our children are members of the Student Council.
The long-term effects of what we just lived through are years away from being fully understood yet already psychologists, pediatricians and social researchers are sounding the alarm about what superficially this generation of high school upper-class students are still going through. The topic is a feature in outlets ranging from the New York Times, NPR, morning shows, and medical journals. They are all referencing the loss of key developmental milestones, countless social engagements and activities that never happened, lost in a moment of their lives never to return and the stunning number of students dealing with depressing to say nothing of repression waiting to surface.
Like missing their moment of birth this lost time of learning self and community can't be recreated or made up for. These students graduating next month, have not been in school most of this year (their senior year) and half of their Junior year was also tak...
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