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Apr 19, 2019 · The families wanted to help build a new school library, so Dawn Anna and her husband Bruce Beck joined with others. (credit: CBS) Dawn marveled at how the project came together.
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That optimism is enshrined at the school itself, in the very name of the Hope Columbine Memorial Library. The families spent the initial year-and-a-half following the tragedy working to fund and build the new library on the back side of the school. For Rick Townsend, the father of 18-year-old Lauren, who was killed in the old library, the push to r...
Missy Mendo was 14 on the morning she fled Columbine, running out of the school with classmates after they realized the sounds they were hearing weren’t students banging on lockers, but gunfire. Like so many others, she thought it was a senior prank. “Then we looked out the window and we could see kids running across the street without looking in a...
Tom Mauser is one of the most recognizable members of the Columbine family, a father who almost immediately began channeling the grief over his murdered son Daniel into a fight for stricter gun-control measures that, 20 years later, continues. But that was never Mauser’s plan. “It was remembering Daniel’s words to me two weeks before Columbine,” he...
Darrell Scott can vividly describe his daughter Rachel, the first person killed at Columbine that spring day, shot four times as she ate lunch with a friend outside the school’s west entrance. He happily goes on about her bubbly personality, her compassion and kindness, her devotion to animals so strong “she would bring home a stray dog, a stray ca...
Coni Sanders knows her father is considered a hero. But for many years, it was more complicated than that for her heart-torn family. Dave Sanders helped evacuate Columbine’s cafeteria before venturing deeper into the school, toward the gunfire. He encountered the killers, who shot him twice in the back and once in the neck — then was pulled into a ...
Apr 16, 2019 · “The families of the murdered and injured took it upon themselves at an incredibly difficult time in their lives to fundraise $3.1 million to remove the old library, create an atrium over the commons and build this new library,” Beck said.
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Jun 10, 2001 · A foundation called HOPE -- the Healing of People Everywhere -- was created to raise $3.1 million for the new library and atrium, and families of the victims worked for months to raise the money....
Apr 15, 2019 · They didn't want students to return to the original library where most of the victims were killed, so they raised funds to build a new one on the southwest side of the building.
Apr 20, 2019 · New programs were developed to prevent bullying and help social outcasts after it emerged that Harris and Klebold, both gifted students, had been picked on for years. More than a decade later,...
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Every year since Dawn Anna, Lauren's mother, and her stepfather Bruce Beck, advocate for that change. "We don't focus on April 20, we focus on what has happened since April 20 and the...