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...spring bloomed in our fair Saskatchewan community, I decided it was time for the school of which I am principal to have its first postwinter fire drill. I pulled the alarm, and the students quickly and quietly filed out. One student stopped me cold with a sincere question: "Did anyone go out to check to see if there was somebody with a gun out there before you pulled the alarm?" I will never conduct a fire drill again without remembering Jonesboro. JIM ROBSON Kincaid, Sask...
...same time, the National Park Service plays host at its own commemorative events at the Gettysburg National Military Park. There are ranger-guided anniversary walks and demonstrations by living-history groups. Don't miss the one-hour "Life of the Common Soldier" program, which allows kids to enlist, march, drill and even receive an honorable discharge. The program is offered daily at 11, but register early--between 10 and 10:30--at the Cyclorama Center. (These five days are expected to be very crowded, so make your hotel reservations early...
...math teacher looked surprised and then heard someone say it was Drew Golden (who is no relation to Alisha) who pulled the alarm. Despite fleeting suspicions that it was a false alarm, the exercise proceeded, and Alisha kept moving, lining up at the side exits as prescribed by the drill. The kids, a little giddy at this momentary reprieve from math and English, poured out the side entrance into the midday sun--a steady stream of energy and youth, vulnerable flesh racing straight into a trap of precocious sophistication...
...survivors dialed the emergency dispatcher. "There's been blood loss," reported the first caller, breathless. "People with blood loss." Michael Barnes, 12, was looking elsewhere for help. There was no way to retreat into the school buildings; the doors had automatically locked as the finale of the fire drill. So, crawling to the shelter of the gymnasium, Barnes chanted Psalm 23 to himself: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil...
...midst of a routine fast-break drill during practice, Folkl drove to the basket for a right-handed layup and began screaming in pain. Initially Coach Tara VanDerveer thought, or more likely hoped, that her sixth-man had merely reaggravated her broken hand, but then she realized the severity of the situation...