Volume 14, Issue 24 — January 4, 2024

rAVe UCC — Volume 14, Issue 24

January 4, 2024 | Volume: 14 | Issue: 24

If you remember, Lewiston, Maine, was struck with great tragedy as a mass shooting took place there in October. Our BlogSquad writer, Scott Tiner, has lived there all his life. What a horrendous thing to see your hometown on the news for something so awful. While there is not really a positive outlook, there is hope. Scott Tiner says his faith in humanity was kept afloat by how many of you who reached out to him. I too forget that the world can be a good place sometimes, and the AV community reminds me that there are many special people out there who care.

Enjoy reading Scott’s column, and maybe for many of us, we can aim to be the good in the world this year.

— Steph Beckett

COLUMNS

+ AV Community Is Caring, and it Matters [Scott Tiner]

I am a native Mainer. I was born in Lewiston, attended school, got married, had children, work and live in the city. For me, there is no other place that I will ever be able to call home like Lewiston, Maine. Infamously, the country got to know the name of Lewiston on Oct. 25 as the location of the deadliest mass shooting in the country this year. As the city, the survivors and the victims’ families slowly start to understand how we continue on, we also enter the season of warmth, love, thanksgiving and family. Certainly making it more difficult for those who lost people they care about.