Volume 17, Issue 1 — January 9, 2024

RaveEd — Volume 17, Issue 1 — January 9, 2024

January 9, 2024 | Volume: 17 | Issue: 1

It’s not an easy time to work in education, whether as a teacher, faculty member, staff member, etc. There seem to be new horrors almost every day. Scott Tiner writes about the Lewiston, Maine, mass shooting. This took place in a community he’s belonged to all his life — I can’t imagine how difficult that must be. However, he mentioned that he has felt hope because of how the AV community has come together to support him. Read more here.

May this year be full of light for all of you, and may it be a year that we see no tragedies such as this one.

— 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.