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(Virginia) Guitars not Guns receives a WAMMIE.
Skip Chaples (photo left) Virginia's GnG President accepted the award and is seen here telling everyone about our music program..... more |
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Frank Darling - California GnG President update:
Grant Writer for California
I am pleased to announce that Kimberly Janson has agreed to head up grant writing for Contra Costa County. Kim is a recent graduate of the Santa Clara Law School and a graduate of UC Davis.
Kim’s interest and experience in helping underprivileged children places her in a good position to head up our grant writing endeavors.
Her position as Director, Grant Writing, Contra Costa County, will be to both identify and write grants that can apply to Guitars not Guns in this area. As time goes on, we will evaluate the opportunity to do this on either a state-wide or even a regional basis, such as the Western part of the U.S.
I am confident that she will be able to attract funds that will benefit our program. Please welcome Kim to our team.
Mobile AL...- Wilson Newell has set the date April 16th for a GnG fundraiser at his school's auditorium (UMS-Wright) Live in the Mobile area? More information e-mail - markanewell@bellsouth.net
Gibson: News about our music program
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Katrina Kids to get guitars and lessons
Guitars not Guns Music Program with the help of the Gibson Foundation to start soon at the Boy's & Girl's Club in New Orleans.
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The Shed rocks out for Boys & Girls Clubs
Event had plenty for everyone
By LEIGH COLEMAN
SUN HERALD
OCEAN SPRINGS Mississippi--
The Shed BBQ Joint was rocking all day Sunday for the second annual Kids 1st Festival. Nine local bands united to jam for free in an effort to raise money for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Jackson and George Counties. There was plenty of barbecue and an entertainment lineup that read like a who's who of the local and regional music scene.At the benefit, large donation buckets were scattered around the grounds and festivalgoers gave money throughout the day and into the night.
The hundreds that packed the grounds of The Shed in support of the benefit show enjoyed the all-day festival featuring musical guests Rockambeau, Consumption, Matt Barker, Best Left Unsaid, Matt Hoggatt, Clusterfunk, Muskrat Hannah, Ko-Lua, and WLOX's Danielle Thomas.Consumption vocalist Gina Turner thought up the idea for the benefit two years ago. More than $2,000 was raised during last year's festival."We were all trying to think about what we could do and who we could help after one of our gigs a couple of years ago," said Turner.
"These bands came here to play for free because we know that these kids that need our help are from all the communities around us and, besides, playing music is what we do," she said.
A silent auction, face painting, art tables, vendors, mural projects, and the world's largest guitar on wheels were on display for the event. The kids could even make their own styrofoam chicken that clucked.
Local celebrity and Guinness World Book of Records winner Ray Nelson, who rode his 10-foot guitar bike from San Francisco to New York City, attended the event to promote his Guitars Not Guns program"We will begin teaching guitar to the kids in the Boys & Girls Clubs of Jackson and George Counties through the Guitars Not Guns program very soon," said Nelson.
The Shed BBQ Joint provided free meals for all of the band members and for the Keesler Air Force Base volunteers working the event."The people in this community support us and so we want to support them in everything we do," said Shed owner Brad Orrison.
For information about the Boys & Girls Clubs of Jackson and George Counties or to make a donation, call Catherine Glaude at 762-3497.
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Teens plotted bloody school attack.
Two teens were charged Friday with conspiring to attack a Long Island high school on the anniversary of the Columbine attacks. photo left: One of the suspects, 17-year-old Michael McDonough, who pleaded not guilty.The two suspects were co-workers at a McDonald's. Police said they targeted scores of students in an attack they planned for April 20, 2008 the anniversary of the 1999 Columbine massacre in Littleton, Colo., in which 12 students and a teacher were killed. A shy teen who wanted to be noticed, McDonough needled fellow students to notice him. These are the kind of students we can help through music. Not only would a guitar keep them busy they would get the attention they need by playing guitar for others..
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Our program does have a big impact on kids like these. Many of these kids are looking for attention. The Guitars not Guns Music Program offers kids a chance to be seen and heard.. Kids that play music together don't kill each other. - .
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Music Quotes
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. - Maya Angelou
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins. - Carlos Santana
I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.
- Herbie Hancock
It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts. - Ella Fitzgerald
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. - B. B. King
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so. – B. B. King
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness. -Reba McEntire
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Check this out...!! http://www.myspace.com/guitarsnotgunsflorida
Virginia Tech killer fired off 170 rounds; Investigators still don't know a motive
The massacre inside a chained-shut Norris Hall went on for nine minutes as Seung-Hui Cho fired off 170 rounds, killing 30 people before shooting himself in the head, police revealed Wednesday.
But they said investigators still don't know why Cho launched the bloody attack on his fellow students at Virginia Tech. "We talk about possible motives and theories and whatnot, but we don't have any evidence to suggest anything," said state police Supt. Col. Steven Flaherty.
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A “Big Check” for $500.00 was presented to GNG in Georgia.
Ray Nelson founder of Guitars not Guns (photo center) accepted the check.
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Five Students Arrested in Alleged School Shooting Plot
RIVERTON, Kan. (April 21) - Five teenage boys fully intended to go on a shooting spree at their high school but were stopped after one of them discussed the plot on a Web site.
The boys, ranging in age from 16 to 18, were arrested Thursday, the anniversary of the Columbine massacre, just hours before they planned to shoot fellow students and school employees, authorities said.
Deputies found guns, ammunition, knives and coded messages in the bedroom of one suspect, Authorities also found documents about firearms and references to Armageddon in two suspects' school lockers.
They planned to wear black trench coats and disable the school's camera system before starting the attack between noon and 1 p.m. Thursday, Norman said. The suspects apparently had been plotting since the beginning of the school year.
The sheriff said the message discussed the significance of April 20, which is Adolf Hitler's birthday and the anniversary of the 1999 Columbine High School attack in Colorado, in which two students wearing trench coats killed 13 people and committed suicide. .... Scroll on down for news about another school plot in Alaska.
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In memory of Aaron Brown |
Aaron Brown Chapter. If you can help please e-mail -skipchaples@cox.net - Read newspaper account below
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Gryphon Stringed Instruments of Palo Alto CA donates 18 acoustic guitars.
Photo left: Richard Johnston. Click on photo to visit the store...!
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Dale Okerman Project
Dale is a supporter of the Guitars not Guns Music Program. He is a former member of the Doobie Brothers Band and is currently involved with the White Album Ensemble. The White Album Ensemble has raised $100,000 for charities .
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Guitar Showcase donated guitars to be raffled off during the White Album Show at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz, California to raise funds for the Guitars not Guns music program.. Dan Arione mgr. - Store at 3090 South Bascom Avenue - San Jose, CA 95124 - call 408-377-5864 - - visit the store by clicking on photo.
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Ed Gordon donates three electric guitars.
Ed Gordon builds guitars and has passed along several to our organization. His latest donations are three electric guitars that he build at home and is currently working on building an acoustic guitar.
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GNG Teachers in Pasadena California. .
photo left: Paul Candeleria (L) and Darrell Sartin are teachers in Pasadena California. They take about two hours a week of their time to help kids learn to play the guitar..
We are in need of teachers at Boy's & Girl's Clubs in New Orleans, LA and also in Nashville, TN ... Can You help??? call Ray @ 770-487-8007 Atlanta, GA. or e-mail guitarsnotguns@msn.com |
Warning Signs Of Youth Violence "Being on either end of a violent situation, whether you seem to have come out with the upper hand or whether you don't seem to, it doesn't resolve anything. It escalates the problem. Hatred leads to more hatred. Violence leads to more violence." - Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys Violence. It's the act of purposefully hurting someone. And it's a major issue facing today's young adults. One in 12 high schoolers is threatened or injured with a weapon each year. If you're between the ages of 12 and 24, you face the highest risk of being the victim of violence. At the same time, statistics show that by the early 1990's the incidence of violence caused by young people reached unparalleled levels in American society. There is no single explanation for the overall rise in youth violence. Many different factors cause violent behavior. The more these factors are present in your life, the more likely you are to commit an act of violence. |
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I Love a Parade
Eileen Kennedy, wife of Mayor Dennis Kennedy of Morgan Hill, CA is seen here sitting on the Guitar Bike in the annual 4th of July parade. The Guitar Bike is mounted on a decorated trailer and traveled the parade route to the applause of thousands of parade goers. The guitar was built by the founder of Guitars not Guns. click on photo for more Guitars on Wheels photos. |
Columbine:
Golden, Colo. July 6 - The scrawled entry in Dyland Kleibold's day planner skeched out April 20 1999, almost to the minute. Klebold, one of the two gunmen who opened fire at Columbine High School that day, made extensive notes about his step-by-step plans for the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history. He expected to start the morning with a 6 a.m. meeting, a 10:30 a.m. "set up," an 11:12 a.m. "gear up" and at 11:16 a.m., "HAHAHA."
Authorities on Thursday released those notes and nearly 1,000 other pages of new documents from the Columbine massacre, including essays, school work and computer files from Klebold and Eric Harris, the two suicidal killers. The papers also included a journal kept by Harris' father that referred to his son's disciplinary and psychological problems but shed no light on whether he knew the teen might be capable of the slaughter that left 13 people dead.
"Hell on Earth - ahh, my favorite," Klebold wrote in Harris' 1998 yearbook above a drawing of a gun-wielding headless soldier. "So many people need to die."
"Have fun!" Klebold wrote in another notebook.
More than 20,000 documents and videos have been released since the attack, and some of the details revealed Thursday were disclosed previously.
But the new material offered chilling details about the killers' activities in the months before the attack. They had "to do" lists, with each purchase of gasoline or a weapon marked off, and they had a hit list with at least 42 entries, all of them blacked out.
Some documents include blacked-out portions, including song lyrics, names and computer logons. Jefferson County Sheriff Ted Mink also refused to release videotapes made by the gunmen, concerned they would encourage copycat attacks.
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