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10TH AFRICA FEST ANNIVERSARY
SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 2008,
WARNER PARK 11AM – 7PM
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stacey Slotty
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 2:37 AM
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Subject: [Yrnetwork] Important Event Aug 12 + Project HUGS Fall Calendar
AUGUST UPDATE from PROJECT HUGS -
Officer Cindy Holmes, from the Dane County Sheriff's Department, will
join us to share information on "The Choking Game" on Tuesday, August
12.
We urge parents and professionals to attend this important and
informative session about a potentially deadly pastime that occurs at
alarming rates and is challenging to detect. We ALL need to be informed
about this dangerous trend!
EVENT DETAILS:
Tuesday, August 12 - 6-7:30 p.m., Centro Hispano 810 W. Badger Rd.
Translator will be available.
No fee, no registration, come as you are! Centro is a very pleasant and
comfortable facility. Refreshments will be available.
(Child care is not available, but we hope to add that soon.)
WE ALL NEED TO BE INFORMED ABOUT THIS! Please read the story below -
An excerpt from a CBS Early Show broadcast:
(CBS) Teenagers have always been thrill seekers, willing to take
dangerous risks. But, reports The Early Show national correspondent
Hattie Kauffman, a growing number of teens nationwide are taking part in
a disturbing and potentially deadly trend, known as "The Choking Game."
Thirteen-year-old Sam Mordecai's twin brother, Gabe, died recently while
playing the "game." Sam found him with a rope around his neck.
"I saw him sitting on the ground with the rope on him and thought he was
playing," Sam recalls. "I was like, 'Gabe, knock it off.'"
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Gabe and Sam's mother, Sarah Pacatte, told Kauffman, "The first thing
you think of is, 'My God, my child, he killed himself. Oh, my God.' And
as soon as the thought came in my head, the thought was gone. I knew
immediately what Gabriel had done. ...I had no doubt in my mind."
Gabe had shut off the oxygen to his brain to get a sort of high,
Kauffman explains. Other names for "The Choking Game" include "Fainting
Game," "Passing-Out Game," even "Space Monkey."
Sam says he and his brother had played it several times
Gabe's mother also feels more needs to be done to warn parents. She
searched the Internet for information and found almost nothing. So she's
started her own website.
"I miss him. So much," says Pacette. "And I wish to God I would have
known the warning signs, because I knew something was wrong, I knew
something wasn't right with Gabe."
OF CONCERN FOR PROFESSIONALS:
Thirteen-year-old Chelsea Dunn apparently hanged herself in her closet.
Security cameras at her middle school had earlier caught students
playing the game.
"I can't express, seriously, how irate I am," bristles Laura Cooper, a
friend of the Dunn family, "that they knew, that the school knew this
was going on, and didn't do anything."
PLEASE BE INFORMED!
Source:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/28/earlyshow/main712411.shtml
For more information, feel free to email or contact:
Stacey Slotty and Clare Gernert
577-8278 575-9886
Project HUGS
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