Monday January 25, 2010 Members from the movement Stand Against Violence will be recognized by Cleveland City Council. Students will be joined by Justin Winemiller and His mother Sherrie, attending to show their support for the movement. Mr. Jason Reed and Mrs. Carolyn Brown plan to attend.
we can’t thank Coach Tyrone White enough. He has helped the students and group so much along the way. We would be remissed if we didn’t thank “BJ” for his support as well.
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago at 3:14 am. 1 comment
St. Ignatius student-athletes meet with beating victim
By Margaret Bernstein
October 09, 2009, 6:08PM
Some St. Ignatius High School football players have decided that recent news headlines call for them to do more than tutor or feed the homeless to fulfill their school’s service requirement.
They’re launching a county-wide movement against youth violence, and began Friday by visiting with Justin Winemiller, who was beaten viciously Sept. 5 on his way home from the St. Rocco’s Festival on the near West Side.
A half dozen members of the Cleveland school’s undefeated football team met Winemiller and his mother at the Cleveland Police Department 2nd District headquarters, where they also got a chance to say thanks to the officer who stopped the beating.
Winemiller, who is recovering from a broken jaw, received an armful of gifts from the student-athletes, including a St. Ignatius T-shirt, an envelope of collected cash and an invitation to be guest of honor at their next home game, Oct. 17, against Detroit’s Inkster High.
The teens, led by assistant football coach Tyrone White, said their game will begin with a moment of silence, so attendees can reflect on recent incidents of youth violence and consider what they can do to stop it. They intend to ask local high schools to institute a moment of silence at sporting events for the rest of the year.
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