By ELIZABETH CHOI
WISH-TV | wishtv.com
A Noblesville community center invited members of the community to encourage students who will enter sixth grade soon at Noblesville West Middle School, where a May 25 school shooting sent a teacher and a student to the hospital.
Angel
Wood
Beth Wood of Kaleidoscope Krossing on Wednesday began hosting a three-day card-making event at its 8th Street location.
“This one says, ‘I wish you all the best going into 6th grade. Have an awesome year,'” said Alison Angel, an eighth-grader at Noblesville West Middle School.
“It’s always a big change going to a new school because the atmospheres of all the schools are different,” said Angel.
Incoming students will face the anxiety and fear that follow a school shooting.
“It would make the transition going into middle school more difficult,” said Angel.
“It was still one of the worst days of my life, and I’m sure so many others as well. It was very personal to me, and I wanted to do what we could to make a difference,” said Wood, whose daughter is a Noblesville West student.
She hopes to make a difference with the kind notes.
Peabody
“Noblesville West is actually a really comforting place, and everyone is so kind and everything. So I just want them to know that,” said Kali Peabody, a Noblesville West eighth-grader.