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Dr. Armstrong Letter to the editor: Would like to have known about active shooter drill, I could have helped

Dear Editor: I have just today learned of the community multi-agency drill to prepare for a mass shooting event. If I had known prior, I would have offered to participate. I am a resident of Fort Bragg. In January 1989, I was the school psychologist assigned to Cleveland Elementary in Stockton when a gunman opened fire on the playground at morning recess, killing 5 and wounding 30. I eventually became co-leader of the intervention project. My eventual role involved working with police, mental health, EMS, Press, hospitals, victim-witness services, and several other community agencies. I would be willing to share my experiences in the future, pro Bono. Mike Armstrong, Ph.D. Fort Bragg 458-205-1202

Editor’s Note- Dear Mike good point, but don’t feel too bad. The press, unless it was the pocket press release press was also not invited along

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Frank Hartzell has spent his lifetime as a curious anthropologist in a reporter's fedora. His first news job was chasing news on the streets of Houston with high school buddy and photographer James Mason, back in 1986. Then Frank graduated from Humboldt State and went to Great Gridley as a reporter, where he bonded with 1000 people and told about 3000 of their stories. In Marysville at the Appeal Democrat, the sheltered Frank got to see both the chilling depths and amazing heights of humanity. From there, he worked at the Sacramento Bee covering Yuba-Sutter and then owned the Business Journal in Yuba City, which sold 5000 subscriptions to a free newspaper. Frank then got a prestigious Kiplinger Investigative Reporting fellowship and was city editor of the Newark Ohio, Advocate and then came back to California for 4 years as managing editor of the Napa Valley Register before working as a Dominican University professor, then coming to Fort Bragg to be with his aging mom, Betty Lou Hartzell, and working for the Fort Bragg Advocate News. Frank paid the bills during that decade + with a successful book business. He has worked for over 50 publications as a freelance writer, including the Mendocino Voice and Anderson Valley Advertiser, along with construction and engineering publications. He has had the thrill of learning every day while writing. Frank is now living his dream running MendocinoCoast.News with wife, Linda Hartzell, and web developer, Marty McGee, reporting from Fort Bragg, California.

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