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“It was mostly because I have been seeing a lot of Pride people coming out and I want them to show their true colors,” Danvers Holten-Richmond Middle School Pride bracelet designer Marishka Burnett. (Danielle Larocque )
DANVERS, MA — As schools and communities all across the North Shore celebrate Pride Month with ceremonies and flag-raising events in June, Danvers eighth-grader Marishka Burnett had an idea for an even longer-lasting show of encouragement for her LGBTQ+ classmates.
The Holten-Richmond Middle School student is using her talents to make bracelets, anklets and keychains as part of a small business she hopes will make her school a more inclusive place where students and staff can be themselves and know they have the support of the whole town.