The Alabama State Conference National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) supports the “Wear Orange” campaign to “honor the lives of people in the United States affected by gun violence and demand an end to this crisis.” The NAACP national activities on Friday, June 4, 2021, will show support for National Gun Violence Awareness Day.
The “Wear Orange” organization was started to honor 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, who was shot and killed in Chicago in 2013. The color orange was what her friends wore to honor her. “After her death, they asked us to stand up, speak out, and Wear Orange to raise awareness about gun violence.”
A New Jersey developer got conditional approval for a 55-plus active adult residential community in North Whitehall Township on the former Strawberry Acres farm, which he's been seeking since 2013.
This week on Local Motion, news director Gavin Dahl speaks with reporters Dennis Webb of the Grand Junction Sentinel and Lisa Young of the Delta County Independent. From Lisa we learn more about the Hotchkiss Marshal s office in hot water, the investigation into the killing of Paige Pierce by an unnamed Delta County sheriff s deputy, changes to recycling in Delta County, and Paonia s plan for pot shops. From Dennis, we learn more about the next nominee to run the Bureau of Land Management, Mesa County welcoming the C-PACE program for buildings, new airlines serving the Grand Junction airport, and potential freeze impacts on this year s peach crop.