December 14, 2012.

It is a date people across the country will remember for a long time.

On that day, twenty young students and six staff members from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut lost their lives in a tragic school shooting.

To provide support for those still carrying on at Sandy Hook, the Stuart Public Library has developed a relationship from afar with the Parent Teacher Association there.

Director Sandy Pollard says the library sent more than a hundred snowflakes with heartfelt notes to help aid Sandy Hook as they mourn and try to recover.

Upon receiving a generous thank you letter recently from the school, Pollard says the Stuart Library has decided to institute a new program.

“We’re just in the initial stages… We’re gonna start a ‘kindness’ program where people come together, kids.  Maybe we’ll have a separate one for adults.  Life can be kind of hard sometimes, and so, the best way to combat that is through kindness to others.”

For information about the correspondence with Sandy Hook or anything Stuart Public Library related, contact Pollard at 515-523-2152.