Week of December 26, 2014
Newtown Bee staff photos taken for the December 26, 2014, print edition.
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Representatives of the Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps (NVAC) joined Newtown VNA volunteers and supporters December 22 presenting a check to the local emergency responders in the amount of $25,000. Among those gathered for the occasion at the new ambulance headquarters are, from left, VNA officer Maureen McLachlan, NVAC Chief Michael Collins, Health District Director Donna Culbert, NVAC Trustee Bruce Herring, VNA officer Joan Reynolds, Maggie and Caroline Solloway with Molly the dog, VNA officers Rebeka Dahlgard, Anna Wiedemann, Mary Tietjen, NVAC Trustee Robert Grossman, MD, and VNA officers Alice Falkowitz, and Margareta Kotch. (Voket photo)
![After the shooting at Sandy Hook School, Elizabeth Vaughn, daughter of a Newtown Board of Educa-tion employee, saw a picture circulating from Karachi, Pakistan, with children lighting candles next to a sign that read, “Connecticut school killing, [we] feel [your] pain as [you] would feel our pain.” So when she learned about the devastating school attack in Peshawar, Ms Vaughn quietly organized a candle-light vigil that featured messages in Urdu translated onto posters by a Pakistani acquaintance. About two dozen friends and Sandy Hook Elementary School community members gathered for the brief memorial Friday, December 19, in Sandy Hook Center. (Voket photo)](https://photos.smugmug.com/Journalism/Week-of-December-26-2014/i-4Sbbd9J/1/aa35c93f/Ti/JV_Sandy%20Hook%20to%20Pakistan%20Vigil%20-%20close-up%20w%20sign%20%232%20NO%20FLASH-Ti.jpg)
![After the shooting at Sandy Hook School, Elizabeth Vaughn, daughter of a Newtown Board of Educa-tion employee, saw a picture circulating from Karachi, Pakistan, with children lighting candles next to a sign that read, “Connecticut school killing, [we] feel [your] pain as [you] would feel our pain.” So when she learned about the devastating school attack in Peshawar, Ms Vaughn quietly organized a candle-light vigil that featured messages in Urdu translated onto posters by a Pakistani acquaintance. About two dozen friends and Sandy Hook Elementary School community members gathered for the brief memorial Friday, December 19, in Sandy Hook Center. (Voket photo)](https://photos.smugmug.com/Journalism/Week-of-December-26-2014/i-QNBHZRq/1/cf241798/Ti/JV_Sandy%20Hook%20to%20Pakistan%20Vigil%20-%20close-up%20w%20signs%20NO%20FLASH-Ti.jpg)
![After the shooting at Sandy Hook School, Elizabeth Vaughn, daughter of a Newtown Board of Educa-tion employee, saw a picture circulating from Karachi, Pakistan, with children lighting candles next to a sign that read, “Connecticut school killing, [we] feel [your] pain as [you] would feel our pain.” So when she learned about the devastating school attack in Peshawar, Ms Vaughn quietly organized a candle-light vigil that featured messages in Urdu translated onto posters by a Pakistani acquaintance. About two dozen friends and Sandy Hook Elementary School community members gathered for the brief memorial Friday, December 19, in Sandy Hook Center. (Voket photo)](https://photos.smugmug.com/Journalism/Week-of-December-26-2014/i-C4ssXZP/1/b539d6f1/Ti/JV_Sandy%20Hook%20to%20Pakistan%20Vigil%20-%20close-up%20w%20signs-Ti.jpg)
![After the shooting at Sandy Hook School, Elizabeth Vaughn, daughter of a Newtown Board of Educa-tion employee, saw a picture circulating from Karachi, Pakistan, with children lighting candles next to a sign that read, “Connecticut school killing, [we] feel [your] pain as [you] would feel our pain.” So when she learned about the devastating school attack in Peshawar, Ms Vaughn quietly organized a candle-light vigil that featured messages in Urdu translated onto posters by a Pakistani acquaintance. About two dozen friends and Sandy Hook Elementary School community members gathered for the brief memorial Friday, December 19, in Sandy Hook Center. (Voket photo)](https://photos.smugmug.com/Journalism/Week-of-December-26-2014/i-wx2GMQd/1/a5355d70/Ti/JV_Sandy%20Hook%20to%20Pakistan%20Vigil%20-%20full%20group-Ti.jpg)
