K-9 leader sends self-penned books to Sandy Hook
SUN PHOTO BY SCOTT LOCKWOOD, slockwood@sun-herald.com
Sarasota K-9 Search and Rescue Team Leader and children's book author Patricia Abrams, left, and her husband and Deputy Team Leader Joseph Abrams hold copies of "Noah and the Search Dogs" and "The Story of Boo" that they sent to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., following the Dec. 14 shootings where 20 students and six educators were killed. Also pictured are rescue dogs Ana, left, and Rory.
PHOTO PROVIDED BY ENGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Englewood Elementary School student Maya Borland pets Sadie, a Sarasota County rescue dog, last fall during a demonstration at the school. Sarasota K-9 Search and Rescue provides a demonstration at EES each year that goes along with a story in the school's third-grade reading program.
SARASOTA COUNTY — As Sarasota K-9 Search and Rescue team leader Patricia Abrams watched the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., unfold Dec. 14, she felt compelled to take action.
“When we heard about the events that day, I think the whole nation was in shock,” Abrams said of the shootings, in which 20-year-old gunman Adam Lanza killed 26 students, teachers and faculty, then killed himself as police arrived. He also killed his mother prior to the school assault.
