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Turlockers march for their lives
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Pitman and Turlock high school students were at the head of Saturdays March for Our Lives in Turlock, which travelled from Geer Road to Crowell Road in front of Stanislaus State. - photo by ANGELINA MARTIN/The Journal
Community members gathered by the hundreds on the corner of Monte Vista Avenue and Geer Road Saturday afternoon, spurred by the nationwide March for Our Lives movement to rally against gun violence. Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School started an uprising in protest of school shootings and in support of common sense gun legislation following the Feb. 14 shooting at their school, where a former student gunned down and killed 17 of their classmates and teachers. A nationwide school walkout on March 14 marked the first form of activism by students, and the statement was followed by Saturday’s March for Our Lives.
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Local Rite Aid stores prepare to close
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The shelves are slowly emptying at the Rite Aid on Monte Vista Avenue as the national drugstore chain prepares to close all its locations (KRISTINA HACKER/The Journal).
The shelves at Turlock’s Rite Aid drugstore on Monte Vista Avenue are slowly being emptied and signs posted on the store’s popular Thrifty counter state “No More Ice-Cream” with a cartoon cone sporting a frowny face. An employee of the local drugstore on Thursday confirmed to curious customers that the store will be closing its doors, but he didn’t know exactly when.
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