20201215 - Up in the am to a very strange day... I received word that a 14 yr old boy, a kid G ran cross country with took his own life last night... I confirmed the information before talking to the boys about it. G knew him very well and was quite upset about it. The entire school and community is in SHOCK. This boy was a great athlete, a great student and a super nice kid. I had coached him in baseball and basketball, he was a Boy Scout and we cheered him on during track meets. It was completely unexpected and unbelievable. I made it through the day and, had dinner with L&G and then ran G and Owen to basketball. During the drive I talked to them about boy as Owen knew him too and told them things are NEVER that bad and there is always a way to resolve whatever the issue was and they could talk to me or Owen's dad or Trent's dad or anyone else they were comfortable with, just know that there is always help... I swung by the gas station and then home, D stopped by to see Hazel and we chatted a bit. Then my night got very busy with phone calls as we, the Booster Board, kicked in and got some things running to help this family out... We got a gofundme page up and blasted the information out to the community. G home from basketball and John and Owen came in to meet Hazel. G&I then headed to the basement and watched a couple more episodes of His Dark Materials while I did stuff on the laptop. I checked the gofundme page before heading to bed and our community had already raised $17K for the family. I know money isn't important to them but we just don't know how else to help and say we are here...
