Horrible Kenyan Mall Shooting!

People have died in the nations’ capital of Nairobi, Kenya after a major mall shooting on Saturday September 21, 2013.  The group known as Al-Shabaab took over Westgate Mall and randomly killed people.  Unfortunately, Kenyan men, women, and children have been innocently shot and killed in this awful take over of the mall.  People are still missing under the collapsed building and 67 people have been confirmed dead. A widely popular radio show host, Ruhila Adatia-Sood and her unborn child were killed in this shooting. Many viewers of the radio show, Radio Africa, are grieving for her and her family. The wait for the other victims is still so unbearable for the community. To read more on this event, please click on this link.

This situation at the Westgate Mall was horrible and dreadful.  It was a really bad moment in time.This group, Al-Shabaab is very evil and cruel. I feel really bad for all the families and friends of the people who died in this tragic shooting. The children whose parents died are never going to have the same life. It would be super difficult for me to go on in life with one parent.  Life for the people of Nairobi, Kenya now will be very difficult.

~Rachel

“Crisis in Kenya”

First in Syria, now in Kenya, there have been many tragedies recently. On September 22 in Kenya, there was a terrorist attack in the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya. The attack went on for four days with continuous shooting and violence. There were at least 61 casualties and 71 people still missing from the rubble of the collapsing building. Also, the verified leader of the terrorist attack is named Al-Shabab, who told everybody that there were 137 people dead, which couldn’t be verified so far. There were about 175 wounded people, and currently 62 people are in the hospital.

Some of my thoughts on the subject is that I think the attacks and tragedies will keep happening  throughout the world. Personally, all of this gets me a little bit frightened. Almost everyday I think about all of the attacks on the world, 9/11, d-day, etc. The world will never know when the next attack will happen, so we have to be prepared for the worst. Just thinking about it gets me worried about my family and friends, and I can’t imagine what all of the relatives and friends of the people that died or wounded are thinking about. I hope I never have to experience the excruciating pain inside that a lot of people are feeling right now.

~Franklin

The Outlets At Cheshire

The Outlets at Cheshire

Coming in the early summer of 2015 The Outlets at Cheshire will be opening. Starting in early 2014 construction will begin to make this 500,000 square foot dream come to life. It will be located by routes 84, 91, and 691. The outlets features will make it a pedestrian friendly layout to all the visitors who come. It will provide brand names that are not available in the central part of Connecticut. Also, it will include quality fine dining.

I think the idea of making an outlet at Cheshire is a cool idea. I like to go out shopping, but the thing is I can’t do it that often because all the outlets or malls are a far drive from Cheshire. Now, with the outlets coming it makes it more convenient for anyone to go shopping because it is very close.  Also,  there will be fine dining choices at the outlets. If my family and I, feel hungry and want to go out to get some food we will be able to go their. I know Cheshire has a lot of restaurants that have good food, but a lot of it is fast food. Now, we will be able to have a wider variety of food to eat, if we want to go out. I definitely think I’m going to be going to these outlets when they open. Do you think you will go to the Outlet at Cheshire?

~Erica