Mansfield, Ohio - We ACT, Community Activist Doc Stumbo and Mansfield City School District Superintendent Stan Jefferson would like to invite the community to the Spread the Light kick off on Sunday, August 18, 2024, at 5 p.m. at Graham Automall, 1515 W. 4th St., Mansfield, OH, to honor local safety forces and promote peace in our community.
The Spread the Light kick-off will feature music, speakers, and refreshments, and free blue light bulbs. The special guest speaker will be Mansfield City Schools Superintendent Stan Jefferson. He will bring students from the Mansfield City School District with him. They will be promoting “Peace On My Block,” an effort that promotes peace all throughout the district by encouraging students to take a peace pledge and encouraging peaceful resolutions to conflicts.
“Spread the Light 2024” is a blue light week to promote pride in our local safety forces, partnership in all communities of Richland County and peace in our neighborhoods. Please help “Spread the Light” and promote “Peace on My Block” by putting a blue light bulb on your porch or business during the week of August 18-24, 2024, as students go back to school.
Richland County “Spread the Light” began in 2016 and is a localized approach to Project Blue Light which originated in 1988 in Philadelphia when a relative of a fallen police officer placed a memorial blue light in a window along with other seasonal decorations. Its intent was to show others that they are not alone in their loss and to remember the officer who died. The concept has caught on nationwide.
Courtesy of Graham Auto Mall and the Richland County Sheriff's Office, free blue light bulbs will be available on a first-come, first-served basis at the kick-off. For more information, email weactrichland@gmail.com or call We ACT co-founders, Angel Singleton, Tim Holt, or Brigitte Coles at 419-610-6915.