By Currents News
In the shadows of dawn, Rachel Kvanbeck is already on hands and knees — her fingers chalked with purpose.
“I got here about 6:30 this morning,” she told Currents News on one earl morning. “Just know that there’s still light. I think there’s just so much darkness in the world, and especially here that all these kids and families have seen.”
By the time the sun is up over the Annunciation School, the artist’s message will be ready to greet students by the doors.
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“A future filled with hope,” she said, “very right for the moment.”
As of Tuesday, Sept. 16 they’re back on campus grounds — a first in three weeks.
“I can only imagine what they’re coming back to, knowing what happened here, and seeing the things they saw that they should never have seen,” Kvanbeck said. “I heard the sirens that day. I live about a mile away from here.”
“I hope it brings some smiles today.”
Adorning the school from the rear, the front and the sides, sidewalks too are now chalked by Annunciation’s neighbors.
“They walk by our houses every day coming and going to school,” said Tiffany Tomlin, one resident who lives near the school.
Kurtz and Krysy Winden, two locals, added their wishes onto the pavement.
“They know they have this giant community around them supporting them,” Winden said of the students.
“Coming back today and this week, they can be with their friends, be with their teachers, be with the people who love them,” artist Kvanback explained.
Guiding the dawn of Annunciation’s new era are these words, written in chalk: “The future is filled with hope.”