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Churches ring bells for Newtown victims
Tonight's Clermont vigil changes location due to weather
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Susie Oliver, a member of First Baptist Church of Gainesville’s adult hand bell choir, rings a large hand bell this morning on the church’s front porch in memory of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn. - photo by SHANNAN FINKE
Hall County will join together today to honor the memory of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., a week after the event took place. At 9:30 this morning, the First Baptist, First United Methodist and First Presbyterian churches of Gainesville rang their bells 26 times to mark the victims of the shooting. The idea originated from Connecticut Gov.