Suicide prevention

An assembly to address suicide may not seem the happiest reason to bring people together. Still, says guidance counselor Erin Shurant, who coordinated the presentation, it was something that needed to be addressed.

"I think that in general teen depression is an issue," she said. "It's not something people really talk about."

Suicide prevention was the purpose of the Feb. 15 morning gathering, which featured a video, poems, interpretive dance, a monologue and a Power Point presentation dealing with myths, facts and statistics on teen suicide.