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UPDATED 1:40 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Students across central Illinois will benefit from the largest educational gift the Peoria Riverfront Museum has ever.
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Nathan Bruno's father, Rick, on son's suicide, RI law named for him newportri.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newportri.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The House of Representatives today approved legislation sponsored by Rep. Terri Cortvriend to require all public school districts to adopt suicide prevention policies and train all personnel in suicide awareness and prevention annually. The Nathan Bruno and Jason Flatt Act (2021-H 5353) would require all school personnel including teachers, administration, custodians, lunch personnel, substitutes, nurses, coaches, and coaching staff, even if volunteers to be trained in suicide prevention and awareness. The state Department of Education would establish the guidelines for the training curriculum. The bill is named for Nathan Bruno, a 15-year-old Portsmouth High School student who took his life in 2018. Part of the bill is modeled after a state law passed in Tennessee and 19 other states, which was named after Jason Flatt, a 16-year-old from Nashville who died by suicide.
Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD PEORIA, Ill. After being shut down in November due to COVID-19 mitigations, the Peoria Riverfront Museum will reopen Saturday, March 6. When visitors return to the museum, there will be new exhibitions for them to view. The main new exhibit is Preston Jackson’s “Bronzeville to Harlem: An American Story.” Jackson, an acclaimed Peoria-based artist, redesigned “Bronzeville to Harlem” to be a semi-permanent installation in the museum’s renovated Owens Gallery, formerly The Street Gallery. Jackson is gifting the work to the museum, and museum president and CEO John Morris expressed his gratitude to Jackson. “At the perfect moment in our society’s history, this act of extraordinary generosity by the artist, his family, and his many supporters represents the largest, most valuable, and important story-telling art installation ever given for the public inspiration in the history of Peoria,” said Morris.