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 Maggie's Comfort Corner
  • Maggie was deployed, along with four other LCC comfort dogs, to Great Mills High School in Maryland the week following Easter to comfort students and staff as they returned to their school for the first time after a school shooting there.  A student had shot and killed his recently-ex-girlfriend, wounded another student and then took his own life after the School Resource Officer met him in the hallway.  Cathy Swanson drove to Maryland on Easter Sunday with Maggie, Immanuel Church’s comfort dog Addie, and Addie’s handler to comfort students and staff Monday through Thursday.  On Thursday after school, the family of the deceased student asked to spend time with the comfort dogs, as well.  The comfort dog deployment was very well received and appreciated.
 
  • At the end of February a threatened school shooting was thwarted at Staples High School, Westport.  Neighboring schools’ students were anxious, especially after the Parkland shooting.  Maggie was invited to help calm the nerves of students at Wilton High School.  These Wilton students were a group of 30 who were previously identified as more prone to anxiety, and Maggie visited them for two days.  Our service made a big impact and was greatly appreciated.  (Lori Flandreau and Cathy Swanson were handlers.)
 
  • On February 11th Maggie attended the Service of Installation for the new pastor at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Albany, NY.  Maggie was invited by the pastor and his wife, who are from Illinois, and thus are very aware of LCC comfort dogs and their benefits.  (Bev and Gordon Thompson were the handlers.)  
 
  • Maggie along with comfort dogs Addie (her sister) and Leah from Immanuel Lutheran in Danbury, attended the Sandy Hook School Paws for Books book fair for a special event called Cookies, Cocoa and Comfort on the evening of March 15th.  The event was packed, and the students loved sharing their books with the dogs.  (Bev Thompson and Cathy Reiss were the handlers.)
 
  • Maggie, along with Anita Harris and Bev Thompson, spent time expanding their circle of Lutheran women friends at:
    • A Women of ELCA (WELCA) meeting at St. James in Southbury on April 14st, and
    • The LWML Atlantic District Convention at the Crowne Plaza in Suffern, NY on April 21st. 

If you’d like to learn more about Newtown Comfort, just ask one of Maggie’s handlers, or visit Maggie Comfort Dog on Facebook or lcck9maggie on Instagram.  feel free to email me at
NewtownComfort@gmail.com
 
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Maggie
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LCC COMFORT DOGS-    
LCC K-9 Comfort Dogs and Handlers Bring a Healing Presence to the Parkland Community -Together, We are the Hands and Feet of Jesus to a Suffering Community

Within hours of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on February 14, LCC received an invitation from Rev. Stephen Carretto of St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church of Boca Raton, Florida to bring the LCC K-9 Comfort Dogs to be with the students and faculty of the school, and the surrounding communities. By noon on Thursday, February 15, the first LCC K-9 Ministry team arrived; LCC K-9 Comfort Dog Jacob (LCC Staff) with his handlers, Sharon and Mike Flaherty. The team immediately went to work with Jacob Comfort Dog by attending a vigil held in Parkland, Florida, where many officials and clergy spoke, as well as alumni Anthony Rizzo of the Chicago Cubs. The Parkland community is a closely connected, beautiful community located north of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. 

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