Cookie bakers sending love to Uvalde

Judi Coulter-Salazar, originally from Uniontown and now of San Antonio, Texas, is representing the Wedding Cookie Table Community in Uvalde. She’s collecting the stuffed animals and grief support books group members are sending and coordinating the displays of cookie tables set for June 26 and 27. There will be 21 of the teddy bears made of white rose petals, each representing a victim of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School May 24.

By KRISTIE LINDEN

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Sometimes when something deeply tragic happens, it can inspire people from all over to want to do something — anything. 

On May 24, an unthinkable yet all-to-familiar horror struck this country once again. This time, 21 people died in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas — 19 of them children, who were mostly in the fourth grade.

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