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After Flight 3407, Clarence, NY Finds Ways to Ease the Pain


Posted on Mar 11, 2009

David Gardner of Clarence, NY found a way to help ease the pain for the families of Continental Connection Flight 3407.  He designed a fund-raising T-shirt with a broken heart and a Band-Aid.

The tragedy that claimed 50 lives has been the inspiration for several projects to help and to support the surviving families.  These projects range from the heart T-shirts to light pole banners to raising money for a town clock honoring the victims of the crash.

Other projects include a race and concert in June at the Clarence Center Fire Hall. Some volunteers have made plans to take down the ribbons on trees and telephone poles when they become worn and local florist have already agreed to replace them.  The ribbons are black, for sorrow and white for hope.

The workers at the new Buffalo Shirt Factory made the broken heart T-shirts donated their time to produce the shirts.  The Buffalo News reported that Gardner, the shirt designer stated, "I think it gives people maybe a jumping-off point. It's hard to even broach the subject," he said. "I think that's the only way you do heal . . . You find that sharing it with other people is a way to come to peace with it yourself." 

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