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Chicopee educators plan crisis counseling while search continues for Aiden Blanchard, a missing sixth-grader
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As police continue to search for a missing 11-year-old boy, educators are preparing to help classmates and friends with their concerns about his disappearance.
Aiden Blanchard was last seen around 11 a.m. on Friday and was reported missing later in the day. Chicopee Police and Fire departments with the assistance from Massachusetts State Police and South Hadley firefighters have conducted searches of the Connecticut River in boats and with drones while troopers with the State Police Air Wing have been flying over the Willimansett neighborhood on Friday night and again on Saturday, Police Lt. Holly Davis said.
The search was suspended late Saturday because high winds made it dangerous and after searchers found no evidence that he was there. Police and firefighters will review evidence and weather conditions to determine if it should be resumed on Monday, she said.
On Sunday Police detectives have been following leads and are asking anyone in the Willimansett area, especially people who live in the Old Field Road neighborhood, to review any footage from home surveillance cameras they have to see if Aiden may have been caught on camera, she said.
Family and friends have also blanketed the neighborhood with posters asking for help to locate Aiden. Anyone with any information about his disappearance is asked to call the police detective bureau at 413-594-1740.
Aiden is a sixth-grader at Edward J. Bellamy Middle School and attended Gen. John J. Stefanik School for elementary school. He also has a brother and sister who are fifth-graders at Stefanik School, Superintendent Lynn A. Clark said.
“Certainly our thoughts and prayers are with his family. He has been with us since kindergarten at Stefanik,” she said.
At both schools the principal, vice principals, counselors, classroom teachers and other educators who may be connected to Aiden or his siblings met on Sunday to discuss how to help children who are upset and worried about his disappearance, Clark said.
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As police continue to search for a missing 11-year-old boy, educators are preparing to help classmates and friends with their concerns about his disappearance.
Aiden Blanchard was last seen around 11 a.m. on Friday and was reported missing later in the day. Chicopee Police and Fire departments with the assistance from Massachusetts State Police and South Hadley firefighters have conducted searches of the Connecticut River in boats and with drones while troopers with the State Police Air Wing have been flying over the Willimansett neighborhood on Friday night and again on Saturday, Police Lt. Holly Davis said.
The search was suspended late Saturday because high winds made it dangerous and after searchers found no evidence that he was there. Police and firefighters will review evidence and weather conditions to determine if it should be resumed on Monday, she said.
On Sunday Police detectives have been following leads and are asking anyone in the Willimansett area, especially people who live in the Old Field Road neighborhood, to review any footage from home surveillance cameras they have to see if Aiden may have been caught on camera, she said.
Family and friends have also blanketed the neighborhood with posters asking for help to locate Aiden. Anyone with any information about his disappearance is asked to call the police detective bureau at 413-594-1740.
Aiden is a sixth-grader at Edward J. Bellamy Middle School and attended Gen. John J. Stefanik School for elementary school. He also has a brother and sister who are fifth-graders at Stefanik School, Superintendent Lynn A. Clark said.
“Certainly our thoughts and prayers are with his family. He has been with us since kindergarten at Stefanik,” she said.
At both schools the principal, vice principals, counselors, classroom teachers and other educators who may be connected to Aiden or his siblings met on Sunday to discuss how to help children who are upset and worried about his disappearance, Clark said.
