Co-Authored by: JoAnn AuBuchon Lane

This was a tough week for our Southern California community.

On Tuesday, while students from Pepperdine University, Cal Arts, and other local schools were enjoying college night at a favorite Country music venue in Thousand Oaks, a young man opened fire and killed 12 innocent people.

Two days later, we evacuated our home in the middle of the night, slept in the car, and waited anxiously to hear how the Woolsey Fire in Southern California had left our neighborhood.

Other recent national events include pipe bombs sent to well-known politicians and celebrities, a mass shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue, the mass shootings and fires in California, and one of the biggest midterm election voter turnouts since 1966.

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