On Saturday, in the top floor of the Raymond Family Community Center, there were three rules: Be safe, have fun and feel happy. Implied in all three of those rules, as well as the name of the event, was something else - no bullying. Jason Marmon, community outreach director for Summit Counseling Services, helped to organize the nonprofit´s second #UNBULLIED event, and the first one in Williston. About an hour after the event started, he called the crowd of dozens of parents and children to the stage. According to some statistics, between 66 and 77 percent of primary and secondary school students have experienced bullying, he told them. `What we´re trying to do is make it so...
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