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Boivin: Valley mourns with Todd Heap's family

Wochit

In this community, we now must do the right thing and give the Todd Heap family what it needs: compassion and space.

Sports fans get a bad rap. They are scolded for intemperance, criticized for indifference, admonished for ignorance.

They are also capable of powerful moments, from serving as passionate national anthem backup singers to delivering rousing standing ovations to raising money for good causes, as University of Georgia fans are doing for a paralyzed Southern University football player.

In this community, we are needed now more than ever to do the right thing, to give the Heap family what it needs.