| Timber Ridge students blanket others with warmth
Fifth-graders at Timber Ridge Elementary School are thinking about others in need this holiday season.
The kids worked hard throughout November and December to raise money to buy fleece material, with which they made blankets Wednesday afternoon.
"We're making blankets for kids, because it's really cold and they need something to cover up while they're sleeping," said Addy Sammons, 11, of Urbandale.
Fifth-grade teacher Amy Williams of Johnston said she and fellow teachers were impressed with the kids' response to the project. The school houses approximately 90 fifth-grade students in four classes. Williams said the students raised $1,800, which allowed them to make 60 blankets. The blankets will be donated to the Family Violence Center. .
Sio Meng Lai
A restaurant cook was gunned down in front of his midtown Sacramento home four days after Thanksgiving. A reward is being offered to help find Sio Meng Lai's killer.
The Carole Sund/Carrington Memorial Reward Foundation is offering the $5,000 reward in the hopes someone will have information that helps Sacramento police detectives crack the case.
The 48-year-old Lai was shot in the 2100 block of 15th Street at 9:35 p.m. November 26. Detectives say the victim had no known enemies and their investigation has yielded few leads.
A spokesman for the family, James Kuang, said the family is appreciative of the help and reward and hopes they might help lead to an arrest. He said the victim was a hard-working man who provided the family's sole income.
"The wife told me they used to wait up for him from work, before he comes home, before they go to sleep and the kids are sad about it.
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