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[email protected] SEVENTY FIVE CENTS Westfield Council Approves 5K; Remembers Lee Hale By LAUREN S. BARR honor the decade memory of her amazing.” Specially Written for The Westfield Leader life.” Karen Egert, president of New WESTFIELD – Residents spoke The race, which will be co-spon- Jersey Residents for Action, asked out against gun violence and the sored by the Westfield Area ‘Y,’ for Mayor Andy Skibitsky, who was town council gave approval to a will take place in the area of East absent from the meeting, to join new 5K in memory of Greta Dudley and Highland Avenues, “Mayors Against Illegal Guns,” a Schoenemann at Tuesday night’s Greta’s former neighborhood, on group co-chaired by New York City council meeting. Sunday, September 15, and will Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Jayne Ruotolo, a 2006 Westfield raise money to benefit the special Ms. Egert said that her group was High School graduate, along with needs program at the “Y.” Ms. formed following the mass Ben Nanna, spoke to the council Schoenemann’s sister is a recipient shootings in Newtown, Conn., be- regarding the run to honor Greta of the special needs services at the cause she “could not sit back, as a Schoenemann, who was killed af- “Y.” Robert and Wendy resident, as a parent, and do noth- ter a tree fell on her and other stu- Schoenemann, Greta’s parents, also ing.” She said a representative from dents at Westfield High School on were present at the meeting.