Cross provokes outrage

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Cross provokes outrage
Community rallies around family shocked by racist symbol
Saturday, November 08, 2008
By tom quigley
The Express-Times
HARDWICK TWP. | Eight-year-old Arianna Grewal kept waking up the night after racists burned a cross on the little girl's front lawn in the dead of night.

The people responsible wrapped the cross in the pink bed sheet Arianna picked out to serve as the canvas for a message supporting the victory of President-elect Barack Obama.

She and her mother, Alina Grewal, hand-painted the sheet and her father, Gary Grewal, hung it up Tuesday, Election Day, on the front lawn.

The racists stole the banner Tuesday night and returned with it and the cross during the early morning hours Thursday. A rainstorm apparently extinguished the fire, and the wind knocked it to the ground, Alina Grewal said.

As news of the event spread, people began visiting the Grewals at their Millbrook Road home, sending them e-mails and calling them on the telephone. Alina described it as the response of a good community.

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