Bubbles for Autism Awareness Fill Cold Spring Sky

COLD SPRING — The gray sky was filled with bubbles Thur., April 26 as the student body of Maud Abrams School tried, for the third time, to break the Guinness Book of World Records for a crowd blowing bubbles, this time to heighten autism awareness.
According to Lisa Bryant, president of the Cape May County Chapter of Faces Autism Support Group, the group is “very special to many in the Autism community.”
The event “ Blowing Bubbles for Autism” took place at 1:15 p.m. sharp. This was the group’s ninth year doing so and its third attempt at the Guinness record, beating the record for most blowing bubbles at different (240) venues. Some were as distant as Australia, Bryant said.
Bryant, whose son Jacyn Pisieczko, has autism attends Sandman Consolidated, adjacent to Abrams, said that “the true meaning behind it is awareness. I believe we have been successful thus far doing so. Our event went from mostly local schools in a few parts of Jersey taking part, now it has expanded to many other businesses and organizations across the country and even overseas.
Retired Lower Township Police Officer Jim Dieterich from Maud Abrams was once again able to organize Maud and Sandman schools to come together to blow bubbles.
That meant close to 1,000 children blowing bubbles, joined by Lower Township Mayor Michael Beck, who, at the April 2, Lower Township Council meeting presented Jacyn with a proclamation for Autism Awareness Month in Lower Township, as well as presented our township with a Faces of Hope Award for its ongoing support of the Autism community.
“The idea behind this is blowing bubbles of hope to the sky for those affected by autism,” said Bryant. “I have to say having one of my three children affected by autism, it is such a beautiful thing for me to see so many come together to support him and so many others in such a special way.”
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