Photo by R.R. Best
The Sullivan community joined together at the elementary school on Sunday, mourning the loss of kindergartener Tyson Mendoza. Reading prayers printed on Tyson’s favorite color blue paper are Lindsay Williamson, Sarah Crist and Amanda Sanner. They were joined at the interfaith service encircling the school building, locking hands in prayer at the Sullivan Ministerial Association organized gathering.

•October 2, 2019•
By Mike Brothers

It was a blue Monday at Sullivan Schools with nearly a thousand students dressed in blue honoring five year old kindergarten student Tyson Mendoza, who died in a Friday afternoon traffic accident.
Supt. Ted Walk, in his weekly column, explained teachers, bus drivers, and support staff gave up the weekend to help prepare for the task of comforting his classmates.
On Sunday an interfaith prayer gathering at Sullivan Elementary School drew a large enough crowd to encircle the school building locking hands in prayer for his rural Windsor family and the family of the school teacher who also died in the crash.
According to the Illinois State Police Dist. 10 news release from Trooper Joseph Rush at 3:39 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27 a 2014 Ford Escape stopped at the intersection of CR800N and proceeded east into the path of a southbound Yellow Bird School bus transporting 11 Sullivan school children.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.