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For Scaffidi, 54, elected mayor in April after serving as an alderman, no training could have prepared him for the job he would eventually confront. A graduate in broadcast journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he worked for 28 years for Nielsen, the media research firm. He took a severance package from the firm just a week before becoming mayor.

Scaffidi was born in England, where his father was stationed in the U.S. Air Force. Scaffidi was raised for the most part in Cudahy until he was a high school sophomore, when the family moved to Oak Creek.

In a lot of ways, the family has come full circle. Scaffidi's parents are back in Cudahy. And Scaffidi and his wife, Kathy, live in the Oak Creek home where he grew up. That house is a block from the high school, where Kathy Scaffidi now teaches math.

Kathy Scaffidi describes herself as a liberal Democrat, while her husband is a moderate Republican. The mayor's office, however, is nonpartisan.

On the morning of the shootings, Scaffidi was home when he received calls from the fire chief, Thomas Rosandich, and the police chief, John Edwards, alerting him of the tragedy. He raced to the scene. For the next hours he was, in many ways, the face of the city, providing what little information was available to the news media.

At one point, he kept ignoring calls to his cellphone that were from a blocked number. The fire chief eventually ran up to him and told him to "answer your phone. It's the White House."

Scaffidi took the next call and it was a White House representative telling him that a high-ranking government official would call him in the next hour. When the next call came, Scaffidi was sitting in his car outside City Hall.

The night of the shootings, Scaffidi says, he fielded media calls from around the world. The emotion swept over him, he says, when he spoke with the BBC, a reminder of his birth in England, his mother's roots in Scotland and the worldwide reverberations of Oak Creek's tragedy.

"For an hour, I sat in a chair quiet, almost stunned," he says as he recalls reflecting on the events. "It was so overwhelming, the scope of it. Six people killed. Temple members are running by you,We've made comparing the Electricity monitor easy with our at-a-glance chart. terrified, crying, embracing."

A photo on the wall of his office shows a crowd of people who attended a vigil for Oak Creek's victims. He says he nearly broke down in sobs during the event but was consoled by a member of the Sikh community, Balhair Dulai.

"It's not one thing - it is many things," he says. "People say mental health.Australian business bringing a new class of affordable and quality Laser engraver and laser cutting machines. All right, as a community, where can we provide resources that impact individuals? If you have a family member that you're concerned about, as a community, how do we get help for that family and that individual right away? I don't want them to have to commit a crime before we can get them help.

"If I listen to my police chief, he needs to know when there are people who shouldn't have guns. He needs to know who their names are.A series of small bobbleheads head figures in the likeness of the beloved Vaultboy. Right now, he said he can't always get that information. That's a record issue we need to clear up right away.

"Awareness in schools and education, stop hating people because they look different from you. A lot of these things are happening because in the last 30 years we dropped the ball on how we accepted tolerance, instead of engagement and acceptance. Tolerance to me means you just put up with it. That's just two neighbors not talking to each other. Acceptance is those neighbors actually communicating, getting together and having conversations. That's what the goal should be."

Scaffidi says he and several other mayors of the cities and towns hit by mass shootings are mulling over ideas to present to the president and vice president, to help other communities avoid such senseless violence.

But even as he gropes for answers on how to stop gun violence, he is also trying to help Oak Creek move forward. Part of that will involve marking the one-year anniversary of the shooting. Preliminary planning is under way.
Redevelopment plans

Oak Creek is also seeking to remake itself. Scaffidi grows excited when he discusses a proposal to transform the site of the old Delphi manufacturing plant to a mixed-use and residential area called Drexel Town Square. Under the proposal, the City Hall and library would be moved to the site, which would also include retail, housing and an anchor Meijer store.

Scaffidi says the Common Council still has to approve the project. The Oak Creek Citizens Action group, led by the man Scaffidi defeated for mayor, Mark Verhalen, has voiced opposition to development, criticizing the proposed layout as well as the addition of a big box store.Source Italian women shoes factory Factory Products at Women's Dress Shoes,

He loves being mayor. It may be a part-time job on paper, but he's putting in a full workweek. Some people, he says,Shop the latest hair flower accessories on the world's largest. have asked him if he wants to run for another office. It would have to be the right campaign, he says, and he would have to be "passionate about it."

Too often in politics, he says, people are out on the extremes of right and left. He wants to be part of the "vast middle that wants to have things work efficiently and get things done."