SEABROOK — Seabrook Middle School students were inspired by Rachel Joy Scott last Friday ... and a teacher on April 20, 1999. Scott left behind six diaries and several essays that formed ...

The diary belonged to 17-year-old Rachel Joy Scott, who scribbled six words in capital letters on the back cover: “I won’t be labeled as average.” Just below the message was a bullet hole.

The first of the final farewells were made here this weekend, in funeral parlors, in churches and on nearly every glossy inch of the ivory white casket holding the remains of Rachel Joy Scott.

Rachel Joy Scott would have celebrated her ... Aaron Kinebrew, a friend of the Scott family, will be speaking at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21 at Ferndale High School, 881 Pinecrest Road.