October is known for celebrating homecoming, Halloween, and many other fall festivities. However, there is something much greater during this month that deserves more attention.

After a spectacular win for the Bucs’ soccer team, taking home the regional trophy in 1992, star player Adam Provencal ended up finding his friends plastic wrapping a vehicle and throwing toilet paper into the trees in order of ‘traditional’ Grand Haven Halloween festivities. Provencal, wanting to clear his name of wrongdoings he didn’t enact in, walked to the door. After only what seemed like seconds, Adam’s life was taken in a mere instant, the barrel of a smoking gun peering out of the front door.

Throughout the month of October, Adam’s sister, Lara Provencal Capuano, a blogger who currently resides in New York, has to deal with the difficulty of living throughout the month in distraught and grief for the remembrance of Adam. Lara brought it upon herself to change a month of sadness into a month of something greater.

“I never really intended to start a movement,” Lara said. “I simply wanted a way to externalize a lot of unresolved grief in a positive way.”

Lara uses a blog page to express her feelings and talk about stories during the month about Adam and courteous actions, whether big or small, that brightens someone else’s day. Several people saw what Lara’s idea of  “Adams Acts” was, and took to a storm on social media under “#AdamsActs”.

“A former GH student named Jessica Detcher suggested a hashtag would help how many people were actually participating,” Lara said. “We came up with the name ‘#AdamsActs’ together and having the hashtag has really been what made this become an actual movement.”

Tracy Wilson, Principal, liked the idea behind the hashtag. She says that she wants to introduce these principles through the high school student body.

“I want us to be inclusive, I want us to be kind to everybody, so using the hashtag is natural for what we do here,” Wilson said. “Let’s do positive things.”