Hansen: Katrina Veteran Sandbags, Seals Leak At Home
- June
- 16
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Statistics for most-sandbags-handled-by-a-volunteer are hard to come by, but Sickel has to be on the leader board. Helping people recover from devastating acts of God is pretty much his life. He did it far away in New Orleans and Florida. He’s doing it here at home. Again.
Sickel, almost 50, has a real job. As “Toolman [...]
Train Derailment Acid Leak Forces La. Evacuation
- May
- 17
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Six cars of a freight train derailed Saturday, including one that began leaking hydrochloric acid, causing thousands of people to evacuate homes, businesses and a nursing home within one mile of the wreck.
The spilled acid sent a toxic cloud over the area, and at least five people, including two railroad workers, were taken to a [...]
Rice Climbs For Fourth Day After Cyclone Hits Myanmar
- May
- 7
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Rice advanced for a fourth day on speculation that Myanmar may be forced to scrap exports and buy on the international market after a cyclone devastated crops and killed as many as 60,000 people.
Rice for July delivery rose as much as 50 cents, or 2.4 percent, to $21.60 per 100 pounds on the Chicago Board [...]
Plane crashes in Congo killing at least 33
- April
- 20
The Hewa Bora Airways McDonnell Douglas DC-9 ploughed into a crowded neighborhood of Goma, capital of Democratic Republic of Congos eastern North Kivu Province, after bad weather forced the pilot to abort take-off.
Government spokesman Esdras Kambale said in a broadcast on national television that 33 people were killed and 80 injured in the crash, but [...]
Kids play grow at camp
- March
- 6
Don’t think of camp as just a way to keep kids occupied during the long days of summer.
The right summer camp can accelerate a child’s development and provide lifelong skills, psychologists say.
At camp, kids get to live communally, engage in a variety of recreational activities and spend time away from home and family. [...]
Textile artists palls cover journey of life
- February
- 3
Like the white baptismal gown, the funeral pall “is highly symbolic of being received into the light of Christ,” says Rev. Paul Henry, pastor at Orlando’s St. John Vianney Catholic Church, where Sch%26auml;pper is a member.
The journey from birth to death to everlasting life is uppermost in Sch%26auml;pper’s mind as she works on her quilted [...]
Alan Bennett: Why I don’t like speech days
- January
- 28
Though my school was very dull and ordinary and far from being a
hell-hole, one nevertheless as a boy had some inkling of what the
inmates of a concentration camp must have felt when the Red Cross
came round and gave it the OK.
Because (however [...]
100 books every child should read - An introduction by Michael Morpurgo
- January
- 28
There was once a boy brought up with books all around him. There were no walls in the house: just books, it seemed. At bedtime his mother would sit on the bed and read to him - Masefield, Kipling, Lear, De la Mare, Shakespeare - and the boy loved it because his mother loved it. [...]
100 books every child should read - An introduction by Michael Morpurgo
- January
- 27
There was once a boy brought up with books all around him. There were no walls in the house: just books, it seemed. At bedtime his mother would sit on the bed and read to him - Masefield, Kipling, Lear, De la Mare, Shakespeare - and the boy loved it because his mother loved it. [...]
100 books every child should read - An introduction by Michael Morpurgo
- January
- 25
There was once a boy brought up with books all around him. There were no walls in the house: just books, it seemed. At bedtime his mother would sit on the bed and read to him - Masefield, Kipling, Lear, De la Mare, Shakespeare - and the boy loved it because his mother loved it. [...]
