With the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks falling on Sunday, many congregations will mark the date with special services. One of the services will take place at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at Grace Episcopal Cathedral, 701 S.W. 8th.
BLOOMINGTON - A Twin City organization dedicated to serving children will celebrate a milestone anniversary next week. The Bloomington Kiwanis Club will mark 90 years of service on Sept. 21 with a celebration at Bloomington's DoubleTree by Hilton.
ALBANY, N.Y. - The fire started in the Assembly Library and quickly spread down the hall to the nearby New York State Library, finding plenty of fuel among towering shelves jammed with books and cabinets filled with hundreds of thousands of documents, many of them centuries old. It would be several days before firefighters finally doused the last embers of the state Capitol fire, which started in the early morning hours of March 29, 1911. Meanwhile, one man was dead and an untold wealth of New York's history and heritage - from Dutch colonial records to priceless Iroquois artifacts - had gone up in flames.
Beavercreek teacher Jo Ann Rigano today will bring to her classroom a cross made from the twisted beams of the destroyed World Trade Center so her third-graders can hold a piece of history. In Trotwood, all of the students will observe a moment of silence, while at Beverly Gardens Elementary in Riverside, children will release balloons at 9:03 a.m. to mark the moment the second hijacked plane crashed into the World Trade Center's South Tower. The students will honor those who died on Sept. 11, 2001 -- before most of them were born.
Poland on Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of a plane crash that killed not only its president and other key leaders but also, ultimately, efforts to improve relations with Russia, its historic enemy. Thousands of Poles filled churches and cemeteries to commemorate the deaths of President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others near Smolensk, Russia. The Polish delegation was en route to the 70th anniversary ceremony of the Katyn massacre of 20,000 Polish officers by Soviet secret police - a ceremony intended to bring Poland and Russia closer together.
John Mollenauer remembers the mixed emotions he experienced when he was considering the opportunity to become executive director of the Greater Charleroi Chamber of Commerce more than 30 years ago. I certainly was apprehensive about the idea," Mollenauer said. "The move meant I would be leaving the family business (Kinder and Mollenauer), and I wasn't sure about trying to replace Dave Bosson as executive director. Dave had been in that position for so many years and was a legend among chamber leaders in the Mon Valley and Pennsylvania.
Joyce Grangent's struggle with workplace racism and drug addiction in the mid-1990s led to a downward spiral that resulted in a devastating period of homelessness. She credits caring people and the availability of supportive housing for her ability to return to a productive personal and professional life. Today, Grangent is employed by the Corporation for Supportive Housing, advocating linkages between affordable housing and services to address issues such as mental health and addiction. She visited Evansville last week to help celebrate the fifth anniversary of Destination: Home, a 10-year effort to end homelessness in Evansville and Vanderburgh County. The goal of the effort is to prevent homelessness through raising incomes, improving access to job training and temporary assistance a...
Greensburg Salem Middle School students sat in fidget-less silence as they watched a montage of news clips showing the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, including footage of the second plane cutting through the South Tower of the World Trade Center. More than 600 students gathered on Friday morning in the school auditorium for an assembly to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the attacks. The program featured news reports, still photos of emergency response efforts and descriptions of the events, with a focus on the United Airlines Flight 93 crash in Somerset County, read by student government officers.
Parents of children who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan joined veterans and other activists in front of the Teaneck Armory on Wednesday to call for and end to the wars. The group of more than 30 people gathered to mark the sixth anniversary of the weekly Teaneck Peace Vigil. Their message hasn't changed much since a group of area residents began their regular gathering. Participants in the vigil want the troops brought home and to be taken care of when they return. They also want to see the money spent on military efforts abroad shifted to education, healthcare and other priorities at home.
They are those who dedicate their lives to securing our well- being and that of the nation. These heroes are the first- responders, the people who earned the title after September 11, 2001. NSA Mid-South Chief Petty Officers hosted "America Attacked, The Voices of 9/11" with many tributes in song/video and remarks by leaders of the local community at the Mid-South Conference Center across from the base in Millington.
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