Church Blog: Restoring hope Northwest suburban volunteers head to the
devastated Gulf Coast, where they find it hard to feel they are
doing enough
About this report: Daily Herald staff writer Joseph Ryan and photographer John Starks were embedded with 23 volunteers from a Northwest suburban church during a relief trip to the city of Waveland, Miss., from Sept. 24 to Sept. 29.WAVELAND, Miss. -As the sun begins to bake the noisy Kmart parking lot, a line of desperate faces steadily grows to more than 150.The people, most sweaty and unclean, lean on plastic shopping carts. Some hush their bouncing children.As they have for...
Church Blog: Online 'blogs' new outlet for locals
She's a sucker for piercings and first kisses, a young Republican who wants to go skydiving and maybe become a lawyer. These are the things a browser learns on a visit to Kristin Benner's blog, filled with poetry, postings and pictures."I'm taller than the majority of the people I know, I'm audacious, sarcastic, charming, spontaneous, reckless, helpless, hopless, lonley, popular, fickle, forgetful, ingenious, destructive, devoted...
Church Blog: Olde Home Days to sponsor fundraiser
The Groton Olde Home Days Committee offers a new kind of fundraiser to get the 2006 season underway. "Death on the Range," a mystery dinner theater, will take place Saturday, Feb. 18 at the Elm Tree Inn, 2 McLean-Cortland Rd. in the Hamlet of McLean. The time of the event is still to be announced.Because seating is limited, admission will be by advance ticket sales only. You can purchase tickets for $40 at the Elm Tree Inn, 838-3313, Almost Anything Trash, 135 Main...