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Archive for January 16, 2012
Woman watches her house get robbed on monitoring surveillance while at work
Posted: January 16, 2012 in Uncategorized
Minnesota Couple Among Those Missing After Cruise Ship Capsizes
Posted: January 16, 2012 in Uncategorized
(Huffington Post)
MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota couple missing after a cruise ship capsized off the west coast of Italy are devout Catholics who spend part of almost every day at church, where he teaches religious classes and she hands out baked goods and other sweet treats to parishioners.
Church members described the kindness and good deeds of Jerry and Barbara Heil on Monday as a search continued along the Italian coast. The Heils are among 16 people still missing after the Costa Concordia hit a reef and ran aground near Tuscany on Friday night.
Six people have been confirmed dead, and prosecutors are investigating the ship’s captain for manslaughter, abandoning ship and causing a shipwreck. The ship’s owner said the captain, Francesco Schettino, caused the crash by deviating from the authorized course.
Diane Vorland, who is confined to a wheelchair, told The Associated Press that Jerry Heil, 69, came to her house every Thursday for the past three years to administer her communion and recite the rosary. The trip, she said, “was a big deal for them.”
“On the Thursday before he left, he said, `The next time you see me I’ll have been to Rome,’” Vorland said.
Other members of Church of St. Pius X in White Bear Lake described the Heils as quiet, kind people deeply involved in the congregation. They joined the church in 1973, and their four children attended its elementary and middle school, said Larry Erickson, the parish administrator.
Jerry Heil taught religious education classes for everyone from children to senior citizens. Dennis Hardy, who attended one of his classes, said Barbara Heil, 70, often accompanied her husband, bringing baked goods she gave to class members.
“Both of them are at the church, I’d say, pretty much every day,” Erickson said.
The Heils live in White Bear Lake, a suburb of about 25,000 people 15 miles outside St. Paul. The community sits between two large lakes, White Bear and Bald Eagle, which are encircled by opulent homes and historic cottages dating to the early 1900s when the area was a weekend destination for wealthy St. Paul residents. Today, the city retains vestiges of a resort aura but also is home to middle- and working-class neighborhoods.
not really sure how or why this made me laugh
