NEAR ASPEN – A tragic accident near Aspen forces a wife and mother to guide their SUV to safety with one hand on the steering wheel and one hand on the brake. The family from Missouri had just wrapped up a week long vacation in Snowmass when a rock about the size of carry-on luggage tumbled through
Parishioners at St. Maximilian Kolbe Catholic Church of Thousand Oaks are in shock after the sudden death of their pastor, the Rev. Patrick O’Dwyer. He was 61. O’Dwyer collapsed in his office as he was waiting for someone who had made an appointment to see him. Read the rest here. (Thanks to Jaylene Dougherty for
A construction worker at Athabasca University died Monday morning after being impaled on a piece of rebar. The 37-year-old man, a carpenter foreman with Chandos Construction Ltd., fell five metres from a wall. Read the rest from the Edmonton Journal, 7/28/09 (Thanks to Nathan Wiebe for this submission)
A wind gust killed a 35-year-old Big Bear Lake-area bicyclist this weekend by blowing his hat in front of his face, causing him to crash into a drainage ditch, according to San Bernardino County coroner’s officials. —From The Press-Enterprise, 7/20/09 (Thanks to Jaylene Daugherty for this submission)
(Almost) Sudden Death (Kind of): Pools!
It’s been incredibly hot here in SoCal—almost a million degrees over the weekend! This is indeed a dry and thirsty land…. We are in the midst of a 3-4 year dought; wildfires are breaking out everywhere, and evangelists are trying desperately to douse the perishing with Living Water, which most refuse. In light of all
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