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WILKES-BARRE St. Anthony St. George Maronite Church will at least recoup its shipping losses from UPS after its set of Stations of the Cross was destroyed in shipment, the shipping company told the Times Leader on Thursday.
The church shipped its valuable set of Stations of the Cross to a Maronite Church in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., just before Easter, but the pieces were utterly destroyed in transit. The shipment cost $600, and when the shipment was refused by the Florida church, it was sent back to St. Anthony St. George, costing the local church
another $600.
To make matters worse, UPS initially ruled that the church wasn’t entitled to a refund, with Linda Joseph, a member of the church, with UPS telling the Times Leader on Wednesday that the boxes weren’t sufficiently packaged in the company’s view.
Pa. church to get $1,200 refund from shipping company over destroyed religious items
Updated Apr 30, 2021;
By Patrick Kernan, The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (TNS)
The church shipped a valuable set of Stations of the Cross to a Maronite Church in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., just before Easter, but the set was destroyed in transit. The shipment cost $600. When the shipment was refused by the Florida church, it was sent back to St. Anthony St. George, costing the local church another $600.
To make matters worse, UPS initially ruled that the church wasn’t entitled to a refund. Linda Joseph, a member of the church, said that the boxes weren’t sufficiently packaged in the company’s view. A picture showed the items broken into pieces in the boxes.
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Her career in the Providence public schools spans 35 years, first as a social-studies teacher at Mount Pleasant high School and later as an assistant principal at Classical High School.
Abood-Tavares retired in 2004, but she returned to Providence to work as a retired administrator and mentor at Harry Kizirian Elementary School and Hope High School.
She was raised on Federal Hill, the daughter of Lebanese immigrants. Her father, Joseph Abood, represented Rhode Island at JFK’s inauguration. A framed copy of the president’s speech hung on the walls of Abood-Tavares’s classrooms for decades. Now, that speech has been handed down to Parenteau.