Viola Desmond and Alexander Keith’s graveyard clears heritage hurdle Those who like history like it a lot. Halifax’s Camp Hill Cemetery got almost perfect marks in its evaluation at a special meeting of the HRM heritage advisory committee. Among the thousands of marked and unmarked graves at the 177-year-old burial ground are the final resting place of both civil rights activist Viola Desmond and brewer-politician Alexander Keith. In a virtual meeting last week, the committee heard staff presentations on two potentially heritage-worthy sites: the cemetery on the block between Jubilee and Spring Garden Roads and Robie and Summer Streets, proposed by the Halifax Military Heritage Preservation Society, and the Universalist Unitarian Church of Halifax at 5500 Inglis Street, proposed by the UU church itself. The committee evaluates the presented locations to decide if they should be considered at a heritage hearing. Both motions passed to move t
Wed, 06/16/2021 - 5:57pm sarahp JOZEF CALLUM SLOMA
LEICESTER Jozef Callum Sloma, age 21, left behind his Gretsch and other guitars, beloved friends and family, and classic vehicles to go on to other adventures.
Early this year, Joe traveled from Spokane, Wash., to reestablish his residency in Leicester, Vt., to attend a Criminology & Restorative Justice program at Northern Vermont University. Friends, family, and acquaintances share a deep loss of this wonderful individual who lived life fully, gave freely and, accomplished so much in the time he spent on this planet. We remain inspired by Joe’s artistic unconventionality and contagious enthusiasm.
One of Joe’s social media sites states simply that he loved “coffee, Kerouac, Johnny Cash and camping; in that order.” Joe jammed at the Spokane Fall Folk Festival, was photographed in the center of a student crowd protesting gun violence, played Harry Bailey in a 2019 “It’s a Wonderful Life”
By Liz Holbrook
First United Methodist Church of Wausau building. (Photo courtesy of WAOW-TV).
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) â A local church is helping out one of its neighbors after a vandalism act over the weekend.
Saturday night 38-year-old Adam Dupleasis broke into the Universalist Unitarian Church in Wausau and damaged the sanctuary. With the Universalist church closed for the next few weeks for repairs, Pastor Rebecca Voss at First United Methodist Church has offered her building to host its members. She tells WAOW-TV, âWe know that our congregation is not simply for the people in the building but it is for the whole community, itâs for the greater group of the faithful in our city,â.
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PITTSFIELD â After her sonâs death, Peggy Morse made it her mission to create a space for fellow suicide loss survivors to gather, grieve and honor the lives of their loved ones.
When her son died by suicide in the late â90s, there were no local support groups to lean into, Morse said. Sheâd drive more than an hour to East Longmeadow, where she found a community of survivors who lost loved ones to suicide, also.
But Morse â who was honored earlier this year for her decades of work in the field of suicide prevention and healing from loss â knew there were others across the Berkshire who were attempting to cope with suicide loss too.