25 Years Ago â 1996
After a nine-day run of daily high temperatures, mostly in the mid- and upper 40s with a record of 55 degrees on Feb. 19, area residents were stunned this week to see another 11 inches of wind-whipped snow fall in less than 24 hours. Travel conditions in central and western North Dakota were difficult, but eastern North Dakota received the brunt of the storm, resulting in the closure of I-94 from Jamestown to Fargo. This winterâs snowfall now stands at 54.8 inches. The record snowfall received was 91.8 inches during the winter of 1993-94.
Jeremy Trnka, son of David and Maureen Trnka, a sixth-grader at St. Joseph Grade School, has won the school level competition of the National Geography Bee, answering oral questions on geography. School winners are eligible to participate in the State Bee at the end of March.
Spreading the Catholic faith
The 21 California missions were established between 1769 and 1823 by Spanish Franciscans, based in Mexico City, to convert Native Americans to Catholicism. Each mission was a self-sufficient settlement with multiple buildings, including living quarters, storerooms, kitchens, workshops and a church. Native converts provided the labor to build each mission complex, supervised by Spanish friars. The friars then conducted masses at the churches for indigenous communities, sometimes in their native languages.
Spanish friars like Fray Gerónimo Boscana also documented indigenous cosmologies and beliefs. Boscana’s account of his time as a friar describes California Indians’ belief in a supreme deity who was known to the peoples of Mission San Juan Capistrano as Chinigchinich or Quaoar.
Brookhaven landmark damaged by car crash
Brookhaven landmark destroyed in crash By Therese Apel | December 11, 2020 at 1:32 PM CST - Updated December 11 at 1:45 PM
BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (WLBT) - It was a quiet morning in Brookhaven, until a car ran out of control downtown.
“Sunday morning about 10:45 a driver rammed into and destroyed a column that sits in front of the Lampton Auditorium. The column is one of the historic markers that is still standing from Whitworth College from the early 1900s,” said Mississippi School of the Arts Executive Director Suzanne Hirsch.
It happened on the MSA campus, which is the old Whitworth College. The column was believed to have been built in 1927. A police report says the driver may have sideswiped another vehicle before hitting the landmark at a high rate of speed.