| Event set to raise money for sanctuary
It might be an amazing number to think about, but its even more astonishing that she remembers every one of their names.
Remembering that many names could be just second nature for Frank, who is a former schoolteacher who now has devoted her life to a no-kill sanctuary on 380 acres in the vicinity of the town of Olmos and Jakes Colony in south Guadalupe County.
Theres a pup named Molly, who arrived at the Southern Animal Rescue Association on the day columnist Mollie Ivins died. Another pup was given the name Selena because she came from Corpus Christi like the famous late-singer Selena Quintanilla.
Both of them are friendly, cuddly and ready to be adopted by a loving family.
And Domingo, the four-year-old neutered and spayed dog that is ready for adoption, was so named because he arrived at the sanctuary on a Sunday.
$1 million gift to Marquette law school
The Bradley Foundation is giving $1 million to help build a new facility for Marquette University's Law School, the largest gift in the law school's history, the foundation announced today.
Marquette University Law School's new building is slated to be constructed on Tory Hill, overlooking the Marquette Interchange. The seven-figure grant from the Bradley Foundation is meant to kick-start a building campaign that will officially begin this summer.
"A quality law school is tremendously important," said Michael Grebe, President and CEO of the Bradley Foundation, in a press release.
"Its graduates become our attorneys and judges, and are key to the quality of justice for the entire community. The Bradley Foundation sees Marquette Law School as a fundamental component of Milwaukee's future," Grebe said.
Old mobile homes out, new in
The people might come back. The old-style mobile homes that were destroyed are gone for good. The Feb. 2 tornado demolished about 75 mobile homes, most made before 1983, in the DeLand park. The park owners hope to fill the empty lots with bright new manufactured homes that barely resemble their predecessors. Three models from manufacturer Nobility Homes stand out amid the destroyed shells of old mobile homes and piles of debris, reminders of the cleanup process now going on three months. But the models, along with one already occupied new home, also are signals of the park's future. "I think they look marvelous, and the park will have a wonderful resurgence," said Richard Randel, who has lived at the park for two years. His unit was badly damaged in the storm, and he says he would consider purchasing one of the new models if the insurance check is right.
Powerful tornado hits Holly
A tornado ripped through the center of Holly, a small town near the Kansas border, Wednesday night, seriously wounding area residents and leaving homes in rubble, witnesses said. The twister touched down in the area of Main Street, about a block south of U.S. 50, a Colorado State Patrol dispatcher told the Associated Press. Authorities had no immediate estimates of damage or injuries. Witnesses reported seeing three to four ambulances with several patients each heading to Prowers Medical Center in Lamar. A hospital official could not determine how many people were injured or if anyone had been killed. Resident Cheryl Roup was driving into town just as the tornado touched down around 8 p.m. and demolished her wood-framed home. She said the twister went through the center of town from south to north, damaging homes along Cheyenne Street and ripping up trees in the city's central park.
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