Lessons learned from the latest lost Christmas tree hunters
Dad, kids rescued after getting lost on Christmas tree hunt
Family missing for three days used twigs to write ‘Help’ in snow
Associated Press
Published on: 12/19/07
Paradise, Calif. — A father and three children who vanished on a Christmas tree-cutting trip in the Northern California mountains were found alive Wednesday after huddling in a culvert for warmth during three days of heavy snow.
A California Highway Patrol helicopter crew spotted Frederick Dominguez waving his arms atop a small bridge and landed nearby, sinking into 2 feet of snow, flight officer David White said. White said the crew found the family on their last pass over the area as snow from another storm, even bigger than the first, started to fall heavily.
Hours later, after he had been checked at a hospital, Dominguez described three harrowing nights in the wild as he tried to keep his children from panicking and succumbing to the numbing cold.
“You just want your kids to be safe and you’re just praying, ‘God, keep my kids alive,'” he told reporters gathered at Feather River Hospital in Paradise.
The rescue came as their family and friends were starting to lose hope, with another storm moving in and beginning to dump yet more snow in the foothill region about 100 miles north of Sacramento.
Police in Poland have recovered a sign stolen from Auschwitz and arrested five men.
The metal sign which reads “Arbeit macht frei” (“Work makes you free”), was stolen from the entrance to the former Nazi death camp last week, sparking a nationwide hunt.
Polish authorities made the recovery of the sign a priority and the museum, police and anonymous donors offered a reward of nearly £25,000 for information leading to its return.
Over 1 million people, mostly Jews, perished in the Nazi death camp located in southern Poland during World War Two.
Prisoners arriving at the camp used to enter thought an iron gate topped by the German-language motto.
It is understood the thieves had cut the sign into three pieces, but the motive for the theft remains unclear.
The Flame of Liberty in Paris has commemorated many things. Franco-American relations, the fallen French Resistance workers and now Diana Princess of Wales, who happened to have been in an accident under the Pont d’Alma tunnel.
The flame is the gold leaved burning ember of Liberty’s torch.
> Hello! I thought you’d given up all
> hope as I hadn’t heard from you.
> Unfortunately mum passed away in April this year so her
> memories have
> gone with her.But if I can help in any way I will.
> Margaret.
>
> —–Original Message—–
> From: annabel dover [mailto:[email protected]]
>
> Sent: 08 November 2007 13:27
> To: Watchman, Margaret – Ipswich
> Subject: Melton old school former pupils
>
> Dear Margaret,
> It has been a very long time since you sent me your
> fantastic email which mentioned your mother working in
> the kitchens.
>
> I am still going ahead with the project. I am waiting
> to hear from the Arts Council who are taking an age to
> respond.
>
> I will contact you again when I hear from them. I hope
> you are well.
>
> All the very best,
> Annabel Dover
>
Dear Colleagues,
Barry Sewell has had left on his desk (which is opposite the stationery cabinet in North cluster) a set of keys. The keys are on a SNC chain and consist of 3 gold keys.
If you believe they are yours please would you come and see me.
Regards
Jane Wegg
