PROMISES MADE, AND PROMISES KEPT.Byline: DENNIS McCARTHY Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
Odds and ends from around the Valley: If you've been reading this column for a while, you probably remember Claire Klint. When we first met her in 2003, she was 105 - and still teaching Sunday school Sunday school, institution for instruction in religion and morals, usually conducted in churches as part of the church organization but sometimes maintained by other religious or philanthropic bodies. In England during the 18th cent. at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley. Every Sunday morning Sunday Morning may refer to:
Next week Claire turns 108. And while she's no longer able to teach Sunday school because she lost her eyesight, she's still active and an inspiration to everyone she meets. It's pretty incredible to think that women had just gotten the right to vote and Prohibition had turned the country dry in 1920, when Claire made her deal with the Lord. ``As long as you give me breath, I'll serve you,'' the young Sunday school teacher promised. Obviously, the Lord took the deal. ``My mother grew up in a house without electricity and indoor plumbing, and a world without airplanes and everything else we take for granted today,'' said her son, Ron. She was the daughter of a circuit preacher A circuit preacher is a Christian minister who, in response to a shortage of ministers, officiates at multiple churches in an area, thus covering a "circuit". Circuit preaching was most common during and between the Second Great Awakening and Third Great Awakening in the who visited his churches on the South Side of Chicago every Sunday in the early 1900s on horseback. Claire would wrap her arms around her father's waist and ride behind him in the saddle to those churches - listening to him preach and learning from him until she was old enough to make her own deal with the Lord for a long, fruitful life. Happy 108th, Claire - from your fans. While we're talking about long, fruitful lives, no one had a better one than Connie Haas, who died last week at 84. In 48 years, Connie and her late husband, Frank, took in more than 700 foster-care children - many of them special-needs kids. ``There's nobody like her, nobody who's basically dedicated her whole life to helping so many kids who needed a lot of help,'' said Judge Michael Nash, presiding judge presiding judge n. 1) in both state and federal appeals court, the judge who chairs the panel of three or more judges during hearings and supervises the business of the court. of Juvenile Court juvenile court Special court handling problems of delinquent, neglected, or abused children. Two types of cases are processed by a juvenile court: civil matters, often concerning care of an abandoned or impoverished child, and criminal matters, arising from antisocial in Los Angeles County. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. any other way to say it. She's just one of the greatest people I have ever met coming through my courtroom.'' Last year, I wrote about how Connie was worrying about the end of her life approaching - not for her, but for the three special-needs boys she had guardianship of since they were babies. There was Josh, a Caucasian born to a mother strung out on drugs 17 years ago, and Joe, also 17, a Latino born with severe heart problems. And finally Benny, 15, an African-American boy who weighed 2 pounds at birth and suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), pattern of physical, developmental, and psychological abnormalities seen in babies born to mothers who consumed alcohol during pregnancy. . Their parents didn't want them anymore - but Connie and Frank Haas did. ``We always had guardianship, but never really thought of adopting them because we thought their mothers might come back for them some day,'' Connie told me at the time. ``But they never did.'' She was worried because the boys were still minors and would most likely be separated and placed in other homes after she died. ``I couldn't let that happen,'' Connie said, standing in the hallway outside the courtroom of Judge Nash after formally adopting her boys last year to make sure they would always remain brothers. ``This is the only home they've ever had,'' Connie said. ``They're not going anywhere. They're my boys now.'' RIP, Connie. You were such an inspiration to so many of us who knew you. And finally, in a touch of class, the Museum of the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. , located in the historic James Dodson Bungalow at Los Angeles Valley College LAVC redirects here. For the software library, see libavcodec. The university is adjacent to Grant High School. Often called "Valley College" or simply "Valley" by those who frequent the campus, it opened its doors to the public on September 12, 1949, at which time the campus was , named its new library this week after Austin Conover, its former curator who died last November at 92. After a colorful career as a newspaper reporter covering World War II and interviewing world leaders such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman For other persons named Harry Truman, see Harry Truman (disambiguation). Harry S. Truman (May 8 1884 – December 26 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953); as vice president, he succeeded to the office upon the death of Franklin D. and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Conover came to work at Valley College and was named the museum's curator in the mid-1980s. The museum - named after one of the college's original teachers - is in the first bungalow built on the campus for returning servicemen who wanted to take advantage of the GI bill. ``It's a historic building filled with San Fernando Valley history, and Austin was the caretaker and prime mover prime mover: see energy, sources of. Prime mover The component of a power plant that transforms energy from the thermal or the pressure form to the mechanical form. in making so much of our local history come alive,'' said Gerald Fecht, president of the museum. For more information on the museum, call (818) 947-2373. Dennis McCarthy, (818) 713-3749 dennis.mccarthy(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Happy birthday to Claire Klint, who turns 108 next week. Tina Burch/Staff Photographer |
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