An SUV crossed into oncoming traffic on a rural northwestern Pennsylvania highway and smashed head-on into another vehicle, killing six people, including two children, authorities said Sunday.A Jeep Liberty driven by 36-year-old Kathy Douglas crossed the center line at about 4:30 p.m. Saturday and hit an approaching Pontiac Bonneville in the Allegheny National Forest, killing her daughter and nephew as well as four people in the sedan, state police in Kane said.The four occupants of the car, all residents of nearby St. Marys, died in the crash: the driver, Gary Beimel, 62, and passengers David Cuneo, 54, Elaine Beimel,クロエバッグ 人気, 55, and Florence Donachy, 81.Douglas' 6-year-old nephew Jarrett Costanzo and 12-year-old daughter, Olivia Douglas, were killed, while Douglas and her 10-year-old son were seriously injured. The names of the two children were released by Cummings Funeral Home in Kane, which is handling arrangements.Jarrett was a student at Kane Area Elementary School, said Sam Cummings, who works at the funeral home. His funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Callistus Catholic Church in Kane followed by burial in St. Callistus Cemetery.Cummings said the injured boy was flown to Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh."I think he's doing OK," Cummings said.
A nursing supervisor at UMPC Hamot in Erie said Douglas was in serious condition Sunday night.The investigating officer, Trooper Roger McCloskey, said he believes Douglas was at fault and will face some sort of charges."I have no idea yet, but the investigation is continuing," he said Sunday.Police said Douglas and Gary Beimel were wearing seatbelts, but at least three of the deceased were not.McKean County Coroner Michael Cahill said all six were declared dead at the scene of the wreck, and all died from blunt force trauma injuries. No autopsies were planned, and Cahill released the remains to funeral homes Sunday.Arrangements for the four occupants of Beimel's vehicle were being handled by Lynch-Green Funeral Home Inc. in St. Marys, the coroner said. A message left for Lynch-Green was not immediately returned.Police said both vehicles were severely damaged, and U.S. Route 219 was closed in both directions for more than six hours.More than 300 people attended a memorial service Sunday night for Jarrett and Olivia at the Kane Area Middle School football field, The Bradford Era reported. Olivia was a cheerleader for the Kane Tornadoes youth football team, and many students wearing football jerseys and cheerleader outfits from the Kane Tornadoes and the Kane Wolves football team attended the service.
It's big, beautiful and free, but a 217-acre former prep school campus in the hills of northern Massachusetts has also proved tough to give away.Last year, an extensive effort to donate the Northfield campus by the billionaire family that owned it collapsed when the recipient unexpectedly backed out.Its current owner, the National Christian Foundation, says it has narrowed its search down to five potential recipients as they consider suitors that aren't exclusively Christian, dropping a condition of the prior search.The top two or three candidates could be announced within a month and definitely will be by Christmas,クロエトートバッグ, said Aimee Minnich, president of the foundation's Heartland office in Kansas.Meanwhile, residents and business owners in the town of about 3,000 are ready to see new life at a campus that has been vacant for eight years, leaving a hole in the town's social and economic life. Joan Stoia, co-owner of The Centennial House bed and breakfast on Main Street, said residents have learned to be patient."Quick doesn't happen with this kind of decision, and that's what we're all learning," she said."What can we say?" she said. "We can't make it any faster than it is. (The campus is) not ours; we don't control it. So we're here to be helpful in any way possible."
The campus is the former home of the Northfield Mount Hermon school, which was founded by 19th-century evangelist D.L. Moody.The school moved out in 2005 to consolidate at another campus, but the property is still heavy with the aura of the exclusive New England prep school it once hosted. Its 43 buildings fill a rich, rolling stretch of the Connecticut River Valley with a stately mix of granite and brick.The campus' religious history lingers, as well. At Moody's hilltop grave, pilgrims meet to join hands and pray.The Green family, which founded and owns the Oklahoma-based Hobby Lobby craft store chain, bought the campus in 2009 intending to give it to a new college named after Christian apologist and writer C.S. Lewis.That venture stalled,クロエ バッグ 新作, and the Greens offered it for free to candidates with traditional Christian beliefs and a commitment to honoring Moody's legacy.Grand Canyon University, a for-profit Christian school in Phoenix, was announced as the recipient last fall and planned eventually to house 5,000 students there. But it backed out weeks later, citing tens of millions of dollars in unanticipated building and infrastructure costs.In December, the Greens gave the campus, and the job of finding a qualified owner, to the National Christian Foundation. The foundation had handled donated property from the Greens before.
The foundation's main work is to help business owners fund charitable work worldwide, and Minnich said its contacts with businesses and nonprofits enabled it to cast a broad net for potential suitors. It tells each candidate that faith-based groups will be preferred, but it isn't excluding secular groups."Secular organizations would be fine, but nothing opposed to what we stand for as an organization," Minnich said. "I can't think of very many things that we would not consider."Minnich won't yet identify the remaining candidates or be specific about their plans. In general, she said, they include established and startup colleges,2013クロエ 財布, and collaborations that could combine various enterprises on campus, such as a museum or a retirement home.One of first things the foundation vets is whether candidates know free campuses can be expensive to run, to avoid any sticker shock."People who are scared away by the size and scope of the campus are probably not going to be great candidates," Minnich said.There has been considerable surprise from candidates who take a tour that the "free" in free campus doesn't actually mean "run-down," Minnich said. "People have been pleasantly surprised by what's here."Northfield resident Alexander Stewart said the National Christian Foundation has impressed townspeople with its commitment to getting things right. The future of the campus is critical for Northfield, he said, but he added that he's confident whatever finally comes will be good for the area."It's a quiet town, waiting with considerable hope and not with a great deal of anxiety,クロエ 公式販売店," Stewart said.