Tornado: Mike Pound

Memorial Day travelers bemoan high gas prices

Norm Hayward and his wife, Claudia, have a couple of things going for them as they continue their increasingly expensive motor home trip around parts of the United States. For starters, the Phoenix, Ariz., couple are saving on hotel costs.

Tornado: Mike Pound

Mike Pound: Finding a hero among the rubble
Lynn Johnson says her friend Michele Maxson is a hero. “She saved a lot of people’s lives,” Lynn said. Lynn and Michele worked at Dillons for 23 years. I say “worked” because the Dillons store at 1402 E. 20th St. doesn’t exist anymore.

May 26, 2011
Mike Pound: People will keep parish from perishing
For some reason, the juxtaposition of seven or eight kickballs scattered near the demolished St. Mary’s Catholic Elementary School, 505 W. 25th St., where Judy Clarkson was searching through her third-grade classroom for her “nun collection,” made me think of Ames, Iowa.

May 26, 2011
Mike Pound: Searching necessary for recovery
They found another one Tuesday morning. It sucks when doing your job well results in bad news. But that’s the life of search and rescue team members: trained to look for something that, sometimes, they don’t want to find.

May 24, 2011
Mike Pound: Hope shows up just in time
It shows up when there is no earthly reason it should. It shows up when all the evidence points not to hope, but to despair. It shows up in rubble that used to be whole lives. It shows up in the kindness of a neighbor. Or a stranger.

May 23, 2011