| Commack aids mom of 6 while Navy husband's away
Kristine Coltellino gently placed Jayden, one of her 3-month-old triplets, into Diane Smid's waiting arms.
Smid's sister, Debbie Virga, already held one of the others, Trinity. Coltellino's 15-year-old daughter, Kristina, fed Trista, who was propped up on her lap.
Upstairs, Kristine Coltellino's other two children were busy with video games.
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Police Violence and Abuses in Detention
His mother, an alcoholic, begs in the terminal and sends Victor and his sister out to beg for money as well. Whatever they collect they turn over to her; she uses this money to buy more liquor. Victor wants to go to a shelter for street children, but his mother opposes it. Several months ago, other street children doused Victor with gasoline and set him on fire, inflicting first degree burns over his thighs, groin, and genital area.19 * Juan Alexander, sixteen years old, had been on the streets for five years at the time we interviewed him. His father had died when he was one, and his stepfather was a physically abusive alcoholic. After years of suffering from violent attacks and trying, unsuccessfully, to protect his mother, Juan Alexander left home at the age of twelve. Once on the street he began to inhale glue.
Primate has new link to PWRDF
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, has been elected president of the board of directors of the Primates World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF). Although PWRDF is named after the primate (or the churchs national archbishop), it is the first time that a primate has been elected to head its board since it incorporated separately from the national church seven years ago. The primate has always automatically been an ex-officio member of the board, explained PWRDF executive director Cheryl Curtis. The point of it all is to recognize that this ministry of the Anglican Church of Canada continues incorporated for business purposes to further the intentions of the whole denomination and that the primate is as connected with it now as when it was a committee of General Synod, said Ms.
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