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Randi Gorenberg was last video taped leaving the Town Center Mall in Boca Raton before she was found shot at a park outside of Delray Beach.
Newschannel 5’s, Danielle Dubetz spoke to her mother over the phone who said she planned to spend the day at her daughter’s grave.
Beyond the gates of Eternal Light Memorial Gardens, Randi Gorenberg’s body rests.
Randi’s mother Idey Elias told us this is where she planned to spend her Easter Sunday, alone, speaking only to her beloved daughter.
Over the last year we’ve heard her painful pleas.
"And every mother out there and every father knows how hard it is to bury a child and if you know anything, let me know please. Thank you," said Elias.
That was in June of 2007, about 3 months after Randi’s murder.
"She was the light. She was airy. She was bright. She was beautiful. She had a smile and she was a good friend to everybody," she said.
The last video of Randi alive was captured as she left the Town Center Mall in Boca Raton.
About 40 minutes later, she was shot in the temple and thrown out of her Mercedes SUV at the Governor Lawton Chiles Memorial Park west of Delray Beach.
It was broad daylight.
Five minutes after that, her 65 thousand dollar vehicle was taped driving through the Home Depot parking lot and dumped.
The case has received National attention. Re-enactments of the crime played on America’s Most Wanted.
Since Randi’s murder, some members of the family have found themselves in legal troubles.
Son, Daniel Gorenberg, has been arrested for prescription drug charges. Courts ordered him into residential drug rehab.
Husband, Stewart, has been arrested on charges of insurance fraud. His attorney said the charges are unsubstantiated.

wptv.com

Today, you can shop for food, clothing and alcohol, pick up the dry cleaning, mail a package, do your banking - at most banks - but don’t go to school or the library or try paying your taxes at Town Hall.
Oh, and the union roofer is likely to have the day off, too.
The state’s blue laws, recognizing Good Friday as one of the most solemn holidays on the Christian calendar, have relaxed some, and in 1996 they were changed to allow banks a choice. Most now remain open.
“People are becoming more secular and don’t want their regular life interrupted,” said Leonard Suzio, president of York Hill Trap Rock Quarry Co. Inc.
“I remember when the banks were closed. But we are a service economy.”
All the Suzio family businesses are closed on Good Friday, following a tradition that predates today’s owners.
The companies were founded in 1890 and closed for Good Friday in the first few decades. In the late 1950s, the Teamsters Union declared Good Friday a holiday and most construction trades were given the day off.
It’s also more likely to be a holiday in northern states that have more Irish, Italian and Polish immigrants, who are primarily Catholic, Suzio said.
Businesses in the South are more likely to be closed on the Monday after Easter, Suzio said.
“That was an Episcopalian thing,” he said. “And Italy closes down for all of Easter week.”
John Gatzak, director of communications for the Archdiocese of Hartford, said Good Friday is still widely observed by Christians, despite their work responsibilities.
“It’s a somber day for Christians,” Gatzak said. “It’s a day when we focus in on the passion and death of Christ and awaken a new spirituality.”
Maryheart Crusaders, on West Main Street, will have services in the morning and close at 2 p.m. to allow for meditation on the day’s significance.

myrecordjournal.com

Then he and his best beloved walked down Fifth Avenue with a grand painting of the street and St. Patrick’s Cathedral in the background. He, his best beloved and lots of people who dressed in their Easter finery.
“On the avenue, Fifth Avenue, the photographers will snap us, And you’ll find that you’re in the rotogravure.”
The what? Maybe the old timers and fellow columnist Dick Cosgrove will be the only people who remember the “roto” section of years long past. Newspapers, especially in the large cities, had their own color sections on Sunday; out here in the ’burbs, we rely on the syndicated inserts, such as USA Weekend. Oddly enough, in New York City it’s still referred to as “the roto section.” Some things never change.
Chiff.com, an Internet site, indicates the parade, which started in the mid-1800s, is still going strong. Didn’t realize that. Of late, New Orleans has been hosting a Gay Easter Parade and the rules indicate that it’s a lot more tasteful (read: covered up) than the Mardi Gras. There’s also a “Haute Dog” Easter Parade in New York, but you don’t want to see the photos. Poor dogs.
“Easter Parade” was originally another song. From archive.org, is this note: “Very neat to come across the recording of ‘Smile and Show Your Dimple.’ It was a WWI song written by Irving Berlin. He never believed in wasting anything and when he needed an old-time-sounding song for a 1930’s review, he recycled it as ‘Easter Parade.’ He modified the melody, but you can hear the newer song in the beginning of the chorus.”
The Easter Bunny is an old Eastern European symbol of the Resurrection, as it comes out of its hutch in the Spring. The Easter Egg is another symbol of new life and eternity.

citizensvoice.com

I shall be tipsily waving the flag of a certain European country this evening, celebrating its long history with plenty of national booze and, I trust, a few of its more delectable eats in the company of hundreds of its proud citizens who for myriad reasons find themselves displaced this side of the ocean these days.
It’s in my diary. March 17: “La Grande Soirée de la Francophonie” in New York. “Manhattan’s conversations will take on a distinctly French accent” on this night, the invitation confidently asserts. Mais, qu’est-ce que c’est cette nuit? Did Sarkozy move Bastille Day forward just like the United States last weekend unilaterally leapfrogged the rest of the world moving its clocks to summertime three weeks early?
No, not that. It seems that this is an annual bash when France honours a person or institution for helping evangelise its culture and tongue in North America. The winner this year is the City University of New York in whose buildings we will be gathering. Bravo. So maybe this is not a conspiracy, as I was beginning to suspect, to snub the Irish, for whom 17 March also has a certain significance.
Certainly, if Britain had organised a “Bagpipes and Big Ben Night” in New York today that would have been the allegation. But even we are not that insensitive. And who in their right mind would try to compete with the Irish in America on St Patrick’s? They turn the Chicago River green, clog city arteries with parades and their public house merriment is such to make Bourbon Street in New Orleans seem tame.
Truth is though, this year things are slightly out of kilter. While the 5th Avenue Parade – green stripe painted down the tarmac – will begin this morning as usual at 10, in other places celebrations have happened already. In Savannah, Georgia, where St Patrick’s Day has become a big tourist draw, most of the fun was last Thursday. Boston, Philadelphia and Milwaukee had their parades at the weekend.

independent.co.uk

Linn’s Restaurant co-owner Aaron Linn and his mother, Renee, show off the specialty of the bakery, olallieberry pie. They sell any and all things olallieberry: from olallieberry preserves to cabernet.
It’s early Easter morning 2006 and a Cambria family’s life’s work is going up in smoke as an aging ballast in a fluorescent light fixture overheats, explodes and ignites a hot water heater’s gas line.
John and Renee Linn’s landmark restaurant in Cambria’s East Village—Linn’s Main Street Bin — is gutted in the ensuing inferno.
If the Linn name is familiar, it’s because you may have shopped for pies at their retail outlet in Paso Robles or eaten at one of their restaurants or cafes in San Luis Obispo or Cambria over the years.
On that date in 2006, after almost 30 years of hard work, sacrifice and taking chances as small-business owners, the Linns faced starting over.
The story of the Linn family’s beginnings, work ethic success, setbacks and ultimate resurrection as business and community leaders began in the late 1960s when John was accepted into the English master’s program at the University of Kansas at Lawrence.
While there, he met Maureen McGonigle, the second of nine children of Bill Mc- Gonigle, owner of McGonigle’s Market in Kansas City, an establishment whose claim to fame is that it’s believed to be the best meat market in one of the best beef towns in the world.
Maureen, who goes by Renee, was studying fine arts graphics at the university. The two met, married in 1972 and, with son Justin in diapers, moved to Denver to start a business.
Adding son Aaron and daughter Aimee to the brood, though, focused the couple’s future goals as a family.
“What’s the best thing we can do for our children?” John remembers. “Where can our kids grow up with a strong work ethic?Where they can be productive and not have their hands out? Where they can be accountable for their actions in a small town and not hide in a city’s anonymity?”

sanluisobispo.com

The B-100 & Star 93.5 Easter Egg Hunt will be held at
10 a.m. March 22 at Augustana College’s Ericson Field,
639 38th St., Rock Island.
The event will include an appearance by the Easter Bunny and 10,000 eggs filled with prizes and candy. Prizes include bikes, scooters, food certificates and child-friendly event certificates.
The cost is $3, and some proceeds benefit The American Red Cross of the Quad-Cities.
For more information, call Stephanie Slyter at (563) 326-2541 or e-mail Stephanie. slyter@ cumulus.com.

qctimes.com

By Jeannette Doud 847-3301
May the beauty of springAnd the promise of EasterRefresh your spiritAnd fill your heart with joy.A wee bit of spring is seeing the cement carrier Alpena passing through Round Island Passage. The Straits to the east are wide open, and most of the heavy ice is west of the Island by St. Ignace.
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stignacenews.com

The Easter Egg hunt was held out in the back yard where ten kids searched for the eggs, helped out by the Easter Bunny and Maxwell, the house dog. Parents and grandparents of the children strolled behind the kids and took pictures. Afterwards, the children went inside and played games as some house residents looked on.
Waverly FRC coordinator Joan Shultz stated that this was a “good experience for the children and seniors.” Shultz even told a story of how one girl who participated in this event and many others with the house through the Waverly FRC grew close to some of the seniors and kept up contact after she had left.
The children of the Waverly FRC visit the Sayre House every third Tuesday of the month.

thedailyreview.com

Coach David Nucifora's decision to change just one player from last week's draining loss to the Sharks in Durban always placed a question mark over his team's resilience for this testing affair.
The Blues battled bravely to a 17-7 halftime lead and were still 17-10 ahead at the three-quarter mark but then a clearly tiring defence conceded two tries to the Western Force.
John Mitchell's side, unlike last week against the Crusaders in Perth when they blew a big lead, closed out the match this time.
That, as much as anything, shows the difference between the Crusaders and the Blues who were a double-act as the championship front-runners not so long ago. Now the crafty Crusaders stand alone.
A clearly disappointed Nucifora wouldn't buy into suggestions that his steadfast selection policy had come unstuck.
"I knew when we eventually lost that was going to be brought up. But I'm comfortable with my decision," said Nucifora.
"We make our judgements based on a whole range of decisions that are either unknown or known to everyone on the otuside. I know the condition of my players and where they are at and I'm comfortable with the decision that was made."
Nucifora said the Blues' problem lay more in the first half when they failed to nail several chances.
But Blues skipper Troy Flavell admitted he felt the game slipping away soon after halftime.
"As David said there were some bad habits creeping and they capitalised on them," said Flavell.
Visiting skipper Nathan Sharpe believed fatigue was a factor and the longer his side hung in there against the Blues the more he sensed the Force's chances increased.
The Blues weren't helped by an early injury to their playmaker Nick Evans who was forced off with a head knock after half an hour and taken to hospital for a precautionary check-up.

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