Edith Stanley News Today

NORMAN JAMES BAKER Norman James Baker, after a very brief illness, passed away peacefully at Brandon Regional Health Centre with family by...

After 180 years of separation from their white neighbors, a stoic clan of slave descendants views a ferry as a vessel of hope--and doom.

TRACYTON — Ninety-eight-year-old Edith Stanleys hands are rarely at rest. Despite severe arthritis that pains her fingers, shes often found holding her crotchet hook, spinning yarn into long, fabric patterns that, in just a few hours time, slowly form a hat.  For more than two decades, Stanley, of Tracyton, has donated thousands of "chemo hats" to the radiation department of her local hospital, now called St. Michael Medical Center in Silverdale. Theyve been worn through the toughest of t...