The week ahead: the stories to look out for the week of 5/10 WCJB Staff
To keep up with the latest local news subscribe to our
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - The Salvation Army is celebrating a century of service in Alachua County.
The event will coincide with national Salvation Army Week.
The 100-year celebration will take place at the Salvation Army Center for Worship and Service in Gainesville on Monday 5/10 at noon.
The College of Central Florida is debuting a new apprenticeship lab on Tuesday morning.
Partnering with CareerSource Florida and Lockheed-Martin, the college will be hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new lab.
Minde Prince Reinhart and her family on Saturday afternoon issued a statement thanking the community for its support and urging anyone who is experiencing depression or mental health issues to seek help.
It is the first statement from the Reinharts following the tragedy last week in which Minde Reinhart’s husband, Paul Reinhart, 46, is suspected of killing his sons Rex, 14, and Brody, 11, and then himself.
“The families involved in this horrific tragedy are deeply grieving and ask everyone public and press to please respect and acknowledge the appropriate time and distance they need to process this unfathomable reality,” the statement reads. “This extremely difficult and emotional event at the outset of Mother’s Day weekend understandably requires time to pray, reflect, and absorb this terrible outcome.”
But as is often the case with mental illness, life isn’t what it seems.
Reinhart on Tuesday is believed to have killed his two sons and himself. Their bodies were found in the burned Dixie County river house.
Sheriff’s deputies began searching for Reinhart after a family member became concerned over social media posts and texts he was making, but the challenge of mental health is that people who are in turmoil often do not let others in on it, said Joe Munson, director of clinical services at UF Health.
“People will ask, ‘How are you doing?’ and the person will say ‘Fine,’ ” Munson said. “Fine’ is one of the scariest responses I get from people. Not everyone has the skills to talk to people about emotional or personal things. One of my experiences is that people don’t even know what to say to others they notice who are struggling.”