Gaithersburg handyman gives family the gift of life
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A Montgomery County family says this Gaithersburg man is definitely their handyman of the year.
GAITHERSBURG, Md. - You can definitely call him Handyman of the Year. A Gaithersburg family says a friend and someone who normally handles odd jobs for them around the house, gave the Montgomery County family the gift of life. I just burst into tears. I’m like going, ‘Oh my.’ I mean it’s like going, ‘Who are you?’ And it’s kind of like, wow, said Mary Antonelli, describing her reaction last October, when her husband had called her over to hear what their 62-year-old handyman, Daniel Reynolds, had just told him.
These students have helped send more than 13,000 letters to front line workers
PHILADELPHIA Rupa Palanki can still remember the hopelessness she felt when the University of Pennsylvania shut down in-person classes last March due to the pandemic. Palanki, now a 22-year-old Penn senior, had just returned to her hometown of Mobile, Ala., and desperately wanted to help in whatever way she could.
She began talking with friends about possible ways to provide community service during the pandemic and the idea for Lockdown Letters, an initiative to send letters of appreciation to front line workers such as doctors, nurses and teachers, was born.
Michael Elleman, a ‘top expert’ on North Korean weapons, dies at 62
Friends and colleagues remember Elleman as a “great teacher” who once inspected missiles for the U.N.
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Image: Michael Elleman on Twitter (@EllemanIISS)
Michael S. Elleman, a world-renowned missile expert who spent much of his life trying to stop advances to North Korea’s nuclear program, died of cancer at George Washington University Hospital on Saturday, Feb. 20. He was 62 years old.
A former scientist-turned-U.N.-missile-inspector and analyst, Elleman was known for his gift of explaining North Korea’s complex missile systems to politicians, journalists and countless students and mentees in an approachable way.
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