Three candidates come out on top in a crowded field for Elm Grove Village Board msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Catholic nonprofit will honor women religious who died of COVID-19
Friday, Mar. 19, 2021
By Catholic News Service
Chicago-based Catholic Extension plans to help 1,000 women religious with grants in memory of a group of sisters who died in late December of COVID-19 in Elm Grove, Wisc.
The grants, $1,000 per sister, have been established in the name of a group of School Sisters of Notre Dame, most of whom had been teachers and who died from complications of COVID-19 as the virus spread in the facility that cared for them.
Four members of the religious community died on the same day. A total of nine sisters died in a little more than a week in mid-December.
For the first time since 2005, Elm Grove could have a new village president.
Neil Palmer, who has been in that position for 16 years, will face off against former village trustee Mary Inden on April 6.
The winner will serve a two-year term and will watch over a community of 6,136 that was recently ranked as the second-best place to live in Wisconsin by Niche.
The candidates for village president shared their views on how they d preserve Elm Grove s small-town charm. Palmer and Inden differ on their views of the village s downtown master plan.
That plan calls for an extension of Elm Grove Road, improvements to Underwood Creek, added redevelopment to the Reinder’s property and Elm Grove Park and Shop and creating more parking and public spaces, among many other updates.
A nun is seen with delegates during a breakout session Sept. 21, 2018, at the Fifth National Encuentro in Grapevine, Texas. Chicago-based Catholic Extension plans to help 1,000 women religious with grants in memory of a group of sisters who died in late December 2020 from complications of COVID-19 in Elm Grove, Wis. (CNS/Tyler Orsburn)
Chicago-based Catholic Extension plans to help 1,000 women religious with grants in memory of a group of sisters who died in late December of COVID-19 in Elm Grove, Wisconsin.
The grants, $1,000 per sister, have been established in the name of a group of School Sisters of Notre Dame, most of whom had been teachers and who died from complications of COVID-19 as the virus spread in the facility that cared for them.
When the COVID-19 pandemic began a year ago, I read
The book tells how, when the number of infections exploded in Philadelphia, the first major city in the United States hit by the deadly flu, 2,000 nuns from all over the country came to nurse the sick. Hospitals were overwhelmed, so sisters set up clinics anywhere there was space. As a result, 23 of them died from their close contact with the infected.
It occurred to me that hundreds of women religious must have died in that terrible outbreak. There would have been deaths not just among those caring for the sick, but in convents across the country. After all, an estimated 50 million people died worldwide from what became known as Spanish flu, and an estimated 675,000 of those deaths were in the United States.