Thereâs something about hugging a golden retriever. The experience can border on the spiritual.
Two Janesville residents witnessed the effect firsthand in Surfside, Florida, this month when they and a dog named Mary comforted people in pain over the collapse of a high-rise condominium that killed 98.
Tom and Dianne Moore are among 11 handlers from St. Paulâs Lutheran Church trained to take Mary to places of tragedy, through a national program run by Lutheran Church Charities.
Since the program began locally in 2018, Mary has comforted people at the site of a childâs drowning on the Rock River, a mass shooting near Carthage College, the recent unexpected death of a Darien-Delavan high school student, the Molson-Coors shooting in Milwaukee in February and the massive chemical plant fire in Roscoe, Illinois, not to mention at funerals, nursing homes, schools and the Rock County Jail.
One more victim identified in Surfside collapse Memorial for lost loved ones growing
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