Middle Schooler Rarity Cournoyer stood at the heart of the Red Cloud Indian School campus at Pine Ridge, S.D., and chanted a prayer song firmly and solemnly in the Lakota language — in a place where past generations of students were punished for speaking their mother tongue.
Robert Witmer, 93, a mission worker for 28 years in France who helped plant a church in Paris and create opportunities for people with disabilities, died Dec. 2 in Cambridge, Ont.
A jar on a shelf in Sumitra Chepang’s kitchen has a secret identity. By all appearances, it is just a jar of mild-mannered flour. But under the lid is something spectacular — super flour!
