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Love in bloom, but not the weather
Couples may have chosen to stay home and watch movies on Valentine's Day, but some local businesses kept their doors open. Vivien Martin drove from her home in West Taghkanic, Columbia County to her Candy Bouquet shop in Red Hook Wednesday morning. "I figured it would be worth it if I got even one customer," she said. However, two hours after her dangerous drive, no one had come into her shop, on what should have been one of Martin's busiest days. "I have really beautiful bouquets but if people don't come in, they don't see them," she said. Florist shops rearranged deliveries, pushing them up a day, but still saw some foot traffic Wednesday. Some restaurants closed while others remained open only to see reservations canceled. Carole Cappillino's store, The Lollipop Tree Flower Shop on Lincoln Avenue in the City of Poughkeepsie, was busy.
French Resistance Hero Lucie Aubrac Dies
Lucie Aubrac, a hero of the French Resistance whose dramatic life story became a hit film, has died. She was 94. Aubrac, whose maiden name was Lucie Bernard, died Wednesday at a hospital in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux where she had spent the last two months, said her daughter, Catherine Vallade.Born on June 29, 1912, in the eastern city of Macon, Aubrac was working as a history and geography teacher when she and her husband, engineer Raymond Samuel, helped create the Resistance network known as Liberation-Sud, or Liberation-South.Liberation-Sud was one of the first networks set up by the Resistance, a French movement to continue warfare against Germany after France's 1940 defeat in World War II. It linked civilians and armed bands of partisans working secretly to oppose the Nazi occupation of France.The couple adopted the nom de guerre Aubrac in the Resistance.In 1943, Aubrac helped orchestrate her husband's escape from a Lyon prison after his arrest.
Obituaries | Lucie Aubrac
Lucie Aubrac, a hero of the French Resistance who helped free her husband from the Gestapo and whose dramatic life story became a hit film, has died. She was 94. Aubrac, whose maiden name was Lucie Bernard, died Wednesday in a hospital in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, where she had spent the last two months, said her daughter, Catherine Vallade. President Jacques Chirac called Aubrac an "emblematic figure," saying "a light of the Resistance has gone out." "Today, France loses a woman of honor, tenacity and commitment whose devotion to the service of her country and its most noble causes never wavered," Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said. Born June 29, 1912, in the eastern city of Macon, Aubrac was a history and geography teacher when she and her husband, engineer Raymond Samuel, helped create Liberation-Sud, or Liberation-South.
Mark Your Calendar
Friday March 16 Registration for sports leagues: Registration has begun at Indian Boundary YMCA, 711 59th St. in Downers Grove, for the Youth Super Sports spring season. Leagues are forming in soccer, football and mini-basketball for boys and girls ages of 4 to 12. Soccer and football run April 14 to June 2. Mini-basketball for kindergarten through second grade runs from April 10 to May 30. Call 630-929-2414. Basketball tournament openings: Registration has begun at Indian Boundary YMCA, 711 59th St., Downers Grove, for the Youth Super Sports March Madness tournament. Teams are forming for 3-on-3 basketball for boys and girls ages 8 to 13. The tournament is March 31. Call 630-929-2414. Saturday March 17 Peace rally, march and vigil: Citizens from across the DuPage County and the western suburbs will be rallying for an end to the war in Iraq at an event at 2:30 p.m.
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