EL RODEO, Guatemala (AP) — Rescuers used heavy machinery and shovels found the bodies of several more victims of an eruption at Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire on Monday, and rescuers pulled 10 people still alive from ash drifts and mud flows. The official death toll stood at 25 but Associated Press journalists saw more burned […]
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Military note: Lewiston woman serving in Guatemala
Marc DeNofio of Team Rubicon interviews U.S. Navy Lt. Sarah Steenburn of Lewiston about the daily operations of the medical site at the Izabal Sports Complex in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, during Continuing Promise 2018. U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet has deployed a force to execute Continuing Promise to conduct civil-military operations, including humanitarian assistance, […]
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Gregory W. Gatchell
PERU — Gregory Wayne Gatchell, 51, died Friday, Aug. 11, at his residence on Main Street in Peru. He was born in Norway on March 25, 1966, the son of Leslie W. Gatchell and Geraldine A. Hoyle, and graduated from Rumford High School, Class of 1984, and from CMVTI, Class of 1986. He worked as […]
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UMF students spend school break helping others in Guatemala
FARMINGTON — Seven UMF students just returned from a life-changing experience at Safe Passage, a school and Maine-based non-profit charitable organization built on the edges of the Guatemala City Garbage Dump in the Republic of Guatemala in Central America. The UMF students — members of the UMF Rotaract Club — along with two Mt. Blue […]
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Mother-daughter team tackles water problem in Guatemalan village
Marina MacKinnon, now 16, watched the young schoolchildren in Tierra Colorada Alta, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, line up and brush their teeth with unfiltered water during a visit to the country last year. Just days before, she had witnessed medical volunteers give the children and their families antibiotics to treat intestinal worms and parasites from unclean water that […]