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“All who knew Billy will remember his quick smile, warm personality, dance moves, sense of humor, unending optimism, and his uncanny ability to make any ordinary day extraordinary,” said his wife.
“If you were ever having a bad day, you could stop by Billy’s desk for a chat and by the time you left, whatever was bothering you just didn’t seem to matter as much anymore — that was Billy,” said Mr. Reed.
Mr. Melluish was a communicant of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, where a funeral Mass was offered Monday.
A Mass of Christian burial will be offered at noon on Friday, Oct. 12, at St. Monica Roman Catholic Church in Kalamazoo.
In addition to his wife and his parents, he is survived by a son, Emmett J. Melluish, 8; two daughters, Helena P. Melluish, 5, and Vivienne R. Melluish, 1; a brother, James Melluish of Marshall, Mich.; four sisters, Jenny Cummings of Downers Grove, Ill., Jackie Harley of Colorado Springs, Colo., Sarah Sanford of Bonny ...
and all the peoples of the Commonwealth.
of friendship, hope and trust.
who reigns as servant of all. Amen.
HOPE, the national mission movement, is encouraging churches to take a lead in their communities so that Big Jubilee Lunches start with the Diamond Jubilee Grace, which can be downloaded from the HOPE website.
Roy Crowne, HOPE’s Executive Director, said: "The Diamond Jubilee gives everyone a great opportunity to show our gratitude to God for the good gifts we have in life, as well as saying thanks to the Queen for her 60 years of service. Let’s celebrate and let’s use this opportunity to pray together saying this special Dia...
"Grace is much more than a signal that it's time to eat," according to the Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu. He said: "Grace is an attitude to the whole of life, and its meaning is 'gift'. We need to respond to the daily challenge to be ambassadors of the Grace and love of God, wherever we may be, encouraging the Chu...
A violent storm has destroyed two ancient pillars at the entryways to the Taj Mahal, an official said April 12, underscoring the fragility of the centuries-old marble monument to love.
The four-meter high sandstone minarets topped by ornate spires were left in chunks after being felled by strong winds late April 11.
"Two decorative pillars collapsed last night amid high-velocity winds. One of the pillars stood at the royal gate, and the other at the southern gate," an official from the Archaeological Survey of India said.
None of the four white marble minarets surrounding the Taj, or the spectacular shimmering mausoleum itself, were damaged in the storm, authorities said.
Tourists often get their first glimpse of the Taj, a UNESCO world heritage site, through the royal gate, a grand fortress-like entrance made largely of red sandstone. It was flanked by two imposing minarets before the storm brought one crashing down.
Footage showed the stone pillars lying in large broken pieces, the distinct spire still intact but separated cleanly from the shaft. Nobody was injured by the falling steeples, authorities said.
Mughal emperor Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal as a tomb for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal, who died giving birth in 1631.
The Taj, one of the world's most popular tourist attractions, is beset by problems from air pollution yellowing the marble to insects leaving green stains on its rear wall.
Efforts to restore its grandeur have dragged into a fourth year, with scaffolding marring the view for the 10,000-plus tourists that visit the 17th-century mausoleum every day.
Work is yet to begin on its main dome, with authorities concerned about how to proceed with handling the fragile centerpiece.
The Taj has attracted world leaders and royalty, including former US President Bill Clinton. Diana, the late British princess, was famously photographed alone on a marble seat there in 1992.
A PENSIONER is in serious condition in hospital after a vicious street assault in Cork.
The 73-year-old man was attacked as he was walking home through a car park in Macroom, Co Cork around 10pm last night.
The man suffered multiple injuries in the attack.
He was discovered a short time later by a passerby and the alarm was raised.
The man was rushed to Cork University Hospital (CUH) where he is now in a serious condition.
It is understood he suffered multiple injuries to his head and torso.
Gardaí arrested a man a short time after they began their investigation in the assault.
The man, who is in his 30s, was detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act and was taken to Bandon Garda Station for questioning.
He can be held for an initial period of 12 hours.
A section of the car park where the assault is believed to have occurred has been sealed off by Gardaí to allow for a full forensic examination of the scene.
Gardaí are also examining CCTV security camera footage from business premises in the area to determine if the movements of key individuals was caught on tape.
Detectives are keeping an open mind about the possible motive behind the attack on the elderly man.
Macroom Gardaí have appealed to anyone who may have heard or seen anything suspicious in the town overnight to contact them.
Is this how they want to start?
The Terrebonne Parish School Board is in the infant stages of a fight for a new schools tax. But the board might want to start over rather than using the tone it has set so far as a compass.
Arrogance, secrecy and contempt for the public are not the way to curry favor among the voters who will have to approve the new tax if it is to become law.
But those are what was on display last week.
The board voted to ask the state’s permission to put the new tax — nearly tripling its current property tax — on the ballot despite there being no description of the matter on its official meeting agenda.
Instead, there was a reference on the Tuesday meeting agenda to a committee meeting from Monday. That agenda contained a complete description of the tax.
While this is a practice the School Board has used in the past, a huge increase in the board’s tax is a matter of sincere public concern. As such, the board should encourage public input and debate, not limit it as it did by obscuring the topics to be voted on Tuesday.
This oversight could well have been inadvertent, but the message to the public is unfortunate at best.
A later defense of the process by board President L.P. Bordelon was little comfort to those who would like to see the public included at every turn.
“If someone wanted to see what that was, all they had to do is look at the committee agenda or go to the committee meeting,” Bordelon said.
While what the board did might be the bare minimum required to satisfy the state open-meetings laws, the message to the public is that the burden is on the people to find out what the board is doing. Why?
The board should eagerly encourage the informed participation of the public, a goal that is clearly defeated by its actions this week. To make matters worse, another board member criticized a member of the public who spoke in opposition to the tax hike and personally criticized the board members.
It can be difficult to deal with members of the public who are lobbing personal attacks in the midst of a political discussion, but the board has to take the high road. The public deserves that much.
There will be some back-and-forth between now and May 4, when the board is hoping to have the tax proposal on the ballot. During the process, the board stands the best chance of success by being open, forthcoming and encouraging to the public it serves.
If it continues on the path it seemed to embrace last week, the board members should not be surprised if the voters return their contempt with a defeat at the polls.
The first thing the board should do is to schedule the tax proposal for a real public hearing, one that is widely publicized and at which residents are encouraged to debate the merits of the tax.
Its members should also resolve to treat members of the public with the respect to which they are entitled.
Those two simple actions will put the board on much sounder footing going forward, no matter the eventual outcome of the tax election.
They were breathing a huge sigh of relief at North Dean on Saturday evening after Heath won 25-21 away to bottom side Pontefract on Saturday.
The faltering visitors had slipped to third from bottom of Yorkshire One but victory put them 10 points ahead of the relegation zone with three rounds of fixtures left.
Ex-Halifax RL ace Martin Moana and Imad Nazir were drafted into the team along with Eddie Cartwright and Ryan Hunter.
Nazir was quickly into the action with a huge clearance. Ian Downsborough put Heath on the attack but the ball was lost and Pontefract’s lightning wingman Jordan Gill ran almost the length of the field to score under the posts. Andy Dean’s kick made it 7–0 after 10 minutes.
From the re-start, Pontefract collected but gave away a penalty for crossing. Cartwright, goalkicker in the absence of Ezra Hinchliffe, sent the ball wide.
Heath were winning the scrums but had no answer to the Pontefract backs and centre Richard Dedicoat coasted in and the conversion left the visitors in trouble at 14-0 down.
It could have got worse - Pontefract broke again for what looked a certain score under the posts but the referee ruled a forward pass.
A good clearance from Dom Walsh put the visitors on the attack and Ryan Hunter took the lineout but Heath were offside.
Walsh then released Hamish Pratt and Dave Montgomery continued the move. When Pontefract were penalised Cartwright opened Heath’s account after 25 minutes.
Excellent scrum control and a pick up by No 8 Downsborough was followed by inter-play between Walsh and flanker Montgomery before the final pass went to Si Brown, who scored an unconverted try.
Heath were working hard now, led by captain Mark Puttick with props Chris Piper and Rondene Johnson in support, but the Pontefract defence held firm.
Pontefract kicked off down the hill in the second half. Eventually Downsborough and Olly Cook broke free. Heath controlled the next scrum and Downsborough picked up to score. A great conversion from Cartwright put Heath 15-14 up on 48 minutes.
Cartwright added a penalty and then made a try-saving tackle at the other end.
Nazir went off, prompting a major re-shuffle, and Pontefract regained the lead when a winger’s clever kick inside produced a converted try under the posts to make it 21–18 on the hour.
Downsborough stormed through but his pass to Montgomery was adjudged forward with the try-line beckoning.
Heath took control at the scrum and camped near the home line. Pontefract’s tackling was tremendous and Heath were denied until, from a scrum, Moana timed a pass to perfection for Montgomery to gallop through. Cartwright converted with seven minutes remaining.
Heath’s excellent ball retention denied Pontefract a chance to break out and Piper was one of several Heath players held up over the line late on.
A few years back, molecular geneticist Tom Maniatis was approached by a Harvard Business School student with a heart-wrenching story. The student, Avichai Kremer, then 29, had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), otherwise known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Kremer had an unusual idea: He wanted to advan...
Maniatis was both skeptical and intrigued. He had lost his sister to ALS, and was the longtime chair of the research and drug-development committees for the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association. “The prize model had never been tried in life sciences,” says Maniatis, who is now a professor and chair of the departme...
As it turns out, Maniatis says, ALS was a perfect model for a prize-based research approach. In 2006, Kremer’s idea became Prize4Life, a Cambridge, MA-based nonprofit that is now one of the most influential forces in ALS research. In addition to offering a $1 million research prize each year—-the latest of which will b...
Kremer and his classmates spent more than 1,000 hours talking to experts from the drug industry, academia, and nonprofits, before officially launching Prize4Life’s model. “What inspired me was the success of the Ansari X-Prize,” Kremer says in an e-mail, referring to the California organization that provides incentives...
Last year, Prize4Life awarded $1 million to Seward Rutkove, co-founder of Woburn, MA-based Convergence Medical Devices, for his work developing a biomarker that can measure the progression of ALS in patients. The tool is designed to make clinical trials of potential new drugs more efficient.
If anyone can spot a deal, it is Groupon's founders. They've invested in a startup that finds the best deals on products groups of people actually want.
Obaz (short for online bazaar) is backed by Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell's venture firm, Lightbank. It goes back and forth with merchants to negotiate the best deal on anything you post.
Post a product you'd like to buy, wait for 25 people to join the group, and let the haggling begin. Obaz contacts merchants and works with them to find a group discount. The bigger the group, the bigger the discount. Group members don't have to be in the same location either.
According to TechCrunch, the price negotiating site seems to work. So far it has gotten users $300 off a Nikon camera kit and 50% off a GMAT course.
Until the site has scale though, most deals probably won't reach the 25-person tipping point. Even then, there are no guarantees that you'll get an awesome discount.
If you want something quickly, Obaz may not be the best solution. If you're willing to wait for a steal, then it could be worthwhile.
Luna Rosa Gelato Cafe is now open on Main Street in Greenville; River Street Sweets will open next week and Le Peep Greenville has closed.
The new year is off to an eventful start with several restaurant openings and one closing.
After a much-anticipated re-opening, Luna Rosa Gelato Cafe has at last opened its doors at 123 S. Main St. The restaurant, which had been located at 9 W. Washington St. for 11 years, closed in October, in anticipation of the new location. The owners had hoped to open their new shop in November, but plans got delayed.
Nevertheless, you can now get a taste of Luna Rosa's homemade gelato and new, expanded menu of authentic Italian cuisine.
Luna Rosa now serves gelato, along with lunch and dinner Tuesday through Sunday. The restaurant is closed Mondays but expects to expand service to that day in the spring.
River Street Sweets • Savannah’s Candy Kitchen is slated to open Feb. 8 at 12 S. Main St. The confectionery shop specializes in handmade chocolates, homemade ice cream and gelato and its trademark World Famous Pralines®.
The local franchise is owned by Greenville native, Lisa Warriner, who fell in love with the store as a customer.
The grand opening will include a ribbon cutting along with giveaways an free samples beginning at 3:30 p.m.
A portion of the proceeds from all Chocolate Loggerhead® sales will be donated to the Caretta Research Project, a charity partner of River Street Sweets • Savannah’s Candy Kitchen.
For more information about River Street Sweets • Savannah’s Candy Kitchen, visit www.ilovepralines.com.
The owners of Le Peep Greenville has closed its 3935 Pelham Road store. David and Angela Crum, who opened the national breakfast-focused concept five years ago, announced the abrupt closing on Facebook Wednesday.
In the past 5 years, Le Peep Greenville has become not only a family business but a tight-knit community. Guests have become friends, friends have become staff, and staff have become family.
We have been blessed to have incredible support from our customers, but after a good run, our time has come for a new chapter in life. It is with deep sadness and regret that we announce our immediate closing, on Jan 31. We will sincerely miss welcoming each of you into our second home. We count the Le Peep family - cu...
Bill Clinton got an eyeful while Ariana Grande was performing at Aretha Franklin’s funeral, and the internet can’t get over it.
The former president had a front-row seat at the memorial service for the music legend, and video caught the moment he watched singer Ariana Grande pay tribute with a rendition of Franklin’s “Natural Woman.” As Hollywood Life noted, Clinton seemed to really, really enjoy the performance.
Clinton also said Aretha Franklin was the perfect singer to represent America, one who sang for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after his death and Barack Obama at his inauguration. She always had a heart for people and their struggles, Clinton said.
“She cared about broken people, people who were disappointed, people who didn’t succeed as much as she did,” said Clinton (via Yahoo News).
But many on the internet seemed to be fixated on the clip appearing to show Bill Clinton checking out Ariana Grande, noting that he seemed to be sizing up the tiny singer during her performance. Afterward, Bill snagged a photo with Ariana and her boyfriend, Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson.
This is not the first time the internet has trolled Bill Clinton for appearing to check out another woman. Last year, video seemed to capture him checking out Ivanka Trump at her father’s inauguration. In the video, Hillary Clinton appeared to catch her husband looking at the much younger woman and gave him a wicked si...

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