By Dan DeWitt, Times Columnist
Thursday, December 30, 2010
ROGERS’ CHRISTMAS HOUSE: The final auction for the last items at Rogers’ Christmas House Village in May left behind only houses in need of demolition or a lot of care.
Just because I kind of like the idea of hope around this time of year, I will start and finish this, my annual year-end update of a few selected columns, with good news.
Good news is better when it's unexpected, and good news is usually unexpected, or at least rare, in Haiti. I went there looking for some glimmer of it in September, when I wrote about the foundation-laying ceremony for a hospital in the Central Plateau town of Mirebalais.
The hospital is being built by Partners in Health, which was founded by 1978 Hernando High grad Paul Farmer. In the wreckage that remained eight months after January's catastrophic ...
