Rockland Week In Review Jan. 25, 2008
- January
- 25
On the bus on our way home. Here’s a glimpse of our day. Watch out for the full story, photos and video on LoHud.com.

Okay this is gonna be a quick entry. Laptop battery is low, it’s on the red. Plus, I learned from the last entry that I get nauseous typing on the bus. The movement along with the wafting smells of someone’s tuna sandwich was not good.
Anyway, onward! So about 10 a.m. we parked at a rest stop and lookie lookie who we bumped into — the other Rockland bus packed full of Albertus Magnus High School students, most of whom are part of the school’s Pro-Life Club. The young’ns had interesting things to say, but alas my battery life is now at 21 percent.

To sum up their sentiment, the teens were wearing sweatshirts that quoted Dr. Seuss’ “Horton Hears a Who!,” which read, “A person’s a person, no matter how small.”
Read more of this entry »By about 6 a.m. this morning the bus scheduled to leave from St. Joseph’s Church in Spring Valley for Washington, D.C., still hadn’t arrived yet; and the about 55 people heading to the nation’s capital to participate in the 35th annual March for Life rally, instead, attempted to keep warm, idling in their cars.
Today hundreds of people from the Lower Hudson Valley will join thousands others to protest the 35th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, the landmark 1973 case that legalized abortion.
As those departing from St. Joseph’s sipped their coffees and waited patiently in their cars that were parked against the backdrop of a frosty dawn sky, I talked to a few travelers to see what lured them out of their warm beds so early in the morning.

(The Donahues of Stony Point. One of about 55 families heading from St. Joseph’s Church in Spring Valley to the nation’s capital to participate in the March for Life. From left to right: Ryan, 16, Shannon, 4, Thomas, 6, and Chris, 40.)
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