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March 31, 2013
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City hosts egg scramble, Easter parade JILL MCLAUGHLIN RECORD STAFF WRITER
JILL MCLAUGHLIN RECORD STAFF WRITER
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Joshua Woody collected as many eggs as his 4year-old hands could grab, until his basket toppled over. Luckily for him, an older boy saved his day just as other children tried to grab the colorful plastic orbs, filled with possible prizes. “One bigger kid stood up for him and said, ‘No these are his eggs!,” said his grandmother Judy Daniel. The mad dash for prizefilled goodies at the annual Easter Egg Hunt at the Spring River Park and Zoo Saturday began with police and fire sirens at exactly 10 a.m. and finished not more than a minute later See EGGS, Page A3
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Youngsters race towards their prizes during the Easter Egg Hunt at the Spring River Park and Zoo, Saturday morning.
MainStreet Roswell of fered a step back in time Saturday as children dressed in bright Easter dresses and straw hats raced around carrying eggs on spoons and jumped to the finish line in gunnysacks on the courthouse lawn. “Everybody had a good time,” said Peggy Seskey, president of MainStreet Roswell. “There were no losers.” Brightly-colored Easter bonnets sheltered the faces of the many folks who strolled through the pushing grounds strollers, decorated carts and costumed pets. See PARADE, Page A3
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Celebrants young and old participate in the MainStreet Roswell 2013 Easter Parade at the Chaves County Courthouse, Saturday.
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Jaxon and Phoebe settle in their basket for the MainStreet Roswell 2013 Easter Parade at the Chaves County Courthouse, Saturday.
Shroud of Turin goes on display amid new research
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Shroud of Turin went on display for a special TV appearance Saturday amid new research disputing claims it’s a medieval fake and purporting to date the linen some say was Jesus’ burial cloth to around the time of his death. Pope Francis sent a special video message to the event in Turin’s cathedral, but made no claim that the image on the shroud of a man with wounds similar to those suffered by Christ was really that of Jesus. He called the cloth an “icon,” not a relic — an important distinction. “This image, impressed
upon the cloth, speaks to our heart and moves us to climb the hill of Calvary, to look upon the wood of the Cross, and to immerse ourselves in the eloquent silence of love,” he said. “This disfigured face resembles all those faces of men and women marred by a life which does not respect their dignity, by war and violence which af flict the weakest,” he said. “And yet, at the same time, the face in the Shroud conveys a great peace; this tortured body expresses a sovereign majesty.” Many experts stand by carbon-dating of scraps of
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The Vatican has tiptoed around just what the cloth is, calling it a power ful symbol of Christ’s suffering while making no claim to its authenticity.
The 14-foot-long, 3.5foot-wide cloth is kept in a bulletproof, climate-controlled case in Turin’s cathedral, but is only rarely See SHROUD, Page A3
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the cloth that date it to the 13th or 14th century. However, some have suggested the dating results might have been skewed by contamination and have called for a larger sample to be analyzed.
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The newly opened treat store Deliciously Irresistible opened to a flash mob dancing the “Harlem Shake” Friday.
Local partners and sweet treat makers opened their new shop with a dance party Friday evening at the Roswell Mall. Shoppers jumped into to join a flash mob at Deliciously Irresistible. At the direction of DJ Louis Najar, they danced a “Harlem Shake,” a YouTube dance craze that lasts about 40 seconds. It starts when one person
begins dancing unnoticed by the others, followed by the rest of the group who join in dancing and shaking around the store. Hometown entrepreneurs Mandi Madrid and Becca Pardo create and sell fruit arrangements, gourmet cupcakes, candies, cakes and other edible arrangements. The house specialty is cheesecake-filled strawberries. Friday evening was a special opening. The store will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. General manager of Roswell Mall Anjy Cooper joined the festivities Friday. “We’re really excited to have them here,” Cooper said. The first day went well, said Madrid and Pardo. “The community really came out and supported us,” Madrid said. “We let everybody know.” “We’re pretty happy here,” Pardo said. “Hopefully, though, we’re not going to be here long before we can expand.”
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Faithful pass by the Shroud of Turin that went on display for a special TV appearance Saturday.
Pope Francis presides over trimmed Easter Vigil service
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis celebrated a trimmed back Easter Vigil service Saturday after having reached out to Muslims and women during a Holy Week in which he began to put his mark on the Catholic Church. Francis processed into a darkened and silent St. Peter’s Basilica at the start of the service, in which the faithful recall the period between Christ’s crucifixion on Good Friday and resurrection on Easter Sunday. One of the most dramatic moments of the Easter Vigil service that usually follows — when the pope would share the light of his candle See POPE, Page A3
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Pope Francis leads Easter vigil service in St. Peter's Basilica, Saturday.
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