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89 minutes
Monday, January 25, 2016
of joy
Couple cherishes
short time with
newborn son
We read to him,
prayed with him.
We sang Happy
Birthday to him.
We baptized him.
By Diana Lasko
dlasko@heraldstandard.com
Daniel John Dices birth card from Uniontown Hospital rests on the
dresser of his nursery, with his feeding preference unchecked.
Dice of Uniontown. By
10:07a.m., Daniel was
gone, succumbing to a fatal
form of dwarfism known as
thanatophoric dysplasia.
The couple, high school
sweethearts and married
for nearly eight years,
was so excited when, after
seeking fertility treatment,
they discovered in March
they were expecting their
first child.
Initially everything
looked good, said Nicole.
I started keeping a journal
from the beginning of my
pregnancy up until today. I
keep it for him.
It was during Nicoles
20-week sonogram at
her obstetricians office
that abnormalities were
discovered.
That day they noticed
his limbs were short and
there was fluid on his brain.
We were told this could be
a form of dwarfism and the
fluid could mean the child
may have disabilities,
Nicole said.
As a special education
teacher herself and Bill
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Passers-by help push a stuck car out of the snow as another motorist
tows it out in Richmond, Va., Saturday. A winter storm hit the East
Coast, creating a blizzard with brutally high winds, dangerous inland
flooding and white-out conditions.
unsuccessful.
The borough has a lot
of frustration over this
BELLE VERNON Steps piece of property because
are being taken to demolish
they had opposed the sale,
a dilapidated house in Belle
said Krisha Dimascio, the
Vernon that officials say
borough solicitor.
is so far gone, they had to
Dimascio said neighbors
evacuate the rental property thought they detected the
next door fearing it would be porch moving at 201 Wood
damaged by the collapsing
St. last spring and the borstructure.
oughs engineer verified
Mayor Gerald Jackson
that the building had indeed
said at the January council
shifted. The owner of the
meeting this past week that
property has not responded
he had been trying to contact to letters sent by the
the county for financial asborough.
sistance to tear down the
Building, Page A3
dangerous structure, but was
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Comics C6
Law & OrderA6
Obituaries C2
OpinionA4-5
Puzzles C4
SportsB1-4
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Obituaries
Buttermore, Donald O. Jr., Uniontown
Cocciolone, Patty Jo (Cepaitis), Monessen
Koziel, John Michael Sr., New Eagle
Layman, Lloyd E., Upper Middletown
Margie, Richard Andrew, Fayette City
Musiolowski, Rose Marie (Rosso), Uniontown
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