Dream Big Walk honors Brancheau
MERRILLVILLE — When Nancy Teutemachen of Cedar Lake learned last year that the daughter of her friend, Marion LoVerde, had died, she grieved with LoVerde and helped celebrate her daughter’s life.
On Sunday, Teutemachen, her Yorkie, Poo, mother and sisters joined about 280 others at Hidden Lake Park to walk in memory of LoVerde’s daughter, Dawn Brancheau, a former Cedar Lake resident and a SeaWorld trainer who was killed by a whale at the Orlando theme park. They also walked to raise money for causes that were dear to Brancheau.
Called the Dream Big Walk, it was one of several events and programs put on by the not-for-profit Dawn Brancheau Foundation, consisting of family members.
The upbeat event had photos of a smiling Brancheau lining the one-mile walking path and on a stage where a band entertained. Kids played soccer, and walkers played with their dogs, which were welcome.
Kathy Dollard drove down from her home in Downers Grove, Ill., with her German shepherd mix, Riley, to show her support for the family.
Greek cartoonists draw the crisis
Cartoonists have portrayed the Greek economy as the Titanic, that eternal symbol of disaster; Greek leaders as buffoons shielded from mobs by robotic police with gas masks and truncheons; and ordinary Greeks as beggars, at the mercy of fat cats in top hats who represent international creditors.
"Bad times are good times for cartoonists," said Maria Tzaboura, a cartoonist for the Greek newspaper Proto Thema who sees humor as a form of protest and "less is more" as a guide for her simply drawn victims of circumstance, their limbs scattered about like a dismembered children's doll.
Greece's economic upheaval affects almost everyone, consuming commentators, cartoonists among them, who channel a nation's confusion and anger over slashed wages and benefits, higher taxes, goalpost-shifting politicians and the austere dictates of foreign creditors worried about their own portfolios.
Greek cartoonists eviscerate every conceivable culprit with the precision of a surgeon's scalpel or, better said, an assassin's dagger. Sometimes, they unleash happy-go-lucky blasts of sarcasm that yank a grin or snigger.
The Benaki Museum in Athens hosted an exhibition of crisis cartoons by 24 members of the nonprofit association, which sold T-shirts with cartoons to cover costs. The show ended early this month. The economic crisis that threatens to go global offers a
