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A shallow grave just for ‘you’

June 29, 2010 | Author:

By Michael Breckenridge

The Northwest Renaissance Festival in Nine Mile Falls, Wash., celebrating its 16th annual this year, seems like a strange place to find a cemetery, yet that is exactly what awaits visitors, nestled right next to an actual working Catholic church that, while beautiful inside in its medieval simplicity, looks more like a tent revival gone permanent from the outside.

The church is run by Fr. Patrick McReynolds, a Catholic priest from Spokane who built the rustic Middle Ages style one-room chapel himself. The friar has taught classes on the Roman Republic, philosophers, and the collapse of civilizations and also conducts services at the Renaissance Fantasy Faire in Gig Harbor, Wash., in the late summer. Traditional Mass and the Lord’s Supper are offered in Latin or English during the run of the Northwest Renaissance Festival Saturdays just after closing and by arrangement at other times. Fr. McReynolds participates in the festival pageant and can be seen on the grounds in plum and cream-colored priestly Renaissance garb.

The graves are fictitious, of course. No one is buried on the grounds of the ren fair – are they?

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Man killed at Spokane county cemetery

June 18, 2010 | Author:

By Sgt. Dave Reagan

A 44-year-old employee at Greenwood Memorial Terrace, 211 N. Government Way, died early Friday when the lawn tractor he was operating dropped off an eight-to-ten foot embankment and landed on top of him.

Co-workers found the worker trapped beneath the machine about 7:20 a.m. Friday and said he appeared to be breathing at that time.  However, fire department employees pronounced him dead of apparent head injuries shortly after they arrived at the scene.

The worker had been mowing grass at the cemetery in an upper terrace area designated “hand mow only,” Deputy Mike Beckman reported.

The deputy said the machine the victim was operating has hand levers for steering, rather than a steering wheel.  He said it appeared the machine bounced after hitting a depression.  A wheel may have lost traction sending the mower over the embankment.

Described by employees as a “good worker,” the victim had been kept on at the cemetery after graduating from a work release program.

The name of the victim will be released by the Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Office.

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