Articles > Newspapers > U.S. Newspapers, Local Markets N-S > Sun Publications (IL) articles > April-June 1999 > Friday, May 28

Article: LITTLETON CROSSES TO BE DISPLAYED IN NAPERVILLE

Article from:
Sun Publications (IL)
Article date:
May 28, 1999
Copyright

The 13 crosses that Aurora carpenter Greg Zanis built to honor the students and teacher killed in Littleton, Colo. will be displayed from noon to 11 p.m. Saturday, June 5, at the Naperville Riverwalk Pavillion near Jackson Avenue and Webster Street. This will be the only time the crosses will be displayed in Illinois, Zanis said.

More than 125,000 people visited the site where the crosses were displayed in Littleton, and the wooden memorials contain messages inscribed by visitors.

Zanis and guest speakers will attend the June 5 showing to discuss issues such as prayer in public schools.

On Wednesday, Zanis left his home near Aurora and headed once again to Littleton.

His pickup truck was ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:

Article: BRIEFING: LITTLETON CROSS, FLOWERS MARK SITE OF ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  May 17, 2003 ;     312 words ...Family members and friends of a Littleton teen killed when his car slammed into a traffic control box and Safeway store placed a cross and flowers at the site Friday. Travis Newsome, 17, was driving a 2000 Blue Ford Taurus east on Ken Caryl Avenue ...

Article: Littleton's Crosses Multiply; Gunmen Left Out Of ...
The Washington Post;  May 6, 1999 ;     480 words ... ... of six-foot crosses -- 26 in all ... Neither set bears a cross for the two gunmen ... Zanis built 15 crosses in his Aurora ... garage, drove to Littleton and put them ... phone calls from Littleton residents, Zanis ... to return the crosses, choosing to ... put up the 14th cross after ...

Article: Auroran bears his crosses to Littleton [ ] ...
Courier-News (Elgin, IL);  April 20, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... life-size wooden crosses he built last April ... for "the people of Littleton and for a nation that ... greetings awaited the cross builder and carpenter ... Christian Center in Littleton to erect his crosses overnight, he half ...

Article: CROSSES BACK IN LITTLETON
Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);  April 21, 2000 ;     700+ words ...LITTLETON, Colo ... foot wooden crosses lay on several ... gazing at the cross bearing the ... Zanis and his crosses -- tour the ... joined Zanis in Littleton this week ... raising his crosses yet again ... encircle each cross and pray ...

Article: Crosses will be re-erected in Littleton
Charleston Daily Mail;  May 4, 1999 ;     437 words ... ... has built more than 200 crosses and raised them around ... built the 15 6- foot crosses, loaded them into his ... delivered them to a hill in Littleton. What Zanis didn't ... that would not allow crosses for them to stand on ... he feels like that (a cross) is a symbol of the ...

Article: CROSSES UP AGAIN, DOWN AGAIN | RETURN TO LITTLETON: ...
Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);  May 6, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... 75-pound crosses two at a time ... hands on each cross praying in ... residents of Littleton, of Colorado ... donations for his crosses, preferring ... request for a cross as payment ... Putting up a cross is a carpenter ... he said. Littleton resident Arlene ... full of the crosses, ...

Article: CROSSES TO BEAR HUG | ZANIS RETURNS TO LITTLETON
Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);  April 20, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Zanis an escort to Littleton. More bikers joined ... for "the people of Littleton and for a nation that ... greetings awaited the cross builder and carpenter ... Christian Center in Littleton to erect his crosses overnight, he half ...

Article: Carpenter cross builder regrets strife he caused in ...
Courier-News (Elgin, IL);  May 4, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Carpenter cross builder regrets ... he caused in Littleton Parent lashes ... Auroran places crosses for youth killers ... leave each of the crosses with family members ... planned He and Littleton park district ... one of their crosses said, `I ... victims. His first cross came at the ...

 
 
Newsweek Harper's Magazine The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Crain's Chicago Business PRNewswire Pediatric News The Nation Advertising Age The Economist (US) A FREE trial gives you access to over 80 million articles! Access over 6,500 publications with a FREE trial!

Find articles, research, and archives