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By Laura TerrellClick here for updates on this story BEAVERDALE, Iowa KCCI Every year Dale Marks puts up a massive Christmas light display at his Beaverdal nike air force e home to raise mon air max 1 ey for the Food Bank of Iowa. It part of a neighborhood tradition for the people who live along Ashby Avenue in Des Moines.We made over 28,000 meals in cash for the food bank last year, and that just an amazing feat, said Dale Marks.This year Marks is too weak to put up his own lights. He spent more than three weeks in the hospit adidas samba adidas al after he says COVID-19 caused him to suffer two strokes and a heart attack. It a miracle that I am alive, said Marks. Still determined to carry on the Christmas light tradition to feed the hungry, Marks told his wife Julie they needed to hire someone to put up their lights this year.I laid in the hospital for 28 days not knowing if I was going to survive, and I knew, I knew, that I need to carry on if I at all could. If at all possible, if I have a last breath there is something that God has for me to do to help others, said Marks.Bob Coffey, a Des Moines businessman, heard Marks ; story from a friend and wanted to help. So Coffey brought a group of volunteers to Marks ; home to install thousands of lights. It makes me feel good that we can do it for him, but it makes me feel sad that he in that condition because this is what he wants to do, said Coffey.M Vxyx Witness recalls last minutes leading to Robredo plane crash
This image of the supposed victims of massacre. AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video DAMASCUS, Syria mdash; Syriarsquo foreign ministry spokesman has denied government troops were behind an attack on a string of villages that left more than 90 people d owala ca ead.Fridayrsquo assault on Houla, an area northwest of the central city of Homs, was one of the bloodiest single events in Syriarsquo 15-month-old uprising.Article continues after this advertisement Jihad Makdissi told reporters in Damascus at a Sunday news conference that Syria is being subjected to a tsunami of lies blaming the government. He said anti-government gunmen carried the attack.FEATURED STORIESNEWSINFOPCSO: Still no takers of Ultralotto 6/58, Superlotto 6/49 jackpotsNEWSINFODA will start selling rice at P20 per kilo ndash; Tiu LaurelNEWSINFOViral video of drunk cop gets QCPD chief firedWe categoricall yeezy usa y deny the responsibility of government forces for the massacre, Makdissi said.Makdissi says a committee was sent to investigate the case and results shoul owala website d be out within three days.He added that UN envoy Kofi Annan will be in Syria on Monday.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. APrsquo earlier story is below.Article continues after this advertisement BEIRUT AP ndash; Government troops shelled residential areas in central Syria on Sunday, activists said, two days after the bombardment of a string of villages in the same regio |