The wedding will take place on Saturday, February 16 in McIntosh.
About Dorothy Granada ... Dorothy is a nurse from Texas who has spent the last 11 years in the rustic and remote village of Mulukuku in the Nicaraguan countryside and whose women's medical clinic was shut down by order of the president of the country. She will be visiting on December 10th to the 13th. Without warning, one year ago, on Dec. 8th, her 70th birthday, the government sent 14 heavily armed policemen to apprehend and deport her from the country. She happened to be in the capital city of Managua and was warned and went into hiding for several months, under the protection of the people whose clinic she administered.
After a long series of demonstrations in the streets of Mulukuku and the capital, Managua, and after going through countless investigations by more than five federal agencies, and after winning her case in several levels of the judicial system in Nicaragua, Dorothy emerged from clandestinity and continued to provide primary health care to a region of 30,000 people that had no other source of care. But when she went to apply for her new visa on September 1st, she was informed that she could not even apply. Her heroic efforts and those of her Nicaraguan compatriots struggling under a corrupt and unfeeling government are portrayed in a video (20 minutes long) that I have in my possession.
Dorothy is scheduled to be here on her 71th birthday, and I would like to have her message of peace with justice for the Nicaraguan people get as wide a hearing as possible
Editors note: Ms Granada will be speaking at the Civic Media Center at 7:00 p.m., December 12th and on the 13th we will have our covered dish supper in her honor at the Chapel of the Incarnation Episcopal University Center, 1522 W. University Avenue. After dinner we will be privileged to hear her inspiring story.