Frostic was born in Sanilac County's Sandusky in 1906. She had polio when she was 9 months old. As a result, she had a permanent slight limp and her speech was slurred. About five gallons of the cereal were dumped from a gas station's pumping dock at dawn Thursday, said Lee Foresman of the U.S. Coast Guard's Nation Strike Force out of North Carolina. Within half an hour, a few Cheerios clung to the shoreline and some became breakfast for ducks, but most were carried by the current into Lake Huron.
Scientists say the crunchy meal is useful to prepare for an oil spill.
Cheerios, like oil, are lighter than water. But teaching spill containment procedures without the visual aid is harder, he added. The fight over renovations at St. Francis Xavier's Church is an internal church dispute, and the circuit court has no authority in the matter. So say church officials in a written response to a lawsuit filed last month by parishioners. Granting their request for a court order temporarily blocking renovations would require the court to rule on canons of the Roman Catholic Church, he said.