Out of Haiti comes relief and sorrow

Each little bit of good news coming out of Haiti is tempered by

sorrow, according to Utahns scrambling to contact loved ones in the

earthquake zone.

Yes, a relative

told Farnel Pierre-Louis of Salt Lake, we survived. But we're homeless. We will die from disease or starvation if help doesn't get here soon,

says another.

We lost our home,

Alda Honore's mom told her when the Taylorsville woman got through to

her native land. We have nothing. And we are hungry.

Frantic Utahns are also beginning to put names on the dead.

Dr.

Jeff Randle, who founded the charitable rehabilitation organization

Healing Hands for Haiti, is trying not to cry as he gets ready to board

a plane that will have him on the ground in Port-au-Prince early

Monday, unless the schedule changes. He's part of a humanitarian

mission from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But his

excitement at doing something tangible to help has been dampened by

word that a very good friend died from injuries she received in the

earthquake.

Annia St. Louis was a

recent medical school graduate whose husband, Jony, worked in the

Healing Hands clinic. She was the proud mother of a 7-month-old and a

4-year-old. Her injuries were not at first believed life-threatening.

Word reached Randle Saturday morning that the woman, an LDS convert who

visited Salt Lake a couple of years ago, died.

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