The Spokesman-Review Newspaper
The Spokesman-Review Newspaper The Spokesman-Review
Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883
Current Temperature
52°F
Current Conditions
Few clouds
View complete weather report
Subscribe now

People: Royal Monaco twins baptized in ceremony

Prince Albert II of Monaco poses with his sister Princess Caroline of Hanover, as she protects Princess Gabriella from the sun, as his wife, Princess Charlene, holds Prince Jacques after their baptism ceremony in the Cathedral of Monaco on Sunday. (Associated Press)
From Wire Reports

Monaco has welcomed with joy the baptism of the principality’s five-month-old royal baby twins.

Crowds lined the streets Sunday to catch a glimpse of Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella, who looked serene in their white christening gowns. Prince Albert, 57, and Princess Charlene, 37, beamed in the bright May sunshine, holding their children to cheers from the crowds.

The twins were born December 10 a couple of minutes apart and are the first and second in line to the throne.

Justin Osmond runs for hearing fund

Marie Osmond cheered with others as a nephew completed a 250-mile, eight-day run in southern Utah to raise money and awareness for the hearing impaired.

She flew in from Las Vegas, where she performs with brother Donny, to hug Justin Osmond as he finished the run Saturday in St. George.

The singer said she decided to show up after she felt her late mother, Olive Osmond, saying on Friday night, “Get yourself off down there and give him a hug for me,” KSL reported.

Her mother’s mission was to help the hearing impaired, she said. Her mother died in 2004.

“I just felt really impressed that my mom would want me to be here to say, ‘You’re amazing.’ She loved you so much,” Marie Osmond told her nephew, according to the Spectrum newspaper of St. George.

“My two oldest brothers are deaf, and to bring awareness to the deaf community is something that my mother would be so proud of,” she added.

Justin Osmond, who was diagnosed with a 90 percent hearing loss as a young child, launched the Olive Osmond Hearing Fund in honor of his grandmother.

The 38-year-old son of Osmond Brothers founding member Merrill Osmond, he staged the run from his hometown of Ephraim to raise money for new hearing aids for 25 hearing-impaired children in Utah.

“Two hundred and fifty miles, 25 kids, mission accomplished!” Osmond told a crowd after finishing the run.

Comedian Mort Sahl is 88. Rock singer Eric Burdon (The Animals; War) is 74. Actress Frances Fisher is 63. Actor Tim Blake Nelson is 51. Actor-singer Jonathan Jackson is 33.