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CBS' weekending Assignment America focused on St Patrick's Day last Monday. A USMC platoon was treated to a weekend in Boston and a spot in the city's by Maureen O'Hare, the mother of a fallen comrade. Steve Hartman told us that O'Hare paid for the trip with the $20,000 bereavement benefit the Pentagon paid her when her 20-year-old son Walter was killed in Iraq…a quilting bee at the Central Christian Church in Henderson Nev makes prayer blankets--quilts inscribed with Biblical verses--to comfort cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. ABC anchor Charles Gibson made the Piecemakers his network's Persons of the Week. The bee has made 800 so far, "the hardest quilts they make are the smallest quilts they make because those are for the children fighting cancer"…NBC invited Maria Celeste of its sibling network Telemundo to file its Making a Difference weekender. Celeste introduced as to Pachico Mayoral, a Baja California fisherman turned environmentalist. Mayoral blocked the construction of a salt extraction facility in order to preserve the spring feeding grounds of the gray whale in the San Ignacio lagoon. The whales may be protected in Baja but fewer arrive each year and those that do are thinner than in days past: "The temperature of the water in the Arctic where the whales feed is warmer and the food they depend on is scarce."
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