![]() “Religion writing, as most of us in the field know, is a satisfying experience,” Dujardin told the Religion News Association when he received the lifetime achievement award. ![]() He returned to the paper and in 1977 became the religion reporter. Naval Reserve as an officer for three years. He began working at the Providence Journal after graduation in 1966 before joining the U.S. president, covered Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, and the Dalai Lama," an article posted to the association's website read.ĭujardin was born in 1944 in New York City and attended high school on Long Island and college at Fordham University. "Dujardin traveled widely to cover Pope John Paul II, interviewed a future pope and a past U.S. He won the association's lifetime achievement award in 2015 and served as its president in the 1990s. Dujardin was a longtime religion reporterĭujardin reported on religion for the Providence Journal newspaper in Rhode Island for 36 years, according to the Religion News Association. She's noticed that sometimes pedestrians start to cross when the bridge looks like it's down, but bridge operators need to do some final jostling. Nenn also noted that pedestrians should wait until the traffic gates reopen to begin crossing the bridge again. "Clearly, they're going have to examine what happened and make sure that there's additional safety precautions to ensure this doesn't happen again," she said. Nenn said she hasn't heard complaints about the bridge operators previously but welcomed an investigation into the safety measures in place. "In general, they seem to operate those bridges very efficiently and well," she said. "I've never heard of something like this happening." Nenn pointed out the thousands of annual bridge openings and said incidents like this, while tragic, are rare. ![]() The boost is in part due to a boat line that moved farther up the river last year, according to Urban Milwaukee. Five additional bridges now stand between the Milwaukee Boat Line and Lake Michigan, including Kilbourn. That's up 19% from 2017, according to DPW data.Īnd the Kilbourn Avenue Bridge has seen an 87% rise in openings since 2017. In 2021, the city recorded more than 27,700 openings at its movable bridges. "The lights, bells, and arms came down at each end of the bridge, however Richard was hard of hearing and it is thought that he didn't notice them," the report said. Rose-Marie made it all the way across the bridge to its east side, and Richard was still in the middle of the bridge when it began to rise, according to the medical examiner. Richard was looking at an iPad while walking, the report said. Just after noon Monday, Richard Charles Dujardin, a former religion reporter who lived in Providence, Rhode Island, was crossing the Kilbourn Avenue Bridge over the Milwaukee River with his wife, Rose-Marie, according to a report from the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office. ![]() A 77-year-old Rhode Island man was vacationing in Milwaukee with his wife when he died in a gruesome fall as a downtown bridge opened, authorities said.Īs more details emerged Tuesday about the man's death, questions remained as to how the bridge operator - controlling it remotely - could have missed the man on the bridge in surveillance video.
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