Separate group pays coordinator's salary

This year's ceremony commemorating the crash will be private.
SOMERSET, Pa. (AP) -- The woman who has been coordinating plans to commemorate the second anniversary of the Flight 93 crash has a new boss.
Susan Hankinson, who was Somerset County's Flight 93 coordinator, is now working for the Flight 93 Memorial Task Force. The transition had been in the works for weeks, Hankinson said.
The task force, made up of victims' families and volunteers, is planning a permanent memorial near Shanksville, where the jetliner crashed into a field Sept. 11, 2001.
Somerset County a week ago stopped paying Hankinson her $27,500 annual salary for her work as its September 11th and Flight 93 coordinator.
The county had paid her salary through grants from the Heinz Endowments in Pittsburgh.
Families' fund
Instead, her salary will be drawn from a fund managed by the Families of Flight 93, which is separate from the task force and comprises only victims' families.
"I really don't see the responsibilities changing from what I've been doing," Hankinson said.
Hankinson said this year's ceremony will be private, unlike last year's event attended by 3,000 people, including President Bush and federal Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge.
After the ceremony, Hankinson will continue her role as coordinator for the planning of a national memorial to honor the 40 victims.