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NBAA, AOPA and the Santa Monica Airport Association have also asked Santa Monica mayor Tony Vazquez to "withdraw an announced template agreement for SMO tie-down tenants that purports to allow the city to evict those users on short notice and without cause."
Bolen added, "These ill-conceived efforts to close and restrict the airport not only have wasted local taxpayer dollars but they have resulted in lost opportunities to work with the aviation community to ensure that the airport continues to be a good neighbor and a vibrant, irreplaceable asset."
Searchers are now focusing on the south end of the lake after 30 divers scoured the area yesterday.
Members of the Civil Defence and a local sub aqua team return to shore as the continuing search of Lough Ree in Co Westmeath.
THE SEARCH FOR a missing Armagh fisherman has entered its fifth day in Lough Ree.
The man in his 30s, identified over the weekend as Daryl Burke, has been missing since Thursday after their boat was hit by heavy rain.
One man, 27-year-old David Warnock, died in the accident, while a 60-year-old man, John Trimble, remains in hospital.
The three men were part of a fishing club trip to the lake last week.
A number of volunteers took part in the search over the weekend, though the Coast Guard could not confirm if they would be involved today.
Garda divers, the Coast Guard and the Lough Ree lifeboat are involved in the search.
Email “Search for missing fisherman to resume today”.
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Hanauer said the Sounders retain the rights to every player who ended the season on its roster except for defender Tyson Wahl, and Hanauer said he hopes to reach a new deal with him.
Forward Fredy Montero and defender Jhon Kennedy Hurtado are on loan from their Colombian team, however Major League Soccer has the option to buy those contracts.
The Sounders plan to hold player tryouts in Las Vegas in December, in advance of MLS’ college player combine Jan. 9-12 in Florida.
The college SuperDraft will be held Jan. 13.
The Sounders plan to begin training camp in late January. As they did last season, the club will begin training in the Puget Sound area and then shift overseas. This season they plan to practice and play training games Spain, with perhaps a short stop in London.
The Sounders’ are scheduled to begin their second season March 25 when the Union visits Qwest Field.
LETHBRIDGE, ALTA. -- One of the busiest supervised drug-consumption sites in North America is quiet on a cloudy Wednesday morning. The building is unmarked and non-descript, a squat structure on the edges of Lethbridge's downtown core. Two security guards in bright yellow jackets chat outside in the spring chill. Down ...
The facility was opened slightly more than a year ago and has been used more than 188,000 times since then, reporting to have prevented hundreds of overdoses in that period.
But the site has also raised serious concerns from some in the city. In a swing riding, as the provincial election nears, it serves as a stark reminder of the many complex issues the province is facing and the parties' sometimes very divergent views on how to deal with them.
"The drug crisis in Alberta is affecting not just large cities, but mid-sized cities like Lethbridge are almost all seeing the impact of the drug crisis," said Mayor Chris Spearman, who says the supervised consumption site is his city's foremost issue concerning voters in this election. "This issue isn't getting the di...
Lethbridge is about 200 kilometres southeast of Calgary. It's a city of 100,000 nestled within the rolling farmland and snaking coulees of southern Alberta. The city is divided into two ridings, Lethbridge-East, where the NDP incumbent is Maria Fitzpatrick, and Lethbridge-West, the riding of NDP incumbent Shannon Phill...
Taking on Ms. Phillips in the race for Lethbridge-West is UCP candidate Karri Flatla; Liberal Patricia Chizek; Alberta Party candidate Zac Rhodenizer; and Ben Maddison of the Independence Party.
In Lethbridge-East, Ms. Fitzpatrick is facing UCP candidate Nathan Neudorf; Liberal Devon Hargreaves; the Alberta Party's Ally Taylor; and Independence Party candidate John W. McCanna.
In many ways, Mayor Spearman says, Lethbridge is a city of contrasts. As Alberta's fourthlargest city, it is a hub for retired farmers and rural residents coming off the land, and it also attracts reams of youth and young families to its college and university.
Lethbridge has both a high quality of life and a high homeless population. As an urban centre on Alberta's Bible belt, it attracts people from religious communities and also the people leaving them.
Mr. Spearman says polling on social issues always shows this very deep divide in the city, an almost equal mix of very progressive and very conservative.
It's for this reason LethbridgeEast and Lethbridge-West are seen as potential swing ridings, with both a strong conservative vote and a sizeable population who voted toward the centre or left even before the NDP's sweep of the city in 2015.
Ms. Phillips, who had run for the NDP once before, took the seat in a landslide, beating by a healthy margin all her opponents combined. But no one in Lethbridge-West is expecting such a scenario this time around. At Ms.
Phillips's downtown campaign office, the work does not stop.
"We built this seat with hustle," she said. "And we're going to continue to do that."
At Ms. Flatla's campaign headquarters, a message on the white board reads, "Stay Humble! Work Hard! Earn Every Vote!"
Both party leaders have stopped in Lethbridge in the final stretch of the campaign, with UCP Leader Jason Kenney attending the gold medal final of the Pioneer Hi-Bred World Men's Curling Championship alongside Ms. Flatla on Sunday night, and NDP Leader Rachel Notley joining Ms.
Phillips in the city Thursday.
The city's supervised consumption site was created by ARCHES, a non-profit harm-reduction agency that has its roots in the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. Executive director Stacey Bourque says usage of the site is consistently ahead of much larger centres, as the region deals with skyrocketing addiction to opioids and drugs...
"This drug crisis in general has been an extremely polarizing topic in our community," she said.
"Most of these facilities have been erected in large centres, so having such a large facility that is so heavily used in a community the size of Lethbridge, I think has been a lot for people to take in."
The UCP candidate Ms. Flatla says she's been hearing from a range of people including business owners worried about increasing crime or drug traffic, and paramedics suffering "compassion fatigue."
"We're acutely aware of the opioid crisis and lots of the socioeconomic factors feeding into that," Ms. Flatla said. But she says her party is also interested in other approaches, such as expanding specialized drug treatment courts to deal with addicted offenders and funding law enforcement.
"In a perfect world, we don't have those drugs coming into Canada at all," she said. "But if they do make it into the hands of Albertans, we need to look at setting up longer-term services to step past harm reduction."
Mr. Kenney has said he'd suspend opening any new sites and review whether current sites should remain open.
Ms. Notley has said existing support for drug consumption sites across the province will remain in place.
Speaking at her campaign office a few blocks away from the ARCHES site, Ms. Phillips says there's clearly work to be done, but stresses the number of lives that have been saved by the service.
"This is an area that is grappling with one of the worst opioid crises in the country. There are no easy answers with this drug.
There are no easy fixes," she said.
"You are living in a fantasy world if you think you can unlock it with one or two easy things."
The consumption site is not the only issue of conflict for voters in Lethbridge, who face serious differences in party views on everything from regulation of natural areas to the NDP's economic track record and legislation on gay-straight alliances, or GSAs.
These issues have become battlegrounds for the hearts and minds of voters who, in some cases, have very different views of the world.
Ms. Flatla is firm when she discusses what she calls the NDP's "fear and smear campaign" and said concerns about the UCP's approach to GSA clubs in schools are the result of the NDP "weaponizing vulnerable people." The UCP would keep a requirement that schools allow GSAs, but would remove a provision that banned school...
"Frankly, I reject the idea that we're not concerned for the wellbeing of vulnerable people in our society, whether it's senior citizens or mentally ill or LGBTQ," she said. "As conservatives, we are always looking for compassionate solutions that also provide dignity to those people."
A GSA rally at Lethbridge City Hall this week drew several hundred people who cheered along with impassioned and sometimes emotional speeches.
Many carried signs stating things such as, "Stop Kenney now" and "UCP is the only threat my kids need to be protected from."
On her way to the rally, Ms.Phillips wore a shirt emblazoned with the words, "Love wins."
"Jason Kenney is proving he thinks it's okay to go backwards on some of these really important things," she said. "And I don't."
A gay-straight alliance rally, above, at Lethbridge City Hall on Tuesday drew people opposed to Jason Kenney, but UCP candidate Karri Flatla, below, says her party is concerned about the vulnerable.
Missing teen Chase Brennan has safely returned home according to his mother.
YORK COUNTY, Pa. – Police are on the lookout for a missing/runaway Dallastown teenager. Chase Brennan, 15 was last seen on Sunday evening, December 18. His mother says he has not been to school all week.
Chase is a white male, 5 feet 4 inches tall, 111 pounds, with light blonde hair. He was wearing a light tan jacket, stone washed jeans and black Adidas sneakers. He also has a brace on his left hand.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call (443) 570-7739 or York Area Regional Police.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Monday that while Japan’s financial system remained stable, the central bank will monitor market developments in the wake of Greece’s referendum that voted against European bailout terms.
He also reiterated that the BOJ will maintain its massive monetary stimulus for as long as needed to achieve its 2 percent inflation target.
“Japan’s economy is expected to continue recovering moderately,” he said in a speech at a quarterly meeting of the central bank’s regional branch managers.
The BOJ has stood pat on monetary policy since expanding stimulus in October last year to prevent slumping oil prices, and a subsequent slowdown in inflation, from delaying a sustained end to nearly two decades of deflation.
New Delhi: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to attend Make In Odisha roadshow in New Delhi today. He will invite industrialists to invest in the State Invest Odisha.
It should be noted that the Make in Odisha Conclave-2018 is scheduled to be held from November 11 to 15 in Bhubaneswar. The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) is the partner for the second Make in Odisha Conclave. Earlier a Make in Odisha Road Show and the Odisha Investors’ Meet was held in ...
The White House isn't saying why, and members of the staff are reluctant even, to discuss it, but starting this week some of those beautiful bouquets in the Executive Mansion will be artificial.
The order for the ersatz nosegays was news to the White House florist. “I haven't heard anything about it,” said Elmer Young yes terday.
The first of the arrange ments of silk flowers, fabri cated of blossoms handmade in France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States, are already in the offices of the San Clemehte White House and the staff is report ed pleased with the bouquets that are being assembled by Harry Reid and Howard Lewis, founding partn...
Mr. Lewis said that some one in the White House ap proached him after seeing his concern's arrangements in a private home and in adver tisements in trade publica tions.
The 10 arrangements sent to California and the six destined to be installed later this week in Washington are “to supplement fresh flowers,” Mr. Lewis said.
“Artificial flowers will never replace fresh flowers,” said his partner, a graduate A fake rose—with more work still to be done. in horticulture from the Uni versity of Rhode Island. The partners formerly worked at the Nosegay at the Cailyle, a prominent florist.
Although neither wished to discuss the bouquets in the blue and white low bowls that the White House had sent for the arrangements, they were delighted to talk about their other designs, all of which are made on the top floor of an aging red brick warehouse at 57 Front Street, Brooklyn.
The White House, however, merely sent swatches and the vases.
Custom arrangements start at $150 wholesale, $300 re tail, and the lesigns sold in stores are $6 to $45 for plas tic, $20 to $110 for silk.
Botanic Planning, founded in 1965 after the partners left the Nosegay, employs six workers. Mr. Lewis makes most of the custom arrange ments.
“You start an arrangement by creating a baiic shape with the major flowers,” he said, dipping the stem of a pink and white silk delphin ium into a pot of glue before piercing the center of a moss covered green mound of foamed polystyrene. “The moss is dried, not fake,” Mr. Lewis said.
One by one he added the gladiolas, iris, poppies, tulips and roses, jabbing their glue dipped stems into the plastic foam. The geraniums, corn flowers, lilies and greens added even more color to the profuse, 20‐inch‐high natural istic arrangement that bore a remarkable resemblance to those favored when Mrs. John F. Ken...
As he worked, Mr. Lewis's deft fingers flattened a rose, bent back the petals of an iris or twisted the stems of cornflowers.
The newest team in the Cam-Am Association has a name and a manager, Brian Daubach.
The newest team in the independent Cam-Am Association has a name — the Pittsfield Colonials — and a manager with independent-ball experience, Brian Daubach.
Technically, Daubach isn't new: he was manager of the team last season when it played as the American Defenders of New Hampshire. The fact the former Red Sox player is coming back is good news for the franchise as it seeks to win over fans in historic Wahconah Park.
Colonials was selected from more than 1,000 entries submitted for a name-the-team contest. Other finalists in the contest included the Green Sox, Pittbulls and Power.
Daubach, 38, returns to the city where he played as a member of the Pittsfield Mets (short season; New York-Penn League) in 1992, his second year in professional baseball.
Long Furlong has been reopened in both directions following an earlier collision involving a lorry, according to police.
Traffic reports indicate there are ‘severe’ delays in the surrounding area as the road reopens.
Police said they were called to reports of a collision near to the barn along the A280 Long Furlong at 2.25pm on Thursday (July 27).
A police spokesman said: “We believe something fell from the back of a lorry which caused a collision with a car.
The road was from the A24 in Findon down to Clapham, according to police, but has since been reopened.
The police spokesman added: “Officers remained on the scene to deal with the traffic and recover the damage on the road.
After watching a documentary on Adam Goodes, Eddie Betts urged players attending the Indigenous All Stars Summit in February to confront racism on social media.
This week in Snap Shot: The unlikely opponents of the slide rule, how J could be the answer to low scores, and a shattered dream for a trio of Bombers.
Callan Ward will miss the rest of the season after scans confirmed he ruptured his ACL in the Giants' win over Geelong on Saturday.
Cats coach Chris Scott says teams need to hang in there when things don't go their way in 2019 after a shock four-point loss at home.
Collingwood wingman Chris Mayne is doubtful for Thursday night's clash at the Gabba against the Brisbane Lions after scans showed he had a small fracture to a bone in his back.
Essendon have paid their condolences to the famous Daniher family after Jim Daniher passed away aged 90.
Greater Western Sydney co-captain Callan Ward is on crutches after appearing to suffer a serious knee injury in the first quarter of the match against Geelong.
Hendrix at his Brook Street flat in January 1969. The home opens to the public next February.
LONDON — Jimi Hendrix's London flat at 23 Brook Street in Mayfair is opening to the public permanently next year.
The digs, on the third floor of a building next to the house the composer Handel lived in several centuries previously, became Hendrix's home in 1968 ahead of the release of his seminal album Electric Ladyland.

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