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The Burleigh County Commission appears poised to approve a 2024 budget that includes a property tax increase. If adopted in its present form it will take a bite out of the property tax relief approved by Legislature.
The Tribune Editorial Board appreciates the efforts by the commission the last two years to avoid raising taxes. That won’t, however, soften the blow of higher property taxes. The public is quite aware of the impact of inflation on everyone including the commission.
The overall proposed 2024 budget is $79.46 million, an $8.21 million increase from this year’s budget. It would raise property taxes by about 10 mills. Bismarck residents would see a 9.58 mill increase, while residents outside the city would see a 9.65 mill increase.
That’s an increase of $129.33 on a $300,000 home in Bismarck and an increase of $130.28 on a $300,000 home outside city limits. Property values increased an average of 9.08% from last year, which also increases the tax bill.
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Property taxes have been a contentious issue in the state for years. There’s an effort underway to put a measure on the ballot that would do away with them. Supporters of the measure are vague about how property tax revenue would be replaced. A similar effort a few years ago failed.
The Legislature this spring passed House Bill 1158, which changes the state income tax. It also allows homeowners to claim a property tax credit of up to $500 on their primary residence. It also expands eligibility requirements for the Homestead Property Tax Credit program for those 65 and older.
If the commission approves the budget with the tax increase it will reduce the benefits of the legislative action. The Bismarck City Commission doesn’t plan a property tax increase in 2024. The Bismarck School Board and Bismarck Park Board also are working on 2024 budgets.
The County Commission voted 3-2 to advance the proposed budget to a final public hearing on Sept. 20. Commissioners Brian Bitner and Steve Schwab didn’t comment on why they voted against it.
The commission has modest budget goals: to maintain services at the current level and to remain sustainable in future years while making adjustments to have a balanced budget. The commission will have a difficult time avoiding a tax increase.
Some will question the inclusion of a county administrator, a new position, for $180,000 including benefits. It’s debatable whether an administrator is essential. There’s a 3% cost-of-living adjustment for county workers, which is modest at best. The county, like many employers, has had a difficult time recruiting workers.
The commission wants to move forward with remodeling the Provident Building. Commissioners have delayed action on the work only to see the costs increase.
The last two years the commission has taken money from reserves to avoid raising taxes. Commissioners have been urged not to drain the reserves again.
There are no easy answers for the commissioners, but the Tribune urges them to find ways to reduce the size of the tax increase. Taxpayers may be inclined to accept a reasonable increase. | https://bismarcktribune.com/opinion/editorial/tribune-editorial-burleigh-must-closely-review-tax-increase/article_c0447e9c-2cbe-11ee-91b7-c306944e4d9d.html | 2023-07-29T06:59:13 | 0 | https://bismarcktribune.com/opinion/editorial/tribune-editorial-burleigh-must-closely-review-tax-increase/article_c0447e9c-2cbe-11ee-91b7-c306944e4d9d.html |
Senator Tuberville's single-minded, egotistical, and pompous actions to block the military promotions of 250 general and admiral nominees for the last six months is most definitely a political stunt but more importantly a national security threat. Senator Tuberville’s block has kept the Marine Corps from having a commandant for the first time in 164 years. If Tuberville is allowed to continue blocking promotions the number will grow to 650 by the end of the year and block the replacement of retiring General Mark Milley on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The hold on promotions is demoralizing and negatively impacts military readiness. The spouses of 550 military families signed a petition to end the hold on promotions and delivered it to Tuberville’s office. The petition asked that the senator “find a way to resolve the political fight outside the military space and to expeditiously confirm all blocked promotions. Military families are hostages in a political fight started by a man who makes empty promises. Tuberville campaigned in 2020 on donating “every dime” he makes in D.C. to veterans from Alabama, but he has yet to fulfill his promise.
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Tuberville expects the Marine Corps to stay true to their motto: Semper Fidelis (“Always Faithful”) even though he isn’t.
Tuberville, like many of his GOP colleagues, claims to support military families and military readiness but his actions show otherwise. He has embraced the weaponization of democratic institutions and processes that place personal interests ahead of America’s.
North Dakota’s first senator to serve on the Armed Services Committee alongside Tuberville is Senator Cramer. The lack of public criticism by Cramer is not surprising but it is disappointing.
Tuberville and complicit GOP senators are seizing American dreams of brave and honorable service that have endured for centuries.
Katrina Christiansen, Jamestown | https://bismarcktribune.com/opinion/letters/letter-us-senator-tuberville-destroying-military-and-their-families/article_b8ed5606-2beb-11ee-b0e6-f728f956cfb4.html | 2023-07-29T06:59:19 | 0 | https://bismarcktribune.com/opinion/letters/letter-us-senator-tuberville-destroying-military-and-their-families/article_b8ed5606-2beb-11ee-b0e6-f728f956cfb4.html |
10 dogs die after air conditioning in truck fails during traffic delay
HOBART, Ind. (WLS) - Ten dogs died in Indiana during a drive from Chicago O’Hare International Airport to Michigan.
Authorities said the driver did not know the air conditioning in the truck’s cargo failed.
Police arrived at a Lake Station, Indiana, gas station Thursday night for a report that 19 German shepherds became overheated while being transported to a training facility.
Ten of the dogs died as a result, according to officials.
WARNING: Some may find the content of this video disturbing.
The Humane Society of Hobart was called to the scene.
Police in Lake Station say the driver of the van, who picked the dogs up from Chicago O’Hare International Airport and was bound for a training facility in Michigan, was unaware that the air conditioning in the cargo area of the truck failed in the sweltering heat.
“We had cooling vans and animal care and control vehicles ready to transport. And because we were asking for that paperwork, it seemed to make the owner mad and so he said that he would not allow us to help,” Jenny Webber, with the Humane Society of Hobart, said.
Lake Station police posted a narrative of the situation on Facebook, calling it a “freak event” and not a matter of neglect on the part of the truck’s driver.
They went on to write the “scene was chaotic and took an emotional toll on all that were involved in trying to save as many canines as possible.”
The humane society said they believe the dogs were traveling to a Michigan trainer to become police dogs.
“This is truly a sad day for all of us,” Webber added.
Five German shepherds were still being treated in Lake Station and will go into the care of the humane society unless the owner claims the dogs.
The record-breaking temperatures stretching from coast-to-coast sparked heat alerts in multiple states.
Copyright 2023 WLS via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | https://www.wafb.com/2023/07/29/10-dogs-die-after-air-conditioning-truck-fails-during-traffic-delay/ | 2023-07-29T07:00:37 | 1 | https://www.wafb.com/2023/07/29/10-dogs-die-after-air-conditioning-truck-fails-during-traffic-delay/ |
MADRID (AP) — On a night in the middle of July, tenors, sopranos and a choir delighted the crowd in Madrid’s luxurious Teatro Real opera house with Giacomo Puccini’s masterpiece, “Turandot.”
After the curtain came down, the audience filed from their plush seats and left the theater’s state-of-the-art air conditioning for the summer swelter outside — only to be met again by the voices of Calaf and Princess Turandot.
The performance they had just seen was being replayed on a giant television screen in the big square at the back of the theater.
Here, the spectators sat on hundreds of plastic chairs. Many wore shorts and sandals. Others, tourists included, sat on the low walls and benches in the square or leaned on the barriers and the nearby subway station’s railings.
Some chewed on rolls of Spanish jam, others played cards. But most were absorbed with the show on the 9- by 5-meter (30- by 16-foot) screen.
The night was part of Teatro Real’s “opera week,” which for eight years has been providing a free broadcast of an opera in the theater to towns and cities across Spain.
More than 100 towns displayed the broadcast of the July 14 “Turandot” performance. All the towns need is a computer, a good Wi-Fi connection and somewhere to project the video.
During the week, the crowds outside the theater in Madrid also got to see other Teatro Real shows, including a ballet and flamenco act. The week cost the theater 107,000 euros ($118,000).
The chief aim is to spread interest in opera.
Opera “is popular music, it was always the total art where literature, music and dance met, (when) there was no television, there was no radio,” said Spanish tenor Jorge de León, who played Calaf.
“We have to remove that label of elitism that opera has, because they (operas) talk about stories, about very understandable things,” he said, sitting on one of the plastic chairs among the spectators in the square.
In Mino de San Esteban, a village of 44 inhabitants about 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Madrid, 94-year-old Nemesia Olmos soaked up the projection of “Turandot” on the wall of the town’s Romanesque church.
Cultural life in the village has changed greatly. Gone is the crowded ballroom and visits from traveling theater groups. No longer do residents listen to songs from what was the only radio in the village. For the villagers, the Teatro Real’s offering is a delight.
“We’ve never had it so close. It seemed like we saw it right there, although it is a bit long,” Olmos said, as she left a little before the end.
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This story has been corrected to say Jorge de León is a tenor, not a soprano. | https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/opera-for-the-public-spains-teatro-real-opera-house-offers-free-broadcast-to-towns-and-cities/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2023-07-29T07:00:37 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/opera-for-the-public-spains-teatro-real-opera-house-offers-free-broadcast-to-towns-and-cities/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
HAZEN - Burton Baier, 77, of Hazen, passed away Wednesday, July 26, 2023.
Services will be held at 10:00 AM CDT, Monday, July 31, 2023, at Peace Lutheran Church, Hazen with Pastor Mark Martin officiating. Burial will follow at the Red Butte Cemetery, south of Hazen. Visitation will be from 5:00 to 7:00 PM, Sunday, July 30, 2023 at the funeral home in Beulah.
Cards and letters of condolences can be sent to Larita Baier at 5102 16th St. SW, Hazen, ND 58545.
He was preceded in death by his parents, John and Martha (Henke) Baier and his youngest sister, Aileen Welk.
He is survived by his wife, LaRita; his children: Rachel and Joel; his younger brother, Dennis (wife, Sandy), his older brother Ronald (wife, Sue), his older sister Marcella (husband, Clarence Foss) and his brother-in-law, Tom Welk. | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/obituaries/burton-baier/article_d0d0c3bd-2e8b-5a64-8228-9c0148739f19.html | 2023-07-29T07:00:38 | 1 | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/obituaries/burton-baier/article_d0d0c3bd-2e8b-5a64-8228-9c0148739f19.html |
Red Monster: Here's why Greenville High School's football OL is one of best in the state
Just across the street and down a left-field foul line from Greenville High School is a Green Monster.
It’s caged inside Fluor Field, home of the Boston Red Sox minor league baseball affiliate Greenville Drive, and is a replica of the bigger Monster at Fenway Park.
The high school football team nearby, the Red Raiders, has its own wall deserving of a scary nickname.
It's a Red Monster.
Greenville opened practice Friday and unleashed an offensive line that returns all five starters, including two Division I commitments. The Red Raiders went 5-0 in Region I-AAAA last season, 10-4 overall, and are contenders for a state championship.
“I’m very excited. We’re strong,” Greenville offensive line coach Amos Lamb said. “This is the most comfortable I've been going into a season. When you have five veteran guys who played every game together the previous season, you know the communication is good. They understand what to do.”
The Red Raiders aren’t back-peddling away from statements, their own and also from the outside, about which team has the best wall of protection.
“We’re the best offensive line in the state of South Carolina,” said senior Blake Franks, who plays left tackle and has committed to the University of South Carolina. “... We have to go out there and show them exactly what we’re talking about, exactly what we mean. We’re coming out here to work ourselves into what we feel like a state championship should have.”
Next to Franks (6-foot-5, 315-pounds) at left guard is senior Julius Tate (6-foot-3, 310-pounder). He was committed to Northwestern until a recent coaching change there. Tate had an offer from Boston College among others but is sure to get plenty of attention now that he’s available again.
Greenville’s right side of the offensive line is junior guard Hunter Taylor (6-foot-6, 285-pounds) and senior tackle Mason Owens. The center is senior and three-year starter Zane Spence (5-foot-11, 220-pounds). He might seem undersized compared to the double bookends on both sides, but he’s equally as important.
“He’s the smallest,” Lamb said. “But he’s probably our most consistent guy, our toughest guy.”
The one who seems next in line to receive offers from Power Five programs is Taylor.
“I’m looking for Hunter to have a breakout season,” Lamb said.
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“Big Red. That’s what we call him because of his red hair,” Franks said. “We also like to call him Leprechaun, but he sure isn’t small.”
As far as the playful confidence of the offensive linemen, Greenville head coach Greg Porter has no problem with any of that.
“If you don’t think highly of yourself, then why do we do what we do?” Porter said. “It doesn’t mean we’re not humble. It doesn’t mean there’s no humility. It just means there is belief.
“The offensive line is the rock of our program this year. They should feel that way.” | https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/sports/high-school/2023/07/28/south-carolina-high-school-football-greenville-offensive-line-blake-franks-julius-tate/70457069007/ | 2023-07-29T07:00:43 | 1 | https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/sports/high-school/2023/07/28/south-carolina-high-school-football-greenville-offensive-line-blake-franks-julius-tate/70457069007/ |
HUARINA, Bolivia (AP) — A 70-year-old man’s feet sink into the soil as he passes abandoned boats where there used to be the water of Lake Titicaca. The highest navigable lake in the world has receded to what Bolivian authorities say are critically low levels due to a persistent drought.
“It’s completely dry,” Jaime Mamani said in exasperation while walking along the new shoreline in Huarina, a farming town 70 kilometers (43 miles) west of La Paz where he is a community leader.
The National Service of Naval Hydrography declared an alert this week for the iconic lake after its surface fell 2 centimeters (0.8 inches) below the drought warning stage, or 3,807.8 meters (12492.7 feet) above sea level. But the agency says this is just the beginning of a situation that is worrying Indigenous Aymara communities that rely on the lake for their livelihoods and fear the dry spell could permanently impact the region’s flora and fauna.
The hydrology unit of Bolivia’s navy warned that water levels could reach historically low levels in the coming months. By December, there is a “high probability” Lake Titicaca will be 64 centimeters (more than 25 inches) below the drought alert level, breaking a low water record set in 1998 by 33 centimeters (almost 13 inches).
“In three months, the water has decreased by 30 centimeters (11.8 inches), and considering that radiation is much stronger during this time of the year … we expect it to keep decreasing,” Carlos Carrasco, a hydraulic engineer for the hydrography service said.
The drought is the result of a combination of factors, including natural phenomena like La Niña and El Niño, which arrived unusually early this year and have been particularly strong due in part to climate change, according to Lucía Walper, who heads up the Hydrological Forecasting Unit at Bolivia’s National Meteorology and Hydrology Service.
But the vast lake is vital for this region of the Bolivian highlands, where hundreds of Aymara rural communities have relied on the blue body of water for millennia to practice subsistence farming and raise livestock.
Authorities in the Peruvian city of Puno also issued a warning about the declining water levels and expressed concern about the potential impact on tourism.
“We’re reaching a critical point. There will be a significant loss of water,” said Juan José Ocola, president of the Binational Authority of Lake Titicaca. The lake serves as the border between Bolivia and Peru.
Mateo Vargas, 56, a fisherman who has lived off the Lake Titicaca for 28 years, said he used to catch “lots” of fish daily. Now he considers himself lucky if he can catch six.
Vargas’ wife, Justina Condori, shares his concerns.
“The fish have vanished,” Condori, 58, said, predicting there will be famine if the current conditions persist.
Condori makes a living by renting boats to tourists. She worries fewer people will come to visit the lake, which at an elevation of 3,810 meters above sea level, is the largest body of freshwater in the Andes mountain range.
Evidence of the receding lake is seemingly everywhere. Women who sell fried fish and other snacks by the lake face rising costs for ingredients. Those who make a living transporting people from one side of the lake to the other are altering their routes because their rafts and boats no longer reach their usual docks.
Livestock farmers who rely on the plants that grow on the shores of the Titicaca to feed their animals are also seeing their livelihoods threatened.
The economic hardship is causing many residents of Huarina to migrate to other areas of the country, leaving behind mostly older townspeople, Mamani said. The waters of the Titicaca have always been shallow around the town, so the drought is even more visible there.
“There is a detriment to the economy of the inhabitants of the region,” he said.
Vargas, the fisherman, is also concerned about what the declining water levels will mean for the future.
“It looks like it will continue to decrease, day by day,” he said. “We’re worried because if we continue like this, what’s going to happen to our children?”
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BISMARCK - Irene Schmidt, 97, Bismarck, died on July 27, 2023.
A memorial service will be held at 2:00 PM, Monday, July 31, 2023 at Parkway Funeral Service, 2330 Tyler Parkway, Bismarck.
Irene was born on the farm ten miles south of Anamoose to Ted and Alvina (Lang) Weltz on July 25, 1926.
She worked on the family farm until she married Raymond Schmidt on September 24, 1944. She and Raymond lived in Anamoose until 1960 when they moved to Valley City where Irene worked as a waitress. In 1971, they moved to Bismarck and she worked at Apple Creek Country Club until her retirement in 1989.
Her hobbies included crocheting and embroidery, she also enjoyed cooking and was a one heck of a baker. She was a member of McCabe United Methodist Church, the American Legion, Moose Lodge, The Eagles and the VFW.
Irene is survived by her four children and their families: daughter, Linda Hanna and children: Gussie (Les) Anderson and George (Amy) Hanna, son, Bruce (Carol) Schmidt and children: Mike (Diana) Schmidt, Joe (Lindy) Schmidt, daughter, Faye (Lenny) Laqua and children: Steve (Patty) Laqua, Jason (Chris Frett) Laqua and Julie (Jesse) Parrow and daughter, Diana "Cookie" (Jerry) Peterson and children: Heather (Paul) Jarski and Jerome, Jr. "Allan" Peterson; 24 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren; Irene's brother, Clarence (Rosalie) Weltz; sister-in-law, Cherraine Weltz; and brother-in-law, Leroy Schmidt.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Ted and Alvina; husband, Raymond L. Schmidt; son-in-law, George W. Hanna; sister, Alice (Ted) Huber and brother, Ervin Weltz.
To share memories of Irene and sign the online guestbook, visit www.parkwayfuneral.com. | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/obituaries/irene-schmidt/article_f3059ec2-e957-5cb2-84b8-cdfddb27e1ac.html | 2023-07-29T07:00:44 | 0 | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/obituaries/irene-schmidt/article_f3059ec2-e957-5cb2-84b8-cdfddb27e1ac.html |
10 dogs die after air conditioning in truck fails during traffic delay
HOBART, Ind. (WLS) - Ten dogs died in Indiana during a drive from Chicago O’Hare International Airport to Michigan.
Authorities said the driver did not know the air conditioning in the truck’s cargo failed.
Police arrived at a Lake Station, Indiana, gas station Thursday night for a report that 19 German shepherds became overheated while being transported to a training facility.
Ten of the dogs died as a result, according to officials.
WARNING: Some may find the content of this video disturbing.
The Humane Society of Hobart was called to the scene.
Police in Lake Station say the driver of the van, who picked the dogs up from Chicago O’Hare International Airport and was bound for a training facility in Michigan, was unaware that the air conditioning in the cargo area of the truck failed in the sweltering heat.
“We had cooling vans and animal care and control vehicles ready to transport. And because we were asking for that paperwork, it seemed to make the owner mad and so he said that he would not allow us to help,” Jenny Webber, with the Humane Society of Hobart, said.
Lake Station police posted a narrative of the situation on Facebook, calling it a “freak event” and not a matter of neglect on the part of the truck’s driver.
They went on to write the “scene was chaotic and took an emotional toll on all that were involved in trying to save as many canines as possible.”
The humane society said they believe the dogs were traveling to a Michigan trainer to become police dogs.
“This is truly a sad day for all of us,” Webber added.
Five German shepherds were still being treated in Lake Station and will go into the care of the humane society unless the owner claims the dogs.
The record-breaking temperatures stretching from coast-to-coast sparked heat alerts in multiple states.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian man was killed by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, the latest bloodshed in one of the most violent stretches of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in years.
Israeli forces entered the Al-Ein refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus and arrested a man suspected of shooting at an Israeli bus earlier this week, Palestinian media reported. During the incident, Mohammed Nada, 23, was shot in the chest and later died of his wounds, the Palestinian health ministry said.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Wednesday's incident came a day after Israeli troops killed three Palestinian gunmen who opened fire on soldiers near Nablus.
Israeli-Palestinian fighting has surged in the occupied West Bank, which Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 Mideast war. Palestinians seek the territory, along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, for a hoped-for future state.
In recent months, the West Bank has witnessed a volatile mix of the rise of local armed Palestinian groups carrying out frequent shooting attacks against Israelis and near-daily Israeli military raids that have increasingly turned deadly.
Earlier this month, Israel’s most forceful incursion into the West Bank in nearly two decades killed 12 Palestinians — at least 8 of them militants — and one Israeli soldier.
Late Monday, Palestinian militants said they opened fire at a bus carrying Israeli settlers near the Palestinian town of Hawara, just south of Nablus, without causing casualties. The Israeli military said it was setting up checkpoints to search for the suspects. A little-known armed group from the area calling itself the “Dawn Brigade” claimed responsibility for the shooting.
So far this year, over 161 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank — the highest death toll in over a decade. Around half of them were affiliated with militant groups and killed in fighting during Israeli military raids, but stone-throwing youths protesting the incursions as well as innocent bystanders have also been killed.
Palestinian attacks targeting Israelis have killed at least 25 people this year.
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A house in Monmouth Junction that sold for $903,000 tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in South Brunswick in the past week.
In total, 17 residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $602,479. The average price per square foot was $310.
The prices in the list below concern real estate sales where the title was recorded during the week of July 17 even if the property may have been sold earlier. | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/10-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-south-brunswick-july-17-23.html | 2023-07-29T07:01:34 | 0 | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/10-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-south-brunswick-july-17-23.html |
A house in Edison that sold for $850,000 tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Edison area in the past week.
In total, 21 residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $484,577. The average price per square foot was $310.
The prices in the list below concern real estate sales where the title was recorded during the week of July 17 even if the property may have been sold earlier. | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/10-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-the-edison-area-july-17-23.html | 2023-07-29T07:01:40 | 1 | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/10-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-the-edison-area-july-17-23.html |
The trades kept coming Friday for the Chicago White Sox.
They were involved in a five-player deal with the Dodgers, sending starter Lance Lynn and reliever Joe Kelly to Los Angeles for minor-league right-handed pitchers Nick Nastrini and Jordan Leasure and veteran outfielder Trayce Thompson.
The Sox also dealt reliever Kendall Graveman to the Houston Astros for minor-league catcher Korey Lee.
“A continuation of what we started (Wednesday) in terms of taking players that quite frankly we never envisioned needing to move on from when we acquired them,” general manager Rick Hahn said Friday. “But given the type of season we’ve had, it makes sense to improve our future at the cost of the current ‘23 club.
“We have mixed feelings and some disappointment involved in trading guys like Lance and Kendall and Joe. However a great deal of excitement certainly at our end of the building about the prospects we received in exchange.”
The Sox have traded five pitchers in three days as part of a sell-off for a team that entered Friday’s game against the Cleveland Guardians at 22 games under .500. Friday’s moves come after the Sox sent starter Lucas Giolito and reliver Reynaldo López to the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday.
“As players, we didn’t do our job here and make a run as we should have,” Lynn said. “But they’re getting pieces to do what they need to do to build around the young talent that’s still here. There’s still a lot of talent in that locker room.”
Lynn has one of the highest ERAs in baseball among qualified pitchers this season at 6.47. But he’s also among the major-league leaders in strikeouts (144) and innings (119 2/3).
The Sox acquired Lynn in a trade in December 2020. He played a major role in the Sox winning their first division title since 2008, going 11-6 in 2021 with a 2.69 ERA. He fell five innings short of leading the American League in ERA.
Lynn made the AL All-Star team and placed third in the AL Cy Young Award voting in 2021. A knee injury impacted last season. This season has been filled with inconsistencies, including surrendering 28 home runs.
“There’s still stuff that I’m doing well,” Lynn said. “There’s some things I need to clean up so hopefully I’m able to do that and help the team down the stretch here.
“But I still have the stuff to get outs in the big leagues so I’m going to go and make sure I do everything I can to be successful here down the stretch.”
Kelly has a 4.97 ERA, one save, 11 holds and 41 strikeouts in 31 appearances this season.
He won a World Series title with the Dodgers in 2020.
“I think my personality type is, love the adrenaline, love the big moments so I’m super stoked to go back,” Kelly said.
Lynn and Kelly will provide the Dodgers with plenty of big-game postseason experience: Lynn has pitched in 27 postseason games and Kelly 40.
The Sox got three players in return, including the Dodgers No. 9 prospect in Nastrini. The 23-year-old is 5-3 with a 4.03 ERA and 85 strikeouts in 17 starts this season with Double-A Tulsa in the Texas League.
Leasure, 24, is 2-2 with a 3.09 ERA, 56 strikeouts and nine saves in 29 relief appearances with Tulsa.
“Nastrini, we view him as having a very solid four-pitch mix, command of all four with significant upside,” Hahn said. “Leasure is another power arm. Obviously has some gaudy strikeout numbers in Double A.”
Thompson, 32, has been on the injured list since June 4 with a strained left oblique. He is slashing .155/.310/.366 with five home runs and 14 RBIs in 36 games this season. He played for the Sox in 2015 and 2018.
“Between the lines, he provides us with some versatility, the ability to play all three outfield positions,” Hahn said. “Complement the left-handed hitters we have in the corners and back up Luis (Robert Jr.) in center field. As importantly, Trayce is a class individual. He’s a great teammate.”
Like Kelly, Graveman is going back to a familiar spot having spent a portion of 2021 with the Astros.
“Going back to Houston, I know a lot of people there, the relationships have been built,” Graveman said. “So that’s exciting.
“I played in the World Series for that team. It’s an organization that also has believed in me in the past and trusted me with taking the ball and pitching for that team. I’m thankful for them once again believing in me on that front too.”
Graveman has spent the bulk of this season as the top ninth-inning option. He is 3-4 with a 3.48 ERA, eight saves and 42 strikeouts in 45 games.
In exchange, the Sox get the No. 5 prospect in the Astros organization in Lee.
The 25-year-old is slashing .283/.328/.406 with 18 doubles, five home runs, 32 RBIs, 37 runs and 12 stolen bases in 68 games this season with Triple-A Sugar Land in the Pacific Coast League.
“Very strong catch-and-throw type,” Hahn said. “Good leader on the field, high energy.”
It’s been an active week for the Sox. Hahn said it was impossible to prognosticate whether any more moves are on the way before Tuesday’s trade deadline.
“We still have players of interest of other clubs, and we’re still having talks,” he said. “There’s a few days left until the deadline. So we’re going to continue talking, and if there’s something that makes sense, we’ll pull the trigger.”
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A house in Colonia that sold for $845,000 tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Woodbridge area in the past week.
In total, 32 residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $433,588. The average price per square foot ended up at $301.
The prices in the list below concern real estate sales where the title was recorded during the week of July 17 even if the property may have been sold earlier. | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/10-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-the-woodbridge-area-july-17-23.html | 2023-07-29T07:01:46 | 0 | https://www.nj.com/realestate-news/2023/07/10-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-the-woodbridge-area-july-17-23.html |
There are openings in the Chicago White Sox rotation after trading Lucas Giolito and Lance Lynn.
Touki Toussaint stepped in Friday and allowed three hits in five innings to help the Sox to a 3-0 victory against the Cleveland Guardians at Guaranteed Rate Field.
Toussaint struck out four and walked one while earning his first win of the season in his 83-pitch outing.
“I just take it day by day because you just never know,” Toussaint said. “There’s a lot of moving parts right now and I’m just trying to stay one foot in front of the other.
“I thought I threw the ball well. I attacked some hitters. Got behind some guys, got back in counts. Gave up some hits but limited the damage.”
Friday marked Toussaint’s fourth start — and eighth appearance — since the Sox claimed the right-hander off waivers June 20. He has a 3.34 ERA in that span.
Toussaint, Tanner Banks and Gregory Santos combined to hold the Guardians to six hits as the Sox snapped their six-game losing streak.
“That was awesome of him tonight,” third baseman Jake Burger said of Toussaint. “He really had all his pitches working. He was fun to play behind. He’s got that energy and tenacity on the bump to have fun on the infield playing behind him.
“Excited to see him in this role. I’m glad he’s found a home with us. He’s a great teammate.”
Manager Pedro Grifol said Toussaint has been consistent.
“He’s had a few innings where he’s kind of lost it a little bit and then rebounded,” Grifol said. “He’s facing good teams, good lineups. Other than a couple of hiccups in a few innings here and there, he’s been really consistent.
“He’s pounded the strike zone, he looks like a big-leaguer out there, looks like one of the guys that toe the rubber every night. I’m happy he’s here. I’m happy we can take a look at him for two months and possibly build with him.”
Toussaint drew praise from Lynn, who was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers before the game, saying “Touki’s got a lot of promise and he’s going to have the ability to show he can be a starter in this league, and I think he can be. And that’s somebody who wasn’t even in the organization a month ago.”
Toussaint said he would go to Lynn for insight.
“I talked to Lance almost every day, working on new pitches and stuff or asking him, ‘Hey, how can I command my fastball’ and certain things like that,” Toussaint said. “The guy has done it for (12) years, so as much as I can pick his brain and go out there and watch him compete. I appreciate him being here and being my teammate.”
Home runs paved the way for the Sox offensively. Luis Robert Jr. hit a solo shot in the first. He’s second in the American League with 29 home runs.
Burger hit a solo homer in the sixth. It was his third straight game with a home run. He is tied for third in the AL with 25 homers.
“It’s huge,” Burger said of reaching 25 home runs. “It’s (like) what I said when I hit my 20th, it’s a steppingstone to the next goal. Obviously it feels good, but I want to get to the next milestone.”
On a day when three more teammates were traded in Lynn, Joe Kelly and Kendall Graveman, the focus was on the future.
“It’s tough seeing some teammates you’ve had for many years leave and go to a different team,” Burger said. “We love the group we got here and it’s just taking it a day at a time and trying to go out there and leave it all on the field.”
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Sweden faces Italy in the FIFA Women’s World Cup on Saturday, July 29, 2023 (7/29/23) at Sky Stadium in Wellington, New Zealand.
The game starts at 3:30 a.m. ET on FS1 and Telemundo.
HOW TO WATCH: Fans can watch the match for free via a trial to fuboTV or via a subscription to Sling TV, which offers 50% off the first month.
Here’s what you need to know:
What: FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023
Who: Sweden vs. Italy
When: Saturday, July 29, 2023
Time: 3:30 a.m. ET
Where: Sky Stadium
TV: FS1 and Telemundo
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Long flight to the Women’s World Cup? US players have a plan for that
By Anne M. Patterson AP Sports Writer
Midfielder Andi Sullivan plans on napping. Defender Emily Fox intends to keep with a soccer theme and finally watch “Ted Lasso.”
The U.S. national team — like most of the rest of the field — faces a long flight to the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
Already seasoned travelers, the Americans have strategies for wiling away the time. And they’ll certainly need those tactics: The flight to New Zealand, where they’ll spend the group stage of the tournament, is 12 hours.
“I need suggestions!” midfielder Kristie Mewis exclaimed about the shows she plans to download for the flight. “Honestly, I’m rewatching ‘Suits’ right now. I love ‘Suits.’”
Once they get there, the players will retreat into a self-imposed bubble where they shut out the noise and the distractions for some seven weeks. Most stay off of social media platforms for the duration.
Forward Trinity Rodman, making her World Cup debut, is taking the advice of the veterans. Rodman’s dad is former NBA star Dennis Rodman, so she gets a lot of attention just because of her name.
“They have been very open about making sure you have entertainment and ways to distract yourself outside of your phone and social media, because I do think with social media you can get consumed by it and you can definitely get sucked up in it,” Rodman said. “But I think finding those ways to isolate yourself, finding hobbies in the hotel room: Coloring, journaling, reading, Fortnite. I’m a bit of a gamer so that has definitely helped me to just like relax.”
The United States plays Wales in a send-off match on Sunday in San Jose, California. That same night, they’ll fly to training camp in New Zealand.
The World Cup kicks off July 20. The United States opens with a game against Vietnam on July 22.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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Cayden Steele may be reached at CSteele@njadvancemedia.com | https://www.nj.com/sports/2023/07/sweden-vs-italy-free-live-stream-72923-watch-womens-world-cup-2023-online-time-tv-channel.html | 2023-07-29T07:01:52 | 0 | https://www.nj.com/sports/2023/07/sweden-vs-italy-free-live-stream-72923-watch-womens-world-cup-2023-online-time-tv-channel.html |
By The Associated Press
The numbers were drawn Friday night for an estimated $940 million Mega Millions jackpot.
The numbers drawn for the nationwide lottery game were: 5, 10, 28, 52, 63 and the gold ball 18.
It was not immediately known if anyone matched all six numbers and won the big prize. No one has managed that feat since April 18, making 28 straight drawings without a big winner.
The jackpot is now the eighth-largest ever in the U.S.
The latest drawing comes a little over a week after someone in Los Angeles won a $1.08 billion Powerball prize ranked as the sixth-largest in U.S. history. The winner has not yet been revealed.
Lottery jackpots grow so large because the odds of winning are so small. For Mega Millions, the odds of winning the grand prize are about 1 in 302.6 million.
The $940 million prize would be for a sole winner who chooses to be paid through an annuity, with annual payments over 30 years. Jackpot winners almost always opt for a lump sum payment, which for Friday night’s drawing would be an estimated $472.5 million.
Winners also would be subject to federal taxes, and many states also tax lottery winnings.
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The Mets might be gearing up to become a trade deadline seller, but they didn’t play like it Friday night at Citi Field.
Pete Alonso’s two home runs and Max Scherzer’s seven-inning gem helped the Mets defeat the Washington Nationals 5-1 in the second game of a four-game series. The Mets (49-54) lead the series 2-0 heading into what could be an eventful weekend.
With the most reliable part of an unreliable bullpen now gone, the Mets needed a big starting pitching performance. Scherzer (9-4) delivered against the team he won a World Series with four years ago, holding the Nats (43-61) to one run on six hits over seven solid innings. One day after his 39th birthday, Scherzer lowered his ERA to 4.01 on the season.
This further fueled the speculation surrounding his future. Scherzer is unlikely to be dealt before the Tuesday trade deadline and has full no-trade protection. He also has been vocal about his commitment to the Mets and winning in Queens. However, it’s tough to quiet the noise at this time of year.
Alonso now has 30 bombs on the season and became the second player in franchise history to hit 30 or more home runs in four different seasons. Hall of Fame catcher Mike Piazza is the only other Mets player to accomplish the feat.
His first blast came in the fifth. With Scherzer and left-hander MacKenzie Gore (6-9) deadlocked in a scoreless duel, Alonso put the Mets on the board with a three-run second-decker. It went 453 feet to left center to put the Mets up 3-0.
The only run Scherzer allowed was a solo shot to Luis Garcia in the seventh. Alonso took away all hope of the Nats coming back with another monster two-run homer in the bottom of the frame. He took Rico Garcia back 423 feet to center field.
With a four-run lead, the Mets didn’t need Robertson, their former closer, but still went to their best high-leverage arm in left-hander Brooks Raley, who earned the save after the Mets traded Robertson one night prior. Raley gave up a one-out single to Garcia before inducing an inning-ending double play.
It might have been his final time in a Mets uniform.
The roster could look a lot different over the next few days. The team hasn’t punted the season but they know the odds of reaching postseason contention aren’t good. We’ll learn a lot about the Mets in the coming days, but as for Friday, it was a feel-good win that followed a tough night.
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Tuesday’s trade deadline is fast approaching, and the Orioles are buyers for the first time in six years.
It’s uncharted territory for Mike Elias as the Orioles’ executive vice president and general manager. He considered buying at last year’s deadline but ultimately maintained the status quo of the Orioles’ rebuild rather than make a push for a playoff spot. A year later, Baltimore owns the best record in the American League and is atop an AL East that is on pace to be one of the best divisions in the history of the sport.
When Elias took over a rebuilding club in November 2018 coming off a 115-loss season, he didn’t envision less than five years later he’d be leading a club on pace to win nearly 100 games.
“I’d like to say I set out to be in first place five years from starting, especially with everything that we went through, but I did not. I never sat down and wrote that out,” Elias said during a news conference four days before MLB’s trade deadline Tuesday at 6 p.m. “I’m very happy with the spot that this organization’s in right now. … But it’s very clear to me that this season’s not over, and we have a lot of work left to do. We haven’t won anything yet.”
Elias touched on a wide range of topics Friday, from the evolving deadline to what he could add to the Orioles’ roster to his willingness to trade prospects. Here are three takeaways:
A delicate balance
When asked if the Orioles, as currently constructed, are good enough to compete for a World Series in 2023, Elias had a simple response: “Yes, I do,” he said.
However, that doesn’t mean the fifth-year general manager is automatically going to rest on his club’s laurels and sit on his hands as the circuit’s other top teams gobble up the top players on the market.
“That doesn’t mean we don’t want to improve,” Elias continued. “The [Los Angeles] Dodgers are pretty good, too, and they’re bringing some extra help in [trading for Chicago White Sox starting pitcher Lance Lynn and reliever Joe Kelly and Cleveland Guardians shortstop Amed Rosario], so obviously we’re looking at that. I think very clearly this team has revealed itself to be as capable as anyone in arguably all of baseball right now to make a playoff run.
“We’re right there with anyone I think.”
But there’s a delicate balance Elias and executives of other deadline buyers are attempting to strike, calculating what is the right amount to give up to bolster the 2023 club. The Orioles entered the season with a 10.4% chance of making the playoffs, according to FanGraphs. Those odds are now 82.9%, with a 3.4% chance to win the World Series.
“We’re trying to win, we’re in first place, it’s awesome,” Elias said. “We want to make a deep playoff run, we want to get in the World Series. Whatever you want to call it, we want to do that. But unless we have information that the world is ending in November, a big part of my job is worrying about the overall health of the team over the next several years.”
Baltimore owns the sport’s No. 1 farm system, according to Baseball America, with seven players inside the publication’s top 100 prospects. How many of those players — and, even more difficult to discern, whom to part ways with — is the question for Elias in the coming days.
“I think with the position that our players have put us in right here and how well things are going so far and where we are, I think it’s fair to say that if we get within reach of something, we’re going to reach for it a little bit to help this team,” Elias said.
With that said, though, Elias added: “We can’t set the minor league system on fire just because we’re in first place. It’s just our job to balance all that.”
A push for pitching
The Orioles have already made one trade this month, acquiring right-handed reliever Shintaro Fujinami from the Oakland Athletics. Fujinami’s potential is perhaps as high as anyone in the Orioles’ bullpen not named Félix Bautista, but the Japan native has mostly struggled in his first MLB season.
Elias, whose news conference Friday was his first since the club acquired Fujinami, said he hopes the hard-throwing pitcher becomes a high-leverage reliever for the Orioles, joining All-Stars Yennier Cano and Bautista.
Elias said he “would bet heavily” that any additions the Orioles make at the deadline would be for another pitcher — whether that’s a starter or a reliever.
“I think it’s no secret that that would be the areas of the team where we could, A, either use more depth, or B, look for upgrades. So we’re working on that right now,” he said.
While the Orioles lack a top-line starting pitcher like most of the best teams have, the price for one is much higher than for another bullpen arm. Elias said he views Baltimore’s middle relief as an area for improvement.
“We’ve got a great back half of the bullpen, but there’s a couple of spots that are in flux,” Elias said. “Any team can improve the middle part of their part of their bullpen. … Obviously, we’ve got the best closer in the game right now, and relative to him, the middle spots are an area that we can look around for and we’re doing that in addition to the Fujinami trade.”
The Orioles’ potential need for a starting pitcher could also be greater considering three of the members of their rotation — Tyler Wells, Dean Kremer and Grayson Rodriguez — are within 20 innings of their single-season highs for innings pitched at any level. Elias said those starters’ workloads are a consideration, but added that there isn’t “any science” that proves innings limits keep pitchers healthy.
A plethora of prospects
An argument for the Orioles to make a splash at the deadline is based on the fact that they have such a rich farm system to pull from. After left-hander Cade Povich’s promotion to Triple-A, 10 of the Orioles’ top 17 prospects, according to Baseball America, are with the Norfolk Tides. That list includes third baseman Coby Mayo, outfielder-first baseman Heston Kjerstad, shortstop Joey Ortiz and second baseman Connor Norby — all of whom are or were ranked among the sport’s top 100 prospects.
Much of Elias’ first four years were spent on talent acquisition, and that system has worked in developing a potent pipeline. That hard work, though, doesn’t make it harder to part ways with those players if that’s what it takes to get a deal done at the deadline, Elias said.
“That’s not going to make us hug those guys more than we should because we did a good job scouting and developing them,” he said. “I don’t believe that’s going to make us any more reluctant to make a trade. I think we’re making trades because we feel that the value that we’re getting back in a different way, shape and form is worth the value that we’re losing.”
“It’s tough trading away young players,” he later added. “But I think what’s nice for us is we have some players that we rate really, really highly in our system and they’re also on the top 100 lists and stuff. It’s not like us overrating our own guys.”
Elias described the state of the deadline as “thin” with few “pure sellers,” creating a “seller’s market.” However, that could change this weekend.
“There’s a couple really interesting teams right now that still haven’t declared what they’re doing,” Elias said. “We’re talking to a lot of them and kind of have some eyes on some stuff. We’ll see what they end up doing. We may end up having waited and they don’t sell.”
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An Australian army helicopter ditched into the waters off Australia’s northeast coast during a nighttime training mission, leaving four crew members missing and prompting military officials to pause a broader, large-scale multinational defense exercise on Saturday. Ditching refers to a difficult emergency landing on water.
“I know I speak on behalf of all four of us when I say that our thoughts and prayers are very much with the missing aircrew and their families,” Marles told reporters at a news conference in Brisbane, Australia, standing next to Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who pledged any assistance needed to find the missing crew.
The MRH-90 Taipan helicopter ditched near Hamilton Island in Queensland, Australia, just after 10:30 p.m. local time on Friday, Australian officials said. Search efforts began immediately thanks to another helicopter that had been flying next to the downed chopper. Australian officials said they have paused the Talisman Saber exercise, a multinational drill that began last week.
Although the exercise is primarily a bilateral drill between Australian and American troops, it involves more than 30,000 troops from 13 countries, including those from several Asian partners and North Atlantic Treaty Organization member states. The biennial drill is the largest combined training involving Australia and the United States.
The helicopter accident came as top U.S. and Australian officials met this week in Brisbane and agreed to further stitch together their security cooperation amid rising threats from Beijing. Australian officials announced plans to bolster missile production for export to the United States, as U.S. defense policymakers seek ways to replenish their stocks of armaments at a moment when the war in Ukraine is straining production capacity at home.
“The United States has no closer or more reliable ally than Australia,” Blinken told reporters.
Cooperation between the countries expanded two years ago, when they and Britain made a deal, called AUKUS, to deepen their partnership on security issues. One key part of the deal was for Australia to acquire nuclear submarines using U.S. technology, a plan that would help the United States expand its power projection into the Pacific as worries grow about China.
The leaders announced a slew of investments and defense cooperation in the air, sea, land and in space, all aimed at bolstering the security relationship between the two countries, which they noted had fought side-by-side in every war for more than a century. Now the joint threats are focused on Russia and China, and they said that the Australian-U. S. relationship had a key role to play in addressing the challenge.
The MRH-90 helicopter has been the subject of controversy. Although Australia’s military bought almost four dozen of them for the army and navy, the defense ministry listed the acquisition as a “project of concern” in 2011. Multiple equipment malfunctions and crashes, including one in March, have compelled officials to ground the fleet several times.
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NIAMEY, Niger — Mutinous soldiers who staged a coup in Niger declared their leader the new head of state on Friday, hours after the general asked for national and international support despite rising concerns that the political crisis could hinder the nation's fight against jihadists and boost Russia's influence in West Africa.
Spokesman Col. Maj. Amadou Abdramane said on state television that the constitution was suspended and Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani was in charge.
Various factions of Niger's military have reportedly wrangled for control since members of the presidential guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum, who was elected two years ago in Niger's first peaceful, democratic transfer of power since independence from France.
Niger is seen as the last reliable partner for the West in efforts to battle jihadists linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group in Africa's Sahel region, where Russia and Western countries have vied for influence in the fight against extremism. France has 1,500 soldiers in the country who conduct joint operations with the Nigeriens, and the United States and other European countries have helped train the nation's troops.
The coup sparked international condemnation and the West African regional group ECOWAS, which includes Niger and has taken the lead in trying to restore democratic rule in the country, scheduled an emergency summit in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, on Sunday.
The U.N. Security Council strongly condemned efforts "to unconstitutionally change the legitimate government." Its statement, agreed to by all 15 members including the U.S. and Russia, called for "the immediate and unconditional release" of Bazoum and expressed concern over the negative effect of coups in the region, the "increase in terrorist activities and the dire socio—economic situation."
Extremists in Niger have carried out attacks on civilians and military personnel, but the overall security situation is not as dire as in neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso — both of which have ousted the French military. Mali has turned to the Russian private military group Wagner, and it's believed that the mercenaries will soon be in Burkina Faso.
Now there are concerns that Niger could follow suit. Before the coup, Wagner, which has sent mercenaries around the world in support of Russia's interests, already had its sights set on Niger, in part because it's a large producer of uranium.
"We can no longer continue with the same approaches proposed so far, at the risk of witnessing the gradual and inevitable demise of our country," Tchiani, who also goes by Omar Tchiani, said in his address. "That is why we decided to intervene and take responsibility."
"I ask the technical and financial partners who are friends of Niger to understand the specific situation of our country in order to provide it with all the support necessary to enable it to meet the challenges," he said.
If the United States designates the takeover as a coup, Niger stands to lose millions of dollars of military aid and assistance.
The mutinous soldiers, who call themselves the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Country, accused some prominent dignitaries of collaborating with foreign embassies to "extract" the deposed leaders. They said it could lead to violence and warned against foreign military intervention.
Bazoum has not resigned and he defiantly tweeted from detention on Thursday that democracy would prevail.
It's not clear who enjoys majority support, but the streets of the capital of Niamey were calm Friday, with a slight celebratory air. Some cars honked in solidarity at security forces as they drove by — but it was not clear if that meant they backed the coup. Elsewhere, people rested after traditional midday prayers and others sold goods at their shops and hoped for calm.
"We should pray to God to help people come together so that peace comes back to the country. We don't want a lot of protests in the country, because it is not good ... I hope this administration does a good job," said Gerard Sassou, a Niamey shopkeeper.
A day earlier, several hundred people gathered in the city chanting support for Wagner while waving Russian flags. "We're fed up," said Omar Issaka, one of the protestors. "We are tired of being targeted by the men in the bush. ... We're going to collaborate with Russia now."
That's exactly what many in the West likely fear. Tchiani's criticism of Bazoum's approach and of how security partnerships have worked in the past will certainly make the U.S., France, and the EU uneasy, said Andrew Lebovich, a research fellow with the Clingendael Institute.
"So that could mark potentially some shifts moving forward in Niger security partnerships," he said.
Even as Tchiani sought to project control, the situation appeared to be in flux. A delegation from neighboring Nigeria, which holds the ECOWAS presidency and was hoping to mediate, left shortly after arriving, and the president of Benin, nominated as a mediator by ECOWAS, has not arrived.
Earlier, an analyst who had spoken with participants in the talks said the presidential guard was negotiating with the army about who should be in charge. The analyst spoke on condition they not to be named because of the sensitive situation.
A western military official in Niger who was not authorized to speak to the media also said the military factions were believed to be negotiating, but that the situation remained tense and violence could erupt.
Speaking in Papua New Guinea, French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the coup as "completely illegitimate and profoundly dangerous for the Nigeriens, Niger and the whole region."
The coup threatens to starkly reshape the international community's engagement with the Sahel region.
On Thursday, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said the country's "substantial cooperation with the Government of Niger is contingent on Niger's continued commitment to democratic standards."
The United States in early 2021 said it had provided Niger with more than $500 million in military assistance and training programs since 2012, one of the largest such support programs in sub-Saharan Africa. The European Union earlier this year launched a 27 million-euro ($30 million) military training mission in Niger.
The United States has more than 1,000 service personnel in the country.
Some military leaders who appear to be involved in the coup have worked closely with the United States for years. Gen. Moussa Salaou Barmou, the head of Niger's special forces, has an especially strong relationship with the U.S., the Western military official said.
While Russia has also condemned the coup, it remains unclear what the junta's position would be on Wagner.
The acting head of the United Nations in Niger said Friday that humanitarian aid deliveries were continuing, even though the military suspended flights carrying aid.
Nicole Kouassi, the acting U.N. resident and humanitarian coordinator, told reporters via video from Niamey that 4.3 million people needed humanitarian aid before this week's military action and 3.3 million faced "acute food insecurity," the majority of them women and children.
Jean-Noel Gentile, the U.N. World Food Program director in Niger, said "the humanitarian response continues on the ground." He said the U.N. is providing cash assistance and food to people in accessible areas and that the agency is continuously assessing the situation to ensure security and access.
This is Niger's fifth coup and marks the fall of one of the last democratically elected governments in the Sahel.
Its army has always been very powerful and civilian-military relations fraught, though tensions had increased recently, especially with the growing jihadist insurgency, said Karim Manuel, an analyst for the Middle East and Africa with the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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10 dogs die after air conditioning in truck fails during traffic delay
HOBART, Ind. (WLS) - Ten dogs died in Indiana during a drive from Chicago O’Hare International Airport to Michigan.
Authorities said the driver did not know the air conditioning in the truck’s cargo failed.
Police arrived at a Lake Station, Indiana, gas station Thursday night for a report that 19 German shepherds became overheated while being transported to a training facility.
Ten of the dogs died as a result, according to officials.
WARNING: Some may find the content of this video disturbing.
The Humane Society of Hobart was called to the scene.
Police in Lake Station say the driver of the van, who picked the dogs up from Chicago O’Hare International Airport and was bound for a training facility in Michigan, was unaware that the air conditioning in the cargo area of the truck failed in the sweltering heat.
“We had cooling vans and animal care and control vehicles ready to transport. And because we were asking for that paperwork, it seemed to make the owner mad and so he said that he would not allow us to help,” Jenny Webber, with the Humane Society of Hobart, said.
Lake Station police posted a narrative of the situation on Facebook, calling it a “freak event” and not a matter of neglect on the part of the truck’s driver.
They went on to write the “scene was chaotic and took an emotional toll on all that were involved in trying to save as many canines as possible.”
The humane society said they believe the dogs were traveling to a Michigan trainer to become police dogs.
“This is truly a sad day for all of us,” Webber added.
Five German shepherds were still being treated in Lake Station and will go into the care of the humane society unless the owner claims the dogs.
The record-breaking temperatures stretching from coast-to-coast sparked heat alerts in multiple states.
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10 dogs die after air conditioning in truck fails during traffic delay
HOBART, Ind. (WLS) - Ten dogs died in Indiana during a drive from Chicago O’Hare International Airport to Michigan.
Authorities said the driver did not know the air conditioning in the truck’s cargo failed.
Police arrived at a Lake Station, Indiana, gas station Thursday night for a report that 19 German shepherds became overheated while being transported to a training facility.
Ten of the dogs died as a result, according to officials.
WARNING: Some may find the content of this video disturbing.
The Humane Society of Hobart was called to the scene.
Police in Lake Station say the driver of the van, who picked the dogs up from Chicago O’Hare International Airport and was bound for a training facility in Michigan, was unaware that the air conditioning in the cargo area of the truck failed in the sweltering heat.
“We had cooling vans and animal care and control vehicles ready to transport. And because we were asking for that paperwork, it seemed to make the owner mad and so he said that he would not allow us to help,” Jenny Webber, with the Humane Society of Hobart, said.
Lake Station police posted a narrative of the situation on Facebook, calling it a “freak event” and not a matter of neglect on the part of the truck’s driver.
They went on to write the “scene was chaotic and took an emotional toll on all that were involved in trying to save as many canines as possible.”
The humane society said they believe the dogs were traveling to a Michigan trainer to become police dogs.
“This is truly a sad day for all of us,” Webber added.
Five German shepherds were still being treated in Lake Station and will go into the care of the humane society unless the owner claims the dogs.
The record-breaking temperatures stretching from coast-to-coast sparked heat alerts in multiple states.
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ABANDONED VEHICLE AUCTION
In compliance with the revised code of Washington 46.55.130, State of Washington, Bill’s Towing Inc. will sell to the highest bidder for cash at 1210 S. Sprague, Tacoma, Washington, on August 2, 2023 at the hour of 12 noon. Inspection starts at 9 AM on the following described vehicles. All cars must be paid for by 5 PM the day of the auction and must be removed also by 5 PM the day of the auction. Vehicles not removed will be awarded to the second bidder.
YEAR MAKE MODEL 99 Acura 3.5
01 BMW 525
03 Buick Cen
00 Chev Express
89 Chev GMT-400
94 Chev GMT-400
14 Chev Impala
05 Chev Malibu
94 Chev Sub
05 Chev Tahoe
10 Chev Traverse
15 Chry 200
05 Chry Pacifica
69 Cotz 30’ MH
01 Dodge Dakota
02 Dodge Durango
04 Ford Escape
06 GMC Envoy
06 Ford Focus
05 Ford Freestar
12 Ford Fusion
02 Ford Taurus
95 GMC Yukon
95 Honda Accord
05 Honda Accord
07 Honda Accord
94 Honda Civic
08 Hyun Sonata
05 Kia Sedona
06 Kia Sorento
08 Lexus LS
00 Mazda MPV
13 Merc C
08 Nissan Rogue
15 Nissan Rogue
08 Nissan Titan
80 Pont Bonneville
? Popup Trailer
04 Subaru Leg
09 Toyota Camry
88 Toyota Celica
05 Toyota Matrix
04 Toyota Tacoma
01 VW Passport
IDX-981089
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NO. 23-2-08491-3
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON
IN AND FOR PIERCE COUNTY
KEITH N. SORENSEN,
Plaintiff,
vs.
SERGIO JACOBO TOKUNAGA and “JANE DOE” TOKUNAGA, and the marital community composed thereof, Defendants.
THE STATE OF WASHINGTON TO DEFENDANTS SERGIO JACOBO TOKUNAGA and “JANE DOE” TOKUNAGA:
You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty days after the 28th day of July, 2023, and defend the above-entitled action in the above-entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff KEITH N. SORENSEN, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorneys for plaintiff at their address below stated; and in case of your failure to do so, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court.
The object of the action is a car wreck that occurred on July 15, 2022, on southbound Interstate 5 near Lakewood, WA.
Dated this 26th day of July, 2023.
/s/SHAWN B. BRIGGS of
BRIGGS & BRIGGS
10222 Gravelly Lk. Dr. SW
Lakewood, WA 98499
253-588-6696
email@briggsandbriggs.com
Attorneys for plaintiff
WSB# 16162
IDX-981392
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NO. 23-4-01592-7
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF PIERCE
In Re the Estate of: LEE DANIEL STANDERFER, Decedent.
The personal representative named below has been appointed as personal representative of this estate. Any person having claim against the decedent (SSN:***-**-3572; DOB: 9/28/85) must, before the time the claim would be barred by an otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the personal representative or the personal representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing of the original of the claim with the court. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the personal representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020 (1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. The bar is effective as to claims against the decedent’s probate and non-probate assets.
DATE OF FILING COPY OF NOTICE TO CREDITORS: July 21, 2023
DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION: July 28, 2023
/s/STACIE STANDERFER,
Personal Representative
c/o Douglas Sulkosky
Attorney at Law
1105 Tacoma Avenue South
Tacoma, WA 98402
(253) 383-5346
IDX-981103
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NO. 23-4-01661-3
PROBATE
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
RCW 11.40.030
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF PIERCE
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF CARYL LYNN HARRIS, Deceased.
The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as personal representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the personal representative or the personal representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the personal representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and RCW 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets. Date of filing copy of notice to creditors: July 26, 2023
Date of first publication: July 28, 2023
NORMAN RANDALL HARRIS
Personal Representative
c/o Roberts Johns & Hemphill, PLLC
Attorneys for Personal Representative
7525 Pioneer Way, Suite 202
Gig Harbor, WA 98335
Presented by:
ROBERTS JOHNS & HEMPHILL, PLLC
By: MICHAEL M.K. HEMPHILL
WSBA No. 27340
Attorneys for Personal Representative
IDX-981389
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No. 23-4-01681-8
Probate Notice to Creditors
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF PIERCE
In the Estate of:
MICHIKO S. DODGE, Deceased.
Probate Notice to Creditors-RCW 11.40.030
The Administrator named below has been appointed and has qualified as Administrator of this estate. Any person having a claim against the deceased must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Administrator, or the attorneys of record, at the address stated below, a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the Clerk of the Court. The claim must be presented within the later of:
(1) Thirty (30) days after the Administrator served or mailed the Notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or
(2) Four (4) months after the date of the first publication of the Notice.
If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and RCW 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the Decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.
DATED at Fircrest, Washington, this ______ day of _________, 2023.
ALEXIS CARTER, Administrator
Estate of MICHIKO S. DODGE
Presented by:
Minta A. Andreve, WSBA No. 53966
1021 Regents Blvd.
Fircrest, WA 98466
Attorney for Administrator, Alexis Carter
DATE OF FILING: 07/25/2023
DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION:
07/28/2023
IDX-981344
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Public Notice
WAC 197-11-970 SEPA Determination of Non-Significance (DNS)
Public Comment Period: July 28 – August 11, 2023
The Washington State Pollution Liability Insurance Agency (PLIA) has issued a DNS to a participant in PLIA’s Heating Oil Loan and Grant Program who resides in Pierce County. Prior to starting this project, PLIA is holding a 14-day public comment period. PLIA invites public comments on the project, which is located at 1610 Bridgeview Drive, Tacoma, WA 98406.
You may review documents regarding these projects at: https://plia.wa.gov/state-environmental-policy-act-sepa-projects/
Please direct any questions or comments to Jeremy Richtmyre at Jeremy.richtmyre@plia.wa.gov.
IDX-981222
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Re: Bourquin, Danny
TS #: 23-64578
Title Order #: 230093869
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
Grantor: DANNY E BOURQUIN, AN UNMARRED PERSON
Current beneficiary of the deed of trust: HomeStreet Bank
Current trustee of the deed of trust: North Star Trustee, LLC
Current mortgage servicer for the deed of trust: HomeStreet Bank
Reference number of the deed of trust: 202107140506
Parcel Number(s): 224000-2861
I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned Trustee, North Star Trustee, LLC will on 9/1/2023, at 9:00 AM at the 2nd Floor Entry Plaza Outside the Pierce County Superior Courthouse, 930 Tacoma Avenue South, Tacoma, WA 98402 sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable at the time of sale, the following described real property, situated in the County of Pierce, State of Washington, to-wit:
LOTS 5 AND 6, BLOCK 37, AND LOTS 5 AND 6, BLOCK 38, MAP OF THE ARMOUR ADDITION TO TACOMA, PIERCE COUNTY, W.T., ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN VOLUME 3 OF PLATS, PAGE 76, IN PIERCE COUNTY, WASHINGTON. SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF PIERCE, STATE OF WASHINGTON. Commonly known as: 515 114TH ST S
TACOMA, WASHINGTON 98444
which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 7/9/2021, recorded 7/14/2021, as Instrument No. 202107140506, records of Pierce County, Washington, from DANNY E BOURQUIN, AN UNMARRED PERSON, as Grantor(s), to FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE COMPANY OF WASHINGTON, INC. , as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”), as designated nominee for HOMESTREET BANK, beneficiary of the security instrument, its successors and assigns, as Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was assigned to HomeStreet Bank, under an Assignment recorded under Auditor’s File No. 202303100554.
II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust.
III. The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows:
Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears:
PAYMENT INFORMATION
FROM THRU NO.PMT AMOUNT TOTAL
9/1/2022 04/28/2023 8 $1,333.73 $10,669.84
Corporate Advances: $600.00
Other Fees: $110.00
Bad Check: $20.00
LATE CHARGE INFORMATION
TOTAL LATE CHARGES TOTAL
$445.68
PROMISSORY NOTE INFORMATION
Note Dated: 7/9/2021
Note Amount: $256,000.00
Interest Paid To: 8/1/2022
Next Due Date: 9/1/2022
IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: Principal $250,874.53, together with interest as provided in the note or other instrument secured from 8/1/2022, and such other costs and fees as are due under the note or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute.
V. The above-described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. The sale will be made without warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances on 9/1/2023. The default(s) referred to in Paragraph III must be cured by 8/21/2023, (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before 8/21/2023 (11 days before the sale) the default as set forth in Paragraph III is cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashiers or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after the 8/21/2023 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower or Grantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance paying the entire principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults.
VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following addresses:
NAME & ADDRESS
DANNY E BOURQUIN 515 114TH ST S
TACOMA, WA 98444
by both first class and certified mail on 3/14/2023, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served 3/14/2023, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in Paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting.
VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale.
VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above described property.
IX. Anyone having any objections to this sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale.
X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS – The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants and tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants and tenants by summary proceedings under the Unlawful Detainer Act, Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060.
THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME.
You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date of this notice to pursue mediation.
DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help.
SEEKING ASSISTANCE – Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following:
The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission: Telephone: 1-877-894HOME (1-877-894-4663)
Web site: http://www.dfi.wa.gov/consumers/homeownership/
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: Telephone: 1-800-569-4287
Web site: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD
The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys
Telephone: 1-800-606-4819 Web site: http://www.ocla.wa.gov/
This office is enforcing a security interest of your creditor. To the extent that your obligation has been discharged by a bankruptcy court or is subject to an automatic stay of bankruptcy, this notice is for informational purposes only and does not constitute a demand for payment or any attempt to collect such obligation.
DATED: 04/21/2023 North Star Trustee, LLC, as Trustee
Lisa Hackney, Vice President of Trustee Operations
Address for service:
North Star Trustee, LLC
6100 219th ST SW, Suite 480
Mountlake Terrace, Washington 98043
Trustee Phone No: (206) 866-5345
Trustee Fax No: (206) 374-2252
Beneficiary / Servicer Phone: 800-237-3194
STATE OF WASHINGTON) ss.
COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH) I certify that I know or have satisfactory evidence that Lisa Hackney is the person who appeared before me, and said person acknowledged that (he/she) signed this instrument, on oath stated that (he/she) was authorized to execute the instrument and acknowledged it as the Vice President of Trustee Operations of North Star Trustee, LLC to be the free and voluntary act of such party for the uses and purposes mentioned in the instrument.
Dated: 04/21/2023
Kellie Barnes NOTARY PUBLIC in and for the State of Washington, residing at Lynnwood, WA
My commission expires 6/10/2024
EPP 37080 IDX-975669
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Re: Gebrechristos, Daniel
TS #: 23-64597
Title Order #: 230098111-WA-MSI
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
Grantor: DANIEL GEBRECHRISTOS, AN UNMARRIED PERSON
Current beneficiary of the deed of trust: Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC
Current trustee of the deed of trust: North Star Trustee, LLC
Current mortgage servicer for the deed of trust: LoanCare, LLC
Reference number of the deed of trust: 201910110845
Parcel Number(s): 0319041100
I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned Trustee, North Star Trustee, LLC will on 9/1/2023, at 10:00 AM at The 2ND floor entry plaza outside the County Courthouse, 930 Tacoma Avenue South, Tacoma, WA 98402 sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable at the time of sale, the following described real property, situated in the County of Pierce, State of Washington, to-wit:
THE SOUTH 80.43 FEET OF THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY:
COMMENCING AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE NORTH LINE OF MIDLAND SUMMIT HIGHWAY AND THE EAST LINE OF YALE STREET IN SOUTH TACOMA LAND COMPANY’S FIRST ADDITION TO THE CITY OF TACOMA, AS PER MAP THEREOF RECORDED IN BOOK 4 OF PLATS AT PAGE(S) 62 AND 63, RECORDS OF PIERCE COUNTY AUDITOR, IN SECTION 4, TOWNSHIP 19 NORTH, RANGE 3 EAST OF THE W.M.;
THENCE NORTH 521.25 FEET TO POINT BEGINNING;
THENCE NORTH ON THE EAST LINE OF YALE STREET, 180.45 FEET;
THENCE EAST 260.99 FEET;
THENCE SOUTH 180.43 FEET;
THENCE WEST 260.99 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING.
SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF PIERCE, STATE OF WASHINGTON.
Commonly known as: 9717 F ST E
TACOMA, WASHINGTON 98445-2049
which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 10/10/2019, recorded 10/11/2019, as Instrument No. 201910110845, records of Pierce County, Washington, from DANIEL GEBRECHRISTOS, AN UNMARRIED PERSON, as Grantor(s), to FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE COMPANY, as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. (“MERS”), AS DESIGNATED NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN PACIFIC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, BENEFICIARY OF THE SECURITY INSTRUMENT, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was assigned to Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC, under an Assignment recorded under Auditor’s File No. 202112090165.
II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust.
III. The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows:
Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears:
PAYMENT INFORMATION
Total Monthly Payments Due:
TOTAL
October 1, 2022 – April 28, 2023 $16,215.40
Corporate Advances: $3,204.25
NSF Fees: $15.00
LATE CHARGE INFORMATION
TOTAL LATE CHARGES TOTAL
$485.44
PROMISSORY NOTE INFORMATION
Note Dated: 10/10/2019
Note Amount: $299,376.00
Interest Paid To: 9/1/2022
Next Due Date: 10/1/2022
IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: Principal $297,083.66, together with interest as provided in the note or other instrument secured from 9/1/2022, and such other costs and fees as are due under the note or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute.
V. The above-described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. The sale will be made without warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances on 9/1/2023. The default(s) referred to in Paragraph III must be cured by 8/21/2023, (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before 8/21/2023 (11 days before the sale) the default as set forth in Paragraph III is cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashiers or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after the 8/21/2023 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower or Grantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance paying the entire principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults.
VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following addresses:
NAME & ADDRESS
DANIEL GEBRECHRISTOS 9717 F ST E
TACOMA, WA 98445-2049
EHITE MARYAM D. TAREKEGN 9717 F ST E
TACOMA, WA 98445
by both first class and certified mail on 3/15/2023, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served 3/15/2023, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in Paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting.
VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale.
VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above described property.
IX. Anyone having any objections to this sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale.
X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS – The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants and tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants and tenants by summary proceedings under the Unlawful Detainer Act, Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060.
THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME.
You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date of this notice to pursue mediation.
DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help.
SEEKING ASSISTANCE – Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following:
The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission: Telephone: 1-877-894HOME (1-877-894-4663)
Web site: http://www.dfi.wa.gov/consumers/homeownership/
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: Telephone: 1-800-569-4287
Web site: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD
The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys
Telephone: 1-800-606-4819 Web site: http://www.ocla.wa.gov/
This office is enforcing a security interest of your creditor. To the extent that your obligation has been discharged by a bankruptcy court or is subject to an automatic stay of bankruptcy, this notice is for informational purposes only and does not constitute a demand for payment or any attempt to collect such obligation.
DATED: 04/26/2023 North Star Trustee, LLC, as Trustee
Nicole Norton, Assistant Trustee Sale Officer
Address for service:
North Star Trustee, LLC
6100 219th ST SW, Suite 480
Mountlake Terrace, Washington 98043
Trustee Phone No: (206) 866-5345
Trustee Fax No: (206) 374-2252
Beneficiary/Servicer Phone:
(800)909-9525
STATE OF WASHINGTON) ss.
COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH) I certify that I know or have satisfactory evidence that Nicole Norton is the person who appeared before me, and said person acknowledged that (he/she) signed this instrument, on oath stated that (he/she) was authorized to execute the instrument and acknowledged it as an Assistant Trustee Sale Officer of North Star Trustee, LLC to be the free and voluntary act of such party for the uses and purposes mentioned in the instrument.
Dated: 04/26/2023 Kellie Barnes NOTARY PUBLIC in and for the State of Washington, residing at Lynnwood, WA
My commission expires 6/10/2024
EPP 37114 IDX-976004
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RE: Gordon, Darien
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE PURSUANT TO THE REVISED CODE OF WASHINGTON CHAPTER 61.24 RCW Loan No: ******3735 TS No: 22-8236 Grantor: DARIEN L GORDON Current Beneficiary of Deed of Trust: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Current Mortgage Servicer for the Deed of Trust: U.S. Bank National Association Current Trustee for the Deed of Trust: MICHELLE R. GHIDOTTI, ESQ. Trustee’s address is 144 Railroad Avenue, Suite 236, Edmonds, WA 98020-4100 (206) 331-3280 Trustee’s agent for service is Gary Krohn, Reg. Agent, whose address is 144 Railroad Avenue, Suite 236 Edmonds, WA 98020-4100 Phone: (206) 525-1925 If there are any questions regarding this Notice, please contact (206) 331-3280 Reference Number of Deed of Trust: 201512010584 Parcel Number(s): 2947002740 Abbr. Legal Description: LOT 19, BLOCK 10, CEDARVIEW TOWN OF BONNEY LAKE, PIERCE COUNTY. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date on this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission Telephone: 1-877-894-HOME(1-877-894-4663). Web site: http://www.dfi.wa.qov/consumers/homeownership/post purchase counselors foreclosure.htm The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Telephone: 1-800-569-4287 Web site: htt://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/fc/index.cfm?webListAction=searchandsearchstate=WAandfilterSvc=dfc The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys Telephone: 1-800-606-4819 Web site: http://nwjustice.org/what-clear I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned Trustee will on 9/1/2023, at 9:00 AM at 2nd Floor Entry Plaza Outside the County Courthouse Pierce County Superior Courthouse, 930 Tacoma Avenue South, Tacoma WA 98402 sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable, in the form of cash, or cashier’s check or certified checks from federally or State chartered banks, at the time of sale the following described real property, situated in the County of Pierce, State of Washington, to-wit: LOT 19, BLOCK 10, CEDARVIEW TOWN OF BONNEY LAKE, ACCORDING TO PLAT RECORDED INBOOK 24 OF PLATS AT PAGE 59, IN PIERCE COUNTY, WASHINGTON. SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF PIERCE, STATE OF WASHINGTON. Commonly known as: 9510 209th Ave E Bonney Lake, WA 98391 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 11/28/2015, recorded 12/1/2015, under Auditor’s File No. 201512010584, in Book , Page records of Pierce County, Washington, from DARIEN L GORDON, SINGLE MAN, as Grantor(s), to FIDELITY NATIOINAL TITLE COMPANY OF WASHINGTON, as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR PRIMARY RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE, INC., A LICENSED LENDER, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was assigned to U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of T rust. III. The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears: PAYMENT INFORMATION FROM 5/4/2023 TOTAL $64,059.05 BENEFICIARY’S ADVANCES, COSTS AND EXPENSES DESCRIPTION 5/4/2023 Accrued Late Charges ADVANCE AMOUNT $144.78 DESCRIPTION 5/4/2023 MTGR Rec Corp Advances $1538.68 TOTAL DUE AS OF : 5/4/2023 $65,742.51 IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: The principal sum of $219,072.86, together with interest as provided in the Note or other instrument secured from 6/1/2020, and such other costs and fees as are due under the Note or other instrument secured and as are provided by statute. V. The above described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. The sale will be made without warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances on 9/1/2023. The defaults referred to in Paragraph III must be cured by 8/21/2023, (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before 8/21/2023 (11 days before the sale) the default as set forth in Paragraph III, together with any subsequent payments, late charges, advances, costs and fees thereafter due, is/are cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashiers or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after the 8/21/2023 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower, or Grantor or any Guarantors or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance by paying the entire principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust and curing all other defaults. VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower(s) and Grantor(s) at the following address(es): DARIEN L GORDON 9510 209TH AVE E CONNEY LAKE, WA 98391 UNKNOWN SPOUSE AND/OR DOMESTIC PARTNER OF DARIEN L GORDON 9510 209TH AVE E BONNEY LAKE, WA 98391 by both first class and certified mail on 1/18/2023, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and on 1/23/2023 the Borrower and Grantor were personally served, if applicable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in Paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale.VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above described property. IX. Anyone having any objections to this sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS – The purchaser at the trustee’s sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the grantor under the Deed of Trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the Deed of Trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. If you are a servicemember or a dependent of a servicemember, you may be entitled to certain protections under the federal Servicemembers Civil Relief Act and any comparable state laws regarding the risk of foreclosure. If you believe you may be entitled to these protections, please contact our office immediately. Additional disclaimers provided by the Trustee: If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders rights against the real property only. Service of Process should be sent to: Michelle Ghidotti, Esq., c/o Gary Krohn, Reg. Agent, 144 Railroad Avenue, Suite 236, Edmonds, WA 98020-4100 and faxed to (949) 427-2732. If there are any questions regarding this Notice, please contact (206) 331-3280. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ONLINE AT www.auction.com FOR AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: (800) 793-6107 THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. DATED:4/24/2023 Michelle Ghidotti, Esq. 144 Railroad Avenue, Suite 236 Edmonds, WA 98020-4100 Phone: (206) 331-3280 Fax: (949) 427-2732 Michelle R. Ghidotti, Esq., as Trustee A-4782602 07/28/2023, 08/18/2023
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Re: Kniss, Jonathan & Laura
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
TS No.: 2023-00016-WA APN No.: 03-21-22-6-029
Grantor(s): Jonathan L Kniss and Laura J Kniss
Current Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust: U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Greenpoint Mortgage Funding Trust Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-AR4
Current Trustee of the Deed of Trust: Western Progressive – Washington, Inc.
Current Mortgage Servicer of the Deed of Trust: PHH Mortgage Corporation
Reference Number(s) of the Deed of Trust: 200606300292
Assessor’s Property Tax Parcel Number(s): 03-21-22-6-029
I
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned Trustee, Western Progressive – Washington, Inc., will on 08/25/2023, at the hour of 10:00 AM, at At the Second Floor Entry Plaza Outside Pierce County Courthouse, 930 Tacoma Ave South, Tacoma, WA 98402, State of Washington, sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable at the time of sale, the following described real property, situated in the County (ies) of Pierce, State of Washington to-wit:
LEGAL DESCRIPTION:
LOT 3, CITY OF TACOMA SHORT PLAT RECORDED DECEMBER 18, 2000 UNDER RECORDING NUMBER 200012185002, IN PIERCE COUNTY, WASHINGTON; TOGETHER WITH A NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT FOR INGRESS, EGRESS AND UTILITIES AS DELINEATED ON SAID SHORT PLAT.
Commonly known as: 3730 Browns Point Blvd NE, Tacoma, WA 98422
The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the above street address or other common designation.
Which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 06/23/2006, recorded 06/30/2006, under Auditor’s File No.200606300292, Book —- Page —-, and further modified by that certain Loan Modification Agreement on 08/01/2013 as Instrument Number 201308010205 and Re-Recording on 12/24/2013 as Instrument Number 201312240678, records of Pierce County, Washington, from Jonathan L Kniss and Laura J Kniss, Husband and Wife as Grantor, to Pacific Northwest Title Company as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of Greenpoint Mortgage Funding, Inc as Lender and beneficiary, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as the designated nominee for Greenpoint Mortgage Funding, Inc, the beneficial interest in which was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Greenpoint Mortgage Funding Trust Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-AR4 under an assignment recorded on March 31, 2015, under Auditor’s File No. as Instrument No. 201503310020, Bk. in Book —-, Pg. at Page —-, records of Pierce County, Washington.
II.
No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust.
III.
The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows:
Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears: $120,428.25; (together with any subsequent payments, late charges, advances, costs and fees thereafter due)
IV.
The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: Principal Balance of $1,242,884.15, together with interest as provided in the note or other instrument secured from 05/01/2022, and such other costs and fees as are due under the Note or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute.
V.
The above-described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. The sale will be made without warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances on 08/25/2023. The default(s) referred to in paragraph III, must be cured by 08/14/2023 (11 days before the sale date), to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time on or before 08/14/2023 (11 days before the sale date), the default(s) as set forth in paragraph III is/are cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. The sale may be terminated any time after 08/14/2023 (11 days before the sale date), and before the sale by the Borrower, Grantor, any Guarantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance paying the entire principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust and curing all other defaults.
VI.
A written notice of default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following addresses:
See Exhibit “A” attached
by both first class and certified mail on 02/23/2023 proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served on 02/24/2023, with said written notice of default or the written notice of default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in the paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting.
VII.
The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale.
VIII.
The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above-described property.
If the sale is set aside for any reason, the purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the bid amount paid. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary or the Beneficiary’s attorney.
IX.
Anyone having any objections to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale.
X.
NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS
The purchaser at the trustee’s sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under Chapter 59.12 RCW.
For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060;
XI.
NOTICE TO GUARANTORS OF COMMERCIAL LOANS
(a) If you are a guarantor of the obligations secured by the deed of trust on a commercial loan, you may be liable for a deficiency judgment to the extent the sale price obtained at the trustee’s sale is less than the debt secured by the deed of trust. (b) You have the same rights to reinstate the debt, cure the default or repay the debt as is given to the grantor in order to avoid the trustee’s sale.
(c) You will have no right to redeem the property after the trustee’s sale.
(d) Subject to such longer periods as are provided in the Washington deed of trust act, chapter 61.24 RCW, any action brought to enforce a guaranty must be commenced within one year after the trustee’s sale, or the last trustee’s sale under any other deed of trust granted to secure the same debt.
THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME.
You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date on this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING ASSISTANCE
Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission: Telephone: (877) 894 4663. Website: http://www.homeownership.wa.gov
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: Telephone: (800) 569-4287. Website: http://www.hud.gov
The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys: Telephone: (800) 606-4819. Website: http://nwjustice.org/get-legal-help DATE: March 29, 2023
Trustee: Western Progressive – Washington, Inc.
Trustee address: 3600 15th Avenue West, Suite 200C Seattle, Washington 98119
Trustee telephone number: 1-206-876-9986
Direct Line Telephone number: 1-770-612-7384 Signature/By Melissa Daniels VP Trustee Services
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Re: KRESS, HEIDI G & RYAN M
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington 61.24, et seq.QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION F/K/A QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON 108 1st Ave South, Suite 450 Seattle, WA 98104 Trustee Sale No.: WA-23-952554-BB Title Order No.: 230037185-WA-MSI Reference Number of Deed of Trust: Instrument No. 200704040230 Parcel Number(s): 4001770040 Grantor(s) for Recording Purposes under RCW 65.04.015: HEIDI G KRESS AND RYAN M KRESS WIFE AND HUSBAND Current Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust and Grantee (for Recording Purposes under RCW 65.04.015): THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS OF CWMBS, INC., CHL MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH TRUST 2007-7 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-7 Current Trustee of the Deed of Trust: QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION F/K/A QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON Current Loan Mortgage Servicer of the Deed of Trust: Bank of America, N.A. I.NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION F/K/A QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON, the undersigned Trustee, will on 9/1/2023, at 10:00 AM The 2ND floor entry plaza outside the County Courthouse, 930 Tacoma Avenue South, Tacoma, WA 98402 sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable in the form of credit bid or cash bid in the form of cashier’s check or certified checks from federally or State chartered banks, at the time of sale the following described real property, situated in the County of PIERCE, State of Washington, to-wit: LOT 4, WINGARD SUBDIVISION, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED UNDER RECORDING NO. 9905185002, RECORDS OF PIERCE COUNTY. TOGETHER WITH THAT PORTION OF VACATED COMMERCIAL STREET ADJOINING WHICH UPON VACATION ATTACHED TO THE HEREIN DESCRIBED PROPERTY BY OPERATION OF LAW. More commonly known as: 5336 N COMMERCIAL ST, RUSTON, WA 98407-3112 Subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 3/30/2007, recorded 4/4/2007, under Instrument No. 200704040230 records of PIERCE County, Washington, from HEIDI G KRESS AND RYAN M KRESS WIFE AND HUSBAND, as grantor(s), to STEWART TITLE, as original trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR NATIONAL BANK OF KANSAS CITY, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as original beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was subsequently assigned to THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS OF CWMBS, INC., CHL MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH TRUST 2007-7 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-7, the Beneficiary, under an assignment recorded under Auditors File Number 201205030734 II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust as referenced in RCW 61.21.030(4) is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust/Mortgage. III. The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears: $412,130.36. IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: The principal sum of $631,808.75, together with interest as provided in the Note from 5/1/2017 on, and such other costs, fees, and charges as are due under the Note, Deed of Trust, or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute. V. The above-described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. Said sale will be made without warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances on 9/1/2023. The defaults referred to in Paragraph III must be cured by 8/21/2023 (11 days before the sale date), or by other date as permitted in the Note or Deed of Trust, to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before 8/21/2023 (11 days before the sale), or by other date as permitted in the Note or Deed of Trust, the default as set forth in Paragraph III is cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashiers or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after the 8/21/2023 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower or Grantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance by paying the principal and interest, plus costs, fees and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower(s) and Grantor(s) by both first class and certified mail, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served, if applicable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in Paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. The list of recipients of the Notice of Default is listed within the Notice of Foreclosure provided to the Borrower(s) and Grantor(s). These requirements were completed as of 3/13/2023. VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above-described property. IX. Anyone having any objections to this sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS – The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You may be eligible for mediation. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date of this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission: Toll-free: 1-877-894-HOME (1-877-894-4663) or Web site: http://www.dfi.wa.gov/consumers/homeownership/post_purchase_counselors_foreclosure.htm The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: Toll-free: 1-800-569-4287 or National Web Site: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD or for Local counseling agencies in Washington: http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/fc/index.cfm?webListAction=search&searchstate=WA&filterSvc=dfc The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys: Telephone: 1-800-606-4819 or Web site: http://nwjustice.org/what-clear Additional information provided by the Trustee: If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the noteholders rights against the real property only. The Trustee’s Sale Number is WA-23-952554-BB. Dated: 4/25/2023 QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION F/K/A QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON, as Trustee By: Jeff Stenman, President Trustee’s Address: QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION F/K/A QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON 108 1 st Ave South, Suite 450, Seattle, WA 98104 For questions call toll-free: (866) 925-0241 Trustee Sale Number: WA-23-952554-BB Sale Line: 1-866-539-4173 or Login to: http://www. qualityloan.com IDSPub #0185558 IDX976090 7/28/2023 8/18/2023 | https://www.tacomadailyindex.com/blog/re-kress-heidi-g-s-sale/2468313/ | 2023-07-29T07:04:57 | 0 | https://www.tacomadailyindex.com/blog/re-kress-heidi-g-s-sale/2468313/ |
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Re: LEE, RICHARD
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington 61.24, et seq.QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION F/K/A QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON 108 1st Ave South, Suite 450 Seattle, WA 98104 Trustee Sale No.: WA-22-925806-RM Title Order No.: 2140935 Reference Number of Deed of Trust: Instrument No. 202002030418 Parcel Number(s): 3848000860 Grantor(s) for Recording Purposes under RCW 65.04.015: RICHARD LEE, A SINGLE MAN Current Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust and Grantee (for Recording Purposes under RCW 65.04.015): Freedom Mortgage Corporation Current Trustee of the Deed of Trust: QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION F/K/A QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON Current Loan Mortgage Servicer of the Deed of Trust: Freedom Mortgage Corporation I.NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION F/K/A QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON, the undersigned Trustee, will on 9/1/2023, at 9:00 AM At the Pierce County Superior Courthouse, 930 Tacoma Avenue South, Tacoma WA 98402, at the 2nd Floor Entry Plaza outside the county courthouse sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable in the form of credit bid or cash bid in the form of cashier’s check or certified checks from federally or State chartered banks, at the time of sale the following described real property, situated in the County of PIERCE, State of Washington, to-wit: LOT 86, FIR MEADOWS, AS PER PLAT RECORDED IN BOOK 35 OF PLATS, PAGE(S) 17-20, IN PIERCE COUNTY, WASHINGTON. SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF PIERCE, STATE OF WASHINGTON. More commonly known as: 19822 63RD AVENUE CT E, SPANAWAY, WA 98387 Subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 1/22/2020, recorded 2/3/2020, under Instrument No. 202002030418 records of PIERCE County, Washington, from RICHARD LEE, A SINGLE MAN, as grantor(s), to ALAMO TITLE COMPANY, as original trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as original beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was subsequently assigned to Freedom Mortgage Corporation, the Beneficiary, under an assignment recorded under Auditors File Number 202202240002. II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust as referenced in RCW 61.21.030(4) is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust/Mortgage. III. The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears: $50,544.39. IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: The principal sum of $261,450.64, together with interest as provided in the Note from 11/1/2020 on, and such other costs, fees, and charges as are due under the Note, Deed of Trust, or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute. V. The above-described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. Said sale will be made without warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances on 9/1/2023. The defaults referred to in Paragraph III must be cured by 8/21/2023 (11 days before the sale date), or by other date as permitted in the Note or Deed of Trust, to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before 8/21/2023 (11 days before the sale), or by other date as permitted in the Note or Deed of Trust, the default as set forth in Paragraph III is cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashiers or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after the 8/21/2023 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower or Grantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance by paying the principal and interest, plus costs, fees and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower(s) and Grantor(s) by both first class and certified mail, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served, if applicable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in Paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. The list of recipients of the Notice of Default is listed within the Notice of Foreclosure provided to the Borrower(s) and Grantor(s). These requirements were completed as of 6/14/2022. VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above-described property. IX. Anyone having any objections to this sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS – The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You may be eligible for mediation. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date of this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission: Toll-free: 1-877-894-HOME (1-877-894-4663) or Web site: http://www.dfi.wa.gov/consumers/homeownership/post_purchase_counselors_foreclosure.htm The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: Toll-free: 1-800-569-4287 or National Web Site: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD or for Local counseling agencies in Washington: http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/fc/index.cfm?webListAction=search&searchstate=WA&filterSvc=dfc The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys: Telephone: 1-800-606-4819 or Web site: http://nwjustice.org/what-clear Additional information provided by the Trustee: If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the noteholders rights against the real property only. The Trustee’s Sale Number is WA-22-925806-RM. Dated: 4/26/2023 QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION F/K/A QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON, as Trustee By: Jeff Stenman, President Trustee’s Address: QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION F/K/A QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON 108 1 st Ave South, Suite 450, Seattle, WA 98104 For questions call toll-free: (866) 925-0241 Trustee Sale Number: WA-22-925806-RM Sale Line: 800-280-2832 or Login to: http://www. qualityloan.com IDSPub #0185522 IDX976006 7/28/2023 8/18/2023 | https://www.tacomadailyindex.com/blog/re-lee-richard-notice-of-trustees-sale-2/2468315/ | 2023-07-29T07:05:04 | 1 | https://www.tacomadailyindex.com/blog/re-lee-richard-notice-of-trustees-sale-2/2468315/ |
“Bow Wow” who’s real name is Shad Moss is denying all allegations of cheating a young rapper out of money for a feature! saying she was catfished.
A father recently came forward claiming to be scammed by Bow Wow, and initiated a lawsuit against the ‘Bounce With Me’ rapper. The father of the young lady says he was charged 3K and paid over Cash App but the bars were never delivered! Now we hope this isn’t true especially since Bow Wow was one of the biggest child entertainers of our generation! We are certain he knows how it feels to be a young and hungry artist.
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Now that the family is requesting a whopping $15,000 for damages and distress Shad ain’t having it! He took to social media to call CAP on the accusations!
“D pimpin done got yall again huh? I dont conduct business on apps. I do NOT use or have cash app. So if you aint call management and send a wire .. you def was NOT dealing with me.”
He went on to say, “be careful who yall send yalls money to online. This happens everyday to folks. This the 3rd time somebody acting like me catfishing people,” Bow Wow tweeted.
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Re: Schauf, Johnny
TS #: 22-62720
Title Order #: 220008178-WA-MSI
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
Grantor: JOHNNY L. SCHAUF, AN UNMARRIED MAN
Current beneficiary of the deed of trust: HomeBridge Financial Services, Inc.
Current trustee of the deed of trust: North Star Trustee, LLC
Current mortgage servicer for the deed of trust: ServiceMac, LLC
Reference number of the deed of trust: 201805090221
Parcel Number(s): 457500-022-0
I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned Trustee, North Star Trustee, LLC will on 9/1/2023, at 9:00 AM at the 2nd Floor Entry Plaza Outside the Pierce County Superior Courthouse, 930 Tacoma Avenue South, Tacoma, WA 98402 sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable at the time of sale, the following described real property, situated in the County of Pierce, State of Washington, to-wit:
LOT 1 AND THE WEST 10 FEET OF LOT 2, BLOCK 2, HOLST ADDITION TO THE CITY OF TACOMA, WASHINGTON, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF FILED IN VOLUME 13 OF PLATS, PAGE 52, IN PIERCE COUNTY, WASHINGTON.
SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF PIERCE, STATE OF WASHINGTON.
Commonly known as:
902 E 51ST ST
TACOMA, WASHINGTON 98404
which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 4/17/2018, recorded 5/9/2018, as Instrument No. 201805090221, The Deed of Trust was reformed under Default Judgment for Declaratory Relief, Quiet Title, and Order Granting Reconveyance of Deed of Trust recorded 1/6/2023 under Instrument No. 202301060075, records of Pierce County, Washington, from JOHNNY L. SCHAUF, AN UNMARRIED MAN, as Grantor(s), to Fidelity National Title Insurance Company, a California corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”), as designated nominee for HomeBridge Financial Services, Inc. DBA CapWest Home Loans, beneficiary of the security instrument, its successors and assigns, as Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was assigned to HomeBridge Financial Services, Inc., under an Assignment recorded under Auditor’s File No. 202104290891.
II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust.
III. The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows:
Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears:
PAYMENT INFORMATION
Total Monthly Payments Due:
TOTAL
November 1, 2020 – April 5, 2023 $32,585.46
Corporate Advances: $3,100.08
LATE CHARGE INFORMATION
TOTAL LATE CHARGES TOTAL
$628.74
PROMISSORY NOTE INFORMATION
Note Dated: 4/17/2018
Note Amount: $132,000.00
Interest Paid To: 10/1/2020
Next Due Date: 11/1/2020
IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: Principal $127,015.55, together with interest as provided in the note or other instrument secured from 10/1/2020, and such other costs and fees as are due under the note or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute.
V. The above-described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. The sale will be made without warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances on 9/1/2023. The default(s) referred to in Paragraph III must be cured by 8/21/2023, (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before 8/21/2023 (11 days before the sale) the default as set forth in Paragraph III is cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashiers or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after the 8/21/2023 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower or Grantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance paying the entire principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults.
VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following addresses:
NAME & ADDRESS
CINDY L. SCHAUF AKA CYNTHIA L. SCHAUF 902 E. 51ST ST
TACOMA, WA 98404
ESTATE OF CINDY L. SCHAUF AKA CYNTHIA L. SCHAUF 902 E. 51ST ST
TACOMA, WA 98404
JOHNNY L. SCHAUF 902 E 51ST ST
TACOMA, WA 98404
JOHNNY L. SCHAUF 902 E 51ST ST
TACOMA, WA 98404-2816
UNKNOWN HEIRS & DEVISEES OF CINDY L. SCHAUF AKA CYNTHIA L. SCHAUF 902 E. 51ST ST
TACOMA, WA 98404
by both first class and certified mail on 2/9/2023, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served 2/8/2023, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in Paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting.
VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale.
VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above described property.
IX. Anyone having any objections to this sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale.
X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS – The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants and tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants and tenants by summary proceedings under the Unlawful Detainer Act, Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060.
THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME.
You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date of this notice to pursue mediation.
DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help.
SEEKING ASSISTANCE – Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following:
The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission: Telephone: 1-877-894HOME (1-877-894-4663)
Web site: http://www.dfi.wa.gov/consumers/homeownership/
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: Telephone: 1-800-569-4287
Web site: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD
The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys
Telephone: 1-800-606-4819 Web site: http://www.ocla.wa.gov/
This office is enforcing a security interest of your creditor. To the extent that your obligation has been discharged by a bankruptcy court or is subject to an automatic stay of bankruptcy, this notice is for informational purposes only and does not constitute a demand for payment or any attempt to collect such obligation.
DATED: 04/19/2023 North Star Trustee, LLC, as Trustee
Lisa Hackney, Vice President of Trustee Operations
Address for service:
North Star Trustee, LLC
6100 219th ST SW, Suite 480
Mountlake Terrace, Washington 98043
Trustee Phone No: (206) 866-5345
Trustee Fax No: (206) 374-2252
Beneficiary / Servicer Phone: 803-650-3470
STATE OF WASHINGTON) ss.
COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH) I certify that I know or have satisfactory evidence that Lisa Hackney is the person who appeared before me, and said person acknowledged that (he/she) signed this instrument, on oath stated that (he/she) was authorized to execute the instrument and acknowledged it as the Vice President of Trustee Operations of North Star Trustee, LLC to be the free and voluntary act of such party for the uses and purposes mentioned in the instrument.
Dated: 04/19/2023
Kellie Barnes NOTARY PUBLIC in and for the State of Washington, residing at Lynnwood, WA
My commission expires 6/10/2024
EPP 37053 IDX-975457
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Re: SHURSTAD, CORY A
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington 61.24, et seq.QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION F/K/A QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON 108 1st Ave South, Suite 450 Seattle, WA 98104 Trustee Sale No.: WA-23-952395-BF Title Order No.: 02-23000530 Reference Number of Deed of Trust: Instrument No. 201805210333 Parcel Number(s): 900356-012-0 Grantor(s) for Recording Purposes under RCW 65.04.015: CORY A SHURSTAD, A SINGLE MAN Current Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust and Grantee (for Recording Purposes under RCW 65.04.015): Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Current Trustee of the Deed of Trust: QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION F/K/A QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON Current Loan Mortgage Servicer of the Deed of Trust: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. I.NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION F/K/A QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON, the undersigned Trustee, will on 9/1/2023, at 9:00 AM At the Pierce County Superior Courthouse, 930 Tacoma Avenue South, Tacoma WA 98402, at the 2nd Floor Entry Plaza outside the county courthouse sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable in the form of credit bid or cash bid in the form of cashier’s check or certified checks from federally or State chartered banks, at the time of sale the following described real property, situated in the County of PIERCE, State of Washington, to-wit: UNIT B, BLDG 16, HEATHERWOOD AT LAKELAND, A CONDOMINIUM, PHASE II, ACCORDING TO THE DECLARATION THEREOF RECORDED AUGUST 29, 2001 UNDER RECORDING NUMBER 200108290341, WHICH IS AN AMENDMENT OF DECLARATION RECORDED JUNE 27, 2001 UNDER RECORDING NUMBER 200106270320, AND SURVEY MAP AND PLANS RECORDED AUGUST 29, 2001 UNDER RECORDING NUMBER 200108295002 WHICH IS AN AMENDMENT OF SURVEY MAP AND PLANS RECORDED JUNE 27, 2001 UNDER RECORDING NUMBER 200106275001, RECORDS OF PIERCE COUNTY AUDITOR. SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF PIERCE, STATE OF WASHINGTON. More commonly known as: 1129 61ST ST SE UNIT B, AUBURN, WA 98092 Subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 5/15/2018, recorded 5/21/2018, under Instrument No. 201805210333 records of PIERCE County, Washington, from CORY A SHURSTAD, A SINGLE MAN , as grantor(s), to TICOR TITLE , as original trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATIONS SYSTEMS, INC., AS BENEFICIARY, AS NOMINEE FOR PREMIER MORTGAGE RESOURCES LLC, ITS SUCCESSOR AND ASSIGNS, as original beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was subsequently assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., the Beneficiary, under an assignment recorded under Auditors File Number 202012220786 II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust as referenced in RCW 61.21.030(4) is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust/Mortgage. III. The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears: $52,103.78. IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: The principal sum of $152,235.41, together with interest as provided in the Note from 10/1/2020 on, and such other costs, fees, and charges as are due under the Note, Deed of Trust, or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute. V. The above-described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. Said sale will be made without warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances on 9/1/2023. The defaults referred to in Paragraph III must be cured by 8/21/2023 (11 days before the sale date), or by other date as permitted in the Note or Deed of Trust, to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before 8/21/2023 (11 days before the sale), or by other date as permitted in the Note or Deed of Trust, the default as set forth in Paragraph III is cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashiers or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after the 8/21/2023 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower or Grantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance by paying the principal and interest, plus costs, fees and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower(s) and Grantor(s) by both first class and certified mail, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served, if applicable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in Paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. The list of recipients of the Notice of Default is listed within the Notice of Foreclosure provided to the Borrower(s) and Grantor(s). These requirements were completed as of 3/27/2023. VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above-described property. IX. Anyone having any objections to this sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS – The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You may be eligible for mediation. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date of this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission: Toll-free: 1-877-894-HOME (1-877-894-4663) or Web site: http://www.dfi.wa.gov/consumers/homeownership/post_purchase_counselors_foreclosure.htm The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: Toll-free: 1-800-569-4287 or National Web Site: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD or for Local counseling agencies in Washington: http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/fc/index.cfm?webListAction=search&searchstate=WA&filterSvc=dfc The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys: Telephone: 1-800-606-4819 or Web site: http://nwjustice.org/what-clear Additional information provided by the Trustee: If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the noteholders rights against the real property only. 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Re: STACEY, MATTHEW
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington 61.24, et seq.QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION F/K/A QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON 108 1st Ave South, Suite 450 Seattle, WA 98104 Trustee Sale No.: WA-23-953587-RM Title Order No.: 230065427-WA-MSI Reference Number of Deed of Trust: Instrument No. 201605240818 Parcel Number(s): 6690000570 Grantor(s) for Recording Purposes under RCW 65.04.015: MATTHEW STACEY, AN UNMARRIED MAN Current Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust and Grantee (for Recording Purposes under RCW 65.04.015): Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC Current Trustee of the Deed of Trust: QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION F/K/A QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON Current Loan Mortgage Servicer of the Deed of Trust: LoanCare, LLC I.NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION F/K/A QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON, the undersigned Trustee, will on 9/1/2023, at 9:00 AM At the Pierce County Superior Courthouse, 930 Tacoma Avenue South, Tacoma WA 98402, at the 2nd Floor Entry Plaza outside the county courthouse sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable in the form of credit bid or cash bid in the form of cashier’s check or certified checks from federally or State chartered banks, at the time of sale the following described real property, situated in the County of PIERCE, State of Washington, to-wit: LOTS 1 AND 2 AND THE WEST 5 FEET OF LOT 3 IN BLOCK 12 OF PARK AVENUE ADDITION TO TACOMA, ACCORDING TO PLAT RECORDED IN VOLUME 7 OF PLATS AT PAGE 119, IN PIERCE COUNTY, WASHINGTON. SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF PIERCE, STATE OF WASHINGTON. More commonly known as: 721 S 60TH ST, TACOMA, WA 98408 Subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 5/23/2016, recorded 5/24/2016, under Instrument No. 201605240818 records of PIERCE County, Washington, from MATTHEW STACEY, AN UNMARRIED MAN, as grantor(s), to CHICAGO TITLE AND ESCROW, as original trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR BAY EQUITY LLC., A CALIFORNIA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as original beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was subsequently assigned to Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC, the Beneficiary, under an assignment recorded under Auditors File Number 202111030037 II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust as referenced in RCW 61.21.030(4) is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust/Mortgage. III. The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears: $14,701.04. IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: The principal sum of $149,304.31, together with interest as provided in the Note from 8/1/2022 on, and such other costs, fees, and charges as are due under the Note, Deed of Trust, or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute. V. The above-described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. Said sale will be made without warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances on 9/1/2023. The defaults referred to in Paragraph III must be cured by 8/21/2023 (11 days before the sale date), or by other date as permitted in the Note or Deed of Trust, to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before 8/21/2023 (11 days before the sale), or by other date as permitted in the Note or Deed of Trust, the default as set forth in Paragraph III is cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashiers or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after the 8/21/2023 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower or Grantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance by paying the principal and interest, plus costs, fees and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower(s) and Grantor(s) by both first class and certified mail, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served, if applicable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in Paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. The list of recipients of the Notice of Default is listed within the Notice of Foreclosure provided to the Borrower(s) and Grantor(s). These requirements were completed as of 3/23/2023. VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above-described property. IX. Anyone having any objections to this sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS – The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You may be eligible for mediation. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date of this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission: Toll-free: 1-877-894-HOME (1-877-894-4663) or Web site: http://www.dfi.wa.gov/consumers/homeownership/post_purchase_counselors_foreclosure.htm The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: Toll-free: 1-800-569-4287 or National Web Site: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD or for Local counseling agencies in Washington: http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/fc/index.cfm?webListAction=search&searchstate=WA&filterSvc=dfc The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys: Telephone: 1-800-606-4819 or Web site: http://nwjustice.org/what-clear Additional information provided by the Trustee: If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the noteholders rights against the real property only. 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Racing will resume at Churchill Downs in September, with no changes being made after a review of surfaces and safety protocols in the wake of 12 horse deaths, including seven in the days leading up to the Kentucky Derby in May.
The Louisville track suspended racing operations on June 7 and moved the rest of its spring meet to Ellis Park in western Kentucky at the recommendation of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, the sport’s national overseer.
Training continued at Churchill Downs during the track’s investigation.
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Churchill Downs Inc. CEO Bill Carstanjen called the deaths "a series of unfortunate circumstances” and said the review “didn’t find anything fundamentally wrong or different about our track from previous years.”
“That, in a sense, can sometimes be unsatisfying,” he said. “But that’s business, and that’s sports.”
Two of the horse deaths occurred in undercard races on Derby day. Another five died later.
“The takeaway is, the track is very safe,” Carstanjen said Thursday on an earnings call with CDI investors.
"What we needed to do was spend some of this time in the interim, while we ran the rest of the (spring) meet at Ellis to just go soup to nuts through every single thing we do at the racetrack. There was nothing that jumped out as an apparent cause of the injuries, of the breakdowns; and, as we went through and rebuilt our processes from the ground up to check everything that we do to make extra sure, we didn’t find anything material.”
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Jane E. Perry
April 12, 1939 - July 27, 2023
Jane E. Perry, 84, of rural St. Paul died unexpectedly on Thursday, July 27, 2023, at Howard County Medical Center in St. Paul.
Jane chose to be cremated. A private family inurnment will be held at a later date.
Peters Funeral Home of St. Paul is assisting the family.
Memorials are suggested to the family for later designation.
Jane was born on April 12, 1939, in Lincoln, the daughter of Layke V. and Virginia D. (Dill) Howett. She grew up and received her education in Lincoln. She then attended and graduated from Doane College. She worked as administrative assistant at Doane College until her retirement in 2015. She later moved to live with her granddaughter, near St. Paul.
Jane was a very social person that loved being around people, especially her family. She also enjoyed bowling.
She was a member of the Women's National Bowling Association.
She is survived by her grandchildren, Macy and Jonathon Perry-Wampler of St. Paul, Scott Patterson of Lincoln, Jason and Jade Patterson of Omaha, Chelsea and Paul Buchner of Syracuse and Richard Allen Perry III of South Dakota; seven great-grandchildren; and one sister, Violet Cox of South Dakota.
She was preceded in death by her parents; and children, Richard Perry, Jr. and Elizabeth “Betsy” Patterson.
Condolences and memories may be shared with Jane's family by visiting www.petersfuneralhome.net. | https://journalstar.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/jane-e-perry/article_4c9d37bb-44ae-5cef-835d-44c6778a8397.html | 2023-07-29T07:07:22 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/jane-e-perry/article_4c9d37bb-44ae-5cef-835d-44c6778a8397.html |
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Marie H. Schoen, 98, of Adams, died Thursday, July 27, 2023.
Survivors include her three daughters, Lavon Behrens of Adams, Linda (Calvin) VanEngen of Lincoln, Doreen (Robert) Wallman of Adams; nine grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren.
Celebration of life: 10:00 A.M. on Monday, July 31, 2023 at Zion Lutheran Church of rural Pickrell with Pastor Jerry Gilbreath officiating. The service will be livestreamed on the church's Facebook page. Private family graveside service: Zion Lutheran Cemetery, rural Pickrell. There will be no visitation. Memorials in lieu of flowers are suggested to the family for future designation. www.foxfuneralhome.net Fox Funeral Home & Cremation Services of Beatrice is in charge of the arrangements. | https://journalstar.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/marie-h-schoen/article_2efcd6bd-0ccd-5d40-9027-42379737055f.html | 2023-07-29T07:07:28 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/marie-h-schoen/article_2efcd6bd-0ccd-5d40-9027-42379737055f.html |
Friday: Lincoln 9, Kane County 4.
What went right: The Saltdogs never trailed at Haymarket Park, scoring twice in the first inning before blowing the game open with four runs in the third inning and three in the fourth, snapping a three-game losing streak.
Leading 2-1 in the third, Lincoln got an RBI single by Nick Anderson, an RBI sacrifice fly from Jason Rogers in his season debut with Lincoln, an RBI single from Aaron Takacs that drove in Nick Anderson and a passed ball that allowed Will Kengor to score. RBI singles in the fourth inning from Kengor and Nate Samson extended the lead to 9-1.
Luke Roskam reached base five times to extend his on-base streak to 31 games, going 2-for-2 with two walks and getting hit by a pitch. He also scored three runs. Anderson went 3-for-5 with a run and two RBIs.
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Abdallah Aris pitched six innings, giving up three runs on three hits while striking out nine — a season-high for the team — to earn the win and improve to 4-2. R.J. Freure struck out the side in his one inning of work; David Zoz added two more strikeouts in his two innings.
What went wrong: The start of the game was delayed just over an hour by a rain shower. Kane County's Todd Lott had two solo home runs for half of the Cougars' offensive output.
Up next: The series continues with Saturday's game scheduled to start at 6 p.m. | https://journalstar.com/sports/baseball/saltdogs/dog-dish-saltdogs-tame-cougars-to-open-seven-game-homestand/article_3e0949d4-2dbe-11ee-9df6-c7bc14ae27bb.html | 2023-07-29T07:07:34 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/sports/baseball/saltdogs/dog-dish-saltdogs-tame-cougars-to-open-seven-game-homestand/article_3e0949d4-2dbe-11ee-9df6-c7bc14ae27bb.html |
July is UV Safety Month, which makes this a good time to learn about sunburn and why it's important to avoid one by protecting your skin from the harmful effects of ultraviolet, or UV, radiation from sunlight.
Sunburn is inflamed, painful skin that feels hot to the touch. It's caused by too much exposure to UV light. That UV light may be from the sun or artificial sources, such as sunlamps and tanning beds. UVA is the wavelength of light that can penetrate to the deep layers of skin and lead to skin damage over time. UVB is the wavelength of light that penetrates the skin more superficially and causes sunburn.
UV light damages skin cells. The immune system reacts by increasing blood flow to the affected areas, which causes the inflamed skin known as sunburn.
Any exposed part of your body, including your earlobes, scalp and lips, can burn. Even covered areas can burn if, for example, your clothing has a loose weave that allows UV light through. Your eyes, which are extremely sensitive to the sun's UV light, also can burn. You can get sunburn on cool or cloudy days. Surfaces such as snow, sand and water also can reflect UV rays and burn skin.
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Sunburn signs and symptoms usually appear within a few hours after sun exposure. But it may take a day or more to know how severe the sunburn is. If the damage is severe, medical attention may be required.
Intense, repeated UV light exposure that results in sunburn increases the risk of other skin damage, such as wrinkles and age spots. It also raises the risk of skin cancers such as melanoma. This slideshow includes images of several conditions caused by sun damage.
Here are four ways you can protect yourself from UV radiation damage:
• Time of day: Avoid sun exposure in the middle of the day — between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. — when the UV rays are strongest. In addition, be mindful that clouds offer little protection, and UV rays can bounce off surfaces such as water, sand, snow or pavement, leading to increased UV exposure.
• Sunscreen: Use a broad-spectrum sunscreen with a sun protection factor, or SPF, of at least 30 — even on cloudy days. Apply sunscreen generously, and reapply every two hours — or more often if you're swimming or perspiring. Use a generous amount of sunscreen on all exposed skin, including your lips, the tips of your ears, and the backs of your hands and neck. And if you're using leftover sunscreen from year to year, be sure to check the expiration date. Learn more about choosing the best sunscreen.
• Sunglasses: UV radiation also can burn your eyes. Sunburned eyes can feel painful or gritty. Too much UV light can damage the retina, lens and cornea. Sun damage to the lens can lead to clouding of the lens, or cataracts. Exposure to UV light also can increase your risk of developing ocular melanoma. Sunburn of the cornea also is called snow blindness. Look for sunglasses that block both types of UV radiation — UVA and UVB rays. Learn more about choosing the best sunglasses.
• Protective clothing: Sunscreens don't provide complete protection from UV rays. You also should protect your skin with dark, tightly woven clothing that covers your arms and legs, and a broad-brimmed hat that provides more protection than a baseball cap or visor. Some companies also sell photoprotective clothing, with a UV protection factor, or UPF, rating similar to the SPF rating of sunscreens. Learn more about UPF clothing.
Exercising and enjoying time outdoors are important for good health. This time of year means fun in the sun for many people. Knowing how to protect your skin will allow you to do so safely. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/life-entertainment/nation-world/music/uv-rays-sunburn-suntan-sun-protection/article_36f09250-2d56-11ee-bc6d-8329e6f8055c.html | 2023-07-29T07:08:10 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/life-entertainment/nation-world/music/uv-rays-sunburn-suntan-sun-protection/article_36f09250-2d56-11ee-bc6d-8329e6f8055c.html |
YORKTOWN, Va. — Dr. Chris Hakim lives in a version of the not-so-distant past.
He practices modern medicine and spends as much time as he likes with patients without issue — a departure from the growing trend in health care.
“The patient is now seeing a physician who doesn’t decide how much time he spends with a given patient,” Hakim said. “Those things are dictated by someone else. There are guidelines to everything and they come from administration.”
Over the 35 years Hakim has been working in health care, he’s learned the heartbeat of good care’s rhythm is the trust and relationship between patient and provider. His second 15 years practicing and running an independent practice with up to 25 employees, he saw how things were changing and adapted as best he could.
But those forces causing changes have been “turbocharged” in recent years, according to Hakim. The rheumatologist saw firsthand how some patients, particularly older ones, struggled to deal with the shifting landscape of obtaining care from people facing their own pressures in providing it.
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The rise of administration has stretched physicians and encouraged private practices to join with systems that could provide infrastructure to meet new IT burdens and deal with government- and industry-sponsored plans so the physician could spend more time focusing on health again.
“Patients are witnessing the change of command here and who is in control, who is making all these decisions and it’s changing the experience all around,” Hakim said.
Millions of Americans stopped having a primary care provider between 2002 and 2015, according to a Harvard Medical School Researchers study completed in 2019. The sector is grappling with a wave of retirements and not enough doctors taking their places — causing an increasing reliance on a series of other health care providers with less formal training to fill that space.
They all share the drive to make people feel better, whether they are nurse practitioners or physician assistants, and they are referred to differently depending on whom you ask — physician extenders to some, advanced practice providers to others. Regardless, they are stepping up to fill the breach as a shortage of primary care physicians crests as the average age of Americans continues to grow older. This means many Americans get less face-to-face time with the dwindling number of primary care doctors.
Advanced practice providers “certainly expand our capacity and allow a team to manage more patients than they would if it was just a physician by themselves,” said Dr. Steve Pearman, vice president of medical operations for Sentara Medical Group.
“Things the way we used to do (them) are not going to work for us in the future,” Pearman said.
The physician shortage was created by a variety of issues, from a lack of residencies despite growing medical school class sizes, more pay for specialists than primary care providers despite the debt burden of becoming one of those being similar, and other factors, he said.
One of the pressures among the physician shortage is the modern reimbursement model called fee for service, Pearman said.
“The fee for service reimbursement model creates a tension between access and capacity and the way we get paid,” he said.
The transactional interaction means depending on service units times the number equals the reimbursement and primary care loses money in many ways, Pearman said.
“It’s very hard for independent primary care physicians to make money in a free for service world,” he said. “And many times, the solution to reducing costs is to reduce what they’re paying the physician rather than focusing on things like do you really need to do other procedures or surgeries. So in that sense, there is a certain amount of pressure for physicians and APPs to see a certain number per day.”
Sentara tries to find the sweet spot between volume and the necessary amount of care for a patient, he said. This also encourages systems to avoid having open spots so that they can cover their expenses and costs, but that also comes at the expense of chilling the ability of patients to see physicians the same day.
Templates exist with 15 to 20 minute slots and 30 to 40 minute slots divided by hours in the day to gauge how many patients must be seen in a day to cover expenses, he said.
“The trick is to be efficient enough to hone in on the most important things during that encounter and maybe address things outside the encounter if they pop up,” Pearman said.
He said he had APPs in his primary care practice in the ’90s and patients generally understood if they couldn’t see him and would trust and like the APP who would provide care for them in his stead.
“This transition for patients, physicians and APPs as well, is that we want to maintain a personal relationship with them,” Pearman said. However, there are visits — such as for a prescription refill — where an APP can see the protocol and can get it done.
“There are a lot of parts of care that we provide and we can decant on to other parts of the team to allow more time for me in the room with you when I see you, and other ways of communication back and forth,” he said. “So seeing patients less often does not necessarily mean it’s less personal.”
Coordination of services provide different types of access meant to address people’s needs, Pearman said. For example, in chronic care management, there are likely those who’d rather receive an in-depth call each month than wait six months to see a doctor face-to-face with a list of issues that have worsened in that time, according to Pearman.
“In some ways, if we do this correctly, it’s going to be better and more and they’ll get more touches versus less touches with one person,” Pearman said.
And he agrees the trust and relationship between providers is vital for the patient and the system.
“To me, it is the crux of how primary care reduces health care costs,” Pearman said.
In some states, such as California, there are value-based health contracts where reimbursements are based on effectiveness in preventing health issues, he said. The fee for service model, where reimbursements are based on services provided, is much more ubiquitous in Virginia, according to Pearman.
Insurance providers recognize the balance of costs and care for patients, according to Monica Schmude, president of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield in Virginia.
“If there’s a limit of access to care because there’s not enough providers, then certainly preventative care measures are going to be sacrificed and we’re going to have more chronic conditions,” Schmude said. “So there’s a domino effect.”
“It’s critical that every patient has a relationship with a physician,” she said.
Very low out of-pocket/no out-of-pocket costs is a major incentive that drives patients to physicians for preventative care and in commercial groups, build incentives as well for preventative care, according to Schmude.
“The goal here is to have 100% compliance — 100% of their workforce has a physician relationship — that’s the place to start,” she said. “Then as a physician encounter is needed, they know where to go, they’re probably less inclined to go to the emergency room for things that are less emergent and they’re more inclined to call a physician’s office to direct that care accordingly.”
Schmude said one of Anthem’s leading proposed solutions is incentivizing physicians and other providers to “practice at the top of their license.” This means distributing tasks to those most qualified to do them — allowing the most time for the most qualified people to complete the most complicated tasks, she said.
Additionally, Anthem sees digital platforms like the one they have that can help bridge any potential gaps in care by ensuring people are able to get the care they need quickly. However, Schmude said she considers her parents as an example of how technology is not a single solution to the issue.
Again, this is where other programs and support can be provided by insurers, like Anthem, to free up provider time for patients, she said. These wrap-around programs are more based in the community, and especially for the community, not just a technological answer, she said.
These days, Hakim has a refreshing connection with the Peninsula patient community through his work as a doctor at the Lackey Clinic in Yorktown.
“That is what people I think are seeking in this world where so much of that is slipping away,” Hakim said. “And of all the places they counted on, it was going to be in their personal health care and what they thought of as a relationship-based type of interaction.”
Though there are many areas, such as personal banking, where new systems have risen to reduce costs and streamline, Hakim said. But health care is one area where those kinds of changes don’t just mean a minor difference of seeing an ATM versus a human bank teller.
Health care “was kind of holy space and you didn’t tamper with some of that, but we’re well into the process of a radical conversion there and it’s very difficult, especially for older people,” he said. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/life-entertainment/nation-world/wellness/doctor-visit-patient-change-nurse-practitioner-primary-care-provider/article_59fdbe82-2d81-11ee-8d7d-7fc5621055a0.html | 2023-07-29T07:08:16 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/life-entertainment/nation-world/wellness/doctor-visit-patient-change-nurse-practitioner-primary-care-provider/article_59fdbe82-2d81-11ee-8d7d-7fc5621055a0.html |
We’ve been lucky with more rain and cooler weather this summer. My friend Terry in Arizona has not been as fortunate.
“I love the temps you guys are having,” she messaged me. “It’s always hot here in the summer but it is intense this year!”
No kidding. Weather forecasters recently reported that unrelenting high temperatures in the Phoenix area could be the most intense heat wave experienced in the Valley of the Sun since records began.
How do our bodies stay cool when we get overheated?
We sweat. It’s the evaporation of water from perspiration that helps cool us. When body fluids are used up to fuel sweat glands, we can become dehydrated in a hurry, according to a fascinating review on sweat (really) in a scientific journal appropriately called Temperature.
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Heat stroke — a condition caused when the body gets overheated — is life-threatening. A severe lack of fluids can even cause major organs to shut down. Not good.
About 60% of our body weight is water, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Besides sweat, water is the basis of all our body fluids, including saliva, blood, urine and the fluid that cushions our joints. That’s why we need a constant supply to keep everything working as it should. On average, women need around 9 cups of fluids a day, and men need 13 cups.
If that sound like a lot, remember that “fluid” includes water, coffee, tea, milk, fruit and vegetable juices and other beverages except alcohol (sorry). Best to avoid beverages loaded with sugar as well.
One easy way to assess the adequacy of your fluids: Check your urine. If it is darker than light lemonade, up your fluid intake. Other signs of dehydration include fatigue, dizziness and confusion.
When we sweat profusely, our bodies lose mostly water and salt (sodium and chloride) but also small amounts of potassium, calcium, iron and other nutrients. So how do we beat the heat?
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the most important way to prevent heat illness is to drink enough fluids. And don’t wait until you’re thirsty to drink. Thirst alone is a faulty indicator of fluid levels.
Plain water is generally sufficient if you eat regular meals, says the CDC. Two slices of whole grain bread, for example, supplies similar amounts of sodium, potassium and other electrolytes as a 20-ounce sports drink. (People who exercise and sweat for long periods of time without meals may need fluids with carbohydrates and electrolytes.)
When working in the heat, we are advised to drink 1 cup (8 ounces) of water every 15 to 20 minutes. That translates to about 24 to 32 ounces per hour, says the CDC. And drink a little at a time, they advise. It’s more effective than gulping large amounts at once.
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VINELAND — A Bridgeton man died from injuries sustained in a crash on Route 55 on Wednesday, State Police said.
At 5:22 p.m., a Toyota, driven by Lugwig Buch, 27, was northbound on Route 55 when it left the road, crossing the grassy median into the southbound lanes and striking a Porsche Cayenne, State Police Sgt. Philip Curry said Friday.
Buch was fatally injured. The Porsche's driver, who was unidentified, sustained moderate injuries, Curry said.
The highway's southbound lanes were closed for about four hours, causing heavy traffic buildup. The northbound side was shut down for about one hour, resulting in light congestion.
The crash was under investigation as of Friday. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-courts/cumberland-county-man-dies-route55-crash/article_346eec84-2d74-11ee-8339-0b794b61c51d.html | 2023-07-29T07:08:28 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-courts/cumberland-county-man-dies-route55-crash/article_346eec84-2d74-11ee-8339-0b794b61c51d.html |
Weeks after an arrest in a series of murders in Gilgo Beach, New York, Verner Dilts is hopeful the break in that case can lead detectives to the person who killed his daughter and three other women near Atlantic City almost 17 years ago.
A photo of Molly Dilts sits in her father’s Pennsylvania home, about an hour from Pittsburgh, while questions about who murdered her remain unanswered.
With Rex Heuermann’s arrest in the New York case, Verner Dilts hopes investigators are closer to charging the person responsible for his daughter’s death.
“Investigators are looking into Heuermann in connection with cases around the nation, including Atlantic City, Las Vegas and South Carolina,” the Suffolk County Police Department said in a statement Tuesday.
The murders gained the attention of producers at A&E, who examined the case in a 2016 episode of “The Killing Season.” The documentary explained similarities in the Gilgo Beach and West Atlantic City cases, theorizing they could be linked to the same killer.
“I’m hoping that he left some evidence on those girls,” said Verner Dilts, 62, of Black Lick, Pennsylvania.
Molly Dilts, 20, was found behind the since-razed Golden Key Motel in the West Atlantic City section of Egg Harbor Township on Nov. 20, 2006, along with the bodies of Kim Raffo, 35, Barbara Breidor, 42, and Tracy Roberts, 23. No one has been charged with the deaths, but local investigators have continued their search.
“We have no comment on the Gilgo Beach investigation and any potential connection to the 2006 Black Horse Pike homicides,” the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement Monday. “Since that is still an open investigation, any comment on it could potentially compromise that investigation.”
Egg Harbor Township police Chief Michael Hughes was a detective when the bodies of Kim Raffo…
In hearing that the Long Island architect was arrested for killing three women in New York, former Egg Harbor Township Mayor James “Sonny” McCullough returned to the chilling moment he took the phone call informing him four bodies were found in his town.
“The minute I saw the news of the Gilgo (Beach) murders, and the similarities of the way the bodies were disposed of, I immediately thought of the West Atlantic City murders,” McCullough said.
A Suffolk County police officer and his cadaver dog were in the dunes about 15 miles east of Jones Beach in December 2010, searching for 24-year-old Shannan Gilbert, a missing Jersey City prostitute, who disappeared seven months earlier after meeting a client in Oak Beach.
They stumbled upon a woman’s remains, a discovery that yielded a broader investigation. Days later, three more sets of remains were found near the first, none of which were those of the missing prostitute.
The search expanded to more than 15 miles along the highway. The FBI supplied aerial surveillance photos of the region and other technical assistance.
By April, the search recovered the remains of 10 victims. Police believe nine were linked to the sex trade. The first four found were strangled elsewhere and dumped.
Heuermann has not been implicated in the Atlantic County case, but with his arrest, McCullough hopes the murders may finally be solved.
In West Atlantic City, two women out for a walk came across a marshy ditch behind the motel and discovered Raffo’s body first. While police swarmed the area for evidence, the bodies of Dilts, Breidor and Roberts were found.
Police in Suffolk County, New York, are investigating ties between a series of killings in Gilgo Beach, where an arrest was recently made, and the 2006 killings of four women whose bodies were found in West Atlantic City, according to a report from WABC.
The women were all face down with their heads pointing east toward Atlantic City. Raffo was strangled, Roberts was asphyxiated, and Dilts’ and Breidor’s bodies were too decomposed to discern their cause of death.
Heuermann, 59, was arrested two weeks ago amid a renewed investigation into the Gilgo Beach murders. He is charged in the deaths of three of 11 victims in the case. He lives in Massapequa Park, a community slightly north of where the remains were found in 2010 and 2011.
McCullough never traveled down the pike to view the crime scene, but he was all too familiar with the Golden Key and its motel neighbors, which were known as breeding grounds for crime.
Egg Harbor Township paid $465,000 for the Golden Key as part of a $3 million grant from the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority to level the building and other motels nearby. Only overgrown grass and its paved parking lot remain.
As in the Gilgo Beach case, the four women killed in West Atlantic City were prostitutes.
“I could never understand why these women were walking,” McCullough said of the discovery. “Had they not been walking, God knows how many more bodies would have been stacked up there.”
Verner Dilts remembers his daughter as a fearless young woman venturing into unfamiliar areas without thought.
She was in the Atlantic City area for a matter of weeks before she died, leaving behind a now 18-year-old son, Jeremiah Dilts, who was an infant around the time of the killings.
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“If she wanted to go, she’d hop on a bus and go,” Verner Dilts said. “I can’t say anything bad about her. She was a good kid. She also did her partying and stuff as a teenager. She did everything I did when I was younger.”
The family first learned of the deaths through a television report. Hearing that a body had a tattoo similar to Molly’s, they contacted Atlantic County authorities, leading to them confirming the tragic end to her life, Verner Dilts said.
Her toxicology tests came back negative for drugs, he said.
Not knowing how she died still haunts him.
“I wish I was a better father because a lot of times I blame myself,” Verner Dilts said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
GALLERY: 15th anniversary of the triple homicide in West Atlantic City
5 feet tall, 160 pounds, found wearing a mesh shirt, bra, denim miniskirt and mesh blouse. She had a tattoo of a bulldog at the small of her back, a Playboy bunny on her upper right shoulder and ‘Molly’ on her stomach.
Mother of a then-18-month-old son who was living with her father. Mother died in 2000, brother in 2005. Left school in 11th grade and worked at a KFC/Pizza Hut near her hometown, Black Lick, Pennsylvania, before leaving for Atlantic City on Oct. 4.
Barbara V. Breidor, b. June 5, 1964
5 feet, 7 inches tall, 140 to 150 pounds, found wearing blue jeans and a brown, long-sleeved, zippered shirt.
Only high school graduate of the four women, attended Penn State University for two years. Had a daughter, then 9, but never married. Was raised in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, and most recently lived in Ventnor. Managed parents’ jewelry store in the former Ocean One Mall on the Atlantic City Boardwalk and worked as a waitress at Tropicana Atlantic City.
Tracy Ann Roberts, b. April 7, 1983
5 feet, 8 inches tall, 120 pounds, had a butterfly tattoo on the small of her back, found wearing a red-hooded sweatshirt and black bra.
Mother of a then-5-year-old daughter and native of Bear, Delaware. Lived with a boyfriend in the Kensington section of Philadelphia.
Kim Raffo, b. Feb. 11, 1971
5 feet, 6 inches tall, 140 pounds, found wearing capri camouflage pants and a white Hard Rock Cafe tank top.
Married to Hugh Auslander, with a daughter, then 14, and son, then 12. Grew up in Brooklyn, New York, before moving to Florida with her mother, Joan Daniels, and sister Maria Santos. Moved to Atlantic City in 2002 with boyfriend Kenny Bilecki and worked at the former Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort as a waitress. Lost her job and took up prostitution to support her addiction to crack cocaine.
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A memorial to Molly Jean Dilts, Barbara V. Breidor, Tracy Ann Roberts and Kim Raffo lies along the Black Horse Pike in West Atlantic City in 2016. The four women were found behind an area motel in November 2006. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-courts/gilgobeach-arrest-west-atlanticcity-case/article_9e53502c-2bbc-11ee-8498-c7ba240f827c.html | 2023-07-29T07:08:34 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-courts/gilgobeach-arrest-west-atlanticcity-case/article_9e53502c-2bbc-11ee-8498-c7ba240f827c.html |
A group of offshore wind opponents argue a state tax break given to a company developing turbines off the coast is unconstitutional, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.
Protect Our Coast NJ and Defend Brigantine Beach filed the lawsuit in Mercer County Superior Court. The groups are seeking to overturn the law, which they say gives Ørsted about $1 billion in tax relief for one of the two windmill projects it plans to build off the state’s southeastern coast.
Three Ocean City property owners — Barbara McCall, Frank Coyne and Bill Westerman — also are listed as plaintiffs.
The suit adds to a growing number of legal actions filed against Ørsted as it prepares to build wind turbines in the Atlantic Ocean.
Speaking after the National Governors Association conference in Atlantic City two weeks ago, Gov. Phil Murphy said he was “optimistic” that challenges surrounding the transition to wind-based power could be settled.
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The Governor’s Office said Friday it can’t comment on pending litigation.
Murphy on July 6 signed into law the tax break that spurred Thursday’s legal action. The bill allows Ørsted to retain federal tax credits it otherwise would have been required to pass along to New Jersey utility ratepayers.
“We do not comment on pending litigation,” Ørsted said in a statement. “Ocean Wind 1 remains committed to collaboration with local communities and will continue working to support New Jersey’s clean energy targets and economic development goals by bringing good-paying jobs and local investment to the Garden State.”
Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind is proposing to use 1.7 acres of beach between South Texas and Iowa avenues, a portion of Bader Field and a portion of a city park for the installation of underground transmission lines, according to legal notices published recently by the company.
In Thursday’s filing, the plaintiffs asked New Jersey’s Superior Court to strike down the nearly $1 billion in subsidies as illegal “special” legislation in violation of the New Jersey Constitution.
“The Legislature’s giveaway of federal tax credits to Ørsted benefits a single company in violation of the New Jersey Constitution,” attorney Bruce I. Afran said in a statement Friday. “In New Jersey, laws that favor a single private party are generally unconstitutional.”
According to the lawsuit, Ørsted told the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities it maintained adequate capital to deliver the lowest-possible electricity rates. The company further obtained rights to its first project, Ocean Wind 1, on assertions it would not keep federal tax credits, opting instead to give them away to ratepayers, the suit states.
“Basically, the Legislature caved to the Danish engineering company, giving away a billion dollars in tax credits to relieve Ørsted from its commitment to build Ocean Wind 1 from its own money,” Afran said.
Ocean Wind 1 includes up to 98 wind turbines along the Jersey Shore, sending energy generated from them onshore to separate landing points. Plans are for the first power to be delivered onshore in late 2024.
President Joe Biden’s administration this month gave the project support through an endorsement by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
Almost immediately after the tax break for Orsted was approved, another company that also has approval for an offshore wind project in New Jersey said it, too, wants a tax break.
Atlantic Shores said it wants government assistance to build its own wind farm off the southern New Jersey coast, warning the project is “at risk” without additional financial assistance from the government.
While local communities have been discussing offshore wind power proposals for years, and news coverage increased dramatically after a series of whale deaths over the winter that wind power critics have blamed on preparation work on the projects, Ocean City Mayor Jay Gillian and other shore town advocates say significant numbers of people in other communities know little about the proposals.
Since plans to pursue clean-energy initiatives have been announced, offshore wind development has remained a heated political topic.
Democrats, such as Biden and Murphy, who often back green initiatives, have openly supported the projects. Republicans, however, have argued against them, calling them an “industrialization” of the ocean, fearing their construction will harm local tourism and fishing industries.
Opponents also have tied their development to a string of offseason marine mammal deaths in New Jersey and New York. Federal and state officials have said there is no link between the deaths and prep work for the wind farms.
Ørsted has also taken legal action.
Earlier this month, the company sued Cape May County officials, claiming they are dragging their feet in granting roadwork permits and easements related to the project.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-courts/offshore-wind-sue-newjersey-tax-break/article_1139870e-2d71-11ee-993d-1f7a9a25d27d.html | 2023-07-29T07:08:41 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-courts/offshore-wind-sue-newjersey-tax-break/article_1139870e-2d71-11ee-993d-1f7a9a25d27d.html |
A Vineland man shot after he allegedly charged at a police officer with a knife was indicted Wednesday.
Luis R. Conde-Perez, 29, was wielding a knife when he was shot by an officer during a standoff May 5.
During his detention hearing that month, in which he was ordered to stay in jail, Conde-Perez's attorney, Dinaz Akhtar, said Conde-Perez was threatening to harm himself during a mental health crisis.
Conde-Perez is accused of attempted murder, aggravated assault and other weapons offenses.
Where an investigation into the police-involved shooting stands was unclear Friday. The state Attorney General's Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Video of the shooting released by Vineland police shows Conde-Perez armed with the knife on a porch about a minute before he walks down its steps toward the officer. As he approached, Conde-Perez's father unsuccessfully tried to intercept him.
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It was apparent from the footage the officer knew that Conde-Perez was holding the knife and that the other person injured was Conde-Perez's father.
The officer fired twice. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-courts/vineland-man-shot-police-indict-may/article_db4e5526-2d79-11ee-8edb-4b5a1eff1ec3.html | 2023-07-29T07:08:50 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-courts/vineland-man-shot-police-indict-may/article_db4e5526-2d79-11ee-8edb-4b5a1eff1ec3.html |
ATLANTIC CITY — Thirteen high schoolers from around the state were given a taste of college academics this month when Stockton University hosted its Summer Entrepreneurship and Business Academy.
From July 16 to 22, the guest students, made up of juniors and seniors, developed a business plan with mentorship from a professor, Stockton said in a news release.
Once crafted, the plans were presented to a panel of community members and Stockton faculty, who chose first-, second- and third-place winners.
“It’s really giving the students the opportunity to showcase their work, the work they’ve put in all week and have the opportunity to be in a professional setting,” said Tara Marsh, the program's coordinator, in a statement. “Being dressed professionally and learning how to present professionally.”
Marsh said the program helps prospective college students learn about studying at a four-year institute.
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Each day, Stockton professors held lectures on business ethics, marketing and professional presentation, along with talks from local entrepreneurs about the pros and cons of business start-ups. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/education/stockton-university-program-business-students/article_ff9e0cea-2d57-11ee-9b5e-ebe11816bc42.html | 2023-07-29T07:08:56 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/education/stockton-university-program-business-students/article_ff9e0cea-2d57-11ee-9b5e-ebe11816bc42.html |
The Atlantic County Office of Mosquito Control has rescheduled aerial spraying for Monday night in portions of Galloway Township and Port Republic, officials said.
Wind conditions forced the cancellation of last Monday evening’s spray. The same conditions then canceled Wednesday's spraying. The latest attempt will occur between 6 and 8 p.m. this Monday, weather permitting.
The county is providing the aerial spray as part of its ongoing efforts to reduce the population of adult mosquitoes and prevent the spread of mosquito-borne illness. There have already been two samples of West Nile virus collected this month, one in Northfield and another in Egg Harbor City.
In Galloway, the areas they plan to treat are bounded by Route 9 and Kings Highway; Route 9 east to the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, from Smith-Bowen Road to Leeds Point Road; and Route 9 east to the Forsythe Refuge, from East Somers Landing Road to East Chanese Lane.
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In Port Republic, they plan to spray between Sooys Landing Road, Clarks Landing Road and Mill Street to the west and Chestnut Neck to the east.
Aerial spraying, when scheduled, will be done using Duet HD, the county said. For more information about the pesticides to be applied, call the Office of Mosquito Control at 609-645-5948.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency does not require relocating or taking special precautions during mosquito spraying, though some may choose to avoid or minimize exposure by:
- Staying indoors during application to the immediate area
- Keeping windows shut and window fans and window air conditioners off (or set to circulate indoor air) during spraying
- Keeping children’s toys indoors
- Keeping pets indoors, as well as their food, water dishes and toys
Residents can help reduce mosquito populations by removing standing water from their properties.
For more information, visit atlantic-county.org/mosquito-control. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/galloway-port-republic-mosquito-spraying-scheduled-for-monday/article_4455d372-2d7b-11ee-ab22-470c5aa63778.html | 2023-07-29T07:09:02 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/galloway-port-republic-mosquito-spraying-scheduled-for-monday/article_4455d372-2d7b-11ee-ab22-470c5aa63778.html |
3rd child dies after horse-drawn carriage hit in Michigan
ALGANSEE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Police say a third child has died after a pickup truck drove into the back of an Amish horse-drawn carriage in southern Michigan.
Two children, ages 6 and 2 years old, died at the scene of Friday evening's crash. State Trooper Seth Reed told the Detroit Free Press that a 4-year-old later died at a hospital.
Reed says the pickup truck's driver, 21-year-old Tyler Frye, of Angola, Indiana, faces charges of driving while intoxicated causing death and other counts.
The crash happened in Branch County's Algansee Township, near Michigan's borders with Indiana and Ohio and home to some Amish communities.
Police say all seven people in the carriage, including two adults and five children, were ejected in the crash. One child and a woman are hospitalized with serious injuries.
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Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. | https://www.krgv.com/news/3rd-child-dies-after-horse-drawn-carriage-hit-in-michigan | 2023-07-29T07:09:05 | 1 | https://www.krgv.com/news/3rd-child-dies-after-horse-drawn-carriage-hit-in-michigan |
SOMERS POINT — Gregory Gregory says his fight to retain the right to use the phrase "Taco Tuesday" is bigger than a legal battle.
“I hate to say it's David and Goliath, but it's David and Goliath,” Gregory says of the battle his restaurant, Gregory's on Shore Road, faces against taco giant Taco Bell.
On May 16, Taco Bell filed a petition with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to remove the trademark owned by Taco John's, a Wyoming-based taco chain that also claims to have coined the phrase. Taco John's, which operates nearly 400 restaurants in 23 states, originally vowed to fight and retain the right to the phrase but has since given up.
“We've always prided ourselves on being the home of Taco Tuesday, but paying millions of dollars to lawyers to defend our mark just doesn't feel like the right thing to do,” said Taco John's CEO Jim Creel in a statement on their website. “As we've said before, we're lovers, not fighters.”
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But the fight is far from over. Taco John's had the exclusive right to use the phrase in all 50 states except one: New Jersey. The reason New Jersey was excluded stems from an agreement between Gregory's and Taco John's 34 years ago to share the use of the phrase.
Gregory maintains he coined the phrase in 1979 when he and his cousin, Walt, took over the eatery that's been in their family since 1946. He had been working at a restaurant/bar in Philadelphia, at the site of the former Gallery shopping center off Market Street. As he watched a line form day after day at a taco shop in the mall, he was curious about the popularity of the item he had never tasted and finally tried one.
“I had never heard of it, didn't know anything about it,” he said. “I ordered one, sat down, took one bite and, I can swear on my children, that's the last bite of a taco I've ever had. I thought it was terrible. I just didn't like anything about it.”
But he could see the taco had legs and brought up the idea when they were brainstorming for the reopening of Gregory's. Unfortunately, no one shared his enthusiasm for the Mexican dish, but he eventually convinced them that the taco might be the ingredient to combat rival bar and restaurant Tony Marts, which was running a 50-cent drink special called “Drink and Drown” on Wednesday nights.
“So I said, let's do it on Tuesday, cut their legs off and we'll call it Taco Tuesday," he said. "We did it because it was completely different than anything down here.”
At that time in 1979, South Jersey was also experiencing a boom in the form of casino gaming. Resorts had just opened in Atlantic City, Caesars was running a close second, and all of a sudden locals were reaping the benefits of a new, prosperous industry that offered good jobs.
“So they're spending like the Russians are two towns away,” he quips of his customers' good fortune. “How could you hate three tacos for a dollar? And we kept that for a couple decades.”
While the first few weeks of Taco Tuesdays were slow, sales continued to climb until they were filling the place every Tuesday night. A former professor and customer of Gregory's who could also see the value of Taco Tuesday urged him to trademark the phrase and initiated the paperwork, helped find a patent attorney and in 1982 saw the granting of the trademark.
In 1989 when it was time to renew the patent, they were informed they had never broken the border of New Jersey and a national chain, Taco John's, challenged their patent and the aforementioned agreement was reached.
“And everything's been fine. When I did it, nobody cared. It's 44 years later and Taco Bell thinks it's unfair to the world for me to have a trademark like that. They have trademarks for the crunch wrap fajita rita, or whatever the heck it's called. Nobody's telling them to take it off,” Gregory said.
With Taco John's out of the way, Taco Bell has narrowed its sights on the little Somers Point eatery, and the support has been overwhelming, Gregory said. The story has been reported in local and national media outlets, along with social media and even the city itself.
On Thursday, City Council presented Gregory and his family with a resolution in support of their fight.
“With them supporting Taco Tuesday, supporting us and supporting the fact that Taco Tuesday was born in the city of Somers Point, that will make it official. For them to say we're backing you, that's huge. It also makes me a little sad because that's been something that we've had with pride. We have a United States of America trademark. Not that it's a great big deal, but it felt like a big deal to us. And now we have to give it up?" he said.
Gregory says he's not only standing firm on his principles, but also for his family-run business.
“I did it to protect my business' interest. That's all. It's a business decision, and it should be left alone because I was granted, I've paid my dues, every time it comes up we submit our check, every time we get reviewed we pass,” he said.
The David and Goliath analogy is pretty accurate. Gregory's cozy Somers Point location hosts a sizable bar and dining room. Taco Bell has 6,500 locations in the United States and worldwide serving over 2 billion tacos each year, according to Beef2Live, a beef industry information source. The taco giant even enlisted the help of basketball great LeBron James to plead its case in commercials. James made his own bid to use the Taco Tuesday parlance but gave it up.
“It's just me,” said Gregory. “They're big business, and they're making big business decisions. I just feel if the trademark office weasels out and gives it out to the world, that just doesn't seem fair. Taco Bell should back off.”
He did get a call from Taco Bell CEO Mark King this week to talk about the situation, with lawyers, but he's cautious about it.
"He's got some ideas for us," Gregory says. "It's a start. I just want to hear what he has to say. I'm not agreeing to anything anyway. Not at this first meting. I still have to talk to my family."
The issue has had a positive impact on his business. Gregory's brought back some of the vintage Taco Tuesday T-shirts, which they're selling all over the country, and they're selling a lot of tacos along with other menu items. Taco Tuesday was intended to be a gift to the locals, only held offseason from September to Memorial Day. They get lots of people coming in during the summer, thinking it's Taco Tuesday, who will still dine at Gregory's to see what the fuss is about and support the restaurant.
"It started here in Somers Point. This is ground zero," said Max Slusher, a longtime customer from Somers Point at the bar recently with his wife, Andrea. "They can't take that away from this place."
Slusher agrees that, beside the bragging rights, there is a huge business aspect.
"I can understand why they want to control it. If you control it you get the copyright and you're able to market that around the country. But Gregory's has had the term and been using it for 50 years. He's already beaten them to the punch."
Janice Picknally, another Somers Point local and customer, says it's a shame that the fun of Taco Tuesday, when locals can get together, have a few drinks and munch on a taco, is being threatened by big business.
"I feel sorry for Mr. Gregory because this is a great establishment," she said. "And Taco Tuesday is a big part of it. I am not a Taco Bell fan whatsoever."
But customer and fan support doesn't always cover the bills. Gregory has received estimates that the court battle could cost anywhere from $250,000 to $1 million. That's a lot of tacos to sell. He's been offered GoFundMe help but declined because he believes there are other causes in more need.
Gregory says the case could finally come to a head in court in 2024. How long can he put up the good fight?
“The end for me is, I'm still going to have Taco Tuesday and if it goes south and everybody gets Taco Tuesday then everybody gets Taco Tuesday. No matter what happens, Taco Tuesday will be here the first Tuesday after Labor Day,” he said. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/gregory-gregory-and-the-fight-for-taco-tuesday/article_60465672-2b07-11ee-b9e8-d766b0abdd4d.html | 2023-07-29T07:09:08 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/gregory-gregory-and-the-fight-for-taco-tuesday/article_60465672-2b07-11ee-b9e8-d766b0abdd4d.html |
ATLANTIC CITY — Hecklers don’t only show up at comedy shows, they also like offshore wind hearings.
A large group of folks wearing shirts that said “Wind Breakers” and holding signs saying “Stop the Windmills” often interrupted Thursday night’s 3½-hour scoping hearing at City Hall for a plan by Atlantic Shores to move electricity across the city from a planned offshore wind farm.
It wasn’t easy to hear the information from company representatives over their almost constant negative comments, but the plan eventually became clear.
The cables carrying the electricity would hit the shore at the California Avenue beach, then follow an underground route to Pete Pallitto Field and the Board of Education’s Boat House park property, under the Inside Thorofare waterway to Bader Field and down Albany Avenue.
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“We are looking to apply to the DEP (state Department of Environmental Protection) for an approximately 2.4-acre easement area on four properties,” said Brian McPeak of PS&S, an architectural and engineering firm working with Atlantic Shores.
The city will be compensated for use of the land, but the company did not have information on how much it would receive.
The roads used will be California Avenue, Pacific Avenue to Iowa Avenue, and from there two routes begin.
One continues on Iowa to Fairmount Avenue and the parks; the other turns left at Atlantic Avenue, then takes a right on Sovereign Avenue to the parks.
Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind is proposing to use 1.7 acres of beach between South Texas and Iowa avenues, a portion of Bader Field and a portion of a city park for the installation of underground transmission lines, according to legal notices published recently by the company.
The company is requesting a 10-foot-wide, nonexclusive underground easement along the route. Both the city and Atlantic Shores must apply to the DEP for the easement rights under Green Acres property at Pallitto and Bader fields.
“The diversion means to allow that use. It doesn’t cede control of property, sell or change its use,” McPeak said. “It simply allows the easement to exist so connections between offshore wind and the grid can be established.”
When land is purchased under the Green Acres program, it is to be used for open space only. Other uses require a hearing and review process.
Atlantic Shores Project Developer Kate Bohanan said four cables will be sent through the route.
Attendees gave their opinions and asked questions, but Atlantic Shores representatives said no questions would be answered until after the comment period ends Aug. 10.
Then the answers will be provided in writing on the company website at atlanticshoreswind.com.
Supporters who spoke, like City Council Vice President Kaleem Shabazz, Atlantic County Commissioner Caren Fitzpatrick and some residents, stressed the need for wind energy development to combat climate change and create good-paying jobs.
“Our belief is that climate change is real and we have to have a concerted effort to push back on climate change,” Shabazz said to a mix of applause and jeers.
While local communities have been discussing offshore wind power proposals for years, and news coverage increased dramatically after a series of whale deaths over the winter that wind power critics have blamed on preparation work on the projects, Ocean City Mayor Jay Gillian and other shore town advocates say significant numbers of people in other communities know little about the proposals.
“We need the electricity,” said Jim Akers, a supporter who said he is an Atlantic County resident.
Opponents — who came out in larger numbers than supporters — said offshore wind will not affect climate change and will result in fewer jobs in the tourism and fishing industries.
“It’s not green. Where does fiberglass come from? Strip mining quartz,” said James Dilks of the materials that make up windmill blades. “The resin comes from petrochemicals. Everything we use on a daily basis comes from petrochemicals.”
Only a few people focused on what the hearing was supposed to be about — the proposed route itself and the use of Green Acres land for burying cable.
“You want to run EMF (electromagnetic frequency) cables on beaches, in parks and streets where there are young mothers ... and children at play,” said Judy Tyson, a resident of Atlantic County. “There are health risks for EMF.”
She cited studies showing increased risk of leukemia for children exposed to EMF.
Tyson asked for proof that the cables will not harm the health of people who live and play near the route.
Others asked questions about how long roads, beaches and park areas would be torn up, what happens to the infrastructure if it is no longer needed, and more.
Early U.S. offshore wind farms were always going to be more expensive. N.J.'s push to be the earliest adopter ensures the state and its ratepayers will pay top dollar.
Company representatives said all their questions and concerns will be answered in writing after the comment period ends.
Offshore wind opponent Keith Moore, of Brigantine, asked if minority residents of the city were adequately informed of the company’s activities, since so few seemed to be in attendance.
“You have thousands of residents in underserved populations with little or no knowledge of what Atlantic Shores is bringing,” Moore said. “I can only assume you have not reached out to the minority population yet you are coming here to take (part of) their parks, recreation areas, beaches and streets.”
The Atlantic Shores wind project area is located 10 to 20 miles off the coast between Atlantic City and Barnegat Light. The project is expected to produce 1,510 megawatts of electricity, enough to power more than 700,000 homes, according to the company.
Atlantic Shores aims to begin construction in 2024 and begin powering homes in 2027.
Another wind farm, Ørsted’s Ocean Wind 1, will be located 13 to 15 miles off Atlantic City and Ocean City and aims to begin offshore construction in 2024. The project is expected to provide enough electricity to power 500,000 homes, according to the company.
Atlantic Shores is a 50/50 joint venture between EDF renewables and Shell New Energies.
EDF (Électricité de France S.A.) is owned by the French state and is actively developing and operating offshore wind projects in France, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Germany.
A tangle of litigation could delay the start of New Jersey’s first offshore wind energy project. Wind developer Orsted is suing governments to stop delaying necessary permits, and citizens groups are trying to halt the project altogether. The latest comes as Orsted sues Cape May County, alleging the government is dragging its feet in issuing a road permit needed to do test work along the route a power cable would run. The company is also suing the city of Ocean City over similar delays. Last month, three citizens groups challenged New Jersey’s determination that the Ocean Wind I project is consistent with state coastal management rules.
Shell New Energies is a United Kingdom-based company, which is developing and operating offshore wind projects in the Netherlands and the U.S.
Written comments may be submitted to the Green Acres Program at publiclandcompliance@dep.nj.gov. The DEP requests commenters include “Atlantic Shores” in the subject line.
Comments may also be mailed to New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Green Acres Program, Bureau of Legal Services and Stewardship, 401 E. State St., 7th Floor, Mail Code 401-07B, P.O. Box 420, Trenton, NJ 08625-0420; Attn: Atlantic Shores Application. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/raucous-hearing-on-offshore-wind-energy-route-through-atlantic-city/article_aec4c4c6-2d52-11ee-a35c-2b3366429027.html | 2023-07-29T07:09:15 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/raucous-hearing-on-offshore-wind-energy-route-through-atlantic-city/article_aec4c4c6-2d52-11ee-a35c-2b3366429027.html |
Atlantic County's third documented rabies case of the year was found in a skunk retrieved from Galloway Township on Monday.
The infected animal was found off East Jimmie Leeds Road, county officials said Friday in a news release. State lab tests confirmed the case Thursday.
A cat in the vicinity of the skunk was placed on a 45-day quarantine, the county said. The cat recently was vaccinated against the disease but had not received a booster.
Rabies, a known fatal disease, can be transmitted through direct contact with saliva, broken skin or the eyes, nose and mouth. Animal-to-person transmissions typically happen through a bite, which officials say should always be reported.
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Officials warned the public to be wary of animals potentially carrying the disease, reminding them to vaccinate pets against the virus.
The Atlantic County Animal Shelter provides free rabies vaccination clinics one Sunday each month for both dogs and cats by appointment only at atlantic-county.org/animal-shelter. The clinics are held at 240 Old Turnpike in Pleasantville. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/skunk-galloway-township-tests-positive-rabies/article_c6f023d6-2d59-11ee-9068-4f2b67256683.html | 2023-07-29T07:09:21 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/skunk-galloway-township-tests-positive-rabies/article_c6f023d6-2d59-11ee-9068-4f2b67256683.html |
Inspired by one of my favorite summertime treats — the iconic s’more — these cookies pack a double dose of graham crackers, a generous amount of creamy milk chocolate, and melty marshmallows. They strike the perfect balance between soft and chewy, with a pull-apart marshmallow center that’s reminiscent of biting into a warm, gooey s’more.
Key ingredients in s’mores cookies (format as subhed)
Let’s talk about the good stuff — graham crackers, milk chocolate, and marshmallows. Graham crackers are used two ways here. First, they’re crushed very finely into a flour-like consistency. This graham cracker “flour” is then toasted in a pan until fragrant, which brings out a slight nuttiness and amplifies its flavor. When combined with all-purpose flour, it permeates the dough, providing a base layer of graham cracker flavor. In addition, graham crackers are used as a mix-in, pumping up the flavor and adding texture.
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Next, chopped milk chocolate studs the graham cracker-flavored dough, which melts into creamy little puddles that when baked provide the chocolatey sweetness of a s’more. Finally, portions of dough are wrapped around halved marshmallows. Using halves, rather whole marshmallows, ensure that the marshmallow’s sweetness doesn’t overwhelm the cookie. Plus, wrapping the dough around the marshmallow creates a melted, gooey center that, when broken in half, pulls apart the same way as the toasty marshmallow in a s’more.
A few tips (format as subhed)
A few thoughtful techniques and tricks elevate this simple drop-style cookie dough and, while it may come across as otherwise, I promise these are a breeze to make!
• You can make it work without a food processor. If you don’t have a food processor, finely crush the graham crackers in a resealable plastic bag to make the graham cracker flour.
• Go for small chunks of chocolate. Chopping the chocolate into smaller chunks makes the cookies easier to shape around the marshmallow and ensures you get just the right amount of chocolate in each bite.
• Scoop and stuff the cookies one by one. This makes it easier to shape the dough over the marshmallow. As the dough sits, the flour will start to absorb the liquid ingredients — making it feel drier — meaning it can fall apart more easily if the dough was pre-scooped.
• Chill the dough. Chilling the shaped and stuffed dough is the most important part of this recipe. It allows the marshmallow and dough to bake at the same rate and prevents the dough from spreading out too much, creating that perfect soft and chewy texture. Additionally, it helps prevent the marshmallow from melting into the dough and ultimately disappearing. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/s-mores-cookies-are-the-best-thing-to-happen-to-the-iconic-campfire-treat/article_9c0cf828-2d8c-11ee-bb6e-eb6c1854d92f.html | 2023-07-29T07:09:27 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/s-mores-cookies-are-the-best-thing-to-happen-to-the-iconic-campfire-treat/article_9c0cf828-2d8c-11ee-bb6e-eb6c1854d92f.html |
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Christine Sinclair. Megan Rapinoe. Sarina Bolden.
Like many players in the Women’s World Cup, all three stars built their skills at the U.S. collegiate level.
Of the 736 players competing at this year’s Women’s World Cup, 137 have roots in American college-level soccer, according to the NCAA. The total includes 16 players who currently compete for Division I schools or lower divisions.
Across the 32 teams that qualified for the group stage, more than one in every six players has had a career stop at an American school.
Not all the NCAA athletes in the tournament are tied to the United States.
Canada has 22 of 23 athletes who played or still play on U.S. college teams, most of any team in the tournament. That includes Sinclair, the the all-time leader in international goals for men and women, who played at the University of Portland.
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The United States ranks second with 20 players. Rapinoe also played at Portland, but Alyssa Thompson, Trinity Rodman, and Lindsey Horan all turned professional without playing a college match. Horan also did not play for a high school team.
More than 70 U.S. schools are represented in the 2023 tournament, with Florida State the leader with eight current or former players competing. Stanford and North Carolina each have six, Penn State has five and four universities have four former players.
Even schools with lesser-known soccer programs have players competing in New Zealand and Australia. Hilary Jaen of Panama plays for Jones County Community College in Mississippi, Carleigh Frilles of the Philippines plays for Coastal Carolina and Chiara Singarella of Argentina plays for South Alabama. Erin Nayler of New Zealand previously played at Purdue Fort Wayne in Indiana.
TITLE IX
The success of American college soccer can trace its roots back just over 50 years, with the introduction of Title IX. As the U.S. government required universities to establish equal opportunities for men and women in education, those protections — and funding — spread to college athletics.
“The U.S. was providing one of the only games in town so to speak, in terms of opportunities for women to get some kind of compensation,” said Ellen Staurowsky, a professor in sports media at Ithaca College.
Title IX drew female athletes from outside the United States to American schools. Since the passage of Title IX, the number of female athletes competing in NCAA athletics has increased seven-fold and currently represents 44% of all university athletes, according to the National Women’s Law Center.
NCAA TRENDS
In 2021, 1,464 international student-athletes were playing in NCAA Division I and Division II women’s soccer.
Traditional soccer powerhouses such as Germany and Sweden are sending significant numbers of players to college soccer, even though they have developmental programs of their own. There were 114 from Sweden and 128 from Germany in 2021.
In that same year, NCAA teams had 38 players from New Zealand, 35 players from the Netherlands, 16 players from Japan, and 5 players from South Africa.
“Then you would see those women going back to their own countries, taking what they learned with them,” Staurowsky said. “And you can begin to see how the sport begins to expand out.”
Penn State women’s soccer coach Erica Dambach has seen the collegiate process up close for some time. She’s coached at the Division I level since 1997, won the national title in 2015, and worked as an assistant coach for the U.S. women’s national teams at both the youth and senior levels.
“Until these players are making millions, I think an education is going to be the most important thing for these young women,” Dambach said. “I don’t think it’s for everyone. You have to be invested in getting your education.”
THE AMERICAN SYSTEM
That can be easier than it sounds.
“Educational systems around the globe are so different that our international students really don’t know how to navigate the (U.S.) system,” said Nicole LaVoi, a former collegiate tennis coach and the director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota.
Coumba Sow, a Swiss midfielder, attended Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York, for two years before transferring to play Division I soccer at Oklahoma State.
“I didn’t understand the system. I was in a rush to just go to the States,” Sow said. “I wanted to keep on learning a language and studying and also play soccer. It’s a lot of paperwork, so I just looked at the facility. I was like, ‘Oh, New York,’ and I went. Then I got there I was like, ‘OK, maybe I should have checked it out better.’”
For New Zealand forward Gabi Rennie, taking the pathway to Division I soccer was an easy decision after watching others succeed. Rennie is entering her final year of NCAA eligibility at Arizona State after spending two seasons at Indiana.
“I wasn’t too sure what to do. But obviously, the college circuit was a really good option,” Rennie said. “Being able to kind of look to the likes of Ali Riley and Katie Bowen and the likes of those girls that had done the college circuit was cool, and just opened those doors for me.”
A PROVING GROUND
Katrina Guillou, a starting forward for the Philippines, spent four years at North Carolina–Wilmington. Her time playing soccer in Wilmington was pivotal to her career.
“The way the season is, with everything so condensed into the three-month span, playing two games every week, I think it really helps build the stamina that’s needed,” Guillou said. “And coming to this level, I think I’ve been able to build on top of that.”
Like many others, Sow saw her experience with American teams impact her style of play.
“Before I went to the U.S., I wasn’t really a physical player,” said Sow. “I learned how to fight in the U.S. because it’s a lot, a lot of long balls. You have to fight for the second ball. And before, I was just a technical player.”
Jody Brown of Jamaica was named the best young players in CONCACAF at the age of 16 and now plays for Florida State.
“The coaches helped us,” said Brown of Florida State. “I feel like college also prepared me for this moment, and I’m just so grateful for that and the work that I’ve put in to get to this point because it’s all paid off right now.” | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/several-stars-at-the-womens-world-cup-honed-their-skills-with-us-collegiate-teams/article_35bb8f1a-2d7a-11ee-a695-e3405d6777cc.html | 2023-07-29T07:09:33 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/several-stars-at-the-womens-world-cup-honed-their-skills-with-us-collegiate-teams/article_35bb8f1a-2d7a-11ee-a695-e3405d6777cc.html |
Another successful season appears to be on the horizon for the Middle Township High School football team.
Last fall, the Panthers overcame several injuries and still made their second consecutive playoff appearance for the first time in program history. Middle was a young team and will return many players this season, including 18 seniors (all starters on either offense or defense) to go with some talented newcomers and underclassmen. Middle only graduated one starter, so the expectation is to be competitive again.
“We have a lot of depth and experience back this year,” Middle coach Frank Riggitano said, “the most we have had in as long as I can remember. We are really excited about that. We had some depth last year, too, but we just got decimated by injuries very early in the season. And it took us a few weeks to jell and recover from that, but what the kids did was a really nice accomplishment. The kids came back really well and are excited about this year because everyone is back.”
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Last season, Middle lost three important two-way players in the first two weeks. The Panthers lost their first two games before reeling off four straight wins en route to a 6-4 season. This season, the Panthers feature about 60 players (22 being freshman) in their program, the most in Riggitano’s 22 years as coach.
“Injuries are a part of the game, and you have to recover. We did a nice job of recovering last year, but we were just young in areas,” Riggitano said. “These kids are back this year. They are fresh. They look pretty good.”
One of the key returners is junior Remi Rodriquez, who rushed for a team-high 1,030 yards with six touchdowns in 2022. Middle’s offensive line, which features Maurice Matthews, Marco Salgado, Mike Camp, and Nikolas Cruz, will be an important unit for the Panthers, who will utilize Rodriquez and senior running back Jeremiah Jones, who missed the last two seasons.
Quarterbacks Mark Oliver, who threw for 845 yards and seven TDs, and Micah McAnney, who transferred from St. Augustine Prep, will have playing time behind center and will have standout wide receiver Michael Zarfati, whom Riggitano called one of the best receivers in the area. As a sophomore last year, Zarfati had 664 yards with six TDs. Oliver and McAnney will battle for the starting job, but both will at least play one position as “they are both really good athletes,” Riggitano said.
The defensive and offensive lines will be the strength of the team, as all the starters from last year return. The Panthers made the playoffs four times in the past 12 seasons but have not won, so that is on the list of things they want to accomplish this season.
“We are excited. All the pieces are in place,” said Riggitano, who wants to improve on rotating players as “we have enough depth now where we can get some of our guys who traditionally play both sides of the ball and keep them fresh so they can be fresh in those games that come down to the end.”
Middle should be very competitive in the West Jersey Football League's Patriot Division, which features Buena Regional, Clayton, Glassboro and Pleasantville, Riggitano added. The Panthers also will face two improving programs in Cumberland Regional and Oakcrest early in the season. The main obstacle is staying healthy, the coach said.
The aim is to win the division title and compete in the South Jersey Group II playoffs.
“We have a really tough schedule this year,” said Riggitano, who mentioned the Panthers will possibly play four or more playoff teams, including Wall Township. “We are looking forward to getting ready to battle. We are going to get tested.
“If we make the playoffs this year, and not that we didn’t before, but we will have to really earn it. I think the teams we are playing will make us more competitive. We wanted to make sure we gave our kids an opportunity to play the best of the best. Hopefully, that will make us better in crunch time in October. So, we are excited. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/high-school/high-school-football-kickoff-2023-middle-township-preview/article_6c0b482c-270c-11ee-8be2-4b147b6afccd.html | 2023-07-29T07:09:39 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/high-school/high-school-football-kickoff-2023-middle-township-preview/article_6c0b482c-270c-11ee-8be2-4b147b6afccd.html |
Three bold predictions for the Eagles during their first week training camp ...
Kenneth Gainwell could finish the season as the Eagles’ leading rusher
The real question isn’t whether D’Andre Swift or Rashaad Penny will have a bigger role in the offense. It’s why either one should have a bigger role than Gainwell. That probably sounds extreme if you look at Gainwelll’s overall numbers from his first two seasons in the league: 68 carries for 291 yards as a rookie in 2021, 53 carries for 240 yards last season. But let’s remind ourselves of what Gainwell did last postseason: 33 carries for 181 yards and a touchdown in three games.
That’s an average of 60.3 yards per game, higher than the career per-game averages of both Penny and Swift (42.0). In fact, Swift has rushed for 60-plus yards in a game just nine times in his 40-game career. Penny has done it 12 times in 42 games (postseason included).
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If those game totals sound low, well, they are. Swift has been in the league for three years, Penny for five. Gainwell has been with the Eagles for two years and has played in 33 regular-season games, plus four postseason games.
Swift and Penny have bigger names, bigger fantasy-football profiles, bigger draft pedigree. But Gainwell might actually be the better running back. He’s more durable than either one. He’s lower to the ground. He hits the hole harder. Swift is (allegedly) a better receiver. Penny is more explosive. But it will be interesting to see what the three of them look like when they are all playing on the same field behind the same offensive line against the same opponent. It shouldn’t surprise anybody at all if the eye test favors Gainwell.
Remember, the Eagles invested a total of two third-day draft picks and roughly $3 million in Penny and Swift. Penny signed for just one year and $1.35 million with $600,000 guaranteed. Forget about the names. Ask yourself this: What does it say about the Eagles’ opinion of Gainwell that they let Miles Sanders walk and invested so little in replacing him?
DeVonta Smith will lead the Eagles in receiving yards
There’s really nothing bold on this one. A.J. Brown is a stone-cold stud. One of an incredibly small handful of players at his position who is impossible to stop one-on-one. Maybe one of the top five athletes at his position in the last decade. He’s the No. 1.
He’s also the guy that draws the double-teams, the brackets, the safety shades. The brilliance of the Eagles’ offense last season was its ability to exploit the path of least resistance via Smith’s impeccable route running, body control and hands.
Look at last postseason:
Brown: 13 catches, 146 yards, 1 touchdown.
Smith: 15 catches, 197 yards, 1 touchdown.
Actually, pull the lens out a little further. Look at their numbers over their last 11 games, playoffs included.
Brown: 104 targets, 62 catches, 983 yards, 7 touchdowns.
Smith: 97 targets, 64 catches, 912 yards, 5 touchdowns.
Again, to be clear, this is more of a pro-Smith argument than it is anti-Brown. In his first two seasons in the league, we’ve seen Smith go from 64 catches, 916 yards and five touchdowns, to 95 catches, 1,196 yards and seven touchdowns. Year 3 is often a breakout year for receivers. Brown took his biggest step last year in Year 4, going from a career average of 69.7 yards per game to 88.0 yards per game. The connection between Hurts and Smith is undeniable. There’s plenty more room to grow.
The secondary ends up being more of a concern than most people think
I’m not really sure about the logic that says the Eagles will take a big step forward on the defensive side of the ball. That’s mostly because of the secondary, which left its fingerprints all over the loss to the Chiefs in the Super Bowl. It’s hard to argue that the talent is better. Sydney Brown and Kelee Ringo may turn out to be good players, but history says that you probably shouldn’t be counting on immediate production from defensive backs drafted in the third and fourth rounds. Beyond that, the Eagles have only seen their talent thin. C.J. Gardner-Johnson may have been a character, but his versatility was a huge asset last season. Marcus Epps signed for more elsewhere.
Those are sustainable losses as long as the corners are as solid as they were last season. But Darius Slay is 32, an age where things can go downhill fast. Let’s not forget that the Eagles were set to release him this offseason. That was more a salary-cap necessity than anything. But it’s worth noting.
I’m not saying that anybody should be worrying that a leaky secondary will derail a 12-5 season. People are just underselling the uncertainty. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/professional/mlb/eagles-crystal-ball-big-season-for-devonta-smith-big-surprise-at-rb-big-questions-for/article_b90d41b2-2d6e-11ee-9220-7fcd728cf121.html | 2023-07-29T07:09:45 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/professional/mlb/eagles-crystal-ball-big-season-for-devonta-smith-big-surprise-at-rb-big-questions-for/article_b90d41b2-2d6e-11ee-9220-7fcd728cf121.html |
The Phillies are expected to be active by Tuesday’s trade deadline. They don’t have a ton of needs. The most glaring is they aren’t slugging the way they were built to. But there could be a solution for that. With Bryce Harper playing first base, Kyle Schwarber can move out of left field and into the DH spot, opening up a spot for an outfielder who hits right-handed.
With the trade deadline approaching, what better time to review the top 10 Phillies trades of all time? Let’s take a look.
10. J.T. Realmuto for Will Stewart, Jorge Alfaro, Sixto Sánchez, and international bonus slot money
This one is unconventional — because it still is a work in progress — but Realmuto has been so valuable to the Phillies that I felt it was worth including on this list. The Marlins traded Realmuto to the Phillies in February 2019. Since then, he has defied age, hitting 22 home runs and stealing 21 bases for the Phillies at age 31 last season.
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He’s been one of the best — if not the best — catchers in baseball over his time in Philadelphia. Realmuto caught 1,131 2/3 innings last season and threw out 30 runners trying to steal. He’s hit .267/.333/.470 with a 115 OPS+ over his five seasons with the Phillies.
Sánchez’s career has been derailed by injuries. He’s pitched in only seven games for the Marlins, all in the shorted 2020 season. Jacksonville, the Marlins’ Triple-A affiliate, placed him on the seven-day injured list in March. He has yet to pitch in a game this season.
9. Matt Stairs for Fabio Castro
Like the Realmuto trade, this one might be unconventional, but Stairs took one of the most important swings in franchise history, so I’m going to include him. Stairs was traded to the Phillies for a player to be named later (Castro) in August 2008. A few months later, in Game 4 of the 2008 NLCS, Stairs hit a towering two-run, pinch-hit home run to break a 5-5 tie en route to a 7-5 win over the Dodgers. It was a signature moment of their 2008 championship run.
Stairs’ production dropped off after that. He slashed only .194/.357/.379 in 99 games with the Phillies in 2009. But that NLCS moment will be remembered forever. Castro, a left-handed pitcher, didn’t pitch a single inning for the Blue Jays. He spent his 2009 season split between Triple-A and Double-
8. Bobby Abreu for Kevin Stocker
The Rays traded a 23-year-old Abreu to the Phillies in November 1997 for shortstop (and now Phillies broadcaster) Kevin Stocker. Stocker played in only parts of three seasons with the Rays before he was released in 2000. Abreu played in Philadelphia for nine seasons, posting a .303/.416/.513 slash line with a .928 OPS and 195 home runs.
7. Lenny Dykstra, Roger McDowell, and Tom Edens for Juan Samuel
Dykstra and McDowell were two beloved members of the Mets’ 1986 World Series team, and the former played a similar role with the Phillies after this intradivision trade in June 1989. The center fielder posted one of his best seasons in 1993, hitting .305/.420/.482 with 194 hits, and helped lead the Phillies to their 1993 postseason run. It didn’t end up the way they wanted it to — losing to the Blue Jays in the World Series — but not to any fault of Dykstra, who hit .348/.500/.913 with a 1.413 OPS in six World Series games.
He hit .289/.388/.422 over eight seasons with the Phillies. Samuel played 86 games for the Mets in 1989, slashing .228/.299/.300 with only three home runs. He was granted free agency that offseason and signed with the Dodgers.
6. Brad Lidge and Eric Bruntlett for Michael Bourn, Mike Costanzo, and Geoff Geary
Lidge became one of the best closers in franchise history. His tenure with the Phillies wasn’t perfect. He battled injuries in his final three seasons in Philadelphia, but he was at his best when it mattered most — in 2008.
Lidge posted a 1.95 ERA over 69 1/3 innings that season. He recorded 41 saves during the regular season and allowed only one earned run in nine postseason outings. He also recorded the final out of the 2008 World Series, creating an iconic franchise moment shortly after.
5. Curt Schilling for Jason Grimsley
Schilling was traded by the Astros for Grimsley in April 1992. Schilling, who re-signed with the Phillies in 1995, played parts of nine seasons in Philadelphia. He was traded to the Diamondbacks at the deadline in 2000.
Schilling posted a 3.35 ERA in 1,659 1/3 innings with a record of 101-78 with the Phillies. He was named NLCS MVP in 1993 after posting a 1.69 ERA in two starts. Grimsley didn’t pitch in a big league game for the Astros. He spent that season with Triple-A Tucson, posting a 5.05 ERA in 26 games. The Astros released him in March 1993. He played for seven teams over a 15-year career.
4. The first Cliff Lee trade
In July 2009, Cleveland sent Lee and catcher Ben Francisco to the Phillies at the trade deadline in exchange for pitchers Jason Knapp and Carlos Carrasco, infielder Jason Donald and catcher Lou Marson. Knapp didn’t make it out of the minors. Donald played in parts of only three big league seasons for Cleveland. Marson slugged .295 in parts of five seasons with the team. Carrasco settled into a nice career that is still going but he has struggled this season with the Mets.
In all, not much of a price to pay for a pitcher who helped lead his team to an NL championship in 2009. Lee posted a 2.95 ERA over his final five seasons in the big leagues. He was traded to the Mariners in December 2009 but re-signed with the Phillies when he became a free agent after the 2010 season.
3. Jim Bunning and Gus Triandos for Don Demeter and Jack Hamilton
All you need to know is that Jim Bunning was an ace when the Tigers traded him to the Phillies in December 1963, and — to no one’s surprise — he continued to pitch like one. Demeter and Hamilton were not on his level. Bunning pitched a perfect game in his first season with the Phillies, on Father’s Day in 1964, and posted a 2.48 ERA in his four seasons with the team. He went to two All-Star Games over that span and finished second in Cy Young voting in 1967. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1996.
2. Roy Halladay for Travis d’Arnaud, Kyle Drabek, and Michael Taylor
On Dec. 16, 2009, the Phillies changed the course of their franchise, acquiring Halladay from the Blue Jays in exchange for catcher Travis d’Arnaud, pitcher Kyle Drabek and outfielder Michael Taylor. It was a negligible cost for what the Phillies got in Halladay. He won the Cy Young Award in his first season with the Phillies in 2010, going 21-10 over 250 2/3 innings with a 2.44 ERA, and threw a perfect game in May of that season. He placed second in Cy Young voting in 2011.
He had a 2.37 ERA in three postseason series with the Phillies from 2010-11, including a no-hitter in his first postseason appearance, in Game 1 of the 2010 National League Division Series. He was elected to the Hall of Fame, posthumously, in 2019.
1. Steve Carlton for Rick Wise
This trade was not viewed as a steal at the time, but in retrospect, it certainly was. In February 1972, the St. Louis Cardinals sent Carlton to the Phillies in exchange for Wise. Carlton went on to have one of the best seasons in MLB history. He won 27 of his 41 starts and pitched 30 complete games with 310 strikeouts in 346 1/3 innings. He posted a 1.97 ERA that season, en route to his first Cy Young Award.
Carlton went on to win three more Cy Youngs during his time with the Phillies. He won 252 games from 1972-88, the last season of his career. Wise won 113 games from 1972-82. Carlton ended up with a plaque in Cooperstown. He pitched in two World Series for the Phillies — 1980 and 1983 — and pitched seven innings of one-run ball in Game 6 of the 1980 World Series, helping to clinch the Phillies’ first world title. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/professional/mlb/ranking-the-top-10-phillies-trades-of-all-time/article_e1effbcc-2d70-11ee-b079-2b9d251aa03a.html | 2023-07-29T07:09:52 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/professional/mlb/ranking-the-top-10-phillies-trades-of-all-time/article_e1effbcc-2d70-11ee-b079-2b9d251aa03a.html |
Philadelphia Phillies manager Rob Thomson writes Trea Turner’s name on the lineup card with one thought before each game.
“Every day I think he’s going to get back to being who he is,” Thomson said Wednesday.
Turner is in the midst of the worst season of his career. Thomson left open the possibility he might drop Turner in the lineup when the Phillies begin a three-game series in Pittsburgh against the Pirates on Friday night.
“We’ll talk about it,” Thomson said.
Turner’s struggles are one of the most confounding stories in all of baseball this season. The Phillies signed the 30-year-old shortstop to an 11-year, $300-million contract in the offseason. He began Friday with an anemic slash line of .245/.297/.384 — all career lows for a season where he played 25 or more games.
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His hitting woes have carried over into the field. He has committed 12 errors — four away from his career-high of 16 last season. Turner’s negative-4 defensive runs saved is tied for 21st among 25 shortstops who have played at least 500 innings this season.
Turner was 4 for 20 with six strikeouts in his last five games. He heard plenty of boos during that stretch.
Simply put, Turner is too good to be playing this way.
So what is Thomson going to do?
He gave Turner off Wednesday as the Phillies rallied to beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-4. The Phillies had a scheduled day off Thursday, so Turner got consecutive days of rest.
Thomson said Turner has been doing a lot of work to get out of his slump, and maybe it's been too much.
“That’s a lot of what goes into going into slumps or tough times,” Thomson said. “Guys just try to do too much.”
The second option is dropping Turner in the batting order.
It’s easy for fans to shout, “drop him in the order.”
But this isn’t fantasy baseball or a video game. Players have egos and emotions.
Turner has hit leadoff or second for almost his entire career. Thomson did drop Turner to cleanup for seven games earlier this season with positive results. He batted .296 with two home runs in those contests.
But dropping someone in the order isn’t as simple as writing somebody’s name in a different slot. If Turner drops in the order, someone moves up. Would Bryson Stott or Alec Bohm be as productive at the top of the order as they have been in the middle or bottom of the lineup?
“We’ll have a conversation with the staff, particularly with (hitting coach) Kevin Long,” Thomson said, “just to make sure we’re doing the right thing, not only moving a guy down but moving a guy up because he’s really comfortable maybe hitting down in the order or whatever spot he’s in … making sure we’re doing the right thing by him and not putting too much pressure on him.”
Thomson agreed that Turner’s performance defies explanation.
All the manager can do is believe today is the day the shortstop turns it around.
“It’s going to happen,” Thomson said. “I’m sure. It’s just a matter of when, and I think, as a group, that at some point this offense is going to explode, because we’re just a lot better than what we’re hitting right now.” | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/professional/mlb/where-in-the-batting-order-will-trea-turner-hit-friday-night/article_fd8f7802-2ce0-11ee-a7c5-7b7c7addb785.html | 2023-07-29T07:09:58 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/professional/mlb/where-in-the-batting-order-will-trea-turner-hit-friday-night/article_fd8f7802-2ce0-11ee-a7c5-7b7c7addb785.html |
Several dogs set for K-9 training die after air conditioning fails
Multiple dogs being taken from Chicago, Illinois, to a K-9 training facility in Michigan City, Indiana, died on Thursday after the air conditioning unit in a vehicle cargo area they were being held in failed. Authorities did not specify exactly how many of the dogs died in the incident.
Nineteen German Shepherds were being transported from O’Hare International Airport when the driver of the vehicle they were riding in was caught in a two-hour traffic delay, according to Indiana’s Lake Station Police Department.
After the unit failed, the temperatures in the cargo area began to rise, causing some of the dogs to go into heat-related medical distress.
The driver was alerted by some of the dogs’ barking. He stopped the vehicle in Lake Station which is located about 40 miles southeast of Chicago, and entered the cargo area, police said. He saw the dogs in distress and began to remove them inside crates.
Lake Station fire and police were called. Police said the scene “took an emotional toll on all that were involved in trying to save as many canines as possible.”
“This is truly devastating,” said Jenny Webber, executive director of the Humane Society of Hobart, Indiana.
Webber, who also responded to the scene, claimed that protocol was not followed.
“I don’t think any veterinarian would’ve signed off on their health certificate given the temperature and the exposure that those pets would’ve been under,” she said…”I’m not even quite sure if they had any of that paperwork or any of the documentation they should’ve had.”
Weber told CBS Chicago that four of the dogs were eventually transported to the Hobart Animal Clinic.
“The driver left with four, and the rest were deceased, and he left with the deceased animals, and four alive animals that I recommended be hospitalized immediately,” she said.
She added that the surviving dogs appeared to be in critical condition.
They were alert but “clearly suffering from heat stroke,” she said.
Police said that investigators do not believe this was not an act of animal cruelty or neglect, but a mechanical failure of the air conditioning unit.
Webber said she is waiting for answers.
“It’s very confusing, very disheartening, and I would like a call from the chief of police immediately.” | https://www.wsgw.com/several-dogs-set-for-k-9-training-die-after-air-conditioning-fails/ | 2023-07-29T07:11:35 | 0 | https://www.wsgw.com/several-dogs-set-for-k-9-training-die-after-air-conditioning-fails/ |
10 dogs die after air conditioning in truck fails during traffic delay
HOBART, Ind. (WLS) - Ten dogs died in Indiana during a drive from Chicago O’Hare International Airport to Michigan.
Authorities said the driver did not know the air conditioning in the truck’s cargo failed.
Police arrived at a Lake Station, Indiana, gas station Thursday night for a report that 19 German shepherds became overheated while being transported to a training facility.
Ten of the dogs died as a result, according to officials.
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The Humane Society of Hobart was called to the scene.
Police in Lake Station say the driver of the van, who picked the dogs up from Chicago O’Hare International Airport and was bound for a training facility in Michigan, was unaware that the air conditioning in the cargo area of the truck failed in the sweltering heat.
“We had cooling vans and animal care and control vehicles ready to transport. And because we were asking for that paperwork, it seemed to make the owner mad and so he said that he would not allow us to help,” Jenny Webber, with the Humane Society of Hobart, said.
Lake Station police posted a narrative of the situation on Facebook, calling it a “freak event” and not a matter of neglect on the part of the truck’s driver.
They went on to write the “scene was chaotic and took an emotional toll on all that were involved in trying to save as many canines as possible.”
The humane society said they believe the dogs were traveling to a Michigan trainer to become police dogs.
“This is truly a sad day for all of us,” Webber added.
Five German shepherds were still being treated in Lake Station and will go into the care of the humane society unless the owner claims the dogs.
The record-breaking temperatures stretching from coast-to-coast sparked heat alerts in multiple states.
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When Nina Kauffman started her tattooing apprenticeship, she’d never set foot inside a tattoo shop. She didn’t even have any tattoos yet.
“For some reason, there’s always been this stigma of having to be really hardcore and scary to be a tattoo artist,” Kauffman said.
But that’s not who she wanted to be. Kauffman, a young Asian woman in her mid-20s, loves cute, girly designs and often brings in stuffed animals to comfort her clients during a session.
“I was met with some friction when I first started because they thought I was too sensitive to be an artist. But I think being sensitive is one of the best things you can be when you’re tattooing other people,” she said.
The most painful part
Now Kauffman has 24 tattoos, from a large flower on her palm to a spiky Garfield flail on her shin. For the past couple of years, she has run a small tattoo shop in Denton called Golden Girl Tattoo Parlor. The shop is explicitly created to be an inclusive space for people who may not feel comfortable or welcome at a traditional tattoo studio.
“I’ve worked at shops where there’s racism, sexism, just really inappropriate things,” Kauffman said. “I’ve always wanted a nice little safe space where people can just come in and not be afraid to ask for what they want.”
More tattoo shops like Golden Girl have popped up around North Texas during the pandemic. Dolls House of Ink and Lilac Tattoo Studio, both in Dallas, are built with inclusivity in mind. But it’s not just the flower walls, cursive neon signs and cuddly stuffed animals that make these spaces feel unique. Golden Girl Tattoo Parlor makes it a point to ask for people’s pronouns when they make an appointment, and both Dolls House and Lilac are owned by Black women and have all-female staff.
Kauffman said it’s sad for her to think about the harsh experiences some clients have at traditional tattoo shops, like being mocked for their ideas, pushed into tattoos they didn’t want or belittled because of who they are.
“It just kind of sucks that you could go into a tattoo shop, and the most painful part isn’t even getting the tattoo,” Kauffman said.
Welcome to the Dolls House
Dolls House of Ink’s Carolyn Reeves, who goes by “Doll,” had a vision for a female-run tattoo shop for years, but didn’t have any luck finding a spot for it. In 2020, a storefront space near Love Field opened, and she jumped at the opportunity.
On a regular day, Reeves sees anywhere from three to seven clients, depending on the size and detail of a tattoo. She has seven tattoo artists and hopes to relocate to a larger space and add three more artists soon.
Tattoo studios haven’t been the most welcoming to Black women, Reeves said. That’s another reason she wanted her own shop. She believes Dolls House may be the first tattoo shop in the city owned by Black women.
Lilac Tattoo Studio, started by artist Dominique Ransom, opened just a few months after Dolls House. Starting businesses in 2020, when so many others were struggling to stay afloat, may seem like an odd choice, but both Ransom and Reeves say the timing was right for them.
Ransom used to work at a tattoo studio in Oak Lawn. She was surprised the shop didn’t seem to have a strong connection to the queer community. Ransom wanted to create a space where queer clients would feel welcome, and also where she could cater specifically to her female clients with an all-female staff.
“I’ve only been around so much masculine energy. But now, it’s such a powerful thing to know that I have an extremely bada — group of ladies,” Ransom said.
A gift that lasts a lifetime
Ransom is used to being the only female artist in a tattoo shop. And wherever she has worked, female clients have sought her out. She said that’s probably because tattooing and piercing can involve a lot of intimate physical contact, and many women just feel more comfortable around other women.
Ransom wanted Lilac to look different from traditional tattoo shops. Flower walls and feminine, lavender decor ultimately helped the business go viral on social media. Now, with business going well, she’s opening a second location in north Fort Worth.
Kauffman said creating a comforting environment may seem trivial for a tattoo shop, but it makes a difference. Clients have often told her how much they appreciated the small things, like her stuffed animals, in calming their nerves before their first tattoos.
“We get to give people a gift that’ll last them the rest of their life,” she said. “So it’s really important to me to just listen to people and make sure everyone is happy and comfortable.”
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NIAMEY, Niger — Mutinous soldiers who staged a coup in Niger declared their leader the new head of state on Friday, hours after the general asked for national and international support despite rising concerns that the political crisis could hinder the nation's fight against jihadists and boost Russia's influence in West Africa.
Spokesman Col. Maj. Amadou Abdramane said on state television that the constitution was suspended and Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani was in charge.
Various factions of Niger's military have reportedly wrangled for control since members of the presidential guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum, who was elected two years ago in Niger's first peaceful, democratic transfer of power since independence from France.
Niger is seen as the last reliable partner for the West in efforts to battle jihadists linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group in Africa's Sahel region, where Russia and Western countries have vied for influence in the fight against extremism. France has 1,500 soldiers in the country who conduct joint operations with the Nigeriens, and the United States and other European countries have helped train the nation's troops.
The coup sparked international condemnation and the West African regional group ECOWAS, which includes Niger and has taken the lead in trying to restore democratic rule in the country, scheduled an emergency summit in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, on Sunday.
The U.N. Security Council strongly condemned efforts "to unconstitutionally change the legitimate government." Its statement, agreed to by all 15 members including the U.S. and Russia, called for "the immediate and unconditional release" of Bazoum and expressed concern over the negative effect of coups in the region, the "increase in terrorist activities and the dire socio—economic situation."
Extremists in Niger have carried out attacks on civilians and military personnel, but the overall security situation is not as dire as in neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso — both of which have ousted the French military. Mali has turned to the Russian private military group Wagner, and it's believed that the mercenaries will soon be in Burkina Faso.
Now there are concerns that Niger could follow suit. Before the coup, Wagner, which has sent mercenaries around the world in support of Russia's interests, already had its sights set on Niger, in part because it's a large producer of uranium.
"We can no longer continue with the same approaches proposed so far, at the risk of witnessing the gradual and inevitable demise of our country," Tchiani, who also goes by Omar Tchiani, said in his address. "That is why we decided to intervene and take responsibility."
"I ask the technical and financial partners who are friends of Niger to understand the specific situation of our country in order to provide it with all the support necessary to enable it to meet the challenges," he said.
If the United States designates the takeover as a coup, Niger stands to lose millions of dollars of military aid and assistance.
The mutinous soldiers, who call themselves the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Country, accused some prominent dignitaries of collaborating with foreign embassies to "extract" the deposed leaders. They said it could lead to violence and warned against foreign military intervention.
Bazoum has not resigned and he defiantly tweeted from detention on Thursday that democracy would prevail.
It's not clear who enjoys majority support, but the streets of the capital of Niamey were calm Friday, with a slight celebratory air. Some cars honked in solidarity at security forces as they drove by — but it was not clear if that meant they backed the coup. Elsewhere, people rested after traditional midday prayers and others sold goods at their shops and hoped for calm.
"We should pray to God to help people come together so that peace comes back to the country. We don't want a lot of protests in the country, because it is not good ... I hope this administration does a good job," said Gerard Sassou, a Niamey shopkeeper.
A day earlier, several hundred people gathered in the city chanting support for Wagner while waving Russian flags. "We're fed up," said Omar Issaka, one of the protestors. "We are tired of being targeted by the men in the bush. ... We're going to collaborate with Russia now."
That's exactly what many in the West likely fear. Tchiani's criticism of Bazoum's approach and of how security partnerships have worked in the past will certainly make the U.S., France, and the EU uneasy, said Andrew Lebovich, a research fellow with the Clingendael Institute.
"So that could mark potentially some shifts moving forward in Niger security partnerships," he said.
Even as Tchiani sought to project control, the situation appeared to be in flux. A delegation from neighboring Nigeria, which holds the ECOWAS presidency and was hoping to mediate, left shortly after arriving, and the president of Benin, nominated as a mediator by ECOWAS, has not arrived.
Earlier, an analyst who had spoken with participants in the talks said the presidential guard was negotiating with the army about who should be in charge. The analyst spoke on condition they not to be named because of the sensitive situation.
A western military official in Niger who was not authorized to speak to the media also said the military factions were believed to be negotiating, but that the situation remained tense and violence could erupt.
Speaking in Papua New Guinea, French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the coup as "completely illegitimate and profoundly dangerous for the Nigeriens, Niger and the whole region."
The coup threatens to starkly reshape the international community's engagement with the Sahel region.
On Thursday, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said the country's "substantial cooperation with the Government of Niger is contingent on Niger's continued commitment to democratic standards."
The United States in early 2021 said it had provided Niger with more than $500 million in military assistance and training programs since 2012, one of the largest such support programs in sub-Saharan Africa. The European Union earlier this year launched a 27 million-euro ($30 million) military training mission in Niger.
The United States has more than 1,000 service personnel in the country.
Some military leaders who appear to be involved in the coup have worked closely with the United States for years. Gen. Moussa Salaou Barmou, the head of Niger's special forces, has an especially strong relationship with the U.S., the Western military official said.
While Russia has also condemned the coup, it remains unclear what the junta's position would be on Wagner.
The acting head of the United Nations in Niger said Friday that humanitarian aid deliveries were continuing, even though the military suspended flights carrying aid.
Nicole Kouassi, the acting U.N. resident and humanitarian coordinator, told reporters via video from Niamey that 4.3 million people needed humanitarian aid before this week's military action and 3.3 million faced "acute food insecurity," the majority of them women and children.
Jean-Noel Gentile, the U.N. World Food Program director in Niger, said "the humanitarian response continues on the ground." He said the U.N. is providing cash assistance and food to people in accessible areas and that the agency is continuously assessing the situation to ensure security and access.
This is Niger's fifth coup and marks the fall of one of the last democratically elected governments in the Sahel.
Its army has always been very powerful and civilian-military relations fraught, though tensions had increased recently, especially with the growing jihadist insurgency, said Karim Manuel, an analyst for the Middle East and Africa with the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida: Best tweets, photos
SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, we adore you.
And we're not alone.
After SpaceX launched the rocket at 11:04 p.m. EDT Friday, July 28, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, social media quickly lit up with photos, posts and tweets about Falcon Heavy. The massive three-core rocket was carrying the Jupiter 3 satellite to orbit for EchoStar. Shortly after, the dual side boosters completed landings at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's Landing Zones 1 and 2.
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Denton ISD middle and high school students have Chromebooks for class. Now is the time for parents and students to make sure they charge up and don’t need repairs.
Calling all parents of Denton ISD middle and high school students: Don’t wait until Aug. 8 to look at your child’s Chromebook.
School leaders are reminding families of students in sixth through 12h grade that students are expected to come to the first day school — Aug. 9 for freshmen and Aug. 10 for everyone else — with their Chromebook fully charged and ready.
Denton ISD is a 1:1 technology district, meaning each student is issued a Chromebook. Middle and high school students are able to keep their Chromebooks during the summer break.
Here’s how to get your student off to school, tech-ready:
1) Locate your student’s Chromebook and charging cable.
2) Check the screen, keyboard and ports for damage.
3) Plug the Chromebook in and see if it will charge.
If there is damage to the Chromebook, check your records to see if you purchased Chromebook insurance, which costs $20 per Chromebook or $10 for economically disadvantaged families. The non-refundable insurance fee will cover up to $200 in repairs. The insurance must be paid in full prior to being applied toward current repairs. Parents or guardians are responsible for repairs over $200 after insurance has been paid. In some cases, this includes replacement devices.
What if there is damage to my student’s Chromebook?
The district’s IT department asks that families submit a Chromebook repair request as soon as possible. Find the form online here. Before you fill out the request form, have your student’s device at hand as well as your student’s ID number.
And remember: If a students intentionally damages their Chromebook, they might be subject to disciplinary action.
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Health benefits are usually buttoned up by July, but when Denton ISD learned that the reinsurer for the Texas School Health Benefits had opted not to continue coverage for 50 Texas school districts in the program, the school board authorized Superintendent Jamie Wilson to find and secure new insurance.
The district accepted an offer from Blue Cross Blue Shield to provide three plans for district employees. Wilson said nearly 1,000 employees have finished their enrollment for benefits for the 2023-24 school year.
School board members discussed the benefits package in Zoom calls, and Wilson said trustees asked good questions and gave input so the administration could offer fully funded health care benefits to its eligible staff.
“We have a passive consent enrollment process,” Wilson said. “So that means they’re going to roll in the benefits that they’ve had — whatever was expected — and what we’re continuing to do is reach out, and our team is sending out text messages and emails and whatnot. There’s been a constant audience of people come through the benefits office asking questions, trying to figure out what’s best for them.”
Health benefits are a crucial part of staff compensation packages, and when the district learned that the reinsurer wouldn’t continue coverage, leaders decided to seek out an alternative. A reinsurer is a financial company that insures insurance third-party administrators as “a stop-gap,” Chris Bomberger, Denton ISD executive director of child nutrition, benefits and risk management, said last month. Texas School Health Benefits, a government risk pool, sought out options, but Denton ISD allowed Bomberger’s team and Wilson to seek benefits, too.
Wilson said the district discovered it could get a better rate by bundling medical insurance with dental plans, while also keeping another dental insurance plan.
“We have so many employees that have it,” Wilson said. “So we didn’t think they have enough runway with that employee group to make that change. So we’re really offering two dental plans this year. The folks on the previous dental plan can stay on that plan.”
Administrators pledged to provide benefits for the 5,000 employees eligible for health coverage through the district by Sept. 1, when their coverage begins. Within the district, employees who work 16 hours a week or more are eligible for healthcare coverage. Wilson said Bomberger and his team moved fast and worked hard to strike a deal on health care coverage.
Denton ISD offered benefits through Texas School Health Benefits from September 2020 through August 2022. Starting in September 2022, the district opted to leave TRS-ActiveCare, the health care benefits vended through the state’s teacher retirement system. Denton ISD wasn’t alone in leaving the state’s program, either, and the goal was to find more affordable coverage.
The sting of leaving TRS-ActiveCare? Once a district opts out, you can’t get back into the system for four years, even if the system has better rates than other options on the market. In a previous interview, Bomberger said that during the 2021-22 school year, 2,700 employees chose the district’s health care. During the 2022-23 school year, 2,750 district employees opted for coverage through their workplace. Employees may choose to be covered by other plans. Bomberger said it’s most likely that those who choose another plan are carried by another family member or a spouse.
District leaders know health benefits are both integral to recruiting and retaining teachers and other staff, and when the administration conducted a “listening tour” of its campuses last school year, benefits were a sticking point.
“We heard [that] access to health care, period, not just a result of the benefits, but finding primary care physicians and whatnot” was difficult for employees, said Susannah O’Bara, the district’s deputy superintendent. “We were really thrilled to be able to share an immediate solution as we heard that with our wellness clinic, which by the way is open and taking walk-in patients.”
Employees will be able to choose from among the three plans. They can choose a high-deductible plan, a “platinum” health maintenance organization plan and a “gold” HMO plan. Two of the district’s dental plans have been moved to Blue Cross Blue Shield.
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Champion freediver Alessia Zecchini, left, and expert safety diver Stephen Keenan, right, seemed destined for one another despite the different paths they took to meet at the pinnacle of the freediving world. The Netflix/A24 documentary 'The Deepest Breath' offers a look at the thrilling rewards and inescapable risks of chasing dreams through the depths of the ocean.
Remember the Oscar-winning Free Solo, the white-knuckle account of Alex Honnold’s 900-meter vertical rock climb without ropes or safety harnesses? What about Fire of Love, the bright-burning exploration of volcanologists Katia and Maurice Kraft’s lives and careers? Now, imagine a new documentary that equally puts one at the edge of their seat and heart through the wringer.
That’s Laura McGann’s beautifully rendered, immersively told The Deepest Breath.
The Netflix/A24 film captures the story of Italian freediver Alessia Zecchini, who’s determined to break the world record by plunging into the blackness of the ocean without an oxygen tank. Her goal: slow down her heart rate and descend to what’s equivalent to twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, both down and back up.
All that’s there to support Alessia is one rope that travels down to her depth goal and safety divers led by Stephen Keenan of Ireland. Stephen meets Alessia around 30-40 meters down on her return to the surface to ensure she safely emerges. Unconsciousness strikes most commonly within 5 meters of the surface, where expanding lungs suck oxygen from the diver’s blood. It’s a dangerous sport that requires just as much mental work as physical work.
The intensity is there from the get-go, but what really makes your heart beat during The Deepest Breath is the partnership and love between Alessia and Stephen. McGann artfully transitions between their individual stories throughout the film until the two meet at the pinnacle of the freediving world. We see these strange twists of fate lead them together as they grow up loving the water and chasing challenges to instill purpose. It’s lovely to see the stars align for them, which deepens the viewer’s investment in the world record dives. Just keep the tissues close.
Q&A
To delve deeper into the emotions and intensity within The Deepest Breath, the Denton Record-Chronicle had the recent opportunity to speak with McGann (2016’s Revolutions) about letting/not letting her own humanity surface during the discussions and the impactful themes.
Watch the five-minute chat below, and head to Netflix to catch the documentary and feel your heart grow in size. Enjoy!
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While most Texans know it’s important to protect their skin from the sun’s harsh rays, especially during summer when the UV index is at its peak, there can be a lot of confusion on the specifics. But according to Parth Patel, a board-certified dermatologist with Texas Health Denton, the basics can be pretty simple: wear at least an SPF 30 daily on exposed areas, and with prolonged outdoor exposure, add other protective elements, like wide-brimmed hats, thin long sleeves and sunglasses for eyes.
“Sunscreen and sun-protective clothes are one of the big things,” Patel said.
If you can avoid the sun between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. when the UV index is highest, that’s best, Patel says. On the other hand, if you work outdoors or are outside frequently, be sure to reapply sunscreen every two hours. While higher temps are not directly correlated with sunburn risk, there is an association because higher temps usually come with a higher UV index and more time outdoors.
As for protection, there are thousands of products containing SPF on the market, but just two types of sunscreen: physical and chemical. Physical sunscreens tend to be mineral-based SPFs that leave a white cast and create a barrier, such as those containing zinc oxide or titanium dioxide. Chemical sunscreens, meanwhile, help absorb UV radiation.
“The physical type of sunscreens generally have a little bit more broad spectrum protection, and they also have a little bit lower risk of skin irritation for patients with sensitive skin, so they tend to be more favored these days,” Patel said.
But if you just can’t deal with the white cast, chemical sunscreens are a great option, too.
There are a lot of misconceptions about how much to apply and how high of an SPF is needed. People tend to underapply — you need about an ounce, or a shot glass full, to adequately cover your body. And while an SPF 30 is much better than the SPF 15 or 20 that you might find in makeup, there really is not much extra benefit to higher SPFs like 50 or 100.
“Even with SPF of 30 about 97% of the UV rays are being blocked by the sunscreen, so at 50, you’re only increasing that percentage marginally, maybe to 99%,” Patel said.
If you are indoors most of the day, wearing SPF is important too, since UVA rays — those associated with aging — penetrate glass windows.
Most importantly, any new skin lesions should be examined by a dermatologist.
The A-B-C-D-E guideline can help clue you in as to whether a lesion could be cause for concern: Any bump or spot that is asymmetrical, has irregular borders, features multiple colors, is larger than about the size of a pencil eraser (diameter), and is changing or evolving.
“If they’re hurting, growing, bleeding or any of those sorts of things that can be a sign of concern, so we definitely recommend evaluation of spots,” Patel said.
Texas Health will host its 24th annual free skin cancer screening event at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton Saturday from 8:30–11 a.m. Though the screening is free of charge, an appointment is required and can be made by calling 1-877-THR-WELL (1-877-847-9355) and selecting option 3.
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A home for recovering alcohol and drug users will remain in the Idiot’s Hill neighborhood of Denton after Denton City Council members voted unanimously Tuesday night to grant a reasonable accommodation request.
That allows the seven unrelated individuals who live in recovery at the home to continue living there, as required by the Federal Fair Housing Act.
The home is part of the Oxford House program, a self-run, self-supported recovery home system. Gregory Alan Heafner, an attorney from North Carolina who has represented Oxford House in the past, wrote in an October 2022 letter to the city of Denton that the tenants — as a whole — are listed on the lease, as well as on the home’s utility services.
Heafner’s letter was seeking a reasonable accommodation to the city’s code of ordinances, which only allows four unrelated individuals to live in a single-family home. In the letter, Heafner included a slew of court cases to support his argument that the federal government considers those in recovery as disabled persons and therefore a protected class.
About 1,700 residents, all recovering from drugs or alcohol, live in the 280 Oxford Houses around Texas, and 71% of them had experienced prior homelessness, according to a July 25 city staff presentation to council members.
“The Oxford House does not undermine the purposes of the City’s zoning ordinance, nor does it impose any financial or administrative burden on the City,” Heafner wrote in his letter. “In fact, the Oxford House provides a free benefit to the City by providing needed housing to men recovering from alcoholism and drug addiction.
“The Oxford House use does not fit any of the ordinance’s definitions of family, group home, group home disabled, community homes, or even the ordinance’s definition of disabled. Furthermore, the ordinance does not contain a means for requesting a reasonable accommodation.”
Nine months later, council members agreed unanimously with city staffers’ recommendation to approve Heafner’s reasonable accommodation request.
“The city is still working on the code amendment related to the reasonable accommodation process,” Denton Chief of Staff Ryan Adams said in a Thursday afternoon email to the Denton Record-Chronicle.
Adams said that they’ve discussed and presented the amendments multiple times to the Development Code Review Committee and plan to take it to the Committee on Persons with Disabilities and then set up public hearings with Planning and Zoning and the City Council in early fall.
Council members’ unanimous decision Tuesday night occurred shortly after several neighbors of the recovery house appeared before the council to describe a place that sounded more like off-campus housing around the University of North Texas than a sober-living house for people in recovery.
“Lots of incidents and lots of mayhem at the house,” one neighbor told council members. She said she had been sending emails to the city about the home.
In a Thursday afternoon interview, city staffers confirmed that they had a record of six calls related to the Oxford House: repossession of vehicles, domestic disturbance and smoke-alarm issue and an inquiry about the home.
Neighbors also questioned how the city knew if those in recovery living at the house were disabled, as Heafner claimed in his letter, and mentioned that not everyone with a disability needs an accommodation, with one example being what’s been called “functioning alcoholics.”
They were also worried about the lack of safeguards since, as Heafner pointed out, each Oxford House is “autonomous and democratically [run] by its residents,” similar to City Council.
The Oxford House seemed to be familiar with neighbors’ concerns when one of their houses appeared in a neighborhood because the organization has a webpage devoted to “info for neighbors.”
Mayor Gerard Hudspeth and other council members were sympathetic to the neighbors’ concerns, but there wasn’t much they could do about it other than enforce any violation related to the code of ordinances — for example, violating a noise ordinance.
Council member Paul Meltzer stressed that the rights of people in recovery have been well-established and rigorously defended in court because there have been extensive studies done supporting the idea that these types of homes work.
Both Meltzer and council member Chris Watts mentioned personal experiences with homes like the one in Idiot’s Hill that brought neighbors to the council meeting. Watts, who is also a landlord, said the problems the neighbors have been describing could very easily be from a family renting a home, or students or people who chose to live together.
“I liken this to someone who has a rent house next to them,” Watts said. “... This could be any rental property in the entire city.”
Watts stressed that they, as a city, can only respond based on code violations.
“As a city we cannot tell those people that they gotta move out,” Watts said. “We can’t tell them that they have to live a certain way.”
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A man and woman from California were booked into the Bonneville County Jail Friday following a four-hour incident at an Idaho Falls hotel, according to a press release from Jessica Clements, public information officer with the Idaho Falls Police Department.
The woman has been identified as Madison Salisbury, a 28-year-old resident of California. The male has been identified as Zachary Melton, a 34-year-old resident of California. Both Salisbury and Melton were booked on charges of trespassing and resisting/obstructing arrest, Clements said in the release.
Idaho Falls Police officers responded to the Hilton Garden Inn on Lindsay Boulevard shortly after noon Friday for a report of a disturbance involving guests in one of the rooms at the hotel. Clements said officers arrived and made contact with one of the people involved, a woman, after knocking on the hotel room door. Clements said the woman made a statement to officers that she was armed with multiple firearms, had a hostage, and threatened harm if officers attempted to enter the room.
Officers immediately took steps to secure the area, evacuate surrounding rooms including those above and below, and called out additional police resources. Officers from patrol, SWAT, and the Crisis Negotiations Team responded.
Officers with the Crisis Negotiations Team attempted to make contact with the people in the room but had limited response or cooperation from them, Clements said. Eventually, officers were able to establish communication with the occupants who refused to leave the room. Officers learned that the door had been barricaded. Eventually, officers broke a window in order to deploy a gas into the room, which acts as an irritant and is used to encourage people to exit the space. A short time later, and after continued communication between the occupants and crisis negotiators, the male occupant of the room exited and was taken into custody. Approximately 45 minutes later, the woman also exited the room and was taken into custody.
No one was injured during this incident, Clements said. Both the male and female occupants of the room were evaluated by medical professionals due to exposure to the gas irritant as a precaution, she added.
Officers did not find any firearms inside the room, despite the statements made by Salisbury at the beginning of the incident. Melton stated that he stayed in the room of his own volition, Clements said.
The Idaho Falls Fire Department responded and remained on standby throughout of the incident as a precaution. The Chaplains of Idaho also responded to provide support to officers on scene, Clements said.
She noted that when the window was breached, some people in the area at the time mistook the sound for gunfire. Clements said the window breaking did create two very loud sharp noises that a lay person could reasonably misidentify as gun shots. She emphasized that at no time during the incident were shots fired by Idaho Falls Police officers, and there was no evidence that any shots were fired by the two people inside the room.
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Denton police are searching for a man who left the scene of a motor vehicle crash Wednesday and dumped a gun and drugs on county property, according to a police report.
At about 1:44 p.m., multiple 911 callers reported a crash on South Loop 288 near Courthouse Drive. One caller described seeing a vehicle spin out on the Loop.
When officers arrived, they saw two men standing near a vehicle. One said he was the driver of the crashed vehicle. The other said he was a witness.
Officers spoke to the driver, who alleged he was alone in the vehicle heading north on Loop 288. He said a tire flew off the vehicle, causing him to lose control.
While officers worked the crash, a Denton County sheriff’s deputy approached the scene. He had a bag in his hand and alleged one of the occupants of the crashed vehicle dumped the bag on county property at the Denton County Administrative Courthouse, located at 1 Courthouse Drive. Then, the man walked away.
The bag had a strong smell of marijuana, according to the report. So the deputy and officers opened it. The report states inside the bag were marijuana, two boxes of THC oil cartridges, a gun, various ammunition, drug paraphernalia and other miscellaneous items like clothing.
Witnesses told the officers they had seen another male exiting the crashed vehicle. At first, the man who said he was the driver allegedly denied anyone else was in the vehicle, but he eventually said there was another man. He said he didn’t know him or anything about him.
Officers released the alleged driver from the scene and had his vehicle towed. They are still reviewing surveillance footage from the area to attempt to identify the man who left the bag and ran away.
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1900 block of Brinker Road — A man who reported that a woman stole his vehicle last week said he found her driving it Wednesday when she crashed it into another vehicle he owns, according to a police report.
On July 18, a man entered the Police Department lobby to file a report. He said he had met a woman about five days prior. On July 14, they drove to a store together.
He said he got out of the vehicle to go inside. She stayed in it while it was running. When he came back out of the store, he said, his vehicle and the woman were gone. He wanted to press charges against her.
On Wednesday at about 10:45 a.m., he called police to report that the woman had just crashed the stolen vehicle. It’s unclear from the report whether he tracked her down or if he just ran into her, police spokesperson Amy Cunningham said. He found her at an apartment complex where he does not live.
He said he drove to the complex in another vehicle he owns. There, he said, he saw the woman and an unknown male sitting in his car in the parking lot.
As he pulled up behind his stolen vehicle, he said, the woman started backing out. The report states that she crashed the stolen vehicle into the one he was driving and then hit another unrelated vehicle as she tried to flee.
After the two crashes, the report states, she and the unknown male got out of the stolen vehicle and fled on foot. The man was able to retrieve his stolen vehicle, but both of his vehicles were damaged. Cunningham said the report did not go into detail about the damage.
At the time of the report, police were not able to locate the driver of the unrelated vehicle that was hit.
The man said he wants to prosecute for unauthorized use of his vehicle, as well as for failure to give information and render aid in a collision involving an attended vehicle.
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From 12:01 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, the Denton Police Department handled 370 service and officer-initiated calls and made seven arrests.
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Nearly a year has passed since the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled it’s unconstitutional for city ordinances to require short-term rental homes to be a primary residence because it discriminates against out-of-state real estate owners.
Since the Hignell-Stark v. City of New Orleans decision, the city of Fort Worth has been sued by short-term rental owners who claimed that the city’s regulations essentially ban short-term rental uses in residential districts, as Denton staff pointed out Tuesday in an agenda information sheet.
In light of these two instances, city staff recommended that the City Council remove the primary residence requirement from Denton’s short-term rental ordinance. The Planning and Zoning Commission also agreed unanimously to recommend that council members change the code.
During their special called meeting Tuesday night, City Council members voted unanimously to remove the requirement.
In March, city staff had recommended considering changing the rules for short-term rentals after the 5th Circuit’s August 2022 decision.
At the time, then-council member Jesse Davis said he agreed in principle with those changes but pointed out that some of the regulations, such as the primary residence requirement, were designed “to prevent this proliferation [of short-term rentals] into single-family neighborhoods.”
“People who don’t want them say they are not safe and [that it is] not good for the city to have mini-hotels in the middle of neighborhoods,” Davis said.
But the 5th Circuit did offer several other examples of what cities could do to prevent the proliferation of short-term rentals in single-family neighborhoods. Those examples include, according to the Aug. 22 ruling:
Enforcement
Step up enforcement efforts and increase the chance that owners face punishment for disorderly guests, which in turn strengthens their incentive to monitor their rentals.
Increase the magnitude of penalties imposed on owners for guests who violate quality-of-life regulations. “That would similarly give owners stronger incentives to prevent nuisances and help to fund increased enforcement,” according to the court.
Strip repeat offenses of their short-term licenses, “thus eliminating the short-term rentals most likely to negatively impact their neighbors.”
Financial
Increase taxes on short-term rentals. The court claimed it would discourage younger, rowdier guests from renting them. It will also provide additional funds that could be used to mitigate nuisances.
Increase the prices of short-term rental licenses for owners and/or cap the number of licenses available for any given neighborhood.
Cap the share of housing units that can be used as short-term rentals.
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Give short-term rental owners the alternative of having an operator stay on the property during the night, “thus acting as the ‘adult supervision’ that the city ostensibly hopes live-in owners will provide.”
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A vibrant college town with a strong local art scene, Denton can do more to support its struggling artist community. Roughly 60% of art major graduates are underemployed or working below their qualifications, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
Four local artists working in a range of disciplines spoke with us about their inspirations and methods of making a living out of their crafts.
Ray Darbro works as a custodian for the University of North Texas but is a crochet artist and metal worker in her off hours. Darbro double-majored in library and information science and in studio arts while minoring in art history at UNT. She works nights but creates whenever the time is available.
“It’s something that helps me get out of my head a lot of times,” Darbro said. “I tend to pull in when I’m going through hard stuff. I had to be pretty self-sufficient as a kid, so I made art, and it was a way to get things that were in my head out.”
Though fans of her work have bought crochet, jewelry and more, Darbro believes art should be for enjoyment, not just a source of income. She also struggles with putting a price on her work.
“I just felt like if I turned it into a job, it would take the fun out of it,” Darbro said. “If you see something that somebody is making that you really like and you’re like, ‘Hey that’s awesome,’ then pay them. Look at them and think about how much work goes into it. It may look easy, but it’s not.”
Street art has become a form of self-expression for many artists who have a hard time making a living out of their passion. Cities like Denton have allotted graffiti corners for public art. Murals decorate the walls of the downtown Square and along underpasses.
Recently, traveling street artist Jason Odom stopped at Denton’s local “Freewall” between Voertman’s Bookstore and Aura Coffee to leave a trace of his journey at the scene.
“Being able to monetize everything — whether it be writing, dancing, painting or music — and making a living off of it for someone such as myself is impossible,” Odom said. “Being out here and doing this takes so much of myself already.”
Denton is likewise home to a thriving music scene, but the music industry isn’t any kinder than the visual arts. According to the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project, only 61% of music performance majors work professionally in their field.
Lead singer and guitarist of local band Posival, Michael Patrick Zamora, taught himself to play guitar at 15 years old and continued pursuing music while working maintenance jobs and earning a history degree from UNT.
“I just remember kind of getting obsessed over playing guitar, especially during the summer when I wasn’t in school,” Zamora said. “I would sit in my room and play guitar for eight hours a day and only stop to go to the bathroom or make myself something to eat. It was almost like a secret world to me that I just got obsessed with.”
Though also a musician, Zamora’s father didn’t support his pursuit of music as a degree and career.
“I just kind of was always told as a kid that there was no money in music and there was nothing I could do with it,” Zamora said. “That’s why I never really went to school for music, just because I wasn’t really encouraged.”
Zamora works in a maintenance position where he receives assurance of job security so he doesn’t have to turn to his band for financial stability. That being said, he focuses primarily on his music and also passively sells band merch, such as CDs, cassettes and more, earning the band roughly $100-$300 per show.
“If you look at that in terms of a cost-benefit analysis, it’s really not that bad,” Zamora said. “The other side of that is if someone buys a shirt and we get notifications on our pages of people wearing the shirt, tagging the band and posting it online, that’s immeasurable.”
Lower-income members of the art industry who hope to sell their work have to fight against the automatic advantage of upper-class members. According to The Hechinger Report, only 18% of the art industry comes from working-class backgrounds.
Mercedes Muratalla, a junior at UNT and a double major in Spanish and art history, received a full-ride scholarship for her education and has worked as a gallery attendant since her freshman year.
With a desire for art curating, Muratalla experiences economic stress caused by the industry’s bias toward those of higher-income backgrounds. However, she remains optimistic about her career pursuits as well as for others in the industry.
“I think it really comes down to the devotion artists put into their field, down to the individual artist and the galleries they work with,” Muratalla said. “It’s just networking at that point.”
She believes communities can help artists succeed by providing more resources, such as grants and scholarships, to members of the art industry. Such support would assist with the cost of obtaining the master’s degree necessary to make the median annual wage of an art curator.
“With more money, you have better colleges and better opportunities, so it’s definitely a skewed system,” Muratalla said. “It’s one you have to learn to work against.”
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CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow could miss “several weeks” with a right calf strain, coach Zac Taylor said on Friday.
The 26-year-old franchise quarterback hobbled on one leg, and then went to the ground after a scramble play near the end of Thursday’s practice.
He rode off the field in a medical cart.
“It will take several weeks, and that’s all the information we have,” Taylor said.
Burrow did not practice on Friday, with backup QBs Jake Browning and Trevor Siemian taking the snaps.
The Bengals play their first preseason game on Aug. 11, and open the regular season Sept. 10.
Taylor said Burrow “has seen the doctors” and was present for meetings at the team’s training facility on Friday.
The quarterback was wearing a compression sleeve on his right calf when he pulled up with the injury, but Taylor said on Friday he was unaware there was anything wrong before that play.
Burrow is still negotiating with the Bengals on a long-term contract that could make him one of the NFL’s highest-paid players.
The team’s top draft pick in 2020 had talked on Wednesday about how good he felt at the opening of camp after his first three NFL training camps were disrupted — and how he hoped to play in some preseason games.
Preseason practice was truncated in Burrow’s rookie year in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
In 2001, he was still rehabbing after knee surgery the previous December.
On the first day of camp last year, he was stricken with appendicitis. | https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/2023/07/28/burrow-could-miss-several-weeks-with-calf-strain/ | 2023-07-29T07:13:41 | 0 | https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/2023/07/28/burrow-could-miss-several-weeks-with-calf-strain/ |
The American Athletic Conference completed its first media days with its new lineup this week.
North Texas joined UTSA, Rice, Charlotte, UAB and Florida Atlantic in making its first official appearance at a league event.
The American released its media poll. The coaches and a few select players visited with the media.
But what did we really learn about UNT and the league in general?
Here are three takeaways from the event.
No one really knows what to make of the league
In most years and in most leagues across the country, it’s not hard to guess before the season starts which teams will finish near the top of the standings.
It’s not exactly going out on a limb to say that Alabama will be one of the powers in the SEC or that Clemson will challenge for the title in the ACC.
The American will be tough to gauge this year.
Sure, Tulane starts out as the favorite. The Green Wave won the league last year, beat USC in the Cotton Bowl and have a host of key players returning.
Tulane received 20 of the 34 first-place votes in the preseason poll.
Outside of the Green Wave heading into the season as the team to beat, it’s a guessing game as to how the league’s teams will stack up.
Houston, Central Florida and Cincinnati left for the Big 12 after last season.
“There is so much unknown in the league right now,” UNT coach Eric Morris said. “There are some great programs and even better coaches in this conference. That will raise the bar.
“There could be a lot of parity. There could also be some teams that were already in the American that have better depth. I’m anxious to see what happens.”
UNT went 0-2 against teams that were members of the American last year. The Mean Green were blown out 48-10 by SMU but did hang with Memphis in a game they lost 44-34.
How the six former CUSA teams fare in their first season in the league will be a key storyline.
Commissioner Mike Aresco has expressed confidence in the American’s future all offseason and continued to do so at media days, when he maintained his stance that the league should be considered one of the top conferences in the country.
“I would remind everyone who follows college football what this conference has accomplished,” Aresco said before listing off all the memorable wins the league posted over the past decade. “This conference will continue to achieve at the highest level.”
That’s the plan. How the American gets there and which teams lead the way is a bit of a mystery.
UNT has confidence heading into the season
There are two ways a coach and his players can go when a new staff takes over.
We’ve seen both in recent UNT history. Seth Littrell said right off the bat that his goal in his first season after taking over a team that finished 1-11 the previous year was to win a bowl game that year.
Dan McCarney went the opposite direction just a few years before, saying that he took over the smallest and slowest Division I team he had ever seen.
Morris hasn’t painted himself into a corner like Littrell did, but he has spoken highly of the team he took over.
“I respect what Seth was able to do to bring the program to new heights with appearances in conference championship games and bowl games,” Morris said. “That had me intrigued knowing that the program is headed in the right direction.”
UNT’s players went even further when talking about expectations for the upcoming season.
“We can be competitive right away,” offensive lineman Jett Duncan said. “We have always been competitive and will come out swinging.”
UNT’s roster has strengths and holes
Morris has a whole lot better idea of what he has in terms of the players on his roster after spring practice and summer workouts.
He gave what seemed like an honest assessment of where his team’s strengths and weaknesses lie.
Morris is particularly excited about UNT’s running backs: Ayo Adeyi (807 yards), Ikaika Ragsdale (755 yards), Oscar Adaway III (583 yards) and Isaiah Johnson (246 yards) were all key contributors last season and combined to rush for 2,391 yards.
Morris is also high on UNT’s offensive line.
“We bring back four of our five starters,” Morris said. “This team has successfully run the ball the last four or five years. That starts up front.”
UNT’s situation at quarterback is well known. The Mean Green will head into the fall hoping to pick a starter from three players — Chandler Rogers, Jace Ruder and Stone Earle.
Coming out of spring practice without a starter when that was Morris’ stated goal was not encouraging.
The Mean Green also have an uncertain situation at linebacker in coordinator Matt Caponi’s 3-3-5 scheme.
UNT lost one of its all-time greats in KD Davis when he graduated. Larry Nixon III transferred to Auburn, Mazin Richards moved to defensive end, and Kevin Wood missed time in the offseason due to injury.
UNT added JUCO linebackers Chavez Brown and CJ Garnett after spring practice and are hoping they will make an impact.
“We lost a lot of production at linebacker,” Morris said. “We expect Kevin to play Game 1 against Cal and added two good athletes. We have to do a good job of getting those guys ready.”
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Manager David Bell, who has presided over a successful turnaround in Cincinnati, received a three-year contract extension from the Reds.
The deal that runs through the 2026 season was announced on Friday night before the team faced the Dodgers in Los Angeles.
They’re trying to become the first team in major league history to win a division title after losing at least 100 games the previous season.
They were 62-100 last year, tying Pittsburgh for last in the division.
“We’re in a really strong place right now,” Bell said. “I absolutely love our players, love our team, love the direction we’re headed. I’m truly, truly honored to be able to do this, a job that I love in the city of Cincinnati, and for our fans.”
Bell is on track to become the longest-tenured Reds manager since Hall of Famer Sparky Anderson, who was at the helm from 1970-78 and won two World Series titles.
“David has done a great job. His coaching staff has done a great job this year,” general manager Nick Kroll said. “We came in and it was about growing, and we’ve done that. We’ve created a good culture around our major-league clubhouse, we’ve integrated a lot of young players into our major-league team and continued to grow.”
In 2021, the Reds had a record of 83-79.
In 2020, they were 31-29 during the pandemic-delayed season — and earned their first postseason berth since 2013.
The club had winning records in consecutive seasons for the first time since 2012 and 2013.
“I’m excited about where we are, I’m excited about where we’re going. Are we there yet? No. Do we still have work to do? Yeah, we do,” Kroll said. “But at the same time, it’s been a lot of fun to watch these players grow, these coaches grow, and our team and our organization get better.”
Kroll said the coaching staff’s contracts have not yet been extended.
Bell, a 50-year-old native of Cincinnati, was hired in 2018 on a three-year deal with a club option for 2022.
In 2021, the team gave him a two-year extension through this season.
“I figured it would work out the way it was supposed to,” he said.
Bell is the son of former major leaguer and front office executive Buddy Bell. | https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/2023/07/28/reds-manager-bell-gets-3-year-extension/ | 2023-07-29T07:13:47 | 0 | https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/2023/07/28/reds-manager-bell-gets-3-year-extension/ |
Fruit and fruit juices are among the most refreshing and delicious things to enjoy in hot weather. So it’s probably no surprise that the new wave of Hazy IPAs are so popular. They’re occasionally called juicy IPAs, after all, and their flavors often remind us of orange or grapefruit juice. Hazy IPAs are relative newcomers to the brewing scene, but brewers have been using fruit to make beer for millennia.
One of the earliest known beverages made with fruit was found in Northern China and dated from 9,000 years ago: Pottery jars found in the Neolithic village of Jiahu in Henan province contained the residue of a mixed fermentation drink made with rice, honey and fruit.
Molecular archaeologist Patrick McGovern, from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, asked Dogfish Head Craft Brewery to re-create the drink. The result was Chateau Jiahu, brewed with orange blossom honey, muscat grape juice, barley malt and hawthorn fruit and then fermented on sake yeast. Although it’s no longer in production, you can still find bottles of it in stores, if you don your Indiana Jones fedora. But many other, more recent fruit beers are easy to find.
Lambics
Lambic brews originated around the 13th century in what today is Belgium, in the area around Brussels known as the Pajottenland. One type, gueuze, is made by blending a year-old lambic with a two- to three-year old versio, then bottling the mixture so it ferments a second time. But there’s also Kriek and Framboise, which are two of the most common lambics. Kriek is fermented the second time with cherries, traditionally sour Morello cherries, and Framboise with raspberries. The beers are still sour, but the intense fruit flavor balances that somewhat, and some modern producers add additional sugars to sweeten them further.
Authentic lambic can only be produced in Belgium, but brewers throughout the world make lambic-style beers.
Gose
Another beer to try is gose, which originated in the small German town of Goslar, then rose to fame in Leipzig. What makes this sour wheat beer unique is its high carbonation and the addition of salt to the taste profile. The style almost died out, but has enjoyed a recent resurgence thanks to modern versions that include fruit.
Boonville’s Anderson Valley Brewing, for example, has an entire line of them, including a traditional take — The Kimmie, the Yink and the Holy Gose — and several fruited varieties such as blood orange, briny melon, cherry and framboise rose. And Southern California’s Lost Abbey has a line of Tiny Bubbles that includes brews with orange and guava, raspberries, and salt and lime.
Berliner Weisse
Dubbed the Champagne of the North, Berliner Weisse was born in Berlin, as its name suggests. This low-alcohol, lightly sour wheat beer was traditionally served with a sweet syrup, usually raspberry or woodruff flavor. You don’t see it as often in Berlin these days, but the beer has spread everywhere else, though modern versions ditch the syrup and instead add fruit before bottling or canning. Fort Bragg’s North Coast Brewing makes one with peaches and another with tart cherries.
Radlers
Radlers emerged a century ago in Bavaria, when innkeeper Franz Kugler created a refreshing drink he dubbed the Radlermass or “cyclist liter.” Fascinated by the growing popularity of the sport of cycling, Kugler had created a biking trail that led from Munich directly to — wait for it — his inn. But one busy day, he was so inundated with customers, he feared he would run out of beer, so he mixed it with lemon soda, and the Radler was born.
Today, many German and American breweries offer radlers — no mixing required — and it’s still a very refreshing drink. You may spot it in other flavors, too, such as grapefruit or raspberry.
Other fruit beers
Of course, any beer can have fruit (or anything else for that matter) added to it to enhance flavor. In those heady early days of craft beer, many brewers added fruit to amber ales to produce blueberry ale or raspberry ale, etc. Happily, that practice has grown more intentional and sophisticated with time.
The key to a great fruit beer is simple: It should harmoniously mix the beer and fruit, so you don’t lose the beerishness, but it still allows the fruit flavors to shine through. There are so many great, local fruit beers waiting to be discovered. Start with San Leandro’s 21st Amendment and its Hell or High Watermelon. Try Alameda’s Almanac Beer Co. and its Fruit Punch Sournova. Check out Windsor’s Barrel Brothers and its barrel-aged blonde sour ale, The Snozberries Taste Like Snozberries. Pick a fruit you love and start tasting.
Contact Jay R. Brooks at BrooksOnBeer@gmail.com. | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/5-ways-to-mix-fruit-and-beer-from-lambics-to-radlers/ | 2023-07-29T07:13:49 | 0 | https://www.trentonian.com/2023/07/28/5-ways-to-mix-fruit-and-beer-from-lambics-to-radlers/ |