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DETROIT (AP) — U.S. safety regulators have opened an investigation into electric and hybrid vehicle batteries after five automakers issued recalls due to possible defects that could cause fires or stalling.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the probe covers more than 138,000 vehicles with batteries made by LG Energy Solution of South Korea.
General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai, Stellantis and Volkswagen have issued recalls since February of 2020, most due to internal battery failures that can increase the risk of fires.
The agency says it will write to LG and other companies that might have bought similar batteries to make sure recalls are being done when needed.
Messages were left Tuesday seeking comment from LG Energy Solution.
The investigation is another bug in a growing global rollout of electric vehicles by all automakers to replace internal combustion vehicles to cut emissions and fight climate change. Ford and BMW also have recalled batteries in recent years. Also, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board investigated a series of fires in Tesla vehicles and said the high-voltage lithium-ion batteries pose safety risks to first responders after crashes.
Many governments are counting on counting EVs to replace gasoline-burning vehicles that emit greenhouse gases that cause global warming.
Data on electric vehicle fires is limited, but a small sample in April of 2021 by the insurance industry’s Highway Loss Data Institute found that EVs and their conventional gas counterparts had about the same number of non-crash fire claims per 1,000 insured vehicle years.
The institute tracked claims for 10 EVs and their gas equivalents and found that EVs had 0.19 fire claims per 1,000 insured vehicle years compared with 0.2 for gasoline counterparts.
In a document posted Tuesday on its website, NHTSA said the recalls began on Feb. 24, 2020 when Mercedes recalled a 2019 Smart Fortwo electric vehicle. The company said the high-voltage battery made by LG had a defect that could ignite inside the battery cells, raising the risk of a fire.
Eight months later, Hyundai recalled some 2019 and 2020 Kona EVs with a similar problem.
In November of 2020, General Motors began a string of recalls that involved more than 140,000 Chevrolet Bolt EVs from the 2017 through 2022 model years due to the “simultaneous presence of two rare manufacturing defects in the same battery cell.” The defect caused at least 10 fires, causing GM to warn owners to park the Bolts outdoors. LG Energy Solution agreed to reimburse GM $2 billion for the recall costs, and the company remains in a joint venture with LG to build batteries for its next generation of electric vehicles. This month, GM is scheduled to restart production and sales of Bolts with replacement battery cells.
Hyundai issued a second battery recall March of 2021 covering 2019 and 2020 Konas and 2020 Ioniq EVs and said an electrical short inside the batteries could increase the risk of fires while parked, charging or driving.
Last February, Stellantis’ Chrysler brand recalled some 2017 and 2018 Pacifica plug-in hybrid minivans with LG batteries after getting a dozen reports of fires. A month later, VW recalled some 2021 ID4 electric vehicles with unreliable connections inside the batteries that could cause stalling. Stellantis also has a joint venture with LG Energy Solution to make batteries for future electric vehicles.
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This story has been corrected to show that five automakers issued recalls, not seven.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana State Police said on Tuesday that they have identified the man who raped and killed at least three motel clerks in Indiana and Kentucky in the late 1980s.
Police Sgt. Glen Fifield said they were able to identify the murderer as Harry Edward Greenwell, who died of cancer in January 2013, through a crime lab analysis from evidence collected at the crime scenes, the Associated Press reported.
The first victim, Vicki Lucille Heath, was raped and killed at the Super 8 Motel in Elizabethtown, Kentucky on Feb. 21, 1987.
According to the department, on March 3, 1989, Jeanne Gilbert and Margret Gill were killed while they worked at separate Days Inn along Interstate 65 in Indiana.
Police said Gilbert went missing while working as a night clerk at a Days Inn in Remington. Her body was later found near Brookston, Indiana.
Gill was slain while working at a Days Inn in Merrillville.
Both victims died from gunshot wounds, police said.
Another woman working in Columbus was sexually assaulted and robbed on Jan. 2, 1990, Sgt. Fifield said.
She was the only known victim who survived.
The FBI released the following timeline of events and information.
Investigators are working with law enforcement agencies across the country to determine if Greenwell was a suspect in any other cases.
On Tuesday, personnel from Indiana State Police, the FBI and Elizabethtown Police Department are scheduled to provide an update on the cold cases. Several other law enforcement agencies also attended.
Andrew Smith and Nikki DeMentri at WRTV first reported this story.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed a rule to finally ban asbestos, a carcinogen that is still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products and kills thousands of Americans every year.
The proposal marks a major expansion of EPA regulation under a landmark 2016 law that overhauled rules governing tens of thousands of toxic chemicals in everyday products, from household cleaners to clothing and furniture.
The proposed rule would ban chrysotile asbestos, the only ongoing use of asbestos in the United States. The substance is found in products such brake linings and gaskets, and is used to manufacture chlorine bleach and sodium hydroxide, also known as caustic soda.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan called the rule an important step to protect public health and “finally put an end to the use of dangerous asbestos in the United States.”
The proposed ban “demonstrates significant progress in our work to implement the (2016) law and take bold, long-overdue actions to protect those most vulnerable among us,” Regan said.
The 2016 law authorized new rules for tens of thousands of toxic chemicals found in everyday products, including substances such as asbestos and trichloroethylene that for decades have been known to cause cancer yet were largely unregulated under federal law. Known as the Frank Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act, the law was intended to clear up a hodgepodge of state rules governing chemicals and update the Toxic Substances Control Act, a 1976 law that had remained unchanged for 40 years.
The EPA banned asbestos in 1989, but the rule was largely overturned by a 1991 court decision that weakened EPA’s authority under TSCA to address risks to human health from asbestos or other existing chemicals. The 2016 law required the EPA evaluate chemicals and put in place protections against unreasonable risks.
At the signing ceremony for the new law, then-President Barack Obama said the U.S. chemical system under TSCA was “so complex, so burdensome that our country hasn’t even been able to uphold a ban on asbestos. I think a lot of Americans would be shocked by all that.”
Asbestos, which was once common in home insulation and other products, is banned in more than 50 countries and its use in the U.S. has been declining for decades. The only form of asbestos known to be currently imported, processed or distributed for use in the U.S. is chrysotile asbestos, which is imported primarily from Brazil and Russia. It is used by the chlor-alkali industry, which produces bleach, caustic soda and other products.
Most consumer products that historically contained chrysotile asbestos have been discontinued.
While chlorine is a commonly used disinfectant in water treatment, there are only 10 chlor-alkali plants in the U.S. that still use asbestos diaphragms to produce chlorine and sodium hydroxide. The plants are mostly located in Louisiana and Texas.
The use of asbestos diaphragms has been declining and now accounts for about one-third of the chlor-alkali production in the U.S., EPA said.
The American Chemistry Council, a lobbying group for the chemical industry, slammed the EPA proposal, saying it could cause substantial harm to America’s drinking water supply by reducing the domestic supply of chlorine.
About 98% of public drinking water treatment facilities use some form of chlorine-based disinfectant, the group said, adding that supply chain disruptions experienced by water utilities over the last couple of years “have highlighted the vital importance of chlorine to water disinfection.”
Chlorine also is used in production of batteries, windmills and solar panels, the group said.
The proposed ban would take effect two years after the effective date of the final rule.
In addition to addressing the significant human health effects of chrysotile asbestos exposure, the proposed rule is also expected to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions associated with chlor-alkali production, an energy-intensive industrial operation.
Linda Reinstein, co-founder and president of the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization, called the EPA rule “a landmark step forward,” but said “more work needs to be done to prevent exposure to asbestos and protect Americans.” Reinstein, whose husband, Alan, died from mesothelioma, called on Congress to approve a bill named for her husband that bans asbestos outright.
“We still need Congress to step up to protect all the Alans out there,” she said in an interview.
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man who swilled wine and swiped a book while storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sentenced to 90 days in jail.
Jason Riddle, of Keene, pleaded guilty in November to two misdemeanors, theft of government property and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.
He was also fined over $700, according to Associated Press
Riddle was sentenced in federal court Monday in Washington, D.C.
His lawyers had asked for a total of 30 months of probation, followed by community service.
The news outlet reported that Riddle said he helped himself to some wine that he found in a liquor cabinet inside the building.
According to a court affidavit, Riddle admitted he also sold a leather-bound book titled “Senate Procedure,” that he took for $40, the AP reported.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A New York mobster who escaped federal custody in Florida has been rearrested.
The U.S. Marshals Service says 64-year-old Dominic Taddeo was apprehended “without incident” in Hialeah on Monday.
Taddeo was in the final year of a 54-year sentence when he escaped from a federal halfway house in Orlando on March 28.
The federal Bureau of Prisons said he failed to return from an authorized appointment and “was placed on escape status.”
Taddeo pleaded guilty in 1992 to racketeering charges that included the killings of three other mobsters.
A federal judge denied Taddeo’s request for compassionate release last year. It's unclear what type of additional punishment Taddeo will face for escaping.
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DALLAS (AP) — Dallas police say an outdoor concert in Dallas where one person was killed and 15 others were injured by gunfire over the weekend did not have a permit.
Police on Monday updated the number injured, saying 15 people were injured by gunfire and one woman was injured but not by gunfire.
Police didn't say how she was injured.
Police said those injured ranged in age from 13 to 29.
The Associated Press reported that near the stage police found 26-year-old Kealon Dejuane Gilmore with a gunshot wound to the head. He died at the scene.
Police Chief Eddie Garcia said during a Monday news conference that all of those injured were in stable condition.
Garcia said that with "a permit and proper promoter oversight, we can better be prepared for events and crowds."
The shooting occurred after midnight Sunday.
No arrests have been made.
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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Mali’s army and foreign soldiers suspected to be Russian recently killed an estimated 300 men — some of them suspected Islamic extremist fighters but most civilians — in Moura in central Mali, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.
It is the worst single atrocity reported in Mali’s 10-year armed conflict against Islamic extremists, according to the rights group which said it interviewed several witnesses about the killings.
Russian fighters are believed to have shot dead most of those killed in Moura in late March, according to witnesses who identified the killers as white soldiers who did not speak French. Several hundred Russian mercenaries have been deployed in Mali to help fight the extremist rebels, the U.S. military confirmed in January.
In the Moura incident, Malian army troops and foreign soldiers in late March rounded up several hundred men and shot dead about 300 of them, burying many in mass graves and burning others, according to Human Rights Watch.
Mali’s defense ministry reported a similar incident, saying that in the last week of March it had killed 203 “terrorists” and arrested 51 others, acting on intelligence that armed extremists were meeting in Moura.
“Abuses by armed Islamist groups is no justification at all for the military’s deliberate slaughter of people in custody,” said Corinne Dufka, Sahel director at Human Rights Watch. “The Malian government is responsible for this atrocity, the worst in Mali in a decade, whether carried about by Malian forces or associated foreign soldiers.”
Most of those killed in Moura were from the Peul ethnic group, according to the rights group. Moura had been largely controlled by extremists linked to al-Qaida who taxed villagers and imposed strict Shariah law, according to residents.
“The Malian government should urgently and impartially investigate these mass killings, including the role of foreign soldiers,” Dufka said. “For such investigations to be sufficiently independent and credible, the authorities should seek assistance from the African Union and the United Nations.”
In its investigation of the killings in Moura, Human Rights Watch said its researchers spoke with 27 people including witnesses, traders, community leaders, foreign diplomats and security analysts.
Moura, a town of about 10,000 residents in the Djenné administrative area of central Mali, has since 2015 been at the center of the conflict with extremist rebels and has seen widespread violence, abuses by all sides and the displacement of large numbers of civilians.
The killings in Moura are part of a spike in violence in recent months by extremists linked to Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara and by Malian government security forces. Extremists have also killed scores of Malian security force personnel since the beginning of 2022.
Extremists from the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara are alleged to have killed hundreds of civilians in March in Mali’s eastern Menaka region, which Human Rights Watch said it is investigating separately.
Since January, residents of central Mali have seen scores of foreign soldiers working with Mali’s military. The foreign fighters are believed to be Russian as they do not speak French, according to several witnesses who spoke to Human Rights Watch. Mali’s ruling junta announced in December that Russian trainers had arrived as part of a bilateral agreement with Russia. Shortly after Mali’s junta expelled French and other European soldiers who had been assisting the battle against extremists.
The U.S. State Department said it is concerned that “many reports suggest that the perpetrators were unaccountable forces from the Kremlin-backed Wagner Group,” while other reports say it was Malian forces.
“These conflicting reports illustrate the urgent need for the Malian transition authorities to give impartial investigators free, unfettered, and safe access to the area where these tragic events unfolded,” the State Department said in a statement from spokesman Ned Price.
It called on Mali’s transitional government to allow the U.N. mission in Mali to conduct a rigorous investigation. “Failure to provide a thorough and credible accounting of the facts and accountability will only serve to sow divisions in Malian society, undermine the credibility, legitimacy, and reputation of the FAMA (Mali’s military), drive communities into the hands of violent extremist groups, and create conditions for more violence.”
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AUSTIN, Tex. — The Lieutenant Governor of Texas said he plans to prioritize legislation modeled after Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced his plans via a campaign email, the Texas Tribune reported.
Florida’s law prohibits instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade, a policy that has drawn intense national scrutiny from critics who argue it marginalizes LGBTQ people.
Texas’ legislative session doesn’t begin until January of 2023. However, Patrick said the issue will be addressed in Education Committee hearings, scheduled to happen before then.
Similar to Texas’ restrictive abortion law, where people can report others for getting or performing an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, with Florida’s law, parents can sue a school district if they believe it has broken the law.
Patrick’s announcement comes as Texas Republicans fight to keep critical race theory out of schools and as Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said that parents should have more rights surrounding their children’s education.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An alleged leader of a Sudanese militia known as “devils on horseback” took a “strange glee” in his ruthless reputation during the Darfur conflict, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Tuesday as the suspect’s trial opened.
The 72-year-old defendant, Ali Muhammad Ali Abd–Al-Rahman, also known as Ali Kushayb, pleaded innocent to all 31 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
“I reject all of these charges,” he told the court in the first ICC trial to deal with atrocities by Sudanese government-backed forces in the Darfur province nearly two decades ago.
The trial opened amid global condemnation of atrocities blamed on Russian forces in the Ukraine war and is a reminder that international courts can and do bring alleged perpetrators of crimes to justice, even if the painstaking process can be long and slow.
Prosecutor Karim Khan called the trial “an important moment in trying to wake peace from its slumber and try to move it, mobilize it, into action.”
He noted that Russia voted for a United Nations Security Council mandate in 2005 that sought an ICC investigation in Darfur.
Prosecutors say Abd-Al-Rahman was a senior commander in the janjaweed militias during the Darfur conflict that erupted when rebels from the territory’s ethnic central and sub-Saharan African community launched an insurgency in 2003, complaining of oppression by the Arab-dominated government in the capital, Khartoum.
Then-President Omar al-Bashir’s government responded with a scorched-earth campaign of aerial bombings and raids by the janjaweed, who often attacked at dawn, sweeping into villages on horseback or camelback.
The campaign included mass killings and rapes, torture and persecution. Up to 300,000 people were killed and 2.7 million were driven from their homes in Darfur over the years.
Khan said that Abd-Al-Rahman was a “a willing and knowing participant in crimes” and “one of the key senior janjaweed militia leaders” who worked “hand-in-glove” with the Sudanese government.
“You will see that he took pride in the power that he thought he exerted and the authority that he had,” Khan said. “And … strange glee in a feared reputation. You’ll hear evidence … that his forces and himself rampaged across different parts of Darfur.”
He said witnesses will tell the three-judge trial panel about attacks, murders and rapes and describe the horrors inflicted on villages considered rebel supporters and the enduring consequences of the attacks.
“In my community, a girl who has been raped has no value,” Khan cited one Darfuri as saying.
One witness quoted by Khan in his opening statement to the trial described seeing an infant breast feeding from its dead mother in the aftermath of an attack.
Prosecutors rejected Abd-Al-Rahman’s defense that they have the wrong man.
“The evidence will show that it is Ali Kushayb in the courtroom, finally facing justice,” senior trial lawyer Julian Nicholls told the court.
Al-Bashir, who has been in prison in Khartoum since he was ousted from power in 2019, also faces ICC charges of genocide and crimes against humanity related to the Darfur conflict.
Abd-Al-Rahman is suspected of crimes allegedly committed between August 2003 and at least April 2004 in Darfur including murder, torture, rape, persecution and attacking civilians.
Khan told judges they would hear many chilling accounts of violence by al-Rahman himself during the trial that is expected to last many months.
“There’s so many examples of abuse, not just using his axe, not just killing people or ordering the execution of children or men, allowing rapes and participating in all of the allegations that are charged and are before you,” he said. “But just really beastly abuse.”
Zuhal Ahmed, a Sudanese-American activist and head of the Darfur Community in Arizona, lauded the trial as “the beginning of victory” for the people of Darfur.
“To see Ali Kushayb standing before court after all those years, is (a) really big victory and we hope he gets the maximum penalty,” she said.
She called for international pressure on the Sudanese military to hand over other suspects wanted by the court including al-Bashir.
“The people of Darfur and all Sudanese consider the ICC the only hope of justice and we can’t wait to see the rest who were involved to be arrested and handed over the ICC,” she said.
The trial opens amid a recent rise in violence in Darfur, which has seen deadly clashes between rival tribes in recent months as the country remains mired in a wider crisis following last year’s coup, when top generals overthrew a civilian-led government.
At least 45 people were killed last week in the latest bout of fighting between Arab and non-Arab tribes in South Darfur.
Khan said he hoped that by the end of the trial “the first drops of justice will land on what has hitherto been a desert of impunity in Darfur.”
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Associated Press writer Sam Magdy in Cairo contributed.
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The White House announced a plan Tuesday to prevent, detect and treat long COVID.
The president claims the inter-agency effort, which will be coordinated by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), will advance progress in how to manage long COVID.
The White House says the federal government will assist in providing high-quality care for individuals experiencing Long COVID.
The administrations says it will do that by expanding long COVID clinics, promoting provider education, strengthening health care coverage for long COVID care and connecting people with resources they need.
According to the American Medical Association, up to 30% of people who caught COVID may be experiencing long COVID symptoms.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says symptoms can include difficult breathing, fatigue, brain fog and chest pain.
Vaccines are the most effective way to avoid getting COVID-19, according to the CDC.
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LONDON — Two of naturalist Charles Darwin’s notebooks that were reported stolen from Cambridge University have been returned, two decades after they disappeared.
The university said Tuesday that the manuscripts were left in its library inside a pink gift bag, along with a note wishing the librarian a Happy Easter.
The notebooks were wrapped tightly in cling wrap.
The notebooks went missing in 2001, though at the time staff believed they might have been misplaced.
After searches failed to find them, they were reported stolen to police in October 2020. On March 9, the books reappeared, left in a public area of the building, outside the librarian’s office.
It’s not known who may have returned them, as there were no surveillance cameras in that area.
Police are now reviewing surveillance video from other areas of the building.
Library officials had to get permission from police to take the notebooks out of the wrapping to examine them.
The notebooks include the 19th-century scientist’s famous “Tree of Life” sketch and are valued at millions of dollars.
They will now be kept in a secure strongroom at the library and go on display this summer.
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Tim Frank (right), historian, Arlington National Cemetery, gives a tour of the Memorial Amphitheater Display Room to Gen. Yoshida Yoshihide (left), chief of staff, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., April 5, 2022. During his visit, Yoshida participated in an Army Full Honors Wreath-Laying Ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. (U.S. Army photo by Elizabeth Fraser / Arlington National Cemetery / released)
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Violent storms killed one person in Texas early Tuesday as hail pelted communities and high winds knocked trees into power poles elsewhere in the South. Authorities issued a flurry of tornado warnings at the start of what could be two days of violent weather in the region.
In eastern Texas, Whitehouse Fire Chief Madison Johnson confirmed a person was killed as storms moved through early Tuesday. Officials did not immediately release further details about the death, though they said at least four homes in the area had trees fall on top of them.
More than 46,000 homes and businesses were without power Tuesday afternoon from eastern Texas to central Alabama. Lightning struck a flea market in the north Alabama community of Lacey’s Spring, causing a fire that gutted the building, news outlets reported, and rising water in Mobile Bay covered part of a ramp on Interstate 10. Some counties where tornado warnings had been issued reported trees down and homes damaged. No injuries were reported.
The Storm Prediction Center said severe storms with powerful tornados were possible across a broad area stretching from southern Mississippi to the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina. The area most at risk included more than 8 million people in the Alabama cities of Mobile and Montgomery; Tallahassee, Florida; and Columbus and Savannah in Georgia.
Elsewhere in Texas, one person was injured when the storms swept through Johnson County, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) southwest of Dallas. Brittaney Deaton said she became trapped in an RV trailer behind her family’s home after the trailer flipped over. She said her stepfather got injured trying to free her.
“I was screaming on the phone. I couldn’t get out. I was terrified,” Deaton told KDFW-TV. “And I felt like I was just trapped, like it was going to roll with me in it. And I just thank God that I got out.”
Her mother, Amber Zeleny, said her husband suffered injuries to his nose, leg and ribs but that he was expected to recover.
Isolated areas could receive as much as 5 inches (13 centimeters) of rain during the day, increasing the risk of flash flooding and softening the ground so that even more trees could blow down, forecasters said.
The threat of damaging weather will move to the north on Wednesday, forecasters said, with severe storms possible across an area stretching from western Alabama to the western tip of the Carolinas. More than 10 million people in metro areas including Atlanta; Birmingham; and Chattanooga, Tennessee, will be at risk, the Storm Prediction Center said.
Springtime often brings strong storms to the Southeast, and the region has faced a barrage of weather recently that included a tornado last month in metro New Orleans, where one person died, and storms that killed at least two people in the Florida Panhandle last week.
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ATLANTA (AP) — In the final hours of its 2022 session, Georgia’s General Assembly pivoted from celebrating a towering bipartisan mental health overhaul to bitterly debating Republican efforts to ban transgender girls from playing sports — one of many about-faces in a year when the GOP is squarely focused on upcoming election primaries.
Driving the dynamic was the need for Republican Gov. Brian Kemp to shore up his conservative credentials against a challenge from former U.S. Sen. David Perdue, as well other lawmakers’ bids for statewide office.
Kemp ran through a laundry list of achievements as he addressed lawmakers late Monday, calling the session “historic” and noting achievements including $5,000 pay raises for university and state employees and $2,000 raises for teachers that he proposed and lawmakers approved.
Even Democrats admitted that Republicans pushed through their agenda, including legislation allowing residents to carry handguns without a permit, making it easier for parents to challenge school materials, banning the teaching of “divisive concepts” on race and letting the Georgia Bureau of Investigation start election fraud investigations on its own.
“I do think that they have a lot to run on,” said Senate Minority Leader Gloria Butler, a Stone Mountain Democrat. “That’s something that they can give to the people and say, ‘This is what we did for you.’”
But Democrats and even some Republicans warned of a right-wing Republican fringe that believes former President Donald Trump’s false claims about a stolen 2020 election and baseless warnings that the mental health care bill, passed with no dissenting votes, could lead to a World Health Organization takeover of Georgia’s health system.
In a March 11 speech opposing permitless carry, Democratic Rep. Josh McLaurin of Sandy Springs said he had been warned when he first came to the Capitol “that some people just want to burn the building down.” But he said it now appeared that “the whole majority in the whole House wants to finally burn it down together.”
“The majority party has made the calculation that the short-term boost they get from the base outweighs the long-term damage to the brand and public policy consequences,” McLaurin warned. “That is what you own tonight.”
Rep. Randy Nix, a LaGrange Republican retiring after 16 years in the House, warned against what he called “CAVE people”, or “citizens against virtually everything” in a March 25 farewell speech. He said lawmakers should rebuff noisy constituents peddling nonsense about COVID-19, election law and mental health.
“Since they have no positive agenda of their own, they love to spread outlandish conspiracy theories and outright lies to try and destroy the good and noble work that you leaders are doing here, and I want to thank you for holding strong,” Nix said.
Despite such admonishments, what McLaurin called the “drift right” dynamic was often at play.
In the face of Trump’s efforts to oust him, Kemp certainly went right. He embraced bills he had shied away from last year, including one to let parents opt out of school mask mandates during the coronavirus pandemic and another to ban transgender girls from playing high school sports. Although Kemp backed permitless gun carry in his 2018 run, the issue appeared moribund until he resurrected it at the start of this year’s session.
Senate President Pro Tem Butch Miller of Gainesville, who is being challenged by Trump-endorsed state Sen. Burt Jones of Jackson in the Republican primary for lieutenant governor, worked hard to prove his conservative credentials, even pushing bills that were obviously doomed. The Senate, for example, handily defeated Miller’s broad school voucher bill after House Speaker David Ralston had declared the issue dead for the session. Observers noted that the vote allowed Miller to erase the memory of his own vote against an earlier voucher bill.
Appealing to the base also served many Republican incumbents after GOP-led redistricting weakened Democratic competitiveness in many Republican areas.
Some efforts could backfire. Outgoing Senate Rules Chairman Jeff Mullis, a Chickamauga Republican, championed a bill that would have banned Georgia’s government from buying from Chinese government-owned companies. The bill foundered late in the session after a House amendment broadening the prohibitions raised questions about whether Georgia agencies would be banned from buying from all Chinese companies. Chinese appliance maker Haier, with a 2,600-worker stove factory in LaFayette, is one of the largest employers in Mullis’ district.
Ralston, often the force for moderation, did turn back some initiatives. The House killed an abortion bill that would have required women to get an in-person exam and ultrasound before obtaining abortion pills. Ralston claimed the House ran out of time after his chamber spent long stretches of Monday doing nothing.
Democrats expressed concern about the Republicans’ ongoing push for legislation aimed at satisfying extreme-right voters.
“You cannot white-knuckle the political highway for much longer,” Rep. Matthew Wilson of Brookhaven said last month. The candidate for insurance commissioner urged Republicans to stop catering to the most extreme parts of their party, saying that winning “does not require that you squeeze every last drop of power out of the loony bin.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An off-duty police officer stormed the U.S. Capitol because he believed the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump and he wanted to interfere with the certification of President Joe Biden’s electoral victory, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday at the start of the Virginia man’s trial.
But a defense attorney told jurors that former Rocky Mount, Virginia, police officer Thomas Robertson only went into the Capitol because he wanted to retrieve a fellow officer who had entered the building before him during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
Jacob Fracker, the other off-duty Rocky Mount police officer who entered the Capitol that day, could be a key witness for prosecutors at Robertson’s trial. Robertson was a mentor and a father figure to Fracker, attorneys said during their opening statements.
Two other Capitol riot defendants already have been tried on federal charges arising from the Jan. 6 siege. The first two trials both ended with convictions, although a judge acquitted one of those defendants of a disorderly conduct charge.
Fracker was set to be tried alongside Robertson this week, but he pleaded guilty last month to a riot-related conspiracy charge and agreed to cooperate with federal authorities.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Aloi said Robertson was armed with a large wooden stick and wearing a gas mask when he and Fracker joined the mob that overwhelmed police officers and breached the Capitol.
“His intent was to interfere with the election because it did not have the result that he wanted,” Aloi said.
Defense attorney Camille Wagner said Robertson, whom she called “T.J.,” knew that he had entered restricted areas of the Capitol where he wasn’t supposed to be on Jan. 6. But he isn’t accused of engaging in any violence or property destruction, she noted.
“All T.J. did was enter, retrieve, depart,” Wagner said.
Robertson used a large wooden stick to impede police officers who were trying to hold off the mob, according to prosecutors. Police body camera video captured his interaction with police.
Wagner said Robertson didn’t wield the stick as a weapon. She said the U.S. Army veteran was using it as a walking stick because he still has a limp from getting shot in the right thigh while working as a private contractor for the U.S. Defense Department in Afghanistan in 2011.
Robertson is charged with six counts, including obstruction of an official proceeding, civil disorder, entering and remaining in a restricted building while using a dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. Five of the counts relate to his actions on Jan. 6. The sixth stems from his alleged post-riot destruction of cellphones belonging to him and Fracker.
Fracker pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding, the joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College vote.
Aloi said Fracker is ashamed of his conduct at the Capitol and is “not the same person today that he was on Jan. 6.”
Robertson and Fracker both served as police officers in Rocky Mount. The town, which is about 25 miles south of Roanoke and has roughly 5,000 residents, fired both of them after their arrests.
“He held a position of public trust,” Aloi said. “He broke that public trust when he participated in the attack at the Capitol.”
Robertson and Fracker drove with a neighbor to Washington on the morning of Jan. 6. Robertson brought three gas masks for them to use, according to prosecutors.
After listening to speeches near the Washington Monument, Fracker, Robertson and the neighbor walked toward the Capitol, donned the gas masks and joined the growing mob, prosecutors said. Robertson stopped to help his neighbor, who was having trouble breathing. Fracker broke off and entered the building before Robertson, but they reunited inside the Capitol.
Aloi showed jurors some of Robertson’s vitriolic posts on social media before and after the Capitol riot. In a Facebook post on Nov. 7, 2020, Robertson said “being disenfranchised by fraud is my hard line.”
“I’ve spent most of my adult life fighting a counter insurgency. (I’m) about to become part of one, and a very effective one,” he wrote.
Robertson was not “charged for his beliefs,” Aloi said.
“He was charged for his actions,” she told jurors.
Wagner said Robertson should be judged by his actions, not his words.
“We ask you to remember that actions speak louder than words,” she told jurors.
Robertson has been jailed since U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled in July that he violated the terms of his pretrial release by possessing firearms.
On March 8, a jury decided the first Capitol riot trial by convicting a Texas man, Guy Reffitt, of storming the Capitol with a holstered handgun. In the second trial, a judge who heard testimony without a jury convicted New Mexico county official Couy Griffin of illegally entering restricted U.S. Capitol grounds but acquitted him of engaging in disorderly conduct.
Reffitt and Griffin entered restricted areas outside the Capitol but not the building itself.
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Posted: Apr 5, 2022 / 12:47 PM CDT Updated: Apr 5, 2022 / 12:47 PM CDT SHARE WASHINGTON (AP) — US official says White House to extend pandemic pause on student loan repayments through Aug. 31.
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Which car battery charger is best?
Those who have faced a dead battery know the sinking feeling and ensuing frustration. Now you have to wait for a tow or shell out for a new battery. But common draining events don’t have to ruin your day.
Whether you’re storing your battery long term or need a jump on the side of the road, the right car battery charger gives you just enough juice to get your vehicle rolling. For most at-home and on-the-road applications, the best car battery charger is the TowerTop 2/10/25A 12V Smart Battery Charger.
What to know before you buy a car battery charger
What is a car battery charger
Much like a charger for your phone or computer, a car battery charger is a portable device that can restore power to a depleted car battery. There are numerous kinds of car battery chargers out there, from trickle chargers to jump-starters. Which you choose will depend on your needs, and what type of battery you have in your vehicle.
How car battery chargers work
Car battery chargers are either powered by their own lithium-cell battery, or by AC power through your wall socket. They’re most commonly used on lead-acid batteries but are often also compatible with AGM and GEL batteries.
With a slew of settings to optimize your battery’s longevity and recharge rate, the charger box is your central point of command. From there, a negative and a positive cable with alligator clips extend out, which attach to their respective terminals on your vehicle’s battery to deliver the charge.
Car battery charger vs. trickle charger vs. jump starter
Car battery chargers can seem a little complicated at the start as every different model is technically a charger. Today, most chargers have cross-functionality, further blurring the line between each kind. There are a few important differences, however, that will determine which charger best suits your needs.
- Car battery charger: As the standard charger, these are designed to deliver a moderate amperage to your battery. Depending on your battery’s depletion level, these can be used to recharge your battery in a couple of hours so you can start your car again, or for more long-term maintenance applications
- Trickle charger: Unlike a regular car battery charger, these are made to deliver a low and steady current for long periods of time. Trickle chargers are best used for any vehicle battery you plan on storing for a period greater than two weeks and are most typically used as maintenance chargers over the winter.
- Jump starters: Like jumper cables, jump-start chargers deliver a large blast of juice to your car’s battery so that it can start again in an instant. These are excellent tools to have on hand in your trunk so you never have to wait for a tow or a kind stranger again.
How to use a car battery charger
Before you begin, make sure your car (if you haven’t removed the battery) and your battery charger are switched off. If you’re charging inside your car, start by connecting your positive alligator clip to the positive terminal of your battery. Leave your battery connected. Then, you’ll need to attach the negative clip to sufficient ground. This can be a bare metal part of your car’s chassis or a bolt on the engine block. If you’ve removed your battery, connect each clip to its respective terminal.
Once you’re all hooked up, go ahead and plug in your charger, turn it on, and select the proper settings to begin charging.
What to look for in a quality car battery charger
Amps
Car battery chargers typically have a moderate amperage rating compared to trickle chargers and jump-starters. This is usually in the 10-40 amp range. The higher the amperage, the faster your vehicle’s battery will recharge. If you’re looking to maintain your batteries, opt for a lower amp rating. If you want a charger that can restore batteries quickly or get you off the side of the road, you’ll need 25-40 amps (about two to four hours of charge time for a half-dead battery).
Volts
Voltage describes your vehicle’s battery capacity. You need to make sure that the charger you get has the matching volt rating to your battery. Most cars are six or 12 volts. Trucks and RVs are 12 or 24 volts. If you charge your battery with a higher-rated charger, you’ll risk overcharging and frying the battery. Go lower and you transform your charger into an energy sink that will further deplete the battery.
Functionality
Today, many chargers have multiple functions, allowing you to alternate charging modes depending on your needs. These modes modulate the amp current and monitor your battery’s charge so as to protect its longevity.
For users who need a good maintenance charger, features such as float mode and ambient temperature sensors are crucial for real-time monitoring so as to prevent overcharging. And if you’re working with old batteries, you’ll want a desulfator that can help restore some of your battery’s performance.
How much you can expect to spend on a car battery charger
Depending on the number of features it has, a car battery charger will cost between $30-$120.
Car battery charger FAQ
Do car battery chargers only work on cars?
A. Car battery chargers commonly work on lead-acid, AGM, STD and GEL batteries. This means you can use it for many vehicles on both land and sea, including boats, water scooters, RVs and motorcycles. They also work on machines such as electric-powered lawn mowers.
What causes a car battery to drain?
A. Batteries have a natural discharge rate, usually in the decimals, that causes them to lose voltage over time. When left in your car or vehicle, they are prone to what is called parasitic decay, which is caused by your car’s electrical devices that require about an amp a day to maintain. Lastly, common events such as leaving your lights on overnight, or running your electronics without the engine on for a long period of time can sap a battery of its power.
What are the best car battery chargers to buy?
Top car battery charger
TowerTop 2/10/25A 12V Smart Battery Charger
What you need to know: With three different amp currents, the TowerTop is a solid all-around charger for most vehicles.
What you’ll love: Not only can the TowerTop maintain or quickly charge your battery between its two-, 10- and 25-amp capacity, but its engine start aid feature delivers enough power to jump your car in under 120 seconds. At 12 volts, it’s compatible with most vehicles that have a lead-acid, GEL, AGM or STD battery. Its automatic charging system detects temperature and voltage changes so you never overcharge your battery in float mode.
What you should consider: This battery is not available for six- or 12-volt vehicles.
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Top car battery charger for the money
What you need to know: With two different volt and amperage ratings, this feature-packed budget charger is a great maintenance tool for any fleet of vehicles or arsenal of home appliances.
What you’ll love: This automated charger is designed to maintain or quickly recharge batteries using a 10-amp stream at 12 volts, or a five-amp stream at 24 volts. Its built-in fan and winter and summer modes adjust for ambient temperature to protect your battery. And the pulse repair function can be used to desulfate your battery.
What you should consider: You can’t use this battery to jump-start your engine or bring back a totally dead battery.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Schumacher SC1281 100-amp 30-amp 6-volt/12-volt Fully Automatic Smart Battery Charger
What you need to know: With its rugged design and convenient handle, this charger is perfect for outdoor applications, especially marine batteries.
What you’ll love: Offering both six- and 12-volt compatibility, this fully automatic charger works on common lead-acid batteries and deep-cycle marine batteries. The 100-amp jump-start feature can be used to get your car or SUV running in a pinch. The 30-amp stream makes this an excellent charger for anyone who needs a quick turnaround and isn’t interested in trickle chargers. The alternator tester is an added bonus to help you troubleshoot a car that won’t start.
What you should consider: Some users report overcharging their batteries when using this charger. Be sure to read the manual as there are important precautions and procedures to follow to ensure this doesn’t happen to you.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which biodegradable dog poop bags are best?
Everybody poops, including your dog, even if you’d rather they didn’t. Picking up poop is one of the least fun aspects of having a dog, but you can at least make it more eco-friendly by using biodegradable dog poop bags.
It’s important to consider how earth-friendly your chosen biodegradable bags are, because not all are equally good for the planet. My AlphaPet Dog Poop Bags are natural, cornstarch-based waste bags and a great choice for the eco-conscious pet parent.
What to know before you buy biodegradable dog poop bags
Biodegradable vs. compostable
You might be wondering if there’s a difference between biodegradable and compostable poop bags. Both compostable and biodegradable bags break down over time but compostable bags are made of natural, usually plant-based, materials, while biodegradable bags can be made of natural or synthetic materials, such as plastics. This means compostable bags are always biodegradable by default, but not all biodegradable poop bags are compostable. Ultimately, compostable versions are more eco-friendly than non-compostable biodegradable bags, which can leave microplastics in the earth.
Scented vs. unscented
Dog waste bags come in scented and unscented varieties. It seems there’s a degree of personal preference here as many people firmly prefer one type over the other. Some folks like having a scent to disguise the odor of what’s inside. Others find scented bags sickly sweet and think the fragrance of the bag just mixes with the smell of what’s inside rather than covering, making things even worse. If you’re unsure, try a small roll of scented bags so you won’t have to use them for too long if you don’t like them.
Size
If you have a small dog, you probably don’t worry too much about poop bag size, but it’s of major concern when you have a big dog that leaves big piles of waste behind. Most biodegradable waste bags are generously sized, measuring at least 9 by 12 inches, which is large enough to fit both hands inside when just one won’t do it. Some even have gussets that expand the width of the bag when you need the extra room.
What to look for in quality biodegradable dog poop bags
Thickness
When a poop bag is too thin, you run the risk of putting your finger through it while picking up after your dog — an experience nobody wants. The thickness of dog waste bags is often expressed in microns. Around 12-15 microns is average, but something around the 20 microns mark feels reassuringly sturdy.
Handles
It’s easier to tie bags with handles and to carry full bags around with you until you reach a bin. This is useful while out on walks, especially in rural areas where you might not find a bin until you get to the end of your walk.
Easy tear
Easy tear bags separate at the perforation line easily, without ripping the bag you’re trying to remove. This helps prevent situations where you pick up waste without realizing that you’ve just made a hole in your bag.
How much you can expect to spend on biodegradable dog poop bags
Packs of biodegradable poop bags cost roughly $10-$50 depending on the size of the pack and the quality of the bags. Consider the cost per bag as well as the overall price.
Biodegradable dog poop bags FAQ
Can you flush biodegradable poop bags?
A. No, you shouldn’t flush them as they take a while to fully degrade and could clog your pipes. However, if you think flushing dog poop might be a more eco-friendly solution to throwing it in the bin, you can pick it up with a pooper scooper and flush it down the toilet unbagged in some areas. Just check your municipal sewage guidelines to see if this is allowed where you live.
Can dog poop go in a compost bin?
A. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, it’s safe to use composted dog waste as a soil additive for landscaping, lawn establishment and plant beds, as long as you don’t use it on fruits, vegetables or anything else that’s going to be eaten by humans. Proper composting removes pathogens, making it safe to use. Don’t compost dog waste on its own, however, add it to your usual garden compost pile.
What are the best biodegradable dog poop bags to buy?
Top biodegradable dog poop bags
What you need to know: Made from cornstarch, these bags are biodegradable and compostable.
What you’ll love: You can choose either unscented bags or bags with a light rose scent. They’re thick enough that you don’t need to worry about your hand going through them and meet ASTM 6400 standards for compostability.
What you should consider: These bags don’t have handles, so they’re trickier to tie and carry.
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Top biodegradable dog poop bags for the money
Pogi’s Compostable Dog Poop Bags
What you need to know: These plant-based poop bags are certified compostable and contain no plastic.
What you’ll love: The handles make them easy to tie and carry until you reach a suitable bin when out on walks. They’re large, strong and thick, so you can use them without mess or mishaps.
What you should consider: There isn’t a scented option for buyers who would prefer that.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Wooflinen Compostable Dog Waste Bags
What you need to know: Completely vegetable-based, these poop bags are good for the environment and just as strong as plastic versions.
What you’ll love: These bags are certified compostable using the European alternative to the ASTM 6400 standard. They’re easy to open, which is good news for impatient pups, and they separate without tearing.
What you should consider: While they’re strong, some users didn’t like that they’re translucent and feel somewhat thin.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A deepening opioid epidemic is prompting the U.S. Department of Justice to warn about discrimination against those who are prescribed medication to treat their addictions.
In guidelines published Tuesday, the department’s Civil Rights Division said employers, health care providers, law enforcement agencies that operate jails and others are violating the Americans with Disabilities Act if they discriminate against people for taking prescription drugs to treat opioid use disorder.
“People who have stopped illegally using drugs should not face discrimination when accessing evidence-based treatment or continuing on their path of recovery,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said in a statement.
The nation’s addiction overdose crisis has intensified in recent years. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced last year that more than 100,000 people had died from overdoses over a 12-month period, the highest level ever recorded.
Most of the deaths are linked to opioids, which include prescription painkillers, morphine, heroin and potent laboratory-made drugs such as fentanyl that often are mixed into the supplies of other illegal drugs.
Public health experts believe that increasing the availability and acceptance of medications such as methadone and buprenorphine to treat opioid addiction is essential to curtailing the crisis. But those drugs — which are themselves opioids — have long had stigmas attached to them.
The Justice Department guidelines clarify that drug addiction is considered an impairment under the ADA. The department says they do not represent a policy change but rather clarify existing requirements.
The guidelines give examples of possible violations: A doctor’s office denying care to patients receiving treatment for opioid addiction; a town refusing to allow a treatment facility if the opposition is based on residents’ hostility toward people with addictions; a jail barring inmates from taking prescribed medication to block opioid addiction.
In February, the department sued the judicial system in Pennsylvania, alleging that it prohibits or limits people in some court supervision programs from using medication to treat opioid use disorder. In a filing, Pennsylvania officials said they had taken steps to “enhance awareness in the few, discrete judicial districts involved,”
The U.S. reached a settlement with Massachusetts courts last month over similar allegations, prompting the courts to change their practices.
The government last month also reached a settlement with Ready to Work, a Colorado agency that provides services to the homeless. It was accused of denying admission to one would-be participant because she was on medications to treat opioid use disorder. In addition to stopping the discrimination, Ready to Work was required to pay the person who complained $7,500.
The department also sent a letter in March to the Indiana State Board of Nursing over its decision to remove a nurse from a required licensing program over her use of medication to treat an addiction. A spokesperson for the board did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
The Justice Department document notes that federal law does not protect people who are using illegal drugs. A drug rehabilitation program, for example, would not be violating the law if it kicked out a participant who routinely kept using drugs.
But the guidelines do say that a person who uses opioids legally prescribed to treat pain could not be fired because of it.
“The Justice Department is committed to using federal civil rights laws such as the ADA to safeguard people with opioid use disorder from facing discriminatory barriers as they move forward with their lives,” Clarke said.
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The judiciously-applied makeup. The cringeworthy dancing to Lil’ Wayne. And a stranger than fiction true story about the rise and fall of Theranos made Elizabeth Holmes a dream assignment for Amanda Seyfried. “It just seemed like this was the best opportunity I’d ever been given, to play such an enigmatic role,” she tells Seyfried tells Vanity Fair’s Richard Lawson during an interview that will be featured on both Little Gold Men and its sister podcast, Still Watching: Downfall of the Startups. “And, obviously, it was really scary too.”
Hulu’s The Dropout, an eight-episode exploration of Holmes from series creator Elizabeth Meriwether, concludes this week with a ripped-from-the-headlines finale. When asked about the potential for a second season (which has not been announced, to be clear), Seyfried makes no promises, but tells VF she’d love to not be finished with her character. “Because when am I going to get the opportunity to play somebody that I felt like I could really nail?” the star says, adding, “It would be another thrill of my life if I got to continue it a little bit.”
During a wide-ranging conversation, Seyfried also talks about Holmes’s “heartbreaking” relationship with Sunny Balwani and her season finale “fuck you.” Give a listen to the episode above, and find Little Gold Men on Apple Podcasts or anywhere else you get your podcasts. You can also sign up to text with us at Subtext—we’d love to hear from you.
And as a reminder, there will be twice-weekly episodes of Little Gold Men moving forward—presenting conversations with Hollywood’s most intriguing creators and stars on Tuesdays, before analysis of all of the awards races around them on Thursdays. This week’s installment features a preview of our 2023 Oscar predictions with guest Joe Reid.
Read a partial transcript of the Amanda Seyfried interview below.
In the process of making the show and embodying its central figure, did your opinion of [the real-life story] change? Did you learn things or get a different perspective on it than you started off with?
I did. I learned the more time you spend with somebody, whether you’re with them in a room, communicating with them, or you’re across the country, studying them, it’s still time spent with somebody. And I think that naturally breeds a need to get closer. And in getting closer, I was able to connect some dots, connect behaviors to choices. And everything that Liz Meriwether wrote felt like it could have been true.
We don't know if it’s true, but it made sense. And it gave a foundation that we had yet to find in these documentaries, this investigative journalism. It was always to try to get as many facts as possible. And our job here was to create an imagined reality between the facts. We had that goal post. We had so much information. I guess I just learned more about where she came from and why she might have made the decisions that she made. I felt like I had entered the world of a well-rounded human being as opposed to a two-dimensional villain.
Something we’ve been talking about on this podcast throughout the run of the series is the really shrewd way that you and Liz Meriwether court our fascination, our horrified awe at everything that was happening, but also there’s empathy in there. The show kind of stokes that in the viewer. Where do you think that source of empathy is? What part of Elizabeth Holmes is the part that we should see and care about as a person, even though she did all these harmful things?
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Fresh off his scene-stealing turn in Dune and the second season of Apple’s See, Jason Momoa has announced his first foray into TV writing. He will star in, co-write, and executive produce Chief of War, which Apple has already given an eight-episode order, Variety reports.
The Hawaiian native is set to mine his own background for the project, which has been billed as “the story of the unification and colonization of Hawaii from an indigenous point of view.” Momoa will pen the scripts with Thomas Pa’a Sibbett, with whom he’s collaborated twice before. Sibbett wrote the 2018 Momoa movie Brazen, and serves as a co-writer for his upcoming film The Last Manhunt.
Both Momoa and Sibbett will executive produce Chief of War through Endeavor Content and Chernin Entertainment alongside Francis Lawrence, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Erik Holmberg, and Doug Jung, who serves as the showrunner. According to Variety, Pachinko director Justin Chon is in negotiations to helm the first two episodes.
While this marks Momoa’s first time writing for television, he previously co-wrote, directed, and headlined 2014’s Road to Paloma. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii and of Native Hawaiian lineage, the actor has previously shared his love for the island. “For my soul I need to be there,” Momoa told CNN of his homeland in 2019. “If I’m not working, I’m trying to get over there.”
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There’s a moment in Return to Space, a very forward-facing movie about SpaceX, where the company’s controversial leader, Elon Musk, holds some palo santo for good luck. When I saw that scene, I realized that for as long as I’d been aware of this extremely online multizillionaire and his various eccentricities, I’d never before seen him act like a human being.
Return to Space, however, is not just the Elon Musk show. It’s a look at what is happening right now in American space exploration, and the significant changes that involve private enterprises. If you’ve ever wondered just how the heck SpaceX ended up supplying rockets to NASA (and how much dough it’s saving the U.S. taxpayer), this movie has your answers. It will also familiarize you with Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, the first American astronauts to launch from Cape Canaveral in a decade.
The film is made by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, whose recent work includes The Rescue, about the cave divers who saved a group of Thai teens from certain death, and Free Solo, a mountain-climbing epic that won them an Academy Award. (Prior to partnering with Chin, Chai Vasarhelyi also made Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love, a splendid portrait of the great Senegalese singer.) They began shooting with SpaceX in November 2019, before anyone had heard of “the novel coronavirus.” They were in the thick of it when the first shutdowns occurred, and had to think on their feet to capture the company’s historic Demo-2 launch in May 2020.
Return to Space is the type of movie that makes small talk about going to Mars seem like less of an abstraction and more of a legitimate question people will be asking someday—a day coming sooner than many of us may realize. Our conversation with the directors has been edited for clarity.
Vanity Fair: I’m in my apartment in Queens, New York, planet Earth. Someday, maybe Mars.
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi: Is that your thing? Would you go?
I’ll deploy the famous quote from our mutual friend Elon Musk: “I’d like to die on Mars, but not on impact.” In other words, let’s let the pioneers you profile in this movie iron it out first. How about you?
Vasarhelyi: I think it is going to be very unpleasant on Mars. [For me, it’s] less of an experience than a point of view.
What sort of parameters did SpaceX give you when making this? A jaundiced eye may ask, “Gee, did they have final cut?”
Vasarhelyi: Our only parameter was something called ITAR review, which stands for International Traffic in Arms Regulation, which made sure we did not accidentally disclose proprietary U.S. technology.
I did notice a shot or two with a computer monitor all scrambled.
Vasarhelyi: Numbers, lots of numbers.
Since we shot this at the beginning of the pandemic—we were at our height in February 2020—there were so many other problems. It became a process between NASA, SpaceX, Netflix, and ourselves to figure out how we can make this work.
At one point during shooting, a ruling was made that on any federal property, no two people could be in a room. Let that sink in. Shooting in Houston at the Johnson Space Center was impossible.
Jimmy Chin: Challenges!
Vasarhelyi: Yes, challenges. So we worked with NASA on a shot list, to help us pull stuff from their archives. Or we spoke directly with SpaceX’s in-house cinematographer.
Because of COVID, our astronauts, Bob and Doug, ended up filming themselves with their phones. This provided a lot of unexpected moments of family life and intimacy.
Chin: These challenges create opportunities, which is what documentary filmmakers do best. We take limitations and restrictions and turn them into material we wouldn’t otherwise have captured.
The SpaceX capsules, rockets, and spacesuits all look really cool. The aesthetics of SpaceX itself, however, I found surprisingly drab. Blank walls, boring computer consoles, and a lot of dudes in shorts. As filmmakers, what do you make of the aesthetics of SpaceX?
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It's not easy being really, really ridiculously good looking. Just ask Alexander Skarsgård. While promoting his forthcoming Viking film The Northman, Skarsgård shared his struggle with being too tall (6 ft 4 inches), too blonde (Swedish heritage), and too drop dead gorgeous (that face!) to initially be taken seriously by Hollywood.
“I don't really know if that was the reason I wasn't getting roles,” the actor told the Sunday Times. "Starting out in Sweden, there was stuff about being tall and blond. But most people here are tall and blond. Still, after my first job, I was on a stupid 'sexy hunky hot list' and then people didn't take me seriously ... If you want characters with depth but have been labeled 'a dude who takes his shirt off,' you're not going to get those offers."
Given Skarsgård's humble beginnings as doomed male model Meekus in Zoolander and “the boyfriend” in Lady Gaga's “Paparazzi” music video, he may have a point. But despite the burden of being beautiful, Skarsgard was able to smash through the ‘sexy hunky hot’ glass ceiling and make a name for himself in Hollywood via his break out role in HBO's True Blood as Eric Northman—a sexy, hunky, hot Viking vampire who doesn't wear a ton of clothes. Wait a minute… maybe being incredibly conventionally attractive might have helped Skarsgård book that role? Nah.
Since that time, Skarsgård has confirmed his serious actor status by winning Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG, and Critics Choice awards for playing Nicole Kidman's abusive husband in Big Little Lies (a man who also happens to be extremely conventionally attractive). He's also starred in very serious films like The Legend of Tarzan and Godzilla vs. Kong, and even portrayed an Elon Musk-type tech billionaire on Succession.
That being said, maybe it is time for Skarsgård to play against type and rid himself of the stigma of being super hot. Maybe he should consult with his younger brother Bill Skarsgård, who broke through in Hollywood by playing a hideous, murderous clown in the blockbuster horror franchise It—despite sharing about 50% of Alexander’s DNA. (It must be noted that, like his older brother, Bill is 6 ft 4 inches—but he is not blonde.) Perhaps finding a similarly grotesque role could finally rid Alexander from the horrific shackles of his own sexiness.
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Karina Longworth will never forget the first time she saw Pretty Woman. Her parents had gotten into an argument; in an act of retribution, Longworth’s mother took her 10-year-old daughter to see the romantic blockbuster starring Julia Roberts as a sex worker who gets swept up by a high-powered businessman played by Richard Gere.
“It was a bad moment in their marriage and a great night for me,” Longworth says in a phone interview. The film was an awakening, opening her eyes up to the magic of Gere in all his suave, silver-haired glory.
That awakening plays a key role in the latest season of You Must Remember This, Longworth’s essential, award-winning film history podcast. The new season, launching Tuesday, is all about erotic cinema of the ’80s and ’90s—the days when movies like American Gigolo and Indecent Proposal were box office hits, and sex scenes (currently in their flop era) abounded. Those were also the days, however, when women like Linda Lovelace were largely ignored even when they told hard, terrible truths about the industry, and feminist scholars were similarly dismissed when they raised alarm bells about the portrayals of women in films like Fatal Attraction.
Longworth dives into all of it this season, taking a detailed look at that time in American cinema and coming away with revelatory conclusions. In an interview with Vanity Fair, she talks about the inspiration behind the season, the movies that still surprise her, and why Richard Gere is a himbo for the ages.
Vanity Fair: Why did you want to make an entire season focused on erotic movies?
Karina Longworth: In 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, my husband [filmmaker Rian Johnson] and I ended up watching a lot of these movies—some for the first time, some rewatching. There was something that felt weirdly comforting about watching films like Jagged Edge or Black Widow. Even when those movies are ambiguous and diffuse—there’s a reason why people are scared, and there’s a reason for anxiety—they’re having sexual adventures. That all felt like something I was drawn to in this period in which I had this free-floating fear and anxiety, and wasn’t allowed to leave my house and have adventures of any kind. I just started thinking about how there is a vibe that doesn’t exist in Hollywood movies anymore. It feels like sex has been taken off the table as a topic.
I wondered if that was what propelled your interest in this season. I feel like every other week, I see people complain about the lack of sex scenes, or sexiness, in modern American cinema.
Look at the Oscars. The two movies that did have sexuality that were in the conversation—I guess three if you count Parallel Mothers—but the two that come out of Hollywood would be Power of the Dog and Licorice Pizza. And those movies were pretty controversial in various ways. I think in the context of Hollywood today, when filmmakers do try to discuss sexuality, I think it’s harder for people to receive it. I think we have our hackles up. Maybe rightly so. So much has changed culturally over the past five or six years. We’re having so many more conversations about abuse, and what is appropriate and what isn’t appropriate, and types of sexuality and forms of sexuality. But I would like to see those conversations reflected more in Hollywood movies.
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Using satellite imagery and eyewitness accounts, news outlets are rebutting Russia's claims that the civilian massacre in the Ukrainian town of Bucha and other recently liberated areas around Kyiv, happened after Russian forces had already left the towns. More than 400 civilian bodies have been discovered since Russian troops withdrew from the area, according to Ukrainian officials—atrocities Moscow has refused to take responsibility for. Over the weekend, Russia’s Ministry of Defense claimed footage of bodies strewn on the streets of Bucha were just “another hoax, a staged production and provocation by the Kiev regime for the Western media,” as it suggested that the dead bodies were placed after Russian forces withdrew in an attempt to discredit its army. The New York Times helped expose that lie on Monday with an analysis of videos and satellite imagery that found “many of the civilians were killed more than three weeks ago, when Russia’s military was in control of the town.” The satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies first published by the Times has since been confirmed by outlets such as the BBC and CNN.
Over the weekend, news outlets were able to get reporters and photographers on the ground in Bucha, reporting eyewitness accounts of the aftermath of Russia's assault on the Kyiv suburb. Freelance photographer Heidi Levine, on assignment for the Washington Post, captured the scene on Sunday; her photographs of volunteers collecting dead bodies in bags, abandoned Russian military equipment, and destroyed homes and roads came as the Kremlin claimed some of the photos from Bucha were fake. Among the dozens of bodies that Associated Press journalists witnessed in Bucha, some had been shot in the head and at least two had their hands tied. “A bag of spilled groceries lay near one victim,” the outlet reported. Reuters reporters also got access to the area over the weekend, noting that they “saw dead bodies in the town of Bucha but could not independently verify who was responsible for the killings.” The Post said it had verified a video posted to social media on Saturday showing at least nine people, including one child, lying dead in the streets. In a speech on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for “thousands of journalists” to come to Bucha and other liberated cities of Ukraine “to see what Russia has done.”
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The war in Ukraine is entering “something of a new phase,” CNN’s Jake Tapper, broadcasting from Lviv, said Monday. “The world is being confronted with new images and survivor testimony of the horrors Vladimir Putin and his army are inflicting on the people of this country,” Tapper said, emphasizing the responsibility news outlets have to “bear witness” and debunk Russian propaganda. “They’re disturbing, but we need to bring you these facts.” NBC seemed to make a similar calculation on Monday evening, as Russia continued to deny responsibility for what host Lester Holt called “the unspeakable trail of horror” in Bucha. "While we may want to look away,” the Nightly News anchor said at the top of the broadcast, “it is becoming harder and harder to close our eyes to what is happening." Emerging news reports from Bucha prompted President Joe Biden, among other world leaders, to more forcefully accuse Putin of war crimes, calling for him to be put on trial.
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GALENA, Mo. — A judge decided whether to dismiss the charges against three people who were charged after the deadly sinking of a Duck Boat in 2018.
The three people were operators of a duck boat that sank in stormy weather on Table Rock Lake. Kenneth Scott McKee, Curtis Lanham, and Charles Baltzell were facing several felony counts over the duck boat tragedy.
Tuesday, Judge Alan Blankenship dismissed all charges for each individual due to the court’s lack of evidence that the operators knowingly risked the lives of the passengers.
Both definitions of “reckless” and “knowingly” require the defendants have knowledge of the risk. This was the issue in this case. The risk was the effect of high winds on boat operations and passenger safety. According to court documents, the judge decided there is no evidence that the defendants were aware of high winds in advance of the storm.
The judge states whether they could or should have known about the high winds by relying on other sources of weather information was not relevant to the charges.
Judge Blankenship released the following statement:
“This court feels great sadness for this needless loss of life and the impact on the victims’ family and friends. However, because the court does not find sufficient evidence to support the men’s rea or intent required for the charges at issue, as defined by Missouri law, the court dismisses each count against each defendant. The case is dismissed without prejudice.”
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), facing an erosion of public confidence during the coronavirus pandemic due to bad-faith attacks and its own missteps, is hoping to turn a new page. On Monday, Director Rochelle Walensky announced plans to revamp the agency, telling staff in an email obtained by the Washington Post that she had hired an outside expert to conduct a review of its “structure, systems, and processes” with an end goal of positioning the “CDC, and the public health community, for greatest success in the future.”
The CDC, one of the world’s leading public health institutions, appears aware of the magnitude of its challenge. “Never in its 75-year history has CDC had to make decisions so quickly, based on often limited, real-time, and evolving science,” Walensky wrote, per the Post. “… As we’ve challenged our state and local partners, we know that now is the time for CDC to integrate the lessons learned into a strategy for the future.”
The CDC has been the target of relentless partisan broadsides for two years now—initially from Donald Trump’s administration, which politicized the pandemic and sowed distrust from the onset, then from the cadre of Republicans in state houses and Capitol Hill who followed the former president’s lead. But those political attacks landed, in part, because of missteps the CDC made that helped undermine its own credibility—including its slow response to the spreading virus early in the pandemic, the testing problems that plagued its initial handling of the crisis, and the communication issues that persist.
As the country has suffered nearly a million deaths from the virus, such mistakes and politicization have complicated efforts to achieve pre-pandemic normalcy through widespread vaccination and fanned fears that the country may be ill-prepared for another COVID-19 blow or a future public health crisis. “I think there needs to be a detailed accounting of why things failed so epicly,” Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, told the Post.
This isn’t the first time that Walensky, who took over from Trump’s CDC Director Robert Redfield, has indicated the agency could do better. In January, she acknowledged that its shifting, often-vague guidance had contributed to public confusion. But this review, to be led by Jim Macrae, associate administrator for primary health care at the Health Resources Service Administration, is perhaps the most significant step she’s taken so far to regain confidence. It’s not yet clear what kind of changes the review will bring, and some of the public perception of the agency is likely out of her control—subject to the same disdain for expertise that has persisted beyond the end of Trump’s presidency. But Walensky has nonetheless struck an optimistic tone: “Over the past year, I have heard from many of you that you would like to see CDC build on its rich history and modernize for the world around us,” she told employees. “I am grateful for your efforts to lean into the hard work of transforming CDC for the better.”
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This month, two monographs blend fashion with art and literature; new memoirs plumb love and politics; and six fresh novels offer up art-world thrills, a much-awaited “sibling” to a beloved Pulitzer Prize winner, a lonely vampire, and more.
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“The V&A has collected menswear since its foundation, and across the museum—in paintings, sculpture, everywhere—we see imagery of men’s fashion,” says Rosalind McKever, cocurator of “Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear.” The exhibition and its accompanying tome examine the evolution of power dressing through three themes: In “Undressed,” nude sculpture shows alongside 1980s Calvin Klein ads. Skirted silhouettes and florals make up “Overdressed,” while “Redressed” focuses on the suit.
For The Fendi Set: From Bloomsbury to Borghese, Nikolai von Bismarck spent a year photographing Kim Jones’s first couture collection for the brand. “I wanted to create images that felt as if they were from another time,” he says, and so he used cameras from the interwar period, shooting on location from Monk’s House to Rome. The book exudes a dreamy escapism and features ephemera including letters between Virginia Woolf and her lover Vita Sackville-West. —Miles Pope
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Andrew Garfield and his girlfriend, model Alyssa Miller, appear to still be going strong, despite reports about their relationship status.
Miller posted a photo to Instagram on Monday showing the two of them together in a car on the night of the 2022 SAG Awards, the February event where they made their official debut as a couple. This post comes just days after outlets reported that she and the actor had decided to go their separate ways. “If you must gossip at least use a cute photo,” the model wrote alongside the selfie, seemingly addressing the split rumors. She added, "Lol love you AG," with a butterfly emoji. Garfield and Miller were first linked in November 2021 when they were photographed together holding hands in New York City.
On Friday, The Sun first declared that the pair had broken up after getting together last fall. A source told the outlet, “They were together for quite some time before they went public, but work schedules mean it has been really hard to see each other. On top of that it became clear that there were some differences between them and it was decided they are better off apart, for now at least.” They added, “It was disappointing for Andrew because he’d have loved to have shared the excitement of the awards season with someone he loved, but it just wasn’t supposed to be. He is keeping his chin up and taking some time for himself after a hectic few months.”
Miller previously dated Jake Gyllenhaal for six months in 2014. She went on to marry Tame Impala guitarist Cam Avery in April 2018, but the pair separated eight months later. Garfield had a four-year relationship with his Amazing Spider-Man co-star Emma Stone that ended in April 2015 and has otherwise been extremely private about his love life.
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Beauty sleep is real, and the best products for maximizing lifegiving rest and relaxation seek to restore a balance knocked off-kilter in 2022. Of course, the relationship between how you sleep and how you look or feel isn’t a new concept, especially in media. I vividly recall a Y2K-era Oprah episode where youthful-looking guests strutted down a catwalk as Oprah Winfrey announced their true ages to the sound of cheers, gasps, and applause. A secret revealed by one fresh-faced woman? She faithfully slept on her back every night—a habit that apparently minimizes the opportunity for pillow-creased cheeks come morning.
The search for deeper rest gets similar air time. Comedian Joe Pera has been intentionally lulling his audience into cozy slumber for years to such success that HBO Max added his animated short, Joe Pera Talks You to Sleep, to its catalog. On Netflix, Headspace: Unwind Your Mind is a choose-your-own-adventure dreamquest, where one can sink into meditative seaside sounds, or take a scenic train ride to dial down the day. According to doctor of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine Sandra Subotich, DOAM, sleep issues are on the rise for a multitude of reasons. As the director of Eastern medicine at Biân, a luxury wellness center in Chicago that mirrors the attentiveness of members’-only clubs, Subotich sees firsthand that sleep hygiene (that is, the practice of setting yourself up for optimal sleep) deserves more education. “We have created a society that not only functions in a constant state of stress but also rewards this behavior under the guise of ‘hard work’ and ‘success,’” she says. “Couple this with limitless exposure to information and the endless turmoil of the world, and you have a perfect recipe for sleep issues.”
Subotich recognizes that unchecked stress levels make it harder to physically reboot. “From an Eastern perspective, nighttime is when we rest, digest, and sleep,” she says of the time when certain organs take a break while others clear out toxins. Closer to the surface, research shows the rate of skin renewal doubles, collagen production accelerates, and cell damage actually reverses while you sleep, according to Blair Murphy-Rose, M.D., a dermatologist at the Laser & Skin Surgery Center of New York. Since transepidermal water loss (the escape of moisture through the skin barrier) is heightened during sleep, maintaining hydration with products does matter. “It is so common for people to neglect to moisturize their skin,” Murphy-Rose says.
There’s also a cascade of downsides to disrupted rest, affecting everything from mood and cognitive performance to skin flare-ups. “Lack of sleep increases production of the stress hormone cortisol, which has a negative effect on skin, decreases skin rejuvenation, and worsens inflammatory conditions and acne,” Murphy-Rose warns. Subotich also suggests refraining from eating three hours before bedtime, to power down the digestive system. Ideally, she says, one would be dreaming by 11 p.m. and clocking a minimum of seven hours to function optimally.
Here, 16 tools that seize every opportunity to maximize your sleep—and minimize your stress.
After-Hours Skin and Hair Care
The current vogue for overnight products makes good sense: That extended contact with the skin allows active ingredients to work uninterrupted, according to Murphy-Rose. “For the driest skin, overnight moisturizing masks are an excellent choice,” says the dermatologist, who looks for humectants like hyaluronic acid and glycerin as well as nourishing lipids to lock in moisture. Sisley’s sleeping mask combines plant-based glycerin, shea, and kokum butter with saffron flower extract for a soothing cocoon, while Noble Panacea’s Chronobiology mask has a slow-release system that delivers exfoliating polyhydroxy acid in its first “detox” stage, retinol in its “repair” stage, and hyaluronic acid in its final “nourish” stage. It’s worth noting that vitamin A derivatives like retinol perform better in the dark. “Many ingredients in the retinol family are deactivated by sunlight,” Murphy-Rose explains, pointing out such benefits as stimulated collagen production and increased cell turnover. Subotich believes topical magnesium to be a simple sleep aid, and Neom Organics infuses it into a bedtime body butter scented with lavender and sweet basil. And for hair, an overnight oil treatment can be a sleeper secret for healthy maintenance—especially for fine-hair types that need a post-treatment rinse in order to enjoy any level of body or bounce.
Mindfulness Upgrades
Many agree that screens are best kept at a distance after hours. “Research has shown that EMFs [electromagnetic fields] from cell phone exposure alter sleeping brain activity by increasing the frequency of brain waves during non-REM sleep,” says Subotich. “Switching to an alarm clock and ideally keeping the cell phone out of the bedroom greatly reduces that exposure and the unwanted effects it can have on our brain function.” Loftie’s alarm clock offers a stylish upgrade with bonus breathwork and sound bath content, and Pursoma’s Digital Detox bath salts hint at an old-school solution, too. “A hot bath can absolutely contribute to a deeper rest by providing relaxation to tired muscles at the end of the day,” says Subotich, who encourages infusing water with essential oils for a multisensory experience. And if a tub isn’t near, an essential oil diffuser is a worthwhile substitute. “Diffusing calming essential oils, such as lavender, chamomile, or ylang ylang, can be enough to soothe your body and relax your mind for a restful night's sleep,” she says. Vitruvi’s Move diffuser operates cordlessly for clean lines, and its Sleep blend of oils mixes that prescribed trio of notes with frankincense. Finally, consider giving the ears some attention. “In traditional Chinese medicine, the ear is a microcosm of the entire body,” says Subotich, who suggests a targeted massage to relax the whole. Vie Healing takes the ritual a step further with its ear seeding kit, which uses small gold magnetic beads to stimulate key pressure points.
Bedroom Essentials
The way your room looks and feels matters. “Messy bed, messy head,” says Subotich of maintaining a streamlined environment, and dermatologists lend extra credence to the sleek, silky bedding movement. “Skin and hair slides easily over silk fabrics, reducing the friction and pulling that can cause skin irritation and creases, plus hair breakage and frizziness,” says Murphy-Rose. “If you are a side or stomach sleeper and wake up with creases on your face, silk may help to reduce the problem.” LilySilk’s pillowcase mixes a minty scent with antibacterial powers, while Slip’s silk turban is an easy hair wrap for nighttime protection. Subotich likes sleep masks for their light-blocking abilities, and CurrentBody’s silicone-enhanced version is designed to help ease expression lines and provide a soothing level of pressure. That snug feeling, which you can expect from Bearaby’s Cotton Napper weighted blanket, has a multitude of sleep-related benefits. “Weighted blankets work by utilizing what’s known as deep pressure stimulation, and are meant to mimic the experience of being hugged or held,” says Subotich. “Studies suggest weighted blankets can help reduce anxiety by modulating autonomic nervous system arousal—the part of the nervous system responsible for increased heart and breathing rates.”
Sleep Aids
Before considering what to take internally, it may be worth dispelling the long-held belief that a nip of alcohol before bed can serve as a friendly nightcap. “Alcohol intake can reduce the quality of sleep,” cautions Murphy-Rose. Instead, “an over-the-counter melatonin supplement taken at night before bedtime can improve sleep quality for many,” says the dermatologist, who suggests checking with a physician before starting any supplement routines. Subotich also recommends seeing a specialist for an herbal prescription and offers an at-home botanical guide. “Some helpful herbs, either as a tea or in tincture form, include valerian root, jujube, skullcap, chamomile, lemon balm, and passionflower,” says the Eastern medicine expert; she agrees that melatonin can be useful when appropriate and calls ingestible magnesium “extremely beneficial.” Hum Nutrition offers melatonin and magnesium in capsule form, and The Nue Co.’s Sleep Drops and Sakara Sleep Tea both combine valerian root and passionflower with, surprisingly, catnip to encourage the body to fall and stay asleep. And if sneaking ingredients into a snack works best (in the spirit of cat treats!), Asystem’s melatonin-free gummies infuse saffron and chamomile into a vegan, wild-berry-flavored blast for blissful slumber.
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In a world where American minimalism and modern skate culture collide, the forthcoming collaboration between Calvin Klein and Palace is sure to send the internet into a frenzy.
Bringing together a shared appreciation for inclusivity, self-expression, and nostalgia, the collection’s campaign comes to life in a campaign featuring a cast of cultural icons including Dame Joan Collins, Willem Dafoe, The Pet Shop Boys, Adwoa Aboah, Precious Lee, Lourdes “Lola” Leon, The Palace Skate Family, and Rapper Unknown T. “It was so visually impactful: the casting, the energy – it really remains unmatched. From the first call with the Calvin team, I knew there was so much we could do. This collaboration has grown organically and I’m proud of everything we’ve created together,” Palace founder Lev Tanju says.
Shot by longtime Palace photographer Alasdair McLellan and styled by Max Pearlman, the collection includes a limited run of reinvented basics like underwear, denim, t-shirts and fleeces in a neutral color palette of black, grey, white, wheat, and quarry. “Meticulously engineered” denim comes in faded washes and boasts a fit that remains baggy in the leg much like Calvin Klein’s classic ‘90s fit. It also features a reinvention of Calvin Klein’s signature logo with Palace’s iconic tri-ferg distinctly that’s playfully woven into basketball jerseys, baggy shorts, the world’s most recognizable underwear. The line also includes a special run of “Calvans;” a slip-on shoe that pays homage to Calvin Klein’s American heritage, Palace’s roots in skate culture and their longtime collaborator, Vans.
“I grew up admiring the iconic Calvin Klein campaigns of the early ‘90s for their simplicity and their forward-thinking depiction of fashion that appealed to everyone,” Tanju tells Vanity Fair.
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From their earliest childhood, William and Harry were collateral damage in a cold war between their parents, one that could turn hot in front of them in alarming ways. The two-year age gap between them was critical in forging their distinctive worldviews and, equally so, in shaping their perceptions of their mother. Prince Harry idolized Diana more and understood her less. He would always be her baby, a scamp who was “thick” at his lessons and “naughty, just like me.” His emotions, like hers, were always simmering near the surface.
William understood Diana more but idealized her less. He was privy to her volatile love life. He knew the tabloids made her life hell, but he also knew she colluded with them. By his early teens, he was his mother’s most trusted confidant. She used to describe him as “my little wise old man.”
Like many women whose relationships with their husbands have become dysfunctional, Diana used her elder son as both a stand-in and a buffer, toting him along for meetings with journalists. Then Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan describes in his diary a startlingly revealing background lunch with Diana and the 13-year-old William at Kensington Palace in 1996 at which, he says, the princess allowed him to ask “literally anything.” William insisted on a glass of wine even when Diana said no, and he seemed thoroughly up-to-date on all the tabloid rumors about her lovers. “He is clearly in the loop on most of her bizarre world and, in particular, the various men who come into it from time to time,” the astonished Morgan noted.
Diana’s most recent romantic adventure at that time was with the sturdy hunk Will Carling, captain of the England rugby team, whom she had met in 1995 working out at the Chelsea Harbor Club gym. William hero-worshipped Carling and met him several times with Diana. When Carling visited Kensington Palace for a romantic rendezvous, he gave both the boys a rugby shirt. It is unclear when William came to realize that his idol was a sporting visitor in more ways than one. Carling’s wife, the television personality Julia Carling, conclusively enlightened him—and everyone else—when rumors of marital difficulties were rife, making it clear the princess was at least one of the reasons. “This has happened to [Diana] before,” Julia told a reporter. “You hope she won’t do these things again, but obviously she does.”
Diana was livid about Julia Carling’s comments. “She’s milking it for all she’s worth, that woman,” she told Morgan over lunch. “Honestly, I haven’t seen Will since June ’95.” William interjected, “I keep a photo of Julia Carling on my dartboard at Eton.”
The exchange reveals much about the dynamic between mother and son. For Diana to include the future heir to the throne at a meeting with one of the royal family’s most reckless tabloid tormentors and freely refer to a casual affair was, on its face, amazing. (Try imagining the Duchess of Cambridge and a teenage Prince George doing the same today.) It suggests that her boundaries were dissolving and, with them, her judgment. Not only was William used to hearing about her lovers, as Morgan notes, but he’d also found a way to deal with it at school. Tacking Julia Carling’s image onto a dartboard was a gesture of loyalty to his mother that also announced he knew exactly what the other boys were whispering about.
Time and again, Diana chose to invade her own privacy, often for the capricious reason of making the men in her life jealous. The most unforgettable “stolen” snap from Diana’s last fateful holiday was the famous “kiss” picture of her in a clinch with bare-chested Dodi Fayed, her playboy lover, off the coast of Corsica. It was she who tipped off Italian lensman Mario Brenna—to send a taunting message to the real love of her life, Hasnat Khan.
Nicholas Coleridge, former president of Condé Nast International, tells a story in his memoir of inviting Diana to a boardroom lunch at Condé Nast London HQ in 1996. The day before, a picture of the princess sunbathing topless had appeared in the Mirror, causing a furor about invasion of privacy. Coleridge expected the princess to cancel, but she confirmed her attendance with the request there would be no publicity. Halfway through a beguiling confidential lunch, she said:
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Jason Momoa says that his gentlemanly gesture toward a fellow actor is being mistaken for something more romantic.
Momoa was photographed sharing his coat with Kate Beckinsale outside the Vanity Fair Oscar party last month where the pair was seen standing close together in conversation and smiling at one another. But at the premiere of Ambulance on Monday, the actor clarified to Extra that it's all a misunderstanding as they're just good friends.
Momoa explained that he and Beckinsale were just chatting about England—her home country and the location of his current Aquaman 2 shoot—when she caught a chill. “It was cray,” he told the outlet. “Everyone is like, ‘Are you dating?’ No, no, it was chivalry, the woman was cold.” He went on to add that they are “Absolutely not, not together. She is very nice, I was being very nice, just being a gentleman. Now, I am not giving my coat to anyone.”
In January, Momoa and Lisa Bonet revealed that after sixteen years together and five years of marriage they were going their separate ways. The couple announced their split via a joint statement on Momoa’s Instagram account, writing, “We are parting ways in marriage. We share this not because we think it’s newsworthy, but so that as we go about our lives we may do so with dignity and honesty. The love between us carries on, evolving in ways it wishes to be known and lived. We free each other to be who we are learning to become…Our devotion unwavering to this sacred life & our Children. Teaching our Children what’s possible. Living the Prayer. May Love Prevail.”
Despite speculation that he and Bonet had reconciled since then, Momoa told Access Hollywood on the red carpet at the 2022 Oscars, “We’re not back together. We’re family…We have two beautiful children together. We’re not getting back together. We’re family forever.” In 2007, the former couple welcomed their first child, Lola. Their second child, Nakoa-Wolf, arrived in December the following year.
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Update (Tuesday at 2:28 p.m. E.T.): New sources, ones that are talking exclusively to Page Six, have said the marriage is not legal. Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker simply went to the chapel for fun. One Love Chapel, where they potentially tied A Knot but not The Knot, says it doesn’t do ceremonies without the license. But who knows? A lot can happen late at night in Vegas when you’re the right person in the right place at the right time. Maybe the manager on site was a big Meet the Barkers fan.
The original article is below.
Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker reportedly took their searching tongues to a chapel in Las Vegas late Sunday night, or rather early Monday morning, with a marriage license in hand. According to TMZ, they are wed. Elvis (not the real one) did the honors. No photos were allowed besides their own.
The reality television star and the former Blink-182 drummer join a grand tradition of getting married in Vegas, and make the second data point in a potential three’s a trend. Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner did it after the Billboard Music Awards in 2019, and then later held a huge wedding in France. This could be the preliminary ceremony, one just for Kourtney and Travis, and they could always do a bigger one later, say, for the Kardashians’ Hulu show (as big as he went for his beachside proposal—lotta flowers).
Some couples didn’t even have the momentum of an awards show with its trophies to propel them down the aisle—they just decided to do it. Like Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow in 1966, or Bruce Willis and Demi Moore in 1987. Like Jon Bon Jovi and his high school sweetheart Dorothea Hurley in 1989, or Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton in 2000, while Thornton was engaged to Laura Dern. Nicolas Cage and makeup artist Erika Koike did it in 2019 (and had it annulled four days later). The list goes on and on!
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The White House will host its first wedding reception in fourteen years when President Joe Biden's granddaughter, Naomi Biden, marries her fiancé Peter Neal this fall.
On Monday, Naomi, who is the eldest daughter of Hunter Biden and his first wife Kathleen Buhle, announced via a tweet that the president and First Lady Jill Biden will be hosting her wedding party. “Peter and I are endlessly grateful to my Nana and Pop for the opportunity to celebrate our wedding at the White House,” she wrote. “We can’t wait to make our commitment to one another official and for what lies ahead.” The couple first met in New York City four years ago after getting set up on a date by a mutual friend. They got engaged in September while on a trip to Jackson Hole where Neal is originally from.
East Wing communications director Elizabeth Alexander confirmed the happy news, tweeting, “The President and First Lady will host the wedding reception for their granddaughter Naomi Biden and her fiancée Peter Neal at the White House on November 19, 2022.” She added, “The First Family, the couple, and their parents are still in the planning stages of all of the wedding festivities and look forward to announcing further details in the coming months.” The East Wing also confirmed that the family will be paying for the reception themselves, “consistent with other private events hosted by the First Family and following the traditions of previous White House wedding festivities in prior Administrations.”
The last wedding reception held at the White House was in June 2008 to mark the marriage of Jenna Bush to Henry Hager. The celebration took place two months after the couple got married on former President George W. Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch.
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Prince Charles seemed more delighted than usual to join Queen Letizia for an outing in Bishop Auckland, England to take in some art this week.
The future king of England and current queen of Spain met up at the Auckland Castle on Tuesday to view the new exhibition of Spanish art on display by Francisco de Zurbarán. Charles greeted the royal by clasping her hand warmly in both of his. He then planted a kiss on the back of her hand and one on each cheek.
Twelve of the thirteen canvases that make up Zurbarán’s famed series “Jacob and His Twelve Sons” have been housed in the castle since 1756 and the pieces were once only accessible to guests of the Bishop of Durham as they were housed in the castle's Long Dining Room. In 2010, the paintings were in danger of being auctioned off by the Church of England Commission. However, philanthropist Jonathan Ruffer acquired both the paintings and the castle in 2012, preserving them on behalf of the nation and putting the works on display to the public.
Queen Letizia was already in the UK as she was one of many members of European royalty who attended the Service of Thanksgiving in honor of Prince Philip at Westminster Abbey last week. She joined Queen Elizabeth and other family members, including Princess Anne and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, in wearing an outfit entirely in the shade of “Edinburgh Green” in memory of the late Duke of Edinburgh. That particular green was the color of Prince Philip's official livery and was used for a wide array of things related to him, such as staff uniforms, private cars, and even the Land Rover that was used to carry his coffin at his funeral last year.
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Selena Gomez credits her improved mental health to one very unusual decision for a celebrity of her ilk—logging off the internet completely.
Though she may be one of the most-followed people on the planet, the singer told Good Morning America on Monday, “I haven’t been on the internet in four and a half years. It has changed my life completely.” She stopped by the morning show to discuss her new project Wondermind, a website that offers a collection of mental health resources. Gomez explained that she relies on her team to post on her behalf, although she does help out with assembling the content. Thanks to this setup, she says, “I am happier, I am more present, I connect more with people. It makes me feel normal.”
In a previous interview with Vogue from March of last year, the pop star said something very similar, explaining that she had been off the internet for three years at that point and would instead send photos and text to her assistant to post to Instagram and Twitter on her behalf. “Everyone always asks me, ‘Are you secretly on; are you lying?’ and I’m like, ‘I have no reason to lie,” she told the outlet, adding that she gets her news mostly from “an older woman that I’m really close with” and whose identity she prefers remain secret. “And I watch CNN, but I try not to do it too much, because I’m empathetic to the point that I’ll cry at anything. I cried a lot during quarantine, just for the pain of everyone else.”
Gomez went on to explain to GMA that creating this distance between her public persona and her personal life has also helped her with her struggles with bipolar disorder and anxiety which were only being intensified due to the scrutiny she was under. “I can’t believe that I’m where I am mentally, just because of how I took the necessary steps in order to kind of remove myself from that … because it’s just not normal,” she said of growing up in the public eye.
The 2022 Grammy nominee concluded, “If I’m known for anything, I hope it’s simply just for the way I care about people,. I really really want people to be understood and seen and heard. Those days where I don’t want to get out of bed, if I had something like Wondermind—even if it took me a minute to get into it—it’s just there, and there’s something really comforting about that.”
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UPDATE: More Details Released on Clarion Boards Fire
SHIPPENVILLE, Pa. (EYT) – Additional details have surfaced regarding a Monday morning structure fire at Kronospan along U.S. Route 322 in Shippenville.
According to Clarion County 9-1-1, a line officer at Kronospan’s Clarion Boards plant along Fiberboard Avenue reported the fire at 10:14 a.m.
“We were in a non-operating status for a shut down for equipment upgrades,” assistant Fire Chief of Shippenville-Elk Volunteer Fire Department Jeremy Hallberg told exploreClarion.com.
Hallberg also works as a Control Room Operator at Clarion Boards.
“Someone caught the fire right away as it started and (Kronospan’s) fire brigade went up to start an initial stop.”
Eventually, the fire went beyond the fire brigade’s capabilities and Shippenville-Elk Township Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched.
Later, Clarion Fire & Hose Company No. 1’s aerial was called to the scene.
“Clarion was called to assist with their ladder to reach a higher spot and for the extra manpower,” he added. “Some of the fire got into the walls.”
Hallberg said the exact cause of the fire remains under investigation and the plant will continue to monitor the situation.
No one was injured in fire.
Knox Ambulance was placed on standby.
The scene was cleared at 1:58 p.m.
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UPDATE: More Details Released on Clarion Boards Fire
SHIPPENVILLE, Pa. (EYT) – Additional details have surfaced regarding a Monday morning structure fire at Kronospan located just off U.S. Route 322 in Shippenville.
According to Clarion County 9-1-1, a line officer at Kronospan’s Clarion Boards plant located along Fiberboard Avenue reported the fire at 10:14 a.m.
“We were in a non-operating status for a shut down for equipment upgrades,” Assistant Fire Chief of Shippenville-Elk Volunteer Fire Department Jeremy Hallberg told exploreClarion.com.
Hallberg works as a Control Room Operator at Clarion Boards, as well as serving as a volunteer firefighter.
“Someone caught the fire right away as it started, and (Kronospan’s) fire brigade went up to start an initial stop.”
Eventually, the fire went beyond the fire brigade’s capabilities, and Shippenville-Elk Township Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched.
Later, Clarion Fire & Hose Company No. 1’s aerial was called to the scene.
“Clarion was called to assist with their ladder to reach a higher spot and for the extra manpower,” he added. “Some of the fire got into the walls.”
The exact cause of the fire remains under investigation and the plant will continue to monitor the situation, according to Hallberg.
No one was injured in the fire.
Knox Area Volunteer Ambulance Company was placed on standby.
The scene was cleared at 1:58 p.m.
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Walk-Off Win: Parks Smashes Two-Run Homer to Lift A-C Valley Past Clarion-Limestone
PARKER, Pa. (EYT/D9) — As soon as Mackenzie Parks made contact, she knew it was a home run.
She stood there at the plate for a few seconds, watching the softball soar over the right-center field fence at the Perry Township Little League fields, and allowed the magnitude of her drive to wash over her.
(Mackenzie Parks smiles as she holds her walk-off home run ball)
Parks’ two-run blast with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning gave the A-C Valley softball team an 8-7, walk-off win over Clarion-Limestone on a chilly Monday afternoon.
There was nothing frigid about Parks’ bat. She went 4-for-4 with five RBI in the victory. The homer was the first walk-off of the junior’s career.
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“I was just thinking I kinda just need to get on base,” Parks said of her mindset when she dug into the box with her team down 7-6. “I just told Meah Ielase that if she got on, since she was the top of the lineup, then the junior trio would get her home.”
Ielase did get on with one out and scored on a double by junior Avah Burke to bring the Falcons back within a run. Parks then ended it with her fourth hit of the day.
“I just thought to myself, ‘I need to come up clutch,’” Parks said.
The homer also made a winner out of her in the circle.
Parks, moving into the role as the primary pitcher for A-C Valley this season, fared well for the most part against Clarion-Limestone’s potent attack.
She struck out four, walked three, and gave up seven runs — six earned — in seven innings.
Frances Milliron went 3-for-3 with a homer and two RBI for the Lions.
Regan Husted got the loss for Clarion-Limestone. She went 6 1/3 innings, striking out six and walking just one.
Burke also had a big day at the plate for the Falcons.
Burke, who missed all but one game last season because of an elbow issue, went 3-for-4 with two doubles and an RBI.
Rylan Stauser also had a pair of hits for A-C Valley, including a double and an RBI.
Alyssa Wiant had two hits for Clarion-Limestone. Olivia Smith drove home two runs, and Husted and Sam Simpson also had RBIs for the Lions.
A-C Valley led 4-0 after the first inning, and it stayed that way until the top of the fourth when C-L answered with four runs of its own.
The teams traded runs in the fifth inning before the wild seventh.
The Lions scored twice in the top of the seventh inning to take a 7-5 lead, setting up A-C Valley’s final at-bat heroics.
It was the first game for both teams, which have battled the poor weather and poor field conditions at their home fields.
Parks was just as thrilled with how she pitches as with her performance at the plate.
“I thought that my first game pitching would have been worse, but I thought I did pretty well,” Parks said. “I was expecting them to hit since they are a hitting team, but I also trusted my defense and thought that they had it under control.”
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7-Day Weather Forecast for Clarion County
A look at the 7-day weather forecast for the Clarion County area.
Today = Mostly cloudy, with a high near 63. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight – Showers likely, mainly between 8pm and 9pm. Cloudy, with a low around 46. East wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Wednesday – Mostly cloudy, with a high near 63. Southeast wind 6 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.
Wednesday Night – Showers. Low around 44. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light southwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Thursday – A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 58. Calm wind becoming southwest 5 to 7 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Thursday Night – A slight chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 38. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Friday – Showers likely, mainly after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 52. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Friday Night – Rain showers likely before midnight, then a chance of rain and snow showers between midnight and 1am, then a chance of snow showers after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 35. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Saturday – A chance of snow showers before noon, then rain showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 45. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Saturday Night – Showers likely before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 32. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Sunday – Mostly cloudy, with a high near 46.
Sunday Night – Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31.
Monday – Partly sunny, with a high near 59.
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AAA: Gas Prices Two Cents Lower in Western PA; Oil Prices Ease
CLARION COUNTY, Pa. – Gas prices are two cents lower in Western Pennsylvania this week at $4.283 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report.
Clarion County drivers are paying an average of $4.282 a gallon for regular unleaded gasoline. In Venango County, the standard price is $4.279. The average in Jefferson County is $4.286.
This week’s average price in Western Pennsylvania is $4.283 a gallon.
Average price during the week of March 28, 2022: $4.309
The average price of unleaded self-serve gasoline in various areas:
$4.256 Altoona
$4.341 Beaver
$4.299 Bradford
$4.286 Brookville
$4.279 Butler
$4.282 Clarion
$4.293 DuBois
$4.259 Erie
$4.262 Greensburg
$4.281 Indiana
$4.249 Jeannette
$4.251 Kittanning
$4.296 Latrobe
$4.276 Meadville
$4.330 Mercer
$4.260 New Castle
$4.278 New Kensington
$4.279 Oil City
$4.281 Pittsburgh
$4.279 Sharon
$4.300 Uniontown
$4.299 Warren
$4.285 Washington
Trend Analysis:
Today’s national average for a gallon of gas is $4.18, which is six cents less than a week ago, 35 cents more than a month ago, and $1.31 more than a year ago. Gasoline prices have been decreasing across the country as crude oil prices have been on the decline for the past several days.
On March 25th, West Texas Intermediate closed the day at $113.90 per barrel. During the following week, prices fluctuated in the mid to high $100 range until President Joe Biden announced plans to release one million barrels of oil per day for six months (180 million barrels) from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). The SPR is a collection of underground salt caverns along the Gulf Coast where millions of gallons of crude oil are stored. Created in 1975 and managed by the U.S. Department of Energy, it is said to be the largest supply of emergency crude oil in the world.
The president’s announcement came as OPEC and its allies announced they would maintain a plan to gradually ramp up production with monthly increases. At the close of Friday’s formal trading session, West Texas Intermediate decreased by $1.01 to settle at $99.27.
Domestically, dipping gasoline demand is defying seasonal trends for a third straight week, possibly due to higher pump prices and consumers altering their driving habits. According to new data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), total domestic gasoline stocks increased by 800,000 barrels to 238.8 million barrels last week while demand decreased from 8.63 million barrels per day to 8.5 million barrels per day. The drop in gas demand, alongside growth in total stocks, also contributed to price decreases. If demand continues to decline as gasoline stocks continue to build, the national average will likely continue to move lower.
Motorists can find current gas prices nationwide, statewide, and countywide at GasPrices.AAA.com.
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Clarion County Recipe of the Day: Raspberry Matcha Cake Roll
Strawberries could also be used in this scrumptious cake instead of raspberries!
Ingredients
1/2 cup cake flour
1 tablespoon matcha (green tea powder)
1/4 cup whole milk
1 tablespoon avocado or canola oil
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
5 tablespoons sugar, divided
Confectioners’ sugar
FILLING:
3/4 cup fresh raspberries
2 tablespoons sugar, divided
2/3 cup heavy whipping cream
Directions
-Preheat the oven to 350°. Line bottom of a greased 15x10x1-in. cake pan with parchment. Sift cake flour and matcha powder together twice.
-In another large bowl, beat egg yolks and 1 tablespoon of sugar until slightly thickened. Beat on high speed until thick and lemon-colored. Beat in milk, oil, and vanilla. Fold in flour mixture.
-Place egg whites in a small bowl. With clean beaters, beat on medium until soft peaks form. Gradually add the remaining 4 tablespoons of sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating on high after each addition until sugar is dissolved. Continue beating until soft glossy peaks form. Fold a fourth of the whites into the batter, then fold in the remaining whites. Transfer to prepared pan, spreading evenly.
-Bake until top springs back when lightly touched, 10-12 minutes. Cool 5 minutes. Invert onto a tea towel dusted with confectioners’ sugar. Gently peel off the paper. Roll up the cake in the towel jelly-roll style, starting with a short side. Cool completely on a wire rack.
-For the filling, in a small bowl, mash raspberries with 1 tablespoon of sugar. Press through a fine-mesh strainer into another bowl; discard seeds. In a large bowl, beat cream until it begins to thicken. Add remaining 1 tablespoon sugar; beat until stiff peaks form. Gently fold in 2 tablespoons raspberry puree.
-Unroll cake; spread filling over cake to within 1/2 in. of edges. Roll up again, without a towel; trim ends. Place on a platter, seam side down. Refrigerate, covered, at least 30 minutes before serving. Serve with remaining raspberry puree. If desired, garnish with additional whipped cream and raspberries.
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Dale Richard Green
Dale Richard Green of Little River, South Carolina, formerly of Franklin passed away from complications of Parkinson’s disease March 25, 2022 at his home.
Dale was born April 3, 1949 in Franklin, Pennsylvania and was the son of Richard & the late Lois Redmond Green.
He was a joy to his parents and was always concerned for their wellbeing.
Dale attended school in Franklin and graduated in 1968.
In Pennsylvania he was employed at Joy Technologies and co-owner of Trico Machine Co. with his father Richard Green starting 1968, closing the business in 2003.
In 2003 Dale moved to South Carolina and married Deborah (Debbie) Usoff McQuade May 24, 2003. While in South Carolina, Dale worked for Blanton Supplies as foreman from July 2003 until his retirement in 2012.
He enjoyed watching Nascar & spending time with his wife Debbie and his cat Zoey.
Dale is preceded in death by his mother Lois, his uncle Conrad Green, nephew Brian Patrick Lindsay, grandsons Dale Green III, Benjamin Green & step-sons David L. McQuade and Daniel McQuade, nd his beloved cat “Blue”.
Dale is survived by his devoted and loving wife Debbie; his sister Sharyn Green Lindsay and husband Brian of Arizona; daughter Susan (Green) Kelly and husband Mike of Ohio; son Dale Green JR and wife Theresa of Franklin; son James Green & fiancée Paige Cusick of Hermitage, Pa.; aunt Lorraine Green of Maine; nephew Erik Lindsay of Arizona; grandchildren Kaitlynn Kriek; Ryan Kriek and fiancée Annette Dean of Franklin; Jessica and husband Mitchell Wolmerdorf of Franklin; Devin Green of Oil City; grandson Alexander of Franklin; grandchildren Megan Green, Richard Green and Connor Green of Ohio; Jeffrey Green of Utica, PA; three great grand children, Hunter Kriek-Wise, Xavier Wolmerdorf of Franklin and Sherry Attleberger of Oil City; one step-son Jeremy McQuade, seven step-grandchildren and five step-great grandchildren.
Also surviving are cousins: Mark Green and wife Terri and their family of Maine; Dr. Martin Green and his partner Gail Wolek of New Hampshire; Melissa Green and husband Gary Coyne and their family of Maine.
Dale was a loving father for his daughter and 2 sons.
He enjoyed taking them to the races when they were little.
He treasured being a part of his daughter’s time in 4H and he never missed an event that his children were a part of.
He loved taking his sons Dale Jr and Jim hunting.
Dale found enjoyment being there when his sons wanted to start hunting and found great satisfaction watching them harvest their first deer.
He cherished when he became a granddad & enjoyed babysitting his grandchildren.
Dale was loved by all who came in contact with him.
He had the gift of “help” to anyone who was in need.
He was very generous with his time and talents.
One of his outstanding talents was building several homes in the Franklin area for sale and his personal residence before moving to South Carolina.
His craftsmanship was superb and detailed.
There will be no service, A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date.
Funeral arrangements are being completed by Coastal Cremations of Carolina Shores.
Online condolences to Dale Greens family may be sent by visiting: www.coastalcremations.com.
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Fairmount City’s Ken Burkett Wins Prestigious Crabtree Award in Chicago
CHICAGO, Il. (EYT) – Jefferson County History Center (JCHC) Executive Director Kenneth Burkett was honored with the 2022 Crabtree Award by the SAA at its Annual Meeting & Awards Ceremony on April 1, 2022, in Chicago.
Recognized for his outstanding service to PA Archaeology, Burkett is a Carnegie Museum of Natural History Field Associate and Society of Pennsylvania Archaeology member since 1983.
Burkett, a Fairmount City resident, was bit with the archaeological bug at age 12 upon finding his first arrowhead. He volunteered in the ‘70s with several important local and regional site excavations. In 1975 at age 23, he made a sensational excavation of a Native American burial with artifacts in Elk County, dating to 1330 A.D., now housed at Carnegie. From 1976-1996, he excavated the significant Fishbasket complex of six Late Woodland Villages, founding a new cultural group in western PA. He received the 1983 SPA Archey Award for his outstanding contributions and furtherance of archaeology. He later helped to start SPA North Fork Chapter 29, and is northwest PA’s petroglyph expert for his work on the Parker’s Landing site along the Allegheny River in Clarion County. He has authored an exceptional number of publications and book chapters, and co-authored the award-winning Scripture Rocks book. He currently leads SPA’s efforts to include archaeology sites in the State Historical Marker Program.
He led the JCHS (Scripture Rocks) Heritage Park project in 2012, opened in 2016 as a hiking park and historic cultural and natural education resource. He directed SPA North Fork Chapter 29’s excavation of a Native American rockshelter within this award-winning park, which has garnered 8 state and national museum awards.
Burkett has served as current Executive Director of JCHS since 2008, is a PA Great Outdoors Visitors’ Bureau Board member, North Fork Chapter 29 past Board President and current Treasurer, and SPA former President/1st Vice President and current Treasurer, past Lumber Heritage Region Board, and past Treasurer of Brookville Area Chamber of Commerce.
The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) presents the Crabtree Award annually to an outstanding avocational archaeologist. Nominees have made significant contributions to advance understandings of local, regional, or national archaeology through excavation, research, publication, site or collections reservation, collaboration with the professional community, and/or public outreach.
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Featured Local Job: Summer Workers – Maintenance
Tuesday, April 5, 2022 @ 07:04 AM
Clarion Area School District is currently hiring summer workers.
Duties include helping in the maintenance of the buildings and to work with staff in performing work on projects being completed during the summer.
Full-time and part-time temporary summer positions are available for those 18 years of age and older starting at $10 per hour.
Submit letters of interest and resumes to Mike Fagley at Clarion Area School District, 219 Liberty Street, Clarion, PA 16214.
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Janet Shedlock
Janet Shedlock, 64, of Polk passed away April 3, 2022 at home.
Janet was born December 29, 1957 in Pittsburgh.
She was the daughter of Donald and Margaret Hess Kovach.
Janet graduated from Elizabeth Seton High School.
She retired from Keystone Oaks High School where was a Special Education Support Teacher.
She loved helping the children and took great pride in her job.
Most recently Janet was enjoying her retirement riding her four-wheeler with her friends.
She loved to volunteer at the YMCA as well.
Janet’s memory will be cherished by her partner in crime and life partner Jeff Kennedy of Polk, her father Donald Kovach of Pittsburgh, her son Gregory Shedlock of Long Beach Mississippi, her grandson Calvin Shedlock of Long Beach Mississippi.
Janet’s brother and sisters David Kovach and his wife Patricia of Cranberry Twp, Sandy Wheeler and her husband John of Pittsburgh, Daniel Kovach and his wife Jennifer of Pittsburgh.
Janet was preceded in death by her mother and her daughter Sarah Shedlock.
Friends and family can email condolences by visiting www.mckinleyfuneralhome.net.
There are no services scheduled at this time.
The Larry E. McKinley Funeral Home, Clintonville PA is assisting the family with arrangements.
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Knox Woman Busted for Allegedly Selling Suboxone Faces Hearing Today
CLARION CO., Pa. (EYT) – A Knox woman who was busted in the summer for allegedly selling suboxone to a confidential informant is due in court on Tuesday morning.
According to court documents, a preliminary hearing for 28-year-old Amanda Nicole Colwell is scheduled for Tuesday, April 5, at 9:15 in Clarion County Central Court on the following
– Manufacture, Delivery, or Possession With Intent to Manufacture or Deliver, Felony
– Criminal Use of Communication Facility, Felony 3
– Use/Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Misdemeanor
She is currently free on $10,000.00 unsecured bail.
Details of the case:
According to a criminal complaint, on July 15, officers of Clarion County Narcotics Enforcement Team (CNET) were in contact with a confidential informant (C.I.) who advised that he/she could assist in the purchase of a controlled substance from Amanda Colwell.
Officers of CNET then observed communication between Colwell and the C.I. and watched as an exchange took place at a location in Knox Borough. Clarion County.
According to the complaint, police observed as the C.I. exchanged $100.00 in official CNET funds for a cigarette pack from Colwell.
Police then learned that the cigarette pack contained six pink pills marked “8” in a cellophane wrapper. A later check of the pills discovered they were consistent with Suboxone, a Schedule III controlled substance, according to the complaint.
Charges were filed against Colwell through Magisterial District Judge Jarah Lee Heeter’s office.
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Man Accused of Punching Victim, Threatening to Shoot Him in Clarion Township Due in Court Today
CLARION CO., Pa. (EYT) – A hearing for a man who is accused of punching a victim and threatening to shoot him during an incident that occurred in Clarion Township is scheduled for Tuesday.
According to court documents a preliminary hearing for 39-year-old Achior Abishai Oliver – of Elizabeth City, NC, and formerly of Clarion – is scheduled for Tuesday, April 5, at 8:30 a.m. on the following charges:
– Terroristic Threats With Intent to Terrorize Another, Misdemeanor 1
– Simple Assault, Misdemeanor 2
Oliver is currently free on $15,000.00 unsecured bail.
The charges stem from an incident that took place at an apartment building in Clarion Township on October 29, 2021.
Details of the case:
According to a criminal complaint, Clarion-based State Police were dispatched to an apartment on Robinwood Drive in Clarion Township around 5:05 p.m. on October 29, 2021, for a report of an assault.
Police then spoke to a known female witness who was the mother of the male victim.
According to the complaint, the witness told police she arrived at the apartment with the victim in her vehicle, and as she stopped her vehicle, Achior Oliver came out of the apartment, pulled the victim out of the vehicle, and then struck him on the left side of the face with a closed fist.
Police contacted the victim, who reportedly agreed with the witness’s account of what had occurred.
The complaint indicates the victim also told police that Oliver had a firearm in his pocket. The victim reported that after Oliver punched him in the face, Oliver told him he was going to shoot him.
The complaint notes police observed the area under the victim’s left eye was swollen and bruised.
Police say that Oliver had fled the scene, and they were unable to make contact with him.
Charges were filed in Magisterial District Judge Duane L. Quinn’s office on October 29, 2021.
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Slugger & Sara Wagner Celebrate 55th Anniversary
VENUS, Pa. (EYT) – Slugger and Sara Wagner, of Venus, recently celebrated their 55th anniversary with family and friends.
A party was held on Saturday, April 2, at Faith Lutheran Church recreation room hosted by their children who prepared the majority of the food, including a beautiful and delicious tiered cake by their daughter, Tina Herrmann.
Their children went all out with the celebration by decorating the recreation room with the color yellow which was the couple’s wedding color and emerald for the 55th anniversary.
Slugger and Sara met at a square dance at Crates near New Bethlehem on August 16, 1964, and were married on April 1, 1967.
They have three children, nine grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Their daughter Tammy Cayir and her husband Yavuz have two children, Deniz and Emre; their daughter Tina Herrmann and her husband Mark have three children, Sarah, Clemens, and Josepha; and their son Larry Wagner Jr. and his wife Tina have four children Tyler, Brandon, Hannah, and Katie. In addition, Brandon and his wife Brooke have two children, Scarlette and Sterling.
Over the years, the couple enjoyed celebrating their milestone anniversaries by taking a trip to Niagara Falls and traveling to Hawaii. They also went on two cruises.
Slugger and Sara owned and operated Wagner Grocery store from 1977 to 1989 and established Sara Jane’s Deli in 1984, working earnestly day and night until their retirement in 2015.
Since retirement, Slugger and Sara spend their winters in Florida with their dogs Brandy and Ginger. When they are in Pennsylvania, Slugger works part-time at Hepler’s Meat Market and Hirsch Meats, while Sara enjoys canning, gardening, homemaking, and taking care of their dogs.
Slugger and Sara are very appreciative of all the support of their family, friends, and community throughout the years.
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Paving Project to Start Soon on Route 208
VENANGO CO., Pa. (EYT) – A paving project is expected to start soon on State Route 208.
A $4.4 million resurfacing project that will give motorists a smoother ride on more than 13 miles of Route 208 in Venango County is scheduled to start later this month.
The project will include paving of 13.25 miles of roadway from the intersection with Route 8 to the intersection with Route 38 through Irwin, Clinton, and Scrubgrass Townships, and the boroughs of Barkeyville and Clintonville.
Work will include milling and paving, drainage and guide rail updates, ADA curb ramps, and pavement markings.
Construction is expected to begin on April 18, 2022, weather permitting, and is expected to be completed in August of 2022.
Motorists may encounter lane restrictions with traffic controlled by flaggers.
The contractor is Shields Asphalt Paving, Inc. of Valencia, Pa. The contract cost is $4,433,003, which is to be paid for entirely with state funds.
Information on the Route 208 Paving Project is available online at www.penndot.gov/District1.
PennDOT urges motorists to slow down when driving in work zones, and also to be alert to changing conditions, to avoid distractions, and to pay attention to signs and flaggers. Drive responsibly in work zones for your safety and the safety of the workers.
Motorists can check conditions on major roadways by visiting www.511PA.com. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information, and access to more than 1,000 traffic cameras.
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PSP Marienville Nets Two DUI Arrests, Two Drug Arrests During Recent DUI Checkpoint
Tuesday, April 5, 2022 @ 12:04 AM
CLARION AND FOREST CO., Pa. (EYT) – Marienville-based State Police have released the results of a recent DUI checkpoint.
A DUI checkpoint was conducted within Marienville-based State Police’s coverage area during the month of April.
The following results were reported:
- Two DUI arrests were made;
- Two drug possession arrests were made;
- 14 summary traffic citations were issued; and
- 31 summary traffic warnings were issued.
Authorities did not release the identities of the individuals arrested on DUI charges.
Troopers from PSP Marienville and PSP Punxsutawney participated in the checkpoint.
State Police in Clarion announced on Monday that they will be conducting a DUI checkpoint within their coverage area soon.
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SPONSORED: Heeter Lumber to Host Product Knowledge Sessions in Knox, New Bethlehem
CLARION CO., Pa. (EYT) – Join Heeter Lumber for a product knowledge session at their Knox and New Bethlehem locations in April!
Fiberon and Heeter Lumber will partner to host a product knowledge session at Heeter Lumber in Knox and New Bethlehem.
The Knox session will be held on Friday, April 8, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
The New Bethlehem session will be held on Friday, April 22, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Attendees will learn about Fiberon decking, Fiberon products, contractor programs, installation tips, demos, and more!
Lunch will be provided, and those who attend can enter a drawing to win prizes.
RSVP to Ryan Steele at [email protected] or Corey Hurley at [email protected]
Heeter Lumber’s Knox store is located at 507 E. State Street, Knox, PA 16232.
Heeter Lumber’s New Bethlehem store is located at 402 W. Broad Street, New Bethlehem, PA 16242.
Visit Heeter Lumber on Facebook here.
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SPONSORED: Need Help Maximizing Your Retirement Dollars? Ask Mark!
Tuesday, April 5, 2022 @ 12:04 AM
SHIPPENVILLE, Pa. (EYT) – Need help maximizing your retirement dollars? Ask Mark!
The cost and quality of healthcare affect how you enjoy retirement.
Talk to someone who knows how to maximize your dollars.
Join Mark at 6:00 p.m. on April 12th and April 14th for a FREE Social Security, Medicare, and Retirement Workshop on the Riverhill at his 11251 US Route 322 Shippenville location.
You can RSVP by calling 814-226-6505.
If you have questions on how to best spend your dollars, just ASK MARK!
Mark Graham Insurance Services brings you knowledge, transparency, and experience.
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Upcoming DUI Checkpoint in Clarion Area to Focus on Impaired Drivers
Tuesday, April 5, 2022 @ 12:04 AM
CLARION AND FOREST CO., Pa. (EYT) – State Police in Clarion will be conducting a DUI checkpoint within their coverage area.
It will be held sometime between April 5, 2022, and May 4, 2022, within the patrol area of the PSP Clarion barracks, according to a release issued Monday.
The checkpoint will focus on removing impaired drivers from the highway.
A recent checkpoint in PSP Marienville’s coverage area netted two DUIs, two drug possession arrests, thirty-one summary traffic warnings, and fourteen summary traffic citations.
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Who’s Hiring in Clarion County
A look at which local companies are hiring in Clarion County and surrounding areas.
Do you have a job listing that you’d like to include in this list? E-mail the listing to [email protected] or call 814-297-8004.
FEATURED JOBS
Several Positions Available Through All Seasons Temporaries Inc.
All Seasons Temporaries, Inc.
All Seasons Temporaries, Inc. has several new job openings in the local area.
Clean- up Crew- Endeavor, PA
$16/hour – 2nd shift available – Non-exempt
Job Requirements:
- Ability to lift, bend, twist, and stand for duration shift
- Must pass pre-employment screening
- Must have steel-toed boots
- Must have general mathematical skills
- Must abide by all safety protocols
- Understand lockout protocols
- Must be able to work with a team
Duties (but not limited to):
- Watch levels in chip and sawdust trailers and switch before overflowing
- Keep chutes and convers clear
- Watch chipper, conveyors to ensure they are running when in use
- Sweep and shovel sawdust and debris into conveyors
- Ability to understand direction
- Stay alert and be aware of your surroundings at all times
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Part Time Office Assistant- Franklin, PA
$12/hr. non- exempt
Duties (but not limited to):
- Answer phones, as well as welcoming and assisting patients and visitors
- Scheduling and confirming appointments
- Obtaining and updating patients’ personal and health information
- Creating and maintaining electronic health records
Requirements:
- High School Diploma or Equivalent
- Basic computer skills
- Must be able to pass pre- employment screening
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Bundler- Meadville
$12.50 to $13.50/hr. non- exempt
Light forklift driving, packaging bundles of pipe, use of banding and crimping to band pipes together.
Monday through Thursday, 6:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (some Fridays as needed for overtime, would be eight hours)
Pay Rate: $12.50- $13.50/hr. non- exempt
Requirements:
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre-employment screening
- Must have steel-toed shoes
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Electrical Equipment Repair Specialist- Franklin
$15/Hr. – Non-exempt
Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Potential for 90 days temporary to permanent.
Description:
- Use of hand and power tools to rebuild boards, switches, transformers, etc.
- Work with various departments to retrieve parts
- Update computer with the progress of rebuilds
- Follow all safety policies
Requirements:
- Must be able to pass pre-employment screening
- Must be able to multitask and be detail-oriented
- Must have steel-toed and/or composite toed shoes
- Prior mechanical and/or electrical experience preferred
- Prior metal fabrication experience preferred
- Must be able to stand, left, bend, push, pull, kneel, and twist during the duration of shift
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
1st Shift Assembly
$11/hr – Non-exempt
Potential for temporary to permanent.
Requirements:
- Must pass pre-employment screening
- Must be reliable
- Must be able to lift, bend, push and pull during shift
- Must be able to follow directions
- Prior use of hand and power tools preferred
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Stick Layers and Bin Tenders– Marienville
$15/hour – 1st and 2nd shifts available – Non-exempt
Job Requirements:
- Ability to lift, bend, twist, and stand for duration shift
- Must pass pre-employment screening
- Must have steel-toed boots
- Must have general mathematical skills
- Must abide by all safety protocols
- Understand lockout protocols
- Must be able to work with a team
Duties (but not limited to):
- Stack and sort lumber in appropriate slots
- Count pieces in stacks
- Tag bundles
- Operate machines and make sure they do not jam
- Clean machines when they are down
- Maintain clean workspaces
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Full-Time Title Clerk- Seneca
$15/Hr. – Non-exempt
Potential for 90 days temporary to permanent
40 hours per week including one evening shift until 8:00 p.m. on Thursdays and 3:00 p.m. on Saturdays a month from 10:00 a.m. through 2:00 p.m.
Description:
Cashier:
- Waiting on customers
- Balancing the cash drawer
- Service department
- Office filing
Telephone operator:
- Answering the phone and directing calls to the appropriate department
Accounting Clerk:
- Posting accounts payable invoices, balancing floor plan accounts, and other various tasks as assigned by the controller.
Requirements:
- Must have title work experience
- Must be able to pass pre-employment screening
- High school diploma
- Must have account and customer service knowledge
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
About All Season’s Temporaries Inc.
All Season’s offices are located at 1288 Liberty Street in Franklin and 113 N. Broad Street in Grove City.
For more information, call 814-437-2148 for the Franklin office or 724-458-6777 for the Grove City office.
Interested individuals may contact either office for available assignments.
Manufacturing Plant Opportunities at Webco
Webco Industries
Webco Industries currently has openings for Material Handler, Crane Operator, Furnace Outlet/Inlet Operator, Auto Saw Operator, Packer, Pointer Operator, and much much more!!
Salary Range: $15.50 to $21 per hour, $1.20 per hour night shift differential.
Responsibilities include the operation of a variety of machines to process and ensure quality tubing.
At Webco they:
Empower Their People with...
- Opportunities for growth
- Promotion from within
- 401(K) Matching
- Paid Holidays & Vacation
Focus and Build on Strengths…
- Education Reimbursement
- Training Opportunities
- Webco U. Courses
- Career Path Plans
Protect First Things Now…
- Health & Wellness Programs
- Health Insurance
- Disability & Life Insurance
- EAP
- Work Life Balance
Create and Capture Value…
- Attendance Bonuses
- Safety Bonuses
- Referral Bonuses
- Longevity Pay
- Profit Sharing
- Retirement Planning
Expect the Best…
- Motivated
- Punctual
- Coachable
- Dependable
- Safety Driven
- 100% Engaged
Dominate Niche Markets…
Through their core values of TRUST and TEAMWORK Webco is North America’s foremost provider of innovative tubing solutions.
Apply NOW to join their family!
Clinical and Non-Clinical Positions
Presbyterian SeniorCare Network
Presbyterian SeniorCare Network is currently hiring compassionate individuals—RNs, LPNs, CNAs, PCAs, Dining Services Aides, Housekeeping, Maintenance Techs and more.
Join their team and help in Making Aging Easier® for older adults. If you’re looking for a meaningful career and a chance to provide warmth and care while making a difference, consider joining Presbyterian SeniorCare’s team. Their team members build individual relationships with residents and their families, as well as with each other so everyone’s lives can be a little brighter. They are ready to welcome you!
Temporary Nurse Assistant (TNA) Trainee
Oakwood Heights- Oil City, PA
Certified Nurses Aide- Full-time/Part-time/Casual, Varied Shifts
The Temporary Nurse Assistant (TNA) training is a Nurse Assistant training program authorized by the State of PA under the current Federal Covid-19 Emergency Declaration and PA Act 138 of 2020. This free, paid training will prepare you to sit for the PA State Nurse Aide certification exam and, upon passing, you will become a Certified Nurse Assistant at Presbyterian SeniorCare Network.
Home Health Registered Nurse (RN)
Presbyterian SeniorCare Home Health- NursingOakmont or Washington, PA
Home Health- Full-time/Part-time/Casual/Premium Weekend, Daylight Shift w/ On-Call Rotation
***Ask about their Sign-on Bonus: Up to $10,000***
Be part of an exciting opportunity to participate in the launching of a new, state-licensed home health agency! Presbyterian SeniorCare Home Health is seeking caring professional nurses to provide home health visits to patients in the community and on their campuses in Oakmont and Washington.
Dining Services Aides, Cooks
Oakmont, Longwood at Oakmont
Full-time/Part-time/Casual
Assist the residents in making healthy choices as you prepare and serve nutritious meals designed to help them thrive.
Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
Washington Campus- Southmont Washington, PA
Certified Nurses Aide- Full-time/Part-time/Casual/Premium Weekend, Positions Open for All Shifts
***Ask about their Sign-on Bonus: Up to $2,000***
Helps Resident by providing comfort. Supports daily living needs of the resident, such as assisting with personal hygiene and vital sign monitoring. Able to effectively interact with residents, resident families, and team members.
CNA Training Classes
All Campuses- Full-time
Are you interested in becoming a Certified Nurse’s Aide? Register for their CNA training classes, starting soon, to begin your journey with Presbyterian SeniorCare today.
Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
Oakmont Campus- The Willows Oakmont, PA
Certified Nurses Aide- Full-time/Part-time/Casual/Premium Weekend, Positions Open for All Shifts, Short Shifts Available
***Ask about their Sign-on Bonus: Up to $2,000***
Helps Resident by providing comfort. Supports daily living needs of the resident, such as assisting with personal hygiene and vital sign monitoring. Able to effectively interact with residents, resident families, and team members.
Maintenance Technician II – Property Management
SeniorCare Network- SeniorCare Network, Pittsburgh, PA
Property Management- Full-time/Part-time, Daylight Shift w/ On-Call Rotation
***Ask about their Sign-on Bonus: Up to $1,500***
SeniorCare Network is an award-winning property management affiliate of Presbyterian SeniorCare Network. For more than 30 years, they have been making a difference in the lives of older adults by providing high-quality affordable housing options.
Temporary Nurse Assistant (TNA) Trainee
New Wilmington Campus- Shenango New Wilmington, PA
Certified Nurses Aide- Full-time/Part-time
The Temporary Nurse Assistant (TNA) training is a Nurse Assistant training program authorized by the State of PA under the current Federal Covid-19 Emergency Declaration and PA Act 138 of 2020. This free, paid training will prepare you to sit for the PA State Nurse Aide certification exam and, upon passing, you will become a Certified Nurse Assistant at Presbyterian SeniorCare Network.
For more information on any of these positions or to apply please visit the Presbyterian SeniorCare Employment page here.
Summer Workers – Maintenance
Clarion Area School District
Clarion Area School District is currently hiring summer workers.
Duties include helping in the maintenance of the buildings and to work with staff in performing work on projects being completed during the summer.
Full-time and part-time temporary summer positions are available for those 18 years of age and older starting at $10 per hour.
Submit letters of interest and resumes to Mike Fagley at Clarion Area School District, 219 Liberty Street, Clarion, PA 16214.
Multiple Human Services Career Opportunities
County of Venango
The County of Venango currently has several open Human Services positions.
Looking for a change? Are you a compassionate person interested in making a difference in people’s lives? Are you seeking a professional workplace staffed with talented, caring co-workers? Then the County of Venango Human Services is the place for you! They check all the boxes.
Venango County is currently accepting applications for the following Human Services positions:
- Department Clerk III CSS/Housing ($9.60/hr.)
- Housing Supports Coordinator ($15.25/hr.)
- CSS/Housing Manager ($21.56/hr.)
Venango County provides 15 paid holidays, paid vacations, and paid sick time; employer-paid individual coverage for medical (no waiting period), dental and life insurance, employer-paid family vision; along with an excellent pension plan. Qualified candidates must pass an interview. Successful candidates will work with the county to complete the clearance and drug screening process. All background checks must reflect acceptable results.
Job qualifications, sign-on bonus information, and deadlines to apply are obtainable online at www.pacareerlink.pa.gov or www.indeed.com. Follow them on Facebook @venangocountyhr.
County applications must be completed and returned to Venango County Human Resources, Troy A. Wood Human Services Complex, 1 Dale Ave., Franklin, PA 16323 by established deadlines. Late applications are not considered. You can download an application by visiting the HR Job Application Process section of the Venango County website at https://www.co.venango.pa.us/288/Job-Application-Process and clicking the appropriate link to download the form. Or, application and job description can also be provided via email upon request. Questions can be addressed by calling 814-432-9551 or via email at [email protected] **Drug-Free Workplace** EOE M/F/D/V
Automotive Technician
Redbank Chevrolet
Redbank Chevrolet has an opening for an Automotive Technician.
This is a full-time position at their dealership in New Bethlehem, Pa.
Experience is preferred, but they will provide training.
Redbank Chevrolet offers competitive pay, bonuses, health, dental, vision, and 401K.
Applicants can send resumes to [email protected] or drop them off in person at the dealership located at 500 Broad Street, New Bethlehem, Pa.
Office Assistant/Ophthalmic Technician
Clarion Eye Care
Clarion Eye Care has an immediate opening for an Office Assistant/Ophthalmic Technician.
They are looking for a highly motivated people person to join their growing practice! The position will be for 32-36 hours per week. This will include one evening per week and an occasional Saturday morning.
The ideal candidate must:
- be personable
- be a team player
- enjoy working with people
- be able to efficiently multitask
- be eager to learn
- be willing to be cross-trained in other areas as needed
*****Experience is preferred but NOT required*****
Applicants should visit their website. Please take your resume AND application and apply in person.
1350 East Main Street, Suite #20
Clarion, PA 16214
www.clarioneyecare.com
Quality Assurance-Risk Management Personnel
County of Clarion
Clarion County Developmental Disability (DD) Department currently has an opening for Quality Assurance-Risk Management personnel.
POSITION: DD Quality Assurance-Risk Management, Non-exempt, Full-Time, 80 hours per pay
DEPARTMENT: Developmental Disability (DD), Clarion, PA
PAY Grade: $15.00 – $19.30/hr
BENEFITS: Up to family coverage for health, dental, and vision insurance effective first of the month after the date of hire (employee pays 12.5% of premium, county pays 87.5%). $1,500 yearly stipend if you do not need the county insurance. Life insurance coverage at no cost to employees. 5 Vacation days first year, 10 vacation days starting the second year, 3 personal days per year, 10 sick days per year, 13 paid holidays off. Enrollment in Clarion County’s Pension plan (vested after 5 years, eligible to retire at 55 with 20 years of service).
POSTING DATE: Wednesday, March 28, 2022
HOW TO APPLY: A County application is required to be considered for the advertised vacancy.
Applications are available at: www.co.clarion.pa.us/how_do_i/apply_for/employment_opportunities/index.php
OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF JOB:
To ensure the health and safety of individuals being served and to ensure program compliance with regulations.
For specific details related to this job including Essential Functions; Other Duties; Supervision Received; Working Conditions; Physical and Mental Conditions; Qualifications; Clearances; and Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities; please download and review this .pdf file.
HOW TO APPLY:
A County application is required to be considered for the advertised vacancy. Applications are only accepted for positions in which the county is actively recruiting. Applications received for positions not being advertised or general/blanket applications will be discarded.
Please submit an application to:
Human Resources
Administration Building, Second Floor
330 Main Street
Clarion, PA 16214
Applications are available:
- Online by visiting: www.co.clarion.pa.us/how_do_i/apply_for/employment_opportunities/index.php
- In-Person by visiting the Clarion County Human Resource Office on the 2nd floor of the Administration Building located at 330 Main Street, Clarion, PA 16214
- By fax or e-mail. You must contact the Clarion County Human Resource Office by calling 814-226-4000 EXT 2909 to share your e-mail or fax number.
DEADLINE TO APPLY: Wednesday, April 22, 2022, at 4:00 PM.
CLARION COUNTY IS A DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE
APPLICANTS WHO REQUIRE SPECIAL ACCOMMODATION1S DUE TO A DISABILITY SHOULD CONTACT THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT AT 814-226-4000 EXT 2909 FOR ASSISTANCE.
Cabinet Installer
Kahle’s Kitchens, Inc.
Kahle’s Kitchens, Inc. is looking for a cabinet installer to join their team.
*** NOW OFFERING A $500 SIGN-ON BONUS ***
Duties will include helping deliver and install kitchen cabinets, appliances, lighting, and countertops.
Interested applicants must be able to lift up to 100 pounds and have basic construction knowledge.
A clean driving record and drug test will be required for this position.
Pay will be based on experience.
If interested please email your resume to Rick Irwin at [email protected] or stop in at Kahle’s Kitchen located at 7488 PA-36, Leeper, Pa. 16233 for an application.
9-1-1 Telecommunicator
Warren County
The county of Warren currently has an opening for a 9-1-1 Telecommunicator.
POSITION: Full Time (Union Eligible) SALARY: $16.98 per hour
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- This is a bargaining unit position that involves the receipt and processing of calls for assistance through the County 9-1-1 emergency telephone system. Operates as a team player within the 9-1-1 primary answering point to effectively receive and process emergency and non-emergency calls, according to established policies and procedures. Duties include the monitoring and dispatching of appropriate emergency response providers such as police, fire, emergency medical services, emergency management and the hazardous materials response team via radio, telephone, and other means of communication.
- Receives oral and written instruction (classroom/live environment) in equipment capability and operation, call taking and dispatch techniques, and inter-personal communications including management of multiple emergencies, listening and questioning skills, categorization and identification of appropriate local and/or regional emergency providers.
- Rotating, split, and other variations of shift work may be required. This includes work scheduled for holidays and weekends. Unscheduled overtime and mandatory overtime are required.
- Candidates must be able to function as a team player in a high functioning team – with complementary skills – who have common goals and are mutually accountable.
- Candidates must possess the ability to maintain professionalism on a daily basis, including during periods of high stress and high call volume.
- Must be able to cope with the physical and mental stress of the position and be able to mentally and physically react quickly to emergency situations.
- Responds to public inquiries of both emergency and non-emergency nature in accordance with established policies and procedures.
- The above statements reflect the general details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and shall not be considered as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be inherent in the job.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
- A high school education or GED equivalent is required
- Punctuality to scheduled shift work is required
- Experience in the field of public safety including call taking and emergency dispatch is preferred, but not required
- Must be able to successfully pass the critical pre-employment call taking/dispatching testing program
- Basic computer literacy
- Before hire, any candidate for this position agrees to have a criminal background check at his/her own expense
- The County can conduct periodic, unscheduled blood and/or urine tests for drug and/or alcohol screening. Warren County offers a robust benefits package including sick leave, paid holidays and paid vacation. Health care benefits include vision, dental and a medical plan from Blue Cross / Blue Shield. Warren County benefits also include a retirement/pension plan with both employee and employer contributions.
TO APPLY:
Interested candidates should requesVsubmlt a County job application, including proof of minimum requirements to:
Kim Exley, HR Administrator
204 4th Ave
Warren PA
([email protected]) by March 28, 2022.
Warren County Job Applications are available for download electronically at:
https://warrencountypa.gov/1195/Human-Resources/
Job posting is active from 3/28/2022 through 4/11/2022. All applications submitted on or before 4/11/2022 will receive consideration. Additional hiring needs may be filled through this vacancy announcement as deemed necessary.
Warren County is an equal opportunity employer and will consider applications for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, presence of a non-job-related medical condition or handicap, or any other legally protected status.
Several Positions Available Through All Seasons Temporaries Inc.
All Seasons Temporaries, Inc.
All Seasons Temporaries, Inc. has several new job openings in the local area.
Clean- up Crew- Endeavor, PA
$16/hour – 2nd shift available – Non-exempt
Job Requirements:
- Ability to lift, bend, twist, and stand for duration shift
- Must pass pre-employment screening
- Must have steel-toed boots
- Must have general mathematical skills
- Must abide by all safety protocols
- Understand lockout protocols
- Must be able to work with a team
Duties (but not limited to):
- Watch levels in chip and sawdust trailers and switch before overflowing
- Keep chutes and convers clear
- Watch chipper, conveyors to ensure they are running when in use
- Sweep and shovel sawdust and debris into conveyors
- Ability to understand direction
- Stay alert and be aware of your surroundings at all times
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Administrative Assistant- Franklin, PA
$10.79/ hr. non- exempt. 8am-4:30pm Monday – Friday
Duties (but not limited to):
- Answering phones
- Performing receptionist duties when people come into the office
- Doing some light clerical work on computers
Requirements:
- Must have the ability to follow confidentiality protocols
- Must be able to pass pre-employment screening
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Part Time Office Assistant- Franklin, PA
$12/hr. non- exempt
Duties (but not limited to):
- Answer phones, as well as welcoming and assisting patients and visitors
- Scheduling and confirming appointments
- Obtaining and updating patients’ personal and health information
- Creating and maintaining electronic health records
Requirements:
- High School Diploma or Equivalent
- Basic computer skills
- Must be able to pass pre- employment screening
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Bundler- Meadville
Light forklift driving, packaging bundles of pipe, use of banding and crimping to band pipes together.
Monday through Thursday, 6:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (some Fridays as needed for overtime, would be eight hours)
Pay Rate: $12.50- $13.50/hr. non- exempt
Requirements:
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to pass pre-employment screening
- Must have steel-toed shoes
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Part-Time Cashier/Accounting Clerk- Seneca
25-29 hours per week including one evening shift until 8:00 p.m. on Thursdays and 3:00 p.m. on Saturdays a month from 10:00 a.m. through 2:00 p.m.
$15/Hr. – Non-exempt
Potential for 90 days temporary to permanent
Description:
Cashier:
- Waiting on customers
- Balancing the cash drawer
- Service department
- Office filing
Telephone operator:
- Answering the phone and directing calls to the appropriate department
Accounting Clerk:
- Posting accounts payable invoices, balancing floor plan accounts, and other various tasks as assigned by the controller.
Requirements:
- Must be able to pass pre-employment screening
- High school diploma
- Must have account and customer service knowledge
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Electrical Equipment Repair Specialist- Franklin
Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
$15/Hr. – Non-exempt
Potential for 90 days temporary to permanent.
Description:
- Use of hand and power tools to rebuild boards, switches, transformers, etc.
- Work with various departments to retrieve parts
- Update computer with the progress of rebuilds
- Follow all safety policies
Requirements:
- Must be able to pass pre-employment screening
- Must be able to multitask and be detail-oriented
- Must have steel-toed and/or composite toed shoes
- Prior mechanical and/or electrical experience preferred
- Prior metal fabrication experience preferred
- Must be able to stand, left, bend, push, pull, kneel, and twist during the duration of shift
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
1st Shift Assembly
$11/hr – Non-exempt
Potential for temporary to permanent.
Requirements:
- Must pass pre-employment screening
- Must be reliable
- Must be able to lift, bend, push and pull during shift
- Must be able to follow directions
- Prior use of hand and power tools preferred
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Stick Layers and Bin Tenders– Marienville
$15/hour – 1st and 2nd shifts available – Non-exempt
Job Requirements:
- Ability to lift, bend, twist, and stand for duration shift
- Must pass pre-employment screening
- Must have steel-toed boots
- Must have general mathematical skills
- Must abide by all safety protocols
- Understand lockout protocols
- Must be able to work with a team
Duties (but not limited to):
- Stack and sort lumber in appropriate slots
- Count pieces in stacks
- Tag bundles
- Operate machines and make sure they do not jam
- Clean machines when they are down
- Maintain clean workspaces
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
About All Season’s Temporaries Inc.
All Season’s offices are located at 1288 Liberty Street in Franklin and 113 N. Broad Street in Grove City.
For more information, call 814-437-2148 for the Franklin office or 724-458-6777 for the Grove City office.
Interested individuals may contact either office for available assignments.
Drywall Supervisor
Colony Factory Crafted Homes
Colony Factory Crafted Homes currently has an opening for a Drywall Supervisor.
This position reports to the Production Manager.
Job Summary:
Supervises multiple production departments to maintain efficiency. Works with other supervisors to ensure optimal productivity. Competitive salary and benefits are available.
Qualifications:
- Proven leadership experience
- Management skills
- Time Management
- Some construction knowledge helpful
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
Monday to Friday
Apply online by Clicking Here!
Secretary Position
Professional Office
A professional office in Clarion is currently seeking a person who has computer, Microsoft Word and general office skills.
This qualified individual must possess excellent organizational and communication skills, be able to work with little to no supervision, present the utmost professionalism and dependability.
Responsibilities of this position will include but are not limited to receptionist duties, preparation of deeds, and legal documents with speed and accuracy.
Attention to detail is a necessity. Attractive compensation, M-F 8-4. All inquiries will be kept confidential.
Please e-mail resumes to: [email protected]
Many Positions at Clarion Forest VNA
Clarion Forest Visiting Nurses Association
The Clarion Forest Visiting Nurses Association currently has multiple openings.
Full-Time Registered Nurse Clinical Coordinator
The RN best fit for this position is well organized and has excellent documentation skills.
Job duties include but are not limited to:
- Assist Clinical Supervisors with phone calls, 485 review, physician orders, medication reconciliation
- Cover duties of Clinical Supervisors during vacations and other absences
- Assist Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement Director with data analytical reports as needed
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Licensed as a RN in Pennsylvania
- 1 year recent acute care experience preferred; Home Health and/or Hospice a plus
- CPR certification
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Must have a current valid PA Driver’s License and reliable transportation
- Able to work in a variety of settings and conditions
Hours are primarily Monday-Friday 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM plus Administrator on-call 1 weekend/month and 2 holidays/year. Salary will be based on experience.
Benefits for Full-time employees include:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision offered the first of the month after your start date
- Vacation, Sick, and Personal Days
- 401k retirement plan with company match
- And More!!!!!
Applications can be obtained at www.cfvna.org and sent with a resume to Human Resources, 271 Perkins Road, Clarion, PA, 16214 or via email to [email protected]
For additional information, please contact Clarion Forest VNA at 814-297-8400.
Registered Nurse
The RN best fit for this position is well organized, has excellent documentation skills, and desires a more flexible, family-friendly schedule with one-on-one patient interaction.
Full-time RNs are salaried with a generous bonus system in place. Flex scheduling is available!
Requirements:
- Licensed as a RN in Pennsylvania
- 1-year recent acute care experience preferred; Home Health and/or Hospice a plus
- CPR certification
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Must have a current valid PA Driver’s License and reliable transportation
- Able to work in a variety of settings and conditions
Hours are primarily Monday-Friday 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM plus 1 weekend/month, 2 holidays/year, and rotating evenings. Evening hours are scheduled visits between 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM as needed.
Benefits for Full-time employees include:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision offered the first of the month after your start date
- Vacation, Sick, and Personal Days
- 401k retirement plan with company match
- And More!!!!!
Applications can be obtained at www.cfvna.org and sent with a resume to Human Resources, 271 Perkins Road, Clarion, PA, 16214 or via email to [email protected]
For additional information, please contact Clarion Forest VNA at 814-297-8400.
Full-time Home Health/Hospice Aide
CFVNA’s home health/hospice aides provide personal care services to both home health and hospice patients in their home and other skilled healthcare facilities primarily in Clarion and Forest Counties. The individual best fit for this position is well-organized and has excellent customer service skills and desires a more flexible schedule.
Requirements:
- CNA preferred but not required
- Reliable Transportation is a must; traveling to patient homes required
- Valid Driver’s License
- CPR certification preferred
- Able to work in a variety of settings and conditions
Work hours are primarily Monday-Friday 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM; plus rotating evenings as needed, weekends, and Holidays
Benefits for Full-time employees include:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision offered the first of the month after your start date
- Vacation, Sick, and Personal Days
- 401k retirement plan with company match
- And More!!!!!
Applications can be obtained at www.cfvna.org and sent with a resume to Human Resources, 271 Perkins Road, Clarion, PA, 16214 or via email to [email protected]
For additional information, please contact Clarion Forest VNA at 814-297-8400.
Full-time Registered Nurse for Hospice Team
CFVNA is seeking a full-time Registered Nurse to join their Hospice Team. The RN best fit for this position is well organized, has excellent documentation skills, and desires a more flexible, family-friendly schedule with one-on-one patient interaction.
Full-time RNs are salaried with a generous bonus system in place.
Requirements:
- Licensed as a RN in Pennsylvania
- 1 year recent acute care experience preferred; Home Health and/or Hospice a plus
- CPR certification
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Must have a current valid PA Driver’s License and reliable transportation
- Able to work in a variety of settings and conditions
Hours are primarily Monday-Friday 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM plus on average 1 weekend/month, 5 evenings/month, and 2 Holidays/year. Evening hours are scheduled visits between 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM. CFVNA on-call is staffed by full-time nurses resulting in NO on-call hours at this time for this position.
Benefits for Full-time employees include:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision offered the first of the month after your start date
- Vacation, Sick, and Personal Days
- 401k retirement plan with company match
- And More!!!!!
Applications can be obtained at www.cfvna.org and sent with a resume to Human Resources, 271 Perkins Road, Clarion, PA, 16214 or via email to [email protected]
For additional information, please contact Clarion Forest VNA at 814-297-8400.
Home Attendant
VNA Extended Care Services is growing and they are looking to hire Full-time, Part-time, and Per Diem employees to provide personal care to their consumers in their own homes.
VNA Extended Care Services provides personal care, light meal prep, and light housekeeping to their consumers. Days and Hours vary. Overnight hours may be available.
Requirements:
- High School Diploma or GED
- Valid PA Driver’s License
- Reliable transportation
- Experience preferred but not required
Full-time employees are eligible for Paid Time Off, Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance, Supplemental Policies, and more!
Applications can be obtained at www.cfvna.org and sent with a resume to Human Resources, 271 Perkins Rd, Clarion, PA, 16214 or via email to [email protected] For more information please contact Human Resources at 814-297-8400.
VNA Extended Care Services, Inc. is committed to the principles of equal employment. They are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities, and all other employment laws and regulations. It is our intent to maintain a work environment that is free of harassment, discrimination, or retaliation because of age (40 and older), race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation (including transgender status, gender identity or expression), pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), veteran status, uniformed service member status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Patient Scheduler
The Patient Scheduler is responsible for the daily operations of the agency’s ongoing patient scheduling functions.
Job duties include but are not limited to:
- Coordinates and assigns daily/weekly nursing and home health aide visits for patients to staff in a timely manner with accuracy
- Reassigns patient visits to covering staff during periods of vacations and other absences
- Schedules Telehealth installations and removals
- Communicates all changes in the daily schedule to appropriate supervisors and/or staff member
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Ability to completed work in a timely and accurate manner
- High school graduate or equivalent
- Prior scheduling experience preferred
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Ability to handle pressure and delicate situations
Hours are primarily Monday-Friday 8:00 AM- 4:00 PM. Wage will be based on experience.
Benefits for Full-time employees include:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision offered the first of the month after your start date
- Vacation, Sick, and Personal Days
- 401k retirement plan with company match
- And More!!!!!
Applications can be obtained at www.cfvna.org and sent with a resume to Human Resources, 271 Perkins Road, Clarion, PA, 16214 or via email to [email protected]
For additional information, please contact Clarion Forest VNA at 814-297-8400.
Cabinet Inspector and Finisher
National Forest Products
National Forest Products, a woodworking cabinet manufacturer, is seeking motivated and reliable individuals for their inspection and finishing departments.
These are full-time positions.
Duties for the Finishing Department include sanding, staining, buffing, and painting.
Duties for the Inspection Department include cleaning, inspecting, and wrapping of cabinets.
Benefits include paid vacation time and paid holidays.
Interested candidates are encouraged to apply in person at 427 NFP Drive, Marienville, Monday – Friday 7 am to 3:30 pm.
Residential Treatment Supervisor I
Abraxas Youth and Family Services
Abraxas currently has an opening for a Residential Treatment Supervisor I at their Marienville facility.
Job Description
Facility: ABRAXAS I
Salary: $45,000 annually
Bonus (if applicable): $5,000
Benefits: Full-time employees will enjoy a competitive benefits package for an energized workforce with options for you and your family including:
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health savings account
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Reduced tuition rates
- Employee discount
- Employee assistance program
- Pet insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Paid training
- Other benefits available
HIRING a Residential Treatment Supervisor I,
$5,000 Sign-on Bonus for New Hires
$45,000 Annually
Depending on prior experience you might earn more.
APPLY TODAY – BE PART OF THE ABRAXAS TEAM AND TOGETHER, you will continue BUILDING BETTER FUTURES
Abraxas Youth and Family Services is a national leader in the operation of residential treatment facilities and community-based programs for troubled youth and their families. They offer a wide array of services including life skills, mental health services, cognitive behavioral therapy, family counseling, drug and alcohol treatment, case management services, recreational activities as well as vocational and educational services. Abraxas is a great place to start your career whether you have a high school diploma or GED, military experience, some college, or a bachelor’s or advanced degree. If you are interested in counseling, juvenile justice, psychology, social work, teaching, or just want to make a difference, Abraxas has a career path for you. Help change lives at Abraxas Youth and Family Services.
Summary:
The primary function of the treatment supervisor is to manage and direct the administrative, human resources and clinical activities of a specific treatment unit. The treatment supervisor ensures that all Abraxas policies and procedures are followed. He/she serves as the primary role model for employees by leading, directing, guiding and supporting them in such a way that promotes their growth and development. The treatment supervisor is responsible for providing supervision to staff on a regular basis.
Essential Functions:
- Maintains employee schedules that provide adequate coverage to ensure safety for both clients and employees
- Develops and implements systems to organize and monitor work activities
- Interviews and selects most qualified candidate among internal applicants for posted positions
- Structures, implements, and facilitates new employee on-the-job orientation
- Writes professional development plans in conjunction with employees to aid in their training and development
- Conducts effective supervisory conferences and performance evaluations with employees, documents the content of such meetings and evaluations, and provides feedback
- Determines and implements progressive discipline when needed according to the applicable policy
- Responds to step 1 grievances
- Schedules employee training to ensure that all mandatory training requirements are met
- Provides ongoing effective supervision to unit employees and monitors case management activities
- Schedules team meetings, plans and implements agendas, and implements activities in an effort to promote teamwork and communication within the unit
- Supports the Abraxas philosophy and mission and promotes the Seven Key Principles of care
- Demonstrates appropriate use of Safe Crisis Management (SCM) and provides effective supervision to staff regarding the use of SCM
Job Requirements
Minimum Requirements:
The following educational requirements are acceptable for this classification including:
- Associate’s degree or sixty (60) college credits and three (3) years experience working with children; OR
- Bachelor’s degree and one (1) year of experience working with children
Other Qualifications:
- At least twenty-one (21) years of age
- Criminal clearances (Act 33 and 34, specific State & child clearances and, if necessary, FBI)
- Non-communicable diseases physical exam
- Valid driver’s license from employee’s state of residence
- Valid registered vehicle insurance.
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Mental Health Worker
Abraxas Youth and Family Services
Abraxas currently has an opening for a Mental Health Worker at their Marienville facility.
Job Description
Facility: ABRAXAS I
Salary: $16.84 an hour
Bonus (if applicable): $3,000
Benefits: Full-time employees will enjoy a competitive benefits package for an energized workforce with options for you and your family including:
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health savings account
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Reduced tuition rates
- Employee discount
- Employee assistance program
- Pet insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Paid training
- Other benefits available
$3,000 Sign on Bonus
$16.84 – $23.87 an hour
Abraxas Youth and Family Services is a national leader in the operation of residential treatment facilities and community-based programs for troubled youth and their families. They offer a wide array of services including life skills, mental health services, cognitive behavioral therapy, family counseling, drug and alcohol treatment, case management services, recreational activities as well as vocational and educational services. Abraxas is a great place to start your career whether you have a high school diploma or GED, military experience, some college, or a bachelor’s or advanced degree. If you are interested in counseling, juvenile justice, psychology, social work, teaching, or just want to make a difference, Abraxas has a career path for you. Help change lives at Abraxas Youth and Family Services.
Summary:
The primary function of the Mental Health Worker is to provide medically necessary mental health treatment services to children and adolescents experiencing social, emotional, behavioral, and psychiatric problems. The position provides direct client supervision to those clients with chronic or acute mental disorders who require active treatment.
Essential Functions:
- Conducts scheduled headcounts to provide effective people security
- Interacts meaningfully with clients; observes behavior and intervenes appropriately
- Ensures compliance with policies and procedure for the program/facility i.e. curfew, lights out, fire/safety, cleanliness, control, and supply inventory
- Assigns, supervises, and directs clients during programmatic activities
- Provides for physical safety, security, and care of clients while under staff member supervision
- Assists/participates with the development and implementation of clients’ individualized treatment plan
- Provides leadership and serves as a role model to clients in the performance of therapeutic activities
- Assists with the mentoring and training of new staff members
- Reports significant client changes in behavior, attitude, or physical condition to higher-level staff members
- Processes intakes and performs non-invasive searches of clients entering and/or returning to the program/facility
- Assists with suppressing and controlling problems that occur within the program/facility
- Evaluates the client’s behavioral and emotional issues
- Facilitates groups as required and in accordance with the client’s individualized treatment plan
- Makes observations and documents client treatment interventions, behavior, and progress
- Provides direct supervision of clients and interacts therapeutically
- Interacts with educational team as appropriate
- Participates in data collection and monitoring and evaluation activities for the program/facility performance improvement program
- Develops and maintains a current list of resources, including self-help/support groups to ensure comprehensive services to the clients and their families
- Adheres to departmental policies and procedures to ensure regulatory compliance with current departmental practices and meet guidelines as outlined by outside referral and licensing agencies
- Ensures compliance with federal, state, local licensing, and reporting requirements
- Identifies and pursues in-service and continuing educational needs, suggests general training needs for the program, and submits requests/suggestions for training to appropriate supervisory and administrative staff members
- Supports the Abraxas philosophy and mission and promotes the Seven Key Principles of care
- Demonstrates appropriate use of Safe Crisis Management techniques and skills
Job Requirements
Minimum Requirements:
The following educational requirements are acceptable for this classification including:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited program required; degree in an area of human services preferred
Other Qualifications:
- At least twenty-one (21) years of age
- Non-communicable diseases physical exam
- Valid registered vehicle insurance
- Valid driver’s license from employee’s state of residence
- Criminal clearances (Act 33 and 34, specific State & child clearances and, if necessary, FBI)
- Ability to work with computers and the necessary software typically used by the department
- Ability to work overtime as needed
- Ability to handle physical and mental stress associated with working extended hours
- Ability to work up to sixteen (16) hours within a rolling 24 hour period
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Registered Nurse
Abraxas Youth and Family Services
Abraxas currently has an opening for a Registered Nurse at their Marienville facility.
Job Description
Facility: ABRAXAS I
Salary: $20.87 an hour
Bonus (if applicable): $5,000
Benefits: Full-time employees will enjoy a competitive benefits package for an energized workforce with options for you and your family including:
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health savings account
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Reduced tuition rates
- Employee discount
- Employee assistance program
- Pet insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Paid training
- Other benefits available
$5,000 Sign on Bonus
$20.87 – $33.57 an hour
Summary:
Provides nursing intervention(s) to improve and maintain the physical and emotional health of the patient(s). Coordinates nursing care activities with emphasis on assessment of patient’s needs, plans and delivers direct or indirect care, and evaluates results of nursing care. Works as part of the multidisciplinary team.
Essential Functions:
- Performs the required initial nursing assessments utilizing the Nursing Process
- Ability to evaluate medical needs of the patient and work with a multi-disciplinary team to assist in facets of the Recovery Program relating to physical health
- Assesses changes in patient’s status and reports appropriate physical/mental status information to the physician, mid-level practitioner, or other pertinent personnel
- Develops the healthcare portion of the treatment plan within
- Provides nursing reassessments on the treatment plan based on the patient’s progress and as goals are achieved
- Accepts and transcribes verbal and written physician orders and incorporates them into the treatment plan as indicated
- Ensures patient safety including the reporting of incidents and medication errors
- Flexibility to adapt to schedule changes and assumption of responsibilities not delineated in the job description which are related to work as a member of an addiction/behavioral health treatment team
- Monitors the self-administration program
- Updates physician and interdisciplinary team on patient’s current and potential medical problems with proper documentation
- Protects patients’ privacy and patients’ rights. Communicates/endorses accurate information regarding patients’ status and care during shift reports. Evaluates patient response and reaction (if any) to medications and/or medical treatments administered. Documents patient responses
- Recommends/revises nursing interventions in collaboration with other staff according to the evaluation of progress or significant changes in the patient’s condition
- Provides patient care as a member of the interdisciplinary team
- Attends and participates in staff meetings and in-services. Attends professional seminars. Is responsible for providing evidence of continuing education. Participates in orientation of new employees, program interns, and volunteers. Attends mandatory in-services
- Provides for the patient’s health education needs
- Responsible for the use and allocation of various resources, i.e., time, personnel, and supplies
- Participates as directed in the Quality Improvement Process
- Follows up on medical/psychiatric referrals
- Participates in the infection control program
- Adheres to confidentiality requirements
- Attends mandatory in-services
- Knowledge of the procedures to follow in the event of an incident
- Knowledge of job responsibility in emergency
- Knowledge of responsibility regarding actions to minimize, eliminate, and report risks
- Supports the Abraxas philosophy and mission and promotes the Seven Key Principles of care
- Demonstrates appropriate use of Safe Crisis Management techniques and skills
Job Requirements
Minimum Requirements:
The following educational requirements are acceptable for this classification including:
- Current licensure as a Registered Nurse in Pennsylvania
- Minimum three (3) years experience as an LPN or RN and previous experience in the mental health field, or chemical dependency field or equivalent education/academic preparation required
Other Qualifications:
- At least twenty-one (21) years of age
- Criminal clearances (Act 33 and 34, specific State & child clearances and, if necessary, FBI)
- Non-communicable diseases physical exam
- Valid driver’s license from employee’s state of residence
- Ability to work with computers and the necessary software typically used by the department
- Ability to work overtime as required
- Ability to work up to sixteen (16) hours within a rolling 24 hour period
- Ability to handle physical and mental stress associated with working extended hours
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Life Skills Worker II
Abraxas Youth and Family Services
Abraxas currently has an opening for a Life Skills Worker II at their Marienville facility.
Job Description
Facility: ABRAXAS I
Salary: $15.26 an hour
Bonus (if applicable): $3,000
Benefits: Full-time employees will enjoy a competitive benefits package for an energized workforce with options for you and your family including:
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health savings account
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Reduced tuition rates
- Employee discount
- Employee assistance program
- Pet insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Paid training
- Other benefits available
$3,000 Sign on Bonus
$15.26 – $19.26 an hour
Abraxas Youth and Family Services is a national leader in the operation of residential treatment facilities and community-based programs for troubled youth and their families. They offer a wide array of services including life skills, mental health services, cognitive behavioral therapy, family counseling, drug and alcohol treatment, case management services, recreational activities as well as vocational and educational services. Abraxas is a great place to start your career whether you have a high school diploma or GED, military experience, some college, or a bachelor’s or advanced degree. If you are interested in counseling, juvenile justice, psychology, social work, teaching, or just want to make a difference, Abraxas has a career path for you. Help change lives at Abraxas Youth and Family Services.
Summary:
The primary function of the Life Skill Worker II is to implement the clinical activities, which support the daily clinical schedule. In addition, the Life Skills Worker II assists in case management supervises clients, monitors and addresses client behavior, and documents services in clinical files.
Essential Functions:
- Interacts meaningfully with clients
- Observes client behavior and intervenes appropriately
- Provides effective people security (headcounts, room checks, client movement, etc.)
- Processes intakes and screens clients
- Implements daily activity schedule – structures and coordinates client activities (i.e. family night, recreation, etc)
- Facilitates and documents various psycho-educational groups/meetings (i.e. theme groups, D&A Education Seminars, process and procedure meetings, etc)
- Supervises self-administration of medication
- Supports the Abraxas philosophy and mission and promotes the Seven Key Principles of care
- Demonstrates appropriate use of Safe Crisis Management techniques and skills
Job Requirements
Minimum Requirements:
The following educational requirements are acceptable for this classification including:
- High school diploma or GED
Other Qualifications:
- At least twenty-one (21) years of age
- Criminal clearances (Act 33 and 34, specific State & child clearances and, if necessary, FBI)
- Non-communicable diseases physical exam
- Valid driver’s license from employee’s state of residence
- Ability to work with computers and the necessary software typically used by the department
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Assembly Line Worker
Beverage-Air
Beverage-Air Corporation Manufacturing, located in Brookville, currently has an opening for an Assembly Line Worker.
This is a full-time position.
As an Assembler, you will lend a hand in creating innovative, high-quality refrigeration products. You will receive a 5% employer match on a 6% employee contribution to 401(k) – worth at least $1,400; pay progression review 12 months after hire date; holiday pay; and first-year paid vacation of up to 40 hours! Plus, earn a monthly production bonus of up to one (1) extra dollar for every hour worked in a month for reaching production targets!
Two Shifts Available:
- Monday through Thursday, 6:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (10 hrs.) – Starting hourly rate from $13.50 (no experience required – we will train you) up to $18.50 (with 5+ years of relevant, manufacturing experience)
- Friday through Sunday, 6:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. (12 hrs.) – Starting hourly rate from $15.50 (no experience required – we will train you) up to $20.50 (with 5+ years of relevant, manufacturing experience) and overtime pay for any hours worked over 36 in a pay period
What You’ll Do:
- Work within a team to assemble components or entire units
- Use hand tools
- Perform varied tasks
- Conduct quality inspections on parts and products
- Prepare finished products for shipment
- Maintain a clean and orderly work area
- Move objects up to 50 pounds
What You Bring:
- Prior experience working as part of a team having responsibility for assembling an entire product or component of a product in a manufacturing environment is a plus!
- High school diploma or equivalent preferred
- Teamwork – you work well with others and like to collaborate
- Attention to detail – you pay attention to the little things that make a difference
- Manual dexterity – you have the ability to move your hand quickly, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects
- Focus – you work quickly while staying focused for extended periods
- Organization – you believe in “a place for everything and everything has its place.”
- Accountability – you can be trusted and relied upon
- Self-motivation – you meet or exceed performance goals without someone looking over your shoulder
Job Type: Full-time
Work Environment: Noisy; varying temperatures, depending upon season
Pay: $13.50 – $20.50 per hour
Work Authorization: No calls or agencies please. Beverage-Air will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire
Equal Opportunity Employer: Beverage-Air is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability, or protected veteran status. Beverage-Air is committed to providing a workplace free of any discrimination or harassment.
Fabrication Press Operator
Beverage-Air
Beverage-Air Corporation Manufacturing, located in Brookville, currently has an opening for a Fabrication Press Operator.
This is a full-time position.
As a Fabrication Press Operator, you will be responsible for operating and maintaining fabrication equipment used in the production of their innovative, high-quality refrigeration products. Beverage-Air has a great deal to offer: 5% employer match on 6% employee contribution to 401(k), pay progression review 12 months after hire date, holiday pay, first-year paid vacation of up to 40 hours, and health insurance eligibility the first of the month, following hire date. Plus, earn a monthly production bonus of up to one (1) extra dollar for every hour worked in a month for reaching production targets!
One Shift Available: Monday through Thursday, 3:30 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. (10 hours) – Starting hourly rate of $13.50 plus $1.00/hour shift differential
No experience required – They will train you! Experienced operators may be offered up to $18.50 (with 5+ years of relevant, manufacturing experience)
What You’ll Do:
- Identify and report any safety hazards or concerns
- Set up, operate, and maintain presses, shears, and other press department equipment
- Set up various jobs from instructions, drawings, or blueprints
- Select various machine speeds, dies, and settings for different metal thicknesses and part sizes
- Recognize faulty performance promptly in order to avoid damage to dies
- Inspect dies and punches before and after each use, and report defects
- Move objects up to 50 pounds
- Stand for prolonged periods
What You Bring:
- High school diploma or equivalent preferred
- Prior experience in metal fabrication is a plus
- Safety Mindfulness – you actively notice new things, think while you are working, and plan ahead what you will do next
- Attention to detail – you are careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks
- Teamwork – you work well with others and like to collaborate
- Basic mathematical skills – you can make calculations of amounts, sizes, or other measurements by adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing
- Basic reading skills – you can understand written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents
Job Type: Full-time
Work Environment: Noisy; varying temperatures, depending upon season
Work Authorization: No calls or agencies please. Beverage-Air will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire
Equal Opportunity Employer: Beverage-Air is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability, or protected veteran status. Beverage-Air is committed to providing a workplace free of any discrimination or harassment.
Culligan Route Drivers
Culligan of Brookville
Culligan of Brookville is hiring Route Drivers.
Competitive wages, generous benefits package including 401k match and PTO accrual from Day 1.
Walk-in today for an immediate interview or call 814-849-3041.
Culligan water of Brookville
992 PA-28
Brookville, PA 15825
Title and Notary Processor
Smathers Title and Notary
Smathers Title and Notary is looking for a dedicated individual to work in their title and notary department processing vehicle, boat, motorcycle, and ATV title transfers.
This position would also perform notary work and other Penn Dot services.
Applicants must have a positive attitude, be willing to learn, and work well with others. Previous experience is preferred but not necessarily required.
Competitive hourly wage. All interested applicants, please send your resume to [email protected] or drop it off at their office at 10670 Route 322, Shippenville, PA 16254.
Smathers Title and Notary is a Penn DOT approved online messenger.
Hair Stylist and Evening Receptionist
Unique Salon
Unique Salon looking to hire a full/part-time hairstylist and an Evening Receptionist.
Hairstylist:
Experience preferred but not required
Flexible hours Monday-Saturday
Evening Receptionist:
2pm-9pm, Monday- Thursday
Must have good people skills, a positive attitude, and be motivated to help out around the salon.
Starting pay is $9.50 per hour
Pay advancements based on performance.
Resumes can be emailed to [email protected] or dropped off in person at 1318 East Main Street, Clarion.
Any questions please call 814-227-2333
Rental Inspector
Rimersburg Borough
Rimersburg Borough has a vacancy in the appointed position of Rental Inspector.
This is an independent contractor position and makes a great supplemental job.
The appointed person must provide liability insurance.
Qualifications include a general knowledge of carpentry and electrical.
All interested persons shall contact the borough office at 814.473.6519 or [email protected] and supply a resume.
Part-Time Secretary
Rimersburg Borough
Rimersburg Borough is seeking a part-time secretary to assist the Borough Secretary.
This position will provide phone and in-person reception, prepare written and email correspondence, prepare minutes of Council and Authority meetings, assist with the preparation of water/sewer bills, receive and record payment of bills, pay borough bills, interact with borough maintenance workers, and other duties as assigned.
Preferred qualifications: Type 45 words per minute; proficient in MS Office Suite including Outlook, Word, Excel; excellent verbal and written skills; detail-oriented; courteous; well-organized; able to handle multiple projects.
Wages and hours are negotiable.
Mail resume to or drop off at:
Rimersburg Borough Office
27 Main Street
Rimersburg, PA 16248.
Email resume to [email protected] No solicitation, please.
Several Positions Available Through All Seasons Temporaries Inc.
All Seasons Temporaries, Inc.
All Seasons Temporaries, Inc. has several new job openings in the local area.
Office Assistant- Franklin
Answering phones, performing receptionist duties when people come into the office, doing some light clerical work on computers. May assist with some of the civil or criminal filing functions and other duties.
Monday-Friday, 8 hour days starting at 8 am pay rate is $10.79/hr. non- exempt.
Looking for a couple of employees.
Requirements: High School Diploma, Must be able to pass pre-employment screening, Clerical experience preferred.
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Bundler- Meadville
Light forklift driving, Packaging bundles of pipe, use of banding and crimping to band pipes together.
Monday-Thursday 6 am to 4:30 pm (some Fridays as needed for overtime, would be 8 hours)
Pay Rate $12.50- $13.50/hr. non- exempt
Requirements: High School Diploma or Equivalent, Must be able to pass pre-employment screening. Must have steel-toed shoes.
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Customer Service Representative- Seneca
Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
$17/Hr. – Non-exempt
Potential for 90 days temporary to permanent
Description:
- Receive orders from our customers via fax, e-mail, or telephone
- Enter orders into our sales software system
- Contact customers with discrepancies or errors on orders via fax, e-mail, or telephone
- Work with purchasing staff to price and order non-stock items from vendors
- Contact vendors to acquire pricing and product information for customers
- Provide information such as parts breakdowns to customers upon request
Requirements:
- High school diploma
- Must be able to pass pre-employment screening
- Proficiency in data entry, with knowledge of Windows 10 software
- Excellent written, verbal, and listening communications skills
- Relevant work experience in inside sales either on phone or counter type skills
- Ability to analyze information such as parts breakdowns, ability to resolve problems and conflicts with customers
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Part-Time Cashier/Accounting Clerk- Seneca
25-29 hours per week including one evening shift until 8:00 p.m. on Thursdays and 3:00 p.m. on Saturdays a month from 10:00 a.m. through 2:00 p.m.
$15/Hr. – Non-exempt
Potential for 90 days temporary to permanent
Description:
Cashier:
Waiting on customers, balancing the cash drawer, service department, and office filing
Telephone operator:
Answering the phone and directing calls to the appropriate department
Accounting Clerk: Posting accounts payable invoices, balancing floor plan accounts, and other various tasks as assigned by the controller.
Requirements:
- Must be able to pass pre-employment screening
- High school diploma
- Must have account and customer service knowledge
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Electrical Equipment Repair Specialist- Franklin
Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
$15/Hr. – Non-exempt
Potential for 90 days temporary to permanent.
Description:
- Use of hand and power tools to rebuild boards, switches, transformers, etc.
- Work with various departments to retrieve parts
- Update computer with the progress of rebuilds
- Follow all safety policies
Requirements:
- Must be able to pass pre-employment screening
- Must be able to multitask and be detail-oriented
- Must have steel-toed and/or composite toed shoes
- Prior mechanical and/or electrical experience preferred
- Prior metal fabrication experience preferred
- Must be able to stand, left, bend, push, pull, kneel, and twist during the duration of shift
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
1st Shift Assembly
$11/hr – Non-exempt
Potential for temporary to permanent.
Requirements:
- Must pass pre-employment screening
- Must be reliable
- Must be able to lift, bend, push and pull during shift
- Must be able to follow directions
- Prior use of hand and power tools preferred
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
Stick Layers and Bin Tenders– Marienville
$15/hour – 1st and 2nd shifts available – Non-exempt
Job Requirements:
- Ability to lift, bend, twist, and stand for duration shift
- Must pass pre-employment screening
- Must have steel-toed boots
- Must have general mathematical skills
- Must abide by all safety protocols
- Understand lockout protocols
- Must be able to work with a team
Duties (but not limited to):
- Stack and sort lumber in appropriate slots
- Count pieces in stacks
- Tag bundles
- Operate machines and make sure they do not jam
- Clean machines when they are down
- Maintain clean workspaces
Please send resumes to [email protected] or call 814-437-2148 for more information.
About All Season’s Temporaries Inc.
All Season’s offices are located at 1288 Liberty Street in Franklin and 113 N. Broad Street in Grove City.
For more information, call 814-437-2148 for the Franklin office or 724-458-6777 for the Grove City office.
Interested individuals may contact either office for available assignments.
Full-Time Physical Therapist and Physical Therapist Assistant
West Park Rehab and Diagnostics
West Park Rehab and Diagnostics is looking to add another full-time Physical Therapist and Physical Therapist Assistant to their team.
West Park Rehab needs therapists who are willing to work in a collaborative environment where patient care, satisfaction, and outcomes are the priority.
They need therapists who appreciate the funded advancement in an area of specialty and/or board certification.
They need therapists who seek to work in a clinic that is fast-paced but very organized.
They need therapists who want to help contribute to a practice that has maintained a 98% “Extremely Satisfied” rating from patients at discharge.
They need therapists that can help them maintain their 5 Star Google rating (3 years and going).
They need therapists who can maintain the emphasis on providing the highest level of skilled care for every patient, every day.
West Park Rehab strives to create optimal work/home balance so they need therapists who are OK with closing at noon on Fridays to give more weekend time with family.
They need therapists who can appreciate that West Park Rehab rewards the success of all who contribute to their vision by returning 30% of all profits back to staff.
If you are that Physical Therapist or Physical Therapist Assistant who wants to make a difference in this community and could thrive managing patients with conditions of the spine, then you should send your resume for consideration to:
West Park Rehab, attention: Eddie St.Clair, DPT, CHT
571 Pone Lane
Franklin PA 16323
or fax 814-437-6197.
Coaches/ Food Service at CASD
Clarion Area School District
The Clarion Area School District is accepting applications for the following coaching positions:
- Junior High Girls Basketball Head Coach
- Assistant Junior High Girls Basketball Head Coach
- Junior High Football Head Coach
All applicants must possess or be able to obtain required clearances – previous coaching experience preferred.
- Food Service day-to-day substitute – as needed when school is in session.
Food service/ child nutrition programs experience preferred but not required. Must possess or be able to obtain required clearances.
Applicants may send a letter of interest and current resume to:
Joseph L. Carrico, Superintendent
Clarion Area School District
221 Liberty Street
Clarion, PA 16214
E.O.E.
Application review will begin immediately. Deadline for applications is Friday, March 25, 2022.
Production Team Members
Kahle’s Kitchens Inc
Kahle’s Kitchens Inc, in Leeper is seeking motivated individuals to join their production team, several positions available.
Kahle’s offers competitive wages, incentive programs, full health and vision insurance, as well as 401k matching contributions.
Positions are full time 6 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday.
Applicants should apply in person at 7488 Route 36 in Leeper, Pa 16233.
Successful applicants may be subject to a physical and drug test after a job offer is accepted.
Kahle’s Kitchens, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
Full-time Landscaping Helper
Sawyer’s Nursery and Landscaping
Sawyer’s Nursery and Landscaping, in Corsica, currently has an opening for a Landscaping Helper.
Individuals will help install landscaping, patios, retaining walls, drainage systems, water features, and much more.
Starting wage dependent on experience ($15-$18).
They are willing to train in the operation of small equipment: tractor, backhoe, skid loader, etc.
Clean driving record required with CDL Medical card. Employer will pay for your physical.
Sawyer’s does high-quality landscaping and offers a wide range of options to their clients. Most of what they do is physical labor.
Interested individuals may call 814-379-3070.
Caseworker 1- Ongoing
Clarion County Children and Youth Services
Clarion County Children and Youth Services currently has an opening for a Caseworker 1- Intake.
POSITION: Caseworker 1- Intake, Full-Time, 80 hours per pay
DEPARTMENT: Children & Youth Services, Clarion, PA
PAY GRADE: $13.59/hour starting rate, Eligible for two 2.5% raises after completion of Foundations training and another 2.5% raise with promotion to Caseworker 2.
BENEFITS: Up to family coverage for health, dental, and vision insurance effective first of the month after the date of hire (employee pays 12.5% of the premium, the county pays 87.5%). $1,500 stipend if you do not need the county insurance. Life insurance coverage at no cost to employees. 5 Vacation days first year, 10 vacation days starting the second year, 3 personal days per year, 10 sick days per year, 13 paid holidays off. Enrollment in Clarion County’s Pension plan (vested after 5 years, eligible to retire at 55 with 20 years of service).
POSTING DATE: Wednesday, March 9, 2022
DEADLINE TO APPLY: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 at 4:00 p.m.
QUALIFICATIONS: A bachelor’s degree which includes or is supplemented by successful completion of 12 college credits in sociology, social welfare, psychology, gerontology, criminal justice, or other related social sciences.
OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF JOB
To perform intake assessments for all individuals entering the county human service programs, provide daytime and after-hours coverage for protective services of Children and Youth Services. The primary function of the after-hours work is to assure the immediate safety of children through the provision of assessment and referral to community-based services.
To view more details on this position please download this .pdf file.
HOW TO APPLY
A County application and copy of your transcripts are required to be considered for the advertised vacancy.
Applications are available at: www.co.clarion.pa.us/how_do_i/apply_for/employment_opportunities/index.php
Caseworker 1- Ongoing
Clarion County Children and Youth Services
Clarion County Children and Youth Services currently has an opening for a Caseworker 1- Ongoing.
POSITION: Caseworker 1-Ongoing, Full-Time, 80 hours per pay
DEPARTMENT: Children & Youth Services, Clarion, PA
PAY GRADE: $13.59/hour starting rate, Eligible for two 2.5% raises after completion of Foundations training and another 2.5% raise with promotion to Caseworker 2.
BENEFITS: Up to family coverage for health, dental, and vision insurance effective first of the month after the date of hire (employee pays 12.5% of the premium, the county pays 87.5%). $1,500 stipend if you do not need the county insurance. Life insurance coverage at no cost to employees. 5 Vacation days first year, 10 vacation days starting the second year, 3 personal days per year, 10 sick days per year, 13 paid holidays off. Enrollment in Clarion County’s Pension plan (vested after 5 years, eligible to retire at 55 with 20 years of service).
POSTING DATE: Wednesday, March 9, 2022
DEADLINE TO APPLY: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 at 4:00 p.m.
QUALIFICATIONS: A bachelor’s degree which includes or is supplemented by successful completion of 12 college credits in sociology, social welfare, psychology, gerontology, criminal justice, or other related social sciences.
OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF JOB
To provide support to children and/or youth and families experiencing abuse, neglect, or other difficulties, and provide services, either directly or through service linkage, designed to improve family problem solving and coping strategies. An important aspect of this work is the employment of casework skills in obtaining essential information, counseling clients and family members, and help to utilize all available resources. As well, services must adhere to all agency policies and regulatory standards as established by law in such a manner as to prevent injury or risk. The population served shall be any Clarion County family whose child and/or children are at risk.
To view more details on this position please download this .pdf file.
HOW TO APPLY
A County application and copy of your transcripts are required to be considered for the advertised vacancy.
Applications are available at: www.co.clarion.pa.us/how_do_i/apply_for/employment_opportunities/index.php
Part-time and Casual/Back-Up ATA Drivers
Area Transportation Authority
Area Transportation Authority is hiring Part-time and Casual/Back-Up Drivers!
Part-time and Casual/Back-Up Drivers are needed in the Clarion area.
- Starting Rate – $13.02/hour
- Immediate Openings Available
- Reimbursable CDL License Cost
- Paid Training when learning routes
- Paid Time Off – some positions
If you enjoy driving, interacting with people, and working on your own, ATA would love to talk with you about employment opportunities.
For an application or more information call: 1 (877) 777-7304
The Area Transportation Authority is actively seeking minority and/or female applicants.
The Area Transportation Authority is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Caseworker I- Independent Living
Clarion County Children and Youth Services
Clarion County Children and Youth Services currently has an opening for a Caseworker I- Independent Living.
POSITION: Caseworker I- Independent Living, Full-Time, 80 hours per pay
DEPARTMENT: Children & Youth Services, Clarion, PA
PAY GRADE: $13.59/hour starting rate. Eligible for two 2.5% raises after completion of Foundations training and another 2.5% raise with promotion to Caseworker II.
BENEFITS: Up to family coverage for health, dental, and vision insurance effective first of the month after the date of hire (employee pays 12.5% of the premium, the county pays 87.5%). $1,500 stipend if you do not need the county insurance. Life insurance coverage at no cost to employees. 5 Vacation days first year, 10 vacation days starting the second year, 3 personal days per year, 10 sick days per year, 13 paid holidays off. Enrollment in Clarion County’s Pension plan (vested after 5 years, eligible to retire at 55 with 20 years of service).
POSTING DATE: Wednesday, March 9, 2022
DEADLINE TO APPLY: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 at 4:00 p.m.
QUALIFICATIONS: A bachelor’s degree which includes or is supplemented by successful completion of 12 college credits in sociology, social welfare, psychology, gerontology, criminal justice, or other related social sciences.
OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF JOB:
Caseworker 1 provides support to children and/or youth and families experiencing abuse, neglect, or other difficulties, and provide services, either directly or through service linkage, designed to improve family problem solving and coping strategies. This position is a social service position in a public children and youth services agency. Employees in IL provide service to parents and children in an effort to help them attain a more satisfactory social, economic, emotional or physical adjustment. Employment of social service aid skills is important in order that essential information is obtained and utilized to counsel individuals and members of their families. Work is performed in accordance with established regulations, policies, and procedures. Incumbents in this position are to provide support to children and/or youth and adolescents experiencing difficulties; and to provide an effort to facilitate growth, behavioral, and emotional improvements to those individuals and their families.
To view more details on this position please download this .pdf file.
HOW TO APPLY:
A County application and copy of your transcripts are required to be considered for the advertised vacancy.
Applications are available at: www.co.clarion.pa.us/how_do_i/apply_for/employment_opportunities/index.php
Yard Person
Ochs Building Supply Inc.
Ochs Building Supply Inc. in Lucinda is seeking a dependable Yard Person.
This position requires a pleasant disposition with no lifting restrictions.
Knowledge of building materials is a plus.
Stop in at their office at 29227 Route 66, Lucinda PA 16235 to discuss salary and available benefits.
Battery Technician
Riverhill Battery Warehouse
The Riverhill Battery Warehouse is currently looking for a full-time Battery Technician.
Training will be provided on-site.
Responsibilities: Installing and maintaining batteries and running the cash register.
Please stop in at 11041 Rt 322, Shippenville, PA 16254 or call 814-227-2123 for more information!
Parish Coordinator
Immaculate Conception Parish
Immaculate Conception Parish is seeking a full-time Parish Coordinator.
Specific duties include answering the telephone, greeting visitors to the parish office, ordering supplies, clerical support to Pastor and Business Manager, filing, coordinating volunteer schedules and parish calendar, preparing reports, maintaining records, and preparing correspondence. Occasional evening and weekend work may be necessary. A complete job description is available at www.icclarion.org.
High School Graduate with two years experience in an office setting preferred. The position requires excellent writing, communication, and interpersonal skills, as well as proficiency with Microsoft Office software. Must demonstrate a high level of flexibility, be committed to confidentiality, ability to multi-task, and be detail-oriented. The applicant must be knowledgeable of the Catholic faith and have all necessary clearances to work in a parish environment.
Competitive pay and benefits are available.
Interested applicants should mail cover letter and resume to:
Very Rev. B. LaMounte Sayers, V.F.
Pastor
Immaculate Conception Parish
720 Liberty Street
Clarion, PA 16214
Payroll Technician/ Secretary
Riverview Intermediate Unit 6
Riverview Intermediate Unit 6 currently has an opening for a Payroll Technician/ Secretary.
This position is a full-time position (260 days) working part-time (50%) as a Payroll Technician for Valley Grove School District in Franklin and working part-time (50%) as a Secretary at IU Headquarters.
Requires valid high school diploma and Acts 34, 34, 114, 126, 151, and 168 clearances. A degree in business or a related field is preferred.
Payroll processing, benefits experience, and knowledge of principles and practices in payroll is preferred.
Requires typing a minimum of 45 words per minute and excellent oral and written communication skills and interpersonal skills. Proficiency required in Excel, Word, and any software programs applicable to the position.
Position requires walking, standing, stooping, and lifting approximately 20 pounds, with occasional lifting of equipment and materials weighing up to approximately 40 pounds. This is a bargaining unit position.
Hours are roughly 7:30 am- 3:30 pm dependent on the location you are working.
Send application information to Teresa Baker via email, [email protected] , or mail to Riverview Intermediate Unit 6, 270 Mayfield Road, Clarion, PA, 16214, by March 9 at 4 pm.
The application packet may include, but is not limited to, a letter of interest, resume, references, clearances, certifications, transcripts, and any related training certifications for payroll or business.
Riverview Intermediate Unit 6 reserves the right to withdraw this posting without filling the position.
Instructional Innovation Specialist
Riverview Intermediate Unit 6
Riverview Intermediate Unit 6 currently has an opening for an Instructional Innovation Specialist.
This is a full-time administrative position (260 days) that involves coordinating the Educational Programs Department of Riverview Intermediate Unit 6 in concert with the Director of the Department, the Executive Directors, and other department members.
Requires a Master’s Degree in an education-related field, with administrative certification in Pennsylvania. Experience is preferred in school leadership, curriculum, technology, and/or science-related fields. This is an Act 93 administrative position with a salary in the range of a mid-level administrator for school districts in the region.
General Responsibilities include (but are not limited to): Provide leadership, coordination, and management for all programs and services in the Educational Programs/Curriculum Department which includes curriculum, instruction, assessment, professional development, Act 89 programming, statewide school improvement initiatives, school improvement services for member school districts, completing Federal and State Program reporting, coordinate departmental budgets, and completion of miscellaneous grant projects and assignments. Acts 24, 34, 114, 126, 151, and 168 clearances are required.
Send application packet before noon on March 18, 2022, to Teresa Baker via email, [email protected] , or mail to Riverview Intermediate Unit 6, 270 Mayfield Road, Clarion, PA, 16214.
Riverview Intermediate Unit 6 reserves the right to withdraw this posting without filling the position.
Retail Loan Coordinator
Clarion Federal Credit Union
Clarion Federal Credit Union is seeking a full-time Retail Loan Coordinator.
Join one of Pennsylvania’s top-ranked Credit Unions and be a part of their team as they grow!
This position will provide internal support to management and the lending staff. Duties include, but are not limited to, underwriting loans based on established guidelines and policies, communicating closely with lending staff, and preparing and delivering internal reports. In addition, this individual must understand and comply with all state and federal regulations and laws, and ensure compliance with all governing regulations.
Benefits: In addition to a competitive salary, Clarion Federal Credit Union offers a generous incentive plan, 401K plan, paid vacation time, paid holidays, health insurance, dental and vision insurance, life insurance, and short term disability and long term disability.
Employment Type: Full-Time
Starting Salary: Based on experience
Duties / Responsibilities:
- Formulate and communicate credit decisions (approve, decline, counteroffer) for retail and indirect loans according to established policy and procedures within established timeframes
- Work closely with retail Loan Officers on a daily basis
- Maintain expert knowledge of our retail products and processes
- Daily supervision of retail lending operations
- Review adverse applications and work with Lender to identify and offer alternative products
- Coordinate specific work tasks within Retail Lending Department as well as with other departments
- Prepare miscellaneous reports related to Loan Department activities
- Provide input of underwriting trends to management
- All other duties required to keep Credit Union operating smoothly
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree (preferably Finance or Accounting)
- Minimum 3 – 5 years’ experience in a banking, financial services or related industry
- Minimum 2-3 years’ supervisory experience
- Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment – you will be required to adapt to changing policy and procedures while maintaining high-quality work
- Ability to quickly analyze risk, communicate professionally, and work effectively in a team environment
- Ability to calculate financial information with strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Dependable, detail oriented, positive attitude
- Proficient with Microsoft Excel
Interested candidates, please send resumes to: [email protected]
Multiple Opportunities- Clarion Hospital
Clarion Hospital
Here is a list of career opportunities currently being offered at the Clarion Hospital.
Download this PDF for a full description of each position.
- Paramedic – Full-Time
- Staff Nurse, RN – Med/Surg – Full-Time
- Staff Nurse, RN – ICU – Full-Time
- Certified or Registered Respiratory Therapist – Full-Time, Per-Diem
- Polysomnographic Tech/EEG Tech – Per-Diem
- Staff Nurse, RN – Swing/Rehab. – Full-Time
- LPN – Med/Surg – Full-Time, Per-Diem
- Staff Nurse, RN – ED – Full-Time
- Radiation Therapist – Per-Diem
- Radiology Tech – Part-Time, Per-Diem
- Housekeeping Aide – Full-time
- Medical Technologist – Full-Time
- Dietary Aide – Full-Time
- Wheelchair Van Driver– Full-Time
- Registration Clerk –Full-Time
- Lead Registration Clerk – Full-Time
- Ultrasound Tech –Full-Time
- Central Sterile Technician – Full-Time
- CT Technologist – Per-Diem
- EMT– Full-Time
- Nurse Extern – Per-Diem
- Clerk/Phlebotomist – Full-Time
- ED Unit Secretary or ED Technician – Full-Time
- Care Transition Navigator – Full-Time
- LPN – Rehab./Swing Bed Unit– Per-Diem
- COVID Screening Desk – Part-Time/Temp
- Nuclear Medicine Technician- Full-Time
- Staff Nurse, RN – Surgicare/PACU – Full-Time
- Medical Records Coder – Full-Time
- Healthworks LPN – Full-Time
- Nursing Supervisor – Full-Time
- Chief Medical Technologist – Full-Time
Excellent benefits package available. Apply at www.clarionhospital.org or e-mail a resume to [email protected]
Business Manager – Keystone School District
Keystone School District
Keystone School District currently has an opening for a Business Manager.
Requirements: Associate’s Degree in Business Administration, Business Management, Accounting or Related Field. Bachelor’s/MBA Preferred.
Experience in the financial field, business management, and administrative functions. Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Demonstrated decision-making and problem-solving abilities.
Salary commensurate with experience and education.
Submit cover letter, resume, and references to:
Mrs. Teresa Young, Superintendent
451 Huston Avenue
Knox, PA 16232
Deadline for Applications is March 18, 2022.
Class A CDL Drivers
Klapec Trucking Co.
Klapec Trucking Co. in Reno, currently has openings for Class A CDL Drivers.
Are you interested in a Career worth $90,000/yr?
At Klapec Trucking Co. in Reno, that is what their Class A CDL Drivers average. KTC wants you to be successful and enjoy most weekends at home.
“Your Success is Our Success!!”
KTC has a generous benefits and vacation package to ensure an optimal work-life balance.
Choose KTC for your Lifelong Career.
Apply online at:
KLAPECTRUCKING.COM
or Call 888-8-KLAPEC.
Home Health/Hospice Aide, Full-Time Registered Nurse, and Home Attendants
Clarion Forest VNA
Clarion Forest VNA is seeking a full-time Home Health/Hospice Aide, Full-Time Registered Nurse, and Home Attendants.
Clarion Forest VNA is a non-profit organization that provides in-home health care and hospice services to patients in their homes. CFVNA has been bringing high-quality, compassionate care to homes for over 50 years.
Home Health/Hospice Aide
Their home health/hospice aides provide personal care services to both home health and hospice patients in their home and other skilled healthcare facilities primarily in Clarion and Forest Counties. The individual best fit for this position is well-organized and has excellent customer service skills and desires a more flexible schedule.
Requirements:
- CNA preferred but not required
- Reliable Transportation is a must; traveling to patient homes required
- Valid Driver’s License
- CPR certification preferred
- Able to work in a variety of settings and conditions
Work hours are primarily Monday-Friday 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM; plus rotating evenings as needed, weekends, and Holidays.
Registered Nurse
The RN best fit for this position is well organized, has excellent documentation skills, and desires a more flexible, family-friendly schedule with one-on-one patient interaction.
Full-time RNs are salaried with a generous bonus system in place. Flex scheduling is available!
Requirements:
- Licensed as a RN in Pennsylvania
- 1-year recent acute care experience preferred; Home Health and/or Hospice a plus
- CPR certification
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Must have a current valid PA Driver’s License and reliable transportation
- Able to work in a variety of settings and conditions
Hours are primarily Monday-Friday 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM plus 1 weekend/month, 2 holidays/year, and rotating evenings. Evening hours are scheduled visits between 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM as needed.
Home Attendants
VNA Extended Care Services is growing and they are looking to hire Full-time, Part-time, and Per Diem employees to provide personal care to consumers in their own homes.
VNA Extended Care Services provides personal care, light meal prep, and light housekeeping to consumers in their own homes. Days and Hours vary. Overnight hours may be available.
Requirements:
- High School Diploma or GED
- Valid PA Driver’s License
- Reliable transportation
- Experience preferred but not required
Full-time employees are eligible for Health, Dental, Vision, 401K, generous PTO, and more!
Applications can be obtained at www.cfvna.org and sent with a resume to Human Resources, 271 Perkins Road, Clarion, PA, 16214 or via email to [email protected]
For additional information, please contact Clarion Forest VNA at 814-297-8400.
Clarion Forest VNA, Inc. is committed to the principles of equal employment. They are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities, and all other employment laws and regulations. It is their intent to maintain a work environment that is free of harassment, discrimination, or retaliation because of age (40 and older), race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation (including transgender status, gender identity or expression), pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), veteran status, uniformed service member status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Clarion Forest VNA, INC. complies with the requirements of the CMS Interim Final Rule, effective 1/27/2022, requiring mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations, or CMS required allowance for exemption.
Fiscal Assistant
Clarion County Children and Youth Services
Clarion County Children and Youth Services currently has an opening for a Fiscal Assistant.
POSITION: Fiscal Assistant, Full-Time, 80 hours per pay
DEPARTMENT: Children & Youth Services, Clarion, PA
PAY GRADE: $26,187.20/year
BENEFITS: Up to family coverage for health, dental, and vision insurance effective first of the month after the date of hire (employee pays 12.5% of the premium, the county pays 87.5%). $1,500 stipend if you do not need the county insurance. Life insurance coverage at no cost to employees. 5 Vacation days first year, 10 vacation days starting the second year, 3 personal days per year, 10 sick days per year, 13 paid holidays off. Enrollment in Clarion County’s Pension plan (vested after 5 years, eligible to retire at 55 with 20 years of service).
POSTING DATE: Friday, February 25, 2022
DEADLINE TO APPLY: Friday, March 11, 2022, at 4:00 PM.
QUALIFICATIONS:
EDUCATION/TRAINING- High School diploma or equivalency plus demonstrated business and computer knowledge required including Microsoft Office software.
WORK EXPERIENCE- Two years’ work experience performing bookkeeping duties required or any equivalent combination of experience and training.
HOW TO APPLY:
A County application and copy of your transcripts are required to be considered for the advertised vacancy.
Applications are available at: www.co.clarion.pa.us/how_do_i/apply_for/employment_opportunities/index.php
OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF JOB:
To provide fiscal support including the processing of invoices, bookkeeping functions, and financial reporting for fiscal departments. This is responsible clerical-accounting work involving the application of bookkeeping principles and practices. Work involves maintaining bookkeeping records including posting and proving; classifying accounting documents prior to posting; or preparing prescribed financial statements and reports. Work may include supervision over a small clerical staff, but in the absence of supervisory responsibilities, the difficulty of the work is correspondingly greater. Work may also involve typing, the use of standard office equipment, and the performance of related clerical tasks. Work methods are governed in detail by established account classifications and procedures. Difficult technical problems and irregularities are referred to a supervisor who observes work in progress and periodically reviews records.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF JOB
- Prepares purchase orders, invoices and other fiscal forms and documentation as needed.
- Organizes and scans deposits for fiscal as needed.
- Batches provider and vendor invoices for processing.
- Enters, maintains and corrects client/provider data in County/State databases and creates documents with data system.
- Assists with contract preparation, mailing contracts to provider for signature and then scanning and logging executed contracts into software.
- Compiles provider contracts and tracking process to assure compliance with law, regulation, and agency practice.
- Types letters, memos, reports, contracts, vouchers, agendas, forms, lists, newsletters and a variety of other correspondence from handwritten draft, oral instruction, or original source documents as required.
- Develops and maintains spreadsheets for calculating services, fees, surveys or other information to summarize and report departmental activities.
- Prepares correspondence for processing and/or mailing.
- Operates computer, fax, copier and other office equipment as necessary to perform essential functions.
- Prepares and updates various reports as required.
- Interacts with other internal departments and external agencies, staff and general public needed to carry out essential job duties.
- Prepares various informational packets for public relations and other department needs.
- Provides assistance with medical appointment verifications as needed.
- Provides assistance with liabilities as needed.
- Performs tracking of HSDF eligibility and documentation.
OTHER DUTIES OF THE JOB
- Attends meetings and/or training sessions as required.
- Performs other job-related duties as required.
- Maintains a variety of files and records.
SUPERVISION RECEIVED:
Receives occasional instruction and supervision from the Program Specialist.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
- Works indoors in adequate workspace, lighting, temperatures, and ventilation.
- Works with average indoor exposure to noise, stress and disruptions.
- Normal indoor exposure to dust/dirt.
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL CONDITIONS:
- Must be able to sit for long periods throughout the workday, with intermittent periods of standing, walking, bending, twisting and reaching necessary to carry out duties of job.
- Dexterity requirements range from simple to coordinated movements of fingers/hands; feet/legs; torso necessary to carry out duties of job.
- Sedentary work with occasional lifting/carrying of objects with a maximum weight of ten pounds.
- Must demonstrate emotional stability.
- Must be able to cope with the physical and mental stress of the position.
- Must be able to pay close attention to details and concentrate on work.
QUALIFICATIONS:
A. EDUCATION/TRAINING- High School diploma or equivalency plus demonstrated business and computer knowledge required including Microsoft Office software.
B. WORK EXPERIENCE- Two years’ work experience performing bookkeeping duties required or any equivalent combination of experience and training.
C. CLEARANCES-
- Must work in conjunction with employer to apply for Act 34 PA State Police Criminal History, Act 151 PA Child Abuse and FBI clearances prior to employment. All clearances must reflect acceptable results.
- Must not appear on Preclusion Lists as defined by “Pennsylvania’s Medical Assistance Bulletin 99-11-05 Provider Screening of Employees and Contractors for Exclusion from Participating in Federal Healthcare Programs.”
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:
- Must be able to speak and understand the English language in an understandable manner in order to carry out essential functions of job.
- Must possess good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Must possess ability to function independently, have flexibility and the ability to work effectively with clients, co-workers and others.
- Must possess ability to maintain confidentiality in regard to client information and records.
- Must possess the technical knowledge of operating personal computers and other office equipment with accuracy and reasonable speed.
- Must possess general knowledge of modern office practices and procedures and ability to apply same to essential duties of job.
- Must possess knowledge and ability to practice current and accurate usage of grammar, spelling and filing procedures.
- Must possess ability to learn assigned clerical tasks and adhere to prescribed departmental procedures.
- Must possess ability to learn county and legal rules, procedures and practices as necessary within department.
- Must possess ability to be able to handle a variety of clerical duties and switch from one to another throughout the workday.
- Ability to perform detailed work with written or numerical data and to make arithmetical calculations rapidly and accurately.
- Ability to prepare routine and procedural financial reports and statements.
- Ability to plan, assign, review, and supervise the work of a small group of employees engaged in bookkeeping or clerical accounting operations.
- Ability to apply established methods to financial transactions.
HOW TO APPLY
A County application and transcripts are required to be considered for the advertised vacancy. Applications are only accepted for positions in which we are actively recruiting. Applications received for positions not being advertised or general/blanket applications will be discarded.
Applications are available:
- Online by visiting:
www.co.clarion.pa.us/how_do_i/apply_for/employment_opportunities/index.php - In-Person by visiting the Clarion County Human Resource Office on the 2nd floor of the Administration Building located at 330 Main Street, Clarion, PA 16214
- By fax or e-mail. You must contact the Clarion County Human Resource Office by calling 814-226-4000 EXT 2909 to share your e-mail or fax number.
DEADLINE TO APPLY: Friday, March 11, 2022, at 4:00 PM.
CLARION COUNTY IS A DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE
APPLICANTS WHO REQUIRE SPECIAL ACCOMMODATION1S DUE TO A DISABILITY SHOULD CONTACT THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT AT 814-226-4000 EXT 2909 FOR ASSISTANCE.
Clerk Typist II
Clarion County Children and Youth Services
Clarion County Children and Youth Services currently has an opening for a Clerk Typist II.
POSITION: Clerk Typist II, Full-Time, 80 hours per pay
DEPARTMENT: Children & Youth Services, Clarion, PA
PAY GRADE: $10.50 (starting rate)
BENEFITS: Up to family coverage for health, dental, and vision insurance effective first of the month after the date of hire (employee pays 12.5% of the premium, the county pays 87.5%). $1,500 stipend if you do not need the county insurance. Life insurance coverage at no cost to employees. 5 Vacation days first year, 10 vacation days starting the second year, 3 personal days per year, 10 sick days per year, 13 paid holidays off. Enrollment in Clarion County’s Pension plan (vested after 5 years, eligible to retire at 55 with 20 years of service).
POSTING DATE: Friday, February 25, 2022
DEADLINE TO APPLY: Friday, March 11, 2022 at 4:00 PM.
HOW TO APPLY:
A County application and copy of your transcripts are required to be considered for the advertised vacancy.
Applications are available at: www.co.clarion.pa.us/how_do_i/apply_for/employment_opportunities/index.php
OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF JOB:
This is moderately complex clerical work involving the typing and processing of documents in a variety of functions. An employee in this class performs clerical work of moderate complexity which requires the utilization of typing skills and the processing of a variety of documents which include the verification of information, performing arithmetic calculations, coding, and assisting the public in completing governmental forms. Work involves the skilled typing of correspondence, reports, transactions, transmittals, and similar documents as part of the clerical documents processing of an office or functional activity. Work may involve the skilled utilization of specialized equipment such as magnetic and mass storage typewriters, computer scopes, or similar equipment where the input is through a typewriter console. Work involves the responsibility for a significant aspect of a work process, an involved single office activity that is production or control-oriented, or other multiple activities that are comparable in scope and complexity. Work may involve providing secretarial services to one or more individuals in those cases where management has determined that shorthand skills are not required. Work may involve providing training and guidance to new employees and fulfilling a lead worker role for routine clerical operations. Work is subject to periodic changes in operating procedures and requires some adaptability to shifts in work schedule. Employees work with considerable independence within standard operating procedures; however, detailed supervisory guidance and review is received for new or unusual situations and changes in operating procedures and policies.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF JOB
- Types letters, reports, memos, and a variety of other documents from handwritten, draft, oral instructions, or original source documents.
- Files and maintains open and closed charts, supplementary materials and lists related to charts. Maintains department archive room. Assists with purging.
- Proofreads all materials to ensure that information is grammatically correct, complete and in compliance with agency, department and county policies and procedures.
- Sorts and delivers incoming mail. Maintains correspondence per department requirements.
- Answers telephone and transfers calls. Takes messages as required. Answers routine questions regarding Human Service programs.
- Makes bulk copies and faxes as needed.
- Greets and assists general public by taking or providing information, directing them to proper locations and informing staff of their appointments.
- Prepares and processes required department documents, forms, newsletters and/or reports as required.
- Updates information on databases and record sheets and reconciles reports as needed.
- Operates basic office equipment as needed.
- Compiles data within department for data collection and reports.
- Updates various lists within the department.
- Assists department staff with special projects and assignments as requested.
- Logs and submits correspondence related to child/elder abuse investigations.
- Enters data on spreadsheets to track departmental tasks.
- Determines supply needs; keeps record of inventory and prepares supply requisitions.
OTHER DUTIES OF THE JOB
- Attends meetings and/or training sessions as required.
- Delivers mail/legal/agency papers to the Courthouse or other County offices; occasionally performs errands as needed to carry out essential job duties.
- Performs other job-related duties as required.
SUPERVISION RECEIVED:
Receives instructions and supervision from Human Services Clerical Supervisor.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
- Works indoors in adequate office space, lighting, and ventilation, but subject to fluctuations in temperatures.
- Works with average indoor exposure to noise and stress, but subject to frequent disruptions.
- Below normal indoor exposure to dust/dirt.
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL CONDITIONS:
- Must possess ability to record, convey and present information, explain procedures, and follow instructions.
- Must be able to sit for long periods throughout the workday, with intermittent periods of standing and walking and occasional periods of bending, twisting, stooping, reaching as necessary to carry out essential job duties.
- Dexterity requirements range from coordinated movements of fingers/hands for typewriter and computer, to simple dexterity of feet/legs/torso as necessary to carry out job duties.
- Sedentary work, with occasional lifting/carrying of objects with a maximum weight of ten pounds.
- Must be able to cope with the physical and mental stresses of the position and the work environment.
- Must be able to move frequently throughout the workday as needed to carry out essential job duties.
- Must be able to pay close attention to details and concentrate on work.
QUALIFICATIONS:
A. EDUCATION/TRAINING- Six months experience as Clerk Typist 1; or High School diploma or equivalency plus some demonstrated business/clerical and computer knowledge. Necessary Special Requirement: Must possess a valid driver’s license.
B. WORK EXPERIENCE- Two years of clerical work experience in an office environment, county government, or court system that includes data entry, report generation/reconciliation, and record-keeping; or an equivalent combination of education or related experience unless regulatory requirements state otherwise.
C. CLEARANCES-
- Must work in conjunction with the employer to apply for Act 34 PA State Police Criminal History, Act 151 PA Child Abuse and FBI clearances prior to employment. All clearances must reflect acceptable results.
- Must not appear on Preclusion Lists as defined by “Pennsylvania’s Medical Assistance Bulletin 99-11-05 Provider Screening of Employees and Contractors for Exclusion from Participating in Federal Healthcare Programs.”
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:
- Must be able to speak and understand the English language in an understandable manner in order to carry out essential functions of the job.
- Must possess good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Must possess the ability to function independently, have the flexibility and the ability to work effectively with clients, co-workers, and others.
- Must possess the ability to maintain confidentiality in regard to client information and records.
- Must possess the technical knowledge of operating personal computers and other office equipment with accuracy and reasonable speed.
- Must possess general knowledge of modern office practices and procedures and ability to apply same to essential duties of the job.
- Must possess knowledge and ability to practice current and accurate usage of grammar, spelling, and filing procedures.
- Must possess the ability to learn assigned clerical tasks and adhere to prescribed departmental procedures.
- Must possess the ability to perform simple math calculations with accuracy and reasonable speed.
- Must possess the ability to learn county and legal rules, procedures, and practices as necessary within the department.
- Must be willing and able to work within strict rules of confidentiality.
- Must possess the ability to be able to handle a variety of clerical duties and switch from one to another throughout the workday.
- Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions which explain multifaceted procedures.
- Ability to perform within processing procedures that involve an understanding of multiple aspects and application of varied standards.
- Ability to proofread information for conformance with a prescribed pattern or form, to assure adherence to clerical office methods, or for compliance with specific administrative or procedural rules.
- Ability to transfer information and present it in a modified form according to rules and procedures.
- Ability to collect and organize material for reports by determining what available information should be included and presenting the information in a prescribed, organized format.
- Ability to compose straightforward informational correspondence such as transmittals or acknowledgments in reply to requests or questions on the work process or related information.
- Ability to perform basic arithmetic calculations such as the adding and subtracting of whole numbers and decimals; and multiplying and dividing by one-digit whole number or decimal multipliers and divisors.
- Ability to instruct and advise clerical employees on the methods and procedures used in the work area.
- Ability to organize work and develop effective work methods in an area that involves variable phases of different techniques and procedures.
- Ability to make duty-oriented decisions on the basis of well-defined standards and precedents.
- Ability to operate office and mail processing machines such as the adding machine, photocopier, postage meter, and addressograph; and instruct others on their use.
HOW TO APPLY
A County application and transcripts are required to be considered for the advertised vacancy. Applications are only accepted for positions in which Clarion County is actively recruiting. Applications received for positions not being advertised or general/blanket applications will be discarded.
Applications are available:
- Online by visiting:
www.co.clarion.pa.us/how_do_i/apply_for/employment_opportunities/index.php - In-Person by visiting the Clarion County Human Resource Office on the 2nd floor of the Administration Building located at 330 Main Street, Clarion, PA 16214
- By fax or e-mail. You must contact the Clarion County Human Resource Office by calling 814-226-4000 EXT 2909 to share your e-mail or fax number.
DEADLINE TO APPLY: Friday, March 11, 2022 at 4:00 PM.
CLARION COUNTY IS A DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE
APPLICANTS WHO REQUIRE SPECIAL ACCOMMODATION1S DUE TO A DISABILITY SHOULD CONTACT THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT AT 814-226-4000 EXT 2909 FOR ASSISTANCE.
Cooks, Bartenders, and Servers
Wanango Country Club
Wanango Country Club is looking for Cooks, Bartenders, and Servers to add to their current team.
Please apply by sending an email to [email protected]
Administrative Assistant
Northwest Commission
The Northwest Commission is seeking a full-time Administrative Assistant.
Employer: Northwest Commission
Employer Address: 395 Seneca St. Oil City, PA 16301
Job Type: Full-Time
Schedule: Day shift, Monday through Friday
Job Description:
This position provides administrative support to the Operations Director including but not limited to preparing and proofreading internal and external correspondence and reports, assisting with new hire and board orientation preparation, coordinating the Request for Proposals and Executive Order 12372 process; assisting in quarterly IMPLAN process; coordinate and schedule internal and external meetings. Greet and direct visitors and notify staff of their arrival.
Eligible candidates must possess the following: excellent communication skills, both written and oral, professional demeanor, commitment to learning new technology, organizational and time management skills, initiative, self-motivation, and positive work ethic.
Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Familiarity with virtual meeting platforms such as Zoom. High school diploma required. Hourly rate commensurate with experience.
EOE
Please submit coverletter, resume, references, and wage requirements by March 3, 2022.
Benefits:
- Health Insurance
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Flexible Spending Account
- Employee Assistance Program
Resume, cover letter, references, and salary requirements accepted via email to [email protected]
Please answer the following questions in the body of the email:
- Will you be able to reliably commute or relocate to Oil City, PA 16301 for this job?
- What percentage of the time are you willing to travel?
- How many years of administrative support experience do you have?
- Are you authorized to work in the United States?
- Please specify your minimum wage requirement when submitting.
Mental Health Counselor
Counseling Connections
Counseling Connections is now accepting applications for a mental health counselor to join the practice.
Looking for a positive change of pace?
The successful candidate will have either an active LPC or LCSW and will be available to provide counseling services both in person and via telehealth. Effective time management, organization, and communication skills are required.
Compensation for clinical hours ranges from $50-$65 per hour. Benefits include opportunity for paid professional development, flexible hours, and a collaborative team environment.
Please submit a resume and letter of interest to Jessica Eisenman at [email protected]
At Counseling Connections, their #1 priority is providing a quality service to individuals, families, and the community to enhance overall wellness. Taking care of their employees is an integral part of that process. If you are looking for a positive change of pace and are committed to personal and professional wellness, they would love to hear from you!
Medical Office LPN
Clarion Hospital Healthworks
Clarion Hospital Healthworks currently has an opening for a Full-time LPN.
This position is responsible for providing clinical assistance to the medical practice physician in order to facilitate the maximum wellness and treatment of patients assigned under the direct supervision and responsibility of the medical practice physician.
Qualifications:
- Graduate of a State Board approved program of practical nursing or Medical Assistant Program
- Holds a current Pennsylvania state license as a licensed practical nurse
- Certified in basic CPR
- Must have excellent computer skills as an electronic medical record is utilized
- Prior physician office experience is desired
Excellent benefits package available. Apply at www.clarionhospital.org or e-mail a resume to [email protected]
Human Services Positions
County of Venango
The County of Venango currently has several Human Services Positions open.
Looking for a change? Are you a compassionate person interested in making a difference in people’s lives? Are you seeking a professional workplace staffed with talented, caring co-workers? Then the County of Venango Human Services is the place for you! They check all the boxes.
Venango County is currently accepting applications for the following Human Services positions:
- Service Coordinator II Ongoing
- Service Coordinator II EI
- ERAP Supports Coordinator
All above-noted positions pay $15.25/hr. plus $750 sign-on bonuses; 40 hrs./wk.
Venango County provides 15 paid holidays, paid vacations, and paid sick time; employer-paid individual coverage for medical (no waiting period), dental and life insurance, employer-paid family vision; along with an excellent pension plan. Qualified candidates must pass an interview. Successful candidates will work with the county to complete the clearance and drug screening process. All background checks must reflect acceptable results.
Job qualifications and deadlines to apply are obtainable online at www.pacareerlink.pa.gov or www.indeed.com.
County applications must be completed and returned to Venango County Human Resources, Troy A. Wood Human Services Complex, 1 Dale Ave., Franklin, PA 16323 by established deadlines. Late applications are not considered. You can download an application by visiting the HR Job Application Process section of the Venango County website at https://www.co.venango.pa.us/288/Job-Application-Process and clicking the appropriate link to download the form. Or, application and job description can also be provided via email upon request. Questions can be addressed by calling 814-432-9551 or via email at [email protected] **Drug-Free Workplace** EOE M/F/D/V
Administrative Assistant/Bookkeeper
Kerle Tire
Kerle Tire is seeking a responsible and reliable candidate with excellent computer skills and bookkeeping experience to join their team.
Competitive pay depending on qualifications and experience, with a fully paid benefit package and paid leave time.
The qualifications and duties are listed below. Please email your resume to [email protected] to apply.
Job Summary: The Administrative Assistant/Bookkeeper will handle the general office operations, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, filing, and correspondence. This position will ensure accurate reporting of receipts and disbursements within the company. This position will prepare confidential financial, statistical, and technical reports to be used by management.
Job Qualifications/Minimum Requirements:
- Associates Degree in Business, Accounting, or related field is preferred
- 1-3 years of experience working in an office environment
- Strong computer skills to include knowledge of MS Excel and QuickBooks
- Must have a valid Driver’s License and an acceptable driving record
- Demonstrate the ability to be professional, courteous, and proactive with customers, vendors, and fellow employees at all times
- Maintain a presentable and well-dressed appearance
- Dependable worker with the ability to carry out a series of work instructions without constant supervision
- Ability to maintain computerized inventory system promptly and accurately
- Ability to prepare accurate reports free from errors
Essential Functions:
- Prepare electronic timecards, payroll and verify payroll reports
- Prepare and post accounting documents, such as receipts, invoices, requisitions, vouchers, expense accounts, and related operating reports
- Post requisitions, receipts, and disbursement information to appropriate ledgers
- Prepare and process deposits to banking institutions
- Scan and file records and reports to various vendors and management
- Prepare and mail customer bills, statements, invoice payments, and prepare lists of outstanding customer account information
- Operate general office equipment such as printer, fax, copier
- Maintain office supply inventory
- Assist with product pricing, selling, and logistics with office management team
- Prepare monthly reports for submission to accountant and vendors
- Reconcile invoices with pricing information
- Prepare and submit tax information for various purposes
Additional Responsibilities:
- Perform other related duties as assigned
- Must be able to lift up to 45 pounds
Schedule: Work week is 5 days per week with seasonal exceptions that may require overtime hours.
Class A or B CDL Hazmat Truck Drivers
Goss Gass
Goss Gass currently has openings for Class A or B CDL Hazmat Truck Drivers at their Reno location.
Job Description: Drivers needed for Monday-Friday local route delivery out of their Reno location.
Home every night
Requirements:
- Class A or B CDL with hazmat
- Must be able to pass a drug test
Pay rate: $20/hr starting pay
Benefits: Excellent health and dental insurance and 401k benefits.
How to apply: Please call 814-676-2764 x0 to speak to Bob or apply on Facebook.
Production Workers at RenovEx
RenovEx
RenovEx currently has openings for Production Workers at their Barkeyville location.
Job Description: Workers are needed for producing 20-pound propane grill cylinders in Barkeyville.
Requirements:
- Must be able to lift 50 pounds
- Must be able to pass a drug test
Pay rate $15.50/hr base rate plus daily incentive pay, shift differential pay, and sign-on bonus.
Excellent health and dental insurance and 401k will be available.
To apply, please call 814-786-8129 x0 or apply on Facebook.
Class A CDL Hazmat Driver
RenovEx
RenovEx currently has an opening for a Class A CDL Hazmat Driver at their Barkeyville location.
Job Description: Drivers are needed to deliver 20-pound propane cylinders to retail customers from their Barkeyville location.
- 4-5 day work weeks
- Regional delivery
- Home every night
Requirements:
- Class A CDL with hazmat
- Must be able to pass a drug test
Pay rate averages between $22 and $29 per hour.
Benefits include excellent health and dental insurance and 401k.
To apply, please call 814-786-8129 x0 to speak to Brick or apply on Facebook.
Social Worker
Riverview Intermediate Unit 6
Riverview Intermediate Unit 6 currently has an opening for a Full-Time Social Worker.
This is a full-time, 185-day, professional union position with salary and benefits as per the collective bargaining agreement.
Requires valid certification/licensure in PA for School Social Worker. Acts 24, 34, 114, 126, 151, and 168 clearances are required.
Interested individuals should send an application packet to Teresa Baker via email, [email protected], or mail to:
Riverview Intermediate Unit 6
270 Mayfield Road
Clarion, PA 16214
The application packet includes, but is not limited to, a letter of interest, standard application, resume, clearances, certifications, transcripts, and any related training certifications/trainings (mandated reporter, suicide prevention, trauma, SAP, etc.).
Application Deadline: March 4, 2022
Receptionist/Caseworker
County of Clarion
Clarion County Department of Domestic Relations currently has an opening for a Receptionist/Caseworker.
POSITION: Receptionist/Caseworker, Full Time, 35 hours/week, Non-Exempt
DEPARTMENT: Domestic Relations
PAY RANGE: $11.82/hour
BENEFITS: Up to family coverage for health, dental, and vision insurance effective first of the month after the date of hire (employee pays 12.5% of the premium, the county pays 87.5%). $1,500 stipend if you do not need the county insurance. Life insurance coverage at no cost to employees. Exempt allocation of 20 vacation days, 3 personal days per year, 10 sick days per year, 13 paid holidays off. Enrollment in Clarion County’s Pension plan (vested after 5 years, eligible to retire at 55 with 20 years of service).
POSTING DATE: Wednesday, February 23, 2022
DEADLINE TO APPLY: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 4:00 PM.
QUALIFICATIONS: Two-year business or paralegal degree or any equivalent combination of training and experience. Strong typing skills and accounting experience are necessary.
HOW TO APPLY: A County application and copy of your transcripts are required to be considered for the advertised vacancy.
Applications are available at: www.co.clarion.pa.us/how_do_i/apply_for/employment_opportunities/index.php
OVERALL OBJECTIVES: This employee provides clerical duties and administrative support to the Domestic Relations staff.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Collect OTC payments/court costs and write receipts when necessary and enter all payments into the Kidstar system
- Answer phones and Walk-in inquiries:
- Pull files and looks inquiries up on PACSES to assist clients
- Take messages when necessary
- Forward phone calls to proper staff when necessary
- Prepare letters and petitions for modification to clients
- Contact employers for inquiries on payments/insurance issues
- Verification of employment or payment schedule
- Work cases by other means as directed by staff
- Scanning and computer data entry into PACSES:
- Scan all paperwork into case files and disburse to appropriate staff for review
- Delete all paperwork from scanning case files as appropriate
- Change of address/phone numbers/employment information/other client information
- Assist the Assistant Director in preparing cases for Superior Court when necessary
- Research and process Lien information requests for overdue/past-due child support
- File all documents for entire staff to include terminated files. Maintain terminated filing cabinets
- Prepare and send three-year review notices to clients
- Conduct work search on a biweekly basis
- Review and mail all wage attachments/earnings reports and NMSN’s, to include review of u/c attachments
- Schedule all conferences and hearings as back up to intake worker
- Update and maintain the work search board
- Review and respond to IVR messages
- Print the R203 CYS report weekly and fax to CYS
- Review earnings reports and NMSN’s to determine if insurance is available at a reasonable cost
- Order office supplies with authorization of the Director or Assistant Director
- Maintain copies of all forms and paper trays. Maintain client information bin and filing bin weekly. Complete all tasks in receptionist bin daily
- Open and process mail daily
- Read Daily Production mail and proceed accordingly with any new information being implemented by the PACSES project
- Review and work a variety of MAIL alerts daily and initiates the necessary actions
- Track court costs payments and enforcement of payments
- Review and enforce unreimbursed medical expenses
- Review files for Quality Assurance
- Work Data Integrity Task (DIT) list reports (per attached)
- Perform all other related duties as assigned by authorized personnel
SUPERVISION RECEIVED:
Report to the Director and Assistant Director. Receive limited instruction or supervision in carrying out routine day-to-day tasks.
SUPERVISION GIVEN:
N/A
WORKING CONDITIONS:
The work environment characteristics described herein are representative of those the employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the position. A Receptionist/Caseworker works indoors on a regular basis in an office with minimal environmental factors.
PHYSICAL/ MENTAL CONDITIONS:
- Must possess the ability to do light work with occasional lifting/carrying of objects up to 20 pounds.
- Must be able to pay close attention to detail while being able to concentrate for long periods of time.
- Must be able to sit for long periods throughout the workday with occasional standing, walking, twisting, and bending.
- Must possess the ability to convey and present information, explain procedures, and follow instructions.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Two-year business or paralegal degree or any equivalent combination of training and experience. Strong typing skills and accounting experience are necessary.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:
- Ability to work effectively with the public, co-workers, subordinates, and government officials
- Ability to speak and write English fluently and to understand written and spoken English
- Effective communication skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Ability to exercise initiative and problem-solving skills in carrying out job duties, and to make independent decisions when circumstances warrant
- Ability to function independently and to be flexible
- Knowledge of modern office practices and equipment
- Ability to become familiar with various legal publications, legal terminology, and the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedures in order to comprehend various documents and schedule matters as dictated by rule and/or statute
- Skilled in utilizing current word processing and spreadsheet software, such as Microsoft Office
- Ability to handle a variety of unrelated issues simultaneously
- Required to maintain strict confidentiality, as specifically set forth in the Court Personnel and Procedures Manual
- Partisan political activity is prohibited
HOW TO APPLY:
A County application is required to be considered for the advertised vacancy. Applications are only accepted for positions in which the county is actively recruiting. Applications received for positions not being advertised or general/blanket applications will be discarded.
Applications are available:
- Online by visiting: www.co.clarion.pa.us/how_do_i/apply_for/employment_opportunities/index.php
- In-Person by visiting the Clarion County Human Resource Office on the 2nd floor of the Administration Building located at 330 Main Street, Clarion, PA 16214
- By fax or e-mail. You must contact the Clarion County Human Resource Office by calling 814-226-4000 EXT 2909 to share your e-mail or fax number.
DEADLINE TO APPLY: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 4:00 PM.
CLARION COUNTY IS A DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE
APPLICANTS WHO REQUIRE SPECIAL ACCOMMODATION1S DUE TO A DISABILITY SHOULD CONTACT THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT AT 814-226-4000 EXT 2909 FOR ASSISTANCE.
Cook
County of Clarion
The Clarion County Prison currently has an opening for Part-time Cook.
POSITION: Cook, Regular Part-Time, 56 hours per pay, (Saturday- Tuesday)
DEPARTMENT: County Prison, Clarion, PA
PAY GRADE: $12.00/hour starting rate
BENEFITS: Up to family coverage for health, dental, and vision insurance effective first of the month after the date of hire (employee pays 12.5% of premium, county pays 87.5%). $1,500 stipend if you do not need the county insurance. Life insurance coverage at no cost to employees. 5 Vacation days first year, 10 vacation days starting the second year, 3 personal days per year, 10 sick days per year, 13 paid holidays off. Enrollment in Clarion County’s Pension plan (vested after 5 years, eligible to retire at 55 with 20 years of service).
POSTING DATE: Wednesday, February 23, 2022
DEADLINE TO APPLY: March 9, 2022 at 4:00 PM.
HOW TO APPLY: A County application and copy of your transcripts are required to be considered for the advertised vacancy.
Applications are available at: www.co.clarion.pa.us/how_do_i/apply_for/employment_opportunities/index.php
OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF JOB:
To perform cook duties including preparing meals and participating in the preparation of food for the prison following sanitary and infection control policies and procedures. To oversee the care, custody, and control of the inmates assigned to kitchen duty.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF JOB:
- Observe inmates’ activities in the kitchen and reports any unusual behavior or needs
- Conducts security checks of equipment and tools
- Opens, unlocks, and turns on all equipment
- Prepares and cooks food items and menu selections
- Cleans and washes food items and places items in appropriate utensils or storage containers
- Operates ovens, stoves, steam tables and other kitchen equipment as required
- Follows recipes and prepares meals
- Washes and cleans utensils, pots, pans, and kitchen equipment
- Assists with fire drills and any other special assignments
- Assists in taking food to various units within facility
- Performs Correctional Officer duties as assigned on an as-needed basis
- Attends meetings, training or in-services as required
- Performs other job-related duties as required
SUPERVISION EXERCISED:
Supervises in the care and custody of inmates assigned to kitchen duty.
SUPERVISION RECEIVED:
Receives frequent to occasional instruction and some supervision from the Warden.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
- Works in adequate workspace, lighting, and ventilation, but with fluctuations in temperatures
- Frequent exposure to noise and disruption and little stress
- Normal indoor exposure to dust/dirt
- Potential exposure to extreme heat, steam, burns, falls, or cuts
- Works in conditions of potential outbursts of disruptive behavior from inmates
- Subject to working shifts or on-call as schedule warrants
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL CONDITIONS:
- Must possess the ability to record, convey and present information, explain procedures, and follow instructions
- Must be able to stand, walk for long periods throughout the workday, with intermittent periods of bending, twisting, stooping, pushing, pulling, and reaching as necessary to carry out duties of job
- Dexterity requirements range from simple to coordinated movements of fingers/hands; feet/legs; torso necessary to carry out duties of the job
- Medium work, with frequent lifting/carrying of objects weighing up to fifty pounds
- Must have agility to be able to move frequently throughout the workday
- Must be able to react quickly physically and mentally in the event of a disturbance or physical outbreak
- Must be able to read and follow simple standard recipes
QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE):
Possess a high school diploma or the equivalent, plus the ability to read, follow instructions and lift fifty (50) pounds. Must be able to successfully acquire a certificate of training from the Department of Corrections.
One year of restaurant or institution kitchen experience preferred.
CLEARANCES:
- Must work in conjunction with employer to apply for Act 34 PA State Police Criminal History clearance. All clearances must reflect acceptable results.
- Must not appear on Preclusion Lists as defined by “Pennsylvania’s Medical Assistance Bulletin 99-11-05 Provider Screening of Employees and Contractors for Exclusion from Participating in Federal Healthcare Programs.”
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
- Must be able to speak and understand the English language in an understandable manner to carry out essential functions of the job
- Must be able to read and follow instructions and to assist in training new employees or inmates
- Must be able to learn to operate and operate kitchen equipment safely and accurately
- Must possess the ability to maintain personal cleanliness
- Must possess the ability to learn methods and practices of food preparation and service
- Must possess the ability to follow and use quality control standards
- Must possess basic math skills and be able to weigh ingredients and prepare required food entrees and assist in recording stock and supplies
HOW TO APPLY:
A County application is required to be considered for the advertised vacancy. Applications are only accepted for positions in which the county is actively recruiting. Applications received for positions not being advertised or general/blanket applications will be discarded.
Please submit an application to:
Human Resources
Administration Building, Second Floor
330 Main Street
Clarion, PA 16214
Applications are available:
- Online by visiting: www.co.clarion.pa.us/how_do_i/apply_for/employment_opportunities/index.php
- In-Person by visiting the Clarion County Human Resource Office on the 2nd floor of the Administration Building located at 330 Main Street, Clarion, PA 16214
- By fax or e-mail. You must contact the Clarion County Human Resource Office by calling 814-226-4000 EXT 2909 to share your e-mail or fax number.
DEADLINE TO APPLY: Wednesday, March 9, 2022, at 4:00 PM.
CLARION COUNTY IS A DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE
APPLICANTS WHO REQUIRE SPECIAL ACCOMMODATION1S DUE TO A DISABILITY SHOULD CONTACT THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT AT 814-226-4000 EXT 2909 FOR ASSISTANCE.
Quality Assurance-Risk Management
County of Clarion
Clarion County Developmental Disability (DD) Department currently has an opening for Quality Assurance-Risk Management personnel.
POSITION: DD Quality Assurance-Risk Management, Non-exempt, Full-Time, 80 hours per pay
DEPARTMENT: Developmental Disability (DD), Clarion, PA
PAY RANGE: $31,200-$34,320/ annually
BENEFITS: Up to family coverage for health, dental, and vision insurance effective first of the month after the date of hire (employee pays 12.5% of premium, county pays 87.5%). $1,500 yearly stipend if you do not need the county insurance. Life insurance coverage at no cost to employees. 5 Vacation days first year, 10 vacation days starting the second year, 3 personal days per year, 10 sick days per year, 13 paid holidays off. Enrollment in Clarion County’s Pension plan (vested after 5 years, eligible to retire at 55 with 20 years of service).
POSTING DATE: Wednesday, February 23, 2022
HOW TO APPLY: A County application is required to be considered for the advertised vacancy.
Applications are available at: www.co.clarion.pa.us/how_do_i/apply_for/employment_opportunities/index.php
OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF JOB:
To ensure the health and safety of individuals being served and to ensure program compliance with regulations.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF JOB:
- Complete a quality assessment and improvement process on all Developmental Disabilities providers in Clarion County
- Review, approve and/or deny Variance Requests
- Become a Certified Investigator by attending CIT training
- Ensure individuals are eligible for DD services and offer choice of SC entities
- Create the Quality Management (QM) Plan that reflects how Clarion Administrative Entity (EI) will measure, remediate, and improve its performance in a manner consistent with the Department’s QM Strategy. This will ensure sustained compliance with Waiver assurances and to contribute towards achieving the Department’s identified priorities for improvement.
- Ensure that Clarion County AE manages its Waiver Capacity. This includes the overall process of properly maintaining the AE’s Waiver Capacity Commitment which includes following Departmentapproved policies and procedures relating to Waiver Capacity Commitment, Maintaining Reserved Capacity (including the tracking of individuals due to hospitalization or rehabilitation care), Waiver Residential Vacancy Management and management of Unanticipated Emergencies.
- Manage the PUNS Process to ensure that those with Emergency needs are prioritized correctly
- Ensure that all individuals accessing services and supports are eligible for funding and have had their Service Preference and Level of Care determined, been assessed through the Statewide Needs Assessment, and that Financial Eligibility has been determined
- Ensure that all transfers in and out of Clarion County are handled in a manner approved by ODP
- Ensure that gaps in services are identified and that services are sought to fill those gaps
- Actively ensure that choice of Provider and Services is offered to individuals
- Ensure that individuals have received the Notice of Fair Hearing Rights and that the AE implements Department decisions
- Supports the Provider community by providing technical assistance in claims resolution
- Ensure that all waiver records are maintained, and that access is granted in accordance with Department processes
- Ensure that Individual Support Plans (ISPs) are reviewed, approved, and authorized for all Waiver/ base services
- Oversee the implementation of the ISP to ensure services and supports arc being provided to meet the individuals’ needs and that progress towards outcomes is being documented
- Incident Management — Review and approve/disapprove incident reports within the time frames established by ODP. Finalize Certified Investigations and ensure that recommendations are implemented to ensure client health and safety
- Oversee the Independent Monitoring for Quality provider and act as liaison when needed between entities to ensure issues are followed up on and the loop has been closed
- Share information with Provider agencies and facilitate various County meetings such as the ID Provider Meeting or Risk Management Meetings
OTHER DUTIES OF THE JOB:
- Attends training, and other meetings as required
- Performs other job-related work as required
SUPERVISION EXERCISED:
None
SUPERVISION RECEIVED:
Receives instruction and guidance from the Developmental Disabilities Deputy Administrator
WORKING CONDITIONS:
- Works indoors with adequate workspace, lighting, temperatures, and ventilation
- Works with average indoor exposure to noise, but subject to frequent disruptions and stress
- Normal indoor exposure to dust/dirt
- Works in conditions of potential outbursts or disruptive behavior of clients
- Travels frequently during all seasons and is exposed to outdoor elements, including snow and icy roadways
- Works frequently outside the office and is exposed to above average dust/dirt/odors and smoke
- Periodically works beyond normal work hours
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL CONDITIONS:
- Must possess the ability to record, convey, and present information, explain procedures, and follow instructions.
- Must be able to sit and/or drive for long periods throughout the workday, with intermittent periods of standing, walking, bending, twisting, and reaching as necessary to carry out essential duties of job.
- Dexterity requirements range from simple to coordinated movements of fingers/hands, feet/legs, torso necessary to carry out duties of job.
- Sedentary work, with occasional lifting/carrying of objects with a maximum weight of ten pounds.
- Must be able to cope with the physical and mental stress of the position.
- Must be able to physically and mentally react quickly in the event of a disturbance or physical outbreak.
- Must be able to pay close attention to details and concentrate on work.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor’s Degree in a related social service field. Two years of experience working in the field of Developmental Disabilities.
Necessary Special Requirement: Must possess a Pennsylvania driver’s license.
CLEARANCES:
- Must work in conjunction with the employer to apply for Act 34 PA State Police Criminal History, Act 151 PA Child Abuse, and FBI clearances prior to employment. All clearances must reflect acceptable results
- Must not appear on Preclusion Lists as defined by “Pennsylvania’s Medical Assistance Bulletin 99-11-05 Provider Screening of Employees and Contractors for Exclusion from Participating in Federal Healthcare Programs”
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
- Must be able to speak and understand the English language in an understandable manner to carry out essential job duties
- Must possess considerable knowledge of the principles and practices of performance measurement and quality management
- Must have considerable knowledge of the principles and methods applied to the collecting, reviewing, analyzing, and interpreting statistical data
- Must have considerable knowledge of modern office management methods
- Must be able to plan, organize and direct the work of others
- Must be able to comprehend program goals, objectives, and operations and to relate them to administrative analysis
- Must possess knowledge of the current social, economic, and health problems and resources as they relate to the field of developmental disabilities
- Must possess knowledge of the basic principles and methods involved in working with mentally disabled adults and children
- Must be able to exercise judgment and discretion in applying and interpreting departmental policies and procedures
- Must be able to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other administrative officials and the public
- Must be able to express ideas clearly and concisely both orally and in written form
- Must possess the ability to maintain confidentiality in regard to client information and records
- Must have transportation available and a willingness to travel for work-related job duties
HOW TO APPLY:
A County application is required to be considered for the advertised vacancy. Applications are only accepted for positions in which the county is actively recruiting. Applications received for positions not being advertised or general/blanket applications will be discarded.
Please submit an application to:
Human Resources
Administration Building, Second Floor
330 Main Street
Clarion, PA 16214
Applications are available:
- Online by visiting: www.co.clarion.pa.us/how_do_i/apply_for/employment_opportunities/index.php
- In-Person by visiting the Clarion County Human Resource Office on the 2nd floor of the Administration Building located at 330 Main Street, Clarion, PA 16214
- By fax or e-mail. You must contact the Clarion County Human Resource Office by calling 814-226-4000 EXT 2909 to share your e-mail or fax number.
DEADLINE TO APPLY: Wednesday, March 09, 2022, at 4:00 PM.
CLARION COUNTY IS A DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE
APPLICANTS WHO REQUIRE SPECIAL ACCOMMODATION1S DUE TO A DISABILITY SHOULD CONTACT THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT AT 814-226-4000 EXT 2909 FOR ASSISTANCE.
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Retirement is a time when most people are enjoying life- perhaps swimming in the ocean, instead of working every day to protect it. But not Bob Gratz. The Kailua retiree just started a nonprofit to fight climate change.
"My emphasis right now is getting the weather station up," says the 78 year old Gratz as he surveys the Hamakua Makai Wetland. This is the section of Hamakua Marsh behind the stores in Kailua town.
He's working on ways to protect it from pollution, storm drain runoff, and even animal waste. "Some people have plans to turn that into a dog park," he sneers.
A chemistry and ecology major, Gratz cares deeply about the environment. "That property is, over the years, going to be filled in due to sea level rise- as early as the end of this decade," he worries.
He started creating a nonprofit after retiring from Straub Medical Center as an anesthesia nurse. That nonprofit, The Hamakua Group, just launched in February. It's so important to him, he says, "because people aren't paying attention to what's happening in the world in terms of climate change."
We caught him on a day when he was approaching businesses near the marsh for support. Here, he got the OK from a yoga studio to host his web cam so he can collect data "that people can go to to get current information about what's happening with the marsh and the near shore waters for water quality. The more data I can collect and get it into the public's hands, the public will be more informed to make decisions based on science."
The marsh is just one element of his ultimate goal to keep the stream, wetlands, nearshore waters, and reefs pollution-free. "This is very big picture stuff," I note.
"Yeah but it seems like it's not being done," he says.
Diane is KITV4’s weekend evening anchor and weekday reporter. She hosts the Aging Well series on Tuesday evenings at 5, 6, and 10 p.m. She is a mother, a cat owner, and a yogi.
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US Education Secretary Miguel Cardona testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearings to examine school reopening during Covid-19, focusing on supporting students, educators, and families, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, September 30, 2021. The Biden administration is planning to extend a pause on federal student loan repayments through August 31, according to an administration official familiar with the matter.
The Biden administration is planning to extend a pause on federal student loan repayments through August 31, according to an administration official familiar with the matter.
The administration is expected to announce the extension on Wednesday, the official said.
Borrower balances have effectively been frozen for more than two years, with no payments required on most federal student loans since March 2020. During this time, interest has stopped adding up and collections on defaulted debt have been on hold.
Both Biden and former President Donald Trump have taken actions to extend the pause. Biden had previously moved the payment restart date on multiple occasions, but the administration has said at the time that this would be the final extension.
Direct Loans as well as PLUS loans, which are available to graduate school students and parents on behalf of their children, are eligible for the benefit. Some federal loans that are guaranteed by the government but not technically held by it, known as Federal Family Education Loans, or FFEL, did not qualify. Generally, those were disbursed prior to 2010.
The relief is even more significant for those who work in the public sector and may be eligible for federal student loan forgiveness after 10 years. They are still receiving credit toward those 10 years of required payments as if they had continued to make them during the pandemic, as long as they are still working full time for qualifying employers.
Borrowers will receive a billing statement or other notice at least 21 days before their payment is due, according to the Department of Education. Those who had set up auto payments may need to notify their loan servicing company they want those to continue.
If federal student loan borrowers can no longer afford their monthly payment, they may be eligible for an income-driven repayment plan. Under those plans, which are based on income and family size, a monthly payment can be as low as $0 a month.
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KANEOHE, Hawaii (KITV4) -- After 15 months and $160 million, the Hawaii State Hospital's psychiatric facility is scheduled to open on April 13.
"It's just taken way too long, none of the excuses really make any sense," said Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole, who represents Kaneohe.
That's after fixing building defects -- including showers that were not constructed properly and door handles and other fixtures that administrators feared patients could use to hurt themselves.
"The cost to the taxpayers right now are there are 144 beds for the most acute patients that are, you know, potentially out on the street in our community, or who are wasting away in jails when they really should be getting treatment," he said.
The Department of Health oversees the hospital that's been criticized for security and safety issues over the years. DOH officials told lawmakers today they've been dealing with preventing a COVID outbreak, staff shortages and having to take care of daily operations.
"We need to take responsibility for that over at DOH as I indicated to you before there were a number of things that we should have started while the building was still being built -- like an operating plan, start drafting out some policies and procedures and we didn't," said Marian Tsuji, deputy director for behavioral health at the DOH.
The delays have frustrated lawmakers scrambling to find solutions to the growing number of homeless people and help for those people suffering from mental illness.
"This facility is important to make sure that the dangerous ones are in a secured facility so they won't harm the staff, they won't harm other people or themselves," Keohokalole said. "But this building is going to open up space and capacity for us to get the homeless off the street. And that's why we want them to hurry up and open this place up and do it the right way."
The 144-bed facility will be opening in phases starting with 48 patients moving into the third floor in mid-April, two weeks later another 48 will move into the second floor and two weeks after that on the first floor.
The Hawai'i State Hospital is also starting other renovations in May to improve safety and security throughout the campus. Those projects are expected to be finished in 2023.
Kristen joined KITV4 in March 2021 after working for the past two decades as a newspaper reporter. Kristen's goal is to produce meaningful journalism that educates, enlightens and inspires to affect positive change in society.
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McDonald's is bringing back Spicy Chicken McNuggets, but not everyone can buy them.
The fast food chain said that the spicy nuggets are now available at about half of its US locations, or roughly 6,900 locations, for a limited time. McDonald's regularly releases menu items on a regional basis to generate buzz and excitement among its fans.
McDonald's first unveiled the spicy chicken nuggets in 2020, making them the first new McNugget flavor in the United States since the item was introduced in 1983. The nuggets have have a a breaded tempura coating of cayenne and chili peppers, packing a more flavorful punch compared to its regular chicken nuggets.
The chain credits the nuggets for boosting sales two years ago during the initial onset of the pandemic. McDonald's US sales jumped 7.5% in the fourth quarter of 2021 thanks in part to menu price increases, powerful digital sales and popular items like its crispy chicken sandwiches and the limited-time McRib sandwiches.
Limited-time items are an important marketing tool for the food industry to draw foot traffic and interest. These items offer consumers some variety — a key for fast food, as it's a notoriously thin-margin business with little customer loyalty. Offering something new gives people a reason to come back.
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EWA BEACH, Hawaii (KTIV4) -- Three people were shot inside a game room in an Ewa Beach neighborhood, early Tuesday morning.
The shooting happened at a home in a neighborhood on Hanakahi Street around 1:45 a.m., Honolulu Police (HPD) investigators said. HPD says it has opened an attempted murder investigation due to this incident.
Honolulu Emergency Medical Services (EMS) says its paramedics were sent out on an “unknown” call with a “questionable life status.” EMS said that when they arrived they found two men both suffering from gunshot wounds.
One of the victims, only identified as a man in his mid-30s, was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, EMS said. The second victim, a 25-year-old man, was taken to the hospital in serious condition. EMS did not mention a third victim.
Police are still investigating. So far, there has been no word about what led up to the shooting, or if any arrests have been made.
This is a developing story. Check back with KITV4 for more information.
As someone who grew up in foster care, the only thing that mattered to me was finding love and belonging. Being able to connect with the community as a reporter in Hawaii is why I do what I do.
Matthew has been the digital content manager for KITV4 since September 2021. Matthew is a prolific writer, editor, and self-described "newsie" who's worked in television markets in Oklahoma, California, and Hawaii.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- A Hawaiian musician is thanking the community, and a social media tip for helping her find a valuable instrument that was stolen in Waikiki.
Krystal Mokuahi of music group Ke'olu said her bass was stolen from her car sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning at the Waikiki Banyan Hotel.
Mokuahi said the five-string bass holds special meaning to her family, as it was passed down from her grandfather, to her father, to her.
"It means so much because it's such a priceless item within our family," Mokuahi explained. 'It holds so much stories, and so much mana within it."
After realizing it was gone, Mokuahi put out a post on social media.
She said the response was overwhelming.
"It started circling and everyone started reposting it," she explained. "It was amazing how much eyes was able to see it and how much people was helping me and trying to get the word out."
Mokuahi said she received an anonymous message from someone who believed they spotted the bass near a Makiki apartment.
With the help of police, she was able to recover the special instrument.
"They opened up the unit and it was indeed in there. They allowed me to come down and pick it up," she said. "I got to identify it and had pictures showing that this is mine, and I was able to bring it back home this morning."
Mokuahi said whoever lived at the apartment had moved out the day before, but regardless, she's happy they left the bass behind.
She said her main take away from all of this is not to leave valuables inside your car, and thanks the community for all of their support.
Mika is the co-anchor for KITV4 Island News at 5, 6, and 10 p.m.
Since joining KITV4 in 2016, Mika has also served as a multimedia journalist, weather, and traffic anchor.
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Air travel volume is expected to near pre-pandemic levels over Thanksgiving. This photo was taken over the holiday period last year at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
HONOLULU (KITV) -- If you have traveled through the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport during the pandemic, you probably took notice of the thermal scanners and tracing cameras.
The State of Hawai'i spent about $27-million on the equipment intended to keep Hawai'i residents safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
But with the end of the Safe Travels Hawai'i program as well as all other statewide pandemic mandates coming to an end on March 25, 2022, the future of all of that equipment remains up in the air.
According to Senator Sharon Moriwaki, at this time there is no plan to maintain, store, or re-purpose the equipment.
She says she asked the airport, the Department of Transportation, and HI-EMA about plans, and so far has not been able to get a satisfactory response.
This led her to introduce Senate Resolution 193.
"That’s a lot of money to have a white elephant sitting at the airport," said Moriwaki. "The resolution is forcing them to come up with a plan so they have talk to the agencies involved, whoever that may be by June 30th."
The Senate voted to adopt the resolution on Monday, April 4. It now crosses over to the House.
After nearly 10-years away, this local girl is home! In November 2021, Lia started at KITV as the weekend GMH anchor and a weekday reporter. The 2011 Kamehameha Kapālama graduate worked all across the country and even overseas before finding her way home.
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When former President Barack Obama walked into the White House on Tuesday, it was his first time in the building since he welcomed then-President-elect Donald Trump for coffee on the morning of Trump's inauguration.
That friendly greeting at the North Portico -- including the awkward handoff of a blue Tiffany's box the Trumps had brought as a gift -- couldn't foretell the acrimony that would lie ahead, as Trump shattered the relative amity that had once existed between former and current presidents.
Obama's return to the White House didn't include any of that ugliness. Instead, he was celebrating one of his signature achievements, the Affordable Care Act, alongside the man who served with him in the building for eight years.
"It feels like the good old days," President Joe Biden said alongside his onetime boss, whose return to the East Room resembled a reunion of his top allies, many of whom are now serving in Biden's Cabinet or in Congress.
"It is good to be back in the White House. It's been a while," Obama said when he began his remarks. "I confess I heard some changes have been made by the current President since I was last here. Apparently Secret Service agents have to wear aviator sunglasses now. The Navy Mess has been replaced by a Baskin-Robbins. And there's a cat running around."
Obama began his speech by addressing his host as "Vice President Biden" before quickly correcting himself. "That was a joke!" he exclaimed, walking over to give Biden a hug. "That was all set up. My President, Joe Biden."
Biden and Obama were announcing steps the White House says will make health care more affordable, including closing a loophole that prevents millions of Americans from qualifying for subsidies.
Still, that it took more than a year for Biden to welcome his former boss to the White House reflects his desire to stake out a presidency of his own, even as the timing of the visit makes clear he is not opposed to seeking help as Democrats brace for a bruising midterm election season.
With many of Biden's legislative priorities stalled, Obama on Tuesday seemed to offer a preview of Democrats' midterm message.
"Progress feels way too slow sometimes. Victories are often incomplete," he said, citing the health law as an example of persistence in governing.
After two terms working in Obama's shadow, Biden has strived at moments to differentiate himself from his predecessor, most noticeably on foreign policy. And Obama has been cognizant of allowing Biden room to govern as his own man.
While Obama has occasionally spoken to Biden over the last year, their telephone conversations have been infrequent, according to people close to both men, and they have seen each other only a few times over the last 15 months -- despite Obama residing only 10 minutes away from the White House in Washington.
In public, each likes to play up a warm friendship that developed over Obama's presidency. Biden often slips a reference to "Barack" in his remarks, harkening back to a piece of advice or an inside joke they shared. Sometimes the results are somewhat pained: On "Best Friends Day" in 2019, Biden shared an image of friendship bracelets with "Joe" and "Barack" written in beads.
"They are real friends, not just Washington friends," press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday. "I'm sure they will talk about events in the world as well as their families and personal lives."
She said it was "exactly the right time" for Obama to return to the White House after more than five years away.
When Obama visited the White House on Tuesday, he joined Biden for lunch in addition to attending the health care event in the Rose Garden. Obama and Biden had lunch together every week when they served in the White House.
"We weren't sure who was supposed to sit where," Biden said during the East Room event afterward.
Still, there have been limits to their friendship. Biden revealed last year that he had been invited into Obama's private residence only once over their eight years together in the White House. They have vastly different personalities and working styles. And their relationship has been colored by various slights, real or perceived, that still linger.
Obama declined to endorse Biden over other Democrats in the 2020 primary, a step both men insisted was necessary to allow a true contest within the party. Four years earlier, Obama had viewed Hillary Clinton as his Democratic successor instead of Biden, who decided not to run as he grappled with his son's death.
All that makes Tuesday's event a significant moment for each man. For Obama, it also marks the beginning of a string of public events, including a keynote speech on disinformation that he'll deliver at Stanford later this month.
A popular surrogate emerges
His return to the White House is the first sign of what many Democrats hope will be his increased involvement in the 2022 midterm elections. The former President and former first lady Michelle Obama are two of the most sought-after party leaders -- expected to be in high demand by Senate and House candidates this year.
That could potentially stand in contrast to Biden, whose approval ratings remain near historic lows heading into campaign season. Biden is eager to campaign for Democrats in the coming year, but has also made known he is open to any role his party sees as helpful.
Obama is no stranger to uphill midterm battles; he endured losses in both 2010 and 2014. Yet he left office with an approval rating among the highest for any departing president, and remains popular among Democrats.
The Obamas have not yet determined how visible they intend to be in the fall campaign, but aides say they will both devote time to Democratic efforts to maintain control of the House and Senate.
The decision to have Obama appear alongside Biden at the White House this week was designed to shine a brighter light on one of the often-overlooked achievements of the Biden administration: strengthening the Affordable Care Act.
It's reminiscent of former President Bill Clinton coming to the White House to help explain the economic efforts employed by Obama during the fiscal crisis in the early years of his tenure. That appearance, in 2010, was remembered principally for Clinton holding court from the briefing room podium for half an hour -- long after Obama had exited the room.
The health care law remains one of the lasting legacies of the Obama administration. When it passed, Biden made one of his most infamous asides when he whispered to Obama that it was a "big f**king deal."
It's no small irony that the messy health care fight -- one of the central reasons Democrats lost control of Congress on Obama's watch more than a decade ago -- ended in a law now seen as broadly popular with Americans. Republicans have all but dropped their efforts to repeal and replace it after failing to do so for years.
"Given all the noise and the controversy and the skepticism, it took a while for the American people to understand what we had done, but, lo and behold -- a little later than I'd expected -- a lot of folks, including many who had initially opposed health care reform, came around," Obama said during his remarks Tuesday. "And today, the ACA hasn't just survived, it's pretty darn popular."
Obama has remained engaged on the law since leaving office, taping videos encouraging Americans to enroll and breaking a near-silence on political issues to criticize Republicans for attempting to undermine it. He and Biden appeared in a video together last August encouraging Americans to sign up, one of their only joint appearances since Biden took office.
"We're going to get even more people covered in the years to come under your guidance," Obama told Biden in the video. "Love you, man."
Signing off, as Obama told Biden he was proud of him, the sitting President said to expect him to stay in touch.
"I'm still going to call you for advice," Biden said.
Obama's visit to the White House on Tuesday will not be his last.
Plans have been underway for months for the formal unveiling of his portrait -- a presidential rite of passage that was disrupted during the Trump administration and delayed during the first year of the Biden administration, when the Covid-19 pandemic limited such events at the White House.
This story has been updated with additional developments on Tuesday.
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The state of Texas is taking a big swing in defense of its gerrymanders, and if they connect it’s going to be devastating.
Beyond the immediate legal fight over whether Texas lawmakers again discriminated against voters of color when drawing new political districts, a quieter war is being waged that could dramatically constrict voting rights protections nationwide for years to come.
For decades, redistricting in Texas has tracked a familiar rhythm — new maps are followed by claims of discrimination and lawsuits asking federal courts to step in. Over the years, Texas lawmakers have repeatedly been ordered to correct gerrymandering that suppressed the political power of Black and Hispanic voters.
The pathway to federal court has been through the Voting Rights Act. Key portions of the landmark law have been weakened in the last decade, but Texans of color still find a way to file lawsuits under its Section 2, which prohibits discriminatory voting procedures and practices that deny voters of color an equal opportunity to participate in elections.
Those protections are the vehicle being used by voters and various civil rights groups to challenge political maps for Congress and the state legislature drawn by Texas Republicans in 2021 to account for population growth. In what promises to be a protracted court fight, Texas will defend itself against accusations that it discriminated — in some cases intentionally — against voters of color.
But tucked into the legal briefs the state has filed with a three-judge panel considering the redistricting lawsuits are two arguments that reach far beyond the validity of the specific maps being challenged.
First, the Texas attorney general’s office is arguing that private individuals — like the average voters and civil rights groups now suing the state — don’t have standing to bring lawsuits under Section 2. That would leave only the U.S. Department of Justice to pursue alleged violations of the act, putting enforcement in the hands of the political party in power.
Second, the state argues that Section 2 does not apply to redistricting issues at all.
Should either argument prevail — which would almost certainly require it to be embraced by a conservative U.S. Supreme Court that has already struck down other portions of the law — the courthouse door will be slammed shut on many future lawsuits over discriminatory map-drawing and voting practices.
“Fundamentally, this Supreme Court thinks we are past the time in which we need the Voting Rights Act, so of course if you’re a state like Texas, you’re going to bring every argument that’s ever been made to challenge the constitutionality of the rest of it,” said Franita Tolson, a vice dean and law professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
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The turnover at the Supreme Court has cracked the door for “audacious attacks on Section 2,” that would have “never had a chance” under previous iterations of the court, said Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine who specializes in voting law. Texas is trying to push the door wide open.
In legal briefs, Texas’ argument that Section 2 does not apply to redistricting relies almost exclusively on a series of comments in opinions by Justice Clarence Thomas, who has plainly endorsed the idea in cases dating back to 1994. Justice Neil Gorsuch, a Trump appointee who joined the court in 2017, echoed the view in one of Thomas’ recent opinions.
In a recent case over Arizona voting laws, Thomas and Gorsuch also joined an opinion indicating they agreed with the argument Texas is offering now that private individuals cannot sue to enforce the Voting Rights Act.
The fallout if the Supreme Court agreed with the state on either argument would be radical, upending long established procedures for litigating claims of discrimination in voting and redistricting, and making it harder to enforce what has endured as the chief federal protection for voters of color in a post-preclearance world.
Covering its bets, the state is also pressing a backup argument — that even if individual voters are allowed to sue under Section 2, organizations that serve voters of color cannot bring claims on their behalf. That could knock out of the box groups like the NAACP and LULAC who may have more resources and membership across the state to prop up the complex challenges.
If affirmed by the court, that prospect would put even more pressure on private individuals to protect themselves from alleged discrimination by the state, said Noor Taj, a lawyer with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice who is representing various civil rights and community groups that serve Texans of color, particularly Asian Texans, in a lawsuit against the maps.
“It’s either taking their rights altogether or increasing the burden,” Taj said. “Both ends of that are problematic and incorrect.”
If the high court ultimately decides redistricting lawsuits simply aren’t allowed under Section 2, the recourse left for Texans of color to challenge political maps would be litigation under the U.S. Constitution’s broader promise of equal protection.
That would require challengers to show lawmakers intentionally discriminated against them — “which is the hardest case to win, particularly before a Supreme Court,” said Nina Perales, the vice president of litigation at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
The state’s efforts to overturn protections for voters of color is ironic given its long history of violating the same law it is now looking to gut, said Perales, who is suing the state over its latest maps on behalf of a group of individual voters and organizations that represent Latinos.
“Since the beginning of the modern era of decennial redistricting, Texas has been found liable for violating the voting rights of Latinos in every single cycle,” Perales said.
The more “aggressive attacks” on Section 2 have come as it’s getting harder for Republicans to comply with the law while preserving their power, Hasen said.
If you can’t comply with the law but you have the power to change it so that you don’t have to, well, it’s obvious what you’ll do. The state’s arguments have not gained any purchase with the three-judge panel at the district court level, but we know where it goes from there. The Democrats would like to do something at the national level about this, but as long as Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are deciding votes, they don’t actually have the power. (Beating Ken Paxton this fall would also help, but this argument is going to get before SCOTUS one way or another eventually regardless.) And so we get to watch this play out like a slow-motion train wreck, and we’re all standing close enough to it to be collateral damage. Isn’t that nice?
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For brief moment last week, it looked like higher inflation and the scope for rate hikes could drive a bid in the euro, especially as it rose above the March highs.
Yet four days later, it's right back in the doldrums and threatening the third-worst close since May 2020. That's a poor signal going forward and if it gets through 1.0900, there isn't much standing in the way of a return to the year-to-date low of 1.0806.
At the moment, the broader deterioration in risk assets is harming this pair and lifting the US dollar. The trigger today were comments from the Fed's Brainard that suggested the possibility of a 50 basis point hike in May. US 10-year Treasury yields are up 14 bps to 2.55% That's a large spread of benchmark German bunds, which pay 0.61%.
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The US dollar started the day soft but has completely turned around. With that, a 90-pip fall in USD/CAD to the lowest levels since November has been completely erased and the pair is trading flat today at 1.2489.
The catalyst was a comment from the Fed's Brainard:
Currently, inflation is much too high and is subject to upside risks. The Committee is prepared to take stronger action if indicators of inflation and inflation expectations indicate that such action is warranted.
Fed funds probabilties now suggest an 81% chance of a 50 bps hike, up from 71% before the comment. She also said the Fed will run down its balance sheet faster than in the last cycle, though that's something many FOMC members have said before.
Her comments turned around the mood in all markets and sent US Treasury yields to fresh cycle highs, up 7-14 bps across the curve. That hammered stocks (particularly the Nasdaq, which is down 2.3%) and reversed gains in oil.
With that change in mood, the loonie has been pulled back down to unchanged. Despite that, the Canadian dollar made good gains against the yen, pound and euro today with the BOC expected to keep pace with Fed rate hikes and quantitative tightening.
Looking ahead, this is an ominous comment from Bank of America: "Sales of consumer discretionary stocks have accelerated in recent weeks and last week were the largest ever in our data history since 2008."
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Emily St. John Mandel Steps Into Her Own Multiverse
The Station Eleven author discusses her sixth novel, Sea of Tranquility—which features time travelers and more pandemics.
In March 2020—a period that feels like it could be either an eon ago, or yesterday, or both—the author Emily St. John Mandel released her fifth novel, The Glass Hotel. A study of the constellation of people adjacent to and implicated in a massive Ponzi scheme, the book also features a handful of characters familiar to those acquainted with Mandel’s previous work: the shipping executives Leon Prevant and Miranda Carroll, from Station Eleven; the fraudulent investor Jonathan Alkaitis, from The Lola Quartet.
“I’m very interested in group dynamics,” Mandel says. “The way people kind of bump up against each other.” The author’s knack for pulling at the threads of connection both within and across her works, and their uncanny reflection, in turn, of contemporary themes (like, say, scams, or global pandemics and their fallout)—has earned her a reputation as something of a prophet. Her fourth novel, Station Eleven—the pandemic novel—was recently adapted into a hit HBO miniseries with Mackenzie Davis. And her newest, Sea of Tranquility (out April 5), finds her entering another pocket of the zeitgeist: the theory (aptly called the simulation hypothesis) that what we experience as reality is in fact an immersive virtual simulation.
Sea of Tranquility arcs over a 500-year timeline from 1912 to 2401 and back again—a structure Mandel borrowed from David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, one of her favorites—as a contingent of far-future time travelers investigate a possible “file corruption” that could prove the simulation hypothesis. Is a glitch revealing the flickering edges of the simulation? Or has reality simply broken? “That’s the fun thing about the simulation theory,” Mandel told me on a recent March morning. “You can find very smart people making very strong arguments for and against.” And while certain characters from previous works do crop up again—Paul Smith and Mirella Kessler, both introduced in The Glass Hotel, appear in Sea of Tranquility’s year 2020—the new novel also finds Mandel writing herself into the possible world she’s created, via an authorial avatar named Olive Llewellyn, who embarks on a book tour in the year 2203 to promote a new edition of a novel that has been lately adapted into a movie, just as the first wave of a pandemic is cresting.
While Mandel was on a trip to Los Angeles for a “secret TV project,” we spoke over video chat about autofiction, time travel, and voyages to the moon.
How did the seed for Sea of Tranquility get planted?
A very weird seed of a very strange book. My book The Glass Hotel came out in March 2020, and in the months before publication, I’d started to play around with autofiction. I’d been wanting to write about the experience of the long-haul book tour, which is both an incredible privilege and a very weird, very specific kind of business trip. Then Covid hit, and it lent me a kind of creative recklessness. I thought, why not try things that I never thought I’d try before? Everything’s awful, so I’m just going to write whatever I want. [Laughs.] At the same time, I thought, maybe that’s what the autofiction could be for: Using a sci-fi lens, maybe I could talk about the experience of the approaching pandemic.
I’d also been wanting for a really long time to write a time travel story. But the problem with time travel narratives is that they kind of fall apart under close scrutiny most of the time. Time travel creates an infinite loop, removing both cause and effect and free will from the equation, which is disastrous for fiction. That’s where the simulation hypothesis comes into play. The way to make time travel work for myself, as the writer, was to have a character in the year 2400 saying, ‘We don’t really understand why time travel works as well as it does. We feel like it should always create an infinite loop, and we think maybe the fact that it works at all is evidence that there’s something else going on here and we’re living in a simulation.’
Now that you’re on the other side of experimenting with autofiction, what do you think you got out of it?
The tightrope act of that section is that I feel such incredible gratitude for this life and being able to do this job, and I was really afraid that it would come across as, guys, it’s super hard to be a best-selling novelist on a long tour. That’s not a problem; that’s an opportunity. At the same time, people say the most extraordinary things to me on the road—and I guess by extraordinary I mostly mean sexist. Every interaction is autobiographical in the book. All those things people say to Olive, they said to me. [“I was so confused by your book,” a reader in Dallas tells Olive. “I was just like, Huh? Is the book missing pages?” Later on, a fellow passenger on an airship assumes Olive writes for children.] It was also a really interesting exercise as a novelist of approaching a genre that I really appreciated as a reader. Can you write autofiction, but make it sci-fi? And it does feel like a deepening of something that I think all fiction writers probably do anyway—of course your life is wrapped up in your work. I don’t know that Olive is that much closer to me than Miranda in Station Eleven.
Olive says about midway through: “I’ve never been interested in auto-fiction.”
[Laughs.] I just wanted to be funny. But that was actually me. I had zero interest in writing autofiction until I started playing around with it in late fall, early winter before the pandemic.
I wasn’t sure if that was an effort to distance yourself from her in some way.
Not really. She lives on the moon.
Did seeing the Station Eleven miniseries—and being in the world of what your work looks like on screen—affect how you put together Sea of Tranquility? It feels even more scene-based than some of your previous work.
Yeah, I loved Station Eleven. I think that television has influenced the way I write fiction, but less writing for television or seeing my own work adapted for television than just really good TV. I think that might have started even before Station Eleven. I was kind of blown away by season one of True Detective. I thought that was just storytelling at the highest level. I guess maybe I’d bring it back to that show. I really loved that show. I think it did make me think in a more visual way as I’m constructing scenes.
As someone who was interested in sci-fi as a teen, were there works or ideas that you returned to when you decided you wanted to write sci-fi?
The moon colonies—the bubble, the closed city. In a series of books I remember reading, there was a closed science center where the remnants of humanity lived, and outside was dystopian wilderness. That idea was something that I found myself returning to: What if we’re under domes or in very enclosed spaces with unknown territory—or, in the case of the moon, unlivable territory—outside?
I feel like our language gets a little bit inadequate here. If you think about the word colonization, it’s just so different if you’re talking about displacing indigenous populations versus building a city on a moon. With the moon colonies, I was thinking more about the parallel to the simulation hypothesis, this kind of simulated environment. Then, in the same vein, I feel like the simulation hypothesis speaks to the displacement colonizing, in the sense that it seems to me that a big part of the tragedy of colonialism is it has to do with living inside a false narrative. In Canada, it was this completely false idea that this land was there for the taking. Something about living inside a lie that kind of echoes, for me, the simulation hypothesis.
It also seems like it echoes the themes you’ve been interested in in previous novels—there’s a fair amount of questions like, to what extent can we deceive ourselves? What narrative are we telling ourselves, and is it real, and at whose expense?
Yeah, the condition of knowing and not-knowing at the same time.
The novel spends a lot of time considering what it means to belong to or be exiled from a place or a time. I think during the early pandemic especially it felt like we were unmoored from time—the past two years have passed very strangely—and at the same time, we’ve been very stuck in place. How much were those themes related to the period we were living through?
When I realized a lot of the narrative was going to be set on the moon, I thought I was trying to escape from my apartment, you know? In lockdown conditions, I just wanted to get away. The world became so small in the spring of 2020. I was like, it’s got to be the moon, because anywhere else is too close. I told someone, and they were like, ‘So … it’s a narrative about people living in a very tightly contained situation?’ I was like, darnit. It wasn’t what I was consciously doing!
I have seen the characters that carry over from one book to the next—Jonathan Alkaitis, Mirella, Leon Prevant, Miranda Carroll—referred to as Easter eggs. I feel that term trivializes them in a way—they feel more significant than that. But what motivates them?
I agree. I don’t see them as Easter eggs; I see them as more of a cinematic universe—or a multiverse? The works are in conversation with each other. At first, I liked the sense of order. The more I’ve done it, the more I’ve enjoyed thinking of all of the novels as somehow part of the same massive story. So there are a lot of connections that have become more pronounced as my books have gone on.
Why have they gotten more pronounced?
Sometimes, it just makes sense to bring in characters who I already know into a book. With Sea of Tranquility, I knew that I wanted to write about that period when it felt like we all knew the pandemic was coming, but we were doing things like getting on the subway and hugging people and going into crowded restaurants. We just weren’t making that imaginative leap. I just had these ready-made characters who made sense in 2020 and I wanted to see more of, Mirella and Paul.
That sense of impending doom feels like it permeates the other timelines in the novel too —in the opening, Edwin’s experience of going west is one of sheer environmental dread.
He’s based on one of my great-grandfathers, Newell St. Andrew St. John. He was in the same, very privileged predicament: He was from a wealthy family; he was the recipient of an incredible classical education and would have spoken Greek and Latin; but the law in England back then was that the entire inheritance had to go to the first son. The thing done back then if you were a second or third son was to be shipped off to the “colonies” and just expected to make a go of it. On the one hand, these are wealthy people with a ton of advantages. On the other hand, they were wholly unprepared for anything.
You’ve mentioned that at the beginning of the pandemic people were calling on you to write essays about plagues; last year, someone also asked what you thought about the supply chain issues because logistics are a prominent part of The Glass Hotel. Is there a part of Sea of Tranquility that you think people are going to call on you to prophesize about?
That’s a great question. I don’t think so, although I would say maybe people who are freaked out about how Station Eleven was about a pandemic and The Glass Hotel was about the supply chain, maybe they’ll find Sea of Tranquility reassuring. I think any book that has moon colonies is kind of utopian. That’s not a future that collapses into a wasteland with a traveling Shakespearean theater company. That’s like, Star Trek futurism. That’s the United Federation of Planets and a certain degree of organization and technology. I see it as a very hopeful book—at least compared to the problems in the other two books. Although there are pandemics in it…
This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
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The Weeknd and HoYeon Channel Lost in Translation in His ‘Out of Time’ Video
The Weeknd’s music videos are always a journey. The singer’s latest, for the single “Out of Time” off his album Dawn FM, riffs on Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, and the Scarlett Johansson to his Bill Murray happens to be none other than HoYeon Jung. The South Korean actor, former model, and breakout star of Squid Game’s appearance is exciting enough for Jim Carrey to get second billing. We’re guessing The Weeknd is a fan of the hit Netflix series; as for how Carrey came into play, they happen to be neighbors (and evidently share a passion for gore).
The clips opens with HoYeon and The Weeknd bumping into each other at a hotel, first in the elevator and then again at a karaoke bar. They have a blast, taking the party on the go with a mini amp and sipping on champagne. Then, things take a turn: A red liquid that looks suspiciously like blood starts gushing out of the bucket of bubbly, and, as it’s wont to do, The Weeknd’s face starts to morph. Enter Dr. Jim Carrey, who announces his presence by reciting a menacing monologue. “Soon you’ll be healed, forgiven, and refreshed,” he says in a voiceover that plays as he examines The Weeknd, who’s changed into a hospital gown, on a gurney. “Free from all trauma, pain, guilt, and shame. You may even forget your own name.” By the end of the video, he’s once again gotten himself a new face.
While it’s just shy of four minutes, the video marks HoYeon’s first on-screen appearance since Squid Game catapulted her from a niche fashion favorite to a household name. Fret not: We’ll be seeing more of her soon. The 27-year-old will soon make her Hollywood debut opposite Cate Blanchett in Disclaimer, a thriller series helmed by five-time Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón.
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For Jennifer Venditti, Casting is About Instinct
Her first book, Can I Ask You a Question?, details the artistry that goes into finding talent for Euphoria, Uncut Gems, and more.
In 1998, the casting director Jennifer Venditti traveled to West Virginia in search of locals to include in a W fashion story called “Coal Country.” Photographer Peter Lindbergh planned to shoot the model Angela Lindvall alongside residents of a small Appalachian town, and it was Venditti’s job to find them. Together with the mayor of the town, a woman named Lou who became something of a fixer, Venditti drove on winding mountain roads, sat in church services, and visited mom and pop restaurants, striking up conversations and taking Polaroids of people who caught her eye. At a café, she met a young woman named Melissa, who captivated Venditti’s attention with her “cinematic face,” as she describes it to me, decades later, during a video call from her home in Los Angeles. “I never forgot her.”
Back in the ’90s, Venditti spent time with Melissa and her five children, hanging out on her porch, chatting about her life, listening to her hopes and dreams. Melissa was eventually cast for the shoot, and she and her children were able to keep the clothing they wore on set. Melissa, who died a few years later from a brain hemorrhage, came to be a central figure exemplifying Venditti’s life’s work—which the casting director says, in fact, involves much more than just “finding a person, passing them on. There are so many elements there: social work, journalism, photography, film. It’s really an art.”
Venditti’s approach has been enshrined in a new book from production company A24 that catalogs her career and the people she’s met along the way. Can I Ask You a Question?: The Art and Alchemy of Casting contains photographs and stories from Venditti’s projects, which have extended well beyond the world of fashion and into film and television, a development that happened after she directed the independent film Billy the Kid in 2007: She was the casting director for Uncut Gems and American Honey, and continues to work on Euphoria.
Her ability to spot the kinds of unique faces she sought in West Virginia is instinctual. When I ask Venditti to describe how she goes about her work, she falters at first. “It’s really hard to put words to it,” she says. “It’s like saying, ‘Define beauty.’” But as a rule, she says, she’s “looking for something that catches my eye, that’s beyond the surface—that their face, their beauty, their look, will have some type of visual language that will speak to the story that’s being told.” But most importantly, she concludes, “The work speaks for itself.”
Below, Venditti tells the stories behind some of the images included in Can I Ask You a Question, available now.
At the beginning of her career, Venditti worked primarily for fashion brands, casting advertising shoots for Versace and street scouting for Yohji Yamamoto. Soon after that, a friend at W told Venditti the magazine’s editors were interested in featuring artists like Philip Lorca Dicorcia and Alec Soth in its pages. “[My friend] knew how I looked at the world, and my frustration with fashion and their limited ideas of how they saw beauty. He said, ‘Do you want to cast the way you see things?’” That opportunity marked the beginning, “basically the genesis of it all,” Venditti adds. The grid above is comprised of Polaroid pictures featuring interesting faces she’s considered for projects in the past.
Just before heading to West Virginia to work on “Coal Country,” Venditti was in Milan, casting one of Tom Ford’s Gucci campaigns. “The extreme, coming from that world into this one was really jarring. But what I love about this job is that you get to experience all the different ways people live.” Above, an image of Melissa included in the book alongside text that reads “She trusted me for a moment. She had a glimmer of joy, she and her girls. I witnessed it. It was real.”
Venditti says she can’t take credit for putting Julia Fox in Uncut Gems. “She was someone that the Safdies, especially Josh, had been friends with for a while. She had been the inspiration for that character, and really applied to this term they use called ‘sudden star,’” Venditti says. “It’s crazy to see her this year—she’s amped up to another level.” Above, Fox’s original casting photo for the film, along with images from a script reading session.
To find talent for Euphoria, Venditti and her team of scouts tore through the streets of Los Angeles. At that time, details of the project—from Sam Levinson’s involvement to the fact that it would stream on HBO—were kept under wraps. “So no one knew what it was,” Venditti recalls. “We had an open call for season one—a real, in-person, open call at a church. It was such a bust. I thought it was gonna be great just because there was something intriguing about it, it wasn’t just a student film. Barely anyone good came. For the second season, we did an online open call [above] and it was 5,000 submissions.”
“Angus [Cloud] was found by one of my scouts, late at night,” Venditti says. “I remember her saying, ‘I met this great guy last night, but I didn’t get a picture, my phone was dead. I’m hoping he’ll call.’ And he did, he came to my office. I remember thinking at the time that he would be this hard kind of tough guy. But he just had this gentleness about him. I was talking to him the other day and I told him, ‘You really are a person who says yes to life.’ Right after I met him, he had won a cruise to go to Florida with all these retired, older people. And he went! Angus went on the cruise and even took a bus to get there.”
When Cloud first auditioned, Venditti remembers him seeming nervous. “But I think it was undeniable, his cinematic presence,” she says. “He has this ability when the camera is on him—even when he is doing nothing, his face and his eyes are saying so much. His character originally was not a series regular role. He was supposed to die off after season one.”
“I just had a feeling about her,” Venditti says about Hunter Schafer, who had no acting experience before Euphoria. “She had never auditioned before, and she was incredible in the room. She’s a very sensitive, creative person. And I think that’s why you see her in this and it’s like, Wait, is she a trained actor? No, but she is a sensitive vessel who is in it when she’s being present. She’s connecting to something real. I always say, acting is not pretending, it’s being.”
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Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker Reportedly Wed (Without Cameras)
That’s Mrs. Travis Barker to you. After years of watching her younger sisters walk down the aisle, Kourtney Kardashian is reportedly a married lady herself. TMZ is reporting Kardashian and Barker held an after party of their own after the 2022 Grammys on Sunday night—a wedding. The pair reportedly took advantage of being in Las Vegas for the award show, and headed to a chapel following the event, where they said “I do.”
According to reports, Kardashian and Barker got to the chapel at about 1:30 in the morning, wearing their clothes from the Grammys, with a marriage license in hand. They were met by an Elvis impersonator, and the chapel’s owner, who acted as the couple’s officiant and witness, respectively. Though she had a longterm relationship with Scott Disick, this is actually the bride’s first marriage. It’s marriage number three for the groom.
"I didn't know who it was until they pulled up,” the One Love Wedding Chapel owner Marty Frierson told People. “I advertise as 24-hours but they wanted to make sure I was still there. They paid and they requested Elvis Presley, that was mandatory. I called back 5 minutes later and was like, I got an Elvis, and there they were.” It’s unclear if anyone from Kardashian or Barker’s families were in attendance for the event. While none of Kardashian’s sisters were at the Grammys on Sunday, Kendall Jenner did happen to be in Vegas over the weekend, promoting her tequila brand.
“They came, got married, tossed the bouquet in the driveway, and danced to Elvis," Frierson said. "They showed a lot love and had a lot of fun."
The newlyweds asked the chapel to not take pictures, but it seems like they did bring their own photographers along, though it’s unclear if Hulu’s film crew were in attendance as People reported no video was permitted during the ceremony. The Kardashian’s love a good wedding episode for their show, but according to TMZ this won’t be their only chance to get Kardashian and Barker’s wedding on video for the family’s upcoming return to TV. Sources say last weekend’s ceremony was far from the only event Kardashian and Barker are throwing for their nuptials, and there will be “several” other ceremonies in the future.
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Olivia Rodrigo Goes Full Paris Hilton for Her Post-Grammys Party
Olivia Rodrigo just won her first three Grammys and now, she’s partying like its 2002. The singer threw a bash to celebrate her big night, and the Y2K-loving Rodrigo recruited Paris Hilton to provide the tunes, while also seemingly taking inspiration from the heiress when it came to her look for the evening.
The now three-time Grammy winner shared photos from the event on Instagram, the first of which featured Rodrigo and Hilton at a DJ booth together. Behind them, in another photo, you can see the words “baby’s first Grammy” projected on the back wall. After mixing some tunes for the guests, Rodrigo and Hilton even took the dance floor themselves and performed a rendition Hilton’s own cult classic song, “Stars Are Blind,” which luckily, someone caught on video.
But Hilton’s DJ skills weren’t the only thing Rodrigo counted on for the event, the singer also seemingly looked to Hilton for fashion inspiration. After wearing a black corseted Vivienne Westwood for the award’s red carpet, followed by a Givenchy fall/winter 2022 white mini dress for her performance, Rodrigo decided to add a bit of color for her own party. The 19-year-old opted to wear a custom Blumarine dress by the brand’s creative director, Nicola Brognano, with a plunging neckline and high low hem. The dress’ bright blue hue and clear Y2K inspiration provided comparisons to one of the dresses Hilton herself wore during her week-long 21st birthday party back in 2002. While Hilton’s iconic silver chainmail dress has been recreated and reworn dozens of times over the past two decades, Rodrigo instead seemingly favored the dress Hilton wore to her bash at Studio 54, a blue ruffled gown, which also had a deep v-neckline and a similar asymmetric hem. While Rodrigo’s is a more streamlined version, with less sparkle and an added butterfly applique at the waist, considering Rodrigo’s clear affinity for the DJ, it seems obvious that Rodrigo’s own look was an homage to Hilton’s birthday dress.
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The Ambulance Cast’s Red Carpet Moments Have Been Siren-Worthy
Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Eiza González have been on a fashion roll with promoting Ambulance, the upcoming Michael Bay film about two robbers who steal—you guessed it—an ambulance. On Monday night in Los Angeles, the trio proved themselves to be one of the best dressed casts going when they stepped out onto the red carpet wearing the latest in a string of top-notch looks. Gyllenhaal looked dapper per usual in a grey Giorgio Armani suit, while Abdul-Mateen II went with statement menswear in the form of wide fuchsia trousers, satin purple coat, and casual white tank top, all by Versace. González opted for a draped one-shoulder gown from Fendi’s spring 2022 couture collection, which she topped off with Bulgari jewels.
All three looks were in keeping with the actors’ personal styles, especially ever since they teamed up for the film’s press tour. Abdul-Mateen II favored similar silhouettes at the Paris and Berlin premieres, following up a head-to-toe satin Fendi ensemble with a long double-breasted coat by Alexander McQueen. Gyllenhaal has stayed true to the classic suit, so far wearing versions in taupe, burnt orange, and turquoise.
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Eiza González attend the Los Angeles premiere of Ambulance on April 4, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.
Meanwhile, González and her stylist Elizabeth Saltzman have been favoring floor-length evening gowns with hardware. The strapless Del Core dress the actor wore in Berlin featured a touch of silver, and the draped Stella McCartney one she wore in Paris was held together by a strap that could have been a chunky diamond necklace.
After a two-month delay, the film is set to hit theaters on April 8. With any luck, they’ll squeeze in another red carpet in the days to come.
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Egon Lab Leads the Way
Designers Florentin Glémarec and Kevin Nompeix make clothes that start conversations and hold a mirror to society.
With a collection full of nipple-baring corsets and deeply sacrilegious cassocks, the French fashion label Egon Lab appears outré to the extreme. But to hear designers Florentin Glémarec and Kevin Nompeix tell it, their two year old brand is really all about family. “We are together, in business and in life,” says Nompeix, chatting via Zoom from the couple’s apartment in Paris. “And Egon Lab is our baby.”
Adorable? Absolutely. But if you think their story couldn’t get any sweeter, you clearly haven’t seen Egon Lab’s muses-cum-brand ambassadors: a pair of white-haired, proudly punk octogenarians named Marie-Louise and René Glémarec, who happen to be Florentin’s grandparents. Dressed in Egon Lab’s studded leather, knee-high combat boots and gender-bending bondage tartans—she (a former postal worker) wielding her floral-print cane, he (retired from the French navy) sometimes in a skirt—the couple have emerged as darlings of the Parisian street style scene, showing up at fashion week to swarms of photographers eager for a viral shot. And their sartorial choices are not just a publicity stunt. “Actually, they are really punk,” says Glémarec of his grandparents, who, he says, have been his biggest supporters since day one. “We have photos of them from the late 70s, with my grandmother having blue hair and spikes.”
“For us, that was an inspiration,” says Nompeix. “And for the grandparents, it was nostalgia. They were super happy to have these kinds of clothes. We said, ‘Are you sure you want to wear this?’ And they said, ‘Yes! We love it!’”
Courtesy of Egon Lab
Glémarec and Nompeix, who are often labeled menswear designers but consider their creations truly “genderless,” first collaborated in a different facet of the fashion world. Before Egon Lab, Glémarec—who entered the industry via a teenage modeling career—had a short-lived menswear label with his brother called Icosae. Nompeix, who started his career as a model agent and continues to work in that realm in order to keep Egon Lab self-financed, helped the Glémarecs book their runway show. “Afterwards I said, ‘Ok Florentin, I need advice because I really want to have my own brand,’” says Nompeix. “And he said, ‘I really want to work with you.’”
Their first collection, for spring 2020, was inspired by the “concept of resistance” and mixed graffiti-inspired zebra stripes with finger-length metal spikes and trench coat suits in Marie Antoinette’s favorite pattern: toile de Jouy. In the short time since, they scored the Pierre Bergé Andam award, were named finalists for the Woolmark Prize, launched a collection of crystal-covered Crocs (auctioned off as NFTs), and debuted carbon-capturing clothing in conjunction with the French luxury car company DS Automobiles and the sustainable design research studio Post Carbon Lab.
This past January, after several pandemic seasons confined to the virtual world, they were able to present an IRL fashion show. Entitled “Egonimati”, the collection—boasting full-body puffer suits, priestly capes and, for the first time, two couture gowns—was described in the program notes as “a secret society responsible for establishing universal happiness.”
“I think we have the responsibility to fight for our generation, to create a strong message through our garments,” says Nompeix, who, like Glémarec, is still in his mid-twenties. “We want to give our community a tool to express themselves. What’s avant garde in fashion now is to use clothes to talk about society.”
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Hayatobi is a culinary outlier on busy Rosemead Boulevard on a number of levels.
It sits north of the massive restaurant malls at the several corners of Rosemead Boulevard and East Las Tunas Drive where, once you find parking, you’re confronted with a three-ring circus of eateries, most of them Asian, more of less — The Dive Oyster Bar, Baekjeong, Simmer Huang, Summer Rolls, Green Zone, and the notably expensive Bistro Na.
Hayatobi is not in one of the malls. It’s not in a mall at all. It sits in an easy-to-miss space on what’s essentially a residential street. Were it not for the parking lot on one side, I would have gone by with ease. Even the incipient Japanese garden that’s struggling to life in the front is easy to pass on by. And once inside, it’s hard to get that warm and fuzzy feeling sushi bars always give me.
But then, gazing across the room from the pickup table at the door, I could see the chefs hard at work, dressed in traditional white, with super-sharp knives flashing. I was filled with anticipation.
Few cuisines travel better than Japanese, and probably none better than sushi and sashimi and sushi rolls. Hamburgers arrive soggy and clotted. Pasta can clump, and salad greens grow wet and sad. Steaks continue to cook on their way from the restaurant to your home, turning from tender meat to shoe leather. Cooked seafood can be unspeakably vile. But sushi … I won’t venture that it’s perfect, but it’s closer than anything else.
That’s especially true when the sushi bar of choice, as with Hayatobi, is virtually gimmick-free. Even the five “Specialty Rolls,” usually a hot bed of sushi gimmickry, is devoid of such nasty notions as cream cheese — an ingredient that has no more place at a sushi bar than Hershey’s chocolate syrup and whipped cream. (And yes, I’ll bet there’s an “edgy” sushi bar out there, somewhere, making cream cheese sushi rolls topped with chocolate syrup and whipped cream. Chocolate chips too. Dark chocolate chips to boot, to make it more modernist.)
At Hayatobi, the San Marino Roll consists of spicy albacore wrapped in soy with seared yellowtail and avocado on top. The El Monte Roll is salmon with avocado in soy paper. The Alhambra Roll has snow crab baked with smelt mayo with tuna on top. There’s neither a San Gabriel Roll nor a Temple City Roll. But there is a Haneda Roll, named for Tokyo’s Airport, made with a mix of spicy tuna and crabmeat, along with shrimp tempura and lobster. And there’s a Hayatobi Roll of spicy tuna, crab mix and shrimp tempura. And yes, bunky, it does get hard to choose one from the other. They all sound good. They all are good.
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The sushi and sashimi match each other, one for one, 18 and 18. If you can’t make up your mind, there are two mixed sushi plates, two mixed sashimi plates, and two sashimi-over-rice plates — chirashi, always a good choice. (The word “chirashi” literally means “scattered.”)
There are 15 “regular” rolls — how the world has changed, where a Philadelphia Roll and a Spicy Yellowtail Scallion Roll are now “regular.” Somewhat less regular are the eight vegetarian rolls — especially the V-ruit Roll, made with mango and avocado; and the Shojin Roll with shiitake mushrooms and gobo. (I can remember a time when those ingredients would have been filled with mystery. Now, it’s stuff in the home refrigerator.)
The menu also offers choices for those who want to stay closer to the straight and narrow of the old days. There’s shrimp tempura, vegetable tempura, a combination tempura, and Popcorn Shrimp tempura. There are fried Brussels sprouts, and panko crispy calamari rings. There are udon noodles, and soba noodles, rice bowls and teriyaki. There are three Japanese curry dishes.
And, oddly, even waiting at the door, the place felt like a restaurant I’d want to return to — a peaceful destination north of the chaos at Las Tunas Drive.
Folks waiting for their food struck up conversations about their adventures dining in Tokyo and Kyoto. And this was without the benefit of beer and sake. Vibes flowed from the sushi bar, as they do from any good bar, sushi or otherwise. Rosemead Boulevard needs Hayatobi. And Rosemead Boulevard has Hayatobi.
Merrill Shindler is a Los Angeles-based freelance dining critic. Email mreats@aol.com.
Hayatobi
- Rating: 3 stars
- Address: 6420 N. Rosemead Blvd., San Gabriel
- Information: 626-703-4344, www.hayatobirestaurant.com
- Cuisine: Japanese
- When: Dinner, Wednesday through Monday
- Details: Beer and sake; reservations not necessary
- Atmosphere: A short distance north of Rosemead Boulevard’s crazed restaurant malls, this sedate Japanese restaurant was takeout-only for a time, but recently added in-person dining. If there’s a line, standing at the front provides a good opportunity to watch the sushi chefs hard at work.
- Prices: About $20 per person
- Suggested dishes: 18 Sushi ($5-$10), 18 Sashimi ($7-$21), 6 Sushi Plates ($28-$48), 8 Vegetarian Rolls ($5-$8), 15 Regular Rolls ($5-$8), 5 Specialty Rolls ($16-$18), 4 Tempura ($6-$14), 13 Appetizers ($3-$9), 5 Noodle Dishes ($7-$12), 3 Rice Bowls ($14-$16), 6 Salads ($3-$16), 5 Hot Dishes ($10-$16), 3 Curries ($8-$16)
- Credit cards: MC, V
- What the stars mean: 4 (World class! Worth a trip from anywhere!), 3 (Most excellent, even exceptional. Worth a trip from anywhere in Southern California.), 2 (A good place to go for a meal. Worth a trip from anywhere in the neighborhood.) 1 (If you’re hungry, and it’s nearby, but don’t get stuck in traffic going.) 0 (Honestly, not worth writing about.)
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By Ted Rossman | Bankrate
In late March, the three major credit bureaus announced significant changes to how medical debt will affect Americans’ credit scores. On July 1, paid medical collections will disappear from Equifax, Experian and TransUnion credit reports.
Previously, these could have remained for up to seven years. Also, unpaid medical collections will not appear on credit reports unless they’ve been in collections for at least a year (up from six months currently). And beginning next year, medical debts under $500 will no longer appear on credit reports.
These are very consumer-friendly developments. About 70 percent of medical debt will be removed from Americans’ credit reports once the aforementioned changes take effect, according to the credit bureaus.
How medical debt affects people
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) says that 43 million Americans have about $88 billion worth of medical debts on their credit reports. The agency adds that medical debt accounts for 58 percent of bills in collections.
Many people with otherwise sparkling credit records are dragged down by medical debt. Having a debt in collections could easily trim 100 points off a strong credit score. That may not have been fair, explains CFPB director Rohit Chopra.
“In many ways, it’s hard to call medical debt a real debt,” he said. “Few people choose to take on medical debt, and typically, patients have no idea how much they will be charged for a service or a procedure. There’s no upfront disclosure or interest rate to compare. Individuals and families must confront a billing and collections system that can be best described as error-plagued, confusing and labyrinthine.”
To be clear, these changes do not erase medical debt
It’s being treated differently by the credit bureaus, but you’re still responsible for paying it off (assuming the debt’s statute of limitations has not expired).
A good tip is to negotiate a payment plan with the doctor or hospital. Many offer low- or zero-interest financing plans. Nonprofit hospitals are required by law to offer financial assistance or charity care to patients, and more than half of U.S. hospitals qualify as nonprofits. It’s worth a try—the worst they can do is say no.
A personal loan could be a suitable backup plan since those interest rates can be as low as five percent if you have good credit.
Nonprofit credit counseling is another option worth considering. One of the nation’s largest nonprofit credit counseling agencies, Money Management International, offers debt management plans with similar interest rates. An advantage is that you don’t need a top-notch credit score to qualify.
Financing your medical bills with a credit card is probably not a good idea, since the average credit card APR is 16.35 percent.
What else you should know
The credit bureaus’ new ways of reporting medical debt are reminiscent of some other relatively recent changes in the credit reporting industry. Within the past few years, the bureaus removed almost all public records from credit reports. Examples include tax liens and collections resulting from library fines and traffic tickets. Like medical debts, these are often one-off scenarios that don’t follow the same pattern as monthly loan payments.
In other words, your credit score is meant to be a numerical representation of how likely you are to repay a lender. Paying your monthly credit card, car loan or mortgage bill on time feels like a much better apples-to-apples comparison than repaying a medical bill that may have been an isolated event involving a life-or-death situation (and possibly an insurance mix-up as well).
Furthering this idea, lenders and credit bureaus have started to add other financial obligations to some consumers’ credit reports. Experian Boost is one such program that can incorporate utility, telecom and streaming accounts. Buy now, pay later plans are also being added to credit reports. The credit bureaus seem to believe these payment behaviors are more predictive of credit risk than medical debts and traffic tickets.
The bottom line
The new ways of assessing medical debt should lift tens of millions of Americans’ credit scores. It’s always a good idea to check your credit reports regularly to make sure everything is accurate. Especially if you have one of the types of medical debt that should disappear on July 1, make a note to check your credit reports on or shortly after that date.
A good, free resource is AnnualCreditReport.com. It’s providing free weekly reports from all three major bureaus through the end of the year. If anything looks incorrect, file a dispute with each bureau that’s reporting the errant information. Your credit score is one of the most important numbers in your financial life, so it’s important to protect it.
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The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, now owned by the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, will reopen to the public Wednesday, April 27, after being shuttered since the pandemic.
Reservations for rooms for stays starting April 28 are available via the casino’s website at palms.com, according to an April 5 press release announcing the reopening of the resort.
In 2021, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians purchased the property for $650 million, allowing them to expand their gaming and casino ambitions outside of California.
According to the press release, renovations for the Palms Casino Resort started in 2019 and cost over $600 million. The newly revamped property includes a resort pool area featuring a multi-level, 73,000-square-foot space. It offers two main pools and 39 cabanas, many with individual private pools.
The complex will offer a mix of bars and restaurants previously on the property, such as Send Noodles, Scotch 80 Prime and Mabel’s BBQ by Chef Michael Symon. The Serrano Vista Café, a restaurant that has an outpost at the Yaamava’ Resort & Casino in Highland, San Manuel’s Southern California property, will also debut at the Las Vegas property.
The Southern California tribe is the first to own and operate a property in Las Vegas and the second tribe operating in Las Vegas’ resort corridor. Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment, operated by Connecticut’s Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority, runs the Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, formerly the Hard Rock Hotel.
Back in California, the tribe began its expansion in 2018 of the complex known previously as San Manuel Casino before changing its name to Yaamava’ Resort & Casino. A 17-floor hotel tower opened at the property in December. Yaamava’ Resort & Casino’s next venture involves a new entertainment venue and a deal with Live Nation and the venue is set to open in the weeks ahead.
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By Collin Binkley and Zeke Miller | The Associated Press
The Biden administration plans to freeze federal student loan payments through Aug. 31, extending a moratorium that has allowed millions of Americans to postpone payments during the coronavirus pandemic, according to an administration official familiar with the White House’s decision-making.
Student loan payments were scheduled to resume May 1 after being halted since early in the pandemic. But following calls from Democrats in Congress, the White House plans to give borrowers additional time to prepare for payments.
The action applies to more than 43 million Americans who owe a combined $1.6 trillion in student debt held by the federal government, according to the latest data from the Education Department. That includes more than 7 million borrowers who have defaulted on student loans, meaning they are at least 270 days late on payments.
Borrowers will not be asked to make payments until after Aug. 31, and interest rates are expected to remain at 0% during that period.
The extension was first reported Tuesday by Bloomberg.
Democrats on education panels in the House and Senate recently urged President Joe Biden to extend the moratorium through the end of the year, citing continued economic upheaval.
Sen. Patty Murray said more time is needed to help Americans prepare for repayment and to rethink the government’s existing system for repaying student debt.
“It is ruining lives and holding people back,” she said in a statement last month. “Borrowers are struggling with rising costs, struggling to get their feet back under them after public health and economic crises, and struggling with a broken student loan system — and all this is felt especially hard by borrowers of color.”
Murray called on the Biden administration to lift all borrowers out of default to provide a “fresh start” following the pandemic.
The decision is being made amid rising concern that large numbers of Americans would quickly fall behind if payments restarted in May.
In March, the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank warned that resuming loan payments could place a heavy burden on borrowers who faced financial hardship during the pandemic. It said the impact would be hardest on Black families, who are more likely to rely on student loans to pay for college.
“Serious delinquency rates for student debt could snap back from historic lows to their previous highs in which 10% or more of the debt was past due,” the bank said.
The Trump administration initially gave Americans the option to suspend loan payments in March 2020, and Congress made it automatic soon after. The pause was extended twice by the Trump administration and twice more under Biden.
It remains in question whether Biden will pursue widespread debt forgiveness to reduce the nation’s student debt. Some Democrats in Congress have pressed Biden to use executive action to cancel $50,000 for all student loan borrowers, saying it would jumpstart the economy and help Black Americans who on average face higher levels of student debt.
Last year, Biden asked the Education and Justice departments to review the legality of widespread debt cancellation, but no decision has been announced. Biden previously said he supports canceling up to $10,000, but he argued it should be done through congressional action.
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Binkley reported from Boston.
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SALISBURY, Md.- The City of Salisbury on Tuesday announced a new water incentive program for city residents, which provides financial relief for city water and/or sewer bills. Program applicants may be eligible for a one-time annual payment in assistance of up to $2,000.
“We are happy to have the ability to assist our residents with their bills, especially during a time when many families are struggling to make ends meet,” says Mayor Jake Day. “The COVID pandemic has brought many financial issues to the surface for our residents across the board. Between bills, healthcare, and rising costs of living, there are more expenses for families to take into account than ever before. If we can take any of that weight off of their shoulders, we want to do that.”
Originally called the Mayor’s Hardship Program, the water incentive program was included and approved as part of the city’s FY2022 budget. It is similar to a program from the State of Maryland called the Low Income Household Water Assistance Program, which Salisbury's water incentive program applicants and recipients are also eligible to receive.
To qualify for the water incentive program, residents must live at the property for which assistance is being provided, submit their most recent water and/or sewer bill, and meet monthly gross income requirements, which are detailed in the application. The requirements for this program are similar to other relief programs in the area, but typically these programs only provide assistance to tenants, not homeowners.
“Opening WIN to tenants is a game-changer,” said Day. “An ever-increasing number of our city residents are renters, so it’s very important that our programs keep up with our growing population and can match up to our new housing initiatives.”
To apply for the water incentive program, visit salisbury.md/WIN. Hard copies of the application are available in the Finance office in the Government Office Building at 125 N. Division Street #103, Salisbury, MD 21801. With any questions, please call the Finance office at 410-548-3115.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed a rule to finally ban asbestos, a carcinogen that is still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products and kills thousands of Americans every year.
The proposal marks a major expansion of EPA regulation under a landmark 2016 law that overhauled rules governing tens of thousands of toxic chemicals in everyday products, from household cleaners to clothing and furniture.
The proposed rule would ban chrysotile asbestos, the only ongoing use of asbestos in the United States. The substance is found in products such brake linings and gaskets, and is used to manufacture chlorine bleach and sodium hydroxide, also known as caustic soda.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan called the rule an important step to protect public health and “finally put an end to the use of dangerous asbestos in the United States.″
The proposed ban “demonstrates significant progress in our work to implement the (2016) law and take bold, long-overdue actions to protect those most vulnerable among us,” Regan said.
The 2016 law authorized new rules for tens of thousands of toxic chemicals found in everyday products, including substances such as asbestos and trichloroethylene that for decades have been known to cause cancer yet were largely unregulated under federal law. Known as Frank Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act, the law was intended to clear up a hodgepodge of state rules governing chemicals and update the Toxic Substances Control Act, a 1976 law that had remained unchanged for 40 years.
The EPA banned asbestos in 1989, but the rule was largely overturned by a 1991 court decision that weakened EPA’s authority under TSCA to address risks to human health from asbestos or other existing chemicals. The 2016 law required the EPA evaluate chemicals and put in place protections against unreasonable risks.
At the signing ceremony for the new law, then-President Barack Obama said the U.S. chemical system under TSCA was “so complex, so burdensome that our country hasn’t even been able to uphold a ban on asbestos. I think a lot of Americans would be shocked by all that.”
Asbestos, which was once common in home insulation and other products, is banned in more than 50 countries and its use in the U.S. has been declining for decades. The only form of asbestos known to be currently imported, processed or distributed for use in the U.S. is chrysotile asbestos, which is imported from Brazil and used by the chlor-alkali industry, which produces bleach, caustic soda and other products.
Most consumer products that historically contained chrysotile asbestos have been discontinued.
While chlorine is a commonly used disinfectant in water treatment, there are only 10 chlor-alkali plants in the U.S. that still use asbestos diaphragms to produce chlorine and sodium hydroxide. The plants are mostly located in Louisiana and Texas.
The use of asbestos diaphragms has been declining and now accounts for about one-third of the chlor-alkali production in the U.S., EPA said.
The proposed ban would take effect two years after the effective date of the final rule.
In addition to addressing the significant human health effects of chrysotile asbestos exposure, the proposed rule is also expected to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions associated with chlor-alkali production, an energy-intensive industrial operation.
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Lone Democrat campaigns for Arkansas Senate District 27
The sole Democrat running for the Arkansas Senate District 27 seat describes herself as a proud grandmother, a lifelong gun owner and a churchgoer.
Becky Ward, 74, is running for the position, "and I want people to know that Democrats do not have pointy tails, horns and carry a pitchfork. We are not the spawn of the devil. We can be regular people just like them," she said.
“The second reason I’m running is it’s extraordinarily dangerous to have a one-party state," Ward said.
Ward credits her grandchildren for part of the reason that she is running for the seat.
“I want them to live in a world that is at least as good as the world I lived in," Ward said.
Ward, who is retired, was born and raised in Fort Smith but lived in 11 different areas once she left the city. She has been back for almost five years.
She made a career out of selling premiums and promotions, which she described as a good training ground for politics.
When Ward moved back here, she got involved with the Democratic party.
Ward is concerned about Fort Smith's economy.
“I think Fort Smith has gotten left behind in some ways," Ward said, saying that the state tends to direct business to Northwest Arkansas or to Little Rock.
“We have a lot going here," she said about Fort Smith.
She said she wants to get Fort Smith its fair share of money and attention from the state.
Ward also wants to focus on getting more money to Fort Smith schools. She said that the district will get better teachers if officials can afford to pay them more.
“I think if we have better teachers we’ll have smarter kids," Ward said.
Ward would also like to address the division she sees in the country. She wants people on both sides of the aisle to quit viewing each other as enemies.
“You and I may disagree on politics, but we don’t have to be disagreeable," Ward said. She later added, “Compromise is not a dirty word."
Ward's husband Jerry Ward is running for justice of the peace for District 11.
She said she and her husband both deeply care about Fort Smith. Because Ward does not have a Democratic opponent in the primary elections, voters will choose between her and her Republican candidate Nov. 8.
“I would like people in Fort Smith to see that a regular normal grandma, who has a lot of the same things a lot of things that are important to her are important to you, can run for office on the Democratic ticket," Ward said.
Alex Gladden is a University of Arkansas graduate. She previously reported for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and The Jonesboro Sun before joining the Times Record. She can be contacted at agladden@swtimes.com.
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Van Buren to focus on recruiting businesses
The city of Van Buren released an economic development plan designed to bring and retain business to the area.
The plan emerged from a committee after two years of talking with business leaders about how the city can best serve them, said Julie Murray, the president and CEO of the Van Buren Chamber of Commerce.
“We wanted to continue the momentum that’s going on in Van Buren," Mayor Joe Hurst said.
Murray said that it was after evaluating a 2015 economic development plan that the committee realized that it had achieved all of its 2015 goals.
The city consulted with Jim Fram who is with Community Growth Strategies to create the plan.
“Just like other cities and businesses, we don’t want to produce a plan and then just leave it on the shelf to collect dust," Hurst said. "We want to actually have a plan that gives us straightforward tactics, ways that we can achieve our goals, so we want to put this plan into action."
The plan depends on people in the community to come together to achieve the goal of bringing more economic development to the area.
“It’s a community-type project that we have, and we say that we don’t think it’s just going to be a few people who work on this to try to get us to where we want to be in this city," Hurst said. "It’s going to take all of us. It’s going to take the city government. It’s going to take the chamber of commerce. It’s going to take civic groups. It’s going to take our businesses. It’s going to take the school. We’re going to have to work together to achieve these goals that we have."
Part of getting businesses to come to Van Buren will mean investment from the city. The city will need to put money into services that improve the quality of life.
"A lot of the research tells you in the past people would move to a community based on where the jobs were, and now that’s shifting to people moving because of the quality of the place that they want to go to," Hurst said.
This means that is important for the city to fund its downtown and its parks system.
“We want to make sure that Van uren is continuing the progress of being a place that people want ot come for recreation," Hurst said.
Alex Gladden is a University of Arkansas graduate. She previously reported for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and The Jonesboro Sun before joining the Times Record. She can be contacted at agladden@swtimes.com.
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FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas basketball has a third player declaring for the 2022 NBA Draft and a second hiring an agent. Guard Au'Diese Toney announced via Twitter on Tuesday that he had signed representation and would enter his name in the draft, forgoing a final year of eligibility granted by the NCAA due to the pandemic.
Toney joins guard JD Notae and forward Jaylin Williams as the third Razorback to enter the draft. Williams did not hire an agent, meaning he can still return for his junior year. Notae and Toney, however, cannot.
Toney played one season with Arkansas after transferring from Pittsburgh. He was one of Arkansas' best defenders, repeatedly earning coach Eric Musselman's "lockdown defender chain" for the top player on defense in a particular game.
Toney scored a season-high 22 points against LSU in the first round of the SEC Tournament, and he followed it up with 18 against Texas A&M. His defense was key in Arkansas' NCAA Tournament run, too, especially against New Mexico State. Toney held the Aggies' leading scorer, Teddy Allen, to 12 points just one game after Allen scored 37 against UConn.
EARLY RANKINGS:Razorbacks No. 1? Where Arkansas basketball stands in 'way-too-early' top 25 rankings
MUSS BUS:Danyelle Musselman won't take Arkansas basketball coach Eric Musselman to Walmart with her
TRANSFER TRACKER:Who's out, who's in for Razorback basketball via the NCAA transfer portal
Whether Toney would return for a final year of eligibility was one of the biggest questions on Arkansas' roster. Notae's declaration wasn't a surprise, and Williams is expected to return for his junior year after testing the NBA Draft waters. Toney's decision could've gone either way.
Toney is unlikely to be selected in the two-round NBA Draft in June, but he could seek professional opportunities in the NBA G League or overseas.
With a No. 2-ranked recruiting class coming in and the transfer portal open for business, Arkansas has plenty of options to fill in its lineup next season. Still, losing a defender like Toney means big shoes to fill for a new player.
Christina Long covers the Arkansas Razorbacks. You can email her at clong@swtimes.com or follow her on Twitter @christinalong00.
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FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas fans have something to cling to this offseason as they await another season of Razorback men's basketball. In the "way-too-early" top 25 rankings released after the national championship game, both ESPN and Sports Illustrated ranked Arkansas basketball No. 1 in the country.
Other rankings aren't quite as high on the Razorbacks, but Arkansas does appear in multiple top 10s. CBS and Sporting News have the Razorbacks at No. 6, and USA Today placed them at No. 7.
The way-too-early rankings are just that: early. A lot can happen in the offseason, and by the time preseason polls come out in the fall, Arkansas could drop in some rankings or rise in others. But for a team that leaned into being overlooked and underrated this past season, early hype is welcome.
With a second straight Elite 8 finish and a second-ranked recruiting class on its resume, Arkansas is certainly set up for a big season. Thanks to the commitment of point guard Anthony Black, the Razorbacks will have three five-star recruits, all three McDonald's All-Americans, on campus next season, plus three four-stars.
MUSS BUS:Danyelle Musselman won't take Arkansas basketball coach Eric Musselman to Walmart with her
TRANSFER TRACKER:Who's out, who's in for Arkansas basketball via NCAA transfer portal
GOING PRO:Arkansas basketball's JD Notae announces decision to enter 2022 NBA Draft, will sign with agent
Coach Eric Musselman is known for his ability to recruit out of the transfer portal, and the Razorbacks have already added one key transfer in forward Trevon Brazile from Missouri.
Arkansas is losing a pair of key starters in Au'Diese Toney and JD Notae, both of whom have declared for the NBA Draft and hired agents. But with highly touted new additions and the likely return of forward Jaylin Williams, Arkansas will be a talented team in 2022-23.
Christina Long covers the Arkansas Razorbacks. You can email her at clong@swtimes.com or follow her on Twitter @christinalong00.
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A Selah man has pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide, shortly after his trial on the charge began.
Thomas D. Withrow, 59, entered a guilty plea Friday, April 1, 2022, just two days after a Yakima County Superior Court jury began hearing testimony in the case.
Withrow is accused of killing Diane Leitz, 81, in a motor-vehicle collision near Selah in June 2019. Withrow was driving his pickup truck on North Wenas Road when he crossed the centerline and hit Leitz’s vehicle and another SUV at the intersection with Lampe Road, according to court documents.
Leitz died June 19, 2019, at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, five days after the crash.
In his plea statement, Withrow said he was under the influence of prescription Oxycodone at the time of the crash.
In return for his plea, prosecutors are planning to recommend a six-year prison sentence that includes two 24-month impaired driving enhancements, according to court documents. As part of the proposal, Withrow would plead guilty to two unrelated counts of violating no contact orders in Yakima County District Court, with a 364-day sentence that would run concurrently with the vehicular homicide sentence.
Judge Jeffery Swan is not obligated to follow the recommendation at Withrow’s sentencing hearing on May 9.
Withrow has a prior conviction for reckless driving in 1995 after being originally charged with driving in the influence, court documents said.
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After an intense wind storm rampaged through the night on April 4, the community awoke on Tuesday to find that the Spud Drive-In movie screen had been blown down.
Built in 1953, the Spud is an iconic Teton Valley landmark on Highway 33 south of Driggs.
Unfortunately, the drive-in's towering projection screen was no match for destructive wind gusts over 40 mph on late Monday through early Tuesday. With the wind came mass power outages around the valley and reports of flying tarps, trampolines, and tumbleweed.
Bruce Mason at Teton Valley Weather informed the community before the storm started that, with winds staying in the 30 mph range until Tuesday night, "Wednesday will be the day to go out, meet your neighbors, and get your lawn furniture back from them."
On the Community Page of Teton Valley Facebook page, residents mourned the downfall of the screen and immediately began asking how they could help, through donations, equipment, manpower, or an old-fashioned barn-raising event. "The Valley will rally!" wrote Amy Dery on one post.
"We are so grateful for all of the community outreach that has already happened this morning," Spud manager Katie Mumm said. "This structure has been up for 70 years! We are so thankful for all of the memories that it's given this community. We will move forward, build another screen, and try to keep hold of the nostalgia that this screen held."
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Dan R. Sorensen, beloved husband of Donna Mae Sorensen, passed away peacefully at home in his sleep on April 2, 2022. As well as his wife, Donna Mae, he will be greatly missed by his two daughters, Valerie Joy Connell, Lynnette Sorensen (Greg Collins), and his son Daniel Lee Sorensen. His Grandsons, Lindsay Stout, Daniel William Sorensen, and Isaac Sorensen, and two Great Grandsons Luca, and Lane Stout will miss their special Grandpa (Poppa).
Dan is also survived by a very large extended family, and many friends. Dan is predeceased by his wife Barbara Marie Lee.
Dan was born in Driggs, Idaho, and raised in Alta Wyoming. After graduation from High School, he attended College in Logan, Rexburg, and Provo. He served a mission in South Africa, and on his return complete his degree in accounting. After marrying Barbara, he pursued his passion and went back to University in St. Louis Mo., to graduate in Dentistry. Dan moved to Calgary Alberta, Canada to open his practice. He lived in Calgary for 45 years, and still called it home. Dan was a skilled, generous, and even inventive Dentist. He has been missed terribly by both his staff, and patients since he retired. Dan treasured every single day of his life and lit up a room. Every single day he spread his joy to others, and always hummed happy tunes as he carried on with his day. He was very social and stayed in touch with his many, many friends. Dan was an example of pure service, never having a conversation in which he didn't ask what he could do for you. Dan loved his time in South Africa and talked about it often. His family was his top priority, and he made that very clear with his exemplary love and care of his wife, children and grandchildren.
Services will be held at the Alta Wyoming Cemetery, in Alta Wyoming on Saturday April 9th at 12:00 p.m.
Family and friends are invited to share tributes online at SerenityStG.com. Arrangements and memorial tree planting by Serenity Funeral Home of Southern Utah, 986-9100.
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Overall, March temperatures ran about 5 degrees F below normal this year, and we got a little over half of the average precipitation we rely on. According to data recorded at Driggs-Reed Memorial Airport, we got down into the 20 below zero range for a day or two, and we only broke 50 on four days.
It seems like just yesterday we were nervously watching the level of the Teton River and preparing for springtime flood conditions. Not so much this year. Although a fast spring melt can create flooding even in a drought year, colder than average temperatures and lower than average precipitation this year have kept the natural flow in our rivers low. During the last few days of March, the Teton River dropped half a foot, and we saw the second-lowest amount of water in the snowpack around our watershed area on record, second only to 2001. As we have said before, water will be at a premium this summer, and any water-saving measures are certainly in order; don’t wait until we run out.
There have been lots of dashed hopes for water this year, so here’s one more. April normally gets half an inch more precipitation than March, and then May is our wettest month of the year. So we need to keep those rain dances and good thoughts toward the rain gods going; all is not lost.
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Russia has stationed troops in Transnistria, Moldova, since the break up of the Soviet Union. It illustrates Russia's influence and the political complexity of this frontline state in Eastern Europe.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum is commemorating former First Lady Betty Ford’s birthday by offering free admission to the public.
The museum says patrons get in for free on Friday, April 8 between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Friday would have been Betty’s 104th birthday.
We’re told the promotion also applies to the Women in Uniform exhibit. The museum says the exhibit displays artwork from the Naval History and Heritage Command’s collection that depict women serving in a variety of military roles.
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KALAMAZOO, Mich. — The 12th annual Kalamazoo Hot Dog Walk will commence on May 27, 2022.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hot Dog Walk utilized a voucher format. Starting May 27, 2022, the Hot Dog Walk will return to the live event featuring riding buses to six restaurants in one afternoon including Coney Island, Nagle’s Top Dog & Malt Shoppe, Papa’s Italian Sausage, Ray Ray’s Italian Beef & Sausage, The Root Beer Stand, and Schultz’s Treat Street.
Although the event is adopting a live menu virtual open will still be available to those interested. The virtual option ensures participants are provided a packet containing vouchers good for one hot dog at each partner restaurant, redeemable throughout the year.
Additionally, a hybrid option is available. Registration for the Hot Dog Walk opens Saturday, April 16, 2022. Below are the three different ticket option prices for the event:
- Event only: $55
- Voucher only: $50
- Hybrid: $85
Everyone who registers will receive a commemorative t-shirt. Proceeds will support local businesses and the Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes.
Registration for the Hot Dog Walk can be accessed online at hotdogwalk.com.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s dress rehearsal for its mega moon rocket has been postponed twice now by technical problems that stalled a fueling test.
Launch managers tried Sunday and again Monday to load nearly 1 million gallons of fuel into the rocket. Balky fans at the launch pad and then a stuck valve halted the attempts.
The countdown test is the last major milestone before the rocket launches on a test flight with an empty capsule on top.
A NASA manager said Tuesday the team will wait until SpaceX launches private passengers to the International Space Station before taking another crack at the fueling test.
That launch is scheduled for April 8.
NASA hopes to resume manned missions to the moon by 2024. Lunar flights were paused after 1972.
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The GM 6T41D uses several advanced combusion techs, including Active-Return variable Geartrain System, Direct Active Shift Valvoate G-fase Tech Engine CAM profile was also envolloped on both GM6M. the intake system (which are all variable Geantra) to deliver the benefits, fuel saving capabilities with performance for the 182 HPE to be 7hp larger @3 NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Residents of a five-story apartment building near Miami have been evacuated after an engineer said its foundation was unsound.
The step comes as officials heighten focus on the safety of aging buildings following last year’s deadly Surfside collapse.
The evacuations Monday and Tuesday took place at Bayview 60 Homes, which was built in 1972 in North Miami Beach.
They happened during one of the structure’s recertification inspections that are required by the county every 10 years, following its initial 40-year recertification.
That process has drawn new scrutiny after the Champlain Towers South collapse last year killed 98 people as it was undergoing its 40-year check.
Miami-Dade County is moving toward requiring the first major recertification to take place after 30 years.
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(LONDON) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has issued a direct appeal to the Russian people, urging them to seek the truth about a war he called “a stain on the honor of Russia.”
In a video message, Johnson said Russians were being kept in the dark about the invasion of Ukraine because Russian President Vladimir Putin “knows that if you could see what was happening, you would not support his war.”
Johnson said Russian authorities were hiding the truth of “sickening” slayings of civilians and other crimes, which “betray the trust of every Russian mother who proudly waves goodbye to her son as he heads off to join the military.”
He told Russians they only needed an online VPN connection to gain access to independent information from around the world.
Switching from English to Russian, Johnson said: “Your president stands accused of committing war crimes. But I cannot believe he’s acting in your name.”
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...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM MDT WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...West winds 40 to 55 mph with gusts up to 80 mph
expected. Winds may locally exceed 90 MPH near the Sierra
Madre Range in the Upper North Platte River Valley.
* WHERE...Lower elevations of Carbon and Albany Counties
including Muddy Gap, Shirley Basin, Baggs, Rawlins, Saratoga,
and Laramie.
* WHEN...Until 6 AM MDT Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Mainly to transportation. Strong cross winds will be
hazardous to light weight and high profile vehicles, including
campers and tractor trailers. There will be an extreme risk for
vehicle blowovers! Winds of this magnitude may also lead to
tree, power line, and property damage. Secure loose items.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A High Wind Warning means a hazardous high wind event is expected
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A strong wind gust blew the heavy glass globe off this city of Laramie lamppost on South 4th Street just south of Grand Avenue on Tuesday afternoon. A strong wind warning that began Monday continues through at least 6 a.m. Wednesday, the National Weather Service reports.
Looking east on Interstate 80 at mile marker 280 between Laramie and Rawlins, this screenshot of a Wyoming Department of Transportation webcam shows wet and slick roads at about 8:30 Tuesday morning. The interstate was closed to light, high-profile vehicles between exits 279 and 235 between Laramie and Rawlins because of an extreme blowover risk from high winds. Some sections also report being slick in spots with slush and blowing snow.
A strong wind gust blew the heavy glass globe off this city of Laramie lamppost on South 4th Street just south of Grand Avenue on Tuesday afternoon. A strong wind warning that began Monday continues through at least 6 a.m. Wednesday, the National Weather Service reports.
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Looking east on Interstate 80 at mile marker 280 between Laramie and Rawlins, this screenshot of a Wyoming Department of Transportation webcam shows wet and slick roads at about 8:30 Tuesday morning. The interstate was closed to light, high-profile vehicles between exits 279 and 235 between Laramie and Rawlins because of an extreme blowover risk from high winds. Some sections also report being slick in spots with slush and blowing snow.
High winds, slick pavement and blowing snow have prompted the Wyoming Department of Transportation to close more than 100 miles of Interstate 80 between Cheyenne and Rawlins to some vehicles.
As of 1:30 p.m., the interstate was closed to light, high-profile vehicles from exits 359 (junction with I-25) and 235 (Walcott Junction) because of "extreme blow-over risk," according to the WYDOT online travel information tracker.
Conditions along the stretch of interstate include dangerous winds with some spots reportedly slick with snowfall, slush and blowing snow. The views from WYDOT webcams placed along I-80 show little snowfall, but enough to cause dangerous conditions.
A high wind watch for southern Wyoming remains in effect at least through 6 a.m. Wednesday, the National Weather Service reports. As of the time of this report, it was 40 degrees in Laramie with winds blowing steady at 59 mph with gusts as high as 70 mph.
The forecast is for the temperature to top out at about 35 with winds continuing throughout the day, decreasing to about 25-30 mph after midnight with gusts as high as 60 mph. For Wednesday, expect a high near 37 with winds gusting to about 45 mph.
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Finding your purpose is easier said than done. From journaling to tarot card readings, a variety of tools and activities can help get you get off autopilot and in the direction of your calling.
Watch as Stephanie McCarl, CEO/Founder of Lotus of the Moon in Richland shares some unique ways to connect with your inner self and find your purpose. She explains how tarot readings work, and how they can be used to bring about spiritual growth and understanding.
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