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April 30 is International Jazz Day, so make sure you’re humming some Glenn Miller or Benny Goodman tunes as you go about your business today. And if you have an instrument at home, step outside and play a jazzy number (or two) for your neighbors.
Studio Moonfall, 5031 Seventh Ave., is hosting its Chapter One of its Kenosha Book Festival today. The bookstore is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. “for an unforgettable day of literary celebration,” with visiting authors and used books on sale for $1. As for food, local chef Joel Bolyard is making his debut with his food truck, That’s A Wrap. For more details, go to KenoshaBookFestival.com
It’s a busy Sunday at local theaters:
Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” continues with a 2 p.m. matinee today at the Rhode Center for the Arts, 514 56th St. The Lakeside Players production of this musical run through May 6. Tickets are $15 for adults and $13 for students and senior citizens. Advance ticket purchases are recommended. Go to rhodecenter.org or the Lakeside Players Facebook page to purchase advance tickets.
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“Legally Blonde: The Musical” continues with a 3 p.m. matinee today in the Wartburg Theater at Carthage College. The musical comedy — based on the 2001 movie — tells the story of Elle Woods, who heads to Harvard Law School in an attempt to win back the love of her ex-boyfriend. Tickets are $14 for adults, $10 for senior citizens (55 and older) and $8 for students. Go to carthage.edu/arts/box-office.
“Spring Awakening” — the winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical — continues today at 2 p.m. in the Main Stage Theatre at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. The show explores “the journey from adolescence to adulthood with a poignancy and passion that is illuminating and unforgettable,” show organizers said. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for senior citizens (age 60 and older) and $10 for youths (age 17 and younger). Note: The show contains mature themes.
For tickets, go to uwp.edu or call 262-595-2564. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenosha-area-events-for-sunday-april-30/article_90eb829c-e5d5-11ed-b09b-1bde6b67c5c3.html | 2023-04-30T13:12:01 | 1 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenosha-area-events-for-sunday-april-30/article_90eb829c-e5d5-11ed-b09b-1bde6b67c5c3.html |
For more than a half-century, generations of Miller residents and beachgoers stopped by Ono's & Jo's Pizza for pizza, Italian beef or its locally famous Sicilian sandwich.
The seaside pizza shack, a short stroll from Lake Street Beach in Gary's Miller neighborhood, shuttered for good in 2016 when longtime owner Salvatore "Sam" Rizzo died. Its menus boasted "in Miller, it's Ono's" and "the best pizza in town."
Many people thought so.
The old-school pizzeria has lived on in memory. The landmark eatery is depicted in paintings, photos and prints at the nearby Miller School Shops in downtown Miller.
An electrician from the neighborhood has been working for the past six years to renovate the property. Paulette Cialdella, who hails from a family of pizza makers, restored the restaurant building, which she is putting up for sale through Ayres Realtors.
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"It was a labor of love for me," she said. "I just wanted to see this iconic place come back to life."
Josephine Rizzo and her sister Ann Massa originally opened the Beach Box at 720 N. Lake St., just steps from Lake Michigan, in 1953. They bought a hamburger stand with a counter and stools and turned it into a beach-side restaurant that sold ham sandwiches, hot dogs and pops that originally cost 10 cents. They changed the name to Ono’s & Jo’s after their brother from Italy, Ono Penzato, joined the restaurant and it added pizza to the menu in 1962.
Ono's & Jo's made the dough and sauce from scratch, specializing in homemade thin-crust pies with cheese, sausage and mushrooms. The menu included Italian beef, Italian sausage, stromboli and the signature Sicilian that featured Italian sausage, peppers, garlic and four kinds of cheese.
"It's an iconic institution of Miller Beach in Gary," she said. "It should be a historic landmark in my opinion."
Cash-only until the end, the small restaurant catered mainly to take-out customers. But people also often dined at the tables out back or the bench in the front.
"I remember sitting with Sam in the big window and watching the Cubs game from the bench," said Cialdella, a Chicago native who moved to Miller in 1987. "They had really good pizza and beef. They had good food and fun. People had tons of memories there."
Cialdella bought the property and renovated it with carpenter Carlos Mateo until he drowned in Lake Michigan on the Fourth of July.
"Me and him were doing the project and had a lot of fun until he passed away," she said. "We designed everything together, but I had to finish it on my own. He called it the compound because it has five buildings. He asked me if I was going to the compound and that was the last time I ever saw him. He was such a talented guy. I think he was a shop teacher and he was a licensed Gary contractor. He would be happy to see it finished."
Cialdella came up with a new design for the restaurant: a California-style beachfront walk-up. It has a large pickup window, 25 seats inside and 12 more in a party room in a separate building out back, a repurposed beach cottage.
The 1,144-square-foot main dining room features a bar and a three-way liquor license.
"It was in bad shape when I bought it," she said. "Now it's just beautiful."
Her family has owned such pizzerias as Danny's Pizza in Calumet Park and Labriola Bakery Café & Neapolitan Pizzeria in Oak Brook. But she has no interest in running one herself. She's an electrician by trade who's close to retirement and "busy as hell."
She put in long hours renovating the property in her spare time over the past few years.
"It was a lot of hard work. I was often painting or demoing until midnight. It was rewarding. It was fun. It was a creative outlet for me. Everything was gutted and is brand-new, down to the studs. It needed some tender loving care."
Many people stopped by to share their memories while she sat outside on the beach during the project.
"Generations of people went there," she said. "It's a landmark. It's on T-shirts and mugs."
The restaurant had deteriorated over the years.
"It was overgrown. It probably wouldn't still be standing if we hadn't taken ahold of it," she said. "It would be lost forever. We had the courage to take on the project. Now we need someone to pick it up and run with it."
The Ono's & Jo's space has a lot of potential because of the South Shore Line double tracking, the Lake Street improvements and the national park designation. Ono's and Jo's is just down the street from Miller Woods in the Indiana Dunes National Park and a short drive from West Beach, its biggest and most popular beach.
She hopes a buyer will revive it as a pizzeria to take advantage of the well-known brand and said the business could double as an ice cream shop or small neighborhood grocery.
"We built it as a beach concession at the north end of Lake Street," she said. "The whole area's going to pop. It's preserving the history for the new age of Miller as it revitalizes."
For more information, call 219-938-1188 or visit millerbeach.com. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/lakefront-landmark-onos-jos-pizza-revived-and-up-for-sale/article_4a524ee6-e4b9-11ed-bfcc-5f428953d6f5.html | 2023-04-30T13:28:58 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/lakefront-landmark-onos-jos-pizza-revived-and-up-for-sale/article_4a524ee6-e4b9-11ed-bfcc-5f428953d6f5.html |
Drug-impaired driving is increasing enough across Indiana and the nation that it is beginning to outpace drunken driving, according to Devon McDonald, executive director of the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute.
This includes drivers impaired on a single drug, multiple drugs or a combination of drugs and alcohol, he said, which could be a contributing factor in what appears to a growing frequency of motorists found passed out behind the wheel of running vehicles dangerously positioned on Region roads.
Just last weekend, Portage police said they had a tough time waking Sharod Marberry, who was found behind the wheel of a vehicle that was in gear and running at the intersection of Stone Avenue and Oakwood Street.
The 39-year-old, who faces a felony count of operating while intoxicated endangering others with a prior conviction, was reportedly found with a half-empty bottle of vodka and a small amount of marijuana.
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Some, like Maurice Smith, 25, of Terre Haute, are found passed out with blood-alcohol concentrations that are only slightly over the legal limit.
But Smith was found in possession of two burned marijuana cigarettes and an open bag of extra-strength THC gummies, Portage police reported in that March 25 arrest.
While these drivers were stopped before causing a crash, that is too often not the case, according to statistics provided by Jamie Palmer, senior policy analyst at the Indiana University Public Policy Institute.
"In 2021, 105 people died in collisions that involved one or more drivers who were legally impaired by alcohol," the research shows. "Of the 3,774 alcohol–impaired collisions that year, 93 claimed at least one life.
"Rates of positive drug test results were higher than alcohol impairment for drivers in a crash who survived and those who were killed."
The number of impaired-driving arrests that involved just alcohol fell 23% from 2016 to 2020 (to 8,722), yet those involving alcohol and drugs rose by just more than 1% (to 25,162), and drug arrests alone were up 22% (to 1,493), according to the Criminal Justice Institute.
The accused told police he had an argument with his wife and said the duffel bag belonged to her.
Lake County had the second-largest number of impaired-driving arrests in the state during that five-year period at 15,685, ICJI statistics show. Porter County had 10,057, and LaPorte County had 2,050.
The Criminal Justice Institute is targeting this rise in drug-impaired driving by providing training to officers in "advanced roadside impaired drug enforcement," McDonald said.
This institute has also been providing SoToxa Mobile Test System units to a growing number of Indiana police departments. McDonald said they allow officers on the road to test drivers for six types of drugs: cocaine, methamphetamine, opiates, cannabis (THC), amphetamine and benzodiazepines.
Police departments in Lake County were among the pilot sites for this effort.
"It's basically like a PBT (preliminary breath test), but for drugs," McDonald said.
The officer swabs the mouth of the suspected impaired driver and if a preliminary positive result is obtained for drug use, it provides the probable cause required to pursue a blood test for verification.
"Avoiding the deceased animal, caused Debra to run off the roadway and overturn the vehicle," police said.
"We're concentrating our efforts in Lake County as a thoroughfare between Illinois and Michigan where cannabis is legal," McDonald said in October 2021. "This is about making sure officers in the region have the training and equipment they need to address drug-impaired driving swiftly and more effectively."
Initial results were showing a 55% positive outcome on the drug tests, with cannabis accounting for more than half those findings.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has reported that in the 10 years between 2009 and 2018, the presence of marijuana had nearly doubled among drivers killed in crashes who were tested for the substance.
"More recently, data from a 2021 NHTSA study shows that 56% of drivers involved in serious injury and fatal crashes tested positive for at least one drug, based on trauma centers studied last year."
The Hobart Police Department was among the leaders in the effort.
"These devices are redefining roadside investigations and will make us more efficient," Lt. Ronald Russo said in 2021. "The faster we’re able to identify and remove impaired drivers and deter this behavior, the more lives we can save. It’s a game-changer." | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/drugs-overtaking-alcohol-as-culprit-in-impaired-driving-arrests-officials-say-as-crackdown-mounts/article_c8243766-e4f6-11ed-8829-9f6681b30124.html | 2023-04-30T13:29:11 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/drugs-overtaking-alcohol-as-culprit-in-impaired-driving-arrests-officials-say-as-crackdown-mounts/article_c8243766-e4f6-11ed-8829-9f6681b30124.html |
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — For almost 20 years, a group of women who fled Latin American countries because of violence against them have been supporting each other in the Fredericksburg area, throughout Virginia and into Washington and Maryland.
“They didn’t migrate for the American dream,” said Dilcia Molina, the group’s founder and president. “They migrated to save their lives.”
Once in America, some discovered similar problems as those they’d tried to escape. Younger women, especially those who don’t have driver’s licenses or speak English, sometimes were expected to give sexual favors in return for jobs and transportation, Molina said. Others faced continual harassment from managers to the point of being sexually assaulted.
Even before the women arrived in American cities and towns, they fell prey to human traffickers lurking around immigration detention centers. The traffickers promised jobs but ended up luring the women into forced labor or sex, she said.
“They take advantage of everybody,” Molina said about traffickers, “women who are alone, women with families, people who are part of the LGBTQ community. It doesn’t matter the age range, they pretty much go after everyone.”
The members of Madre Tierra decided to do something to stem the tide of violence, as well as inequality. There are about 80 in the group, with half being in the Fredericksburg area and the rest throughout Washington, Maryland and Virginia.
Many of them clean houses or commercial buildings and often get a pittance of what’s paid to owners of cleaning companies.
During a recent interview, five members of the group described, with the help of interpreter Obdulio Alcantara, a typical arrangement. They vacuum, dust and scour toilets in a three-story, two-bathroom townhouse and get about $35 per job while company owners receive as much as $250, said Jean Carla Palomo, who’s from Bolivia.
The women have started a cleaning cooperative that they will own and manage. Called Magic Broom, it’s a branch of Madre Tierra, and the 12 women who form the co-op, where everyone has an equal say, see it as a solution on several fronts.
“This will allow us to come together and make a living and hopefully get the means to be able to sustain ourselves,” said Palomo, who said Latinas typically have to work two or three jobs to make a living.
In addition, she said the co-op will “teach women about their rights so they can know when they’re being discriminated against and how to prevent violence.”
As part of the process, the women plan to work in small groups to protect each other and check out each situation before they sign contracts. The co-op already has acquired one cleaning contract in Washington, and members are excited about the prospect of more, along with the independence that it would bring.
“It makes us feel very happy, very safe,” said Molina, who was on the board of one of the only LGBTQ community centers in Honduras. The paramilitary there invaded her home and threatened to kill her and her family because of her activism.
Leslie Moncada, who’s also from Honduras, said the new cooperative makes her feel hopeful.
“It’s not just a business that belongs to one person,” Molina said. “It’s a collective that we’re all owners of.”
“Unification is what brings us power,” said Counseulo Barboso, who’s from Colombia and was married to an abusive husband.
Molina jokingly said the group will feel more powerful when they have more contracts — and she invited the newspaper to do another story “when we’re millionaires.”
Members of Madre Tierra have been working with Samuel Gray, a Richmond lawyer, to set up the legal structure of the cooperative. He typically works with similar businesses that are “governed democratically so each member of the cooperative has a single vote and they vote on decisions,” he said.
He’s worked with people of diverse backgrounds but never one composed of Spanish-speakers “with this element of advocacy for women.”
“I think they’re amazing,” Gray said. “It’s been an honor to work with them and I’m just happy to be helping out, trying to get them more exposure and business and help people learn what’s going on.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2023/04/30/exchange--cleaning-co-op/2437da00-e757-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html | 2023-04-30T13:33:59 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2023/04/30/exchange--cleaning-co-op/2437da00-e757-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html |
FREDERICK, Md. — John Ashbury jokes that his memory isn’t what it once was now that he’s reached his 80s. But you wouldn’t know that if you watched him flip through a copy of his recently published book.
Ashbury, a local author and historian, just released his fourth book. It’s called “Reflections,” and it’s billed as a collection of “eclectic selections from the archives of Frederick Magazine.”
Since 2006, Ashbury has written a regular column for the magazine called Reflections. In each piece, he profiles a person, place or event that in some way shaped Frederick County’s history. The new book compiles all 86 columns that Ashbury has published over the years, plus one that’s due to run in May.
The 87 subjects in the book “run the gamut,” Ashbury said.
There’s Morton Mower, who grew up downtown in the 1930s and ’40s and is the co-inventor of the automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, a widely used medical device similar to a pacemaker. Mower was an accomplished clarinetist, Ashbury recalls easily, not having to read the words on the page. He was picked on a lot in high school, Ashbury adds matter-of-factly.
There’s Shadrach Bond, who was born in Frederick in 1773 and went on to become the first governor of Illinois.
There’s Ambrosia Clarke, who raised 24 children in Frederick County and was one of the first Marylanders to donate blood during World War II. She went on to donate more than seven gallons of blood to military hospitals before doctors ordered her to stop, and she devoted the rest of her life to aiding veterans.
“There’s so many people that have had an impact on Frederick, and its history that nobody knows about,” Ashbury said, looking down at Clarke’s picture.
Ashbury conducts his research all over the county. He relies on the library at Mount St. Mary’s University, the local historical society and the internet.
Every day, he logs onto a Facebook page called “Frederick Maryland Old Photos.”
But he gives special thanks in the foreword of his latest book to the staff at the Maryland Room in the C. Burr Artz Public Library in downtown Frederick, which houses primary and secondary local history documents.
Mary Mannix, who has managed the Maryland Room for 25 years, said she’s become accustomed to Ashbury’s calls over the years. His work “makes history more digestible,” she said.
“John does important work,” Mannix said. “People will be using his work for generations.”
For years, Ashbury kept a file cabinet full of 365 manilla folders, one for each day of the calendar year. He would write down and file away any notable events that happened in Frederick County on a given day. He recently donated his file cabinets and his extensive collection of books to the Maryland Room, where Mannix now uses them to assist other researchers.
Ashbury says he engages with history in some way almost every day.
He’s currently working on compiling his own family history.
The passion dates back to his adolescence, when Ashbury would eavesdrop on the conversations that important community figures would have with his father, who was the rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in downtown Frederick. That sparked a fascination that has never faded, Ashbury said.
Most of his ideas for Reflections pieces arise during conversations over meals with friends, he said. They’ll mention a grandparent or cousin or friend who did something interesting, and Ashbury will jot it down.
“People don’t realize they know what they know,” Ashbury said. “It’s memories to them. I take those memories from other people and turn them into things like this book.”
He hopes the book will inspire others to explore local history.
And he hopes to continue researching and writing.
“I just enjoy the hell out of it,” he said. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2023/04/30/exchange-frederick-history-new-book/2e25a1c8-e757-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html | 2023-04-30T13:34:05 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2023/04/30/exchange-frederick-history-new-book/2e25a1c8-e757-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html |
Leirion Gaylor Baird had been mayor less than 10 months when a new virus turned the world upside down, which meant her administration would spend much of the next three years leading the city through a global pandemic.
She’s proud of how Lincoln and Lancaster County kept mortality rates among the lowest in the state and nation, how her administration used an influx of millions in federal aid to help small businesses and renters stay afloat and housed, to create worker training programs.
She weathered a recall attempt, along with several City Council members, over a mask mandate and other health directives, and Black Lives Matter protests that erupted in Lincoln after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.
People would say to her, “You didn’t sign up for this,” but she respectfully disagrees. You have a set of priorities when you run for office, she said, things you want to accomplish, of course.
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“But you’re also running to be one of the city’s top public servants and to be there for your community no matter what,” she said. “I couldn’t have predicted (a pandemic), but it is what I signed up for. I signed up to be here for Lincoln no matter what.”
And she’d like to keep being there.
“We’ve got so much to do,” she said, and a historic influx of federal stimulus money to help move the city forward.
Plans for a park in the South Haymarket, for a downtown music district, a convention center and youth baseball fields are all in the works, some of which will be bolstered by federal stimulus funds.
She wants to see through the workforce training programs her administration began with those monies, to continue the historic $211 million investment in city streets touted by her campaign — and helped by a quarter-cent sales tax earmarked for street repairs — to work on affordable housing efforts, and to secure a second water source for the city.
“There are sunnier days ahead and I want to be there to work from City Hall and partner with those who have helped us emerge stronger,” she said.
Gaylor Baird, a Democrat, faces Republican Suzanne Geist, a well-funded opponent whose supporters — most notably a conservative political action committee called Together Nebraska funded primarily by Sen. Pete Ricketts and the Peed family — have painted a much darker picture of a city whose crime is skyrocketing.
The Lincoln Police Union endorsed Geist; the Lincoln firefighter’s union and Tom Casady, the former Lincoln police chief and public safety director, endorsed Gaylor Baird.
The mayor says she’s supported public safety by adding money for additional positions at both the police and fire departments, changing policies to make it easier for people to apply for the Police Department and making changes to the pension program to make it more appealing to officers who transfer from other departments.
“We want to keep everyone safe,” she said. “That’s why we continue to grow with our personnel, have the latest training and equipment, but also … we have stayed true to our community policing model.”
That connection to the community means LPD solves crimes at a high rate, she said, and other investments her administration has made help address the root causes of crime. Those include investments in mental and behavioral health with Lancaster County, universal home visitation for new babies and supporting community learning centers through an interlocal agreement with schools.
The daughter of two school teachers who grew up in Portland, Oregon, Gaylor Baird said while she didn’t want to be a teacher, she appreciated that they were in professions that helped people.
“I always had the sense that jobs could be more than a paycheck, that it could be about making people’s lives better.”
She earned an undergraduate degree in history from Yale and her master’s in comparative social research from Oxford University, where her thesis was on parental leave policies — a policy she recently introduced in Lincoln. Passed by the City Council earlier this month, it makes Lincoln the first city in the state to offer paid parental leave.
Gaylor Baird, 51, worked in the private sector in management consulting in New York and Chicago before becoming a budget analyst for the city of San Francisco. Her family moved to Lincoln in 2002, when her husband Scott Baird, part-owner of a software company, got a job here.
The couple has three children, the youngest of whom is a freshman at Lincoln Southeast. Their older two are in college, one at the University of Oregon, the other at Middlebury College in Vermont.
She was involved in volunteering after moving to Lincoln, and former Mayor Chris Beutler appointed her to the Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Commission in 2007. Six years later she ran a successful bid for one of the three at-large City Council seats and won reelection in 2017.
As mayor she passed both a Climate Action Plan and the Affordable Housing Coordinated Action Plan, with a goal of adding 5,000 new or rehabilitated affordable homes in Lincoln by 2030.
Her administration started a rental rehabilitation program for older homes in some of Lincoln’s core neighborhoods, has included affordable housing units or a contribution toward affordable housing in tax-increment financing agreements with developers and helped create a nonprofit financial institution to coordinate funding for affordable housing projects.
She said her administration has also worked to address higher- and medium-density projects often called “missing middle” housing and points to a record number of residential building permits in the last two years.
“As much as we’ve accomplished as a community and in extraordinary times, there’s still more to do and I’m committed to working with everyone in our community to make this an even better place to call home.”
Age: 51
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Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird, a Democrat, faces former state Sen. Suzanne Geist, a Republican, in her run for a second term. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/election-2023-gaylor-baird-wants-to-help-lincoln-move-forward-during-sunnier-times-ahead/article_9b0863ec-e474-11ed-a413-8fd61a77dee3.html | 2023-04-30T13:36:57 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/election-2023-gaylor-baird-wants-to-help-lincoln-move-forward-during-sunnier-times-ahead/article_9b0863ec-e474-11ed-a413-8fd61a77dee3.html |
The rollout in January of a new payment portal for mental health care providers treating Nebraskans on probation came with technical challenges that went undetected for more than two months and left some health care providers unpaid for longer.
The state Office of Probation Administration spent seven years rebuilding its voucher payment processing portal, which thousands of mental health and substance use care providers across the state have used since 2006 to seek payment for care they provide to clients on probation, according to the office.
Nebraska's probation office pays around $50 million each year to state service providers that evaluate, treat, counsel and sometimes house probationers who otherwise could not afford the treatment.
And the office spent months last year preparing the hundreds of organizations and thousands of individual providers with email blasts, trainings and town hall sessions for the January launch of the new payment portal, said Gene Cotter, the deputy administrator of the office's operations division.
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But when the new portal went live Jan. 1, each provider had to register for the new system all at once — a process that required more support from probation office employees than the state had anticipated — while a breakdown in the new system halted payments to some providers for months, Cotter said.
Though the system worked flawlessly for some providers, others submitted payment requests that went unfulfilled for nearly four months, leading to a backlog of approximately 1,500 unpaid bills at its peak, Cotter said.
It's not clear exactly how much money the state owed providers when the backlog peaked, Cotter said, but from April 21-27 the office processed 1,215 vouchers that amounted to nearly $2 million in payments, many of which were backlogged from weeks or months prior.
The payments the office processed over that period — which totaled $1.94 million — were paid to 260 separate health care and house providers, for an average of about $7,400 per provider.
For some providers, the months-long delay in payments — which generally took about 14 days to process under the previous system — caused intense financial stress, as payroll and other business expenses have continued to stack up while payments from a once-reliable funding source stopped coming.
Dameon Gilfillan, who operates the for-profit treatment provider Alcohol & Drug Solutions with his mother, Jody, said the probation office owed their company approximately $100,000 as of Tuesday — with some of that money still due from services they had provided in January.
Gilfillan, who also operates New Life Place, a transitional living facility that he said relies nearly entirely on probation vouchers to operate, said the state requirement to staff the living facility around the clock didn't waiver, even as the state failed to deliver payment.
“I’ve told them — literally — I may have to close my doors," Gilfillan said recalling his dealings with the probation office that date back months. "I am at stake of not making payroll. 'Could you please just get a couple vouchers paid out this week?'”
“And that’s just bulls***," he added. "And it’s embarrassing. It’s embarrassing. I shouldn’t have to sit there and email another colleague and say, ‘Hey, can you please give us some money?’ when it’s already ours, in my opinion. It’s already owed to us.
"I’m not asking for a loan or an advance. I’m asking for payments from January, for Christ’s sake.”
Jody Gilfillan said the probation office had paid out a few of their company's vouchers in the first four months of 2023, but the Gilfillans were still waiting for payment for most of the services they have provided to clients on probation.
At times, she said, she has resorted to paying New Life Place's bills out of the separate bank account for Alcohol & Drug Solutions.
And at least once, she said, she had dipped into her personal savings to make payroll.
She said the whole ordeal — which had not been resolved when the Gilfillans each spoke to the Journal Star on Tuesday — had caused her to pause as Alcohol & Drug Solutions kept receiving client referrals from the same office that owed her company thousands.
"Any time I get a referral that’s a voucher client, I get kind of a knot in my stomach thinking, ‘Eh, we need to take them — ethically, we need to take them into treatment,'" she said. "'They meet criteria. They need help.'
"But yet, I don’t want to wait three or four months for payment with this client."
No providers who spoke with the Journal Star reported that the payment delays prevented them from offering services to probationers or any other clients.
Topher Hansen, the CEO of the nonprofit service provider Centerpointe, said the probation office owed his organization approximately $6,000 as of late April — and the office hadn't provided a timeline for when the continued delays might be resolved.
And a spokesperson for an Omaha-based residential facility said the state owed their organization more than $60,000 in unfulfilled voucher payments.
The delays haven't been universal.
Tina Arsiaga, a Lincoln-based counselor who operates the addiction recovery practice Connecting Links, said her organization "has experienced timely payment" for services rendered to clients on probation in recent months — just as the organization always has over nearly two decades as a provider for probationers, she said.
And Donny Larson, the executive director of the Norfolk-based Women’s Empowering Life Line, said the probation office "has been an integral partner" of the organization for years.
"As a funding source, they have been consistent and timely in reimbursements for as long as we have partnered with them," Larson said in an emailed statement. "Any deviation from consistent payments should in no way be represented as a pattern of behavior or an ongoing concern for providers."
More than a dozen treatment and transitional living providers either declined to comment on the payment delays or did not return to phone calls or emails seeking comment.
The drawn-out nature of the delay has been a point of particular friction for the Gilfillans, who said the probation office had provided vague updates on the payment issues as providers faced mounting financial worries.
"Do they … give you a time frame? No," said Jody Gilfillan, who has been a counselor in Lincoln for more than 40 years and who started her own practice in 2010.
"Do they apologize for it? No,” she said.
Cotter, the deputy administrator, said that the probation office wasn't notified of the widespread payment delays until early March, and even then did not realize the full scope of the issue.
"The more apparent it becomes, the more vigorously we apply resources to it," said Cotter, who said the probation office had hired or reassigned 25-30 staff members to process payment vouchers in March, but that it took weeks longer to train and credential those new hires.
Meanwhile, Dameon Gilfillan said, providers who were owed money were not given a clear answer on when the issue might be resolved.
Emails obtained by the Journal Star seem to support Gilfillan's account of the office's messaging to providers, which he said amounted to: "(We're) pretty much being told that, ‘Don’t worry. Help's on the way.’"
That help finally arrived last week for many providers, according to Cotter, who said the probation office had reduced its backlog from 1,500 pending vouchers to 626 as of Thursday.
Cotter attributed the breakdown in part to issues registering all of the state's care providers into the new payment portal — a process that remained ongoing Friday — and generally to "growing pains and a new IT system."
In a phone interview Friday, Cotter said probation staff would work through the weekend to make continued headway on the backlog of unpaid vouchers, more of which arrive each day.
The probation office, Cotter said, hopes to clear the backlog by mid-May — 4½ months after unpaid vouchers began to mount. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/nebraska-probation-office-failed-to-pay-some-mental-health-care-providers-for-months/article_aff328b4-e46a-11ed-bdd0-0bc142e16124.html | 2023-04-30T13:37:03 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/nebraska-probation-office-failed-to-pay-some-mental-health-care-providers-for-months/article_aff328b4-e46a-11ed-bdd0-0bc142e16124.html |
The Arizona Daily Star Sportsmen’s Fund raises money so children from low-income households and military families can attend summer camp at little or no cost to their families.
Since 1947, the Sportsmen’s Fund has helped pay for 43,468 children to go to camp. We’re one of the oldest 501(c )(3) charities in Arizona and one of the most efficient, with 97 cents from every dollar going to send kids to camp.
We send local kids to weeklong YMCA, Boy Scout and Girl Scout overnight camps, as well as overnight camping at Camp Tatiyee for school-age children and older teens with special needs.
We kicked off our fundraising for this summer on Wednesday, Feb. 22, with an envelope in the Arizona Daily Star. Our goal is to raise $225,000 to send up to 700 kids to camp. So far, we’ve received 463 donations totaling $69,743, or just over 30 percent of our goal, with camps starting in about a month.
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Donations are welcome throughout the year.
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Diana Zimmerman, $312.65. | https://tucson.com/news/local/we-re-at-30-of-our-our-camp-goal-with-summer-almost-here/article_9d10069a-e54b-11ed-bb67-3b622f5d91f8.html | 2023-04-30T13:44:28 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/we-re-at-30-of-our-our-camp-goal-with-summer-almost-here/article_9d10069a-e54b-11ed-bb67-3b622f5d91f8.html |
CEDAR FALLS — Construction bids received for an Ashworth Drive connection from Hudson Road to Kara Drive have made it more likely the project will get underway later this year.
The City Council on Monday will consider awarding one of the four bids, all of which were significantly under the budgeted estimate of $1.74 million. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. in City Hall, 220 Clay St.
And as is not often the case with a lot of the city’s big road projects, the winning bid may not be the construction company out of Reinbeck, Peterson Contractors Inc. However, it might not be a local company, either.
Dave Schmitt Construction of Cedar Rapids submitted the lowest bid of $1.25 million. Peterson Contractors came in with the second lowest at $1.41 million. Two Cedar Falls companies, Owen Contracting Inc. and Vieth Construction Corporation, submitted bids at $1.54 million and $1.57 million, respectively.
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City Engineer David Wicke previously said construction would get underway on the roadway later in the summer, but the traffic signal, proposed to be installed at the future Hudson Road and Ashworth Drive intersection, likely won’t be delivered until next year.
Earlier this month, the council was deep in discussion on the merits of installing a roundabout there, as well as what might be on the horizon in terms of future road extensions in the area to alleviate traffic and safety concerns for families with kids at the nearby Bess Streeter Aldrich Elementary School at 2526 Ashworth Drive.
The council approved the plans in a 5-1 vote with Councilmember Dave Sires dissenting and Councilmember Dustin Ganfield absent.
Additionally, the council will consider the second of three readings for an ordinance rezoning three acres along that future roadway for new residential development.
The council will also consider:
- Approving new plans for the first phase of the North Cedar Heights area reconstruction project without a portion of Timber Drive. Construction costs are estimated at $3.39 million for work on West Ridgewood Drive from Greenwood Avenue to Cherry Lane, as well as a part of Greenwood Avenue. The previous plans were rejected after only one bid was received, from Peterson Contractors, Inc., way over the previous estimate.
- Approving two agreements, one with Iowa Northland Regional Council of Governments and the other with Riverwise Engineering, LLC., associated with the highly anticipated project that will bring about recreational improvements to the Cedar River between the First and Main Street bridges. The construction contract was awarded to Peterson Contractors, Inc. and the new start date is fall 2023.
- Passing an ordinance, on its second of three readings, rezoning 14.43 acres of farmland owned by Jim Sands Construction for future homes. The land is north of Tomahawk Lane and west of Cypress Avenue.
- Approving the third and final reading of a change in zoning code to allow for defunct institutional buildings in residential areas to be reused for salons. If ultimately approved, any salon project would be considered a conditional use and require approval from the board of adjustment. The proposed revision comes as a builder looks to remodel the former Faith Wesleyan and Jordan Crossing church at 209 Walnut St. for Dolled Up Studios’ new location.
- Accepting the reappointment of Jeff Engel to the Cedar Falls Utilities board of trustees until Aug. 31, 2029.
- Condemning the property at 1312 Clay St.
Prior to the regular meeting, at 6:05 p.m., Cedar Falls Economic Development Corporation Executive Director Jim Brown and Iowa Northland Regional Council of Governments Executive Director Brian Schoon will update the council on the housing needs assessment. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/cedar-falls-city-council-to-consider-ashworth-drive-extension-bids-monday/article_3c6a84b3-d6d5-5048-9d46-c4f1c2d58aee.html | 2023-04-30T13:45:38 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/cedar-falls-city-council-to-consider-ashworth-drive-extension-bids-monday/article_3c6a84b3-d6d5-5048-9d46-c4f1c2d58aee.html |
WATERLOO — Almost a year after the creation of a task force to focus on gun violence, the Waterloo Safe Neighborhoods Commission held a forum Thursday at Jubilee United Methodist Church Freedom Center.
Ward 2 Councilmember Jonathan Grieder, who is spearheading the committee approved by the City Council in June, said the group is in its first phase. Members are talking with experts, such as data scientists from Iowa State University, to look at strategies that work in other places.
But Brent Carmichael, the founder and director of a nonprofit that provides social awareness services, said a phase that will make a difference is one that focuses on how to work with children.
“We as adults don’t understand motivations and influences and what’s causing them to do this,” Carmichael said. “We also have to look at dispute resolution and how to handle conflict, peace compromise and build respectful relationships. That would decrease some of the issues we’re having.”
“This situation didn’t happen overnight, and we’re not gonna solve it overnight,” he continued. “A lot of us are scared to talk to our kids, and so if we can increase our connections with them and decrease the need for them to have conflict we can solve some of the problem.”
He warned that “summer’s coming,” implying that more crime happens in warmer months.
Members of the commission, as well as the public, spoke about the resources the area used to have in the summer months to give children something to do.
“My heart goes out to this generation of kids because my parents came here from Mississippi in the ‘70s, and I remember the Jesse Cosby Center, I remember the Book Mobile, I remember afternoon block parties,” resident Rosie Julion said. “And there’s nothing like that here for the kids. I don’t understand that. We throw money into everything else in this community.”
Another resident, Ali Raman, said the lack of resources is connected to the history of segregation in the city. She noted recent council meetings at which Councilmember Belinda Creighton-Smith decried the dearth of opportunities in her ward – Ward 4 – such as the removal of the pool in Gates Park and the lack of coffee shops.
“I think some of these issues are very systemic, and we’re never gonna solve it if we talk about just the guns themselves,” Raman said. “We need to deal with the truth and not run from it.”
Grieder said city leaders have been having this conversation for 20 years but nothing came out of it.
“I’m not interested in blue ribbon stuff,” he said. “I will consider it an abject failure if we don’t come up with long-term solutions. It will cost money and time, but we see what happens when we abandon kids.”
Photos: Arrests and protests at State Capitol in support of Rep. Zooey Zephyr | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/waterloo-community-members-discuss-gun-violence-and-possible-solutions/article_8458ef4e-27bb-5ebc-964a-faca08c64f89.html | 2023-04-30T13:45:44 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/waterloo-community-members-discuss-gun-violence-and-possible-solutions/article_8458ef4e-27bb-5ebc-964a-faca08c64f89.html |
Doan’s 140th annual picnic to be celebrated May 6
The oldest, continuously celebrated pioneer festival is back again this year for the 2023 event in Doans, Texas.
The Doan’s 140th annual May Picnic will be 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 6 near Doan’s Crossing at FM 2916 on the Red River, just north of Vernon.
The picnic began in 1884 and has been celebrated every year since – even through WWI, WWII and there was a modified version during COVID.
The Doans’ adobe house, built in 1881 by Corwin F. Doan, is the oldest home in the county. Doans, the town, was named after the Doan family. This area was the last stop on the Great Western Trail before Native American territory. People came through to get supplies as they traveled north with cattle herds.
The Doan family came to Texas from Ohio, where they had always celebrated May Day with flowers. The Texas celebration began when family and friends walked over to a field full of wildflowers and enjoyed time together.
While the apostrophe was dropped in the town’s name, it is used for the name of the picnic event. Local legend says the Texas Highway department lost the apostrophe for the town’s sign somewhere between Austin and Doans.
The timeline usually includes naming of the year’s man and woman, coronation of a picnic king and queen at 11:30 a.m. followed by lunch.
This year’s woman of the year is Lou Quinby Byrd and the man of the year is Daniel Carroll White.
Everyone is welcome to join in the festivities. Picnic-goers can bring their own lunch or purchase barbeque on site.
For more information, call 940-552-7998, visit their website at https://doansmaypicnic.com/doansmaypicnic.com/Main_Doans_Page.html or their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/CelebrationPicnic | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2023/04/30/doans-140th-annual-picnic-to-be-celebrated-may-6/70150634007/ | 2023-04-30T13:50:23 | 0 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2023/04/30/doans-140th-annual-picnic-to-be-celebrated-may-6/70150634007/ |
SOUTH BOSTON, Va. – The hit reality series Hometown Hu$tle selected Halifax County as one of its featured communities for season 2! It showcases the stories of two small businesses in South Boston -- Southern Restorations LLC Cabinet & Design Co. and Distinct Impressions -- in a 22-minute episode that is full of laughter and heart-warming moments with these amazing entrepreneurs and their communities.
This season features 20 businesses in 11 Virginia counties/cities.
- Tuesday, May 2, 6pm to 8pm at Factory Street Brewing Co. Mingle and network!
- 6:45pm: Natalie (the host) will go live on Facebook to countdown to the episode. Maybe we can have some questions ready for her from HYPE.
- 7pm: show starts
- 8pm: Close out | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/04/30/hometown-hustle-highlights-two-businesses-in-halifax-co/ | 2023-04-30T14:03:48 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/04/30/hometown-hustle-highlights-two-businesses-in-halifax-co/ |
ORLANDO, Fla. – Three juveniles were shot Saturday night outside of Dezerland Park by someone who fired into a crowd, according to the Orlando Police Department.
Officers were already on scene around 11:43 p.m. at 5250 International Drive to monitor a “large group of juveniles” allegedly loitering on the property, according to a statement.
As the group walked off of the property, a shooter fired several rounds into the crowd, police said.
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The juveniles who were shot were taken to Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital, one of them in critical condition at last check, the statement reads.
No other information was confirmed, such as the ages of the victims, any possible arrests or an ongoing suspect search.
This is a developing story. Check back here for updates.
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AUBURNDALE, Fla. – A person was taken into custody after three people were shot Saturday night in Auburndale, according to police.
Officers responded to the shooting around 8:33 p.m. in the 3000 block of Allred Drive, police said. According to a statement, the three victims were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
One person was taken into custody, but the identities of all involved were being withheld at the time of this report pending the investigation in progress, the statement reads.
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Anyone with information about the shooting was asked to call the Auburndale Police Department at 863-965-5555, or Heartland Crime Stoppers at 1-800-226-TIPS (8477) to remain anonymous.
No other information was shared.
This is a developing story. Check back here for updates.
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OCOEE, Fla. – A new ADA-compliant playground that recently opened at an Orange County elementary school is getting results to make sure all students feel included.
Corin Metz is a senior teacher at Thornebrooke Elementary School in Ocoee and works with many children who have autism.
She said the new inclusive playground is a great way for kids to interact and also learn the importance of being kind to each other.
“This is an inclusive playground. So, this is a great opportunity for our children with autism to play with their atypical peers,” Metz said. “There are students in the general education classroom who really step up and they go out of their way to befriend our students with autism because it’s hard for our friends to make friends.”
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Principal Korey Bawden said this investment has been all worth it. He said the money was fundraised by the school’s Parent Teacher Organization and gives the younger kids a chance to play and interact together during recess.
“It puts a smile on my face,” Bawden said. “We have amazing teachers out here. We have an amazing ASD (autism spectrum disorder) unit for our students and we really wanted to bring something where we can bring our kids together.”
5th grader Chloe Bolin said Lola Drewes is her best friend. They both attend Thornebrooke Elementary and had so much fun recently on their 5th grade trip to Universal.
“She is like my No. 1 friend,” Bolin said. “I just don’t want her to be seen different.”
Chloe said she makes it her mission each day to make sure Lola is included. Lola has autism and takes many general education classes with her friends like Chloe. She’s also a part of her school’s safety patrol, the drama club and so much more.
“I would play with her and make sure she’s included in my class,” Bolin said.
Lola doesn’t always play on the newly-installed playground since it’s designed for more of the younger kids, but she told News 6 it puts a smile on her face knowing more children are interacting with each other.
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An "I voted" sticker awaits those passing through the Ada County mobile voting unit outside the Lake Hazel Library during early voting on Nov. 1, 2022.
Early voting for the May 16 election begins Monday in Ada County.
Ballots will feature issues including the Kuna Library District, Meridian Library, and West Ada School District.
The election will not include all Ada County voters; voters are encouraged to visit the Ada County Elections website, adacounty.id.gov/elections, and under the “voter information” drop-down menu, select “view my ballot” or “where to vote” to be directed to a polling place locator and display a sample ballot.
Voting will be available at the following locations:
- Ada County Elections office, 400 N Benjamin Lane, Boise
- Boise City Hall, 150 N Capitol Blvd., Boise
- Meridian City Hall, 33 E Broadway Ave., Meridian
- Eagle Public Library, 100 N Stierman Way, Eagle
Anyone who is not registered to vote may register and vote at any of these locations by bringing a photo ID and proof of residence. These locations will be open on weekdays from Monday, May 1, to Friday, May 12, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Absentee ballot drop-box locations will be available at Ada County Elections, Meridian City Hall, Boise City Hall, Kuna City Hall, Star City Hall and Eagle City Hall. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/early-voting-begins-monday-in-ada-county-for-may-16-election/article_72300a08-e69d-11ed-826e-773d18878b02.html | 2023-04-30T14:37:14 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/early-voting-begins-monday-in-ada-county-for-may-16-election/article_72300a08-e69d-11ed-826e-773d18878b02.html |
Dr. Ross Jones, D.O., an orthopedic spine surgeon with Flagstaff Bone and Joint, was the first in northern Arizona to implant a pair of new devices, the prodisc C SK and C Vivo, in cervical total disc replacement surgery.
While disc replacement is a common procedure in response to certain injuries or conditions that cannot be treated with nonsurgical methods — Jones has done at least 350 since 2018 — the C Vivo and C SK are new models for the implants, with shapes that allow for more motion and a better fit to the patient’s anatomy.pair of new devices
In spine surgery, “levels’’ refer to the specific vertebrae involved. One-level indication, currently approved for the new devices and in use at Flagstaff Bone and Joint, refers to the placement of a single-disc replacement device, while two levels would add another disc replacement for the disc either directly above or below.
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Two doctors at the practice — Jones and partner Dr. John Hall, M.D. — were part of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) Trial for two level indication run by Centinel Spine, the company that makes the discs.
This sort of trial had previously been done with both disc replacement models for one level indication.
The difference in the new models from the previous prodisc C are the shapes and keel size — which give options for a better fit.
Traditionally, disc implants have a projecting bit on both ends called a keel that helps them to stay in place. The SK in C SK stands for small keel and the C Vivo has even smaller spurs to help it connect to the bone rather than any type of keel.
The improvements in prodiscs mean a smaller incision is required as a pathway for the keel and, alongside other aspects of their shapes, provide a closer match to the space the replacement disc needs to fill.
“Before, I [would] be putting a square peg in a round hole, and it worked really really good, but we want to be even more specific with the anatomy,” Jones said.
He added: “Now, when I’m in the operating room, I can actually match the patient’s anatomy with the correct style of implant at each individual level.”
The C Vivo also has a domed endplate to match the anatomy of cervical endplates in the body better. Endplates typically become flatter with wear, so domed endplate replacements are often used for younger patients — for example, someone with a herniated disc after a sports injury.
When working with bones, Jones said, having a device that more closely fits the shape of the gap reduces the chance the bone will settle around it.
“We don’t really want that. We want our bone to stay its normal shape so we want to conform the metal implant to their anatomy to prevent what we call settling,” he said. “ ... You want to do the widest footprint to prevent settling or migration with the shortest height and part of that conformity — getting an endplate that fits the patient’s anatomy — is preventing settling and preventing migration of the implant.”
Disc replacements are one option in a range of treatment options offered by Flagstaff Bone and Joint.
Jones referenced an algorithm Hall taught him that outlines the order in which the practice’s doctors treat their patients.
Until proven otherwise, Jones explained, patients are first a candidate for nonsurgical options, then motion preservation and anterior surgery (meaning, entering from the front, which is less invasive and requires a shorter recovery time). Only once those have all been ruled out do they consider posterior (from the back) or fusion surgeries.
“Here at Flagstaff Bone and Joint, we are very serious about patients undergoing every available type of conservative treatment before undergoing an operation like this,” Jones said, noting that the practice has two partners focused entirely on nonsurgical spine treatment.
“We’re trying to keep people as low on that ladder as we possibly can to provide them with the most relief, with the least amount of disruption of their spine, their motion, their daily activities,” he said.
The new discs offer another option for patients in the second category of that ladder, alongside procedures such as laminectomies and microdiscectomies. They might be used for conditions such as disc herniation, spinal cord pinching, nerve compression or disc degeneration from a previous injury where more conservative treatments are not an option.
Motion preservation is one of the top priorities in spine surgery, Jones said, and a benefit of these implants.
Basically, the idea is to keep as much motion in the spine as possible.
“Our body wants to move,” he said, “and whenever we stop motion, it actually creates its own level of pain for patients. So if we can avoid a fusion, we will. But even if we have to use that, it’s still a great technique to help a patient who needs an operation but isn’t a candidate for motion preservation surgery.”
The primary difference between spinal fusion and the disc replacement procedures is in retaining mobility, a large part of the surgeon’s role.
“When you fuse someone’s spine ... the level below and the level above inevitably have to work harder to move and they wear out when they do that,” Jones explained of the drawbacks of fusion, which he said can then create a domino effect across levels. “ ... Disc replacements, since they preserve motion rather than remove motion, that is where you get a lot of benefit years down the road at those other levels. You’re still spreading the workload equally across all of your disc spaces and all of your levels.”
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The bright-yellow truck of Busy B Septic Cleaning pulled into the driveway of Alex Tweet out in Baderville.
Walking across the muddy ground to the septic system behind Tweet’s house, Busy B co-owner Chris Bonaparte lifted the concrete covers only to find exactly what both of them expected: tanks full of snowmelt.
“There’s a drainage line that runs behind our house and that runs directly past our septic,” Tweet said. “And so that’s what happened is it ran past septic and then flooded through the septic risers.”
Tweet isn’t the only one experience septic system issues. Across rural neighborhoods around Flagstaff dozens, if not hundreds, of residents have seen their septic systems flood, sometimes multiple times, as snowmelt has saturated the earth.
Crista Bonaparte said the phone of her and her husband’s business started ringing several weeks ago when snow began to melt in earnest and simply hasn’t stopped.
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“We’ve been slammed with tons and tons of tanks just flooding out,” Crista said. “We’re pulling out tanks that have like 1,000-gallon capacities, we’re pulling out 2,500 gallons because as we’re pumping, water is just pouring back in.”
Crista said they are usually kept pretty busy with routine septic pumping but the last couple of weeks, they have pumped between 75 to 100 systems for homes that have been experiencing runoff issues.
Shane Sandoval, who owns AZ Alternative Septic Solutions and H&R Septic Services, shared a similar story. Sandoval said he worked 21 days straight just to keep up with the calls they were getting.
“It’s been good 12 or 13 years since I remember it being bad like this,” Sandoval said.
While Sandoval said he has been getting the most calls from Mountainaire and Baderville, Crista said they have been largely helping residents of Baderville but have also gone out to pump systems in Lockett Ranches, Munds Park and Parks.
Sandoval said houses are so close together in Mountainaire — compared to other rural areas such as Baderville — that he would pump three houses right in a row that were all having the same issues with runoff.
And Crista said she has told several people in Munds Park, which is made up largely of second-home owners, that they may want to consider just going home and return to the high country once the area has started to dry.
One problem has been that, just as they are emptying residents septic system, more water just pours back in.
“You can hear it; it’s like a river,” Crista said. “So we’re pumping until the truck stops and filling up the whole truck — which is 2,500 gallons.”
Both Sandoval and Crista said that for some residents, they have had to go back time and time again to pump systems just in the last few weeks.
And Sandoval said he has encountered several customers who, after seeing their septic fill up again and again, decided simply to move in with friends in Flagstaff of rent a motel until the ground starts to dry out again.
“I mean, we just tried to get them to where they can clear their bathtubs and their toilets and so they can do a little laundry. But the ground water was coming in so fast, for some of these systems, it was a matter of hours, if not days, [before the systems were full again.]” Sandoval said.
Shirleen Meyers, who lives in Mountainaire, said she was one of those who has had to have her septic system worked on twice in the last few weeks.
Meyers, who has lived in Mountainaire since 2013, said her system first backed up on April 19.
“I mean, you could literally say it was a [expletive] show here for a bit,” Meyers said.
That saturated ground has caused other difficulties, too.
Crista said in the beginning there were times the ground was so soft they couldn’t get their tuck close enough to the septic system to pump it for fear it would just sink into the ground.
But even as busy as this past month has been, neither Sandoval nor Crista said they were surprised by the onrush of clients.
And Sandoval said, with all the snow Flagstaff has got, he is honestly surprised it hasn’t been worse than it is.
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Cindy Doskocil, who heads the Fort Valley Association and has lived in the Fort Valley/Baderville area for 42 years, said she pretty much expected these impacts after such a heavy winter.
Doskocil said she hasn’t been impacted herself this year but she and other longtime residents have lived through plenty of heavy winters and have seen impacts to their septic tanks numerous times.
“I mean, this is not the first event that we’ve had like this. You know, we had one in ‘91, we had one in ‘92, we had one in ‘94, we had one in 2004 and one in 2005,” Doskocil said.
For Doskocil, what’s different this time, and what might make the issue feel bigger now than in the past, is that so many more people are living in these rural communities.
Baderville, as with other rural areas around Flagstaff such as Munds Park, has seen a significant amount of growth over the last few years. And often, Doskocil said, homeowners don’t realize that the property they’re building on can become a pond as soon as the ground is saturated with water.
After all, Baderville in particular is in large part a geologic lakebed, Doskocil said. All that leads to septic tanks filling up and more homes equals a bigger problem.
Doskocil added that the septic issues can have knock on consequences, particularly to water wells in the area. She said she has heard from several residents who have had water from their wells tested and found contaminants such as E. coli.
Doskocil said others have reported that, while their water doesn’t have contaminants, when they turn on the faucet it comes out a little brown.
“So they’re getting that from high-surface water and saturating groundwater with improper [septic] leaching, and that that’s something that happens,” Doskocil said. “I try to tell them, just don’t drink the water, just get bottled water until it clears up.”
Doskocil said as things dry out and septic systems stop flooding, dilution will solve most of the contamination issues some residents have experienced.
For longtimers in the area, it’s not unusual to occasionally have to buy bottled water, Doskocil said.
She advises residents of Baderville, and everyone who relies on well water, to get samples of their well water tested fairly regularly, and also advises that wells be tested at least twice a year.
“We don’t want anybody to get sick from it. So it’s just it’s a matter of just being careful getting the water tested,” Doskocil said.
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SAN ANTONIO — An overnight argument between a man and woman sent the man to the hospital after the woman pulled out a knife and stabbed him, police say.
Police were called out to the Union Park Apartments in the 4600 block of S. Hackberry around 3:21 a.m. Sunday for reports of a cutting in progress.
When officers arrived, they found a man who had been stabbed in his arm.
The sergeant said that a man and woman were arguing, and at some point during the fight the woman said she felt scared, which prompted her to pull out a knife and stab the man.
He was taken to BAMC in stable condition.
Police say the man has a different story, however, and they will continue to investigate exactly what happened.
It's unclear If the two are in a relationship as each one says different from the other, according to police.
The woman may be facing serious charges after the detectives question her.
No other details were provided and no other injuries were reported.
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SAN ANTONIO — Two people escaped from a home that caught fire on the southeast side of town early Sunday.
Firefighters arrived at the 1700 block of 1700 block of Schley Avenue around 12:45 a.m. and found light smoke coming from the easement of the home.
Crews were able to make entry and found a small fire in the front area of the home. They were able to put it out before it reached the attic.
Two people were able to make it out safely with no injuries. The cause of the fire is unknown and investigators will be checking it out.
No estimate of damages were provided.
No injuries were reported and no other details provided.
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Trails are corridors into the outdoors that allow us to escape the influence of urban noise, bustle and abruptness that can get overwhelming when we live and work close together. Whether we’re out on a bike, boot, stirrup or running shoe, it is common sense that we must get along with each other, as we usually have the same basic goals in mind; that is, respecting each other, nature and the trails.
The familiar triangle yield–diagram reminds us that bikes yield to hikers, and all yield to equestrians and pack animals. From equestrian and goat backpacking to nature hikes, running or biking, different uses require different allowances.
The yield rules make sense; however, an approaching hello, a nod or a smile go a long way toward showing our common appreciation for the opportunity to enjoy nature in ways of our own choosing.
Although not required to, a hiker or runner may more easily step aside for a downhill biker navigating a difficult bend in the trail. A biker might say whether there are more bikers in their group. A group walking slowly may yield to a single person moving at higher speed. Animals can be easily surprised from any direction: for them, yielding may not be enough. The most successful sharing of our trails involves simply considering each other’s needs.
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Trail etiquette also includes respect for the trail.
A trail system designed by the various authorizing agencies (whether city, county or U.S. Forest Service) attempts to balance personal experience with respect for our forests and animals. Development of a new route by any single individual can lead to negative impacts to the land or vegetation, and unnecessary disturbances to animal well-being. The unintended result is a maze of crisscrossing trails and a degradation of the natural experience.
What might appear as a pleasant trail through the forest to a first-time user is actually the result of an engineering thought process. Consideration of structural stability, water runoff, inclines and declines, surface materials, curves and more goes into developing a trail from Point A to Point B.
Planned, organized trail development enables more efficient trail maintenance. A maintained trail is a safe trail for all users. Wear and tear is natural, but a well-designed trail can be self-maintaining for years.
Runners can help by staying off soggy trails despite the springtime urge; staying in the tread of the trail, even if there is mud on small sections; and volunteering. Trail maintenance volunteer opportunities are a way to learn about trail design and to develop pride of ownership in our trails.
Several organizations, such as the Flagstaff Trail Initiative and Flagstaff Biking Organization, provide information on volunteer opportunities, as do the City of Flagstaff, Coconino County and the Forest Service.
A one-size-fits-all policy for user etiquette and trail respect cannot work in every situation and for all terrain. The basic model helps remind us to be kind to each other. Creating, using and maintaining a successful trail system is just common sense.
Tom Boughner is a longtime Flagstaff resident, an Arizona Trail volunteer and a part of the Flagstaff Trails Initiative.
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The urge to run is immediately felt upon stepping into NAZ Elite's new performance center.
The floor of the professional running team's new hub, which features an infrared sauna, office space for the staff and a room for massage therapy among other athletic amenities, is Beynon track surface. A lounge area, juxtaposed by a treadmill and stationary bike across the track, greets visitors as the track leads the eye back to an area where stretching and workouts await the athletes.
For a professional running team that has had to rent gym space and other facilities to get in workouts and recoveries while the staff worked in a cramped space downtown, the center is a boon.
"To me," NAZ Elite Executive Director Ben Rosario said recently, "there are three things that stand out. Number one is just the professional atmosphere that having our own space creates. I think that's important as far as establishing that this is a professional organization, not a club. Second, the ability for the athletes to come in and lift weights whenever it makes the most sense for them based on their training is a monster advantage."
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The third is more forward-thinking, as Rosario sees the center as an attraction to future runners as the team -- which currently boasts an 18-athlete roster -- continues to grow. The building should provide help when it comes to recruiting.
"Seeing the space, and all of the equipment, and the design," Rosario said, "is going to make a big impression on prospective athletes."
And it will make a big impression on locals as well, as NAZ Elite is going to open its new facility's doors at times to the public. In fact, the first group room being offered to the public will takes place Friday, starting at the performance center.
"It's also a place we can host public events, and we will start those events next month," Rosario said. "Every Friday from May through September, we'll have group runs at 4 p.m. from the center. Those runs are open to anyone and everyone, with a 4-mile and a 6-mile option. And if anyone wants to hang out after there is a sports bar in the same plaza -- just saying," Rosario said.
Although the team wasn't necessarily in a rush to secure a location for its planned center, it ended up in a sprint to get the facility.
Rosario initially thought the center would be taking shape in 2025, but the location landed in the team's lap. The team, according to Rosario, began working with a real estate agent in the summer of 2022, and that agent eventually showed NAZ Elite the 2,600-square-feet building located in the Bashas' shopping plaza across the street from the hospital on Beaver Street.
"It just so happened that the space was exactly what we had been envisioning, so we felt like we couldn't pass it up," Rosario
Now the building is full of weights, decorated with a mural drawn by team member Alice Wright and painted with the help of teammates, and full of team memorabilia such as jerseys and a team record board.
Much of the funding came from the recent deal NAZ Elite secured with HOKA, its major shoe sponsor.
"We could not have made this happen without the funds that our current HOKA contract provides us. We are very fortunate that they believe in our program to the extent that they do," Rosario said.
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SAN ANTONIO — Arson investigators are trying to figure how a fire started at a vacant home on the west-side early Sunday.
Firefighters showed up to the 600 block of South Comal Street just beofre 1 a.m.
The Battalion Chief says they were able to put out the flames quickly and no nearby homes were touched. The Chief says the home suffered moderate damage from the blaze.
Arson and fire investigators were called to the scene. No injuries were reported.
No other details were provided.
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Shelters in a Texas city struggled to find space Saturday for migrants who authorities say have abruptly begun crossing by the thousands from Mexico, testing a stretch of the U.S. border that is typically equipped to handle large groups of people fleeing poverty and violence.
The pace of arrivals in Brownsville appeared to catch the city on the southernmost tip of Texas off guard, stretching social services and putting an overnight shelter in an uncommon position of turning people away. Officials say more than 15,000 migrants, mostly from Venezuela, have illegally crossed the river near Brownsville since last week.
That is a sharp rise from the 1,700 migrants that Border Patrol agents encountered in the first two weeks of April, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.
“It’s a quite concerning because the logistical challenge that we encounter is massive for us,” said Gloria Chavez, chief of the U.S. Border Patrol Rio Grande Valley Sector.
The reason for the increase was not immediately clear. Chavez said migrants have been frustrated by relying on a glitch-plagued government app that can allow them to seek asylum at a port of entry. Some migrants who crossed this week cited other motivators, including cartel threats that immediately preceded the sudden increment.
The uptick comes as the Biden administration plans for the end of pandemic-era asylum restrictions. U.S. authorities have said daily illegal crossings from Mexico could climb as high as 13,000 from about 5,200 in March.
Other cities — some far away from the southern U.S. border — are also grappling with suddenly large influxes of migrants. In Chicago, authorities reported this week a tenfold increase in the arrival of migrants in the city, where as many as 100 migrants have begun arriving daily and begun sheltering in police stations.
Brownsville is across the Rio Grande from Matamoros, Mexico, where a sprawling encampment of makeshift tents has housed about 2,000 people waiting to enter the U.S.
Last week, some tents were set ablaze and destroyed. Some migrants have said cartel-backed gangs were responsible, but a government official suggested the fires could have been set by a group of migrants frustrated over their long wait.
“It was desperation, the cartel,” said Roxana Aguirre, 24, a Venezuelan migrant who sat outside a Brownsville bus station Friday afternoon. “You couldn’t be on the street without looking over your shoulder.”
In downtown Brownsville, families from Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti and China walked aimlessly, carrying their belongings and talking on their cellphones.
Some waited for their buses while others were in limbo, waiting for relatives before making plans to leave but finding no shelter in the meantime. One Venezuelan couple said they slept in a parking lot after being turned away at an overnight shelter.
Officials in Brownsville issued a disaster declaration this week, following other Texas border cities that have done the same in the face of suddenly large influxes of migrants, including last year in El Paso.
“We’ve never seen these numbers before,” said Martin Sandoval, spokesperson for the Brownsville Police Department.
The reshuffling of resources at the border — in one of the busiest sectors with robust Border Patrol staffing levels — comes as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security prepares to end the use of a public health authority known as Title 42, which allowed them to reject asylum claims.
The administration has expelled migrants 2.7 million times under a rule in effect since March 2020 that denies rights to seek asylum under U.S. and international law on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19. Title 42, as the public health rule is known, is scheduled to end May 11 when the U.S. lifts its last COVID-related restrictions. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/brownsville-struggles-with-large-arrival-of-migrants-across-texas-mexico-border/3247208/ | 2023-04-30T14:50:32 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/brownsville-struggles-with-large-arrival-of-migrants-across-texas-mexico-border/3247208/ |
The search for a Texas man who allegedly shot his neighbors after they asked him to stop firing off rounds in his yard stretched into a second day Sunday, with authorities saying the man could be anywhere by now.
Francisco Oropeza, 38, fled after the shooting Friday night that left five people dead, including an 8-year-old boy. San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers said Saturday evening that authorities had widened the search to as far as 20 miles (32 kilometers) from the scene of the shooting.
Investigators found clothes and a phone while combing a rural area that includes dense layers of forest, but tracking dogs lost the scent, Capers said.
Police recovered the AR-15-style rifle that Oropeza allegedly used in the shootings but authorities were not sure if he was carrying another weapon, the sheriff said.
“He could be anywhere now,” Capers said.
The attack happened near the town of Cleveland, north of Houston, on a street where some residents say neighbors often unwind by firing off guns.
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Capers said the victims were between the ages of 8 and 31 years old and that all were believed to be from Honduras. All were shot “from the neck up,” he said.
The attack was the latest act of gun violence in what has been a record pace of mass shootings in the U.S. so far this year, some of which have also involved semiautomatic rifles.
The mass killings have played out in a variety of places — a Nashville school, a Kentucky bank, a Southern California dance hall, and now a rural Texas neighborhood inside a single-story home.
Capers said there were 10 people in the house — some of whom had just moved there earlier in the week — but that that no one else was injured. He said two of the victims were found in a bedroom laying over two children in an apparent attempt to shield them.
A total of three children found covered in blood in the home were taken to a hospital but found to be uninjured, Capers said.
FBI spokesperson Christina Garza said investigators do not believe everyone at the home were members of a single family. The victims were identified as Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25; Diana Velazquez Alvarado, 21; Julisa Molina Rivera, 31; Jose Jonathan Casarez, 18; and Daniel Enrique Laso, 8.
The confrontation followed the neighbors walking up to the fence and asking the suspect to stop shooting rounds, Capers said. The suspect responded by telling them that it was his property, Capers said, and one person in the house got a video of the suspect walking up to the front door with the rifle.
The shooting took place on a rural pothole-riddled street where single-story homes sit on wide 1-acre lots and are surrounded by a thick canopy of trees. A horse could be seen behind the victim’s home, while in the front yard of Oropeza’s house a dog and chickens wandered.
Rene Arevalo Sr., who lives a few houses down, said he heard gunshots around midnight but didn’t think anything of it.
“It’s a normal thing people do around here, especially on Fridays after work,” Arevalo said. “They get home and start drinking in their backyards and shooting out there.”
Capers said his deputies had been to Oropeza’s home at least once before and spoken with him about “shooting his gun in the yard.” It was not clear whether any action was taken at the time. At a news conference Saturday evening, the sheriff said firing a gun on your own property can be illegal, but he did not say whether Oropeza had previously broken the law.
Capers said the new arrivals in the home had moved from Houston earlier in the week, but he said he did not know whether they were planning to stay there.
Across the U.S. since Jan. 1, there have been at least 18 shootings that left four or more people dead, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today, in partnership with Northeastern University. The violence is sparked by a range of motives: murder-suicides and domestic violence; gang retaliation; school shootings; and workplace vendettas.
Texas has confronted multiple mass shootings in recent years, including last year’s attack at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde; a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019; and a gunman opening fire at a church in the tiny town of Sutherland Springs in 2017.
Republican leaders in Texas have continually rejected calls for new firearm restrictions, including this year over the protests of several families whose children were killed in Uvalde.
A few months ago, Arevalo said Oropeza threatened to kill his dog after it got loose in the neighborhood and chased the pit bull in his truck.
“I tell my wife all the time, ‘Stay away from the neighbors. Don’t argue with them. You never know how they’re going to react,’” Arevalo said. “I tell her that because Texas is a state where you don’t know who has a gun and who is going to react that way.” | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/texas-mass-shooting-suspect-could-be-anywhere-sheriff-says/3247203/ | 2023-04-30T14:50:38 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/texas-mass-shooting-suspect-could-be-anywhere-sheriff-says/3247203/ |
In an unassuming apartment nestled amongst Flagstaff's tree-lined neighborhoods lives a decorated record-holder and pioneer in his sport. Now 86, Robert "Bob" Packard has spent the better part of the last six decades making his way up mountainsides and up the rankings as one of the most accomplished people in his sport.
Packard now holds the distinction as one of just three people to have hiked the entire length of the Grand Canyon on both sides of the Colorado River and is the current leader in all-time peaks, summiting more than 7,000 throughout his life in addition to a slew of other accomplishments in the sport.
Now with some help from a pacemaker, Packard has slowed down, but isn't quite done yet.
Early Beginnings
For much of his childhood, spent outside on his family's farm in rural Maine, the outdoors were a place for work, not exploration or hiking.
"Growing up on the farm was where I got lessons in hard work," he said.
His parents both worked, but the farm served as a way for his family to save money on food, Packard said, and everyone pitched in. The oldest of five children, Packard spent his days after school milking cows, slopping pigs and digging potatoes.
Packard eventually made his way to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he went on his first few hikes, planting the seed for a passion that would ultimately grow when he moved out west.
From there, Packard earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from Dartmouth College and was soon on the hunt for a teaching position and somewhere to settle down with his young family — ideally somewhere that would allow for further exploring.
He would ultimately join Northern Arizona University as a mathematics instructor and move his family more than 2,000 miles west to Flagstaff. Packard found familiarity in the pine trees that populate the mountain town, harkening back to Maine's moniker as "The Pine Tree State," but he also saw endless possibilities in the areas that were completely new to him.
"It's close to desert country and mountains and canyon country," Packard said. "I guess that's one of the things that attracted me to Flagstaff, the fact that it wouldn't be a big transition as far as the local everyday climate, but it would be close to really exotic areas."
Luckily for Packard, NAU's mathematics department was already home to another pioneering hiker, Harvey Butchart, who by that time had already established a reputation as one of the foremost explorers of the Grand Canyon. Packard was quickly taken under his wing.
"One of the reasons I came to Flagstaff was to meet him and to get near canyon country, and I figured, well, I’ll do a sample of this and that and I ended up, I think I’m probably one of the 10 most prominent hikers of the Grand Canyon,” Packard said. “But I had not planned it that way, just like I didn’t have it planned early on in my that I would have so many summits around the world.”
His dedication to the trails in those years even prompted his then-wife to refer to the Grand Canyon as Packard's "mistress."
Packard finished hiking the length of the south side of the Grand Canyon in 1998 when he was 61 and completed the north side just two years later, becoming one of just three people who have accomplished the task to this day. Besides Packard, Robert Benson and Andrew Holycross have completed the hike, with Holycross completing it in 2013.
"I did my first 30 hikes in the Grand Canyon with [Butchart]," Packard said. "I would have to say that whatever I did in the Grand Canyon was either following in his footsteps or standing on his shoulders."
Changing goals
Packard didn't start his hiking career with lofty goals. Instead, one trip led to another and he eventually realized he'd done a lot more than he thought, he said. In some cases, he was actually quite close to achieving some major accomplishments.
"I had no intention of walking the full length of the Grand Canyon when I started off, but it got to a point I'd go up there weekend after weekend after weekend, and gradually I noticed that I don't really have that much further to go," he said.
Over time, his goals have changed as he stumbled onto new aspirations. His focus shifted from conquering all of the 14,000-foot peaks in the U.S. to the 13,000-foot peaks and so on.
"One thing led to another and I got into state high-pointing," he said.
It was his son, Erik, who as a teenager first suggested his father try to reach all of the high points in Arizona's 15 counties.
Packard eventually became the first person to reach all of the county high points across the western U.S. and he also reached the high points of all 50 states in 1995, including an 18-day trek up Alaska's Mt. McKinley.
Erik is now an accomplished climber and mathematician in Colorado and he can still remember joining his father on hikes growing up, including making their way up Mt. Humphrey's peak at seven as his dad carried his younger brother.
Their adventures together gradually evolved from completing his first 14,000 ft. summit at 12 years old to eventually summiting Mt. McKinley together in 1990.
Evolving alongside his sport
Throughout his lifetime, advances in mapping, radar and other technology have gradually altered the sport that used to require an advanced knowledge of map-reading and navigational skills.
"You're kind of doing it just by the bootstrings with very little information at the beginning," he said. "And remember that when I was doing the majority of my hobby, you didn't have GPS."
When Packard first started doing state high points, for example, he simply grabbed a Rand McNally highway map that noted each state's high point and began making his way through the list. It was only years later that advancements in radar technology started to record new elevation measurements, sometimes changing the state's high-point altogether.
As a result, he's had to return to a handful of states to reach the new high point, some that were just a short trip away with a very minor elevation change, but he doesn't feel the need to go back to all of them. Instead, he's content with having completed his original list.
"There's kind of a general agreement amongst the people in this hobby if you have finished a list under the circumstances that at the time it was thought to be the list, then you get credit," he said.
Packard has also started to lessen his activity with age. He can't move as quickly as he used to and elevation changes impact him more than they ever have before, he said.
With the assistance of a pacemaker, Packard's career has slowed but has not stopped, evidenced by his recent 3,000th Arizona summit.
And while Erik has noticed his father has slowed down in recent years, when they're out on the trail together he's often surprised by just how quick his father still is on the mountain.
Just like he looked up to Butchart, Packard has developed a reputation as one of the fathers of the sport.
Erik remembers a particular instance when a group of young hikers recognized his father and crowded around him like he was a celebrity.
"There were like 10 people around him like he was Lebron James," Erik said with a laugh.
But Packard sees it more as a natural progression of the sport. He had his heroes to look up to and while he might serve in that role for someone else now, eventually, the next generation of prolific hikers and climbers will emerge.
"It’s very important to point out that it’s a generational thing, namely, that there are always people ahead of you that you admire and aspire to be like," he said. "And now I’m in a position in my life where there are other people behind me aspiring to be what I’m like."
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'We need a better system': Phoenix vigil supports survivors, seeks to end violence
Before escaping domestic violence, Celina Meadows considered herself to be a very informed person. She grew up in what she called a wonderful home off 24th Street and Broadway Road in Phoenix, free of any sort of abuse.
Meadows' father held a 20-year-long career in mental health counseling. She grew up with knowledge of the subject, working and volunteering for community resource groups and nonprofits since the age of 14.
That's why when she found herself inundated by a disorienting flood of long trauma counseling waitlists and resources that were at full capacity after pulling herself and her children out of a domestic abuse situation, she knew it was time for a change.
"It made it clear that we need a better system, not just for domestic violence but for all violence survivors," Meadows said to an audience at the fifth annual Survivors Speak Healing Vigil, a day that honors the end of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.
The healing vigil was hosted by the Phoenix chapter of Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice, a national network of crime victims and survivors that seeks to advocate for policies that stop cycles of victimization, violence and crime.
Meadows is the Arizona statewide manager for CSSJ, which seeks to discuss ways survivors can inform local policies and by hosting community-based events and healing vigils unite survivors, enforcement officials and policymakers.
"We, unfortunately, escaped domestic violence and experienced some horrific abuse by my ex-husband," Meadows said. "Now, I look to help fill in the gaps in the system that I experienced through navigating my own pain and my children’s pain."
The CSSJ Arizona statewide manager attributed her eventual success in getting out and staying out of her situation to her strong support system and her previous knowledge of complicated mental health resources but said others in Arizona with critical needs and no support may not be as fortunate.
That resource barrier is what Meadows, alongside Katrina Smith, chair of the CSSJ Pheonix chapter, seek to change through their grassroots work with the organization to create survivor-forward policy and establish trauma recovery centers in Arizona.
Smith recalled speaking to a victims' service representative with Maricopa County after experiencing an instance of traumatic violence. The representative gave her a list of two dozen therapists to contact and sent her on her way.
"Being the victim of a crime and going through something incredibly traumatic, I didn’t have the mental capacity to go through that list," Smith said.
Smith said the way she was treated by victim services and the police generated a lot of anger, and her work with CSSJ to gain funding to establish trauma resource centers in Arizona has been a meaningful outlet.
"Just being able to go to one place, have one contact who can help you figure out if you need to move, help you figure out what’s going on with the court, help you figure out all of the paperwork, all of the administrative work that’s required of being victimized would be so helpful," Smith said.
Though the national Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice network, which boasts more than 180,000 members, has established 23 trauma recovery centers across the nation, Arizona does not currently have a one-stop trauma recovery center, which according to Meadows and Smith, creates significant barriers for victims in need.
The Arizona chapter is currently advocating for a bill that would secure funding to build a pilot trauma recovery center in the state.
In the last legislative session, CSSJ advocates successfully passed a bill to direct the Arizona Department of Health Services to begin work on figuring out what a trauma recovery center should look like and how it would receive funding.
The establishment of a trauma recovery center, however, is just one piece of the puzzle.
The survivors and advocates in the humid conference room discussed how the work to empower victims of abuse runs deeper; it lies in breaking cycles of generational violence and changing the narrative that stigmatizes speaking out about such topics.
"I’ve been silenced," said Cindi Madsen from the circle of folding chairs. "That’s the worst thing you can do is minimize that trauma. It’s very systemic, it’s generational, it’s habitual."
Madsen said she got involved with CSSJ because she doesn't want her experience of violence and trauma to carry over to the next generation.
The survivor emphasized the importance of shifting the narrative and breaking trauma cycles. Madsen said she felt like a "ghost" when she tried to speak out about her situation to law enforcement.
“I was always told, you know, ‘What questionable behavior got you into this situation?’” Madsen said in reference to her attempts to get help when she needed it most.
According to Meadows, breaking generational and community trauma cycles is a key point of the work CSSJ does, and much of it lies in establishing accessible resources for the individual and community healing needed to break those cycles.
"You always hear that saying, ‘Hurt people hurt people,’ but healed people can help," Meadows said.
The Phoenix chapter also seeks to make victims' compensation more accessible and to open new pathways for reporting abuse and violence for the many victims who don't feel comfortable reporting their experiences to law enforcement.
"Even if it was years ago, sometimes it's still too soon," Meadows said as she concluded the vigil for the circle of attendees who experienced violence and watched their loved ones endure it. "Healing is a lifestyle journey and that requires accessible tools." | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2023/04/30/annual-phoenix-vigil-supports-survivors-seeks-to-end-violence/70164905007/ | 2023-04-30T15:01:52 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2023/04/30/annual-phoenix-vigil-supports-survivors-seeks-to-end-violence/70164905007/ |
From Los Arcos to Paradise Valley to Metrocenter, Phoenix- area mall sites are making a comeback
Metro Phoenix is in the midst of a mall renaissance.
Shopping malls were once a main venue for entertainment, attracting shoppers into large department stores, catering to a wide variety of people eating in the food court and boasting other offerings, like skate parks, movie theaters and arcades.
However, as shopping habits changed, many malls fell from their former status as a main gathering place, and many across the Valley faced the wrecking ball to make way for new development.
While many have shuttered, some have stood up to the changing retail environment. Others have even thrived.
“The classic mall, the enclosed, two-level, air-conditioned mall has changed,” David Uhles, senior vice president of Western Retail Advisors, said. “Shopping behaviors have changed and the demand for experiences has shifted.”
In most markets, Uhles said, a few high-caliber malls can stand the test of time. Those malls, which often include high-end stores, can generally afford the high operating costs that come with such a large retail footprint.
For other malls, which were anchored by lower-end department stores, shifts to online shopping and other changes proved too much to handle. Mall staples, like Sears or JCPenney, have closed hundreds of stores in the past few years, leaving many shopping centers with large, empty stores and nothing to fill them.
When a major anchor closes, Uhles said mall owners often are left with few options, but some of the most successful mall operators have embraced new uses or attract new-to-market offerings. The closing of Chandler Fashion Center’s Nordstrom location could have created a major problem, he said. However, the space was taken by sporting goods store Scheels, which will open its only Arizona location at the mall. Other uses of former anchor stores have included gyms or entertainment venues.
Across the Valley, former malls are part of some of the largest redevelopment efforts, making way for business hubs, medical corridors, attainable housing neighborhoods and more.
Malls that are no more
Some malls across the Valley already have closed, and the space they once occupied will get new life. Often, the redevelopment plans are heavily focused on apartments.
Los Arcos: The former Los Arcos Mall in south Scottsdale was an enclosed shopping mall that was open for about 30 years before its demolition in 2000. The site was pitched as a location for the Coyotes arena, but the team ultimately went to Glendale. In 2005, Arizona State University and the city of Scottsdale agreed to partner on the site, which would eventually develop into SkySong, a mixed-use development that is primarily offices, but includes a hotel, apartments, restaurants and common areas where events are held. Plaza Cos. and Holualoa Cos., the co-developers of SkySong, later partnered again on the redevelopment of Park Central Mall.
Tri-City: Tri-City Mall in Mesa closed in 1998 and was completely demolished in 2006. Portions of the former mall made way for the light rail, which runs along Main Street. Tri-City Pavilions, a strip retail center anchored by a Safeway, was built in its place.
Park Central Mall: Unlike other former malls, Park Central’s buildings were repurposed and reused, not demolished. Most department stores were repurposed as offices, but other uses have also taken some of the space, including EOS Fitness, which will open a location in a former department store. Much of the parking lot space at Park Central has new uses, including Creighton University’s medical campus and an apartment complex. Still to come is a hotel and room for additional buildings. Park Central and the area around it was recently designated as a bioscience hub, the "Phoenix Medical Quarter, Global Advancement of Health and Education."
Metrocenter: Once the largest indoor mall in the Southwest, Metrocenter is scheduled to meet the wrecking ball soon, after a group of developers bought it and have planned to develop a mixed-use development oriented toward housing. The project will include more than 2,600 apartment units, 150,000 square feet of commercial space, and a parking garage. The apartments will be “attainably priced,” but rents are not yet determined. Housing will offer both rentals and for-sale options. Other elements will include restaurants, bars, a park, and commercial and entertainment venues.
Paradise Valley Mall: Redevelopment is already underway at the former Paradise Valley Mall, now renamed PV. Phoenix-based RED Development is leading the redevelopment of the site, and the first phase includes an apartment complex, a Whole Foods Market and a Harkins dine-in theater. Life Time, a luxury gym, announced plans to open a luxury residential and fitness concept at PV. The 11-story development will include 300 apartment units, planned to open in 2026. A Life Time “athletic country club,” which will have gym equipment, group fitness classes, a rooftop pool and hospitality deck and a spa is also part of the project.
Fiesta Mall: DriveTime owner Ernie Garcia II's real estate investment firm, Verde Investments, bought Fiesta Mall in Mesa and has submitted plans to the city to redevelop the nearly 80-acre site that could make way for multifamily housing, office space, commercial and open space.
Malls that are still open
Some malls have continued to stand the test of time, often by embracing different types of stores into their spaces. Discount centers and grocery stores have proven to remain a driver for consumers to malls.
Christown Spectrum: The mall remains open but is subject to a long-term redevelopment plan, executives from Kimco Realty, the mall’s owner, said. Kimco has submitted plans to build an apartment complex on a parking lot, which formerly held a Costco Auto Center.
The apartment is the first piece of the redevelopment at the site, which is supposed to take decades to complete. According to Kimco’s submittal to the city, the redevelopment effort will likely take 20 to 25 years. Large tenants at the mall include Ross Dress for Less, Walmart and Walgreens, and those stores remain open. Target owns its location and is not part of the redevelopment plans.
Desert Sky: The west Phoenix mall remains open and has several large tenants, including a Dillard’s Clearance Center, Burlington, Bath & Body Works, Famous Footwear and several other stores. The mall is described as a fully bilingual location.
Arizona Mills: The Valley's largest indoor outlet mall has survived in Tempe, offering discounts on various brands and other entertainment uses, including an aquarium and movie theater.
Top-tier malls
For the region's best-performing malls, exclusive offerings, high-end stores and embracing changes are paramount.
Scottsdale Fashion Square: The mall has continued as a successful, enclosed shopping center, but has also had to adapt with anchor stores closing. Scottsdale Fashion Square has filled former anchor spaces with an Apple store and a coworking space. Life Time also opened a new location near the mall. The mall opened a luxury wing with ultra high-end stores in 2018, and in 2022 announced plans to upgrade the south wing of the mall, anchored by Nordstrom.
What's new and what's next:Scottsdale Fashion Square seeks to 'constantly reinvent'
Arrowhead Towne Center: The large West Valley shopping center remains one of the region’s top-tier malls, while also feeling the sting of shuttered anchor stores. Forever 21, which had a large store at the mall, closed and left its space vacant. In 2015, Macerich, Arrowhead's operator, announced a major renovation to the Glendale mall, which added some new stores and upgraded common spaces.
Chandler Fashion Center: Replacing the vacated Nordstrom site with new-to-market Scheels will help the mall continue as a destination shopping site, adding an exclusive offering. The mall also has the Valley's only Crayola Experience venue, which offers attractions and art experiences for kids and families.
Help wanted:Sporting goods retailer Scheels hiring hundreds for Chandler megastore
‘Lifestyle centers’ becoming popular
Many outdoor shopping centers have taken the place of the traditional indoor mall in the Valley. Shopping centers like Kierland Commons, Scottsdale Quarter, Tempe Marketplace, Desert Ridge Marketplace and Biltmore Fashion Park have remained strong, and many have embraced the need for experiences, rather than strictly retail sales.
Open-air shopping has proved successful for Phoenix-based Vestar, which has announced plans to build several more shopping centers around the Valley, and continues to seek new sites. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2023/04/30/metro-phoenix-malls-are-undergoing-major-changes-heres-whats-new/70140088007/ | 2023-04-30T15:01:58 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2023/04/30/metro-phoenix-malls-are-undergoing-major-changes-heres-whats-new/70140088007/ |
Donated clubs, balls and clothes fill the First Tee — Tucson office. Mounted on the walls are posters of the youth development organization’s nine core values, among them perseverance, honesty and confidence. The room reflects the organization’s balance between teaching Tucson children life skills and golf.
A comically large check for $100,000 lies on a table in the center of the room and sitting across from it is Tom Henderson, the man responsible for raising the money.
After retirement, Henderson moved from New Jersey to Tucson, where he’s lived for 20 years. A few years later, he was introduced to First Tee — Tucson, one of about 150 national chapters and four international chapters of the nonprofit organization First Tee.
Henderson regularly played golf at The Gallery Golf Club in Marana with a group of about 40 men. Fourteen years after Henderson joined, one of the players suggested the group put money into a hat. However, instead of distributing the money between the players, they would donate it to First Tee — Tucson.
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The initial contribution was about $400, but each year the donation grew. In 2018, Jim Trapp, one of the original members and a fierce competitor, according to Henderson, died. It was then the group decided to put a name to the contribution, the Jim Trapp Memorial Charity Challenge.
This March, the Charity Challenge, a tournament held at The Gallery Golf Club, raised $105,000 for First Tee — Tucson in Trapp’s name.
Henderson said in previous years, the contribution was used for one-time expenses, like $52,000 for a cargo van used to pick up equipment and deliver it to students. This year, though, Henderson said he wanted something with more “sizzle.”
“We changed the conversation to what is your biggest problem, not what’s your biggest need,” Henderson said. “The biggest problem is getting the kids into this particular life skills program.”
With the help of Judy McDermott, executive director of First Tee — Tucson, Henderson wanted to remove financial burdens keeping students from entering the program and encourage the kids to continue until they graduate from First Tee.
To accomplish this, Henderson created a two-part scholarship. Forty percent of funds raised for the scholarship will be reserved to financially support students enrolling in the Life Skills Training curriculum. The remaining 60% of funds will be used for a merit-based scholarship for students who’ve been a part of the curriculum for a significant time, shown merit, academic achievement and a commitment to the organization’s values.
Henderson’s goal is to raise $1 million in 10 years and help teens attend college.
“I’m so blown away that these people, that are all from somewhere else, are so supportive of what we’re doing here and helping kids in this community,” McDermott said, referring to the scholarship donors.
McDermott, who’s been involved in First Tee — Tucson since its inception in 2006, explained that individual donations and contributions like these are vital to the organization’s funding. McDermott said that First Tee — Tucson is often viewed as just a golf program, and it can be difficult to receive grants.
“We do operate on a golf course and the kids have golf clubs in their hands, but we start the lessons with talking about respect,” McDermott said. “We’re trying to get these kids to articulate what they’re feeling and thinking.”
In addition to developing life skills, the organization strives to be available for any child who wants to join. McDermott said about 45% of their students receive financial aid; they provide balls, clubs and gear to all of their students.
First Tee — Tucson tries to prepare students beyond graduation from the program. Students can go through a leadership series where they learn about available career paths in golf, apply for an internship program through the Professional Golfers Association Tour, or go to a leadership academy in Montana.
Olivia Munoz, a senior at Flowing Wells High School and junior coach at First Tee — Tucson said the goal-setting part of the program helped her discover what she wants to do after high school.
Munoz started First Tee when she was in first grade, her sisters played softball, but Munoz said she hated it. Her dad was determined to have her in sports, though, saying it would keep her out of trouble.
“I live close to First Tee, so he was like, you’re going to do golf,” Munoz said. “And I fell in love with the game.”
First Tee — Tucson’s lessons and core values shaped who she is today and gave her confidence, Munoz said. She described herself as shy initially but through the program, she represented First Tee — Tucson during media day at the organization's PGA Tour Champion’s event.
Representing the organization with her was fellow Junior Coach Frankie Felix. Felix’s mother was killed by a drunk driver when he was a child. He was a part of a grieving support organization that introduced him to First Tee when he was about 6 years old. Felix said he’s always been drawn to sports; golf was new and challenging.
His love of First Tee — Tucson goes beyond the sport he said, it helped him after his mother died.
“I felt like I built a family of my own,” Felix said. “Whether it be friends or instructors like Judy (McDermott). They just made it a warm, welcoming place.”
The First Tee — Tucson organization has grown to operate 10 facilities; with plans to possibly open a location in Tubac. Through the work of volunteer coaches, mentors, curriculum and financial aid, the organization prioritizes its students.
“There’s almost 1,000 kids in the program,” McDermott said. “But our saying here is one kid at a time, we can make a difference.”
For more information on First Tee - Tucson, visit firstteetucson.org. To donate to the Jim Trapp Memorial Charity Challenge, visit tucne.ws/1n6i.
Contact reporter Christine Holtgreive at choltgreiv@tucson.com. On twitter: @christineholtgr | https://tucson.com/news/local/volunteer-raises-105-000-for-tucson-youth-development-program/article_9890dc9e-dfa5-11ed-919a-eb32e9799104.html | 2023-04-30T15:17:44 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/volunteer-raises-105-000-for-tucson-youth-development-program/article_9890dc9e-dfa5-11ed-919a-eb32e9799104.html |
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Imagine government agents descending on museums and art galleries to pry “forbidden” art off the walls while others confiscated “indecent” magazines and books and arrested their authors. Even family photographs and personal letters between spouses were snatched from mailboxes and scrutinized in search of contraband words and images. No, I’m not describing crackdowns by Russian or Chinese autocrats. These events occurred in the United States between the 1870s and the First World War, under the direction of Anthony Comstock, simultaneously head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice and U.S. Postal Inspector.
As the most influential — or notorious — crusader against obscenity, pornography, contraception and abortion in U.S. history, Comstock persuaded Congress to pass and President Ulysses S. Grant to sign a federal law named after him in 1873. The so-called Comstock Act outlawed distribution through the mail or in public displays or discourse “every article or thing designed, adapted or intended for ‘contraception’ or for producing an abortion, or for any indecent or immoral use.”
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The law forbid, among many things, advertising, recommending or distributing condoms, diaphragms, medicines to induce abortion, sex toys, and “obscene” pictures, books, and magazines. Penalties ranged from fines of up to $5,000 (several hundred thousand in today’s dollars) and between five and 10 years in prison.
To enforce the act, Comstock had the assistance of several thousand members of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, one of the largest federal police forces then in existence. While often dismissed — if remembered at all — as some obscure artifact of Victorian morality, the law not only remains a federal statute but was specifically cited in a pair of recent rulings by federal courts in Texas and Atlanta that affirmed the government’s authority to limit if not outright ban distribution of the so-called abortion pill, Mifepristone. By making the drug available via mail or pharmacies, the judges held, the FDA had acted in “clear violation” of the 1873 law. Conservative jurists seemed eager to recreate a world that existed before the reforms of the Great Society, New Deal, or Progressive era. The past, as novelist William Faulkner remarked, is never past.
Comstock, a country boy born in 1844, moved to New York City after the Civil War. As a self-described strict Christian, he was repelled by the bawdiness of urban life. With the help of the YMCA, he organized and led the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, which initiated local campaigns against brothels and business selling sex-themed books and pictures. Taking his energy to Washington, D.C., Comstock persuaded Congress to pass an open-ended anti-obscenity law that criminalized the distribution of contraceptives, “lewd writings,” and any “substance, drug, medicine, or thing” that could be used for an abortion.
It outlawed advertising, advocating, or distributing such objects or ideas across state lines. The U.S. Post Office appointed Comstock as a “special agent” empowered to enforce the law, a post he retained until his death in 1915. Following the federal lead, about half of the states enacted what were known as “little Comstock Acts.”
Over the next four decades, Comstock’s agents examined private mail and packages, raided businesses, seized art from private collections and museums, and, in a foretaste of recent attacks on drag shows, scrutinized photos of cross-dressing by men or women. Among the highest profile cases he brought were those against the anarchist Emma Goldman and Margret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. They were charged with advocating sex outside marriage, use of birth control, and importing contraceptives via their speeches and publications. (The government dropped Sanger’s case after Comstock’s death.) Comstock ultimately took credit for around 4,000 arrests, the destruction of 160 tons of publications and photographs, and for driving 15 suspects to suicide.
Beginning in the 1930s, federal courts significantly narrowed the grounds on which books and magazines could be labeled obscene, rendering parts of the Comstock Act moot and opening the way for the distribution of modern novels like “Ulysses” and “Lady Chatterley’s Lover.” In 1965 the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Griswold v. Connecticut that married couples had a constitutional right to use contraceptives, and in 1972 extended that right to unmarried people.
Congress followed the Court’s lead in 1971 by removing federal restrictions on the distribution and use of contraceptives. However, the provisions of the Comstock Act pertaining to abortion were left intact. The High Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling recognizing a constitutional right to abortion superseded the Act’s various restrictions on abortions…until the 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe. With the Court’s stripping constitutional protection for abortion rights and absent federal laws protecting that right, the Comstock Act and the state laws it spawned are again in play. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has suggested reconsidering the 1965 Griswold decision, raising the prospect of again allowing federal and state restrictions on contraception.
In 1915, two years before declaring a wartime crusade to make the world “safe for democracy,” President Woodrow Wilson appointed Anthony Comstock as the U.S. delegate to the “International Purity Conference” convening in San Francisco. Comstock’s death soon after blunted a possible U.S. crusade to make the world “safe for purity” as well. But, recalling Faulkner, the past is never really past, and we may be on the cusp of a new purity crusade.
Michael Schaller is regents professor emeritus of history at the University of Arizona. He has written several books on U.S. history, focusing on international relations. | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-mapa-or-making-america-pure-again/article_d58ad384-dd75-11ed-8bc8-dbe8274b952c.html | 2023-04-30T15:17:50 | 0 | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-mapa-or-making-america-pure-again/article_d58ad384-dd75-11ed-8bc8-dbe8274b952c.html |
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From the high-drama of the mighty Grand Canyon, to the saguaro-dotted Sonoran landscapes and the Ponderosa pine forests of the north, our state has long been a draw for visitors from far and wide. Home to awe-inspiring landscapes, vibrant city life, world-class spas, and resorts, Arizona has something for everyone. The tourism and hospitality sectors are vital to Arizona’s economy — they generate jobs, income, and recreational opportunities for local residents and encourage investment in local businesses. But today, as Arizona’s water security grows more uncertain, so too does the future of our tourism industry.
Water is essential to every aspect of our economy, and hospitality is no different. While the Colorado River is our iconic water resource that often gets the most attention, much of the water we rely on comes from groundwater supplies, which provide more than 40% of the state’s water overall. As the CEO of Hotel Congress in Tucson, I have been lucky to operate in an area covered by groundwater protections laid out in the 1980 Groundwater Management Act, which created critical guardrails to protect groundwater in urban areas. As a result, businesses in Arizona’s urban core are able to rely on a more predictable water supply, which is critical to keeping it running smoothly and our guests satisfied and well-cared for.
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But today the same is not true for businesses in rural parts of the state. Rural areas are sought after by visitors for their proximity to parks and wildlife, and are home to more than 1.5 million Arizonans, geographically 80% of the state. Yet, those communities have few options for managing their water supplies and are not protected by the Groundwater Management Act–even though groundwater is often the only source of water in these areas. As rural groundwater levels continue to decline, we risk losing not only the economic benefits of local tourism, but the vitality and way of life of entire communities.
In 2020, 32.1 million people visited Arizona and collectively spent $15 billion in the state. This money spent by tourists supports 160,500 jobs and generates critical tax revenue for Arizona. Our rural communities have been overlooked for too long, but they are the beating heart of the thriving tourist industry we take such great pride in. We cannot afford to lose all this and risk the livelihoods of so many Arizonans.
Arizona’s leaders must act now. Our state agencies, the legislature, and Governor must work bipartisanly to secure Arizona’s economic future and repair Arizona’s reputation.
They must give our rural business owners the tools they need to ensure their water stability, so that they can continue to strengthen the vibrant Arizona tourist industry that is so beloved by people around the country and all over the world.
Todd Hanley is the former CEO of Hotel Congress and Maynards in Tucson, Arizona and Founder of the Agave Heritage Festival. | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-tourism-powers-arizona-s-economy-to-keep-it-that-way-we-need-to/article_f213462a-e479-11ed-8960-d70eaeacc000.html | 2023-04-30T15:17:56 | 1 | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-tourism-powers-arizona-s-economy-to-keep-it-that-way-we-need-to/article_f213462a-e479-11ed-8960-d70eaeacc000.html |
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It’s dangerous to vote on actions as complex and important to our community as Proposition 412 without full, open disclosure, public education and discussion that clearly documents issues, responsibilities, and results. In fairness, and to promote transparency, voters should be aware that both TEP and City of Tucson (COT) are responsible for the limited content of Proposition 412.
To provide the appearance of propriety the proposition mentions Climate Change Emergency Action Plans, but fails to document legally binding actions, schedules, and tangible results. Only 10% of the fees will be allocated to addressing the declared emergency.
As a major local cause of climate change damages and precious water loss, TEP’s actions, not just ‘plans’, are required to avoid increased future damages and costs to our community. It is perplexing that TEP is working hard to significantly increase fossil fuel surcharges and base rates again; to fund continued and known damages to our community for more than another decade. TEP can and should stop creating community damages by accelerating their planned phase-out of fossil fueled generation from 2035 to 2025.
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TEP advised COT that installation of the new High Voltage (HV) transmission line would reduce maintenance costs by $12 Million. It’s the Council’s actions to require “cosmetic” undergrounding of the line, providing benefit to a few Homeowner Associations, that will create $45 Million in ratepayer charges if the Proposition is adopted.
TEP claims that the HV line is required to avoid UAZ and Banner electricity demands from negatively impacting their capacity to serve other ratepayers on that part of the Distribution Grid. It is probable that the reliability concerns could be resolved and provide all ratepayers with benefit by adding energy storage, “Flexible Generation”, to substations, and at UAZ and Banner facilities. Microgrids that can store cheaper electricity at night and use to satisfy Peak Demands, that provide Cyber protections, that can “island” in times of crises, and lower ratepayer costs while providing Crises Shelters.
If they act quickly, TEP could likely acquire Federal Funding to upgrade the distribution grids which would significantly reduce future base rate capital recovery costs, accelerate their planned transition to solar, reduce harmful emissions, continued damages and costs to our community. And can be powered by Regional Utility scale Solar Systems. Power Purchase Agreements for solar-Storage have been established by other utilities at 4c/KwH.
Arizona State Law ARS 40-203 compels the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) and TEP to act to optimize the convenience, comfort, safety, and preservation of the health of their Patrons (Ratepayers) and that cities may be authorized to exercise supervision over public service corporations (TEP) i.e., to resolve the Tucson Climate Emergency Resolution. ARS 40-203. Power of commission to determine and prescribe rates, rules, and practices of public service corporations, in part: The corporation commission shall have full power to, and shall, prescribe just and reasonable classifications ... and make and enforce reasonable rules, regulations, and orders for the convenience, comfort, and safety, and the preservation of the health, of the employees and patrons of such corporations ... incorporated cities and towns may be authorized by Law to exercise supervision over public service corporations ...
I would like to thank Steve Kozachik and Kevin Dahl for holding Public Meetings that have validated that the Franchise Agreement as proposed is premature, incomplete, and provides the Community with very little consideration in return for TEP access to taxpayer funded rights-of-way.
We have another two years to develop a Franchise Agreement that provides equal or greater benefit to Captive Customer ratepayers as it does for TEP shareholders and Management Bonuses.
In my opinion, all voters should Vote No on Proposition 412 and send the City of Tucson and TEP back to the “drawing board” to develop a better Agreement that optimizes the delivery of tangible value, safety, comfort, to taxpayer/ratepayers, not just TEP Shareholders and Management.
Terry has been a Tucson area resident since 1956; retired Corporate Director County Chief Contracts Manager; established the first 1 megawatt utility scale solar system in Southern AZ (2010) and has frequently provided testimony/comment to the ACC. | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-vote-no-on-prop-412-accountability-transparency-progress/article_707bb622-e3d1-11ed-af21-67e4defdd90d.html | 2023-04-30T15:18:02 | 1 | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-vote-no-on-prop-412-accountability-transparency-progress/article_707bb622-e3d1-11ed-af21-67e4defdd90d.html |
CEDAR FALLS — Fifteen tons of newly fabricated carillon bells will return to the University of Northern Iowa campus Monday morning.
It’s been about six months since the bells last rung from the Campanile. At the time onlookers witnessed Verdin Company crew members pour molten bronze from a furnace into molds to fabricate seven new ones.
The largest of what was 47 and now is 56 bells will be displayed beginning at 1 p.m. Monday through Tuesday before a crane begins hoisting the first bell up to the Campanile tower for installation Wednesday morning.
At 8 a.m. Tuesday, President Mark Nook and his cabinet plan to recreate a 1926 photo of then-president Homer Seerley and colleagues with the original bells when the Campanile was first constructed.
“This truly is historic. This is one of the only the times the public gets to see the bells up close and personal,” said Hillery Oberle, assistant vice president for strategy, communications, and campaigns. "We've been talking about it as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and it truly is. The scale of the bells is really impressive on its own with 15 tons worth of bell coming back.”
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Two bells will be installed per day Wednesday and Thursday, before the bells get lighter and easier to place. Lots of fine tuning is required, including installation of the keyboard -- about 800 pounds on its own -- that was disassembled in Verdin’s Cincinnati factory and will be reassembled in the Campanille.
At 5 p.m. Sunday, UNI’s Student Guild of Carillonneurs, the seven-member ensemble responsible for playing the instrument at the top of the Campanile, will demonstrate how to play it at the Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center, 8201 Dakota St., using a practice carillon and similar keyboard apparatus.
A pop-up exhibit related to the Campanile also will be curated during the week by the Rod Library’s Special Collections & University Archives.
The Campanile is one component of UNI’s “Our Tomorrow” capital campaign and its goal of raising $250 million by its sesquicentennial in 2026.
The carillon portion is the first phase of Campanile improvements. By the end of June, the expansion and restoration is expected to be complete.
“Once that’s complete, then we need to finish up the fundraising, and then we’ll be able to start work on the actual plaza," said Oberle.
A live stream of all the activity will be in place next week and available on UNI’s social media channels. To see it in person, public parking is available by the Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center, 8201 Dakota St., a short walk from the Campanile. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/education/uni-campanile-bells-return-monday-to-campus/article_bcc86779-00d8-5c1f-b03b-7653481da03e.html | 2023-04-30T15:21:15 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/education/uni-campanile-bells-return-monday-to-campus/article_bcc86779-00d8-5c1f-b03b-7653481da03e.html |
A new record shop is going for a nostalgic spin in downtown Crown Point.
Crown Point Records is planning to open in early May at 112 N. Main St. near the Old Lake County Courthouse square. The vinyl record shop is taking over the former Fairway Mortgage space.
It's the brainchild of Tom and Megan Waddell, who own the Crown Point Toys and Collectibles Shop across the street. They plan on running the record shop with their daughter Addison.
"It's going to have records both new and used, vinyl, rock T-shirts and patches," Tom Waddell said.
Crown Point Records will stock all genres of music, including rock, punk, metal, hip hop, classic rock and alternative rock.
"I'm a big fan of heavy metal, so we'll have a good selection of that," Waddell said. "It will be a learning curve. We'll have what people want."
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For instance, he's now looking at stocking some CDs as people have requested it on social media.
Waddell grew up going to iconic record stores like Hegewisch Records and Record Swap in Homewood. He's continued to collect records, leading his wife Megan to suggest he open a store.
"People like to recreate that feeling with physical media," he said. "I grew up with physical copies of things and it brings back that nostalgia."
Crown Point Records will join Antique Vault & Records in the Courthouse Shops as the second record store in downtown Crown Point, making it a potential destination where record collectors can hit up more than one shop in search of new or rare tunes.
"We're on a busy part of the square," Waddell said. "The facade is very inviting. It's by busy restaurants that get a lot of foot traffic. There's a lot of walking traffic and I expect great traffic when people are out shopping on Saturdays and Sundays."
While streaming services like Spotify, iTunes and Pandora have conquered the music industry, vinyl records have surged in popularity, surpassing CDs as the preferred physical medium. People bought $1.2 billion worth of records last year, a 20% increase.
"Some people with a more fine-tuned ear say the sound is better. But I think people like to have a physical copy where they can look at the footnotes," he said. "I've always been a collector where with baseball cards, toys or comic books. I have the collecting spirit and so do a lot of people."
The 2,000-square-foot shop will stock about 15,000 records at any given time. It will buy collections to frequently update its inventory.
"This is going to be a family atmosphere with an old school record shop feel," he said. "It's going to feel organized, clean and professional. It's not going to be a flea market-type record shop. I run the toy store and that's very well kept."
Crown Point Records will be open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Monday and be closed on Tuesday.
For more information, find the business on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
Relocating
Crown Point Toys & Collectibles has taken off since opening at 103 N. Main St. in downtown Crown Point in 2020.
The retro toy shop sells classic toys and collectibles, like Marvel, Star Wars, He-Man and G.I. Joe. Catering to adult collectors as much as kids, it has a wide selection of vintage 1980s toys and the popular Funko Pops!
It's already looking to expand in a larger location about a half-mile north.
"We've outgrown the space," owner Tom Waddell said. "We'll be able to carry more products with a larger back area. We'll be able to expand our Funko Pop! selection, comic books and video games. Everything will be more organized. It also will have its own parking so people won't have to find street parking."
Waddell said it would likely move to a larger space later this year.
Open
Chipotle moved out of the Southlake Mall to a new location on the other side of U.S. 30 where it now has a drive-thru where people can pick up online orders, such as the new Chicken al Pastor.
The popular quick-serve Mexican restaurant that's spawned a million imitators in the fast-casual space opened its new location Tuesday at 2831 E. 80th that it's billing as "the first Chipotlane in Hobart."
"The restaurant will feature the brand’s signature Chipotlane, a drive-thru pickup lane that allows guests to conveniently pick up digital orders without leaving their cars," spokesperson Annie Gradinger said.
The burrito and burrito bowl restaurant known for customizing orders with fresh, natural ingredients long shared a Southlake Mall outlot with Potbelly Sandwich Shop. It hopped across the street to the Crossings at Hobart outdoor shopping center, where it took over the site of the former Don Pablo's restaurant next to Chuck E. Cheese.
The newly constructed 2,333-square-foot restaurant cost $523,462 to build, according to the Hobart Building Department.
Gradinger said the restaurant would likely employ around 25 workers and is hiring. The company offers benefits like a debt-free college degree program and access to mental health care.
The Chipotle will be open daily from 10:45 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Closed
Red Nar Mediterranean Grill shuttered in a strip mall just across the street from the Southlake Mall.
The quick-serve restaurant serving shawarma, kabobs, falafel, baba ghanoush, hummus and baklava was located a newer strip mall at in at 8180 Mississippi St. in Merrillville, across the street from the Kohl's at Southlake Mall.
It's the second restaurant to closed in that 2,150-square-foot space in the last few years. Rapid Fired Pizza, a quick-serve pizza place similar to Blaze or MOD, opened in 2020 there and closed in 2021. Red Nar took over in 2021 and did not have any more luck.
The strip mall's other tenants, the sandwich shop Jimmy John's and the smoothie joint Smoothie King, have persevered during the musical chairs in the third storefront on the north end of the strip mall.
Closed
A once-bustling Mexican restaurant in a prominent spot on the south end of downtown Griffith is no more.
Mi Maria Bonita at 216 S. Broad St. closed after just a few years. It opened in 2020 in the former Asada Grill & Cantina space in Griffith before that Mexican restaurant moved to the former Zuni's House of Pizza spot on 45th Street in Highland in 2018.
It specialized in traditional Mexican fare like fajitas, carne asada, chile rellenos, alambre and pollo con mole.
The space on the busy stretch of Broad Street was long home to Niko's Steak and Seafood, a beloved longtime institution known for its choice cuts of beef and carrot cake that closed in 2014. It's a 120-seat space with family dining and a bar just south of the railroad tracks at the terminus of downtown Griffith where commercial storefronts give way to houses flanking Broad Street.
Closing
Sip Coffee House and Artisan Cafe has expanded throughout the Region in recent years and now has coffee shops in Crown Point, Highland, Munster and Hobart.
It recently took over The Librarium in downtown Hobart and more than doubled its space in downtown Highland, where it's a popular hangout spot.
But it's scaling back and closing one of its locations, a coffee shop on the lakefront in Cedar Lake.
"It is with a heavy heart that I am announcing the closing of our Cedar Lake Sip location," owner Rhonda Block posted. "As many of you know, my husband recently passed away on Christmas day. Since then, I've continued to deal with even more medical issues within the family and it has been very hard to give the attention needed to every Sip location. We've really tried to keep the Cedar Lake location open, but unfortunately we do not receive enough business there for it to make sense financially, especially at this time. I am not closing this location simply because I want to — I feel as though I have no choice."
Sip opened the coffee shop at 13133 Lake Shore Drive in 2020. Like the other Sip locations, it had a full espresso bar, gourmet sandwiches and local art on the walls.
Sip plans to hold onto the space until the lease runs out.
"The reason we will continue using the kitchen and renting out the space for special events for the immediate future is because we are under a lease with the building," Bloch posted. "I assure you that as soon as the lease ends, the space will be available for another business to move in. Until then, we will continue using the kitchen to bake and rent out the space for events. We will keep this page updated when we know more about how long that will go on. We're simply just unable to run a fully staffed and stocked cafe during this time."
Sip originally opened in Cedar Lake because so many people in the booming community in south Lake County frequented its cafe in downtown Crown Point. Bloch said she wouldn't rule out a return to Cedar Lake in the future.
"I truly appreciate everyone who has come by and supported this location over the last few years. We really have enjoyed serving the community of Cedar Lake," Bloch said. "Once things settle down, I hope to be able to open another location. In the meantime, I hope to still see you all in Hobart, Highland, or Crown Point. Thank you for your understanding."
Take the cannoli
Francis Ford Coppola directed some of the most acclaimed movies of all-time, including "Apocalypse Now," "The Conversation," "The Godfather," "The Godfather Part II" and "The Godfather Part III." (Okay maybe scratch that last one.)
He won an Oscar for the screenplay to "Patton." He's won Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Palmes d'Or and a BAFTA.
Now he's curating a Director’s Cut Wine Dinner at Carrabba's in Schererville and nationwide.
The chain, which has a restaurant at 49 U.S. 41 in Shops on Main, is offering a four-course wine dinner experience at 6:30 p.m. May 9 pairing Focaccia Primavera, Spinach Salad with Seared Scallops, Tuscan-Grilled Filet with Shrimp Scampi and Sogno Di Cioccolata “Chocolate Dream” with Mini Cannoli paired with wines from his winery.
So you can take the cannoli, like the guy said in one of the most quoted movies of all time. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/nwi-business-ins-and-outs-crown-point-records-and-chipotle-opening-sip-red-nar-and/article_a041e674-e584-11ed-a64e-6be7dbbfb49c.html | 2023-04-30T15:22:19 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/nwi-business-ins-and-outs-crown-point-records-and-chipotle-opening-sip-red-nar-and/article_a041e674-e584-11ed-a64e-6be7dbbfb49c.html |
Senate Bill 424 was submerged when the Indiana House Natural Resources Committee refused to hear it at the beginning of the month.
SB 424 would have required safety stations to be placed on piers and at all public access points on Lake Michigan. The bill would have gone into effect July 1 and required a minimum of 100 stations to be installed — each including a life ring, weather-proof case and durable rope about 100 feet in length.
“People need to understand, drowning is a public health issue,” said Dave Benjamin, co-founder and executive director of Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project. “Stuff like this should be mandated and required. There shouldn’t be resistance.”
Members from the newly founded Lake Michigan Water Front Safety Initiative–Indiana, traveled to the Statehouse on Feb. 20 to testify on behalf of the bill. Each person’s testimony led the Senate Committee on Natural Resources to unanimously pass SB 424.
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In early April, members from GLSRP and the safety initiative met with House Natural Resources Chairman Shane Lindauer, R-Jasper, on Zoom. However, Lindauer refused to hear the bill, Benjamin said.
“It’s not ’if’ someone will drown in Lake Michigan this summer, but ’when’ someone will drown," he said. "And then we will have to question if life rings would have made a difference in saving a life for each drowning incident.”
Without proper safety equipment, there will be a continued ripple effect for every drowning victim in Lake Michigan, Benjamin said.
Last year, 45 of the 108 Great Lakes drownings occurred in Lake Michigan, according to GLSRP. Statistics at the group’s website dating to 2013 show that Lake Michigan has had the most drownings annually compared with Erie, Superior, Huron and Ontario.
“If you look at those drowning victims, a lot of them are young,” said Beth Froese of Carol Stream, Illinois.
Froese’s daughter Chase and her friends were driving back to Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on the evening of July 31, 2015, when they decided to make a pit stop at Porter Beach. The three girls wanted to take a quick dip in the lake before continuing their journey.
Upon arrival to the beach, the three girls noticed other people swimming in the lake despite the choppy waves. The girls entered the water around 6:30 p.m.
Chase quickly realized that the 2- to 4-foot waves were causing the girls to float farther from the shore. The 20-year-old continued to drift away from her friends.
Two bystanders who saw that the girls needed help had access to flotation devices, a kickboard and kayak. However, they lost sight of Chase.
Nearly two days passed before the Lake County Sheriff’s Department recovered Chase’s body.
“I don’t know if a life ring would have changed the outcome for Chase since they lost sight of her, but the flotation devices for the other two girls was paramount,” said her father, Greg Froese. “Every second and minute matters. When a call goes to 911 because someone is in distress, it’s already too late.”
Chase Froese was the oldest of four children and known for her passion for music. She was a junior at Calvin, studying psychology and philosophy. She also worked at the university’s Starbucks.
“She was very relational and a lover of people,” her mother recalls. “We had a great relationship with her. She was a good kid.”
To say the Froese family is disappointed with the rejection of SB 424 is an understatement.
“It’s a starting bill. A basic, bare-bones bill,” Beth said. “It’s a very little ask for a very big outcome.”
Bob Pratt, co-founder and executive director of GLSRP, said drowning "will kill more school-aged people than fires, tornadoes, school shooters and earthquakes combined, but there’s still no water-safety education in schools. It’s frustrating work when every year we’ve averaged more than 100 fatal drownings on the five Great Lakes.”
GLSRP is a nonprofit that has been advocating for water safety for the past 12 years. It teaches water safety across the Great Lakes, in addition to tracking every drowning.
“It gives us no satisfaction to remind people after the fact that they missed the opportunity with Senate Bill 424,” Pratt said. “We’re at these beaches doing something we love, like surfing, knowing if it’s a warm, windy, wavy weekend there’s probably someone drowning on the Great Lakes.”
GLSRP and the Lake Michigan Water Front Safety Initiative plan to continue expressing the importance of installing safety stations. But if there’s a drowning, Benjamin said, it will have to be noted how a life ring could have changed the outcome.
He emphasizes that more than $100 million has been invested over the past 12 years into beach restoration projects in Hammond, Whiting, Gary, Portage and Michigan City. In comparison, 100 safety stations would cost about $100,000 and be a starting point for water safety on Lake Michigan.
“We’re representing a group of family members who’ve lost their family members to these beaches,” he said. “We’re very dissatisfied, and it’s inexcusable.”
For more information on water safety visit glsrp.org. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/porter/killing-of-indiana-senate-bill-424-causes-riptide-of-emotion/article_d480aedc-e478-11ed-b10a-1789ba8443d1.html | 2023-04-30T15:22:26 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/porter/killing-of-indiana-senate-bill-424-causes-riptide-of-emotion/article_d480aedc-e478-11ed-b10a-1789ba8443d1.html |
COCKEYSVILLE, Md. — Baltimore County Police are investigating a shooting that occurred early Sunday morning in Cockeysville .
Officers were called to Cranbrook Road and Halesworth Road for reports of a shooting in the area.
They arrived and located a person suffering from gunshot wounds.
Homicide detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the case.
Detectives are asking anyone with information to contact them at 410-307-2020. | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/person-shot-killed-in-cockeysville-early-sunday-morning | 2023-04-30T15:31:20 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/person-shot-killed-in-cockeysville-early-sunday-morning |
BALTIMORE — Police are investigating after a violent Saturday evening in Baltimore.
Three separate shootings occurred leaving one person dead and two others injured.
Officers responded to an area hospital for reports of a shooting victim at 7:45 p.m.
They arrived and found a 30-year-old man suffering from gunshot wounds.
Police were able to establish a crime scene at the 5100 block of Park Heights Avenue in regards to the shooting.
Medical officials say he is in stable condition.
35 minutes later, police were called to the 3800 block of Harlem Avenue for a shooting.
A 44-year-old man was found suffering from gunshot wounds.
The victim was pronounced dead on the scene.
An hour after the homicide, police were made aware of another walk-in shooting victim.
According to police, a 35-year-old man was shot during the course of a robbery in the 5800 block of Bel Air Road.
The victim is expected to survive.
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Anyone with information regarding any of these incidents can contact police or Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7LOCKUP. | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/three-separate-shootings-leaves-1-dead-2-injured-saturday-night | 2023-04-30T15:31:26 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/three-separate-shootings-leaves-1-dead-2-injured-saturday-night |
BEDFORD COUNTY, Va. – One person was taken into custody after authorities were involved in an operation in Bedford County late Saturday, according to the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies said they responded to a home in the 1200 block of Nicopolis Road for a mental health complaint.
According to authorities, upon arrival, the subject barricaded themself inside the residence.
Negotiators and the Tactical Response Team responded, and the subject surrendered peacefully, deputies said.
The subject was taken to a local hospital for mental health treatment, according to the sheriff’s office. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/04/30/one-in-custody-after-bedford-county-barricade-incident/ | 2023-04-30T15:35:01 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/04/30/one-in-custody-after-bedford-county-barricade-incident/ |
SALEM, Va. – Kids in Salem were reeling in some fun on Saturday.
The City of Salem Parks and Recreation Department hosted the annual Ernest “Pig” Robertson Fishing Rodeo.
The 71-year-old tradition took place at Lake Spring Park.
Kids ages eight and under enjoyed catching fish.
Recreation Programs Supervisor for Salem Parks and Recreation Ashley Pelletier said they stocked 1,400 pounds in the water just for this event, and they’ll have more next week.
“It’s a lot of fun, they love it, they get super excited,” Pelletier said. “We love putting this on for the kids to come out and do it every year. They have a great time.”
There are more events planned for the upcoming week:
- Monday, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. — Fishing for special needs children
- Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. — Fishing for nursing home residents
- Saturday, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. — Fishing for children ages nine through twelve | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/04/30/salem-holds-71st-year-of-ernest-pig-robertson-fishing-rodeo/ | 2023-04-30T15:35:07 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/04/30/salem-holds-71st-year-of-ernest-pig-robertson-fishing-rodeo/ |
Name: Megan Grow
School: Shoreland Lutheran High School
Parents: Matthew and Cindy Grow of Sturtevant
Most memorable high school moment: My Aerospace Engineering class took a field trip to launch the rockets that we had built during the year.
Most influential teacher: Mr. Timothy Mielke in Physics, Principles of Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Design and Development; Mr. Mielke has taught me many classes throughout my high school experience, as well as being my robotics coach, and has helped me discover my interest for the STEM field and helped me grow my confidence and encourage me to pursue computer science for a career.
School activities/clubs: National Honor Society, student government, VEX Robotics
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School athletics: Soccer
School offices held: Robotics Team Captain
Honors, letters or awards: Highest Academic Honors; National Center for Women & Information Technology Wisconsin Affiliate Winner; Soccer, Academic and Robotics Varsity Letters; Society of Women Engineers High School Recognition
College choice: Wisconsin Lutheran College in Milwaukee
Intended major/field of study: Computer Science and Mathematics
Role model: My Mom
Three words that best describe my role model: Hardworking, Selfless, Caring
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This time around, Suzanne Geist knew what she was getting into when she decided to run for public office, and she did so because she believes she can make a difference as Lincoln’s mayor.
“I believe this race allows me to be more effective over a longer period of time and really make some changes.”
She made her first bid for public office in 2016 after a conversation at a wedding, where a friend encouraged her. The time was right — the Geists’ youngest daughter was graduating from high school and was leaving home — so she decided to run. She was elected to represent District 25 in the Legislature.
Before that, she said, she’d primarily been interested in politics as an observer, except for her work on family friend Doug Peterson's bid for attorney general.
“I honestly had no idea what I was getting into,” she said. “I didn’t know the demands of the job. I didn't know the depth of knowledge that it requires to be really effective.”
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Now she does. She was reelected to the Legislature and would have been term-limited at the end of the session, but resigned earlier this month after advancing in the city elections with 34% of the vote and the possibility of getting at least some of the 17% of the votes garnered by fellow Republican challenger Stan Parker.
In what’s become a heated race between Geist and Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird, the former senator has promised to listen to all voices in the community and would make promoting economic growth, fostering a positive business climate, investing in streets and supporting police and first responders priorities of her administration.
Geist has distanced herself from attack ads from the PAC funded by two of her largest donors that say crime has spiked and portrays the mayor as an insider making backroom deals, but hasn’t asked them to stop. She declined to denounce one ad that claimed Gaylor Baird lived in Ashland, where her family owns a vacation home.
She said she's tried to keep her message positive and emphasized her priority would be city business, not a social agenda.
“The negativity has not come from me,” she said. “It’s just not a picture of who I am. I know that a lot of people jump in and get involved in races and want to have their say. I support people being able to voice their opinion on all sides.”
Geist, who has been endorsed by the Lincoln Police Union, said rising crime is a concern she’s heard repeatedly from constituents. She says she would focus on recruiting and retaining officers, and would make sure Lincoln police officers feel supported.
She’s stood with police officers when it wasn’t popular, she said, referring to opposition she led last session to a prison reform bill.
Police morale is low because there aren’t enough officers on the streets and those that are don’t feel supported by the administration, she said. Both police union representatives and Geist have said the mayor didn't offer full support of police during Black Lives Matter protests.
“I believe all city employees should feel supported and that we're all a team. We're all in this together. And I just don't believe that that level of support has been conveyed to law enforcement.”
The police union has doubled down in the week before the general election, posting a letter on Facebook addressing the number of officers on the street and recent gun violence. A mailer that arrived in voters' mailboxes this week includes a letter of support from Carrie Herrera, the widow of Mario Herrera, who was shot in the line of duty in 2020.
Geist has a concealed carry permit and filmed an ad with a retired sheriff’s deputy on the importance of training, but said she had enough concerns with the constitutional carry bill considered by the Legislature as it stood when she resigned that she would not have voted for it.
“I’m also thinking like the mayor of a city and understanding the responsibility to get it right,” she said. “I completely understand that Lincoln and Omaha are different than the western part of the state. And the needs of a large city and its citizens being armed in certain places are different.”
On abortion, Geist, 61, said she’s staunchly pro-life but would not support limiting abortion locally were she elected mayor.
“I don't believe that's where those issues are best addressed,” she said. “As mayor, I have no intention of bringing divisive social issues to the office. I am going to be focused on city business. I believe those questions are best answered by the Legislature, not by each individual city.”
Geist’s father is a pediatrician and she was born in St. Louis, when he was in residency. They moved to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where she lived until she graduated high school and came to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to study broadcast journalism and — she hoped — lose her accent.
She met her husband, Mark, here but never did get into the field of journalism, because just before she graduated she was subpoenaed to be part of the grand jury investigating the failure of Commonwealth Savings and Loan.
That continued for nearly two years, and she worked at her husband’s family manufacturing business when the grand jury wasn't in session. When that ended, she landed in pharmaceutical sales and data communications.
She spent some time as a stay-at-home mom to raise their three children, now grown and living in Lincoln, along with the Geists' nine grandchildren.
Making a difference in the city where her family lives would include streamlining the inspection and permitting processes and talking with developers about ways the city could better partner with them to reduce their costs.
She’s criticized the recently passed floodplain regulations and said she’d look for ways to reduce regulations on builders that drive up home prices.
On the budget, she said she'd try to lower the tax rate enough to make a difference to taxpayers, and suggested moving unfilled positions from other departments could be a way to pay for more police officers.
“When taxpayers are tightening their belts, the city needs to do the same thing,” she said.
In response to her opponent’s assertion that her positions are too extreme for Lincoln, Geist said there are many people who believe the way she does on the topics such as abortion and don’t consider themselves extreme.
“Other people can put labels on me however they choose,” she said. “But I would contend that those that know me well or even a little bit, know that a label of hateful or extreme or intolerant has no place in the relationships I have in my life.”
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Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird, a Democrat, faces former state Sen. Suzanne Geist, a Republican, in her run for a second term. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/election-2023-geist-believes-she-can-make-a-difference-as-mayor/article_289915f2-e471-11ed-9d2a-0f299b63349f.html | 2023-04-30T15:54:01 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/election-2023-geist-believes-she-can-make-a-difference-as-mayor/article_289915f2-e471-11ed-9d2a-0f299b63349f.html |
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – A Purple Alert was announced Saturday for an 18-year-old woman missing out of Grant-Valkaria, according to the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office.
Destanie Zamjahn-Shoemaker was last seen April 16 when leaving her residence in Grant — in the area of Lortie Avenue — and getting into a vehicle with unknown persons, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. That vehicle was believed to be headed to the area of West Palm Beach, the statement reads.
Zamjahn-Shoemaker is 5 feet, 3 inches tall and weighs 150 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes. She was last seen wearing jeans and a white T-shirt, according to the sheriff’s office. She suffers from mental health issues and is considered endangered, deputies said.
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Anyone with knowledge of Zamjahn-Shoemaker’s whereabouts is urged to contact the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office at 321-633-7162.
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The debate between Mayor Bill Carroll and former Councilman Neil Anderson is set to run from 6 to 7 p.m. Monday at the Lake Station Public Library, 2007 Central Ave.
The "Meet the Candidates" night is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Living Hope Church, 1115 Calumet Ave., Valparaiso. Doors will open at 6 p.m.
"It is unnecessary to make it more difficult for the elderly, people voting by travel board, and those serving in the military to vote," said Rep. Tonya Pfaff, D-Terre Haute.
Austin Bonta is battling John Cannon in the Republican mayoral primary in Portage.
But will the voters instead be swayed by a debate about which of the two is the real homegrown hero?
Monday is the deadline for Indiana residents planning to vote in the May 2 municipal primary election to register in advance to cast a ballot, as required by state law.
"President Biden made the right choice to sign Senator Josh Hawley’s and my bill to declassify all intel about the Wuhan lab and the origins of COVID," said Sen. Mike Braun.
Hoosier voters will decide at the 2024 general election whether to remove the state superintendent of public instruction from the gubernatorial line of succession.
Sheriff Oscar Martinez Jr. is asking Indiana's highest court to dismiss a criminal indictment accusing him of felony resisting law enforcement and misdemeanor reckless driving.
U.S. Rep. Frank J. Mrvan, D-Highland, was reelected to a second term in November with a 12,053-vote margin of victory, or 5.6%, over Republican Jennifer-Ruth Green.
Jackie, Tito and Marlon Jackson — original members of the Jackson 5 — are encouraging Gary residents to mark their ballots for Eddie Melton in the May 2 primary election.
The five-term leader of Lake County's most populous city declared Wednesday there's no hope for Democratic candidates to win statewide elections in Indiana in the near future.
"Neither you, nor the national Dems lifted a finger to help any Hoosier Dem win in the last election cycle. Now you post this? Get lost Ron," said Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr.
Legislation advancing at the Statehouse would redesignate the auditor of state as the "state comptroller" for all public and legal purposes — except in the Indiana Constitution.
Gary Mayor Jerome Prince is challenging state Sen. Eddie Melton to an unspecified number of debates to help Democratic voters decide who to nominate for Gary mayor.
School Town of Highland is asking for an increase of up to 32.04 cents per $100 of assessed valuation in property taxes.
The school district wants to charge district residents 41.96 cents per $100 of assessed valuation until 2031, the same amount it's charged since 2017.
A judge has upheld the city’s new political map in a victory for Gary Common Council opponents of Mayor Anthony Copeland.
The Indiana House rejected a proposal to deny the right to vote for 10 years to any person convicted of treason, insurrection or seditious conspiracy against the United States.
The initial candidate declaration period for the May 2 municipal government election ended Friday with the close of the opportunity for registered candidates to withdraw from the election.
A dozen Lake County candidates are being challenged and face possible removal Feb. 21 by the county election board if they are found to have violated state election laws.
Lake County is preparing to spend $1.5 million dollars to add space to the government center to securely store election equipment mandated by the state.
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"A lot can change between now and the election."
The remote accessible ballot marking tool will allow voters with print disabilities to sign all ballots and forms electronically without the assistance of another person.
Former President Donald Trump declared U.S. Rep. Jim Banks has Trump's "complete and total endorsement" in Banks' bid to represent the Hoosier State in the U.S. Senate.
Senate Bill 188 would end Indiana's longstanding practice of nonpartisan school board elections by obligating school board candidates to affiliate with a political party.
"I conclude that it’s just not the job for me, not the town for me and not the life I want to live at this point," Daniels said
More than 50 public offices in Lake, Porter and LaPorte counties are being contested by two or more candidates for their party’s nomination to run in the general election this fall.
"We have a county assessor. Why do we need two?" asked state Rep. Jim Pressel, R-Rolling Prairie.
Mayor Tom Dermody is seeking the Republican nomination in a race featuring no other candidates from either party so far. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/ | 2023-04-30T16:01:33 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/ |
ATHENS, Ga. — Athens-Clarke County Police are investigating a shooting that killed one person and injured three others early Sunday morning just before 1 a.m.
Officers were alerted about the shooting after being called to the 1100 block of Mitchell Bridge Road for a person shot. When officers arrived, they found Marquise Jackson shot.
The 21-year-old was taken to a hospital where he later died from his injuries, according to a release form Athens-Clarke County Police.
Three other people also arrived at the hospital with injuries related to the shooting. Their injuries were non-life threatening, the release said.
If you have any information about the shooting including photos, videos or social media posts, call Sergeant Black with the Athens-Clarke County Police Department at 762-400-7058, or email them at scott.black@accgov.com.
Anonymous tips can be made by calling the Crime Stoppers Tip Line at 706-705-4775. Crime Stoppers is also offering up to a $1,000 reward for any information leading to an arrest, the release said. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/4-shot-1-killed-overnight-shooting-athens-police-say/85-50737d96-f185-4714-9597-0d53a54893c3 | 2023-04-30T16:02:51 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/4-shot-1-killed-overnight-shooting-athens-police-say/85-50737d96-f185-4714-9597-0d53a54893c3 |
Boones Creek, Tenn. (WJHL) – The Boones Creek Historical Trust Museum and Opry received a $750,000 grant from the state of Tennessee.
The funds will be used to renovate the Opry venue. Currently, there is one music stage. After the renovations, there will be 3 different music stages. Two inside, and one amphitheater outside. A paved parking lot will also be added.
Board members say that the opry house fills up quickly each Saturday night.
“Right now this building, if we push it, we can cram 120 people in there,” said Vicki Shell, the Vice President of the Boones Creek Historical Trust. “This will give us seating for 300. So, it’ll triple our capacity. And we are at capacity every Saturday night. It’s just packed.”
“Sometimes we have to open the doors and put chairs outside,” said Charlie Whitehead who is on the Boones Creek Historical Trust’s board of directors. “So, when we get the expansion built we won’t have to do that no more. We’ll have enough room for everybody.”
The Boones Creek Historical Trust works to preserve the cultural importance of Appalachian music.
“I think that this type of music is what people remember their grandparents and their aunts and uncles singing around the campfire on the porch,” said Heather Rupe, volunteer and performer. “And it is our heritage.”
Retired pastor and board member Jack Oates gives a prayer and a short history lesson before the opry performances.
“We try to introduce the audience here who’ve come for music, to the history side of of our operation of the trust,” said Oates. “And it may involve some antique implement that was used in this area, maybe a old home in the area, maybe some story about the history of this part of the country, like a story, Daniel Boone story or something.”
The Boones Creek Opry also hosts workshops and music classes throughout the week. A musical circle jam is hosted every Thursday night from 6 to 8 p.m.
“We just go in here and we make a big circle with our chairs and you just come and bring your instrument and we just go from one to the next,” said Whitehead.
Vicki Shell says the family atmosphere at the opry is unparalleled.
“It’s the people’s stage, that’s what this is,” said Shell “It’s not really big names coming through. It’s the people’s stage. This is our culture. This is what we do.”
The total renovation will be around one million dollars. The other $225,000 that’s not from the state, will come from Boones Creek Historical Trust fundraising. Construction is expected to start near the end of the year.
Live performances take place every Saturday night at 6pm, followed by an open mic at 7pm. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/boones-creek-opry-to-expand-thanks-to-state-funding/ | 2023-04-30T16:07:04 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/boones-creek-opry-to-expand-thanks-to-state-funding/ |
CLEAR LAKE -- Clear Lake Bank & Trust recently promoted Stephanie Hassebroek.
Hassebroek becomes manager of the trust department at CLB&T. After graduating from the University of Iowa, Stephanie worked at a brokerage firm in Des Moines for four years before joining CLB&T in 2011. She began working as an assistant at Edgar Financial Group before moving to Clear Lake Bank & Trust’s trust department in 2014. In 2016, she became a trust officer and was recently promoted to vice president. Stephanie graduated from the Cannon Trust School in 2018 and has obtained her Certified Trust Fiduciary Advisor designation.
Founded in 1934, Clear Lake Bank and Trust Company is a locally owned, full-service bank with four offices in Clear Lake, Garner, and Mason City.
Photos: North Iowa history book, 1800s-1930s
North Iowa history: Fire prevention
This photo, provided by the Mason City Public Library Archives, features the Mason City Fire Department shooting massive amounts of water Oct. 12, 1939, at the Foresters building for fire prevention week.
Mason City Public Library Archives
North Iowa history: Grant valentines
In this photo provided by the Mason City Public Library Archives, children are keeping busy by making Valentine’s Day crafts at Grant School in 1938.
Mason City Public Library Archives
North Iowa history: Henkel Construction
This photo provided by the Mason City Public Library Archives features workers next to the Henkel Construction truck, circa 1925.
Mason City Public Library Archives
North Iowa history: House explosion
This photo, provided by the Mason City Public Library Archives, shows the aftermath of an explosion March 21, 1935, at the Meurs household. It was caused by escaping gas, and as a result, the homeowner asked for $20,000 in damages.
Mason City Public Library Archives
North Iowa history: Huxtable Drug
In this photo provided by the Mason City Public Library Archives, cars are parked on a strip that housed a café, a drug store and a theatre in 1937. The movies that are playing are “Confession” and “Kid Galahad.”
Mason City Public Library Archives
North Iowa history: Federal Packing Co.
In this photo provided by Mrs. David Murphy (Phyllis Frances), Tony Zamanek’s car is pulling an advertisement for Federal Packing Co. outside of Chicago Meat Market and Grocery, circa 1930. From left are James Belberoff, Phyllis Zemanek and Mary Zemanek, who’s holding Rose Mary. The Mason City and Clear Lake pictorial book has over 250 photos from the 1800s through the 1930s. Order yours now at MasonCity.PictorialBook.com .
Mrs. David Murphy
North Iowa history: Boy Scouts
In this photo provided by the Mason City Public Library Archives, the Mason City Boy Scouts are learning valuable lessons in first aid on Dec. 12, 1935. The Mason City and Clear Lake pictorial book has over 250 photos from the 1800s through the 1930s. Order yours now at MasonCity.PictorialBook.com .
Mason City Public Library Archives
North Iowa history: Pierce with kids
This photo, provided by the Mason City Public Library Archives, shows patrolman Dick Pierce giving lollipops to an excited group of children on May 31, 1938.
Mason City Public Library Archives
North Iowa history: Woodward Auto
In this photo provided by the Mason City Public Library Archives, people are standing outside of Woodward Auto Company, which was on 124 S. Delaware in 1926. The Mason City and Clear Lake pictorial book has over 250 photos from the 1800s through the 1930s. Order yours now at MasonCity.PictorialBook.com .
Mason City Public Library Archives
Children at telephone office
In this photo provided by the Mason City Public Library Archives, Jackson School children are taking a field trip to a local telephone office in 1939. Eva Scott was the teacher.
Mason City Public Library Archives
North Iowa history: Divers at Clear Lake
This photo, provided by the Mason City Public Library Archives, shows a great dive from athletes Helen Crlenkovich and Marjorie Gestring in Clear Lake, 1939. Gestring won a gold medal in the 1936 Olympics for the 3-meter springboard.
Mason City Public Library Archives
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FOREST CITY — Erin Zielske of NSB Bank of Forest City has successfully completed the Iowa Bankers Association Consumer Credit School in Ankeny.
The school is an intense one-week program sponsored by the Iowa Bankers Association. The purpose of the IBA Consumer Credit School is to prepare consumer credit personnel who want to broaden their consumer credit knowledge or who have not been exposed to formal consumer credit education, to serve effectively and profitably as consumer credit officers. This is accomplished by developing a better understanding of the consumer credit function allowing students to better meet needs of their customers and serve their local communities.
Photos: North Iowa history book, 1800s-1930s
North Iowa history: Fire prevention
This photo, provided by the Mason City Public Library Archives, features the Mason City Fire Department shooting massive amounts of water Oct. 12, 1939, at the Foresters building for fire prevention week.
Mason City Public Library Archives
North Iowa history: Grant valentines
In this photo provided by the Mason City Public Library Archives, children are keeping busy by making Valentine’s Day crafts at Grant School in 1938.
Mason City Public Library Archives
North Iowa history: Henkel Construction
This photo provided by the Mason City Public Library Archives features workers next to the Henkel Construction truck, circa 1925.
Mason City Public Library Archives
North Iowa history: House explosion
This photo, provided by the Mason City Public Library Archives, shows the aftermath of an explosion March 21, 1935, at the Meurs household. It was caused by escaping gas, and as a result, the homeowner asked for $20,000 in damages.
Mason City Public Library Archives
North Iowa history: Huxtable Drug
In this photo provided by the Mason City Public Library Archives, cars are parked on a strip that housed a café, a drug store and a theatre in 1937. The movies that are playing are “Confession” and “Kid Galahad.”
Mason City Public Library Archives
North Iowa history: Federal Packing Co.
In this photo provided by Mrs. David Murphy (Phyllis Frances), Tony Zamanek’s car is pulling an advertisement for Federal Packing Co. outside of Chicago Meat Market and Grocery, circa 1930. From left are James Belberoff, Phyllis Zemanek and Mary Zemanek, who’s holding Rose Mary. The Mason City and Clear Lake pictorial book has over 250 photos from the 1800s through the 1930s. Order yours now at MasonCity.PictorialBook.com .
Mrs. David Murphy
North Iowa history: Boy Scouts
In this photo provided by the Mason City Public Library Archives, the Mason City Boy Scouts are learning valuable lessons in first aid on Dec. 12, 1935. The Mason City and Clear Lake pictorial book has over 250 photos from the 1800s through the 1930s. Order yours now at MasonCity.PictorialBook.com .
Mason City Public Library Archives
North Iowa history: Pierce with kids
This photo, provided by the Mason City Public Library Archives, shows patrolman Dick Pierce giving lollipops to an excited group of children on May 31, 1938.
Mason City Public Library Archives
North Iowa history: Woodward Auto
In this photo provided by the Mason City Public Library Archives, people are standing outside of Woodward Auto Company, which was on 124 S. Delaware in 1926. The Mason City and Clear Lake pictorial book has over 250 photos from the 1800s through the 1930s. Order yours now at MasonCity.PictorialBook.com .
Mason City Public Library Archives
Children at telephone office
In this photo provided by the Mason City Public Library Archives, Jackson School children are taking a field trip to a local telephone office in 1939. Eva Scott was the teacher.
Mason City Public Library Archives
North Iowa history: Divers at Clear Lake
This photo, provided by the Mason City Public Library Archives, shows a great dive from athletes Helen Crlenkovich and Marjorie Gestring in Clear Lake, 1939. Gestring won a gold medal in the 1936 Olympics for the 3-meter springboard.
Mason City Public Library Archives
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Originally published April 26 onKTVB.COM.A Tuesday in April may not stand out for a lot of people, but for veteran Franklin “Bus” Hudson, April 25 was pretty momentous because it was his 100th birthday.
“How do I feel? I feel real good,” Hudson said. “Why is everybody here? It’s my 54th birthday, we’re celebrating, can’t you understand?”
He had a lot of visitors on his big day. “Bus” may be slow to get around these days but is still quick with the jokes. That sense of humor, and good looks, is what charmed his wife, Louise, 72 years ago. “He’s still handsome,” she said.
Hudson was born on the plains of west Texas; he said the doctor rode in a buggy to the house to deliver him.
He ended up following his brothers into the Army in World War II.
“I was a cowboy in an Army uniform,” he said, “but I’ll tell you one thing, I was a damn good soldier.”
His first brush with death came on the trip across the Atlantic, when his ship dodged depth charges and icebergs. He said he would never forget that night. “I thought we were going to freeze to death,” he said.
Hudson’s European tour began in France and continued northeast.
“I was with Patton’s third army over in Germany. I was a tank commander and I didn’t even know what I was doing,” Hudson said.
“Bus” remembers having to figure out how to follow the infantry into a town one morning on a road too narrow for tanks, but he survived.
He returned to Texas at the end of the war to tend his horses. A rodeo brought him to Boise the first time in 1957, and he returned for good in 1976, buying a 17-acre ranch in Eagle. He raised a family that now extends to four generations.
“You know they say the time really flies when you’re having fun and we must have a helluva lot of fun because time sure got away with us,” he said. “It sneaks up on us ... next thing I know we’re old. I’m crippled, I can’t walk, I’m deaf, I can’t hear, I’m blind as a bat, but thank God I still got my driver’s license.”
Besides having a great life story, a loving family and a long life, he also still has a sharp sense of humor. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/i-feel-real-good-idaho-veteran-celebrates-100th-birthday/article_f7788974-e611-11ed-904f-2b476797eafb.html | 2023-04-30T16:30:39 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/i-feel-real-good-idaho-veteran-celebrates-100th-birthday/article_f7788974-e611-11ed-904f-2b476797eafb.html |
Authorities say DNA evidence has proven that a man who died in prison several years ago was responsible for the 1984 murder of a 19-year-old woman whose body wasn't found for more than a decade after she disappeared from her family home in New Jersey.
The state attorney general and the Mercer County prosecutor's office last week announced what they called “the conclusive identification” of Nathaniel Harvey, formerly of East Windsor, as the person responsible for the sexual assault and murder of Donna Macho.
Macho, 19, went missing from the East Windsor home where she resided with her parents and sisters on or about Feb. 26, 1984. A Boy Scout troop leader found her skeletal remains in a wooded area in Cranbury on April 2, 1995, and her identity was confirmed by dental records.
Around the time she disappeared, Harvey was arrested in several sexual assaults as well as an unrelated murder. Authorities said he was identified early on as a possible suspect in Macho's murder “but investigative leads dissipated and the case went cold.”
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“During the commission of his crimes, prosecutors say Harvey typically entered unlocked homes, where he would hold captive and rape young women,” authorities alleged.
DNA tests on evidence from the victim's bedroom could not be matched with a specific person, but tests with current DNA technology matched it to Harvey “and determined that his DNA was the only DNA evidence in the room that should not have been present,” authorities said.
Macho's body was found in a wooded area by a farm where Harvey briefly worked around the time of her disappearance, and her vehicle was found abandoned by a nearby sewer plant, within walking distance of Harvey’s home, authorities said.
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Harvey was sentenced to death and later to life in prison in the 1985 rape and murder of a Plainsboro woman but maintained his innocence for three decades and was awaiting a third trial in the case. He was incarcerated from the time of his 1985 arrest until his death in South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton in November 2020, authorities said.
His former attorney, Eric Kleiner, said there was no evidence connecting his client to the 1985 murder "other than Harvey did a lot of bad things.” He declined comment on the announcement on Macho's slaying but cautioned that the evidence should be carefully scrutinized given the troubled history of Harvey's conviction.
“There’s a lot of problems with everything having to do with Harvey,” he said, NJ Advance Media for NJ.com reported.
Macho worked as a legal secretary and was hoping to make a career in modeling. Julie Burger, who was 14 when her older sister disappeared, told NJ Advance Media for NJ.com that the case “destroyed my family, the searching, the looking, the wondering.”
Speaking publicly about the case for the first time, she said the family hired “private investigators, trackers, psychics” in an effort to find the person responsible.
“We spent all the money we had," said Burger, now a resident of Texas. "We still thought that somehow, maybe she was still alive. Maybe she was just hurt, or somebody was holding her. ... I’m glad the case is closed, and it was him. But I feel he got away with it.” | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/authorities-man-who-died-in-prison-killed-nj-woman-in-1984/3556463/ | 2023-04-30T16:50:21 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/authorities-man-who-died-in-prison-killed-nj-woman-in-1984/3556463/ |
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) says it plans to widen and expand portions of Highway 112 in Fayetteville.
On Friday, April 28, ARDOT held a meeting to get public feedback on the revised 3.9-mile plan.
The two-lane highway between Truckers Drive and Howard Nickeell Road will be widened to four lanes divided by a 15-foot wide median and include three roundabouts.
This is an effort to reduce congestion as Northwest Arkansas continues to rapidly grow.
"Safety, congestion, ease of way, we gotta get going," said Dave Parker with ARDOT.
It comes as developers plan to build a new entertainment district near the area.
They are calling it "The Aronson" and hope to bring an Alamo Drafthouse Theatre to the old 112 Drive-in.
They also want to bring in more than 200 residences and more space for other stores and businesses.
Improvements were already being planned before the announcement of The Aranson but ARDOT says they added to the design of the project to accommodate more traffic.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An Arkansas woman living in a hotel while waiting for tornado insurance assistance got a surprise visitor a few days ago.
Tikira Wallace has been adjusting to her new normal in a Little Rock hotel after her mother's apartment got hit by the tornado on March 31.
Especially after she unexpectedly gave birth at 39 weeks pregnant to her son Eiress on April 23rd.
"The apartment complex itself is bad. It tore people's vehicles up, it tore a lot of it up. It did some damage," Mother, Tikira Wallace said.
Just two days after the tornado, the Red Cross placed Wallace and her family in a hotel room.
"They got me a whole bunch of stuff. They've been very helpful," Wallace explained.
Wallace explained that she went to the hospital for a few hours on April 23 but got discharged because they didn't think the birth would happen that day.
After she returned to the hotel, the pain set in and she went into labor.
"Overall experience. It was crazy. I have a crazy story to tell my son... hey Mom where was I born? Son, you were born in a hotel," she described.
Wallace also did so without any pain medication.
"It's not as bad as I thought it would be. But it didn't feel good," she said.
Wallace said she's not sure how it would've gone if it weren't for her new friend, Shay Sockwell, who was also staying in the hotel because of the tornado.
"I was like, can you please not leave me and she held my hands and she kept me calm the whole time," she added.
Sockwell ended up delivering baby Eiress with assistance from paramedics.
"The last thing I wanted was for it to be something wrong. So my whole goal was to stay calm. We're gonna get this baby out of here and everything was gonna be good," Sockwell explained.
After just 4 pushes, Eiress was born.
"I didn't know what I was doing or how I was gonna get it done. But it got done," Wallace said.
Now, Sockwell and Wallace call each other family.
"I'm the god mom. So yes, it's my baby too," Sockwell said.
They're bonding every single day in the hotel.
"Once all this is over and we do get placed I'm still gonna stay in contact and we got this family stuck together we can't separate," she said.
"I have the perfect support system. I have everything that I need. I just feel like he's a blessing," Wallace said.
Wallace said she looks forward to making memories with her son in a more permanent place.
"I'm just ready to begin life again with my baby," she added.
Nurses with Red Cross have been checking on the first-time mother and baby, making sure everyone is healthy and has what they need.
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GREENWOOD, Ark. — The City of Greenwood announced plans for a splash pad at Bell Park.
The city says it plans on breaking ground on the project this fall, and intends to have it done by 2024.
A photo of the concept was shared on their Facebook page.
"We have worked extensively to make sure your kiddos have a fun and safe place to cool down in the summer!"
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FORT SMITH, Ark. — Looking for something to do in the River Valley? There are many things to choose from near you. Here's a list of places you can check out!
Historic:
- McCoy Park at West End
- Chaffee Barbershop Museum
- Fort Smith Trolley Museum
- Fort Smith National Historic Site
- Clayton House - Fort Smith
- Miss Laura's Visitor Center - Victorian Mansion - Fort Smith
- Fort Smith Museum of History
- Fort Smith Regional Art Museum
- Van Buren River Valley Museum Association
- Popeye Statue - Alma
Kid Friendly:
- Parrot Island Waterpark (Seasonal)
- Fort Smith Escape Room
- Great Escape Mystery Rooms - VB
- The Arcade of Fort Smith
- The Box Arcade VB
- Chuck E. Cheese - Fort Smith
- Cre8tive Arts Network - Fort Smith
- Alma Aquatic Park (Seasonal)
Active
- Civil Axe Throwing - Fort Smith
- Vertical Horizons Climbing Gym
- Fort Smith Farmer's Market
- Gator Golf - Ben Geren Park
Hiking Trails / Rivers / Lakes
Relaxed:
- Bakery District
- Chapter on Main
- Janet Huckabee Nature Center
Parks:
- River Front Park
- Ross Pendegraft Park - Fort Smith
- Carol Ann Cross Park - Fort Smith
- Creekmore Park - Fort Smith
- Martin Luther King Park
- Ben Geren Regional Park
- Tilles Park
If you're willing to drive a bit further, check out our list of favorite spots in Northwest Arkansas!
Do you have a favorite place you like to go to that isn't listed here? Send us your suggestions at news@kfsm.com!
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Mickey McFetridge, the interim director of accounting for Fayetteville Public Schools spoke before the school board on Thursday, April 28, announcing a plan to give all employees a raise. This plan would be in line with the LEARNS Act requirements.
McFetridge says the proposed salary increases will allow for increases across the district while allowing them to gauge the impact of LEARNS on their budget.
To bring salaries in line with the law, the proposal would increase all certified educator salaries by $2,000 across the board from last school year. All classified pay will be increased by at least 25 cents but some roles, especially entry-level, will be increased as much as 80 cents per hour.
This would be in addition to the existing step increases.
On average, McFetridge says it's about a 3.5% increase.
McFetridge says this would make those roles more competitive, as other industries are paying better. It also closes the gap between the highest and lowest-paid classified staff.
The board is set to vote on the proposed pay increases next month.
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FORT SMITH, Ark. — The Fort Smith Police Department (FSPD) conducted a search for a missing 12-year-old juvenile on Friday, April 28.
According to police, the juvenile left for school in the morning but did not arrive.
At 10:50 a.m., police reported that the juvenile was found safe.
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FORT SMITH, Ark. — The 2023 Business Expo & Career Fair will be held on Friday, May 5 at the Fort Smith Convention Center.
The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
There will be over 100 booths available to network and showcase their available jobs.
The event is free and there will also be prizes.
The Fort Smith Convention Center is located at 55 S. 7th Street.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The new Fayetteville Police headquarters is set to open on Monday, May 1, at 7 am.
The new facility will be located at 1800 N. Stephen Carr Memorial Blvd. The original facility is located at 100 W. Rock St. in downtown Fayetteville and has been operating there since July 1993.
The public entrance and lobby will be open Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Visitors can access the lobby after normal operating hours on an as-needed basis and use an intercom system to contact Dispatch. Both on and off-street parking will be available for visitors.
Fayetteville Police personnel are in the final stages of transferring locations. The original facility will be closed to the public after 5 p.m. Friday, April 28. There will be signs posted on the doors informing visitors of the new headquarters.
Fayetteville voters approved a bond measure in April 2019 to fund this project. The construction began on the approximately 82,500-sq. ft. secured facility in February 2021.
Fayetteville Police says its new facility is fully ADA accessible, includes several areas capable of hosting public meetings and programming and offers increased space, safety and security for officers and staff.
A building dedication ceremony and community tour plans will be announced later this month.
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ARKANSAS, USA — Niche has reported several high schools in the NWA area as some of the top high schools in the state.
Their website lists all four of Haas Hall Academy campuses in the top 10 as well as Fayetteville and Bentonville High School. Bentonville West and Rogers New Technology High School are also on the list.
Thaden School is named the #1 private high school in the state as well.
Willowbrook Elementary School in Bentonville is the best public elementary in the state.
Niche is an online resource providing information on K–12 schools, colleges, cities, neighborhoods, and companies across the United States.
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LEFLORE, Okla — One person is dead after a single-vehicle crash that took place in LeFlore County Saturday, April 29 at around 7:40 a.m. according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP).
OHP says 21-year-old Haylee Newman from LeFlore County was driving a 2018 Chevrolet on Reichert Summerfield Road when she crashed.
Newman was pronounced dead at the scene due to multiple injuries and was transported to a funeral home according to the report.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
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FORT SMITH, Ark. — After 20 years in one location, a local non-profit that provides medical care to the needy is moving, but the Good Samaritan Clinic says that they will soon be able to see far more patients than ever before.
The Good Samaritan Clinic has been at its current location at 615 N. B Street in downtown Fort Smith since 2003, but by early next year, it’ll move to a new location at 1400 S. Zero in Fort Smith.
It’s a building that right now houses a Mercy Fort Smith walk-in clinic.
Good Samaritan Executive Director Patti Kimbrough says that right now, the clinic sees about 5,000 patients a year with four exam rooms, and she says this new location will have ten exam rooms.
“Just based on our numbers and the fact that we still have to turn people away because there's just not enough space or hours in the day to serve everyone. I think it'll be unreal. I think it's going to allow us that walk-in business. It will allow us to really expand as a second full-time provider because I think we're going see that many people," said Kimbrough
Kimbrough says the new location will allow the clinic to become more modern as well, “We're going to be able to transfer over to electronic medical records. And a lot of people think 'Well, that's just really expensive,' and it is but at the same time, it offers our patients so much more. It allows them to have an electronic prescription, and their medical records in a moment's notice.”
Kimbrough says Samaritan will also expand the clinic’s relationship with the Arkansas Colleges of Medicine (ARCOM) and UA Fort Smith, “They create such a wonderful addition to our staff and we get so attached to our medical students and our nursing students. Our partnership with ARCOM, training future doctors, our partnership with the University of Arkansas Fort Smith nursing school, all of those things. We're training future medical professionals in our community.”
The clinic is also a member of the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics, which means it gets thousands of dollars a year in donated medicine and antibiotics.
Kimbrough says that will also help with the expected increase in patients.
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PULASKI COUNTY, Ark. — Update: According to the K-9's owner James Gibson, Magic was found safe half a mile away from home.
Pulaski County Emergency Management has asked for the community's help to locate a missing K-9 on Arkansas Task Force-1 Urban Search and Rescue's (USAR) team.
Magic escaped her kennel located at 51 Leslie Road in Conway during a storm on April 27.
She is one of only two cadaver K-9s and is an incredibly valuable and important member of the team.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. — What happens when you discover someone has opened up credit cards in your name? Identity theft happens all the time. You need to report it to the Federal Trade Commission so that you can get it sorted out.
But how about we don't even get into that situation? The best way to keep thieves from opening up credit cards, accounts, and loans in your name (and sticking you with the bill) is to freeze your credit.
Freeze your credit
Freezing credit is free and it keeps the bad guys from opening up accounts. It still allows you, the adult, to use your credit cards.
Equifax Security Freeze
P.O. Box 105788 Atlanta, GA 30348//1-800-685-1111
Experian Security Freeze
P.O. Box 9554 Allen, TX 75013//1-888-397-3742
TU Protected Consumer Freeze
P.O. Box 380 Woodlyn, PA 19094//1-800-916-8800
Child Credit Freezes
The first thing you want to do is check to see if your child has a credit report. This will tell you if their identity has already been compromised.
Checking your child’s credit starts online, you will print out and fill out your info as the parent, their info as the kid along with copies of your driver's license...your child's birth certificate, and the child's social security card.
You then will mail it all in. By law, it has to be done that way.
It's not a quick process, but can you imagine your kid turning 18, applying for a school loan, and then finding out someone has been using their credit? It happens.
You want to check and freeze with each credit bureau.
To make sure identity theft doesn’t happen, you can pro-actively freeze your child's credit so no one can open any kind of credit in their name.
According to Experian: There's no reason for most children to have credit reports since it's illegal for anyone under 16 to apply for a loan or credit card in their own name. Fraudulent loan and credit card applications can generate credit reports, however, and by the time you or the child discovers them, they could be full of unpaid accounts.
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WATERLOO — Kevin Dill is humbled by the number of golfers planning to tee off May 20 for the Second Annual Kevin Dill Golf Tournament for Dementia Friendly Cedar Valley and Veterans.
About 128 golfers — 32 teams — have already registered for the event, which will take place at Gates Golf Course.
“So many people have wanted to get involved this year. It’s important to me, because I like the idea of all of us getting together for fellowship and fun and to recognize veterans and veterans’ organizations. I also want to encourage a more dementia-friendly society,” said Dill, former Black Hawk County Veterans Affair director. The Marine Corps veteran retired nearly five years ago after being diagnosed with Lewy body dementia, a degenerative disease and progressive form of dementia.
The four-person, best-shot tournament will have a shotgun start at 7:30 a.m. Registration is from 6:30 to 7:30 a.m. Fat Cup Coffee and Icon Donuts will be available during registration. Lunch for golfers will be provided by Blue Barn BBQ in Cedar Falls.
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Dill hopes to have 40 teams on the links. Cost to play is $400 per team. Sign-up is online at tinyurl.com/kevindillgolf.
All proceeds will benefit Dementia Friendly Cedar Valley, American Legion Becker-Chapman Post 138 and Combat Motorcycle Association 39-6.
“On the ninth and 18th green, we’ll have an American flag as a pin with a soldier out there to hold that pin,” said Dill, who will be joined by several of his Marine Corps buddies, including Rich Houghtelling, Roy Hounsome and Brian Long.
“I am an independent videographer and produced the last two videos for Kevin’s golf tournament and run,” said Long, who was stationed with Dill in Cairo and Moscow. He is now retired from the police department in Beverly, Mass.
“It will be great to see my friends. They’re Marines. When you ask, they’re there to help,” said Dill.
Thomas White IV, who served with Dill in Moscow in 1987, can’t attend the tournament but has found other ways to show his support — buying swag.
“I think I’ve purchased a long-sleeve T-shirt, sweatshirt and golf swing jacket. When I wear his gear, many people asked me what does ‘We Will Remember For You’ mean. I tell his story, and I think that’s what he would want – educate and spread the word,” said White, of Baltimore, Maryland, a retired special agent with the Department of Homeland Security/Security Investigations.
“Dill is an amazing human being who has dedicated his life to giving back and helping others. The least I can do is support any activity he has in spreading the word and helping others with Lewy body disease. Even from Baltimore, I will support. Semper Fidelis – brothers for life,” White said.
Activities will begin from 4 to 7 p.m. May 19 with food and live music at 1850 Patio & Grill and at Golf Headquarters, both located at 1850 Ridgeway Ave. Events such as closest to the pin, longest drive and other competitions are planned to raise funds for Adaptive Golf Iowa. The Dementia Simulation House from the University of Northern Iowa will have staff available to provide an opportunity for individuals to experience what dementia feels like, “so you’ll know what it’s like for me,” Dill said.
Adaptive Golf Iowa will be on site to assist and educate people about modifications that allow those with disabilities to play golf.
Dill and his wife, Tammy, devote their efforts to fundraising for Dementia Friendly Cedar Valley and veterans groups through the golf tournament and other events as well as T-shirt sales and auctioning Dill’s paintings, which he creates to keep his mind focused.
They have raised thousands of dollars for Lewy Body Dementia Association, Dementia Friendly Iowa and numerous veterans’ organizations. Dill serves on the action team for Dementia Friendly Cedar Valley, an organization he worked to establish in conjunction with the Northeast Iowa Area Agency on Aging.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci and Liz Cheney headline the 2023-24 season of The Richmond Forum, organizers announced Saturday evening at the final program of the season.
Fauci, recently retired as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the president, will appear at the Forum next March, four years after the COVID-19 quarantine shutdowns began. Fauci will reflect on his experiences on the front lines of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and navigating the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic.
Cheney, a former Republican representative from Wyoming who lost her seat in Congress after serving as vice chair of the House Select Committee on the January 6 attack, will address the Forum in February. She will discuss policy, principled leadership and the future of bipartisanship.
Other speakers for next season will include Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson, who will kick off the season in November with a presentation about the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North in the 20th century. Wilkerson is the author of “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” and “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration.”
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The January program will feature National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore, founder of The Photo Ark, a multiyear documentary project aimed at saving animal species from extinction and protecting their habitats from destruction.
The Forum will close out the 2023-24 season in April with a conversation between journalists Nina Totenberg and Kimberley Strassel about the changing nature of the Supreme Court and the potential impact on cases on the 2024 docket. Totenberg is a veteran legal affairs correspondent and is considered one of NPR’s “founding mothers.” Strassel is an author and opinion columnist for The Wall Street Journal.
The announcement of the 2023-24 season came on the concluding, sold-out evening of the 2022-23 season, which featured Dr. Cornel West and Thomas Chatterton Williams.
Current subscribers to the popular speaker series have until May 28 to renew their subscriptions for next season. Those interested in attending the 2023-24 season can do so by purchasing an online subscription. Online subscribers are able to watch all five programs from anywhere in the world and can upgrade to seats in the Altria Theater on a program-by-program basis. There is no longer a lottery or wait list.
Online subscriptions are priced at $130. For details about subscribing, visit www.richmondforum.org. | https://richmond.com/news/local/dr-anthony-fauci-liz-cheney-to-headline-upcoming-richmond-forum-season/article_5bbc248c-e68e-11ed-9166-b349feab60a7.html | 2023-04-30T17:03:54 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/dr-anthony-fauci-liz-cheney-to-headline-upcoming-richmond-forum-season/article_5bbc248c-e68e-11ed-9166-b349feab60a7.html |
BLOOMINGTON — The gossamer strands drifted in the late afternoon sun, lit from above by skylights like snow in July, floating above and settling on workers and the factory floor. That's an apt description for Bloomington’s deadly Union Asbestos and Rubber Co. (UNARCO) asbestos plant — a topic that will be explored in an upcoming McLean County Museum of History exhibit.
In 1951, as the diesel-electric locomotive replaced the steam locomotive, almost 1,000 workers were laid off at Bloomington’s Chicago & Alton Railroad Shops. Skilled boilermakers and machinists, who refurbished steam locomotive boilers in the cavernous locomotive back shop, were now unemployed, and an over two-block-long industrial building sat empty.
Residents were thrilled when the UNARCO announced they were moving from Cicero, Illinois, to Bloomington. Inside the giant railroad building the company installed huge looms and other equipment used to weave asbestos fibers into fireproof insulation.
Asbestos is a mineral that when crushed, breaks into thin, glass like threads that are both fireproof and insulating. Common industrial uses included insulated wrapping on locomotives boilers and steam pipes, and automotive brakes and engine firewalls.
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, its uses began to evolve. By the mid-20th century, asbestos could be found in homes as well — house siding and roofing, floor tiles, home pipe insulation, kitchen oven gloves, and even as artificial snow to decorate the Christmas tree.
On Jan. 14, 1928, the Journal of the American Medical Association published its first article warning about the hazards of asbestos. The article said, “Nevertheless, asbestosis, because of its dangers and its unique pathologic features, deserves more attention than it has had.”
In 1936 the asbestos industry funded a study at the Saranac Labs in New York, which revealed that asbestos caused cancer. However, because the industry funded the study, they claimed its data was proprietary and suppressed the information.
When the UNARCO plant moved from Cicero, the company may have moved because workers were becoming sick from asbestos exposure. Few, if any, of Bloomington’s residents knew about the dangers of asbestos — the community was facing a deadly deception.
But UNARCO knew the hazards. Workers were subjected to regular medical exams and x-ray screenings but were not told about the findings. It was industry practice to either lay off workers or offer a settlement if asbestosis was present.
Why was the work hazardous? In the Bloomington plant, the asbestos fibers were dumped into huge bins and then fed into weaving machines, similar to a textile plant.
Workers were given a thin paper mask to wear, but those were frequently discarded as individuals felt their air flow was restricted.
Photos taken inside the plant show the airborne dust (much like snow) everywhere, including coating workers’ clothing. Work clothes taken home went in with the rest of the family laundry, potentially exposing others to the deadly fibers.
By the 1960s, Bloomington workers were succumbing to cancer. Because local doctors were unfamiliar with asbestos disease, they were slow to diagnosis asbestos as a cause.
Asbestosis is death by asphyxiation and can include cancer. The asbestos fibers lodge in the lungs, eventually preventing oxygen from flowing to the bloodstream.
When company leadership became aware that a worker had an asbestos-related medical condition, UNARCO sent a company representative to the home and offered sympathy and a settlement.
By the late 1960s and early 1970s, however, the dangers of asbestos had become public knowledge. The industry collapsed into bankruptcy, with 56 victim trust funds established; the largest fund settled 2.4 million claims, totaling $10.9 billion in settlements through 2008.
Numerous lawsuits worked their way through the McLean County courts as individuals first sued UNARCO and then their suppliers and others industry participants. Local attorney James Walker led many of these cases.
In 1970 Owens-Corning bought the plant and shifted its production to metal sinks. When they bought the factory, their industrial hygienist reported that “the atmospheric conditions in the work environment of this plant are unbelievably bad.”
The plant closed within the decade.
Next spring the McLean County Museum of History will open a major exhibit, "A Deadly Deception," which will explore the local asbestos tragedy. The exhibit will feature a memorial wall to commemorate UNARCO plant employees, family members, and those who lived in the neighborhood who were exposed, plus construction and industrial workers who died from asbestos exposure.
Do you know a local resident who died from asbestos exposure who should be included on this memorial wall? If so, please contact the museum’s curator of exhibits, Susan Hartzold, at shartzold@mchistory.org.
This exhibit will portray a dark industrial episode in our local history, but also raises questions about what exposures are current with us today that might contain hidden consequences.
Gallery: Historic front pages from The Pantagraph's archives
September 12, 2001 - 9/11
January 29, 1986 - Challenger disaster
May 23, 1927 - Lindbergh flight
November 03, 2016 - Cubs win the World Series
November 22, 1963 - Assassination of President Kennedy
October 23, 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis
September 02, 1945 - World War II
August 09, 1974 - Nixon resigns
December 08, 1941 - Attack on Pearl Harbor
July 21,1969 - Moon landing
June 06, 1944 - D-Day
March 20, 2003 - Iraq war
May 07, 1937 - Hindenburg disaster
April 16, 1912 - Sinking of the Titanic
July 29, 1914 - World War I
Pieces From Our Past is a weekly column by the McLean County Museum of History. Mike Matejka is a museum board member. | https://www.pantagraph.com/news/local/history/bloomington-s-asbestos-workers-victims-of-deadly-deception/article_4c6593da-e49d-11ed-9107-f34d8f5e0b9c.html | 2023-04-30T17:06:11 | 1 | https://www.pantagraph.com/news/local/history/bloomington-s-asbestos-workers-victims-of-deadly-deception/article_4c6593da-e49d-11ed-9107-f34d8f5e0b9c.html |
SYKESVILLE, Md. — A deadly crash in Carroll County is currently under investigation by the Maryland State Police.
Troopers were called to the area of Maryland Route 97 south of Bartholow Road for reports of a multi-vehicle crash.
According to investigators, the driver of a Chevy Cobalt, Michael Fultz Jr., was traveling south on Route 97 and crossed the center line , crashing into three other vehicles that were traveling north.
Fultz was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of a Jeep Wrangler and his child, as well as the driver of Dodge Ram pickup truck and his child, were all seriously injured in the crash.
Another person, who was driving a Toyota Rav 4, was also seriously injured.
A post collision investigation is currently underway.
Police believe alcohol and speed were contributing factors to the crash.
Anyone with information regarding the crash should contact Maryland State Police at 410-386-3000. | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/one-dead-five-injured-following-multi-vehicle-crash-in-carroll-county | 2023-04-30T17:23:18 | 1 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/one-dead-five-injured-following-multi-vehicle-crash-in-carroll-county |
When a man tells you he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’—Don Marquis
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?—Edgar Bergen
Here’s why you can’t have a day off. There are 365 days available for work in a year. There are 52 weeks per year, of which you already have two days off each weekend, leaving 261 days left for work. Since you spend 16 hours each day away from work, that accounts for 170 days. There are 91 days available for work. You spend 30 minutes per day on breaks. That accounts for 23 days each year, leaving 68 days available for work. You spend on hour a day for lunch. That accounts for another 46 days per year, leaving 22 days available for work. You spend two days per year on sick leave, leaving 20 days available for work. You take nine holidays per year, leaving 11 days available for work. You take 10 vacation days each year, leaving one day left for work. No way you’re taking that day off.
It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing — carry a message to Garcia.
—Elbert Hubbard
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.—Bertrand Russell
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
—Maxine Hong Kingston
Getting fired is nature’s way of telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.—Hal Lancaster
It’s not the hours you put into your work that counts, it’s the work you put into your hours.—Sam Ewing
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.—Sir William Osler
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
—Robert Benchley
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.—Thomas Jefferson.
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.—Theodore Roosevelt
We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. —Henry James
Count the day lost whose low descending sun views from thy hand no worthy action done.—Unknown
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.
—Sam Ewing
Meanwhile/let us cast one shadow/in air or water.—Maxine Kumin
Break’s over, Carpenter. Back to work.
Basis Flagstaff senior Alexa Hartman dolls out high-fives Friday morning as she and her fellow graduates participate in the Senior Parade. The class of 44 students walked the halls in caps and gowns while the rest of the students cheered them on. For an online photo gallery and video of the procession, visit azdailysun.com.
Basis Flagstaff senior Alexander Mazza dons his cap and gown with friends Alina Skrocki and Casey Costelloe in the senior lounge Friday morning as he and his fellow graduates prepare for the Senior Parade. The class of 44 students walked the halls in caps and gowns.
The Basis Flagstaff Yeti gives high-fives Friday as it leads the 2023 senior class through the school. The senior class of 44 students walked the halls in caps and gowns as part of the Senior Parade as the rest of the student body cheered for them.
Basis Flagstaff seniors walked the halls amid cheers during their parade Friday.
Basis Flagstaff senior Alexa Hartman dolls out high-fives Friday morning as she and her fellow graduates participate in the Senior Parade. The class of 44 students walked the halls in caps and gowns while the rest of the students cheered them on. For an online photo gallery and video of the procession, visit azdailysun.com.
Basis Flagstaff senior Alexander Mazza dons his cap and gown with friends Alina Skrocki and Casey Costelloe in the senior lounge Friday morning as he and his fellow graduates prepare for the Senior Parade. The class of 44 students walked the halls in caps and gowns.
Rachel Gibbons, Arizona Daily Sun
The Basis Flagstaff Yeti gives high-fives Friday as it leads the 2023 senior class through the school. The senior class of 44 students walked the halls in caps and gowns as part of the Senior Parade as the rest of the student body cheered for them.
Rachel Gibbons, Arizona Daily Sun
The 2023 senior class of Basis Flagstaff marches through the school Friday morning during their parade.
Rachel Gibbons, Arizona Daily Sun
Basis Flagstaff senior Weston Caputo dolls out high-fives Friday morning as he and his fellow graduates participate in the Senior Parade.
Rachel Gibbons, Arizona Daily Sun
The 2023 senior class of Basis Flagstaff marches through the school beneath a tunnel of hands Friday morning during their parade.
Rachel Gibbons, Arizona Daily Sun
Alex Cohen Gray of Basis Flagstaff describes the route the 2023 senior class will take through the school Friday morning during their parade.
Rachel Gibbons, Arizona Daily Sun
The 2023 senior class of Basis Flagstaff pose for photos in the lunch room of the school Friday. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/carpenters-column-i-m-glad-to-be-here-yes-i-am/article_3d6dc3d6-e61c-11ed-9e9a-636435cd65ef.html | 2023-04-30T17:27:03 | 0 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/carpenters-column-i-m-glad-to-be-here-yes-i-am/article_3d6dc3d6-e61c-11ed-9e9a-636435cd65ef.html |
100 years ago
1923: J.R. McDonald, of Burns & McDonald, the Kansas City firm that made the report on Flagstaff’s additional water supply project, was in Flagstaff a short time the later part of last week going over the situation with the city authorities. Mr. McDonald said the city as well as the railroad people must of necessity realize the need of the new reservoir if an additional supply of water is secured. The present flow lines from the springs would fill the new reservoir and tide over the usual winter shortage of water. The development of the springs without the new reservoir would be a waste of money and water. “You have plenty of the purest and best water in the world. All you need is means of conserving it to tide over a couple of months in the year when the flow from the springs is retarded by freezing weather. I would strongly urge the building of the reservoir — other improvements can come later as the water pays its way or the city sees fit to increase the bond issue, which latter can undoubtedly be done when taxable valuations are increasing as rapidly as they are in Flagstaff.”
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75 years ago
1948: A request by the Gideon Society to distribute free New Testaments during a school assembly at Flagstaff has been refused by the Flagstaff School Board. The board has been advised by L.D. Klemmedson, state superintendent of public instruction, that Attorney General deConcini has ruled that permitting the distribution of the testaments at a school assembly would be a violation of the United States Constitution. “We believe the meeting of the Gideon Society to which you refer would not be legal in that it would offend the First and 14th amendments to the constitution of the United States as it is presently interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court.” The Supreme Court decisions banned the use of school buildings on school time to the religious organizations and sects.
Flagstaff Postmaster George Babbitt this week warned the public not to fall for the latest chain letter scheme, which already has attracted a volume of mail locally. Post cards are the medium, and in general they read: “In three days make six copies of this card, leaving off the first name and adding yours to the bottom. Mail to friends. Send the top name one tea towel. Please do not fail to do this. You will receive 36 towels when your name is reached. It’s fun to see where they come from. Pin your name on the towel you send.”
Babbitt warned that participation in any such scheme is illegal under federal laws and regulations. An item in the postal bulletin for March 25 reveals that the “tea towel” chain letter and others have “reached epidemic proportions.”
50 years ago
1973: EDITOR: I would like to take this opportunity to extend my sincere appreciation and profound thanks to all the wonderful folks who are the owners of the herd of large- and medium-sized dogs living in the area south of the Elks Club. In this day of more and more rules, regulations, laws, ordinances and infringements on personal liberties, you folks are bravely showing the world that a free-thinking people can be oppressed only so long. “Down with the leash law; Garbage on every lawn!”
Talk about the view of the Peaks? It can’t compare with the crisp morning sunrise illuminating, in all its majesty, a yard (and half the street) full of garbage. The Grand Canyon? What’s that compared to the magnificent sinkholes dug, overnight, in a flower bed? Think of the savings on lawn food and fertilizer. Who needs them? We have a free and continuing supply. The majestic sight of a herd of proud and noble creatures cavorting over and through fences, led by one in “heat” pales to insignificance the awesome stampede of a herd of bull aphids. The sudden wakefulness at 2 a.m. to listen to the quiet sounds of nature, i.e., digging in rock gardens, whining, growling, fence boards splintering, the tinkle of collar chains, etc, produced by three dogs on one side of a fence and one on the other side endeavoring to become better acquainted. Gad, what an inspiring and exhilarating place to live!
25 years ago
1998: A recent issue of Red Cross Magazine contained an essay by a relief worker strongly critical of the news media’s presence at natural disasters. The press not only gets in the way, said the worker, they victimize survivors and family members twice by invading their privacy. Closer to home, the same issues have been raised by the Daily Sun’s coverage of the August 1996 school bus accident and other tragedies. I can only say that reporters and editors here are not unaware of the burdens our coverage places on victims. But we’re also aware of our role as the community’s storytellers, and in the aftermath of pain and suffering comes stories of coping and courage that help a community grow and learn.
Another major category of victimization is crime. Ironically, the “victims” I hear from most are the offenders, who plead for anonymity on the grounds that they are victimized twice: first by their stupidity in getting arrested for, say, DUI, and second by the publicity in the newspaper. In every case, I tell them that the Daily Sun regards drunken driving as an anti-social act serious enough to warrant telling the community who they are.
But the actual victims of crime — both direct and indirect — are another matter. I wish there were ways to resolve the situations to the satisfaction of everyone, but I’m afraid there aren’t. The tensions between a public press and private lives in a free society is constant, and each newspaper seeks to find its community’s “comfort level” with that tension. I can’t do that without your feedback, so keep those calls and letters coming. We may not always agree, but at least we’ll understand each other. — Randy Wilson, Managing Editor.
Susan Johnson has lived in Flagstaff for over 30 years and loves to delve into her adopted hometown’s past. She has written two books for the History Press, Haunted Flagstaff and Flagstaff’s Walkup Family Murders, and, with her son Nick, manages Freaky Foot Tours. You’ll find her hiking the trails with her corgi, Shimmer.
All events were taken from issues of the Arizona Daily Sun and its predecessors, the Coconino Weekly Sun and the Coconino Sun. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/flagstaff-history-locals-warned-of-chain-letter-scheme/article_648fdf18-e3d7-11ed-a90f-47f23c7b2e20.html | 2023-04-30T17:27:09 | 0 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/flagstaff-history-locals-warned-of-chain-letter-scheme/article_648fdf18-e3d7-11ed-a90f-47f23c7b2e20.html |
ORLANDO, Fla. – Despite progress in reducing childhood poverty, almost 400,000 kids are still impacted across the state.
The effects from growing up in an under-resourced community can be devastating, with children from poor backgrounds more likely to experience abuse, suffer from poor health and drop out of school.
Andry Sweet, CEO of Children’s Home Society of Florida, joined anchor Justin Warmoth on “The Weekly” to break down the staggering number of local children impacted and how the nonprofit works to keep families together and out of foster care.
“There are almost 400,000 children who are living in poverty in Florida,” Sweet said. “Half of them are living in only 15 percent of zip codes, and several of those zip codes are here in Central Florida. 58,000 children just in Orange County are living in poverty.”
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Sweet said the majority of entries into foster care stem from neglect, but they’re often fixable family issues. CHS’s goal is to address those challenges on the front end and lift up the next generation, so they can be successful and break the cycle of poverty.
“That intergenerational cycle of poverty continues, so the odds are stacked against them,” Sweet said. “At Children’s Home Society, what we’re trying to do is change those odds to opportunities.”
Watch the full interview in the video player above.
You can listen to every episode of Florida’s Fourth Estate in the media player below: | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/04/30/heres-how-a-local-nonprofit-is-lifting-up-the-staggering-number-of-florida-children-living-in-poverty/ | 2023-04-30T17:27:20 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/04/30/heres-how-a-local-nonprofit-is-lifting-up-the-staggering-number-of-florida-children-living-in-poverty/ |
The urge to run is immediately felt upon stepping into NAZ Elite's new performance center.
The floor of the professional running team's new hub, which features an infrared sauna, office space for the staff and a room for massage therapy among other athletic amenities, is Beynon track surface. A lounge area, juxtaposed by a treadmill and stationary bike across the track, greets visitors as the track leads the eye back to an area where stretching and workouts await the athletes.
For a professional running team that has had to rent gym space and other facilities to get in workouts and recoveries while the staff worked in a cramped space downtown, the center is a boon.
"To me," NAZ Elite Executive Director Ben Rosario said recently, "there are three things that stand out. Number one is just the professional atmosphere that having our own space creates. I think that's important as far as establishing that this is a professional organization, not a club. Second, the ability for the athletes to come in and lift weights whenever it makes the most sense for them based on their training is a monster advantage."
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The third is more forward-thinking, as Rosario sees the center as an attraction to future runners as the team -- which currently boasts an 18-athlete roster -- continues to grow. The building should provide help when it comes to recruiting.
"Seeing the space, and all of the equipment, and the design," Rosario said, "is going to make a big impression on prospective athletes."
And it will make a big impression on locals as well, as NAZ Elite is going to open its new facility's doors at times to the public. In fact, the first group room being offered to the public will takes place Friday, starting at the performance center.
"It's also a place we can host public events, and we will start those events next month," Rosario said. "Every Friday from May through September, we'll have group runs at 4 p.m. from the center. Those runs are open to anyone and everyone, with a 4-mile and a 6-mile option. And if anyone wants to hang out after there is a sports bar in the same plaza -- just saying," Rosario said.
Although the team wasn't necessarily in a rush to secure a location for its planned center, it ended up in a sprint to get the facility.
Rosario initially thought the center would be taking shape in 2025, but the location landed in the team's lap. The team, according to Rosario, began working with a real estate agent in the summer of 2022, and that agent eventually showed NAZ Elite the 2,600-square-feet building located in the Bashas' shopping plaza across the street from the hospital on Beaver Street.
"It just so happened that the space was exactly what we had been envisioning, so we felt like we couldn't pass it up," Rosario
Now the building is full of weights, decorated with a mural drawn by team member Alice Wright and painted with the help of teammates, and full of team memorabilia such as jerseys and a team record board.
Much of the funding came from the recent deal NAZ Elite secured with HOKA, its major shoe sponsor.
"We could not have made this happen without the funds that our current HOKA contract provides us. We are very fortunate that they believe in our program to the extent that they do," Rosario said.
Mike Hartman can be reached at 556-2255 or at mhartman@azdailysun.com. Follow him on Twitter @AZDS_Hartman. | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/naz-elite-this-week-team-enjoying-new-performance-center-ready-to-open-runs-to-public/article_41f4d594-e6e8-11ed-a132-c7012eaa9d7f.html | 2023-04-30T17:27:40 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/naz-elite-this-week-team-enjoying-new-performance-center-ready-to-open-runs-to-public/article_41f4d594-e6e8-11ed-a132-c7012eaa9d7f.html |
A chilling home invasion in the Bronx left a family shaken after the intruders pistol-whipped a grandmother and threatened to shoot her 5-year-old grandson -- all for a $40,000 payday in what police say was a targeted holdup.
The violent break-in happened Wednesday around 8 a.m. on West Gun Hill Road across from Vancortlandt park.
Detectives say the trio entered the apartment building and waited approximately an hour for their chance to strike. They stood outside the apartment of a 30-year-old business owner until the front door open, then they made their move.
The group barged into the residence and pointed a gun at the boy in a terrifying threat of violence, promising to hurt the 5-year-old if his mother did not hand over cash.
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A second member of the trio, police say, then pistol-whipped the boy's 58-year-old grandmother and forced their way into a back bedroom where the money was locked away inside of a safe, police say. The trio took the safe and the $40,000 in cash that was inside.
Money in hand, the three men ran from the building and jumped into two separate getaway cars and took off. Police were looking for a gray sedan and a dark blue SUV.
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According to police, the mom and her young boy did not suffer any physical injuries. The grandmother received a minor injury from the attack but refused medical attention, they said.
The NYPD released surveillance images of the three suspects over the weekend in hopes of tracking them down. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/armed-trio-pistol-whipped-grandma-held-5-year-old-at-gunpoint-in-40k-nyc-robbery-nypd/4289685/ | 2023-04-30T17:34:25 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/armed-trio-pistol-whipped-grandma-held-5-year-old-at-gunpoint-in-40k-nyc-robbery-nypd/4289685/ |
VIN'S PEOPLE: Bradenton Marauders salute 1 millionth fan with lifetime season ticket
Meet Connor Longò, aka “Mr. One Million.”
That’s the sixth grader’s new nickname around St. Joseph Catholic School after what happened to the 12-year-old last Sunday at LECOM Park.
Connor was the 1,000,000th fan through the ballpark gates since the Bradenton Marauders began playing in 2010.
Luck played a part, too.
It so happens he and mom Valerie were running late after dropping off dad Lenny for work at the family printing company, but the delay turned out to be a blessing in disguise.
“The game was a Mother-Son event with St. Joe’s and we were supposed to meet some friends there,” shesaid. “So Connor is walking in front of me and – WHOA!!!”
They were greeted with a celebratory shower of confetti, streamers and party poppers, hugs from Marty the Marauder, and applause by cheering Marauder staffers.
“It was pretty crazy!” Connor said. “Took me awhile to realize what was actually happening.”
He received season tickets for life, a Marauders jersey, threw out the first pitch and he and Mom were fussed over by Marauder staff all afternoon.
“They treated us like royalty,” Valerie said. “Connor kept saying, ‘This is the best day ever!’”
· That wily ol’ stork is en route for Lian and Kevin Haddon. Daughters Lily and Emme will become big sisters in October.
· Good luck to the Manatee School District’s new principals: Kate Barlaug, Dr. Mona Jain Middle School; Dr. Melinda Lundy, Bayshore Elementary; Dr. Melissa McCullough, Daughtrey Elementary; Irene Nikitopoulos, Haile Middle; Melissa Porco, Kinnan Elementary; Lorie Starkweather, Sugg Middle; and Adrienne Vos, Blackburn Elementary.
The changes take effect next school year.
Barlaug was Haile’s principal since 2017.
Lundy served in the district’s human resources department since 2022.
McCullough was Daughtrey’s assistant principal since 2020.
Nikitopoulos received the county’s 2022 Outstanding Assistant Principal Achievement Award while at Lincoln Memorial Middle.
Porco was Palmetto Elementary’s assistant principal since 2018.
Starkweather had been Sugg’s interim principal since Ann McDonald’s retirement earlier this year.
And Vos was the district’s Assistant Principal of the Year at Johnson K-8 School.
· And Jane Bacher is 39. Again.
· Uh, oh! Jodie Kerns is one year shy of the Big 4-0!
· A bow to Katherine Oswald, Volunteer of the Year at Blake Medical Center, and to Dianne Evans, who surpassed an astounding 6,000 hours as a Blake volunteer.
· And Tom Donegan is 53. Sheesh, a kid!
Vin’s People runs Sundays. Email Vin Mannix at vinspeople@gmail.com. Or call 941-962-5944. Twitter: @vinmannix. | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2023/04/30/vin-mannix-for-1-millionth-marauders-baseball-fan-best-day-ever/70149607007/ | 2023-04-30T17:57:56 | 0 | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2023/04/30/vin-mannix-for-1-millionth-marauders-baseball-fan-best-day-ever/70149607007/ |
Walk-in interviews in Venice, North Port allow Hurricane Ian victims to request assistance
The Sarasota County Long Term Recovery Group has teamed up with World Renew Disaster Services to conduct one-on-one interviews with Sarasota County residents struggling with recovery after Hurricane Ian.
“This is an important opportunity for residents of Sarasota County to sit down with volunteers from World Renew Disaster Services and share their hurricane recovery needs,” said Barbara Cruz, president of the United Way of South Sarasota County and chair of the Sarasota County Long Term Recovery Group.
The Sarasota County Long Term Recovery Group is a cooperative body comprised of representatives from faith-based, nonprofit, government, business, and other organizations working within the community to assist individuals and families as they recover from a disaster.
“This process is part of a community unmet-needs assessment, which will help determine who still needs help, how much they need, and develop a cost estimate for countywide recovery for those who are unable to rebuild or recover without assistance,” Cruz said.
Walk-in interviews with World Renew Disaster Services will be held at the following locations:
· Morgan Family Community Center, 6207 W. Price Blvd., North Port: May 8 and 9 from noon to 7 p.m.; May 10 from 1-7 p.m.; May 11 and 12 from noon to 7 p.m.
· South Venice Baptist Church, 3167 Englewood Road, Venice: May 15, 16, 17 and 18 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; May 19 from 9 a.m. to noon.
The Sarasota County Long Term Recovery Group, which formed in January, works to strengthen area-wide disaster coordination through preparation, response, recovery, and mitigation. Community members, leaders, and stakeholders with expertise and passion for helping Sarasota County recover from the devastation of Hurricane Ian are encouraged to join.
Community meetings are held on the last Friday of each month at 9 a.m. via Zoom. For more information, visit uwssc.org/Sarasota-county-long-term-recovery-group.
To learn more about World Renew Disaster Services and how to volunteer for its mission or to donate, visit worldrenew.net/hurricaneian.
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Kenosha County youth who will be in high school during the 2023-24 academic year are now invited to apply to serve on the Youth As Resources Board.
With climate change continuing to intensify, more and more young people are prioritizing the pursuit of studies and careers related to the environment. Many members of Gen Z cannot imagine building a future where they are not a part of a solution. Experts talk about the importance of youth leadership and engagement in the climate crisis. Source by: Stringr
Funded by the United Way of Kenosha County and coordinated in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension, the YAR Board is a grant-funding board made up of nine youth and three adults who fund youth-led service projects throughout the community. Youth on the YAR Board meet monthly from September through May to hear the grant presentations of students in kindergarten to 12th grade and to collaborate on service projects of their own.
The deadline to apply for board membership is May 2. More details and a link to the application materials are available at https://kenosha.extension.wisc.edu/youth/yar/ .
UPDATED: IN PHOTOS: Images from the 2022 Kenosha County Fair
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Maggie Massey, 2, of Atlanta, enjoys a ride in the midway at the Kenosha County Fair in Wilmot on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. The merry-go-round-style ride was the first carnival ride Massey had ever been on.
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Fair-goers cheer as ducks race around a track at the Kenosha County Fair in Wilmot in 2022. This year's fair is Aug. 16-20 in Wilmot.
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Jeff Beal, of The Real Beal’s One Man Band, plays multiple instruments as he sings at the Kenosha County Fair in Wilmot on Friday.
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Fair-goers enjoy rides in the midway at the 2022 Kenosha County Fair in Wilmot. The 2023 fair opens Aug. 16.
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Liv Olandese, 7, left, her sister, Murphy, 5, right, and Michael Alberts, 17, handle chicks at the Discover Barnyard at the Kenosha County Fair in Wilmot.
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Shane Hansen jumps from 65-feet in the air in front of a crowd during the Rock-N-Circus show at the Kenosha County Fair in Wilmot.
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Friday at the fair
Haley Curran, of Kenosha, pulls her son, Griffin, 1, along in a wagon in the parade.
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Friday at the fair
Papa Ron Rieter shows off his inflatable pig costume as he and Vivienne Seaburg, 6, Brennan Seaburg, 2 and Amy Gibbs walk alongside their parade float during the Kenosha County Fair Children’s Parade on Friday morning on the grounds in Wilmot.
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Logan Feivor, 4, pedals as fast as he can in his first children’s pedal tractor pull event at the Kenosha County Fair.
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Friday at the fair
Sean and Carri Johnson push their chicken coop float with their grandkids inside in the parade.
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Friday at the fair
Rebekah Pflueger, left, and Mary Taylor, right, pose with Levi Pflueger-beal, age 2, in the center. Levi is dressed as Doug from the Liberty Mutual commercial.
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Stephen Vagnini pushed a stroller with 3-week-old Elijah Vagnini and a prop of Cousin Itt from the Addams Family, as Lisa Floeter, right, and Olivia Floeter, age 9, dressed as Wednesday Adams, walk alongside in the parade.
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Alphie, 10, Isaac, 5, Kolbe, 4, and Max, 2, McDonald show off their Pac-Man-inspired costumes in the children’s parade.
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Caden Warren, 17, shows his crossbreed pig at the Kenosha County Fair in Wilmot on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022.
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Molly Schwertfeger, 16, shows her crossbreed pig at the Kenosha County Fair in Wilmot on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022.
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Jalyn Warren, 17, center, shows her crossbreed pig at the Kenosha County Fair in Wilmot on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022.
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Visitors make their way through the grounds at the 2022 Kenosha County Fair in Wilmot.
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Jimmy Storck makes bubbles of all sizes for children at the Kenosha County Fair in Wilmot.
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harper Calcagno, 5, hits the sky while doing the Xtreme Jump at the Kenosha County Fair in Wilmot on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022.
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Caden Warren, 17, left, gets a hug from his sister Jalyn, 19, after his crossbreed pig was named the overall grand champion of the junior swine show at the Kenosha County Fair in Wilmot on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022.
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Young farmers show their crossbreed pigs at the Kenosha County Fair in Wilmot on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022.
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Max Marquardt, 8, gets help from his mom, Christie, with getting onto a 1956 J.I. Case Model 400 tractor at the Kenosha County Fair on the grounds in Wilmot.
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Sheep show at Kenosha County fair
The judge of the sheep show examines the sheep while the contestants brace them.
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Sheep show at Kenosha County Fair
Sheep are braced by competitors Thursday in the Kenosha County Fair Sheep Show for the judge to examine.
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Sheep show at Kenosha County Fair
Competitors line up their sheep as they wait for the judge to choose the champion market lamb.
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Combine demolition derby
Combines push and shove each other at the demolition derby at the Kenosha County Fair on Thursday evening.
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Truck pulls
Trucks compete in different categories during the truck pulling competition at the Kenosha County Fair.
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Tractor pulls
Like the trucks, tractors competed in different categories during the tractor pulls at the Kenosha County Fair on Thursday evening at the grounds in Wilmot.
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Chase Lois, 14, calms his steer as he competes for grand champion in the junior division at the Kenosha County Fair Beef Show in Wilmot on Thursday.
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Hailey Harpster, 15, center, shakes hands with judge Kyle Adams after her steer is named grand champion in the junior division at the Kenosha County Fair in Wilmot on Thursday.
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Hailey Harpster, 15, shows her steer while competing for the title of grand champion in the junior division at the Kenosha County Fair in Wilmot on Thursday.
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Hailey Harpster, 15, smiles after her steer was named the grand champion in the junior division at the Kenosha County Fair Beef Show in Wilmot on Thursday.
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Kenosha native Nick Datillo leads a group of kids in dance during his show, “Nick’s Kids Show” at the 2022 Kenosha County Fair in Wilmot. Datillo has been performing at the Kenosha County Fair for more than 30 years.
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Madison Bell, 6, runs into her twin brother, Timothy, as they skirt across the water in inflatable balls at the S.E.A. Hunter game booth at the Kenosha County Fair in Wilmot.
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Three Kenosha County executive nominees to the Racial and Ethnic Equity Commission received the Executive Committee’s unanimous blessing, but a County Board supervisor nominee narrowly won support for consideration on the panel.
The committee voted 4-3 Thursday night approving County Board Supervisor Andy Berg’s nomination to the commission. Voting in favor of Berg were supervisors Aaron Karow, Brian Thomas, Mark Nordigian and Executive Committee Chair Gabe Nudo, who nominated him for the post on the nine-member commission.
Opposing Berg’s nomination were supervisors Erin Decker, Zach Rodriguez and Terry Rose.
Berg is expected to replace Supervisor Daniel Gaschke, one of two County Board members on the commission. The other is Thomas.
Gaschke, whose two-year term as a board liaison is coming to a close, according to Corporation Counsel Joseph Cardamone, staff to the Executive Committee. Cardamone said Gaschke had been asked if he wished to continue to serve but he declined “due to family commitments.”
Prior to the vote, Supervisor John Poole, who is not on the committee, spoke against Berg’s nomination, alleging that Berg had lied about Poole’s military service. Poole challenged his colleagues to turn down Berg whose comments he described as “incendiary” and that he had the potential to incite a riot.
Kenosha County Racial and Ethnic Equity Commission nominee Alayna Arrington speaks at the Executive Committee meeting Thursday night. The comm…
“I’m here to ask you to please vote no on Andy Berg’s nomination. He has lied about me saying I was not a Vietnam veteran – which he knew was a lie,” Poole said. “That’s not the kind of person we need on that commission.
“We don’t need people on this commission who will throw around incendiary comments and possibly get another riot in Kenosha,” Poole said. “We need people who will thoughtfully consider information presented and make rational decisions. And, I don’t think Supervisor Berg is that person.”
Committee unanimous on Kerkman nominations
Comprising the balance of commission also are members are non-elected members of the community.
The committee on Thursday night unanimously approved County Executive Samantha Kerkman’s three nominees including Alayna Arrington, Cortney Marshall and Duane O’Keefe for three commission vacancies, a task that appeared to be considerably less contentious than previous nominations.
Earlier this month, the County Board approved the nominations of Brian Gonzales, a retired Kenosha Police officer and Xavier Solis, a local attorney. Gonzales’ nomination was approved by a vote of 12-9 and Solis 15-6. Kerkman’s nominees drew backlash from local religious and civil rights leaders as well as commission members. Members of Congregations United to Serve Humanity, Leaders of Kenosha and Black Leaders Organizing Communities protested their appointments.
The latest commission vacancies came in March as now- former Commissioners Derrell Greene and Brad Backer resigned within days of each other in protest of Kerkman’s picks. A third member, Mimi Yang, resigned shortly after, citing time restraints. Both Greene and Backer had criticized Kerkman for attempting to undermine the commission for not filling the previous two vacancies in a timely manner and not considering the racial make-up of the panel, which has never had an African American woman on it.
Arrington
Arrington is the daughter of former Supervisor David Arrington, the first African American man on the County Board. The first Black resident elected to the board was Ruth DeLace Booth (now Dyson), who is currently on the Kenosha City Council. Arrington is also the granddaughter of the late Kenosha civil rights leader the Rev. Olen Arrington Jr., who was the first African American to serve on the Kenosha Unified School Board.
Kenosha County Racial and Ethnic Equity Commission nominee Cortney Marshall speaks at the Executive Committee meeting Thursday night, April 27…
Rose, who nominated Alayna Arrington, had initially thought to nominate her father, but the elder Arrington convinced Rose to support his daughter, a Carthage College graduate who holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology and a master’s degree in business design and innovation.
“I found her to be an outstanding individual. Well qualified. Very enthusiastic about the community and what’s good for it and suggested her name to the county executive,” Rose said. She is currently employed as a campus and community recruitment specialist, according her application. Arrington told the committee that she looks forward to “continuing conversation around racial equity and diversity.”
“It would be meaningful for me continuing doing this work … because it is historical in my family,” she said referencing her father and grandfather. “I look forward to continuing the work that they’ve done and that they’ve pioneered for diverse communities.”
Arrington would replace Yang and serve through Dec. 31, 2024, if confirmed, along with the others, by the County Board later this spring.
Marshall
Marshall, who is also African American, works as a real estate agent and as a Kenosha Unified educational support staff member.
A community volunteer, Marshall said he loves “stepping up and do whatever I can to help the community.”
“I look forward to serving at some point,” said Marshall, who would replace Backer, whose term would expire at the end of the year.
O’Keefe
O’Keefe, the owner of O’Keefe’s Automotive and a registered member of the Lac Courte Oreilles band of Chippewa, has raised five children in Kenosha, battled alcoholism and continues to recover. O’Keefe, who believes that hard work results in success, has been sober for 30 years.
“Myself, I think I have benefited a lot from Kenosha and I would like to give back a little bit and that would be to serve with this (commission),” he said.
He acknowledged to the committee he erred in indicating on his application that he had been nominated by Thomas and Gonzales.
“I ended up putting that I was nominated by two gentlemen,” he said. “I guess I didn’t know the difference between nomination and suggestion and it was a suggestion that I apply and not a nomination.”
During deliberations, Thomas alluded to an e-mail sent to supervisors that had referenced whether the supervisor had actually nominated O’Keefe, which he had not.
He told the committee he wanted to clarify that he had spoken with another person about O’Keefe’s qualifications to be on the commission. According to Thomas, O’Keefe appeared to be qualified as he was a minority and a successful business owner in the community and was open to answering any questions he had about the commission.
“So that was, I would say, probably the extent of my involvement to start with,” said Thomas.
He said he was glad that O’Keefe went through the application and committee process, adding that he believes that small business owners who are minorities “would bring a different perspective” to the commission.
“I appreciate you going through all the legwork to get here,” he told O’Keefe.
O’Keefe would replace Greene and would serve an initial term to expire on Dec. 31, 2024.
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Kenosha County Racial and Ethnic Equity Commission nominee Duane O’Keefe speaks at the Executive Committee meeting Thursday night. The committee unanimously approved his nomination.
Kenosha County Racial and Ethnic Equity Commission nominee Alayna Arrington speaks at the Executive Committee meeting Thursday night. The committee unanimously approved her nomination.
Kenosha County Racial and Ethnic Equity Commission nominee Cortney Marshall speaks at the Executive Committee meeting Thursday night, April 27, 2023. The committee unanimously approved his nomination. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/committee-unanimously-supports-county-executives-racial-and-ethnic-equity-commission-nominees-narrowly-approves-supervisor-liaison/article_0422761a-e583-11ed-b69b-331c01e22298.html | 2023-04-30T17:59:26 | 1 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/committee-unanimously-supports-county-executives-racial-and-ethnic-equity-commission-nominees-narrowly-approves-supervisor-liaison/article_0422761a-e583-11ed-b69b-331c01e22298.html |
BRIGHTON — The Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium held the nation’s largest high-powered rocket competition for Native American college students at Richard Bong Recreational Area on Saturday.
A rocket named Kolaswv, meaning star, is launched during the First Nations Launch conducted by the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium at Bong Re…
The 14th annual First Nations Launch competition took place at the state recreational area despite the rain. Student teams showcased their competition rockets and presented their flight readiness reviews before a panel of industry judges from NASA, the U.S. Space Force, Blue Origin, The Boeing Company, Pratt & Whitney, Arcadis and Raytheon Technologies at Carthage College's Todd Wehr Center on Friday.
Teams from across North America participated in the festivities Saturday.
The top performing teams will be invited to a V.I.P. tour launch facilities at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center near Orlando, Fla.
Teams from Carthage College, the College of Menominee Nation and the University of Wisconsin-Madison participated in the launch competition, a NASA Artemis Student Challenge and a collaboration between NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project and Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium.
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Christine Bolz, assistant director for the NASA Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium at Carthage, said students designed and built their own rockets.
Grayson Adams of MSOE, right, works on his team's rocket during the First Nations Launch run by the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium at Bong R…
"It's a big deal," Bolz said. "For many of the students this is their first time ever launching a rocket."
The First Nations Launch competition is designed for students with no prior experience working with high-powered rockets. Rocket motors and dimensions are restricted by competition parameters so that the knowledge, creativity, and imagination of the students are challenged.
"We're inspiring the next generation of Native American students," Bolz said. "This is more than a competition. This is an opportunity for students to come together. It's about community. It's about culture. It's about a curriculum. Then it becomes a competition. The folks who are here are creating a family for life."
This year was the first time Carthage had a team participating in the event.
"This has been such a fun project to work on," said Iris Toney, a sophomore at Carthage studying engineering. "Being here this weekend and seeing the fruits of all our labor has been so rewarding."
Toney said she protected her team's cardboard rocket throughout the competition from the rain. They worked on it for months.
Toney estimated her rocket reached 2,800 feet.
"It went pretty fast," Toney added. "It looked pretty good."
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One dead after multi-vehicle crash near construction zone on I-465
A driver died after a multi-vehicle crash Saturday evening on Interstate 465, according to the Indiana State Police.
First responders found a driver unconscious after they responded to the wreck in the northbound lanes near the 38.9 mile marker about 8 p.m., and the person was pronounced dead at the scene, the state police said in a news release.
The driver was traveling north and coming up on a construction area where the left lane separated from three on the right by a concrete barrier wall, according to police. The driver tried to shift from the right lanes to the left one at the last second, hit the crash attenuator − a safety device intended to reduce damage when a vehicle leaves the roadway − and went back into the right three lanes, involving four more vehicles in the crash, police said.
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A driver and passenger from another car were taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.
The Lawrence Fire Department, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police, Marion County Coroner's Office and the Indiana Department of Transportation helped the state police in the incident as well.
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9-year-old boy dies after being hit by vehicle in Westfield
Domenica Bongiovanni
Indianapolis Star
A 9-year-old boy was hit by a vehicle Saturday, according to Lt. Billy Adams of the Westfield Police Department.
Police responded to the incident about 2 p.m. in the 600 block of Apollo Parkway. The boy was taken to the Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital and later pronounced dead, Adams said.
He said the accident is under investigation.
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Car versus bus crash sends a toddler to the hospital in critical condition
La Risa R. Lynch
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A car versus bus crash Saturday night sent a toddler to the hospital in critical condition.
The Milwaukee Police Department is investigating the crash that occurred Saturday at about 9:17 p.m.
A black Nissan traveling south in the 3100 block of South Sherman Boulevard collided with a Milwaukee County Transit System bus traveling east on Burleigh in the intersection of Sherman and Burleigh, according to police.
A 2-year-old boy in the Nissan was taken to a local hospital in critical condition.
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Hicks: A good post-COVID run for the Hoosier economy
MUNCIE, Ind. – We are now three full years past the worst month of the COVID recession, so it is helpful to assess how Indiana’s employment has rebounded. To examine some of the details on industry growth and educational attainment, I must rely on data that extends through last summer. For total employment and manufacturing jobs, I have more recent data. So, excuse me for jumping back and forth on these numbers.
To begin, it is good to recollect where we were in January 2020, the last month of the previous expansion. That month marked a year of declining employment, as Indiana hovered on the brink of a recession. The major culprit was the massive tariff tax increase levied on American consumers by the Trump Administration in 2018. So, Indiana entered COVID with an already weakening economy.
During the brief COVID downturn, Indiana shed some half-million jobs and then began a strong recovery. By Fall 2020, Indiana’s economy was recovering much better than the nation as a whole. In the year after COVID, Indiana’s employment rebounded one-third faster than the nation as a whole.
Part of our rapid recovery was due to the composition of our economy. Manufactured goods saw demand growth during the pandemic, while tourism-based economies languished. But, much of the credit for a strong post-COVID recovery was due to an extraordinarily adept government response to the disease. The Holcomb Administration did a superb job balancing the risks to public health with concerns for economic stability.
The data for that conclusion rest on strong data. The economic recovery was very good, and through Summer 2020, Indiana’s COVID deaths were lower than the national average. Among working age Hoosiers, the data is even starker. Only 9.4 percent of COVID deaths among those age 20-60 years old occurred before Fall 2020, when Indiana’s economy was fully open. A monstrous three out of four working-age adults who died of COVID did so after the vaccine was fully available.
Altogether, more than half of all Hoosiers who died of COVID did so after the miracle of vaccines were universally available. Their deaths weren’t attributable to lax public health measures or poor vaccine distribution. Indiana excelled in both areas. It was something else altogether.
Indiana’s recovery slowed a bit after the first year post-COVID recession, but, as of the end of March 2023, the state has seen job growth at a full 0.7 percent ahead of the nation. That is the strongest three-year stretch in which we have outperformed the national economy in 30 years. What is behind some of these changes?
We have seen fairly significant changes to our industrial structure. Employment in the sector arts, entertainment, and recreation is down more than 13 percent, and information is down 9.2 percent, while government and education employment are down 4.9 percent and 4.2 percent, respectively. As of last summer, employment in mining, accommodations, retail, real estate, and healthcare were all modestly lower than in the beginning of the pandemic.
Job growth was concentrated in professional and scientific services and in transportation and warehousing, with both seeing growth over 12 percent. Finance, construction, and wholesale all saw job growth just over 4 percent, while administrative services and waste management, agriculture, management services, and manufacturing each added 2 percent or less.
All these data are from last summer. The only industry that has changed substantially since then is manufacturing, which peaked last autumn, and is now back below 2018 levels. These changes suggest an economy in which the private sector is becoming more like the national economy. However, Indiana’s public sector is becoming less like the national economy, with most of the job losses concentrated in local government and education. These are two sectors where quality outcomes lead to very different economic conditions over the long run.
Interestingly, the educational composition of jobs changed dramatically in the post-COVID period. Over most of the past 20 years, Indiana has significantly lagged in job creation for college graduates. At the same time, nationwide, more than 8 in 10 new jobs went to college graduates. This vast difference in job composition explained much of Indiana’s lagging economy through the 21st century.
In the post-COVID period, Indiana’s job growth polarized. We saw job growth among adults with a college degree as well as those without a high school diploma. In these two categories, the state saw an increase of almost 2 percent, or more than 17,000 jobs. Of these, 66 percent went to workers who had completed a four year degree or higher.
Among high school graduates and workers with some college or an associate’s degree, employment declined by 2.6 percent and 0.7 percent respectively, or almost 28,000 jobs. Interestingly, the strongest growth came among workers age 24 or younger. This group saw employment gains of almost 21,000 workers. Strong demand and better wages have propelled more young people into full-time work.
Job growth among young workers is almost identical to the decline in college attendance that the state has suffered over the past several years. Jobs are good for young people, but not if they aren’t followed by more educational attainment, as wage data make clear.
In percentage terms, wage growth was heavier for those at the lower end of the educational distribution. Adjusting for inflation, new college grad hires were paid roughly $240 more per month in 2022 than in 2020, while those with only a high school diploma had starting wages averaging $249 more per month. The college wage premium for new hires dipped from 35.6 percent in 2020 to 32.7 percent in 2022. But, this masks more important wage dynamics.
For stable workers, education matters much more over a career than as a new hire. The wage premium for all college graduates, not just new hires, was 61 percent over high school graduates. This rose from 2020 when it was only 58 percent. This reveals that post-COVID wage growth has mostly come to newly hired employees at the lower end of the pay scale. Long-term employees with high school degrees are not seeing that wage growth, at least not yet.
Three years of COVID have changed Indiana’s economy. There are reasons to suspect that more changes are in the offing. If Indiana’s economy continues to become more like the national economy, we could anticipate a far better decade than the 2010s. Of course, the one dramatic risk to continued progress is that to be more like the nation in growth and wages we must better educate a much larger share of our young adults. Sadly, the prognosis for doing so is very, very poor.
Michael J. Hicks, PhD, is the director of the Center for Business and Economic Research and the George and Frances Ball distinguished professor of economics in the Miller College of Business at Ball State University. | https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2023/04/30/hicks-a-good-post-covid-run-for-the-hoosier-economy/70161302007/ | 2023-04-30T18:06:15 | 1 | https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2023/04/30/hicks-a-good-post-covid-run-for-the-hoosier-economy/70161302007/ |
MICHIGAN CITY — The cadets of the Michigan City High School Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps logged a busy April in service to the community.
They assisted in MCHS track meets, helped clean up major roads in Westville and provided the Color Guard for the opening ceremony for the Indiana Letter Carriers convention at the Blue Chip Casino.
May will be equally busy, as the cadets help with community service projects like cleaning veterans’ headstones at Greenwood Cemetery, assisting the Humane Society at Friendship Gardens and marching in the Michigan City Memorial Day parade.
The MCHS MCJROTC is also planning its weeklong Leadership Camp which it will conduct at the St. John’s Military Academy in Delafield, Wisconsin.
Several other units will participate in the camp.
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“Preparing for the administration and logistics of the camp is very time-consuming,” said Master Sgt. Jeff Benak, the Marine Instructor. “But the benefits that our cadets obtain from this camp makes it worthwhile. It is great to see how these young men and women mature after a week of challenging physical activity.”
Also this summer, Cadet Staff Sgt. Matthew Wilson will attend the National JROTC Military Drill Camp in San Antonio, Texas, and the MCJROTC Senior Leadership Camp near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The camps are done at no cost to the student or MCHS. They are completely funded by the Marine Corps. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/jrotc-logs-time-serving-the-community/article_2b6f8dc4-e51b-11ed-ae64-1b8e6b1ef8f9.html | 2023-04-30T18:08:12 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/jrotc-logs-time-serving-the-community/article_2b6f8dc4-e51b-11ed-ae64-1b8e6b1ef8f9.html |
ARDEN-ARCADE, Calif. — Four people were uninjured but displaced after their home caught fire Saturday, according to Sacramento Metro Fire.
Officials say a heavy fire was found inside the home and spread through the attic and into a vehicle on the side yard.
The home was heavily damaged but no injuries were reported and no other homes were impacted, according to officials.
The fire is now under investigation. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/arden-arcade-house-fire/103-e915a978-a4cc-41cb-9869-4539c74ffbb8 | 2023-04-30T18:24:02 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/arden-arcade-house-fire/103-e915a978-a4cc-41cb-9869-4539c74ffbb8 |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Eastbound I-80 is closed near the Donner Lake Interchange after a car caught fire, Caltrans District 3 said in a Tweet.
The closure began just before 1:44 p.m. Saturday. It's unclear how long the roadway will remain closed.
Crews said they were cleaning up the area before re-opening it.
Check out traffic in the area on the map below:
Watch more from ABC10: Concern over debris in Folsom Lake | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/car-fire-i-80-donner-lake/103-a114272a-aa21-42eb-8a74-cf1b968fb09c | 2023-04-30T18:24:09 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/car-fire-i-80-donner-lake/103-a114272a-aa21-42eb-8a74-cf1b968fb09c |
DAVIS, Calif. — A stabbing at Davis' Sycamore Park left one man dead Saturday night, officials with the Davis Police Department said.
According to police, neighbors reported hearing a disturbance at the park on Sycamore Lane around 9:14 p.m. Saturday.
One resident who called police went outside to investigate and reportedly found a man with multiple sab wounds.
Police and fire officials went to the scene and pronounced the man dead. The victim has been described as a man in his early 20s.
Police searched for the suspect but were not able to find him. Authorities have described the suspect as a light-skinned man, 5’-7” to 5’-8” tall, 19-23 years of age, with long, curly and loose hair.
The suspect was last seen wearing a white hat, and a light-colored T-shirt with a button-up shirt over it. He was reportedly riding a men’s bike with straight handlebars.
The Saturday night homicide marked the second unsolved fatal stabbing at parks in Davis in the past four days.
On Thursday, 50-year-old David Breaux, known in the community as "Compassion Guy", was killed in a stabbing at Central Park.
While police say they are still looking into whether the cases are related, they have called on the public to remain vigilant and report information to investigators.
"At this time, we do strongly recommend the community remain vigilant, be aware of their surroundings, and call the Davis Police Department if they see anyone matching the description provided or anyone acting suspiciously," the Davis Police Department said in a Facebook post.
Witnesses and those with information on the stabbings can call investigators at 530-747-5400 or email policeweb@cityofdavis.org.
Watch more from ABC10: Davis prowlers caught on camera "jiggling" front door handles | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/davis/killed-stabbing-sycamore-park/103-c8ceadb3-25d8-4259-aa1e-f85397dc58e1 | 2023-04-30T18:24:15 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/davis/killed-stabbing-sycamore-park/103-c8ceadb3-25d8-4259-aa1e-f85397dc58e1 |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento Metro Fire officials put out a fire inside a Sacramento Jack in the Box Saturday and are now looking for a person of interest.
Crews responded to a call of a fire at 4849 Madison Avenue just after 10:30 a.m. where they found a trash can burning inside the bathroom, according to officials.
Investigations are still early, but officials believe the fire was "human caused."
Officials say the man they're looking to talk to is "believed to be experiencing homelessness and frequents the area of Madison Avenue and College Oak Drive."
Anyone with information about the case of the person of interest is encouraged to call the Arson Tip Line 916-859-3775. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/fire-inside-jack-in-the-box/103-99d5b0c1-91a4-4939-9765-5315d35707fd | 2023-04-30T18:24:21 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/fire-inside-jack-in-the-box/103-99d5b0c1-91a4-4939-9765-5315d35707fd |
FOLSOM, Calif. — Police in Folsom used a bait item to catch a man accused of stealing items from a construction site on Thursday.
According to police, there have been several reports in recent weeks of theft and burglary from construction sites south of Highway 50. The increase in thefts prompted authorities to place a bait item at one construction site.
On Thursday morning, police say they got an alert that the bait item had been stolen. Officers tracked the item as it travelled west on Highway 50.
Once officers on the ground found the car, they stopped it and found out that the suspect had been listening to police radio transmissions from an app on his cellphone.
He allegedly ditched the bait item right before officers pulled him over. Officers found the bait along with other suspected stolen items on the side of Highway 50.
In total, the suspected stolen items were valued at around $27,000. According to police, the items were stolen from construction sites linked to at least two reported burglaries.
Officers arrested the driver of the car, identified as Benjamin Ritter, 41 of Sacramento. He was booked into Sacramento County Main Jail on suspicion of theft and narcotics related charges.
Watch more from ABC10: Sacramento residents bring awareness to conflict in Sudan | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/folsom-orangevale/bait-item-construction-site-thief/103-ec3814ac-8a7a-4d50-ba42-7cac21897df8 | 2023-04-30T18:24:27 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/folsom-orangevale/bait-item-construction-site-thief/103-ec3814ac-8a7a-4d50-ba42-7cac21897df8 |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Crews broke ground Friday on a construction project that will open a new entryway to the Sacramento International Airport, connecting the northern California travel hub to the arterial Highway 99.
The Elkhorn Boulevard Extension Project will create a one-mile, four-lane connector from the airport to Elkhorn Boulevard. Elkhorn Boulevard currently ends at Power Line Road.
The project will include curbs, gutters, sidewalks, ramps, a traffic signal and signage. It is being funded in part by the State of California through Senate Bill 1.
The 2017 bill set aside $11 million for construction of the extension.
"Connecting the Airport, Metro Air Park, and the greater I-5 corridor is critical to the movement of goods and supports the continued economic growth of the region," the Sacramento International Airport said in a Facebook post. "This project is just one example of how transportation infrastructure investment can stimulate economic development in our community and beyond."
Watch more from ABC10: Southside Park public pool closed for second summer in a row | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/smf-breaks-ground-extension-project/103-148720ab-3a4b-4043-93c7-94e0cea9cac8 | 2023-04-30T18:24:33 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/smf-breaks-ground-extension-project/103-148720ab-3a4b-4043-93c7-94e0cea9cac8 |
KING COUNTY, Wash. — The Washington State Patrol (WSP) reported four traffic fatalities in just two days in King County this week.
The three collisions occurred on Thursday and Friday.
According to WSP, the first collision was on State Route 167 Thursday evening. A motorcycle rider lost their life after being rear-ended by a pickup due to speed, inattention and following too close.
The second collision happened Friday morning on I-90 near milepost 42 where a driver of a vehicle lost their life when they left the roadway and struck an overpass support pillar. The cause of this collision is still under investigation.
The third collision happened just west of Mud Mountain Road at milepost 38 near Enumclaw on Friday evening. Two people died and one person sustained life-threatening injuries in the head-on crash, according to Valley Regional Fire.
According to Washington State Patrol, the causing driver reached for a cell phone and swerved into the eastbound lane and hit the second vehicle. The causing driver was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center. Both passengers in the second vehicle died at the scene.
The WSP wants to stress the importance of not driving distracted and adhering to all traffic laws, especially as more people are on the road in the nicer weather.
The WSP urges drivers to remember motorcycles are harder to see and like all other times of the year eliminate distractions and use all your attention to drive safely.
April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month and according to the Washington Traffic Safety Commission, 30% of all crash fatalities are due to distracted driving.
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SEATTLE — An effort to build new affordable housing in Western Washington is underway.
Women Build, a program through Habitat for Humanity Seattle-King and Kittitas Counties (Habitat for Humanity SKKC), is a two-week event to help raise funds for the organization.
It brings women from all over the region together to address the affordable housing crisis.
Linda Hoffner, a senior property manager at Wright Runstad, is one of the builders and supporters who will be on site.
Hoffner, former Mrs. Washington America 2020, volunteered with Habitat for Humanity and has remained a supporter of the nonprofit's goals.
There's still time to sign up for the current build in Seattle's South Park neighborhood. Everyone is welcome to attend and volunteer at the site on Saturday, May 6. To sign up, click here.
Women Build kicked off on April 29 and will run through May 13.
Habitat for Humanity SKKC will host it's Beyond the Build Luncheon on Thursday, June 8. It will feature author and Peabody Award-winning broadcaster, Majora Carter. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/habitat-humanity-seattle-king-county-women-together/281-ad7020ae-6866-4831-a80a-fabb6e0efcbc | 2023-04-30T18:29:36 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/habitat-humanity-seattle-king-county-women-together/281-ad7020ae-6866-4831-a80a-fabb6e0efcbc |
OLYMPIA, Wash. — This week nonprofit groups that serve victims of sexual assault and domestic violence in Washington are breathing a sigh of relief after funding was approved in the state budget to help supplement federal cuts.
The groups found out in December that they would be facing a 23% cut in federal funding that goes into effect July 1, which is why they called on the state to help fill the gap.
“That is such a volatile funding source, it changes year to year,” said Emily Stone, the public policy director for the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, referring to the federal funding. “It looks drastically different from year to year. So again, it's really hard for programs to plan."
After finding out there would be less federal funding, they got the news that additional funding for these resources was not included in Governor Jay Inslee’s budget for 2023-2025.
“It was scary, I was disappointed, I was frustrated,” said Emily Stone.
Emily said this lack of funding concerned her because she sees firsthand how nonprofits she works with are already struggling to keep up with inflationary costs and increased demand for services.
“There were threats of programs having to close their doors and that was absolutely going to be the case without any additional funding,” said Emily Stone.
Multiple groups that support crime victims came together to request a total of $132 million in the state budget for the next two years. The budget ended up with $50.8 million being allocated for these services, which the groups are thankful for. Just more than $43 million of that funding is one-time funding to supplement the federal cuts.
“We're really grateful for that kind of short-term fix while we look at long-term solutions,” said Emily Stone.
Included in the $50.8 million, was an ongoing funding increase for domestic violence services. Emily said this was the first increase in 15 years. The ongoing funding increased from $6 million per year to $10 million per year.
Emily said sexual assault services did not see an increase in ongoing funding, but Mary Ellen Stone, the CEO of the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center, said they are thankful for the one-time funding. Mary Ellen Stone said this funding will hopefully allow them to keep up with the increased demand for services they are seeing.
“We’re seeing greatly increased mental health needs for young people, we're seeing court backlogs,” said Mary Ellen Stone. “You know, resource line calls are very high, so the needs are out there.”
The legislature did decide to fund a work group to figure out the best ways the state can ensure resources and funding are available to help survivors of gender-based violence in the future.
“We can do a lot better than this,” said Mary Ellen Stone. “So, there's going to be a group setting up, presumably sometime late summer, early fall, to really start looking at what we should be doing so that we're not in this place year after year?"
Both groups hope to see funding for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence be a priority in the future.
“We're incredibly grateful that there is some additional funding in the budget,” said Emily Stone. “We know that there's still more work to do, but we're so grateful for the legislature stepping up and investing in these critical services.”
The group formed to brainstorm ideas to support survivors of gender-based violence will make recommendations for the 2025 legislative session.
If you or someone you know has experienced sexual assault, free and confidential help and information is available seven days a week. Call King County Sexual Assault Resource Center's 24-hour Resource Line at 1.888.99.VOICE (1.888.998.6423).
For more resources on domestic violence, click here. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/washington-nonprofit-additional-state-funding-crime-victims-services/281-2c5f4723-570f-4e46-aeae-38c6da7671cb | 2023-04-30T18:29:42 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/washington-nonprofit-additional-state-funding-crime-victims-services/281-2c5f4723-570f-4e46-aeae-38c6da7671cb |
Wind Advisory
Areas Affected: Dodge; Fillmore; Mower; Olmsted
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Northwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph expected.
* WHERE...In Iowa, Mitchell, Howard, Winneshiek, Floyd, Chickasaw and Fayette Counties. In Minnesota, Dodge, Olmsted, Mower and Fillmore Counties.
* WHEN...From 10 AM this morning to 8 PM CDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
Wind Advisory
Areas Affected: Adair; Adams; Audubon; Black Hawk; Boone; Bremer; Butler; Calhoun; Carroll; Cass; Cerro Gordo; Crawford; Dallas; Emmet; Franklin; Greene; Grundy; Guthrie; Hamilton; Hancock; Hardin; Humboldt; Jasper; Kossuth; Madison; Marshall; Palo Alto; Pocahontas; Polk; Poweshiek; Sac; Story; Tama; Union; Warren; Webster; Winnebago; Worth; Wright
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Northwest winds 25 to 30 mph with gusts up to around 45 mph expected.
* WHERE...Northern, central, and part of southern Iowa.
* WHEN...Until 8 PM CDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Fire weather conditions will be elevated today due to these winds and low relative humidity, particularly over northern Iowa where fuels remain more cured. Monday will have similar conditions with strong, gusty winds and elevated fire weather.
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
Wind Advisory
Areas Affected: Blue Earth; Brown; Chippewa; Douglas; Faribault; Freeborn; Kandiyohi; Lac Qui Parle; Martin; Nicollet; Pope; Redwood; Renville; Steele; Stevens; Swift; Waseca; Watonwan; Yellow Medicine
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Northwest winds 25 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph expected.
* WHERE...Portions of central, south central, southwest and west central Minnesota.
* WHEN...From 7 AM this morning to 8 PM CDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
Wind Advisory
Areas Affected: Chickasaw; Fayette; Floyd; Howard; Mitchell; Winneshiek
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Northwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph expected.
* WHERE...In Iowa, Mitchell, Howard, Winneshiek, Floyd, Chickasaw and Fayette Counties. In Minnesota, Dodge, Olmsted, Mower and Fillmore Counties.
* WHEN...From 10 AM this morning to 8 PM CDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects. | https://www.kimt.com/news/local/wind-advisory-throughout-the-day-on-sunday/article_a722e022-e766-11ed-97c5-1ff414b21948.html | 2023-04-30T18:32:05 | 0 | https://www.kimt.com/news/local/wind-advisory-throughout-the-day-on-sunday/article_a722e022-e766-11ed-97c5-1ff414b21948.html |
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It’s open season for farm-fresh produce and baked goods at farmers’ markets.
Black Hawk County boasts eight markets where vendors will sell locally grown seasonal vegetables, fruits, and herbs and locally produced eggs, meat, jams, jellies, honey, arts and crafts, plants and flowers, soaps, health and beauty products, and more.
On Monday, the Dunkerton Farmers’ Market will be the first to open this spring, followed on Tuesday by the Cedar Valley Farmers Market at Kimball Ridge. The Evansdale Farmers Market will open Wednesday and the Cedar Valley Farmers Market at Shiloh Baptist Church opens Thursday.
Other markets will open Saturday and several open later in May.
Market season typically runs from May through October. Credit, debit and EBI cards are accepted at selected vendors. Here’s a rundown on hours and locations for local markets:
MONDAYS : Dunkerton Farmers Market, opening day Monday, 5 to 7 p.m., Gazebo Park, 114 W. Main St., Dunkerton. Closed Memorial Day and Labor Day.
TUESDAYS : Cedar Valley Farmers Market at Kimball Ridge, opening day Tuesday, 3 to 6 p.m., corner of Kimball and Ridgeway avenues in Waterloo, behind Wells Fargo Bank and Your Pie pizza.
WEDNESDAYS : Evansdale Farmers Market, opening day Wednesday, 3 to 6 p.m., 3562 Lafayette Road, Evansdale.
College Hill Farmers Market, opening day May 17, 4 to 6 p.m., West 22nd Street between College and Olive streets, Cedar Falls.
THURSDAYS : Cedar Valley Farmers Market at Shiloh Baptist Church, opening day Thursday, 3 to 6 p.m., 3525 Sager Ave., near the intersection of Greenhill Road and Katoski Drive, Waterloo.
SATURDAYS : Waterloo Urban Farmers Market, opening day Saturday, 8 a.m. to noon, RiverLoop Expo Plaza, 460 Jefferson St., Waterloo.
Cedar Falls Farmers Market, opening day Saturday; 8:30 a.m. to noon, corner of Clay and Third streets near Overman Park, Cedar Falls.
Kimball Ridge Family Market, opening day May 13, 8:30 a.m. to noon, parking lot, corner of Kimball and Ridgeway avenues in Waterloo, just west of Flowerama.
Evansdale Farmers Market, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., 3562 Lafayette Road, Evansdale.
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Patty Achey-Cutts picks out produce from the One Root booth as she speaks with Derick Perkins at the College Hills farmers market in 2019.
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University of Northern Iowa’s Local Food Program is partnering with Healthy Harvest of North Iowa, North Iowa Fresh LLC and participating farmers markets to launch an online farmers market order platform called Curbside Market.
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University of Northern Iowa’s Local Food Program is partnering with Healthy Harvest of North Iowa, North Iowa Fresh LLC and participating farmers markets to launch an online farmers market order platform called Curbside Market.
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A shopper of the new Curbside Market program picks up their order at the College Hill Farmers Market in Cedar Falls.
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DaQuan Campbell, manager of the Waterloo Urban Farmers Market, is featured in this screenshot of a Facebook video explaining the market's new rules for customers as they prepared to open Saturday.
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Spencer Jensen works on a painting at the Waterloo Farmers Market Saturday May 19, 2018.
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Spencer Jensen holds a painting he worked on Saturday at the Waterloo Farmers Market.
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DaQuan Campbell works to remove brush as he prepares a vacant lot to be an urban garden Monday in Waterloo.
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DaQuan Campbell shows his compost pile Monday in his vacant lot that will be an urban garden in Waterloo.
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People mingle around at the Cedar Falls farmers market May 28, 2016, in Cedar Falls.
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People mingle around at the Cedar Falls farmers market.
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Kamyar Enshayan, right, speaks with Jeanna Newcomb, left, and her daughter, Abby Rippe, as they look over signed farmers; market posters by Gary Kelley during a Greens to Go fundraiser held at Rudy’s Tacos’ Beer Hall on Tuesday in Waterloo.
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Angie Hahn, left, shows Robyn Smuck a carton of eggs she has for sale at the farmers' market on May 7 in Waterloo.
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Angie Hahn sprays water on a plant she has for sale at the farmers' market on May 7 in Waterloo.
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Brian and Sue Will check over plants that are for sale at the farmers' market on May 7 in Waterloo.
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Elaine Nolt, right, talks with Gloria Walker about the different flowers on display at the downtown farmers market Saturday, May 30, 2015, in Waterloo, Iowa.
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Allison Hesse and her grandfather, Vern Hesse, fill bags of sweet corn for Angela Tate (white shirt), Walter Lauer and Ruthie Lauer at the RiverLoop Plaza farmers market in 2015 in Waterloo.
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The RiverLoop Plaza farmers market in Waterloo as it looked in 2015.
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Northern Iowa students Nathan Betz and Sarah Freeze bag cucumbers as Emma Shipley marks down the sale at the Church Row farmers market.
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Ester Vung, right, buys some cucumbers from Northern Iowa students Sarah Freeze, and Emma Shipley at a Church Row neighborhood farmers market Wednesday, July 15, 2015, in Waterloo, Iowa.
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Northern Iowa students in the local food pilot program Nathan Betz, Sarah Freeze, and Emma Shipley, help a customer at the new church row neighborhood farmers market Wednesday, July 15, 2015, in Waterloo, Iowa.
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Cathy Halverson, right, pays Rose Schaffer for her purchase at the downtown farmers market Saturday, May 30, 2015, in Waterloo, Iowa.
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Elaine Nolt, right, talks with Gloria Walker about the different flowers on display at the downtown farmers market Saturday, May 30, 2015, in Waterloo, Iowa.
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Jess Hansen, of Cedar Falls, pulls a bunch of fresh beets that she purchased at the Farmers Market in Cedar Falls on June 16, 2012.
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A wide variety of pumpkins, squash and gourds were on sale Cedar Falls Farmers Market.
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Bob Krueger, center, and Alida Bakuzis, right, purchase some bread from Vicky Dunn at C'est La V's booth at the farmers market Thursday, June 6, 2013, in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
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People shop at the farmers market on June 5, 2010, in downtown Cedar Falls.
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College Hill Farmers Market.
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Jacey Meier, 12, started her own business JRae's Pupcakery that sells homemade dog treats and her sister Avery Meier, 10, who sells paracord dog collars at the Cedar Falls Farmer's Market Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Cedar Falls, Iowa. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Jacey Meier, 12, center, gets set up at the Cedar Falls Farmer's Market to sell homemade dog treats Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Cedar Falls, Iowa. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Jacey Meier, 12, left, helps her sister Avery Meier, 10, set up her paracord dog collars display at the Cedar Falls Farmer's Market Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Cedar Falls, Iowa. (MATTHEW PUTNEY / Courier Photo Editor)
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Alex Glascock,10, left, and Abby Glascock, 7, right, sample some sourdough bread at the farmer's market Thursday, June 6,2013, in Cedar Falls, Iowa. (COURTNEY COLLINS/Courier Staff Photographer)
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Bob Krueger, center, and Alida Bakuzis, right, purchase some bread from Vicky Dunn at C'est La V's booth at the farmers market Thursday, June 6,2013, in Cedar Falls, Iowa. (COURTNEY COLLINS/Courier Staff Photographer)
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Stephanie Woodson and six-month old Gabriel Woodson browse the many vendors at the farmer's market Thursday, June 6,2013, in Cedar Falls, Iowa. (COURTNEY COLLINS/Courier Staff Photographer)
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College Hill Farmer's Market grand opening took place Thursday, June 6,2013, in Cedar Falls, Iowa. (COURTNEY COLLINS/Courier Staff Photographer)
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Alice Smith, left, receives change from Lori Davis, right, after making a purchase from the booth at the Farmers Market Thursday, July 25,2013, in Waterloo, Iowa. (COURTNEY COLLINS/Courier Staff Photographer)
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Cedar Falls mayor Jon Crews purchases some maple syrup from Great River Maple at a farmer's market in June, 2013, in Cedar Falls.
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Susan Kinkade, left, chats with Lori Davis, right, before making a purchase at the Farmers Market Thursday, July 25,2013, in Waterloo, Iowa. (COURTNEY COLLINS/Courier Staff Photographer)
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DALLAS — Are you ready to meet a rock star?
When you meet Wednesday’s Child, 10-year-old Kylie, it’s like music to your ears. There’s no doubt she’ll make her future forever family very happy.
When we told her she appeared to have a heart of gold, Kylie simply replied, "I was just born that way."
Kylie puts her heart into everything. She is a swimmer, baker and a singer – just don’t ask her to perform on a whim.
“We will not be singing today,” she said with a smile after WFAA's photojournalist asked her to sing a song for the camera.
She’s fun and playful. However, when it comes to game time, Kylie doesn't mess around. She's ready to rock whether she’s on stage or not!
WFAA spent the day with her at the School of Rock in Dallas, where she conquered the drums and performed with the band.
But at school, she usually conquers math.
“Because it requires thinking and I like thinking. I love solving problems. It just makes it harder for my brain and I like challenges," the 10-year-old said about her favorite subject.
Challenges help a person to grow. That’s why Kylie is grateful for foster care.
"You have food. You have a room and a bed, and you have someone who takes care of you,” she said.
Her attitude of gratitude is going to make her future forever family joyful.
“A nice family to me would be taking me to the park and playing with me, because I like to do cartwheels and kinda [sic] gymnastics things,” said Kylie.
It takes courage to be Kylie, which she will use to serve others in the future.
She has dreams of becoming a 9-1-1 dispatcher.
“If I’m the dispatcher, I’ll know what’s happening and I can send people to help,” she said.
A true rock star!
She doesn't back down from decision either -- not even when the photojournalist asked her to sing a song yet again.
"I'm not gonna sing! You don't win!" she said triumphantly.
May this story lead Kylie to parents who will love, protect and cherish her – forever.
For more information on how to adopt Kylie, please send all approved home studies to LaQueena Warren at LaQueena.Warren@dfps.texas.gov. Please remember to include Kylie's name within the subject line.
If you're not licensed, please visit adoptchildren.org to find out more information on how to become licensed to foster and/or adopt or contact LaQueena Warren at 817-304-1272.
If you would like to read more Wednesday's Child stories, click here. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/outreach/wednesdays-child-10-year-old-kylie-wants-to-be-adopted/287-177c8d9f-5a2d-4911-8065-f814049fabbd | 2023-04-30T18:34:19 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/outreach/wednesdays-child-10-year-old-kylie-wants-to-be-adopted/287-177c8d9f-5a2d-4911-8065-f814049fabbd |
DALLAS — A brother and sister are asking a loving family to adopt them. Damon, 11, and Ireanna, 13, are both ready for their forever family. They are tonight’s Wednesday’s Child.
If there's one thing these two have already learned, it's that they have a lot of love to give.
"I have this much love for everyone," said Damon, holding out both of his arms.
These siblings are waiting patiently for the right forever family.
"I want a mom and a dad. I want a dog and I want to be with my sister. I can't imagine life without my sister," said Damon.
After being in and out of foster care for two years, Damon and Ireanna said that no matter what, they want to be adopted together.
"It's very important, because I don't want to like, see life without my brother. It would be boring, and I would have no one to talk to," said Ireanna.
"She's always there when I need her. She's always listening to me. We're always playing," said Damon.
They play together and create together! During the Wednesday’s Child taping they made bowls and cups at Oak Cliff Pottery.
"I like making stuff like Legos. I like painting. I like drawing," said Damon.
"I like to draw like cartoon characters and shapes, like pyramids and stuff," said Ireanna.
She also creates superheroes who spin around the universe.
"She has these two fictional characters that go on adventures. They're like superheroes and they save the world," said Damon.
For Damon, his sister is one of his heroes because she's teaching him to love by loving him.
"I have enough to give a lot. My heart's pretty big," he said.
"I think that's pretty amazing," his sister said, agreeing with him.
All they need are superhero parents who will continue helping to mold Ireanna and Damon into the incredible humans they are becoming.
For more information on how to adopt Ireanna and Damon, please send all approved home studies to LaQueena Warren at LaQueena.Warren@dfps.texas.gov. Remember to include Damon and Ireanna's name within the subject line.
If you're not licensed, please visit adoptchildren.org to find out more information on how to become licensed to foster and/or adopt or contact LaQueena Warren at 817-304-1272.
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SAN ANTONIO — Two men were stabbed on the west-side Saturday night, and one died from his injuries, police say.
San Antonio Police were called out to to Brookhill at Fairhill around 8:15 p.m.
When officers arrived, they found two victims with stab wounds.
They were both taken to a local hospital where the 22-year-old man was pronounced dead. The second victim, an 18-year-old man, had non-life-threatening injuries.
The surviving victim told police they got into a fight with a suspect and got stabbed.
Police found shell casings, blood, and a knife sheath at the crime scene.
The suspect was not found.
This is a developing story.
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NORMAL — The Normal Town Council on Monday is expected to vote on two cannabis dispensaries and swear in newly elected trustee Andy Byars.
Byars will be replacing former town trustee Stan Nord after securing a council seat during April municipal elections, along with incumbents Kathleen Lorenz and Karyn Smith.
Applications for special-use permit requests have been submitted for two adult use cannabis dispensaries: Revolution Dispensary at 1609 Northbrook Drive and High Haven at 106 Mall Drive, according to town documents.
The Normal Zoning Board of Appeals at its last meeting voted 4-1 against the special-use permit to open Revolution Dispensary and unanimously approved the other special-use permit to open High Haven.
A previous plan for the High Haven site was rejected in February after concerns were raised about traffic congestion and the impact the business would have on families visiting stores nearby. The site is near the Shoppes at College Hills.
The new plan addresses some of those concerns by proposing an increase to the number of on-site private parking spaces, up to 58 spaces, and improvements to the entrance and exit at the intersection of East College Avenue and Mall Drive to make them more clearly one-way drives, according to town documents.
The Revolution Dispensary proposal was reconsidered by the ZBA because board members failed to provide a reason for denying the application at their March 16 meeting.
The ZBA rejected the initial proposal in March after residents raised traffic and safety concerns about the site on the northwest side, near the intersection of Main Street and Raab Road.
The ZBA based its rejection, however, on an objection from the owner of A Shining Star Learning Center, Bob Waller, of Springfield, who said the dispensary would harm his business.
The Revolution Dispensary proposal had been submitted by Mark Steinmetz of Scottsdale, Arizona, through his company Illinois Health & Wellness LLC, which also has licenses available for the Decatur, Chicago, Naperville and Elgin regions.
According to town documents, the location for the proposed dispensary would have no impact on the existing businesses nearby, including Gloria Jean’s Coffee, Normal Maytag Coin Laundry and the McLean County Area EMS System.
If either applicant is successful, it could bring Normal its second cannabis dispensary.
The first, Beyond/Hello, opened on Northtown Road in 2015 and initially sold medical marijuana.
Beyond/Hello has another location in Bloomington on Veterans Parkway.
The Bloomington City Council has also approved another adult-use dispensary at 1006 JC Parkway, near the west-side Walmart.
The applicant, Project Equity Illinois Inc., has yet to open.
Other business for Monday's meeting includes the following:
- Authorizing a one-year contract with T2 Systems for $25,988
- Accepting bids and awarding a contract to Stark Excavating, Inc. for sump pump discharge and storm sewer improvements for $424,750
- Accepting bids and authorizing the purchase of two 2023 Ford F550 trucks from Bob Ridings, Inc. for $109,526
- Authorizing a lease agreement with the U.S. House of Representatives by Darin LaHood
- Rejecting bids for the 2023 Beech Street pavement replacement project
- Granting a special use permit for an outdoor kennel at 1824 W. Hovey Avenue
The Local Liquor Commission will also vote on one license for Lyla's Cafe at 1730 Bradford Lane prior to the council meeting.
The council meets at 7 p.m. Monday on the fourth floor of Uptown Station. Council meetings are also livestreamed on the town’s YouTube channel. | https://www.pantagraph.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/normal-to-vote-on-2-new-cannabis-dispensaries-swearing-in-new-trustee/article_ecb931b6-e5f6-11ed-a6fc-e3fc4bdf785b.html | 2023-04-30T18:37:40 | 0 | https://www.pantagraph.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/normal-to-vote-on-2-new-cannabis-dispensaries-swearing-in-new-trustee/article_ecb931b6-e5f6-11ed-a6fc-e3fc4bdf785b.html |
Police in New Jersey have charged a 23-year-old man with attempted murder of a police officer and related charges, after an incident that occoured early Sunday morning.
According to law enforcement officials, the incident unfolded at about 1 a.m. when officers on the scene of a motor vehicle collision, allegedly observed a white Hyundai Genesis, traveling at a high rate of speed along Taunton Lake Road in Evesham, New Jersey.
Officers attempted to initiate a vehicle stop of that Hyundai, but police said, the vehicle -- which police believe was being driven by Marc Ferraiolo -- failed to pull over and instead ran a red light.
At that time, law enforcement officials said that officers on the scene determined it would be unsafe to themselves and the public if they continued to pursue the vehicle and instead, were reportedly granted a warrant for Ferraiolo's arrest for eluding police.
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Police officers then, officials said, went to Ferraiolo's home where he was, allegedly, observed operating the same vehicle.
Law enforcement officials said that, when Ferraiolo arrived at the residence, he refused commands to exit his vehicle.
Instead, officials said that Ferraiolo's wife, Ruth Patton, 42, stepped out of the passenger side of the vehicle, and officers pulled a police vehicle behind Ferraiolo's Hyundai.
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But, instead of exiting the vehicle, Ferraiolo allegedly, put his vehicle in reverse, and pulled out of his driveway, nearly striking two officers, police said.
As he pulled away, police said that Ferraiolo struck a police vehicle carrying a K9 unit and then drove directly back towards the two officers that he had narrowly missed before his Hyundai collided with the police vehicle.
Ferraiolo, officials said, then drove his Hyundai across neighboring lawns, before turning back to ram the K9 vehicle at least three more times, before he pulled away in an attempt to flee.
As he left the scene, officials said, Ferraiolo's vehicle struck another police patrol vehicle then continued onto Marlborough Avenue before his vehicle struck another police patrol vehicle as well as a vehicle that was parked along the street.
With Ferraiolo's vehicle finally disabled by this collusion, officials said, police officers pulled Ferraiolo from his vehicle in order to arrest him.
During this time, police said, Patton, Ferraiolo's wife, interfered with the arrest, allegedly telling officials on the scene that she "would kill officers."
She was arrested, as well.
Police said that a police K9 unit, named Tango, was in a police vehicle that was, allegedly, struck several times by Ferraiolo's vehicle. That dog is currently undergoing veterinarian care, police said.
Also, officials said several officers suffered non-life threatening injures through the course of this incident. They were treated at the scene, police said.
Ferraiolo has been charged with attempted murder of a police officer, injuring a police canine and other offenses. Patton has been charge with terroristic threats and obstruction of justice.
Both are currently in police custody, officials said. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/nj-man-attempted-to-run-over-officers-injured-police-dog-officials-say/3556490/ | 2023-04-30T18:39:39 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/nj-man-attempted-to-run-over-officers-injured-police-dog-officials-say/3556490/ |
Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority seeks to reduce environmental impact
The Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority is vowing to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide it releases as part of its operations and improve the authority's environmental impact.
The project aims for the port to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040 and a roadmap to track progress and ensure the success of the initiative, port officials said in a late Saturday press release.
The project, officials said, will be undertaken in partnership with Tunley Engineering, an industry leader in net zero carbon reduction. The port hopes to reduce emissions through a range of initiatives, including using more renewable energy sources, the electrification of port equipment and using cleaner fuels, according to a news release.
Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority Executive Director Mark Schrupp said a portion of the agency's terminals have already taken steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
"We will show our dedication to the health and well-being of locals, employees, and visitors to the Port of Detroit by developing a plan for the decarbonization of maritime operations, as well as the reduction in particulate matter and other pollutants, at all maritime terminals operating along the Detroit and Rouge Rivers,” Schrupp said in a statement.
Schrupp said he hopes the port's collaboration with Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision, Tunley Engineering and others will make the port a sustainable “Green Port."
The port's initiative comes as other companies have taken steps to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
DTE Energy and Consumers Energy, Michigan's largest utilities, have each promised to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. They are taking interim steps to reduce carbon emissions by retiring coal-fired burning plants and replacing them with natural gas-burning facilities as well as bringing online more wind energy centers.
Detroit residents are already exposed to elevated levels of air pollutants that help exacerbate health conditions such as asthma and cardiovascular disease, the port authority said. It hopes the project will enhance the quality of life by creating cleaner air and a healthier environment, port officials said.
A 2021 report released by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services showed asthma rates in Detroit adults were 46% higher than in Michigan, up from 29% in 2016. The asthma rate for Detroit children was 14.6% compared with statewide rate at 8.4%.
In 2019, the rate of asthma hospitalizations for Black residents in Detroit, according to the Health Department, was more than three times the rate for White persons.
Raquel Garcia, executive director of Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision, said her group will focus on the routes and traffic of trucks, and will include ships that move goods up and down the river, as emissions and pollution affect residents who live near the river's banks.
"This decarbonization plan will give us an assessment of where we are and a strong map to get to cleaner air in Detroit," Garcia said. "Not only does decarbonization improve the health of residents, but can save these companies money and we are out to have those conversations with them."
Garcia said an event planned for May 11 will allow residents to give them feedback on air quality and the truck traffic along the river.
"Our team will be creating a roadmap to net zero greenhouse gas emissions for the Port of Detroit, as well as improving local air quality," said Robert Moorcroft, carbon reduction scientist and project lead for Tunley Engineering.
"This project shows how Detroit is looking to the future, can showcase low carbon technologies and be an example to other port cities,” he said.
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AUBREY, Texas — A teenage boy who was last seen in mid-April has been found, police said.
Police in the Denton County city of Aubrey said the teen was reported missing on Sunday, April 23, but was last seen on Monday, April 17.
They later announced that he was found and in good health.
Further details were not immediately made available. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/missing-17-teenager-aubrey-texas/287-5ef4118c-77ff-4887-816f-1a7285f684fc | 2023-04-30T18:50:55 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/missing-17-teenager-aubrey-texas/287-5ef4118c-77ff-4887-816f-1a7285f684fc |
DALLAS — Dallas Police have issued a Critical Missing Alert to find a man who has not been seen since Friday.
John Allen Cassey was last seen in the 1400 block of North Beckley Avenue, near the Methodist Medical Center. That was around 1 p.m. on April 28.
Police say Cassey, 64, is a Black man almost six feet tall and weighing 197 pounds. He has gray hair and brown eyes.
Police say he was last seen wearing a gray jacket, black pants, and black shoes. He may also be in need of assistance.
Anyone with information on Mr. Cassey's whereabouts is encouraged to call police at 911 or 214-671-4268.
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