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NORMAL — Illinois State University Student Trustee Ash Ebikhumi addressed Saturday morning the 2023 graduates of the College of Education at CEFCU Arena in Normal.
He noted for 8,000 students, faculty and visitors that he stood before them with immense pride and gratitude.
“As you ventured through your unique Redbird journeys, you embraced the vibrant tapestry of experiences and opportunities that ISU has to offer,” said Ebikhumi.
He said graduates faced doubt and adversity, but then quoted Jedi Master Yoda from "Star Wars": “Do or do not. There is no try.”
Ceremonies honoring around 5,000 total graduates, who will earn their degrees in either May or August, began Friday afternoon with the Mennonite College of Nursing, and continued through Saturday, concluding with the College of Business. Students in fine arts, interdisciplinary studies and university studies also graduated during Saturday morning's ceremony.
College of Education Dean Francis Godwyll said in his address that his college’s 60,000 alumni have gone on to work in all 50 states, plus 68 countries around the world.
He also said they get excellent teachers and leaders evaluations, and they persist in their fields.
“I can’t wait to see where you make your mark,” Godwyll said.
ISU Interim President Aondover Tarhule gave comments, too. He said he acknowledges the graduates’ commitment and salutes their accomplishments.
Tarhule said he knows they will go on to do remarkable things. He said some will become innovators, advocates, teachers, artists, entertainers, businesspeople, or will fill jobs that haven’t yet been invented.
“Whatever you choose to do, and however you choose to do it, and whomever you choose to do it with, and where you choose to do it, or however small or big you choose to do it, I am confident that you will succeed and you will change the world for the better,” he said.
Before the ceremony, Tarhule told The Pantagraph the day would mean excitement and fulfillment for those graduating.
“It’s a measure of the fact they have reached a milestone — a goal that they set… ,” he said.
Attending Saturday were several varieties of supporters to graduates: families, friends and even students.
At least two seniors of Peoria’s Richwoods High School were in the arena’s stands, just one week before attending their own graduation ceremony. Olivia Beck and Donte Smith both said they were recognizing their high school’s assistant principal, Renee Sherie Andrews, who completed her doctorate in educational administration and foundations.
Beck said Andrews is a like a motherly figure to her, and so she was excited and very happy to see her graduate. She added it’s a big accomplishment.
Smith said Andrews is very respectful and patient.
Junias Holmes, from Grand Rapids, Michigan, earned his degree in public health, and said he's a first-generation college graduate. Walking the stage was exciting, he said.
Holmes said his favorite memories were made with the ISU Track & Field Team, including placing at the Missouri Valley Conference.
Also on the team is Matt Blanco, who majored in physical education. In spring of 2020, he said being conference champions in cross country was awesome.
Teaching kids and making an impact on their lives was another big accomplishment at ISU, Blanco said.
Walking across the stage, he said, was cool because it took five years of hard work to make it happen.
It was a bittersweet ceremony for the family of Zofia LeHew, who graduated with a marketing degree from the College of Business. Her father, Rich LeHew, described the day as: “The best of times, and the worst of times.”
Mr. LeHew said he lost his wife, Kim, Zofia's mom, to breast cancer one year ago.
When Zofia walked across the stage, her father said: “I had to catch a few tears.”
Nine family members and relatives of Zofia LeHew came to her graduation, including her 7-month old niece, Ripley Alley, of the Seattle area.
Rick LeHew said he was very proud of his only daughter, adding that she won a medal Friday with the track team at the Missouri Valley Conference javelin throwing contest.
The father said Saturday was a mix of emotions. He agreed Kim was with them in spirit.
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Brendan Denison is our breaking news reporter. Denison was a digital content producer for WCIA-TV in Champaign and a reporter for The Commercial-News in Danville. He can be reached at (309) 820-3238 and bdenison@pantagraph.com.
Zofia LeHew, who graduated from Illinois State University Saturday with major in marketing, holds her 7-month-old niece, Ripley Alley, outside CEFCU Arena in Normal. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/education/thousands-celebrate-redbird-feats-at-illinois-state-graduation/article_0b9f39ec-f1b7-11ed-8e07-2ffc77ca23e9.html | 2023-05-13T20:43:43 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/education/thousands-celebrate-redbird-feats-at-illinois-state-graduation/article_0b9f39ec-f1b7-11ed-8e07-2ffc77ca23e9.html |
JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) – A local sheriff’s office hosted a car show in Jonesborough on Saturday to benefit a good cause.
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO) hosted the car show to benefit the Children’s Advocacy Center of the First Judicial District on Saturday. The First Judicial District in the Tri-Cities is comprised of Carter, Johnson, Washington and Unicoi counties, and the Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) aims to serve kids within these areas. Proceeds from the event support the CAC directly.
The show brought out over 100 cars and many car enthusiasts. Cars in the shows included muscle cars, classic trucks, rat rods and more.
WCSO Captain Shawn Judy said they chose the advocacy center because they play an important role during investigations involving children.
“With our investigators and officers, what we can do is we can bring people into their facility and then do interviews with them,” Jusy said. “It’s a kid-friendly place instead of bringing them to an interview room that we normally use over here and then can do some forensic interviews and it’s a lot easier on the kid and we don’t have to revictimize them.”
Organizers were excited to see a strong turnout and said they may even need to find a bigger location for next year. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/washington-county-sheriffs-office-hosts-car-show-in-jonesborough/ | 2023-05-13T20:47:28 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/washington-county-sheriffs-office-hosts-car-show-in-jonesborough/ |
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Sandy Springs Police made contact with a mother now charged with murder in her 1-year-old's death a day before the child died after she was pulled from an office park pond.
Police responded Thursday night to a call about a naked woman at the Concourse office complex, and have said officers found her "having some type of episode."
"The child's father arrived and asked where the baby was," a release said. The mom, it added, "then stated that the baby was deceased in a pool."
Officers pulled Nirvana Oliver's body out of the water and rushed to nearby Children's Healthcare of Atlanta - Scottish Rite Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Nirvana's grandfather, Kenneth Oliver, told 11Alive that his son and Lewis lived together just about 100 yards away from the retention pond where Nirvana's body was found.
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He said his son told him that at some point on Thursday evening, Calabrese-Lewis left with their baby and before long, they noticed some commotion across the street along Concourse Parkway. Sandy Springs Police were out looking for the naked woman.
They saw Calabrese-Lewis being arrested and asked her where the baby was, to which Oliver said she responded, "F the baby." At that moment, police said they didn't know a baby was involved and then began their search for Nirvana.
Officers started searching the industrial complex that includes several retention ponds. They found Nirvana's body around 7:30 p.m., along with a diaper floating nearby. An arrest warrant states the mother was seen on a security camera arriving at the retention pond a little after 6 p.m.
What exactly happened from that point, leading to Nirvana's death, remains unclear.
1-year-old dies after pulled from pond in Sandy Springs
The department said in a statement Saturday that officers responded to a business the day before, Wednesday, May 10, "concerning a welfare check on an adult female and juvenile."
The release said the adult female "refused medical assistance" and that "based on the investigation by the officer and his supervisor, no crime had been committed and parties were not in any immediate danger, but there appeared to be some family assistance needs."
The officers walked back them back to their home and made contact with the child's father, the statement added. They later made a referral to the Georgia Division of Family & Children Services (DFCS).
DFCS acknowledged the referral in a statement Friday, saying: The Georgia Department of Human Services’ Division of Family & Children Services (DFCS) is aware of the tragic death of one-year-old Nirvana Oliver, and we are working closely with law enforcement to assist them in their investigation. DFCS’ first involvement with Asia Calabrese-Lewis was on evening of May 10, when we received a report alleging suspected abuse/neglect of Nirvana. We opened a case and attempted a home visit on May 11. This loss is devastating, and our deepest condolences go out to Nirvana’s loved ones.
Nirvana's grandfather said they couldn't understand why this happened.
"What could she have done to deserve to be dead at 23 months," Kenneth said, adding later, "she was the best baby in the world. She lit up any room she entered."
Nirvana would have turned two years old on June 18. The family has started an online fundraiser to help with her funeral and burial costs. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/nirvana-oliver-death-mother-asia-calabrese-lewis-charges-sandy-springs-police/85-1a1b7c35-cb54-4925-917e-04a9a2e146fb | 2023-05-13T20:59:11 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/nirvana-oliver-death-mother-asia-calabrese-lewis-charges-sandy-springs-police/85-1a1b7c35-cb54-4925-917e-04a9a2e146fb |
ALLEN, Texas — Mental health is often a frequent topic of conversation following a tragedy, such as the one that happened at the Allen Premium Outlets on Saturday. Business owners in a nearby shopping told WFAA that some employees decided not to return to work.
Stacy Holwerda is the general manager of Liberty Burger, located on the 800 block of West Stacy Road. She says things have been slow at the eatery since last weekend.
“We don’t know how long it’s going to be different…do we shut down for a day? Do we shut down for a week for a month? Who knows? You don’t know how long this is going to affect everybody,” said Holwerda.
The restaurant remains open, but Holwerda says one employee has already quit.
“He messaged us and was talking to his family, and they thought it was best for him to not stay employed and not come back effective immediately. That’s the last I’ve heard from him unfortunately," Holwerda says.
Holwerda understands that some of her employees are struggling and checks in with them to make sure they are okay. Meanwhile, those who worked at the outlet mall still don’t know when they will return to work.
Esmeralda Duffus-Zeegers has worked at one of the mall stores for the last seven years and was at work last Saturday; the day a single gunman decided to open fire outside her place of employment.
“It’s surreal I know I went through it at the same time. When I see things on TV I can kind of not associate it, but still associate it," said Duffus-Zeegers.
While most watched the events in Allen unfold Saturday from afar, the experience for those who were inside was very different and they are left trying to fill in the gaps.
“The news can show it. The cameras that were up in the air can show it, but I can’t talk about it because I was in a little room in the back of my store with no real windows or anything to see what was going on.”
Duffus-Zeegers goes on to say the traumatic experience has brought up feelings about the loss of her mother last year. It’s a kind of grief that licensed clinical social workers, like Christine Sunny John, describe as having ‘multiple layers’.
“It may even trigger sadness and other previous memories of losses and feelings of sadness, anxiety and anger and once again going back making sure that you feel your feelings and talking about it rather than hiding and isolating it,” said John.
With the obvious looming question of what comes next, Duffus-Zeegers says self-care is important, but so is caring for others, including the other people who she was working with on Saturday.
“We’re keeping touch and we’re making sure that if anybody needs to talk or something like that, that we have each other, we have each other’s backs, we’re family, and that’s what I like about where I work."
Property owners say the Allen Premium Outlets will remain closed until all the funerals of those who lost their lives have taken place. | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/allen-outlet-mall-shooting-employees-businesses-impact/287-f76ba4b9-eeff-48b6-ae55-4f9aeec7b5ea | 2023-05-13T21:00:00 | 1 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/allen-outlet-mall-shooting-employees-businesses-impact/287-f76ba4b9-eeff-48b6-ae55-4f9aeec7b5ea |
DALLAS — (AP) — A man who didn't want his girlfriend to get an abortion fatally shot her during a confrontation in a Dallas parking lot, police said.
He was jailed on a murder charge as of Friday.
Texas banned abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy in September 2021. But nearly all abortions have been halted in Texas since Roe v. Wade was overturned last summer, except in cases of medical emergency.
Gabriella Gonzalez, 26, was with her boyfriend, 22-year-old Harold Thompson, on Wednesday when he tried to put her in a chokehold, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. She had returned the night before from Colorado, where she had gone to get an abortion.
“It is believed that the suspect was the father of the child,” the affidavit said. “The suspect did not want (Gonzalez) to get an abortion.”
Surveillance video from the parking lot shows Gonzalez “shrugs him off,” police said, and the two continue walking. Thompson then pulls out a gun and shoots Gonzalez in the head. She falls to the ground and Thompson shoots her multiple times before running away, the affidavit said.
Thompson was arrested later Wednesday and is being held in the Dallas County Jail without bond. Court records did not list an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
Gonzalez’s sister was at the scene and heard the shooting, police said. Another witness saw Thompson try to choke Gonzalez but couldn't call police because she did not have her cell phone.
At the time of the shooting, Thompson had been charged with assault of a family member, who accused him of choking her in March.
The affidavit from March does not specifically name Gonzalez as the person who was assaulted. But it does say the woman told police that Thompson “beat her up multiple times throughout the entirety of their relationship” and that Thompson told police the woman was pregnant with his child at that time.
The woman “reiterated that she is scared of the suspect because he had made threats to harm her family and her children,” according to the affidavit.
More Texas headlines: | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/dallas-shooting-abortion-argument/287-a1b51a10-58be-4b81-bde4-06c320bf92ce | 2023-05-13T21:00:07 | 1 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/dallas-shooting-abortion-argument/287-a1b51a10-58be-4b81-bde4-06c320bf92ce |
ALLEN, Texas — The memorial at the south entrance to Allen Premium Outlets will remain in place at least through Sunday, perhaps as long as next Tuesday, volunteers at the site tell WFAA. And volunteers are there around the clock keeping flowers, and hope, alive.
“It’s been hard. And every day we cry. All of us cry,” said Candace Cardwell a volunteer whose help was enlisted by Cheryl Jackson of Minnie’s Food Pantry in Plano, self-appointed to lead a team tending to the memorial of flowers, crosses and stuffed animals.
“You leave here crying every night” Cardwell said.
Since Wednesday, Shannon Alexander has been here too.
“And it made me feel like this is the place I was supposed to be. And I didn’t want to leave,” Alexander said.
They’ve watched as the memorial, on a small patch of grass behind a hotel and next to one of the still-blocked entrances to the outlet mall, has become the only place where families of the victims, shooting survivors and complete strangers can have a place to grieve, to find comfort, and to pray. Hundreds attended a vigil Wednesday night at the site.
“Just trying to come out here and do what the bible says, you know: to be love,” said Pastor Richard Scotman of the Church of Dallas at McKinney. He has been among multiple pastors offering to pray, and offering a shoulder to cry on, for anyone who asks.
The management company for the outlet mall told WFAA earlier this week that they are committed to keeping the outlet mall closed at least until all of the funeral and memorial services for the victims have been held.
But outside the mall, on a corner near Stacy Road, volunteers will tell you a remarkable thing has been happening every day: the exact opposite of what a deranged gunman was allegedly trying to achieve.
“I think that as a community, we need each other. And I like to help and the need is here,” said Cardwell.
“I have seen so many people from different walks of life, different colors, races, religions. And it’s been about community and togetherness, not about color,” added Alexander.
“We’ve seen white, black…we’re all coming together, said Pastor Scotman. “And it’s a powerful thing when you see so much hate in the world.”
Hundreds of toys and stuffed animals are also among the offerings that people have left at the memorial. Volunteers say they are being boxed up and protected from the weather until they can be donated -- either to the victim families, or worthy organizations that can provide them to other children. | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/outlet-mall-memorial-remain-through-sunday/287-a994ffd6-7112-445e-b709-c2e4d22d1379 | 2023-05-13T21:00:13 | 1 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/outlet-mall-memorial-remain-through-sunday/287-a994ffd6-7112-445e-b709-c2e4d22d1379 |
Construction ahead of schedule for the I-80/I-380 systems interchange with all lanes set to open by fall
The thousands of drivers frequenting the I-80/I-380 interchange in the Coralville area can rest easy knowing all lanes will be open by fall at the latest.
The $389.5 million project that’s been ongoing since 2018 is set to complete next year, though for motorists, it may feel complete as early as August.
Hugh Holak, project engineer with the Iowa Department of Transportation, told the Press-Citizen that not only is the I-80/380 systems interchange project ahead of schedule, but that there won’t be much work to do in 2024.
“That’s good news for the traffic,” he said.
All remaining ramps yet to be opened should be open by Labor Day, Holak said. Ramps still closed are U.S. 218 northbound to I-80 westbound and I-80 westbound to U.S. 218 southbound.
All lanes will be open with the permanent traffic flow by Nov. 17, according to the contract date, but monetary incentives will be rewarded to the contractor up to 90 days before Nov. 17, or Aug. 19, to open early.
What work for the I-80/I-380 systems interchange project still needs to be completed?
A few lanes still need to be paved in the next few weeks, and all paving is anticipated to be complete by the end of June, Holak said.
Work on constructing the permanent medium barriers, including on the east and westbound on the I-80, will start in June. Holak anticipated working on that through the opening of all lanes.
The construction of a bridge over I-80, the Jasper Avenue Bridge is also ahead of schedule. The project which wasn’t supposed to start until next year, Holak said, though the girders that will support the bridge are already up.
Holak said next year's remaining work includes permanent erosion control, which ensures minimal erosion following all the construction that has taken place according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, and ensuring grass is growing properly. Pavement markings may move to next year when warmer weather returns since the process involves paint, though that particular work will take place in the evenings in order to not affect traffic.
The widening of the I-80, I-380 and U.S. 218, multiple ramp openings and the installation light towers and light poles to support visibility have already been completed, according to the project’s 2022 annual report.
What is the construction happening at the I-80/I-380 interchange and why?
The I-80/I-380 systems interchange project removed four of the original loops and replaced them with directional ramps. U.S. 218, I-80 and I-380 have all been widened to six lanes near the interchange, and I-80 was also widened to eight lanes between I-380 and Coral Ridge Avenue as part of the project, according to Iowa DOT.
The project is expected to improve traffic, reduce the frequency of any unexpected delays and reduce crashes at the interchange, according to the Iowa DOT.
The average number of vehicles traveling on the I-80 daily is expected to be 48,900 in 2025 and jumps to 84,900 in 2045, according to data provided by Matt McLaughlin of HDR, Inc. in an email to the Press-Citizen.
The average number of vehicles traveling daily for I-380 and U.S. 218 respectively are:
- 2025: 62,800 and 2045: 92,300
- 2025: 41,200 and 2045: 61,100
McLaughlin said the completion of the interchange project should lead to significantly fewer crashes.
Models predict approximately 64 million fewer hours of traffic delays over the next 30 years while travel time is expected to be 5 to 35% more reliable, he said.
Paris Barraza covers entertainment, lifestyle and arts at the Iowa City Press-Citizen. Reach her at PBarraza@press-citizen.com or 319-519-9731. Follow her on Twitter @ParisBarraza. | https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/local/2023/05/13/i-80i-380-interchange-construction-ahead-of-schedule/70200801007/ | 2023-05-13T21:10:28 | 0 | https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/local/2023/05/13/i-80i-380-interchange-construction-ahead-of-schedule/70200801007/ |
BEL AIR, Md. — A man is in custody following the theft of a five-ton military vehicle and a highway police chase that ended in Baltimore City.
Police say that around 6:35 p.m. Friday, patrol deputies from the Harford County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 900 block of Rock Spring Road, in Bel Air, for the report of a stolen privately owned 1986 923-A 5-ton military vehicle.
According to the Harford County Sheriff’s Office, the stolen vehicle was spotted traveling southbound on I-95. Deputies from the Southern Precinct, Special Operations Division, and allied law enforcement agencies pursued the truck down the interstate.
Multiple attempts to deploy stop sticks to disable the vehicle were attempted but failed.
The truck continued into Baltimore City before coming to a stop on Conkling Street. The driver, now identified as 38-year-old Michael D. Stevens II, of Abingdon, exited the vehicle, attempted to run from the scene, and was shortly taken into custody.
There were no reported injuries.
A preliminary investigation reveals that Stevens had just been released from the Harford County Detention Center before stealing the vehicle.
He now returns to the same detention center with new set of charges. Those include motor vehicle theft, two counts of first-degree assault, two counts of second-degree assault, and failing to obey a lawful order.
He is currently being held without bond. | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/suspect-in-custody-following-the%20theft-of-a-five-ton-military-truck | 2023-05-13T21:15:51 | 1 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/suspect-in-custody-following-the%20theft-of-a-five-ton-military-truck |
SOMERS — The inaugural Somers Community Day saw quite the turnout Saturday morning, with area families showing up in droves to tour the Somers Fire Station 1, sit in vehicles and watch safety demonstrations.
Held at Fire Station 1, 7511 12th St., the free event ran from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. It featured refreshments, raffles, gift baskets, educational booths, kids games, and tables for numerous local restaurants, schools, community resources and more.
The major raffle of the day was for the Festival Foods Play Ball, with one lucky child winning four field-level game tickets to a Milwaukee Brewers Game.
Kids could tour dozens of Somers’ vehicles. Ambulances, fire trucks, pickup trucks and more were lined up in front of the station and even more public works vehicles were displayed out back. The Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department also had its Bearcat available for kids to walk through.
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Numerous area officials were in attendance, including state Rep. Tip McGuire and state Sen. Bob Wirch. Kenosha County Executive Samantha Kerkman even braved a climb on the fire truck ladder, several stories high.
Five demonstrations were held throughout the day, including one by the Sheriff’s K-9 unit and another on proper fire extinguisher use. Just before noon, there was a landing by the Flight For Life helicopter, which drew in excited crowds of families to the fields behind the fire station.
Among those attending was Kenosha resident Tom Wood, who was with his two kids, 6-year-old Cooper and 3-year-old Callie. Callie said their mom was working one of the event’s many tables.
“We came to stop by and check it out,” Tom Wood said.
The trio arrived just in time to see the Flight for Life helicopter make a pass over the fire station before coming in for a landing, which was especially exciting for Cooper. It was his first time seeing a helicopter up close and in-person, and he summed up the experience succinctly.
“Cool,” Cooper said.
Children and adults lined up to sit in the pilot seat or the back of the helicopter, which included a wide array of medical equipment tightly packed into the small space, what Flight Nurse Zachary Baker described as a “miniature intensive care unit.”
Fire & Rescue Public Information Officer Nico Celebre was happy with the event’s turnout.
“It’s been going good,” Celebre said. “This is the first Somers Community Day. It’s an open house, a safety fair, but also about raising the profile of the village.”
The event was also part of the “Make the Difference” initiative, which aims to improve community health through public CPR training and education. Education booths taught attendees how to respond to various health emergencies, and there was a CPR and First Aid demonstration during the afternoon.
All the event’s proceeds, including donations and the raffles, will go to the Somers “Make the Difference” initiative. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/inaugural-somers-community-day-draws-crowds-shows-off-somers/article_4a83dee2-f1bc-11ed-bbdd-8f2c87753e8b.html | 2023-05-13T21:15:52 | 1 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/inaugural-somers-community-day-draws-crowds-shows-off-somers/article_4a83dee2-f1bc-11ed-bbdd-8f2c87753e8b.html |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Over 700 people turned out for the 11th annual Girls on the Run 5K in downtown Wichita on Saturday.
Girls on the Run is a non-profit that works with third through eighth-grade girls. The program helps inspire girl empowerment through confidence and kindness.
“One of the best things is at the very end, before their 5K, is each team does a community project, so they really get that sense of contribution and how to give back while they are building their self-esteem too,” said Stephanie Hislop, Girls on the Run Heart of Kansas marketing and events coordinator.
Girls participate in the 10-week program each fall and spring, and it wraps up with the big 5K. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/over-700-turn-out-for-11th-girls-on-the-run-5k/ | 2023-05-13T21:34:36 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/over-700-turn-out-for-11th-girls-on-the-run-5k/ |
The Lincoln Police Department and the Malone Center teamed up on Saturday for a first-of-its-kind job fair serving the Lincoln community.
Saturday’s event was the result of tireless work from Lincoln Police Chief Teresa Ewins and Stanford Binko Bradley Jr., the associate director of teen programs at the Malone Center. Bradley Jr. said that he and Ewins laid the groundwork for the job fair over coffee and that he’s appreciative of LPD’s involvement in putting on Saturday’s event.
Ewins said Saturday's job fair was the first such event that LPD and the Malone Center have partnered to hold.
“[LPD] has been more than willing to come out and meet us in our community where our people can feel comfortable coming and getting those resources,” Bradley Jr. said. “... These people are coming to our community and offering to sit down and have these conversations on a Saturday morning when they could be doing anything else. It says a lot.”
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LPD was one of a few groups represented at Saturday’s job fair. Representatives from Lincoln Fire and Rescue and Lincoln Literacy were present at the Malone Center, other business professionals were on-site to assist with constructing a resume. Attendees were also able to acquire dress clothes for potential future interviews.
“Partnering with the Malone Center is always something that we’ve done historically and we wanted to add to that by having a job fair,” Ewins said.
According to Ewins, LPD’s presence at the Malone Center on Saturday doubled as proof of concept for the department’s recent uptick in recruitment efforts. LPD’s new recruitment cruiser was parked outside the Malone Center. The department has made a recent social media push to encourage more applicants.
Ewins said that LPD is just under 91% staffed, with 333 officers of the 366 authorized in the city budget. Recruiting has been a challenge nationwide in recent years, Ewins said, and she hopes events like Saturday help LPD work to regain trust with community members.
“We’re coming out of a very difficult time where our profession is being challenged to change. The community is demanding change and we’re listening to that,” Ewins said. “Recruitment will come, I believe we’re making the right investments and getting to the right places to bring a diverse workforce in.”
Increasing diversity in the police department has been a central talking point for Bradley Jr. and Ewins. The steps LPD is taking towards its goal of reflecting Lincoln’s diversity on the police force is crucially important, according to Bradley Jr, though both acknowledged the work that still needs to be done.
“I think that, with any job, it’s important to have representation,” Bradley Jr. said. “Especially when you’re in the position to protect and serve a community, to have people from the community to have an opportunity to join and help create change and be the examples we need in these different agencies.”
Ewins hopes that Saturday's job fair kickstarts many more events held in conjunction with the Malone Center. She said she wants the job fair to become an annual event. Ewins added that being at the Malone Center and working with Bradley Jr. is extremely significant for LPD and its outreach efforts.
Ewins said she's optimistic that the success of Saturday's job fair can help LPD become more of a community pillar.
"It's about building trust, we have to start building trust," Ewins said. "Because every single time an incident occurs across the nation with law enforcement and the community, it brings us all backward. And so we have to build that trust again." | https://journalstar.com/news/local/lincoln-police-department-malone-center-team-up-for-first-of-its-kind-job-fair/article_7082c8c8-f1b8-11ed-ae39-5b370b7035df.html | 2023-05-13T21:40:54 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/lincoln-police-department-malone-center-team-up-for-first-of-its-kind-job-fair/article_7082c8c8-f1b8-11ed-ae39-5b370b7035df.html |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Over 500 fallen law enforcement officers from around the country will be honored and memorialized Saturday on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington D.C. Among those being added to the memorial: former Bibb County Sheriff’s Office deputy Brad Johnson.
Johnson’s partner, deputy Chris Poole, is with the fallen deputy’s family in D.C. as they get ready to add his name to the memorial. Johnson was shot and killed in the line of duty last June. Poole also shot and injured.
“He was a hero, and he was just there when people needed him,” said Johnson’s oldest daughter Lana Johnson.
Poole said it’s important to him to be there and continue on the legacy of Johnson’s life.
“It’s been a difficult road,” Poole said. “Luckily, I’ve gotten to still be in contact with his precious girls, so it’s been an amazing thing.”
“I’m proud of him for being there for people and being a hero for others,” Lana Johnson said.
Poole said he and Johnson were friends before he got into law enforcement, and Johnson showed him what it meant to be an amazing deputy.
“His main thing was integrity,” Poole said. “What he’d done when no one was looking, which was always the right thing, said a lot about Brad and I plan on continuing to live that through his legacy.”
With so many family and friends gathered to remember their own fallen hero, Poole said it’s amazing to be surrounded by people who know how you’re feeling and what you’ve been through.
“We live in a world where a lot of people don’t understand what I’ve been through, what these kids have been through, what my kids have been through,” Poole said. “But here it seems like everybody understands and no matter who you talk to out here it’s like they understand, they’ve been through it.”
Poole said there’s a hole in the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office without Johnson, but that he will never be forgotten.
“It’s hard on all of us. There’s a person missing, and we’ll never get Brad back, but we’ll never forget Brad,” Poole said. “A part of him is always with us and as I’ve always said, he’ll always be a front seat rider with me.”
On Saturday night, the names added to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial will be read out during a candlelight vigil. For a full list of all officers being honored, click here. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/fallen-bibb-county-sheriffs-office-deputy-among-names-added-to-national-law-enforcement-officers-memorial/ | 2023-05-13T21:41:34 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/fallen-bibb-county-sheriffs-office-deputy-among-names-added-to-national-law-enforcement-officers-memorial/ |
HANCOCK COUNTY, Ind. — One person is dead and two others were injured in a head-on crash in Hancock County Saturday afternoon.
The two-vehicle collision happened around 2 p.m. on US 40 just west of Greenfield.
According to a sheriff's department spokesperson, the accident involved a 2009 Hyundai Santa Fe and a 2022 Volkswagen Atlas.
The department's preliminary investigation indicates "the Hyundai was traveling west on US 40 towards Indianapolis in the high speed (left) lane. A vehicle was stopped in the high speed (left) lane of US 40 waiting to make a left turn in to Washington Village Apartments. From evidence at the scene, it appears the Hyundai took evasive action as it rapidly approached the stopped vehicle, swerving to the left. That move caused the Hyundai to enter the east bound high speed (left) lane of US 40, into oncoming traffic. That is when the Hyundai struck the Volkswagen head-on. The vehicle waiting to turn was not struck."
Police said the driver of the Hyundai, 39-year-old Mauro Rosalino-Gonzales, Greenfield, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Two occupants of the Volkswagen were taken to an Indianapolis hospital with what police said were non-life-threatening injuries.
The spokesperson said drugs and alcohol did not appear to be a factor and that the investigation is ongoing. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/hancock-county-head-on-crash-kills-1/531-9ef70058-9285-412c-a939-b8caaaa50461 | 2023-05-13T21:45:49 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/hancock-county-head-on-crash-kills-1/531-9ef70058-9285-412c-a939-b8caaaa50461 |
GREENWOOD, Ind. — There's an Indiana math teacher who is all about sharing life lessons with his students. Now he's taking those lessons outside of the classroom.
When it comes to solving problems, David Marquez knows a thing or two. The Center Grove Middle School North teacher prides himself on helping students get better at numbers.
But numbers aren't the only thing this math teacher is passionate about.
"The sport of wrestling has changed my life," Marquez said. "Saved my life."
Marquez said he got into the sport in 6th grade to be closer to his brother, but soon after, his life turned upside down.
"That year, my father was diagnosed with cancer in January and then died May 2nd of esophagus cancer," Marquez said.
Marquez said life after his father's death became very tough - until one of his teachers helped push him to not give up.
"It was my social studies teacher and my high school wrestling coach, always checking in on me, being there for me," Maquez said. "Academically, socially, emotionally and just keeping me out, keeping me interested. Keeping me on wanting to be on a better path,I guess."
Now, 20 years after his father's death, he's helping his students and athletes do the same.
"It's been amazing. He's helped me through hardships, made many mistakes and he's always been forgiving, forgetful, helps me out," said Dylan Marshall, an 8th grade wrestler.
"I do think I'll wrestle in high school because of him," added Owen Scheidler, also an 8th grade wrestler.
His wrestlers are taking some of his life lessons to heart. The biggest one: forgiveness.
"He's forgiven so many people on our team, whether you're the best wrestler, the worst wrestler, he looks at everyone the same way, gives everybody the same attention, hard work," Marshall said.
David Marquez. Center Grove Middle Schools wrestling coach. Inspiring Indiana, one classroom and one practice at a time.
"Trying to be the best person you can be, not the best wrestler, but the best person on and off the mat," Marquez said. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indiana/inspiring-indiana/center-grove-math-teacher-takes-lessons-outside-classroom-david-marquez-education/531-0a4d4f69-bca3-44d5-80b0-15bf1019b32c | 2023-05-13T21:45:55 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indiana/inspiring-indiana/center-grove-math-teacher-takes-lessons-outside-classroom-david-marquez-education/531-0a4d4f69-bca3-44d5-80b0-15bf1019b32c |
ABINGDON, Va. (WJHL) – A Walmart in Abingdon, Virginia has been evacuated due to an apparent bomb threat on Saturday afternoon, according to the Washington County, Virginia Sheriff’s Office.
Sheriff Blake Andis confirmed to News Channel 11 that the Exit 19 Walmart, located at 16032 Fifteen Mile Blvd in Abingdon, has been evacuated and crews are working to clear the area.
K-9s have been called to the scene, Andis said. The call was reported at 4:06 p.m. The store remains closed while the investigation continues as of 5 p.m.
This is a developing story. Stay with WJHL.com for the latest updates. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/abingdon-walmart-evacuated-due-to-bomb-threat/ | 2023-05-13T21:57:20 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/abingdon-walmart-evacuated-due-to-bomb-threat/ |
Man found dead in White River near Rangeline Nature Preserve
The Anderson Police Department is investigating a 64-year-old man found dead today in the White River near Rangeline Nature Preserve in Anderson about 40 miles northeast of Indianapolis.
Anderson police were notified this morning by a kayaker who located the body while paddling on the White River.
Anderson Fire Department and other resources were contacted for assistance, according to Detective Caleb McKnight, and the body was recovered in the river at around 9.55 a.m., approximately a quarter mile west of Rangeline Road.
The identity of the man is being withheld until his family can be notified.
McKnight said at this point, police have no reason to believe there was any criminal involvement in the death. The man was not a missing person and had a waterproof lanyard around his neck with a cellphone in it, McKnight said, leading him to believe the man was prepared to be down by the river.
The Madison County Coroner’s Office will determine the official cause of death during an autopsy in the coming days, police said.
The investigation remains ongoing.
Contact IndyStar reporter Ko Lyn Cheang at kcheang@indystar.com or 317-903-7071. Follow her on Twitter: @kolyn_cheang. | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/2023/05/13/man-dead-in-white-river-near-rangeline-nature-preserve-in-anderson/70215394007/ | 2023-05-13T22:03:08 | 0 | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/2023/05/13/man-dead-in-white-river-near-rangeline-nature-preserve-in-anderson/70215394007/ |
SOUTH BOSTON, Va. – The South Boston Police Department is investigating two separate shootings that occurred early Saturday morning.
Police said at around 12:33 a.m., officers responded to the 1200 block of Ash Avenue for a report of multiple gunshots being fired at a residence.
Officers arrived on scene to find approximately 20 pistol cartridge casings in the roadway, and multiple bullet holes to a residence, according to authorities.
Police said officers interviewed the residents of the house and collected multiple pieces of evidence from the scene.
We’re told a 25-year-old male from South Boston was struck by a bullet and airlifted to the hospital for treatment.
Later, at approximately 2:33 a.m., police said officers responded to the 1600 block of Jeffress Boulevard for a report of a person with a gunshot wound.
Officers arrived on the scene to find a 35-year-old female suffering from a gunshot wound to the right shoulder, according to police.
Police said the woman indicated she was a passenger in a vehicle when she was shot in the shoulder from a nearby vehicle, and the shooting appears to have stemmed from a verbal altercation at a local convenience store.
We’re told she was taken to the hospital for further treatment.
South Boston Police said at this time, they have no reason to believe these incidents are related, and these investigations are ongoing.
Anyone with information concerning these incidents is asked to call the police department at 434-575-7203, or the Halifax County Emergency Communications Center at 434-476-3334. Callers may remain anonymous. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/13/police-investigating-two-separate-shootings-in-south-boston/ | 2023-05-13T22:10:31 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/13/police-investigating-two-separate-shootings-in-south-boston/ |
DULUTH — Duluth Police are on scene in the 100 block of East Third Street for a report of a shooting, according to a media release on Saturday at 3:22 p.m.
According to the release from public information officer Mattie Hjelseth, the individuals involved were known to each other. The suspected male fled the scene.
More information was not provided, citing an active and ongoing investigation.
Check back for more information on this developing story.
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ATLANTIC CITY — Some people like to relax by watching TV, reading a book or taking a nice long walk.
But others, like neighbors and good friends Andy Weis and Chris Young, like to wind down with a good cigar.
"There's something about smoking a cigar that's relaxing," said Weis, 53, of Somers Point. "It's the camaraderie. Smoking a cigar at the lounge, watching a game of football or UFC on the TV we have outside, since my wife won't let me smoke in the house."
"Golfing and smoking," added Young. "It's a whole community and lifestyle."
About 600 people also enjoyed that culture of smoking cigars at the first-ever Atlantic City Cigar Social, presented by Cigar Snob, in conjunction with Good Time Tricycle Production at the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa on Saturday.
The Cigar Social was one of the more high-end events the production company — which produces the Atlantic City Beer and Music Festival or the Atlantic City Tattoo Expo — has put on.
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"If you've been to a Good Time Tricycle event, you can almost anticipate a handful of things. You can anticipate you're gonna eat, you're gonna drink, you're gonna have a good time," said Jon Henderson, owner of the Linwood production company. "Whatever the subject matter is — in this instance, is cigars — it's going to be robust."
Hundreds of men and women smoking cigars enjoyed the quality food, drinks, music and several lounge areas surrounded by palm trees and other greenery by the Borgata's outside pool. It made for a luxurious affair.
There was also the opportunity for aficionados and beginners to learn more about the 20 different cigar vendors present at the event, as well as cigar manufacturer processes. People learned of the types of cigars along with their different profiles or tasting notes, which ranged from light and mild to full-bodied and spicy.
"There are a lot of phenomenal cigar companies here that are phenomenal. Wherever you go, the company teaches you about the history, how they got started, what they have to offer," said Giovani Ortiz, of Hamilton Township. "There's a big cigar community, whether it be in New Jersey or anywhere in the U.S. really."
As of 2021, an estimated 8.6 million adults 18 and over smoke cigars, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
"The cigar lifestyle in the last, probably, three or four years on the East Coast, has really boomed," Henderson said. "But there's been such a huge resurgence. And it's funny, because there's been such a huge resurgence during this whole kind of smoking ban and anti-smoking, yet the cigar culture is blossoming and blooming."
There were concerns from casino workers and organizations, like Atlantic Prevention Resources, about how the event's second-hand smoke would put workers and others at risk. But the event was outside, away from dealers and gamblers.
The Borgata also had signs inside the casino stating cigar smoking was prohibited in the casino.
And even though men like Elliot Burgos said smoking cigars meant "guy time," there were plenty of women at the social, like Monica Howell enjoying MonteCristo, Padrón and Liga Privada cigars. Those were some of Howell's favorites, and she enjoyed them with a cocktail and good conversation with friends.
"It's a whole lifestyle. I really love how this brings people together," said Howell, who planned a trip from Washington D.C. to Atlantic City after she saw the event online. "The ambiance, how diverse and multi-cultured it is. ... Everyone is really friendly, really nice and it's in a great place."
Howell said she had a handful of female friends back home she could enjoy smoking cigars with, but she wished more ladies were involved in the culture.
Only one percent of adult women smoke cigars, according to the CDC.
Coincidentally a vendor at the Atlantic City Cigar Social, the Somers Point Cigar Lounge, is a woman-owned business. Jacklyn Ortiz owns the cigar lounge with her husband, Stephen.
"The cigar culture is so big in our area, because we have a lot of golfers and boaters," Ortiz said. "It goes hand-in-hand with the lifestyle down here at the shore."
Ortiz said after she and her husband opened the Somers Point Cigar Lounge, located at 27 Mays Landing Road, about three years ago, they have about 120 members ranging in age, demographic and backgrounds, aside from their public guests that frequent the story.
Other cigar lounges in the area harboring the lifestyle locals noted include the Tennessee Avenue Tobacco Company in Atlantic City, Smoker's Haven in Northfield and 12 North in the Tropicana.
"It used to be a lot of older people who used to smoke cigars," Ortiz said. "It trickled down to the younger crowd that you can see in our members, which is nice because of all the vapes and e-cigarettes you're seeing now." | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/a-smokers-haven-at-the-atlantic-city-cigar-social/article_c0844fa8-f100-11ed-951a-779395fd1a04.html | 2023-05-13T22:16:52 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/a-smokers-haven-at-the-atlantic-city-cigar-social/article_c0844fa8-f100-11ed-951a-779395fd1a04.html |
Approximately 100 women will participate in the first Evelyn Hill Cycling Club charity ride in Deerfield Township on Sunday, May 21.
Proceeds from the women-only ride will benefit the Salem County Women’s Shelter. Riders also are asked to bring a personal care item for women at the shelter.
The 9 a.m. ride will begin and end at the Evelyn Hill Cycling shop at 685 Kenyon Ave. in the Rosenhayn section of the township. Riders can choose from 20-, 30- and 50-mile routes along rural roads in Cumberland and Salem counties.
“We are thrilled with the response from women throughout the tri-state area,” Barbara Kornbluh, founder of the Eveylyn Hill Cycling Club, said in a release. “The ride is on beautiful country roads and we are excited to support the county women’s shelter and its work.”
The cost to sign up is $60. The woman-run Top Shelf Mobile Cuisine food truck will be on site, and there will be a female DJ and prizes at the end of the ride. Evelyn Hill Cycling women’s clothing will be available to buy. To register, go to bikereg.com/she-bikes. The deadline to register is 11 p.m. next Friday.
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“We started our cycling club five years ago as a way for local women to get fit, have fun, and socialize,” Kornbluh said. “This ride is an opportunity for women to share a great time and support other women.”
The club also holds weekly rides at 6 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays and at 10 a.m. Saturdays. The EZ-Monday rides, typically around 10 miles, are ideal for beginners or those just getting back into cycling. Saturday rides are typically about 20 miles, or whatever the group wants to do.
“The motto for our club is everyone rides, and no one rides alone,” Kornbluh said. “We adjust our rides based on the fitness level of those attending.”
For more information about the club, go its Facebook page or email evelynhillcycling@gmail.com. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/evelyn-hill-cycling-club-to-hold-charity-ride-to-benefit-womens-shelter-next-sunday/article_fce8d368-f1cf-11ed-b9e8-8f1574811ff1.html | 2023-05-13T22:17:04 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/evelyn-hill-cycling-club-to-hold-charity-ride-to-benefit-womens-shelter-next-sunday/article_fce8d368-f1cf-11ed-b9e8-8f1574811ff1.html |
The Hammonton High School baseball team evened its record with an 8-6 win over host Williamstown on Saturday.
Jaxon Miller went 2 for 3 with three RBIs for the Blue Devils (10-10). Austin Schoell was 2 for 3 with a run and an RBI, and Drew Haines went 2 for 4 with a run. Gavin West had a hit, two runs and an RBI, and Eric Barts scored two runs.
Jake Slusarski hit a solo homer for Williamstown (5-14). Matt Murphy had a double and two runs, and Zach Zerbe had a double and a run.
Softball
Shore Conference Tournament second round
Red Bank Catholic 9, Southern Reg. 0: RBC’s Lily Hagan pitched a one-hitter in seven innings, with 13 strikeouts and three walks. Hagan went 2 for 4. Abigail Zebick was 2 for 2 with a homer, two runs and four RBIs for the Caseys (19-5), and Jordan Terefenko went 2 for 2. Nicole Knox doubled. Southern fell to 13-7.
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Delsea Reg. 9, Buena Reg. 8: Shannon Travers had two RBIs for Delsea (13-5), which scored seven runs in the first three innings. Paige Bernard went 2 for 3 with a run and an RBI. Gianna Dougherty struck out six in a complete game.
Anna Sheridan went 3 for 4 with two RBIs for the Chiefs (9-9), who scored four in the fifth inning to take an 8-7 lead. Jamirah Roberts went 2 for 4 with a double, an RBI and two runs. Julia Sheridan struck out six in six innings. She also scored twice. Jadarys Morales added an RBI and a run.
Lower Cape May Reg. 17, Veritas Christian Academy 0: Winning pitcher Jenna Ziemba went the four-inning distance and scattered five hits, with five strikeouts and two walks. The game was the first of a doubleheader at Lower between the two teams. Ziemba went 3 for 5 with two runs and two RBIs. Kyra Ridgway went 3 for 4 with a double, two runs and three RBIs, and Kaylei DeLeon, Renata Riesenberg and Isabella Arbelo Miranda each had two hits. Zoey Torppey and Abby Hipolit each went 2 for 2 for Veritas, of Sparta, of Sussex County.
Lower Cape May Regional 15, Veritas Christian Academy 5: Ziemba and Riesenberg each went 4 for 4 with two runs and three RBIs for Lower (9-9) in the second game, and Ridgway, Hailey Elwell and Amanda Moran each added two hits. The game ended after five innings on the 10-run rule. Hipolit was 3 for 3 for Veritas (4-6). | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/hammonton-baseball-tops-williamstown-8-6-saturdays-baseball-softball-roundup/article_9a59f1dc-f1b6-11ed-8e22-033943cd4538.html | 2023-05-13T22:17:10 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/hammonton-baseball-tops-williamstown-8-6-saturdays-baseball-softball-roundup/article_9a59f1dc-f1b6-11ed-8e22-033943cd4538.html |
Joey DeYoung scored three goals to lead the seventh-seeded Southern Regional High School boys lacrosse team to an 11-7 victory over 10th-seeded Red Bank Catholic in a Shore Conference Tournament first-round game Saturday.
Anthony Arch, Konnor Forlai and Liam Griffin each scored twice for the Rams (11-3), who are ranked third in The Press Elite 11. Hayden Lucas added two assists, and Griffin had one. Ty Murawski scored once and had an assist. Joe Kessler scored. Collin Markoski won 13 of his 18 faceoffs. Nick Roesch made 16 saves.
Sam Fertal scored three for Red Bank Catholic (8-7). Peter Villare and Nick Cosimano each scored twice. Christian Schrader made 11 saves.
Southern will play the winner of second-seeded Wall Township and 15th-seeded Howell in the second round Tuesday.
No. 2 Haddonfield 7, No. 7 Ocean City 6: Haddonfield (8-4) led 3-2 at halftime. Marcus DeVita scored twice and added two assists for the winners. Blaise Coley scored twice. For the Red Raiders (9-6), Pat Grimley scored twice and had an assist. Jack Davis, Dylan Dwyer, John Moyer and Paul Tjoumakaris each scored once. Dwyer won nine faceoffs. Winfield Dunn made three saves.
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Girls lacrosse
Lower Cape May Regional 16, Absegami 4: Tessa Hueber had four goals, 13 draw controls and four ground balls for host Lower (7-6) and Ainsley scored four. Jayla Williams and Nora Shoffler both tallied two and had one assist, and Olivia Lewis scored once and had two assists. Brianna Loper added a goal and an assist, and Sianna King had six ground balls. LCM's Sophia Vitelli (5 saves) and Allyson Walsh (2 saves) shared time in goal.
For Absegami (5-8), Sarah Glass scored two, and Leah Richardson and Analise Myles each scored one.
No. 2 Shawnee 17, No. 4 Southern Reg. 1: Delaney Falk scored for the Rams (11-3), who are ranked fourth in The Press Elite 11. Bella Calvanese scored four and added three assists for Shawnee (13-1), who are ranked second. Elle Trzaskawka scored four and had two assists, and Avery Dunbar scored three. Hannah Cornelius made four saves.
Williamstown 12, Our Lady of Mercy 4: Rylie Gemberling and Gabby Eaise each scored once and added an assist for the Villagers (13-3). Lucia Visalli and Gabby Celli each scored once, and Jenna D'Orio had an assist. Kaleigh Matlack made five saves, and Brooke Callan made three.
The Braves improved to 8-5. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/southern-advances-in-the-shore-conference-tournament-saturdays-lacrosse-roundup/article_05c95556-f1b3-11ed-af1c-abf8345086c9.html | 2023-05-13T22:17:16 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/southern-advances-in-the-shore-conference-tournament-saturdays-lacrosse-roundup/article_05c95556-f1b3-11ed-af1c-abf8345086c9.html |
The Stockton University women's rowing varsity eight won its heat Saturday in the first day of the Dad Vail Regatta in Pennsauken, Camden County.
The Ospreys dominated the Division III varsity eight race, winning by 19 seconds in a field of six crews with a time of 6 minutes, 51.441 seconds.
Emily Latshaw, Amber Hartzell, Megan Baldwin (Holy Spirit H.S.), Madelynn Schina, Marissa Martinelli, Ashley Timm (Egg Harbor Township), Gabriella Bates (Southern Regional) and Izabelle DelRoss (Cedar Creek) and coxswain Lorelei Hendricks made up the varsity eight.
Stockton's novice four rowed twice Saturday. The Ospreys were eighth out of 14 boats in their heat, earning a spot in the semifinals. Stockton finished fourth in 8:45.662 to earn a spot in the petite final Sunday.
Emma Dyrsten, Erin O'Brien, Emily Little (Wildwood) and Lexi Kripetz rowed in the novice four, and Kelley Mason was the coxswain.
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The Ospreys will compete in three races Sunday. The novice four petite final is set for 9:30 a.m., the third varsity eight at 2:00 p.m. and the varsity eight grand final at 4:20 p.m. The varsity eight is aiming for its second Dad Vail gold medal in the last three years. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/stockton-varsity-eight-wins-heat-at-dad-vail-regatta/article_7d70ea38-f1d1-11ed-bdcf-27dec315c5cd.html | 2023-05-13T22:17:23 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/stockton-varsity-eight-wins-heat-at-dad-vail-regatta/article_7d70ea38-f1d1-11ed-bdcf-27dec315c5cd.html |
Originally published May 8 on IdahoEdNews.org.
The end-of-school-year crush is real in the classroom — and this year, Idaho’s Office of School Safety and Security is on a deadline, too.
The goal is to start getting $20 million in state grants out the door within a few weeks, so schools can work on safety upgrades during the first few weeks of summer break. That in turn would allow schools to work while buildings are empty — and wrap up their projects before the fall.
“We’re on a really accelerated timeframe,” Office of School Safety and Security Manager Mike Munger said last week.
Munger hopes to have a grant coordinator hired within the next couple of weeks.
The 2023 Legislature approved the grants, one-time money to cover safety upgrades.
The first phase of the grants won’t be competitive. In essence, any school district or charter with an eligible project stands to get a chunk of this money. Schools can use the money for a number of projects:
- Construction work designed to restrict access into schools — such as secured entryways, fencing, gates or locking classroom doors.
- Improved communication systems: upgrades to PA systems, or two-way radios that link schools and first responders.
- Fire system upgrades, such as equipment that can detect a fire and send out alerts to the local fire department.
- Camera system repairs, or replacing old analog systems with digital.
Munger isn’t sure how much of the $20 million will go into this phase of the grant process — or the second phase, a competitive grant process that will cover more extensive work.
These one-time grants won’t help pay for staffing, such as school resource officers or armed security guards. And as districts try to find money for staffing elsewhere, several will turn to voters on May 16.
On a $734 million school election day, at least half a dozen districts propose to use a share of property taxes on safety personnel. For example, the Coeur d’Alene School District earmarks $1.65 million of a $25 million-a-year supplemental levy for school resource officers, staffing, services and supplies. The Parma and West Bonner districts also propose using a share of their supplemental levies to hire SROs.
However, better equipment can help schools use their staff more effectively, Munger said. If a principal doesn’t have to keep checking doors to make sure they’re locked, he or she will have more time to pay attention to kids.
“We’re really shifting the people who know how kids work, back into that work,” Munger said.
The security grants are a first of its kind for Idaho — and unique nationally, Munger said. Other states are investing money in safety and security upgrades, but usually as they build new state-funded schools. Idaho will use its state dollars to install security equipment in schools that are locally designed and almost entirely locally funded.
The $20 million should make some considerable headway on safety projects, Munger said. But even if this money runs out — and millions of dollars of worthy projects go unfunded — he says he will have data in hand to make a funding pitch to the 2024 Legislature.
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ARKANSAS, USA — Spanish version: Para español haga click aqui.
A Costco Wholesale could soon be coming to Northwest Arkansas.
Lowell Mayor Chris Moore confirmed with 5NEWS that, "the project has submitted a large-scale plan on Thursday for review by staff."
The Mayor had no additional information and deferred to the company for questions.
A Costco Representative released the following statement to 5NEWS:
"Unfortunately, it is our company policy to not comment regarding future Costco warehouses until we are ready to share details about the new location (usually 2-3 months in advance). In the future, please visit our website. There you will find the names and dates of upcoming locations."
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FORT SMITH, Ark. — Crumbl Cookies in Fort Smith is set to open on Friday, May 19 at 8 a.m.
The locally owned and operated store can be found at 3106 South 74th Street suite 104.
The store's hours of operation will be:
Monday - Thursday: 8 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Fridays and Saturdays: 8 a.m. - 12 a.m.
This new business has opened over 60 job opportunities for locals.
Crumbl Cookies says during its grand opening week, its menu will consist of six of their 275 weekly rotating flavors.
Here is a list of some of the flavors they offer. Check it out so that your tastebuds can start getting an idea of what's coming to town:
- Cornbread
- Cookies & Cream
- S'mores
- Key Lime Pie
- Peppermint Bark
- Caramel Popcorn
- Buttermilk Pancake
- Galaxy Brownie
These are just some of the flavors that will be offered. On Sundays at 6 p.m., Crumbl Cookies will drop a flavor weekly. You can keep up with them by following their social media accounts.
The new cookies will be offered to purchase in person on the first week of business. Starting May 24, Crumbl Cookies will start offering delivery, curbside pickup, catering, and nationwide shipping.
"Bringing friends and family together over a box of the best cookies in the world is what we do at Crumbl, and we can’t wait to serve the cookie connoisseurs of Fort Smith. Whether you gift, share, or keep the box for yourself, the cookies are still delicious. Come see what all the viral buzz is about!" said Crumbl Cookies.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Globally, Mother's Day is celebrated on different dates and this year it's celebrated on May 14. With evolving science, motherhood looks different for everyone whether it's traditional, adoption, or through surrogates.
"For as long as I could remember I always wanted to be a mom and I just sort of assumed it would happen. I would meet someone, I would get married, and then as I was approaching 40, I realized maybe this is not gonna happen for me," said Mother Asha Mevlana.
When Mevlana turned 40, she decided to pursue other options.
"And what I ultimately decided was to find a sperm donor, which I found online and he happens to be anonymous and then I used my egg and so I went through the whole process of IVF a few times," Mevlana said.
Over the course of eight years and three miscarriages later, baby Khef came into the world via surrogate in 2022 and made Mevlana the happiest woman in the world.
"He's great, he loves music, he just makes me laugh every single day. The laugh and smile and brings me so much joy. I'm sure most parents feel this way, you know when you're seeing the world through a child's eyes it's just a whole new experience," Mevlana explained.
Baby Khef is now 1-year-old. He enjoys climbing and is a musician in the making. Although Mevlana is a single mother she is not alone.
"I don't feel alone at all, I have my mom who's really helping me she lives next door. I have my family around here, and I have an incredible community who loves him and helps me take care of him," Mevlana said.
Mevlana also adds that male role models in Khef's life are important and she's thankful to have her dad and brother who live locally be active in his life.
Through an anonymous sperm donor, Khef has seventeen other half-siblings. The families of the half-siblings have connected through Facebook which created a bonus family Asha never knew she needed.
"So it's really cool because it's the family, I always wanted a big family and even though it's not my family,I'm able to provide him with family and siblings," said Mevlana.
This Mother’s Day she's celebrating the path that led her to motherhood with family and a heart full of gratitude...and is encouraging other women to follow their dreams.
"You know there are just so many different ways of having families nowadays and I guess for me it's like you don't have to give up on that dream just because you're still single or haven't met that person yet," Mevlana stated.
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OKLAHOMA, USA — A Ponca tribe chief whose landmark lawsuit in 1879 established that a Native American is a person under the law was honored Friday with the unveiling of a U.S. Postal Service stamp that features his portrait.
The release of the stamp of Chief Standing Bear comes 146 years after the Army forced him and about 700 other members of the Ponca tribe to leave their homeland in northeast Nebraska and walk 600 miles (965 kilometers) to the Indian Territory in Oklahoma. Chief Standing Bear was arrested and imprisoned in Fort Omaha when he and others tried to return. This prompted him to file a lawsuit that led to an 1879 ruling ordering his release and finding that a Native American is a person with a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
“For so long people didn't know his story or the Ponca story — our own trail of tears,” Candace Schmidt, chairwoman of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska said. "We are finally able to tell his story of perseverance and how we as a tribe are resilient."
Judi M. gaiashkibos, executive director of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs, called the issuing of a Chief Standing Bear stamp a milestone that she hopes "provokes necessary conversations about race, sovereignty and equality in the United States.”
“It’s remarkable, that the story of Nebraska Native American civil rights leader Chief Standing Bear has progressed from a native man being considered a non-person by the U.S. Government in 1879, to today, being recognized by the Postal Service with a stamp honoring him as an American icon,” gaiashkibos said.
The Postal Service, which released the stamp at a ceremony Friday in Lincoln, Nebraska, has printed 18 million stamps. The stamp features a portrait of Chief Standing Bear by illustrator Thomas Blackshear II, based on a black and white photograph taken in 1877, the Postal Service said.
More than 100 members of the Ponca tribe died during or soon after the forced journey to Oklahoma, including Chief Standing Bear's only son. It was a desire to have his son buried in their homeland in Nebraska's Niobrara River Valley that resulted in the return of Chief Standing Bear and 29 others and their subsequent arrest.
According to the National Park Service, two Omaha attorneys represented Chief Standing Bear at a two-day trial before Judge Elmer S. Dundy in U.S. District Court in Omaha. The government appealed Dundy's ruling that Chief Standing Bear and other arrested members of his tribe were “persons” but the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case.
The Ponca members were freed and returned to their old reservation along the Niobrara River, where Chief Standing Bear died in 1908.
A congressional investigation later determined the government wrongly gave away the Ponca homeland and removed the tribe, leading to congressional legislation in 1881 that gave some compensation to members of the tribe. In 1924, an issue that arose in the 1879 trial was resolved when Congress approved a law that conferred citizenship on all Native Americans born in the United States.
The federal government terminated the Ponca tribe of Nebraska in 1966 but the tribe regained federal recognition in 1990. Schmidt said the Ponca now has about 5,500 members, operates three health clinic and offers numerous services to members.
“We're doing really well,” she said.
There is a separate Ponca tribe in Oklahoma.
Anton G. Hajjar, vice chairman of the Postal Service Board of Governors, said the post office has been issuing stamps that honor the legacy of great Americans since the 1800s. In issuing the stamp of Chief Standing Bear, Hajjar noted, “It took our country far too long to recognize the humanity in many of its people – including the American Indians who lived in these lands for thousands of years.”
The Postal Service previously has issued stamps honoring Native Americans including Pocahontas, Chief Joseph, Sequoyah, Red Cloud, Sitting Bull and Jim Thorpe.
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Joe A. Garcia, a well-known Native American leader from New Mexico and advocate for tribal sovereignty, has died at 70, his family confirmed Saturday.
“His untimely departure is a significant loss for Indian Country, as he was a true culture keeper for his people and a dedicated advocate for Native Nations across the Southwest region,” Fawn Sharp, the president of the National Congress of American Indians, said in a statement.
“Beyond his role as a leader, Joe Garcia was a mentor, a visionary, and a compassionate soul who touched the lives of many. He leaves a profound legacy of service, leadership, and cultural preservation,” Sharp added.
Garcia had been chairman of the All Indian Pueblo Council, now renamed the All Pueblo Council of Governors, a non-profit leadership group that represents the modern pueblo tribes.
He also had been a vice president of the Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Indian School, which serves about 700 Native American middle and high school students.
The Santa Fe Indian School noted Garcia’s passing on its website.
“His work in Indian Country will not be forgotten,” wrote Robyn Aguilar, president of the school’s board of trustees. “I am truly thankful to have had a mentor who was courageous in his conviction to protect Sovereign lands and the rights of Indian children.”
Garcia held an an electrical engineering degree from the University of New Mexico and worked 25 years for Los Alamos National Laboratory before retiring in 2003, according to the school’s statement.
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Sahuarita police arrested a man in connection with a vehicle collision that left one person dead early Saturday morning.
Officers responded to a two-vehicle collision involving a red Ford F150 pickup truck and a white Cadillac sedan near East Quail Crossing Boulevard and South Old Nogales Highway around 12 a.m. The sedan was fully engulfed in flames while the pickup truck was unoccupied, police said.
The occupant in the sedan, a 20-year-old Sahuarita resident, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The victim’s identity was not released on Saturday.
A witness told officers that they saw a man who was next to the pickup truck flee the area. Police later found the man, Camron Ortega, 24, at a local hospital.
Police said Ortega was showing signs and symptoms of impairment.
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Ortega was arrested and charged on suspicion of second-degree murder, driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death.
Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call 911 or 520-445-7847, the anonymous tipster line.
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Lakes Powell and Mead, the depleted symbols of the Colorado River's water crisis, are unlikely to ever fill again, several water experts say.
This year's extremely heavy snowpack in the river's Upper Basin states will produce the river's second highest annual flow of the 21st century, federal forecasts show. The river is expected to bring 18.6 million acre-feet of water to Lee's Ferry, lying between Glen Canyon Dam and the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation predicts.
The flow is likely to be 80% to 140% greater than the river has carried in any of the previous three years, federal records show.
But given the reservoirs' precarious conditions, with both carrying 25% to 30% of their capacity today, it would take another four or five consecutive years of high flows like this one to fill Powell and Mead again, said Brad Udall, a Colorado State University climate scientist, and Eric Kuhn, a water researcher and former general manager of the Colorado River Water Conservation District in Glenwood Springs, Colo.
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That's highly unlikely or impossible, with the river carrying about 20% less water, on average, each year than it did during the 20th century, Udall and Kuhn said.
"We’re in a century with extreme climate change that is reducing flows in most years due to human-caused increases in heat," Udall said.
Officials in Reclamation's Upper and Lower Basin offices didn't respond to questions from the Star about whether they agree with Udall and Kuhn's gloomy outlook for the lakes.
But at a federally sponsored webinar held Tuesday, May 9, Paul Miller, a hydrologist for the federal Colorado River Basin Forecast Center, said he believes it could take even six to eight years like this one to refill all the reservoirs in the river's Upper Colorado River Basin, plus Lake Mead in the Lower Colorado River Basin — "which probably isn't very likely."
Miller noted that Jennifer Pitt, a longtime Colorado River activist for the National Audubon Society, has recently concluded that "if we had normal snowpack conditions for three straight years and also zero water use, we'd refill the majority of the Upper Colorado Basin reservoirs." Miller based his six- to eight-year estimate on Pitt's logic, but "knowing we are not ever going to not use water."
The webinar was sponsored by the National integrated Drought Information System, a branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospherics Administration. A second speaker, Andrew Hoell, a research meteorologist for NOAA's physical sciences laboratory, said Miller's "back of the envelope calculations" are realistic.
While the lack of soil moisture due to hot, dry springs and summers has repeatedly held down runoff into Lake Powell in recent years, this year, "Things are copacetic now. They're great," Hoell said.
"The snow is going to run off and replenish the soil moisture. But it will take longer for reservoirs to recharge. They need the sustained behavior for many years. We need to go into a wet regime to refill those reservoirs."
Cutting water use
The reservoirs are in bad enough shape that the bureau is studying two alternatives for curbing consumption of river water by the Lower Basin states of Arizona, California and Nevada by 2 million to 4 million acre-feet a year. Such a cut, starting next year, would be equivalent to up to nearly 30% of current levels of use.
Such reductions are needed to insure the lakes don't fall so low that their dams can no longer generate electricity, let alone to "dead pool," in which no water could be extracted from them, bureau officials have said.
The bureau is expected to announce a final decision on cuts by August. Arizona and the six other river basin states' water officials are trying to negotiate their own agreement to avoid taking more draconian, federally imposed reductions.
But the reservoirs' situation may not be hopeless even if they don't refill. Even in today's drier climate, it's still possible the river could get enough consecutive years of better than average flows — as occurred during the late 1990s — to give the Colorado a breather and stave off drastic cuts for awhile, Kuhn and Udall said. While such a string of wet weather years wouldn't fill the lakes, they would lift their levels to at least half full.
The river carried 21.6, 16.6 and 15.8 million acre-feet a year, respectively, from 1997 through 1999. All three flows were well above the Colorado's average, annual natural flow of 15 million acre-feet during the 1900s — an average that has fallen sharply since then. Since 2000, the Colorado has never had even two consecutive years of above-normal flows, federal records show.
"Maybe that would not completely fill the reservoirs, but it would certainly give us plenty of maneuvering room," Kuhn said.
While agreeing with Kuhn, Udall added, "I’ve always said that we could get a string of wet years but that the overall aridification trend in the long run means it will get hotter and drier over time. Not every year will be hotter and not every year will be drier, but that’s our future."
But even if the river had three wet years combined with 4 million acre-feet annually in water use curbs, that would still not refill the reservoirs entirely, he said.
"More importantly, I cannot envision any set of circumstances ever where once these reservoirs went to half full that anyone would want to endure the pain of 4 million acre-feet a year cuts," Udall said. "Historically, this whole system has been designed to push out as much water as possible every year."
Pattern: Dry years after wet ones
The last time the Colorado had four lush years in a row was also the last time both reservoirs filled: 1983 through 1986.
In those years, the river regularly experienced flooding, sometimes very serious. Between 21 million to 24 million acre-feet a year poured through Lee's Ferry, a natural corridor between Utah and Arizona where the federal government measures river flows.
That's more water than all the Colorado's 13 major reservoirs are storing today. The last time Powell and Mead came even close to filling was in 1999.
The mid-'80s were part of an unusually wet era on the river that stretched from the late 1970s to the late 1990s. Since then, the Colorado River Basin, along with the entire Southwest, has suffered through its worst drought in 1,200 years.
"Considering the magnitude of the 20th century flows . . . the unprecedented warmth since the 1970s, the repeated low flows since 2000, and additional certain warmth going forward due to continuing massive greenhouse gas emissions, the only possible conclusion is that a system refill is exceedingly unlikely," said Udall. Son of the late, longtime U.S. Rep. Mo Udall of Tucson, he has been at the forefront of scientists warning about risks to the river from climate change since the early 2000s.
Lake Powell in early May stood 25% full, at about 3,525 feet. At the same time, Mead stood at 29% full, at 1,049 feet elevation.
Udall noted that over the past decade or so, a pattern has developed in which very wet years in 2011, 2017 and 2019 were followed by one or more very dry years.
In fact, 2018 had the lowest precipitation across the river's Upper Basin of any year since 1895, when records started being kept. The 23-year period ending in 2022 also had the lowest 23-year average precipitation on record, he said.
"Yes, climate change can provide very wet years like this year — and we should expect these years — but they will not make up for the more frequent hot and dry intervening years," Udall said.
Kuhn noted that many forecasters are already predicting that the upcoming winter of 2023-24 will be an El Niño winter, in which the Southwest gets unusually heavy rains and in which the Colorado's Upper Basin can but doesn't always get unusually heavy winter precipitation. The Upper Basin states include Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
"If 2023-24 is indeed a strong El Niño, I would not rule out a three-year wet period similar to 1997 ,'98, and '99," he said. "Of course, there is no guarantee that we’ll actually have a strong El Niño or that if we have one, it will be a wet year." | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/refilling-of-colorado-river-lakes-all-but-unthinkable-experts-say/article_48aaaa0c-ee82-11ed-99e7-a321a3a69e3c.html | 2023-05-13T22:44:55 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/refilling-of-colorado-river-lakes-all-but-unthinkable-experts-say/article_48aaaa0c-ee82-11ed-99e7-a321a3a69e3c.html |
The Bradford High School Alumni Association has announced plans for its annual Distinguished Alumni Awards Banquet to be held on Saturday, June 17, at the Kenosha Country Club.
The event will include a silent auction, which benefits the association’s Scholarship Fund, beginning at 5 p.m., dinner at 6:15 p.m. and program to follow.
Thirteen Bradford seniors, selected to receive a total of $21,500 in scholarships, will be recognized at the event.
This year’s Distinguished Alumni Award recipients are Tom Sorensen, PsyD, Class of 1961, and Rita Storz Hagen, MSN, RN, Class of 1980.
Tom Sorensen
Sorensen graduated from UW-Madison in 1965 and entered graduate school in philosophy but immediately began work in Clinical and Experimental Psychology at University Hospital and the Wisconsin Primate Center. He later earned two Master’s degrees, an MA and an MS, and went on to earn a doctorate in Clinical Psychology. He studied Hemoencephalography with Hershel Toomin, targeting areas of the brain where lesions had formed due to strokes or TBI and working to rebuild damaged cortical structure by increasing oxygenated blood flow to the area. His interest morphed into a study of Alzheimer’s and how to prevent or improve function once it had taken root.
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He still works full time, and his many tools include NASA-developed pulsed electromagnetic devices, near and far infrared lasers and brain wave entrainment. His research expanded into the use of certain brainwave frequencies to improve quality of life for those with temporal lobe epilepsy, using protocols developed by Dr. Barry Sterman of UCLA.
“I was privileged to have several professions in my life journey,” Sorensen said. “My previous career in construction and my experiences at Lincoln Park as a youth linked me into the fabric of the working class. I always felt I was blue collar, regardless of titles or perception. Kenosha and Bradford High School gave me an egalitarian service ethic during my career and the opportunity to treat patients who could not otherwise afford state-of-the-art medical treatment.”
Rita Storz Hagen
Hagen graduated from St. Luke’s Hospital School of Nursing in 1984. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Marquette University and her Master’s in Nursing from the University of Phoenix, all while working full time and raising her family. She has served in leadership roles for 28 of her 38 years of nursing, beginning as a GI coordinator at St. Catherine’s Hospital through her current role as executive director of Hospice Alliance since 2012. She serves on the Wisconsin Hospice and Palliative Care Association Board and chairs its Legislative Committee. She is an active member of the Kenosha County Long Term Care Alliance, serving as its chair, as well Kenosha County Care Transitions and leads its Advance Directive work group.
She is a member of Italian American Ladies Auxiliary, Contemporary Italian American Organization, Tempo Kenosha (past president), Kenosha Rotary Club (past president), is a Readers are Leaders tutor, in the Wisconsin Nurse Honor Guard, is a Susan B. Anthony Board member, Empowerment Team member 100+ Women Who Care, and a KABA/KUSD mentor. She serves on the Gateway Technical College and Carthage College Nursing Advisory Councils.
In 2018, Hagen was named one of the 10 Exceptional People in Kenosha County and the Italian American Society Columbus Day Banquet honored Gguest. In 2019 she received the Susan B. Anthony Women of Influence Award in Business/Government/Nonprofit.
She enjoys spending any/all free-time with her family, especially her four grandchildren.
Tickets for the 2023 banquet are $40, and reservations will be accepted through Thursday, June 1. The reservation form for the event is available online (www.kenoshabradfordalumni.com), or you may contact Randy Vaccaro at 262/551-0510.
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Although the weather outside was cool and overcast, the energy inside University of Wisconsin-Parkside’s Alfred and Bernice De Simone Arena was celebratory and boisterous Saturday as nearly 500 students received their undergraduate and graduate diplomas.
Hundreds more friends and families gathered in the Sports and Activity Center to celebrate the graduates.
Morning and afternoon commencement ceremonies were also bittersweet as they were the last for Parkside Chancellor Debbie Ford, who announced her departure from the college earlier this year.
“Commencement is one of my favorite days on campus. However, today is bittersweet. As many of you may know I have accepted a new position as chancellor of Indiana University Southeast,” Ford said. “I’m excited for this new opportunity, but saying goodbye and receiving so many well wishes from our students, alumni, faculty, staff and so many wonderful community partners has tugged at my heart more than I could ever have imagined.”
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Giving the commencement address Saturday morning was Anton House, Delaware State University assistant professor of History, and a Parkside alum. House discussed the importance of building character in addition to learning and gaining career-ready skills in college.
“If you enrolled in a university only to get a degree for the job, I mean no disrespect but you missed out on the most essential part of your academic experience: your character development,” House said. “It is from learning and interactions with others that we are able to test our moral compass by learning from examples of the kindness within the network we can grow.”
Gabrielle Richardson, who majored in criminal justice and Spanish and minored in biological studies, was the recipient of the Chancellor’s Award. Richardson’s goal is to become a doctor in a rural area, and was recently accepted to medical school.
“Welcome is a synonym of the word accepting, which is what every person is when they stepped foot on this campus. Each one of us came to UW-Parkside with a different story. You were not only students but possibly parents, veterans, employees, caretakers, non traditional or even first generation individuals,” Richardson said.
“What I’ve learned over the course of my time at UW-Parkside is this feeling of being welcomed is not unique. We do it with professors, staff members and fellow students. It truly felt as if someone had left the door open for you<’ she said.
Between the morning and afternoon ceremonies eight outstanding graduates were recognized in various fields of study, including: Alice Brecheisen, liberal studies; Jaide Brumfield, sociology and criminal justice; Lamija Coric, biological studies; Colin Erickson, philosophy and political science; Jeremy Jin, biological sciences Julia Jones, physics; Briana Livesay, theater arts, English; and Amber Milojevic, Master of Business Administration.
The commencement also featured a University of Wisconsin System greeting from Regent Chris Peterson, a performance by the Parkside Range, and the singing of the national anthem by student vocalist Walter Smart III, and a performance of “Life Ev’y Voice and Sing: by student vocalist Jackie Labbe. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/nearly-500-students-graduate-from-uw-parkside-chancellor-ford-marks-last-commencement-ceremonies/article_a122fac8-f1a6-11ed-b361-b31e6ac43260.html | 2023-05-13T22:51:46 | 0 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/nearly-500-students-graduate-from-uw-parkside-chancellor-ford-marks-last-commencement-ceremonies/article_a122fac8-f1a6-11ed-b361-b31e6ac43260.html |
SAN ANTONIO — Three people in Kirby needed to be rescued after their cars were found submerged in a low-water crossing area early Saturday morning, according to city officials.
The rescue unfolded happened around 3 a.m. along the 5400 block of Gibbs Sprawl Road on Saturday.
Kirby firefighters say when they arrived found the two vehicles submerged in fast moving water. There was a man and a woman in one vehicle and a single woman in the other.
Lisa Contreas was one of the passengers who stuck in the rushing water.
"I was going down the road and all of a sudden the water just started coming up on me. I tried to reverse the vehicle and it didn't want to reverse. It just kept coming and coming," Contreas said.
Contreas did not need firefighters assistance to exit rushing waters since her car was not submerged as much as the other vehicle. However, Contreas says the incident was still a scary situation with water coming up to her waist.
"I thought, I'm not going to die in my car. So I got off the car and I walked out. And there was no barricades. Nothing at all."
Firefighters used a rope to assist in swimming out to the other vehicle submerged in order to pull the woman out of the other vehicle. The man in the vehicle with her was able to swim out with some assistance.
No injuries were reported and the fire commander on the scene said "the two are lucky to be alive."
More rain and storms are forecasted for Bexar County through Mother's Day weekend. Remember only 12 inches of fast-moving water can carry cars away so turn around, don't drown. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/kirby-water-rescue-flood-san-antonio-storms-texas/273-61b94377-1fd8-4a53-844f-477c85ba13df | 2023-05-13T22:58:00 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/kirby-water-rescue-flood-san-antonio-storms-texas/273-61b94377-1fd8-4a53-844f-477c85ba13df |
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will be delivering the commencement address and receiving an honorary doctorate degree at Northern Arizona University today – Saturday, May 13 at 3 p.m. in the Walkup Skydome. It will be live-streamed and can be viewed below.
“It is our privilege to recognize Bill Gates for his pioneering work in science and technology and his longstanding thought leadership and philanthropic commitment to creating a world where every person has the opportunity to live a healthy, life and live up to their full potential,” NAU President José Luis Cruz Rivera said in a press release. “As NAU advances its mission to deliver equitable postsecondary value, we are honored to have the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as we seek to ensure that the talent and aspirations of people in Arizona and beyond are met with the opportunity to realize economic mobility and social impact — shaping a brighter future for themselves and the communities they represent.”
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Gates founded Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen and led the company to become the worldwide leader in business and personal software and services. In 2008, he transitioned to focus full-time on the Gates Foundation’s work to expand opportunity to save and improve the lives of the world’s most disadvantaged people. In partnership with Melinda French Gates, as co-chair, Gates shapes and approves foundation strategies and sets the overall direction of the organization. Through the foundation, he has spent more than 20 years working on global health and development issues including maternal, newborn and child health; agricultural development; water sanitation and hygiene practices; pandemic prevention and disease eradication; and much more. Through his private office, Gates Ventures, he pursues work in Alzheimer’s research and other health care issues, interdisciplinary education, and technology. At Breakthrough Energy, Gates is putting his experience as an innovator and problem-solver to work to address climate change by supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs, big thinkers, and clean technologies. In 2010, Gates, Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett founded the Giving Pledge, an effort to encourage the wealthiest families and individuals to commit publicly more than half of their wealth to philanthropic causes and charitable organizations during their lifetime or in their will.
"Later this week, I’ll be heading to Northern Arizona University to commend the graduates of the College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences and the College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences — and share a few other words of advice — in person," Gates said on his blog. "I don’t give commencement speeches often, but I’m excited to be giving one at NAU because something remarkable and all too rare is happening in Flagstaff: The school is redefining the value of a college degree." | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/education/watch-now-bill-gates-to-deliver-commencement-address-at-nau-today-at-3-p-m/article_a5f506c6-f1bb-11ed-942f-07fe0ad81748.html | 2023-05-13T23:02:20 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/education/watch-now-bill-gates-to-deliver-commencement-address-at-nau-today-at-3-p-m/article_a5f506c6-f1bb-11ed-942f-07fe0ad81748.html |
Northern Arizona track and field had a successful first day at the Big Sky Conference outdoor championship meet Friday in Greeley, Colorado, with the men sitting in first place and the women in second following the first day of competition.
The best Northern Arizona performance came from the men’s hammer throw competitors, with the Lumberjacks sweeping the four top spots. John Murphy earned gold with a throw of 62.86 meters, Desmond Lott took second with a throw of 60.45m and Garret Bernt rounded out the podium with a mark of 59.65m. Parker Bays finished fourth in the event, throwing 58.03.
The discus throwers also saw success, finishing with the fourth, fifth and sixth spots in the men's competition. Desmond Lott was the top Northern Arizona performer in the event, throwing 53.92m. CJ McMullen wasn’t far behind in fifth with a throw of 52.01m. Jay Nielsen threw 51.60m.
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Mitchell Effing finished second in the men's long jump, leaping 7.77m. Jack Normand tied for third in the high jump after clearing a height of 2.02m.
In the first championship race of the day, Northern Arizona's Aiden Barnhill finished eighth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, finishing in 9:32.70. Santiago Gomez-Prosser competed in the other final of the day, placing second in the 10,000-meter with a time of 29:58.90.
The men qualified four athletes for the finals of the 1,500-meter race. Nico Young, Colin Sahlman, Kang Nyoak, and Cael Grotenhuis were all set. Sahlman and Nyoak will also compete in the finals of the 800-meter dash.
David Dunlap and Kyle Smith both qualified for the finals of the 100- and 200-meter races. Dunlap is the defending Big Sky champion in both events.
The women also had a successful day. Jade Kwinn and Piper Pfister began competition by placing second and sixth, respectively, in the javelin with throws of 45.08 meters and 42.39m.
Jenna Figueroa and Kenashalee Kerr put up an impressive performance in the long jump, finishing second and third, respectively. Figueroa earned a new personal record with a jump of 5.84m, Kerr jumped 5.79m.
Alaina Diggs took eighth in the women's shot put with a mark of 13.38m.
In the only finals race of the day for the women, Meagan Van Pelt and Anna Fenske took sexond and sixth, respectively, in the 10K. Van Pelt ran a 37:35.37. Fenske finished in 37:51.43.
Northern Arizona qualified five women in the 200m. Alyssa Colbert, Madeline, Wilson, Kyairra Reigh, LiNay Perry and LaTrouchka Duke all were set to run in Saturday's final. Perry and Reigh also qualified for the finals of the 400m. Colbert, Wilson and Duke also qualified for the 100m finals, along with Kenya Coburn. | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/nau-roundup-track-and-field-sits-pretty-after-first-day-of-conference-championships/article_a1b7680c-f1ab-11ed-8f90-33d7e5151da1.html | 2023-05-13T23:02:33 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/nau-roundup-track-and-field-sits-pretty-after-first-day-of-conference-championships/article_a1b7680c-f1ab-11ed-8f90-33d7e5151da1.html |
A 14-year-old boy was shot and killed in West Philadelphia Saturday afternoon.
At 2:09 p.m. on SEPTA’s westbound Market-Frankford Line platform at 5200 Market Street a 14-year-old boy was shot, according to the police.
He was transported to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the chest and left arm. He was pronounced dead at 2:52 p.m., police said.
According to video evidence from SEPTA, the shooter was seen wearing a black facemask and a black hoodie with the word "essential" on it. He was carrying a lime-green firearm.
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Officers are searching for three boys that fled the scene. One was wearing a cream-colored hoodie. The other two are wearing the same black hoodie with a white circle design on it.
The alleged suspects were last seen fleeing westbound on Market St.
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SEAL COVE -- The Seal Cove Auto Museum kicked off it's first "Cars and Coffee" gathering of the year.
The event is an opportunity for visitors to exhibit their specialty automobiles -- from vintage cars and trucks to new and unique vehicles.
This year also marks the museum's 60th anniversary, and organizers say the event helps to highlight the history behind both the museum and automobiles -- including one vehicle from 1908.
"It's a relic, it's kind of a barn-find piece. We don't drive it, but everything is operational. Volunteers built a beautiful stand that's on rollers so we can move it around. It's just a great example of the technology of the period that the museum celebrates," said Ethan Yankura, executive director of the Seal Cove Auto Museum.
People came out from across the state to witness the wide variety of vehicles on display, including retired Ellsworth Fire Department Deputy Fire Chief Gary Saunders, who brought along a fully-restored fire department vehicle.
"Back when I was six years old, I can recall looking in my neighbor's garage watching him paint this truck and thinking to myself: 'it would be cool to own something like that someday.' Well, that did two things -- it got me interested in auto restoration and it got me interested in the fire service," said Saunders.
While many come out for the vehicles, organizers say people stay for the sense of community the day brings.
"It's an opportunity for enthusiasts to bring their vehicles out and other enthusiasts who may not have a vehicle to come and enjoy what they're seeing," said Yankura. "It brings out both locals and people from some great distances."
The Seal Cove Auto Museum will host this free event to the public throughout the summer.
For a complete schedule, visit sealcoveautomuseum.org. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/seal-cove-auto-museum-celebrates-first-cars-and-coffee-event-of-the-year/article_ba6573c4-f1d5-11ed-90e3-c7c847f3d70f.html | 2023-05-13T23:22:02 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/seal-cove-auto-museum-celebrates-first-cars-and-coffee-event-of-the-year/article_ba6573c4-f1d5-11ed-90e3-c7c847f3d70f.html |
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The college will update the Fond du Lac Advanced Manufacturing and Trades area in two phases.
FOND DU LAC - Moraine Park Technical College will begin construction this May on the first of four referendum projects, updating the Fond du Lac Advanced Manufacturing and Trades area.
The Moraine Park District Board unanimously approved the $10 million winning bid placed by C.D. Smith of Fond du Lac.
The Fond du Lac Advanced Manufacturing and Trades project has two phases — the addition of the Automation, Innovation and Robotics Center and an update of the existing B-Wing facilities.
The project’s groundbreaking will take place after the spring semester, and the community will see visible changes to the building’s exterior this summer, a news release said.
The total project is expected to cost $12.8 million.
The AIR Center is partially funded by donor contributions of nearly $2.7 million, a goal set and met by the Moraine Park Foundation, the college’s advancement entity.
The Advanced Manufacturing and Trades project is expected to be completed in June 2024 with students first utilizing the space in fall 2024.
Moraine Park Technical College’s campus is at 235 N. National Ave. in Fond du Lac. Visit morainepark.edu/future to learn more.
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▶ Byron veterans to be honored at annual Memorial Day tribute:Town of Byron veterans will be honored at the annual Memorial Day tribute May 29 at the Byron Town Hall and Veterans Memorial.
An open house will run 8-11 a.m. featuring military and historical exhibits.
The outdoor program begins at 9:30 a.m. with a keynote address by Byron’s Marlin Towne, a Korean War veteran who served with the 38th Infantry Scout Dog Platoon in Korea from 1953 to 1954.
American Legion Post 347 of Lomira and VFW Post 8092 of Oakfield will conduct a color guard/rifle squad salute and a roll call of veterans laid to rest at Bethel, Byron and St. John’s cemeteries in the Town of Byron.
The open house exhibit will include recognition of the 84 service members whose names will be placed on the Memorial in 2023. The service times of these veterans span from the Civil War era to the Global War on Terrorism.
▶ ‘Check out’ a state park pass from Fond du Lac library: A limited number of free, one-day passes to any Wisconsin state park may be “checked out” from the Fond du Lac Public Library.
The passes are available as part of a new partnership between libraries, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
One pass will be available per family, and passes will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.
Patrons will need to know what date they plan to use the pass, have an active library card and have a vehicle with Wisconsin plates.
Passes may be used any time through the end of the year that a state park is open with no blackout dates.
To get the pass, patrons will have to visit either library in person.
For more about the program, visit dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/parks/outwigo. For more information about the library, visit fdlpl.org.
▶ St. Mary’s Springs places first at academic bowl:St. Mary’s Springs Academy participated in the Flyway Conference Academic Bowl in April.
Six flyway conference schools — including Winnebago Lutheran Academy, Omro, Campbellsport, Laconia, Lomira and St. Mary’s Springs Academy — competed.
The Flyway Conference Academic Bowl consists of high school students in grades nine to 12, chosen by their teachers, who compete in two rounds of academic testing. The first round is based on an individual written test in their area of expertise. The second round is an oral round, where four students work together answering questions of varying difficulty, covering math, science, language arts and social studies.
SMSA received a total score of 748.4, placing first overall.
WLA placed second with a total score of 706.04.
SMSA’s coaches were Cori Anderson, Patty Arndt and Soledad Theel.
Ten of the 23 participating SMSA students earned medals.
▶ SSM Health donates $3,000 to Get Active! program:SSM Health Greater Fond du Lac recently donated $3,000 to REACH Waupun to support its Get Active! program, which is designed to help improve the health and well-being of youth in the Waupun community.
The funding will help the Get Active! Program provide financial assistance to students within the Waupun Area School District or Central Wisconsin Christian School to pay for fees related to sports, clubs, or extracurricular activities.
Students would qualify for a variety of sports, including bowling, dance, figure skating, gymnastics, hockey, swim team or swimming lessons, and wrestling. Students can receive up to $250 a year in assistance.
REACH Waupun has been an active nonprofit since 2015. REACH offers one-on-one youth mentorship, school supply distribution, and community relief. The REACH Relief program provides assistance with costs such as driver’s education, glasses, winter coats and other needs.
▶ Stolen bases to benefit Boys & Girls Club of Fond du Lac: Each time a Dock Spiders player steals a base at home this season, including the playoffs, Silica For Your Home will donate $50 to the Boys & Girls Club of Fond du Lac.
Silica For Your Home recently celebrated 100 years of service to the Fond du Lac-area community in 2022 and is proud of its family business spanning four generations.
“Being around as long as we have, we take giving back to the community seriously because we see firsthand the positive impact that it has on our community,” said Silica For Your Home President Josh Schneider in a news release.
“The Boys & Girls Club is honored to partner with two amazing Fond du Lac businesses with this promotion in Silica For Your Home and the Dock Spiders,” said Boys & Girls Club of Fond du Lac Chief Executive Officer Dan Hebel in the news release. “The dollars earned will support the provision of amazing afterschool and summer opportunities for youth in Fond du Lac. We’re hopeful for lots of action on the basepaths this summer!”
In addition to providing a donation to the Boys & Girls Club of Fond du Lac for each Dock Spiders stolen at home this season, Silica For Your Home has partnered with the Dock Spiders for a Chandler Simpson bobblehead giveaway on Aug. 5. The bobblehead features Simpson celebrating his Northwoods League record-breaking stolen base during the 2021 season. Simpson finished that season with a Northwoods League-record 55 stolen bases.
Currently, former Dock Spider Victor Scott (St. Louis Cardinals organization) leads all of minor league baseball with 22 stolen bases this season, while Simpson (Tampa Bay Rays organization) is tied for second among all minor leaguers with 20 stolen bases. Scott and Simpson accounted for two of the eight former Dock Spiders selected in the 2022 First-Year Player Draft.
The Fond du Lac Dock Spiders’ 2023 schedule is highlighted by 18 giveaway items this season. With 36 home games, half of the home slate features a giveaway.
The Dock Spiders begin their seventh season on Memorial Day (May 29) against the Green Bay Rockers at 1:05 p.m. at Marian University’s Herr-Baker Field. Tickets are available at dockspiders.com, by visiting the ballpark ticket office or by calling 920-907-9833.
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BAR HARBOR -- Bar Harbor locals had the chance to shop for a cause this weekend.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Hancock County held its first "Paws Spring Jumble Sale" on Saturday, where people could buy secondhand housewares, artwork, and vintage items.
All proceeds from the day will go towards helping animals at the SPCA animal shelter, which organizers say needs continued support.
"We are one-hundred percent donation supported, and we rely on the community members to help keep the shelter open. Some of the dogs and cats that get surrendered have medical issues and need some medical care -- it gets to be expensive," said Michelle Allvin, board vice president of the SPCA of Hancock County.
For the SPCA, this is just the start of summer fundraising efforts. In July, the group will host "Wine and Whiskers," an event with live music, food, and an auction.
Visit spcahancockcounty.org to learn more about the event or donate to an animal in need. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/spca-of-hancock-county-holds-sale-to-support-animals/article_58df8926-f1d7-11ed-8b1b-db8680f8f9d6.html | 2023-05-13T23:22:09 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/spca-of-hancock-county-holds-sale-to-support-animals/article_58df8926-f1d7-11ed-8b1b-db8680f8f9d6.html |
A boy flings a basketball toward a newly hung hoop Saturday at the reopening of the Martin Luther King Jr. basketball courts in Hammond.
HAMMOND — The boy bounced the basketball steadily, taking his time to approach the newly hung hoop on the basketball courts at Martin Luther King Jr. Park.
He tucked his arms toward his sides and squatted as he prepped for the shot. He hurled the ball toward the hoop.
The boy, no older than 12, was the second person to play ball at MLK Park when the courts reopened at 10 a.m. Saturday. Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr., who made the first basket, shut them down in August after two shootings in the park.
McDermott shut down the courts indefinitely after the incidents of violence that resulted in the death of Jullius Brooks, 39, and two injuries. He said closing the courts was in the best interest of public safety at the time, and the community agreed.
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"We cannot tolerate violence on these courts, in this neighborhood, in a park named after Martin Luther King Jr.," he said.
Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. speaks Saturday at the reopening of Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Hammond. Behind him are Police Chief William Sho…
The park was initially set to reopen in late April but was delayed multiple times because of weather, officials said.
McDermott started making plans in December 2022 to reopen the courts but said the city would need to crack down on parking restrictions first. Many of the nearby streets allow parking for residents only. Police Chief William Short said the department will increase patrols in the area to monitor parking and promote safety. He said the department continues to use new technology to catch criminals and work with the community to make the city a safe place to live.
"We cannot allow fear to dominate our lives," Short said. "We must work together to create a safe environment."
The park has facilitated friendships and friendly competition since it opened some years ago, McDermott said. The park, across from Hammond Central High School and nestled behind City Hall, was rededicated in 2019 after a $3 million renovation. Among the new features: the courts, a new playground and a "freedom plaza," where an eternal flame burns in King's honor.
The adolescent was one of two or three kids who arrived at the park Saturday to shoot hoops. City officials hope that more children will soon do the same.
"The thing about a park is, it's a chance for kids to come together and build positive relationships," School City of Hammond Superintendent Scott Miller said at the news conference. "Sports teaches you conflict resolution. It teaches you how to lose gracefully."
Multiple officials cited the need for productive avenues of conflict resolution for local youths to avoid possible instances of gun violence, especially among teenagers and young adults. Hammond schools haven't experienced direct gun violence, but a 16-year-old from Dolton brought a gun to Hammond Central High School in January and a group of elementary school students found a gun on a Hammond school bus in March.
"I can't dribble a ball, I'm too old," Pastor Herman A. Polk said jokingly at the news conference. "But I'm here to support the youth who come out here. We have to begin telling our young people that conflict resolution is not about guns. Thoughts and prayers come after. We need to take action before.
Councilman Barry Tyler Jr., D-3rd, said the violence is a "personal matter" for him. He lives a few blocks from the park and heard the gunshots that killed Brooks, who had been a classmate.
"The mayor shouldn't have had to make the decision to shut down this park in the first place," Tyler said. "I grew up playing in this park. A lot of Hammond legends started their journey in this park. This park means a lot to the community."
The young boy is an example of the kids who have and will hopefully nurture friendships and possible future careers at MLK Park.
After all, the boy made the basket. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/hammond/basketball-courts-reopen-at-mlk-park-in-hammond/article_7007b548-f1ae-11ed-978c-23cdf0293f24.html | 2023-05-13T23:23:29 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/hammond/basketball-courts-reopen-at-mlk-park-in-hammond/article_7007b548-f1ae-11ed-978c-23cdf0293f24.html |
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Hundreds gathered in Allen demanding changes in gun laws one week after a gunman killed eight people and injured seven others at a mall.
The rally Saturday by Greek Park in Allen was organized by Moms Demand Action, which planned to hold rallies in about 200 cities this weekend. In light of the shooting at Allen Premium Outlets, Moms Demand Action volunteer Alyssa Wallace said their message was more important now than ever.
“Mothers Day of Action was planned to encourage and demand that Congress reinstate the assault weapons ban. It was in place previously. We’re calling on Congress to act,” Wallace said.
At the rally, a moment of silence was held after reading each of the eight victims’ names. At least 200 people attended Saturday, including Monique Oliveaus of Southlake.
“My heart just breaks for anyone who knew them and this community. This is a beautiful community,” Oliveaux said.
The discussion of gun reform was brought up this week in Austin, with a gun bill hitting a House wall. House Bill 2744 would raise the minimum age to buy semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21. While it passed a House committee on Monday, it was not scheduled for a House vote Thursday.
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State Rep. Jeff Leach ( R-Plano), whose district includes Allen, said he is an unwavering supporter of the second amendment. At the same time, he said he was open to meaningful discussions on possible policies to prevent tragedies like the shooting in Allen.
Asked whether he would have supported House Bill 2744, Rep. Leach said he would not.
“I believe that bill, on the face, is unconstitutional,” Leach said. “However, I do believe there are other bills including one of my own that would have gone a long way in preventing guns from getting into the wrong hands. In the situation of the Allen shooter, that law there would have done nothing to prevent the shooter who was 33 years old.”
Advocates of gun reform said Saturday, their work is not done.
“It doesn’t end here. We’re going to get louder,” Wallace said. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/gun-violence-rally-held-one-week-after-deadly-mass-shooting-in-allen/3257533/ | 2023-05-13T23:44:14 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/gun-violence-rally-held-one-week-after-deadly-mass-shooting-in-allen/3257533/ |
STAR, Idaho — This article originally appeared in the Idaho Press.
Star city council listened to nearly five hours of public comment about a potential annexation of the Willowbrook development on Tuesday.
This public hearing had a larger audience than any previous hearings in Star, according to Mayor Trevor Chadwick. On the hearing sign-up sheet, 327 people said they were against the annexation — 37 of those people asked to speak.
Only one person signed up to speak for the annexation.
Road transportation issues, water, residential compatibility and change to the small town community were some of the biggest concerns Star residents voiced during the hearing.
The annexation, if approved, would be built between Can-Ada Road and State Highway 16 and contains an 18-hole golf course on 175 acres of land and 726 acres of residential development. Willowbrook has planned for 1,094 homes, with a variety of home types, resulting in about 1.5 dwelling units per acre. Willowbrook’s original application was submitted in 2021. That application was revised in 2022.
Mayor Trevor Chadwick began the meeting asking for civility, stating that while America may be losing civility, he refuses to lose it in Star.
Nancy Collins, Star resident, presented the council with a petition that had over 800 signatures opposing the annexation of the development. Star’s population is 17,690 as of May 12, 2023.
The petition stated an opposition to the annexation due to several concerns, including incomplete and inaccurate application, improper use of state amenities, unresolved and unfunded mitigation measures for several roads, road safety, overcrowded schools, lack of police coverage, increase in density, and incompatibility.
”Willowbrook has resisted doing a traffic impact study ever since this development was first proposed,” Richard Moore, an engineer and Star resident, said. “Now that the traffic study is complete, it is apparent why Willowbrook did not want to do one: it shows this project is unfeasible as proposed. I have read the traffic study and only understood enough to get scared.”
The addition of over 1,000 homes will generate over 12,000 trips every day, Moore said. Now, those rural roads only permit 2,000 trips each day. To solve the road traffic the annexation would cause, Willowbrook proposed a road expansion, transforming several Star roads from two lanes into five.
The ACHD did not approve Willowbrook’s proposal to expand the roads for more traffic. According to Moore, Willowbrook has yet to provide a viable alternative solution for the traffic increase.
”Today, we don’t have any assurance that the council is confident that the resources there to support this development exists,” Abigail Germaine said, representing Hillsdale Estates HOA.
Many Star residents expressed a distrust in the Willowbrook developers.
”There are too many promises that, quite frankly, I don’t believe will ever be carried out,” Gordon Soone said during public comment. “This is about the fourth time we’ve seen this movie and it’s always the same ending.”
Developers, Ben Pelka said, often change their minds five years down the road.
”It looks like a great development, but maybe it’s in the wrong spot,” Pelka said. “You’re trying to stick an apple in a bunch of oranges.”
While more residential neighborhoods can bring permanent traffic, residents also say the golf course could add occasional problems to Star.
”I haven’t once heard if the PGA Tour decides to come to this area with thousands of people deciding to watch a championship golf — parking, traffic, overwhelming all the streets. Where are those people going to go? Where are they going to park?” Ben Shields said during public comment. “I don’t see anything that’s going to accommodate some of those commercial uses for such a magnificent golf course.”
Star’s comprehensive plan says the area that Willowbrook is hoping to develop is one that needs to be rural, Sabrina Newberry, Star resident, said during public comment. Newberry went on to state that Willowbrook will be located in the Hillsdale neighborhood and not adjacent to it.
Many residents expressed concern that the new developments will not blend in with existing ones.
”We believe the project should be built at the same density and with similar lot sizes and design features to blend with the existing neighborhoods that it is being built within,” Star resident Rochelle Henson said. “The transitional watch should be more closely aligned with the sizes of these existing lots and should be a minimum one acre in size.”
Allowing the Willowbrook development will not preserve the “rural feel” at the edge of Star — something most residents expressed concern about during public comment. Deb Nelson, who presented on behalf of the applicant, said Willowbrook homes will be consistent with Star’s comprehensive plan and implementation policies.
“Consistent with your plan, Willowbrook residences will be proposed in a variety of sizes, targeting different kinds of folks with patio homes near the golf course, likely for empty nesters all the way up to traditional single family detached homes at the periphery,” Nelson said. “This mixed use community will help fulfill Star’s goals to enhance and develop the economy with a world class golf course that has secondary economic benefits for other Star businesses, as well as providing walkable commercial uses.”
According to Nelson, there will not be an increase in water draw as a result of the annexation. In fact, what is being drawn from irrigation will either be neutral or less than what it currently is, Nelson said.
”The golf course’s use of treated wastewater for irrigation will support groundwater conservation, which is directly aligned with the plan’s goals and will benefit Star residents,” Nelson said.
The obvious benefit to this annexation is that it adds to Star’s commercial tax base, Nathan Mitchell, who served as Star mayor in 2016, said.
”This is a positive thing for the city as a resident,” Mitchell said. “I think the additional economic development that the golf course will bring is positive for not just the golf course, but the rest of the businesses in Star.”
The decision on the annexation is scheduled for June 20 at 7 p.m. Public input is officially closed for the public hearing.
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ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (WJHL)- The Betsy Band held its first car show at Elizabethton High School on Saturday. Vintage cars, trucks, jeeps and vans showed up to show off and raise money for the school’s marching band.
Patricia Mckesson, the Betsy Band’s Booster President, said they hope to make the car show an annual event.
“Everything that we make here, of course, goes back into the program,” said Mckesson. “Our program was very successful last year.”
Mckesson said the idea for the fundraiser came from the Elizabethton community’s love for car shows.
“The Betsy Band wanted to be part of that,” said Mckesson. “We are sponsoring the first Betsy Band Car Show and we are having a great time out here.” The fundraiser had food vendors, live music and a raffle to win door prizes. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/elizabethton-highs-betsy-band-hosts-car-show-fundraiser/ | 2023-05-13T23:50:01 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/elizabethton-highs-betsy-band-hosts-car-show-fundraiser/ |
KINGSPORT Tenn. (WJHL)- Organizers of the Racks by the Tracks festival said they’ve had bigger crowds than last year.
The festival started off with foot races in the morning, both a 5k and 10k. Frank Lett with Visit Kingsport said a lot of people participated in the races.
“We had a great turnout this morning,” said Lett. “We had over 300 people participating in the five and ten K and for those overzealous folks that did both, the Ball Hog Challenge, a little over 50 people did that.”
After the races, ‘Barbecue Alley’ opened with lines of vendors cooking up their best dishes for people to taste and later vote on their favorite BBQ.
Kevin Helms, Owner of Backdraft Barbecue said the tasting competition is a fan favorite.
“You’re voting on the ribs, the sauce the team, and the sides,” said Helms. “There’s other categories that the folks can vote on when they come here to this event.”
Helms has been serving barbecue at the festival since 2015. Last year, his business won first place in sauce and second place in ribs.
The ‘Barbeque Alley’ food showdown was followed by live music and adult beverage tasting, with beer, wine and seltzers on the menu.
“The best part of it is the people,” said Helms. “We love Racks by the Tracks but just talking to people, being out in the community, networking with the other food trucks, the people that come to this event they make it and Kingsport does a great job with it.”
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Pipelines will play an increasingly important economic role, not only in the Permian Basin but in the state, as both crude and natural gas production rise.
Pipelines will also play an increasing economic role across the nation but are challenged by opponents concerned not only about pipeline safety but their environmental impact. That challenge comes even as the Biden administration announced plans to invest $196 million in pipeline modernization projects across 19 states.
The Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration recently announced a proposed new rule designed to improve detection and repair of leaks from gas pipelines. The proposed rule, issued May 5, has been sent to the Federal Register, with a publication date and an opportunity for a 60-day public comment period expected to be made available soon.
The proposal requires pipeline operators to establish advanced leak detection programs aimed at detecting and repairing all gas leaks by:
• Strengthening leakage survey and patrolling requirements by increasing the frequency of surveys and requiring the use of commercially available, advanced leak detection technology, such as aerial or vehicle surveys, handheld detection devices and continuous monitoring systems, with flexibility for operators to use a range of approaches to meet a minimum performance standard.
• Reducing the volume of gas released due to unintentional emissions, like leaks and equipment failures and revising the reporting minimum threshold to detect smaller leaks sooner.
• Minimizing intentional releases, such as those caused by equipment venting or blowdowns, associated with pipeline maintenance, repair and construction and encouraging operators to consider cost-effective equipment that can capture the methane for later use.
• Establishing explicit criteria and timeframes for the timely repair of all leaks that pose a risk to public safety or the environment.
The proposal drew a quick defense of the nation’s pipelines from industry representatives.
“We believe that the proposed DOT PHMSA rules are duplicative and unnecessary, as the pipeline industry is already doing much of what is being proposed – either due to existing state and federal regulations or through stringent operational best practices,” Thure Cannon, president of the Texas Pipeline Association, told the Reporter-Telegram by email. “From the wellhead to the end user, pipeline companies have a built-in incentive to detect and repair methane leaks, ensuring that every molecule is accounted for. It’s just good business, especially as methane is the product being sold.”
American Gas Association President and Chief Executive Officer Karen Harbert told the Reporter-Telegram by email, “America’s natural gas utilities have a proven track record of voluntary emissions reductions, with emissions from the average natural gas home falling by 1.2% per year, and emissions from the overall natural gas system down 69% since 1990. As we review the specifics of this proposed rule, we will continue to work with PHMSA in furtherance of our member companies’ efforts to reduce emissions while continuing to deliver the safe, affordable and reliable energy that customers rely on.”
The PHMSA said in announcing its proposed rule that it would enhance both public safety and reduce methane emissions and other air pollution from more than 2.7 million miles of gas transmission, distribution and gathering pipelines; 400+ underground natural gas storage facilities; and 165 liquefied natural gas facilities.
In 2030 alone, the rule has the potential to eliminate up to 1 million metric tons of methane emissions – equivalent to 25 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, or the emissions from 5.6 million gas-powered cars, the agency said. The agency also estimated the rule would reduce emissions from covered pipelines by up to 55%.
The PHMSA’s proposal drew support from the Environmental Defense Fund.
“Natural gas pipelines are ubiquitous in our neighborhoods, cities, parks and rural communities and pipeline leaks are both safety risks, and a source of methane pollution that accelerates climate change,” Erin Murphy, senior attorney for EDF, said in a statement. “PHMSA’s proposal is a welcome step that reflects important updates to existing standards, including unlocking the use of advanced technologies to find and fix more pipeline leaks. Strong federal standards to reduce pipeline leaks are critical for delivering on the Biden administration's commitment to curb climate-warming methane pollution while increasing public health and safety” | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/pipeline-representatives-react-biden-s-proposed-18092095.php | 2023-05-13T23:59:00 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/pipeline-representatives-react-biden-s-proposed-18092095.php |
SOUTH WHITLEY, Ind. — Police have issued a Silver Alert for a woman and child missing from South Whitley, Indiana.
Police are investigating the disappearance of Shannon Marie Kincaid and Adalynn Fae Newman.
Kincaid, 27, is 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighs 241 pounds and has blonde hair with blue eyes.
Newman, 9, is 4 feet 1 inch tall, weighs 60 pounds and has light blonde hair with fading blue tips and blue eyes.
They were last seen in a silver 2004 Saturn Vue with Indiana license plate 442DNA and are missing from South Whitley. They are believed to be in extreme danger and may require medical assistance.
If you have information, call South Whitley Police at 260-244-6410 or 911.
Amber Alert vs. Silver Alert: What's the difference?
There are specific standards a person's disappearance must meet in order for police to declare an Amber Alert or a Silver Alert.
Amber Alerts are for children under the age of 18 who are believed to have been abducted and in danger. Police also need to have information about a suspect and their car to issue an Amber Alert.
Silver Alerts are for missing and endangered adults or children. They are much more common for missing people. It was not until last year when the standards for Silver Alerts were expanded to include children.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The Daytona Tortugas, the city’s Single-A affiliate of Cincinnati Reds, handed out bobbleheads of Volusia County Sheriff Mile Chitwood at Saturday’s game.
The first 1,000 fans through the gates had the chance to take home the keepsake as part of a promotion for the team’s First Responders Night.
“You’ve seen him as Daytona Beach Police Chief, you’ve seen him on TV, you know him as the Volusia County Sheriff, and now you’re seeing him as a bobblehead!” the team posted on its website. The Tortugas’ hosted several themed nights during its third homestead of the 2023 season.
Sunday’s game features a Mother’s Day promotion, according to their website.
We are back at the Jack this week! 🐢⚾
— Daytona Tortugas (@daytonatortugas) May 9, 2023
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Health worker ends life, was accused of sexual misconduct with inmate in Maricopa County jail
A man working in the Maricopa County jails ended his own life after he was accused of inappropriate sexual behavior with an inmate, officials say.
According to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, the agency launched an investigation on an employee working for Correctional Health Services-Mental Health regarding "inappropriate sexual behaviors with at least one inmate."
Correctional Health Services provides medical, dental and mental health services for individuals incarcerated within the Maricopa County jail system.
The suspect was identified as Dan Gordon, according to a Sheriff's Office news release on Saturday. Gordon was immediately placed on leave while detectives conducted a criminal investigation.
Detectives obtained a search warrant for Gordon's home, according to the Sheriff's Office. Prior to entering the home, detectives learned the suspect appeared to have ended his life with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Gordon started employment with Maricopa County Health Services in 2021.
In Arizona, people can call the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, 602-279-2900 or 1-800-782-6400, or visit its website, acesdv.org/helpline. The Phoenix police website, www.phoenix.gov/domesticviolence, has a list of places people can contact in Maricopa County.
Suicide, crisis hotlines for Arizonans
Services for Arizonans in crisis include:
- Dial 2-1-1 at any time to reach the free 2-1-1 Arizona information and referral service and connect with free resources available locally throughout the state.
- Solari Crisis & Human Services offers a free, statewide crisis line 24/7/365 – dial 844-534-HOPE (4673). Help is also available 24/7/365 via text by texting “hope” to 4HOPE (4673).
- Dial 988 to reach the National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Help is available in English and Spanish. It's free and confidential for those in distress who need prevention or crisis resources for themselves or loved ones.
- La Frontera Empact Suicide Prevention Center's crisis line serves Maricopa and Pinal counties 24/7 at 480-784-1500.
- Teen Lifeline’s 24/7 crisis line serves teens at 602-248-8336 for Maricopa County and 1-800-248-8336 statewide.
- The Trevor Project Lifeline serves LGBTQ youth at 866-488-7386 or by texting START to 678-678. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-breaking/2023/05/13/health-worker-ends-life-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-with-inmate/70215624007/ | 2023-05-14T00:11:02 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-breaking/2023/05/13/health-worker-ends-life-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-with-inmate/70215624007/ |
It's not every day that you walk into your local library and find it patrolled by some of the most fearsome fighters any galaxy has ever seen.
But that is exactly what the patrons of the North Courthouse Road branch of the Chesterfield County Public Library encountered Saturday when Jedi warriors and stormtroopers alike came together for the second annual Star Wars Reading Day, sponsored by the Chesterfield Police Activities League.
Children who came in costume competed for prize packages including Big Bad Toy Store gift cards, and members of Garrison Tyranus, the Virginia chapter of the 501st Legion — a worldwide organization dedicated to fostering a love of Star Wars and creative cosplay — posed for pictures with fans of all ages.
Members of Garrison Tyranus, the Virginia chapter of an organization devoted to Star Wars cosplay, pose for pictures with Liam Nolden, front left, and Max Nolden, front right, on Saturday during the second annual Star Wars Reading Day put on by the Chesterfield County Public Library and the Chesterfield Police Activities League. "It's all about making the kids smile," said stormtrooper Troy Gaines, back left.
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"It's all about making the kids smile," said Troy Gaines, a Garrison Tyranus member who greeted people at the library entrance clad in screen-accurate stormtrooper armor.
Librarian Carol Sties led younger children in Star Wars-themed songs and read "Are You Scared, Darth Vader?," a story about how even the most intimidating villains have things that frighten them, and "Chewie and the Porgs," a tale about being open-minded and finding friendship in unexpected places.
Chesterfield County librarian Carol Sties reads "Are You Scared, Darth Vader?" to children at the library's North Courthouse Road branch on Saturday as part of the second annual Star Wars Reading Day.
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There was even a raffle of Star Wars memorabilia, including a poster for the first Star Wars movie that hung in a Chicago theater at the time of the film's original 1977 release and an action figure of Black Krrsantan, a character in the Disney+ series "The Book of Boba Fett," signed by actor Carey Jones when he was in Richmond in March for GalaxyCon.
Officer Nik Barndt, the Police Activities League coordinator, said the raffle would help support future PAL events, like its bowling league and "game days," in which police host children for kickball, dodgeball and other fun games on teacher workdays.
Barndt said the PAL is also sponsoring a summer camp for incoming sixth-graders that will be staffed by school resource officers. The camp will give the students a chance to engage with those officers before interacting with them on a more frequent basis in middle school.
The PAL, which resumed activity in the summer of 2021 after a pandemic-related hiatus, puts on more than 50 events a year for Chesterfield children.
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Air Force Women
In August 1952, WAC-WAF recruiting officer Lt. Eileen M. Toomey swore in four newcomers to the Women in the Air Force program. Taking the oath (left to right) were Vida M. Burton of West Virginia and Richmonders Doris Cannon Davis, Mary Lou Keck and Joyce Dodson.
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Broad St.
In April 1966, Mrs. Arch Clegg inspected newly planted flowers on a median along Broad Street in Richmond. Two varieties of holly and more than 1,000 petunias were being planted on Broad that week between Adams and Eighth streets. The displays, sponsored by Downtown Retail Associates, were to stay in the planters until fall.
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Broad St.
In June 1947, Richmond officials put up warning signs near the city limits on West Broad Street to limit speeding, which was a top traffic concern at the time.
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Central State Hospital
In August 1969, airmen John McGinnis (center) and Ronald McGurn entertained a deaf youth at Central State Hospital near Petersburg. They were two of several servicemen from nearby Fort Lee who volunteered regularly at the hospital’s children’s unit. McGinnis, once a manager at a supermarket that employed several deaf workers, knew sign language and was teaching it to youths as well as McGurn.
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Cloverleaf Mall
In November 1972, the Sears store in Cloverleaf Mall featured new coat and dress styles as well as furs. The Chesterfield County mall opened in August of that year; it closed in 2008, and the building was demolished in 2011.
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Country Club of Virginia
In July 1953, tennis players Cliff Miller (from left), Al Dickinson and Bob Figg Sr. discussed the Country Club of Virginia’s annual tennis competition, which began the day before. Only Dickinson survived the first day of the competition.
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Dogwood Dell
In August 1965, the All American Touring Band and Chorus performed the finale at the Festival of Arts in Richmond’s Dogwood Dell. The ninth annual festival, sponsored by Federated Arts of Richmond Inc. and coordinated by the city parks department, lured about 52,000 people to 13 concerts and eight stage productions during the summer.
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Folk Dancing
In April 1970, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. Lee demonstrated the steps for classmates H.G. Shaw and W.W. Foster in a local folk dancing class.
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Hull St. Station
In October 1982, Hull Street Station in South Richmond was vacant and boarded-up — the last regular passenger train to Danville had left 25 years earlier. The Southern Railway donated the station to the Old Dominion chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, which planned to convert the space into a museum and library. Today it houses the Richmond Railroad Museum.
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Jackson Ward
In October 1986, preservationist and author Jim DuPriest led a tour of Richmond’s Jackson Ward neighborhood for 45 students from Luther Memorial School. The school was founded by German immigrants in 1856 at a time when the neighborhood had a notable German population; Jackson Ward later became one of the nation’s leading African-American communities.
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Jackson Ward Reunion
In July 1979, Shirley McCoy performed a gospel number at a Jackson Ward reunion. The gathering at the Empire Theater brought together several hundred former residents and business owners of the Richmond neighborhood for a night of performances and community recognition.
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Mail box
In June 1949, Carl A. Throckmorton (left) showed Richmond Postmaster Fergus McRee one of the 100 new mailboxes that would be installed at city street corners. The additions would bring the total number of receptacles to about 680, meaning no city resident would have to walk more than three blocks to deposit a letter.
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Mailboxes
In October 1951, Mrs. R.L. Mattox showed off the unique mailbox at her home in Prince George County. The mailbox post was made using an old log cabin chain and required an hour’s worth of welding. Mattox and her husband were inspired by a design they saw in a magazine.
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Monroe Park
In May 1969, an informal folk gathering brought a crowd to Monroe Park in Richmond. Composer Dan Riddick and a group of guitarists from Washington performed; guests were asked to bring toys and clothing for needy residents in Washington.
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Mooer's Field
In April 1949, Richmond Mayor W. Stirling King threw out the first pitch at the Richmond Colts home opener at Mooers Field. At right, wearing the new home uniform, is Colts manager Vinnie Smith. At left is Ray Schalk, manager of the Newport News Dodgers. The Colts won the Piedmont League game 6-5.
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Noldes Bread
In July 1967, members of the Nolde family — Henry (from left), George, Carl and Arthur — watched bread roll off the assembly line at the Nolde Bros. Bakery in Church Hill in Richmond. Their relatives started a small baking operation in the 1890s, and by 1950, three area Nolde plants produced almost a million loaves per week to be sold nationally. Nolde closed in 1977.
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O.K. Foundry
In April 1954, P.R. Webb, a worker at the O.K. Foundry, loaded small castings into a cleaning machine at the company’s new location at 1005 E. Ninth St. in Richmond. Established in 1913, the foundry made machine castings for the tobacco, paper and agricultural industries.
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Piccadilly Cafeteria
In August 1972, William A. Richards, president of the Piccadilly Cafeteria chain, donned a chef’s cap and apron for a restaurant opening in the new Cloverleaf Mall in Chesterfield County. It was the second Piccadilly in the state; the first was in Norfolk.
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Remote Controlled Cars
In March 1983, Tommy Ferguson prepared his entry for a race hosted by the Richmond Radio-Controlled Car Racing Club. Nearly 30 cars raced on a small-scale 275-foot asphalt track, buzzing around at nearly 40 mph for an audience of more than 200 people in the parking lot behind Valle’s restaurant.
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Reynolds Metals
In June 1958, Reynolds Metals Co. employees Ethel Blue (left) and Bonnie Foy enjoyed some sun at the company’s new office space in Henrico County. The $10 million complex sprawled over 40 acres on a 160-acre property. Reynolds spent more than $150,000 on landscaping, including more than 10,000 trees, shrubs and plants as well as a greenhouse that supplied fresh flowers for the building.
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Richmond Day
In May 1953, shoppers crowded downtown streets for Richmond Day, a promotion that began the year before. Like Black Friday, the event lured shoppers to stores with deals, such as $1 televisions, 2-for-1 car deals and $1 dresses. Merchants reported strong sales.
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Richmond Symphony
In April 1972, Mrs. Peter B. Bahler (left) and Mrs. Jay J. Levit showed off “Vive la Symphonie” buttons that were given to season ticket subscribers for the Richmond Symphony’s upcoming concert season, which would have an international flavor and be led by French conductor Jacques Houtmann. Bahler designed the blue, white and red buttons; Levit led the season ticket campaign.
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Salt
In February 1966, a front-end loader moved a new batch of salt that would be used to melt snow on Richmond streets. The stockpile, which had been severely depleted during the first part of winter, was kept at a railroad trestle in the Public Works Department area near Parker Field.
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Sobles
In October 1977, Bruce Buhrman (left) and Paul Soble stood in front of their soon-to-be restaurant, Soble’s, in Richmond’s Fan District. The building previously housed Cavedo’s Drug Store, which opened in 1916 when the area was sparsely settled. Soble had been a physical education teacher at Tuckahoe Junior High School but resigned so that he and Buhrman, who had tended bar together, could develop the restaurant.
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South Side Health Center
In September 1950, ground was broken for the South Richmond Health Center at 14th and Bainbridge streets. Members of the Richmond public health community and South Richmond Community Nursing Service participated in the ceremony. The clinic, which opened in January 1952, was staffed by volunteer nurses.
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The Diamond
In April 1985, Cammie Joyce, a daughter of Dr. William H. Parker for whom the former Parker Field was named, threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the new Diamond on opening night for the Richmond Braves. The new baseball stadium on the Boulevard replaced Parker Field.
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VA State Capitol
In March 1974 at the state Capitol, Virginia first lady Katherine Godwin (second from right) unveiled a painting of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. The work, by Jack Clifton (front), was presented by the Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution. Assisting Godwin were state Sen. Edward E. Willey Sr. of Richmond and DAR official Mrs. John S. Biscoe.
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VCU Gym
In October 1989, two Virginia Commonwealth University students played racquetball in the school’s new gymnasium on Cary Street in Richmond. The brick building with glass cupola had been a farmers market in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and then became the City Auditorium, which hosted conventions and other events.
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Westhamtpon School
In September 1961, students entered Westhampton School in Richmond. That fall, Daisy Jane Cooper became the first African-American student to integrate the junior high school; the following year, she made similar history at Thomas Jefferson High School.
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YWCA
In May 1968, Andrea Queen and Betty Tenser attended a class sponsored by the Richmond YWCA to learn about basic auto mechanics, maintenance and on-the-road repairs. Their instructor was Bill Ferguson of Ferguson’s Garage.
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In a sea of activities, sales booths and performances, a group of artists gathered Saturday at the 12th disAbilities Expo.
The larger event was created to connect people with disabilities with resources and tools to enhance their quality of life. But the art exhibit and sale allowed those with talents in the arts to showcase their skill.
There was no end to the creative pieces available at the expo – including earrings, paintings and detailed functional model cars.
Teelo Cosby, a first-time disAbilities Expo attendee and the creative mind behind T's Oldskool Art, came to sell his paper-based figures. The work included decorative shoes, clothing and – most impressive to many who stopped at his booth – model cars.
Cosby said the process can be extensive between finding detailed photos of the items he replicates, cutting paper to fit the project to scale and laminating the paper to protect it. It can take several weeks to complete one of his model cars.
With a few years of experience under his belt, Cosby has worked up to building his cars with many of the small details that can be seen in vehicles on the road, including an engine and stereo. And he does it all with only cardboard, construction paper and tape.
Cosby said he started with a model of a garbage truck when he was in high school, and the hobby has grown from there.
"I like doing stuff like this when I'm bored and have a lot of extra time," he said. "It takes a lot of patience."
Aside from his pre-made cars, Cosby accepts requests for custom models.
"I do the best I can on it," he said.
Several artists brought paintings to the expo, including Amanda Butcher and Katie Lyvers, who also attended the expo for the first time Saturday. Butcher represented Creative Hearts Art Studio and many of the painters there while Lyvers sold her own work.
Lyvers said she derived a lot of inspiration from her "fur babies," two orange cats. The two felines even get involved with the process from time to time. One piece in particular was created with all paws on deck.
Lyvers said she put a canvas and paint in a bag, then had her cats sit on the it, play on it and eat food off of it to create an abstract painting.
Butcher, whose main work was "Star Wars"-inspired paintings, said she was enjoying selling her work and the work of others at her studio. Butcher described it as "all different kinds of art because people have different stories."
But her favorite part of the process is making a mess while she creates, Butcher said.
As an ambassador for the studio, Butcher said she is excited to return to the expo next year with more art to share.
Michael Landon, an artist, visited the expo for the third time Saturday. He came with the goal of selling some of his paintings, meeting new people and seeing old friends.
His paintings featured flowers, with his favorites being three paintings with sunflowers. Landon enjoys selling his art and admiring the works created by others.
"I feel good about that," he said. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/artists-across-abilities-artists-showcase-work-at-disabilities-expo/article_12c1b962-f1b1-11ed-844a-5f9e90b82eb5.html | 2023-05-14T00:24:08 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/artists-across-abilities-artists-showcase-work-at-disabilities-expo/article_12c1b962-f1b1-11ed-844a-5f9e90b82eb5.html |
The Stockton University women's rowing team added to its impressive season Saturday.
The varsity eight took gold at the Dad Vail Regatta in Pennsauken, Camden County, the program's second victory at the prestigious race in three years. The Ospreys dominated their race, beating the six-team field by 15 seconds with a time of 7 minutes, 8.807 seconds.
The win came after Stockton's dominating 19-second win in its heat Friday along the Cooper River.
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The win concluded a spring in which head coach Chris O'Brien's varsity eight went undefeated. It won six regattas, including golds at the Mid-Atlantic Rowing Conference Championships and the Knect Cup. The boat also won at the Manhattan College Invitational, the Battle at Brigantine and the Upper Schuylkill Challenge.
The varsity eight was comprised of Emily Latshaw, Amber Hartzell, Megan Baldwin (Holy Spirit H.S.), Madelynn Schina, Marissa Martinelli, Ashley Timm (Egg Harbor Township), Gabriella Bates (Southern Regional), Izabelle DelRoss (Cedar Creek) and coxswain Lorelei Hendricks.
Stockton's second varsity eight took home a silver medal in 7:59.114, trailing only Temple. That boat was made up of Allison Reed, Katie Kurtz (Cedar Creek), Jarah Higbee (Mainland Regional), Emily Little (Wildwood), Reese Weirick, Ashley Truesdell, Jordan Barikian (Lower Cape May Regional), Kimberly Canelas (ACIT) and coxswain Kelley Mason.
Stockton's freshman/novice four placed third in the petite final, finishing in 8:34.933 in the six-boat race. Mason was the coxswain of that boat, rowed by Emma Dyrsten, Erin O'Brien, Little and Lexi Kripetz.
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Niagara Cares, in collaboration with the Boys and Girls Club of Kenosha and the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation hosted the opening of the new Ripken STEM Center and learning center at the club on Thursday.
Representatives of Niagara and the Boys and Girls Club of Kenosha cut the ribbon to celebrate the opening of the new center, which was refreshed by volunteers from the Niagara Bottling plant in Pleasant Prairie.
Their efforts — assembling and painting new furniture, preparing STEM products, and setting up computers and a 3D printer — helped transform the space into a state-of-the-art STEM Center, providing a valuable resource for the youth of Kenosha.
“We’re grateful to Niagara Cares for this partnership. They have a strong group of volunteers who continue to make a difference in the community,” said Steve Salem, president and CEO of the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation.
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After a productive work session, volunteers took part in a lunch break and cleanup activities, further building camaraderie and teamwork among the participants. The event culminated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony, officially opening the new center designed to foster a love of science, technology, engineering and math.
“At Niagara, we strongly believe in supporting the communities where we live and work,” said Ann Canela, director of corporate giving for Niagara. “Our team members were happy to help complete the new Ripken STEM Center because it gave them an opportunity to connect with each other and create meaningful change for children and young people in the area.”
The collaborative effort between Niagara Cares, the Boys and Girls Club of Kenosha, and the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation showcased the commitment to education, community development and empowering the next generation through STEM education. Engaging kids in STEM education at an early age will prepare them to start thinking about their future career paths in STEM fields. The newly established STEM Center will serve as a hub for innovation and learning, providing countless opportunities for the youth of Kenosha to excel in these areas, officials said.
Niagara Cares is a program of Niagra Bottling LLC, which believes in supporting communities where we live and work through a spirit of giving back both big and small. Making a difference for its team members, consumers and communities through volunteering, product donations, disaster relief and other areas to create meaningful change has been a priority for over 60 years.
The Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation works to strengthen America’s most under-served and distressed communities by supporting and advocating for children, building Youth Development Parks and STEM Centers, partnering with law enforcement and youth-service agencies, and addressing community needs through its national program initiatives.
For more information about Niagara Cares and its initiatives, visit https://drinkniagarawater.com/niagara-cares/.
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PULASKI COUNTY, Arkansas — One Daisy Bates Elementary School student is in the hospital after being hit by a Pulaski County Special School District bus around 4 p.m. on Friday near the 3600 block of West Hensley Road.
According to Lt. Cody Burk with the Pulaski County Sheriff's Department, the school bus driver thought the road was clear after making a drop-off but didn't realize one of the kids had fallen.
Burk said the back tire of the bus ran over the student and that the accident is currently under investigation.
The injured student is receiving treatment at Arkansas Children's Hospital.
The investigation into this incident remains ongoing, and we will update with more information as soon as it becomes available. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/child-hospitalized-after-being-hit-by-school-bus/91-e396b7b0-2070-439e-af2b-11e22ab52d96 | 2023-05-14T00:28:18 | 1 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/child-hospitalized-after-being-hit-by-school-bus/91-e396b7b0-2070-439e-af2b-11e22ab52d96 |
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Globally, Mother's Day is celebrated on different dates and this year it's celebrated on May 14. With evolving science, motherhood looks different for everyone whether it's traditional, adoption, or through surrogates.
"For as long as I could remember I always wanted to be a mom and I just sort of assumed it would happen. I would meet someone, I would get married, and then as I was approaching 40, I realized maybe this is not gonna happen for me," said Mother Asha Mevlana.
When Mevlana turned 40, she decided to pursue other options.
"And what I ultimately decided was to find a sperm donor, which I found online and he happens to be anonymous and then I used my egg and so I went through the whole process of IVF a few times," Mevlana said.
Over the course of eight years and three miscarriages later, baby Khef came into the world via surrogate in 2022 and made Mevlana the happiest woman in the world.
"He's great, he loves music, he just makes me laugh every single day. The laugh and smile and brings me so much joy. I'm sure most parents feel this way, you know when you're seeing the world through a child's eyes it's just a whole new experience," Mevlana explained.
Baby Khef is now 1-year-old. He enjoys climbing and is a musician in the making. Although Mevlana is a single mother she is not alone.
"I don't feel alone at all, I have my mom who's really helping me she lives next door. I have my family around here, and I have an incredible community who loves him and helps me take care of him," Mevlana said.
Mevlana also adds that male role models in Khef's life are important and she's thankful to have her dad and brother who live locally be active in his life.
Through an anonymous sperm donor, Khef has seventeen other half-siblings. The families of the half-siblings have connected through Facebook which created a bonus family Asha never knew she needed.
"So it's really cool because it's the family, I always wanted a big family and even though it's not my family,I'm able to provide him with family and siblings," said Mevlana.
This Mother’s Day she's celebrating the path that led her to motherhood with family and a heart full of gratitude...and is encouraging other women to follow their dreams.
"You know there are just so many different ways of having families nowadays and I guess for me it's like you don't have to give up on that dream just because you're still single or haven't met that person yet," Mevlana stated.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Quality Living Center Director Dino Davis is turning the table and going to people in need, instead of waiting for them to come to him.
The center held its annual Spring Fest on Saturday, a festival that focuses on alcohol and substance abuse.
"A lot of people are scared to come forward and say that they have a problem," Davis said.
It's a challenge he has faced before.
"I also am a recovering addict," Davis said.
It's why he's so passionate about recovery.
Davis along with 15 vendors set up along Asher Avenue, giving people a chance to get information and find resources for themselves or a loved one battling addiction.
"The best way to combat it is to provide prevention, education and empowerment," Wards of Serenity Director Sybil Ward said.
Wards of Serenity is a faith-based organization that focuses on substance abuse and HIV prevention.
"Minority communities have been disproportionately impacted by substance abuse as well as HIV education," Ward said.
She believes this is because of the stigma behind substance abuse and sexually transmitted infections.
"That person is someone's child and is connected to a family," Ward said.
Davis added that crime is common in the community along Asher Avenue, so he's hoping that Spring Fest can bring people together in harmony while combating the increase in substance abuse.
"We're trying to kill two birds with one stone and help people stay out of jail," Davis said. "Stay off the drugs and alcohol and reunite back with their families and loved ones." | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/little-rock-festival-curbing-substance-abuse/91-79c955e2-2827-462e-a903-9fb61452e92a | 2023-05-14T00:28:31 | 1 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/little-rock-festival-curbing-substance-abuse/91-79c955e2-2827-462e-a903-9fb61452e92a |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Cleburne County Sheriff's Office is seeking information on the whereabouts of two runaway juveniles from Herber Springs.
Alexis Wright, 15, and her boyfriend Jacob Ray, 16, were reported missing on May 11 and were last seen walking away from school.
Authorities believe they are heading towards West Memphis or Marion, Ark.
Wright is 5 feet 5 inches tall and 130 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes. She was last seen wearing a black hoodie with red Chinese writing, grey sweatpants and white shoes.
Anyone with information is encouraged to the Cleburne County Sheriff's Office at (501) 362-8143 or your local law enforcement agency. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/missing-persons-reports/cleburne-county-sheriffs-searching-for-teens/91-1480c906-2ad1-42c9-9c35-825cdea622dc | 2023-05-14T00:28:37 | 1 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/missing-persons-reports/cleburne-county-sheriffs-searching-for-teens/91-1480c906-2ad1-42c9-9c35-825cdea622dc |
Just two weeks after my dad died, it’s becoming hard to believe he inhabited this era.
He lived in it, yes, but he defied its spirit.
Bob Steller was computer literate, but he didn’t go down conspiracy-theory rabbit holes, as many older Americans have done in recent years.
Raised in a Republican household, he was a committed Democrat, but he didn’t get into big battles over politics.
He lived in the middle of Minneapolis for six decades, and was a snowbird in Tucson for two, but he didn’t fear the people who passed by or rang his doorbell. He didn’t have a gun to meet them with.
He was good to people, warm and compassionate, and his faith in others paid off over 87 years. What a foreign concept in this fearful and hostile time.
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It was a shock when my brother Chris called me Wednesday afternoon, April 26, and told me our dad had fallen, that he was at the hospital and that it wasn’t clear what had happened or what the prospects were.
The next day I headed north, and for another day, we lived under the illusion that things could be OK. Despite our dad being in his upper 80s, he was mentally and physically vibrant.
When he was in Tucson for three weeks in March, we went to the book festival, hiked in various desert spots, took other walks around town, read and chatted on my porch, and planned for the future.
The last day he was here, he said he'd like to see the wildflowers at Picacho Peak, so we went there in the morning before his plane left in the afternoon. We went up and down various rocky paths, using walking sticks.
As we headed up one trail, a middle-aged woman and her older mother passed us, walking gingerly back toward the trailhead. After my dad and I went as far as we wanted to, we returned and came up behind that same pair near the beginning of the trail. The younger woman stepped aside, asked us to pass them by and explained, "My mom is 87."
As my dad trudged quickly past, he looked back and unselfconsciously said, "So am I!" I cringed and smiled simultaneously. He was just being friendly.
Our mom, Judy Steller, died in December after years of decline with Alzheimer’s disease. Our dad took care of her during most of those years, to the point of exhaustion, and we were excited for him to have more time to explore his many interests.
That’s what he was doing when he fell. He drove to the Minneapolis Institute of Art for a class there, parked on the street and was walking down the sidewalk outside the museum when he collapsed.
On Friday, April 28, it became clear he wasn’t going to get more time to explore. He had suffered a cardiac arrest, and the doctors told us the brain damage from lack of oxygen was serious.
He was on a ventilator at the time, and the decision to take him off wasn’t difficult. He had also suffered a broken vertebrae in his neck and a bruised spine — he likely was paralyzed as well as brain damaged. In a medical directive, he had specified that if he suffered significant brain damage, he wanted “care for comfort” not to be kept alive by machines.
It wasn’t really our choice to make — he had made it for us.
Relieving that burden was typical of Bob. He grew up in Bowling Green, Ohio, in the 40s and 50s, living through World War II and all the American social upheavals in subsequent decades. He still emerged hopeful and kind, carrying that spirit all the way into the cynical and sinister 2020s.
His faith in others remained, sustaining his own enthusiasm, even as many Americans let their trust whither into cynicism.
This isn't to say he had no toughness. He played center on football teams through high school and four years of college. Those were the days before facemasks — imagine being a lineman with no facemask— and he broke his nose several times, injuries that you could see if you looked at his face closely.
He had an assured presence. On two different occasions as a young man he disarmed people who had worrisome intentions by saying something to the effect of "Give me the gun." Both times they gave it to him.
Unlike many male media personalities today, and the many youth who unfortunately follow them, Bob Steller did not care about displaying his masculinity. He did what he enjoyed.
When I was a kid, Bob took me camping and fishing but also to plays and concerts. Up till the end, he sang in a church choir, and he always adored gardening. He also liked watching football and, if I was around, soccer. He taught me to cook when I was home after school — we'd make spaghetti sauce, chili or meatloaf as MASH reruns played on TV.
He spent a career teaching English composition and literature at a community college in suburban St. Paul. When I went into his apartment, the book at the top of his stack, next to his neatly made bed, was Boxelder Bug Variations by the Minnesota poet Bill Holm (who, coincidentally, spent much time in his later years in Patagonia, Arizona)
Bob Steller didn't have to work hard to be enthusiastic, warm and accepting. Most of the time, it's just the way he was.
I got some of that from him, but I also got my mom's feistiness and my own special blend of ego and temper. It takes effort for me, sometimes, to channel that Bob Steller energy, to drop the judgment and self-interest and instead practice acceptance and enjoyment of others and what they bring.
That spirit contrasts so much with the angry American time we're in. For our dad, a gentle, enthusiastic spirit came naturally. For most of us, in this hostile and fearful time, it's something to pursue and cultivate.
Tim Steller is an opinion columnist. A 25-year veteran of reporting and editing, he digs into issues and stories that matter in the Tucson area, reports the results and tells you his conclusions. Contact him at tsteller@tucson.com or 520-807-7789. On Twitter: @senyorreporter | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/tim-stellers-column-a-warm-hopeful-man-departs-a-cynical-sinister-era/article_f7e50a2c-f043-11ed-a0cd-efe421988b12.html | 2023-05-14T00:29:10 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/tim-stellers-column-a-warm-hopeful-man-departs-a-cynical-sinister-era/article_f7e50a2c-f043-11ed-a0cd-efe421988b12.html |
In the book, Charlie finds the ticket in a candy bar called the Whipple Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight. In the movie, the factory is illustrated in matching style, as a trippy, baroque cartoon: a chocolate river and technicolor lollipop forests.
Candy-making is a dark art, the secret industrial process that imagines and makes the stuff of children’s wildest cravings. In cheery and menacing laboratories, Willy Wonka is preoccupied with research and development, venturing further from the medium of chocolate as he scrapes the burning sky with marshmallow-tipped ice cream wings.
So you might be disappointed, at first, when a real-life chocolate factory tour — at Tucson’s acclaimed Monsoon Chocolate, 234 E. 22nd St. — happens in one big temperature-controlled room.
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Indoor windows reveal the depths of the factory: the grinding room or an assembly line of two people. One worker stands in front of a minor chocolate waterfall, arranging squares of ganache into rows. Someone else decorates the confections on the other side. The air smells warmly like the cashew brittle that is cooling on a marble slab around the corner.
The $20 tours, which happen several times throughout May, aren’t ostentatious or whimsical, yet they still seek to inspire. The Monsoon Chocolate factory begins in a room flanked with hefty jute bags, wherein lies the focus of the tour: the beans.
When owner Adam Krantz enters, he bears an iPad instead of a scepter, wonkish circle glasses in place of a satin top hat, hipster tattoos under rolled-up sleeves. Yet one aspect mirrors old Willy Wonka: a gleam in his eye, flirting with fanatical love of chocolate.
Adam commands the tour, yet his showmanship is more as a supporting role: he aims to highlight the wonder of the chocolate itself. The iPad comes out to illustrate the wonders of the plant: elephantine pods that emerge directly from the trunk of the tree, fruits displayed in every color of the rainbow.
Next, a photo of a modest black insect. The chocolate midge, Adam said, is the plant’s only pollinator. “We can hardly see the midge, and they don’t know we exist, but we’re still in this symbiotic relationship,” Adam said. Without its efforts, chocolate wouldn’t exist.
The material of the tour includes a few precious substances. The first is cacao water, made from the pressed fruit (usually wasted) that surrounds each seed that turns into a cocoa bean. Adam describes the taste of the water as “all my favorite tropical fruits in one,” but this is the first time he’ll talk about how many volatile flavor compounds exist in chocolate.
“This is one of the most complex flavor substances on the planet,” Adam said. “I mean, they’re saying, like, over 1,000 compounds in fermented cacao. It’s wild. You know, things like beer and wine and coffee — they’re all complex flavor foods, but you’re more in the 400 to 600 volatile compounds on those.”
To me, the cacao water tasted like fat-washed orange juice, but other guests identified kiwi. Adam declares, diplomatically, that there isn’t one answer to what it tastes like: we’re all interpreting this staggeringly complex fruit. This is the first time that I see this tour not just as a demonstration of how the sausage is made, but Adam as a broker of these unique and hard-to-find foods that we come here to taste with his guidance.
Most of the chocolate bars that Monsoon sells are single-origin, which means the beans come from a particular farm, growing a particular varietal of cacao, in a tropical country thousands of miles away from Tucson. These farms are small — though chocolate is produced on an industrial level (Adam calls it “Big Chocolate”), the farms that grow the fruit are typically around one acre in size.
“When we say our chocolates are a partnership with farms, we really mean that,” Adam said. The first crucial steps to making chocolate are done on-site: growing and harvesting the fruits, fermenting the beans and then drying them into what we would recognize as a cocoa bean.
Each of these steps require expertise: “You have to know your specific trees, your specific genetics. What looks right in one farm might not be right on the other. And all the pods are ripening at different rates, so you might have just one or two per tree that are ready to harvest.”
Though cacao trees fruit year-round, there are one or two times a year that are peak harvest. Buying the beans can be one of the hardest parts of the business, Adam said. “We’re usually purchasing when [the beans are] ready, when it’s available, and it might not line up with when you’re ready.”
From the farms, the beans get shipped to a warehouse in San Francisco that holds most of the western U.S. supply of cocoa. Then they arrive at Monsoon, where the factory work truly begins.
Adam gets up from the head of the table and takes us into an alcove next to a window into a room with heavy machinery. Two miniature grinding machines are busy at work churning cocoa beans into chocolate.
The machines sit on top of enormous Tupperwares filled with sheathed cocoa beans. Big Chocolate, Adam said, has machines the size of this room that sort out twigs and defective beans from the supply, and even more machinery to winnow the shell from the bean. At Monsoon, these things are done with manual labor and some ingenuity: workers sort the beans by hand, and their winnowing machine is a juicer attached to an industrial vacuum, designed by an engineer friend of Adam’s.
These beans are evaluated based on their size and acidity, and then roasted and aged for maximum flavor and minimal bitterness. Then, they go in the grinder.
The grinder almost seems like a misnomer — if you’re thinking about a coffee grinder, you’re not realizing how small chocolate is ground in order for a smooth finish. These grinders get the coffee beans down to less than 20 microns in size, which essentially turns the beans into a liquid.
This is the second time the tour feels more like a guided tasting: Adam dips sample spoons into each grinder: one contains beans alone, the other has cocoa butter and sugar added. We try them both.
Most of what chocolatiers taste is the chocolate liquor, also called unrefined chocolate. Though the bitterness is sharper in this form, the notes of the chocolate are much easier to identify.
These notes are what make each bar a collaboration between the farmer: they’re the expression of the fruit, soil, latitude, and specialized practices of a farm taking up one acre of land in this world.
When you taste a sample of the finished chocolate bar at the table, the chocolate liquor has shocked your taste buds into being able to recognize the complex flavors hiding underneath the sugar and bitterness we most easily recognize as dark chocolate. Suddenly, your palate feels expansive.
Adam shows us how he smells and snaps the chocolate, to understand its aromatic and textural composition. The snap shows how much of each core ingredient — cocoa, sugar, cocoa butter — is present.
Adam doesn’t tell you what you should be tasting — there are 1,000 directions those volatile flavor compounds can take you.
The last thing you’ll taste on the tour is their lowest cocoa percentage chocolate, a 40% milk chocolate from Ecuadorian beans. Any lower of a cocoa percentage, Adam said, and the nuances of the cocoa will be washed out by sugar and milk. (A big-name candy bar, by the way, probably is clocking in closer to 15 percent, the lowest it can be and still be legally called chocolate by the FDA.)
At the end of the tour, we’re turned loose in their downsized cafe space. The reason these tours can happen, Adam said, is because the factory is moving its local retail operations to a new cafe in the Copenhagen Plaza, 3630 E. Fort Lowell Road.
He tells the family reunion from Washington state that the cafe will be open in a few weeks — pending city approval — and they cheerily indicate that they won’t be in town by that point. Instead, the family will be shipping Monsoon Chocolate to their homes across the country. The Tucson heat can melt the chocolate especially quickly, so this national delivery is no small feat.
“I like to tell people we're a logistics company as much as we're a chocolate company,” Adam said. Shipping, though, saved the company during the pandemic, when they had to close their cafe and stop all tours.
The tour ends with a complimentary goodie: each person gets to pick their own bonbon from their display case. These jewels are hand-decorated (they employ a bon-bon designer to come up with art for each flavor). Their Whiskey Del Bac bonbon recently won the Good Food Award, though it’s one of the least flashy in the case.
After the tour, Adam spirits away to the back of the factory as the tourists mingle in the lobby, buying chocolate and talking about their plans to come.
When I buy a chocolate bar, it’s not to satisfy a craving or as a souvenir of the event. It’s an opportunity to practice what we learned on the tour: to remember when we’re at home, returned to our normal lives, what it means to savor chocolate.
Tours of Monsoon Chocolate's factory are $20 per person. To see available dates and book your ticket, click here. Monsoon Chocolate is located at 234 E. 22nd St., open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday. Its new cafe is set to open in the coming weeks at 3630 E. Fort Lowell Road. | https://tucson.com/news/local/tours-catch-the-magic-behind-the-scenes-at-monsoon-chocolate/article_174df8a2-f020-11ed-b8d0-b7ddb0437d73.html | 2023-05-14T00:29:16 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/tours-catch-the-magic-behind-the-scenes-at-monsoon-chocolate/article_174df8a2-f020-11ed-b8d0-b7ddb0437d73.html |
DALLAS — (AP) — A man who didn't want his girlfriend to get an abortion fatally shot her during a confrontation in a Dallas parking lot, police said.
He was jailed on a murder charge as of Friday.
Texas banned abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy in September 2021. But nearly all abortions have been halted in Texas since Roe v. Wade was overturned last summer, except in cases of medical emergency.
Gabriella Gonzalez, 26, was with her boyfriend, 22-year-old Harold Thompson, on Wednesday when he tried to put her in a chokehold, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. She had returned the night before from Colorado, where she had gone to get an abortion.
“It is believed that the suspect was the father of the child,” the affidavit said. “The suspect did not want (Gonzalez) to get an abortion.”
Surveillance video from the parking lot shows Gonzalez “shrugs him off,” police said, and the two continue walking. Thompson then pulls out a gun and shoots Gonzalez in the head. She falls to the ground and Thompson shoots her multiple times before running away, the affidavit said.
Thompson was arrested later Wednesday and is being held in the Dallas County Jail without bond. Court records did not list an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
Gonzalez’s sister was at the scene and heard the shooting, police said. Another witness saw Thompson try to choke Gonzalez but couldn't call police because she did not have her cell phone.
At the time of the shooting, Thompson had been charged with assault of a family member, who accused him of choking her in March.
The affidavit from March does not specifically name Gonzalez as the person who was assaulted. But it does say the woman told police that Thompson “beat her up multiple times throughout the entirety of their relationship” and that Thompson told police the woman was pregnant with his child at that time.
The woman “reiterated that she is scared of the suspect because he had made threats to harm her family and her children,” according to the affidavit.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — People gathered at O.J. Watson Park in Wichita Saturday to learn more about the Wichita Police Department’s K-9 and mounted units.
Big Brothers Big Sisters teamed up with the WPD for the event. The organization offers volunteers a chance to mentor children in the area.
Matches were able to learn more about how the training of the WPD animals and how they care for the community.
“A lot of times we are not aware of what to do when we’re around horses, especially to this size, so just a little bit about horse etiquette and then how we can help in the community,” said Courtney Stuckey of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Sedgwick County.
Stuckey said they hope to host other events for their matches, including game nights and clean-ups along the river. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/big-brothers-big-sisters-learn-about-wpd-animals/ | 2023-05-14T00:41:58 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/big-brothers-big-sisters-learn-about-wpd-animals/ |
GREENSBORO — About 50 people gathered Saturday to protest the planned facility to house immigrant children who crossed the border with Mexico until they are reunited with their family or a sponsor.
“This is not a reunification center. This is a gilded cage,” said Mike Ishii of Tsuru for Solidarity. “It's a concentration camp for black and brown children.”
The protesters, some of them local and some of whom came from as far away as California, marched from St. Barnabas Episcopal Church along Jefferson Road to a back gate of the former American Hebrew Academy. They laid a wreath and flowers at the gate, sang and offered condolences to the family of Honduran teenage immigrant who died in federal custody this week. His cause of death is under investigation.
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For $10 million per year, the federal government is renting the 100-acre academy to house the Greensboro Piedmont Academy Influx Care Facility for UC (unaccompanied minors).
No opening date has been announced, but the facility could house up to 800 children, primarily ages 13 to 17.
Youth would stay there while the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) works to place them with a “vetted sponsor,” often a family member, while their immigration status is adjudicated.
“These influx facilities run by and invested in by ORR are in danger to children because of their lack of transparency and accountability,” said Rene Murillo of Seeds of Resistance.
Murillo was held at an influx facility for more than a month eight years ago, when he was 9 years old.
“It was just like an eternity,” he said.
Though 60 years older than Murillo, Dr. Satsuki Ina said she can relate to his experience.
A co-founder of Tsuru for Solidarity, Ina and her two siblings who came to Saturday’s protest were born in internment camps set up by the U.S. government during World War II. American citizens of Japanese descent were forced to live in the camps for years after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
“My mother was pregnant with my brother at the time and faced incredible trauma,” Ina said. “My mother wrote in her diary, ‘I wonder if today's the day they're going to line us up and shoot us.’
“So they lived in constant anxiety and, as a psychotherapist, I know that trauma can have lasting effects on children, Ina said.
Housing immigrant children — who came to this country for a better life — in influx care centers is wrong, all three of the siblings said.
“We have handcuffed them, put them in freezing buildings, and transported them to huge facilities where their identities are lost,” Ina said. “So we're here to say stop repeating history. No more detention of children.”
The Office of Refugee Resettlement, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, operates 220 influx care facilities nationwide.
More than $268 million has been obligated by the federal government for the Greensboro facility, with hundreds of millions more likely to be spent.
Deployed Resources and its sister company Deployed Services have been awarded contracts to provide services there. At least 1,500 people are expected to work at the facility when it opens and some already are at the site.
Ishii said conditions at other facilities that sheltered immigrant children portend what could happen in Greensboro.
“At Fort Bliss, there were four whistleblowers that came forth in the last couple of years,” Ishii said.
“They were alleging sexual abuse, physical abuse, rotten food, children whose cases were forgotten and they languished for many months without seeing a caseworker because no one knew that they were in prison cells waiting to have their cases heard.
“We're here as the canaries in the coal mine to say do not let this come to your community,” he said.
Some of what Ishii said is backed up by a report from the DHHS Office of Inspector General. Rapid Deployment Inc. managed the Fort Bliss facility in El Paso, Texas.
Cecile Crawford, state director of the American Friends Service Committee, said federal officials need to come up with a better plan.
“We want the Biden administration and the Office of Refugee Resettlement to invest in a more humane policy of rapid reunification at the border and an end to detention,” Crawford said.
As of Friday, more than 9,000 unaccompanied immigrant children were in the custody of DHHS or U.S. Customs and Border Protection, according to a federal report. That does not include children from Mexico, who are usually sent directly back to that country. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/greensboro-immigrant-detention-camp/article_931be9f6-f1ad-11ed-85ae-bba776744cb1.html | 2023-05-14T00:45:53 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/greensboro-immigrant-detention-camp/article_931be9f6-f1ad-11ed-85ae-bba776744cb1.html |
What we saw at Artisphere: Festival again brings tens of thousands to downtown Greenville
- Artisphere was established in 2003 with the goal of creating a nationally recognized Fine Arts festival.
- There were 143 total artists representing 31 states at tis year's Artisphere.
The 2023 Artisphere, celebrating its 20th year of existence, meant big crowds in downtown Greenville this weekend.
Approximately 90,000 attendees were expected for this year's free event, which spanned from Court Street and Main to Wardlaw and Main during the three-day festival. This festival integrates events and exhibitions that expand into Falls Park for the first time since 2019.
Artwork ranged from plants combined with jewelry, oil and acrylic paintings with fantasy themes, Boxed Music drums and much more.
The festival, which also features live music and food, was established in 2003 with the goal of creating a nationally recognized Fine Arts festival in Greenville. The event concludes Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
While the Saturday Market had crowds gathered on the north end of Main Street, going south toward the West End was an amazing display of artistry and imagination. There were 143 total artists representing 31 states including 40 brand new artists and 16 Greenville-based artists.
With 18 different art forms on display, here are some of the most interesting booths, art and intriguing sights and sounds at Artisphere:
Mary Alice Godfrey comes to Artisphere with a plan
Mary Alice Godfrey hopes to retire from practicing family law soon and wants to spend more time enjoying art. She has attended Artisphere 19 times and likes to scope out the entire scene before making her final decision on a purchase.
"The first day I typically look at one-half of the displays, and Saturday the other half," said Godfrey, 70. "And then I'll come back (on Sunday) and make any purchase, or just look again."
She currently has a few pieces hanging in her Greer home from purchases she made at Artisphere over the years. She has a love for art and an appreciation for Greenville for having the event.
"It's my favorite festival in Greenville," Godfrey said. "I've been able to make purchases of watercolors, prints, jewelry and more. I have been coming since it began. I'm not sure I'll ever stop coming."
Phill Singer's fantasy world
Phill Singer's piece entitled "The Outsider" took home first place in the 2-D category as it showcases an octopus floating through the street with other land animals chasing behind it.
Much more of his oil and acrylic artwork showed similar characteristics: larger-than-life animals in tight spaces, running through water or swimming through farmland. Singer captivated Artisphere onlookers with the visual image of what appeared to be various aquamarine dreams.
"I'm creating a dreamlike environment," Singer said. "I pick things I want to paint, and I play with them. Sometimes when you wake up from a dream you have no idea what it was about. That's what I want to execute. "
The New Britian, Pennsylvania artist works in a room by himself for weeks at a time and often thinks and hopes people love the work he creates. His website is The Art of Phill Singer.
Official festival poster:Greenville couple's artwork captures essence of Artisphere
Steven Daniel's frog photography
Steven Daniel started photographing nature almost 12 years ago, but it morphed into more after taking humorous pictures of frogs alongside smaller props and activities.
Because of the humor, cuteness and professionalism of his work, Daniel's Artisphere booth was a must see.
Daniel uses real frogs for his photoshoots. He once put a frog on a small bicycle and it tickled him. Since then his work can be seen featuring frogs playing billiards, cooking, on a romantic date and even playing the popular video game Frogger.
Adam Crowell's Boxed Music drum
As Adam Crowell played his 12-note Boxed Music drum, the Artisphere crowd had no choice but to notice the crisp sounds coming from a wooden box, that featured a carved-out xylophone that can be played by hand or stick.
Forced to repair his own cajón one time, Crowell began fixing other musicians' instruments and decided to make his own musical tool to sell for profit, after struggling to make ends meet.
Crowell builds and offers Boxed Music drums in different keys, scales and notes and also offers shakers and music to play alongside.
Nolan Prohaska's sandblasted plants
Dancewither Glassworks is Nolan Prohaska's interpretation of flowers with a sandblasted and matte finish. The Artisphere crowd took notice of the bright flower pedals that go with etched stems, creating a unique perspective of the flower. The Wisconsin native uses molten glass inside a 2,000-degree furnace for all of his artwork.
"When we see plants, very few of them are shiny," Prohaska said. "This display is more about color, combos and form."
Jenifer Thoem's ceramics create illusions
What appeared to be small and cartoonish, from a distance, turned out to be a fascinating display of smaller artwork that showcases a larger image at Jennifer Thoem's mixed media 2-D booth.
"My work is not your typical art," Thoem said. "I use tiny objects to make bigger pieces."
One of her displays features a collection of airplanes that can be pinned to the wall, and individual clouds that are designed to fit on a specific wall or part of a ceiling. Thoem creates art installations for her customers and often sells them to people with unique ceilings or wall spaces and hotel lobbies.
Thoem, a Georgia Southern art graduate, has always known there was nothing more she wanted to do than make ceramics, travel to different showcases across the country and display her work.
Bobby Goldsmith's pencil drawings
Distinct, concise and sharp pencil drawings from Bobby Goldsmith caught the eye of many onlookers at Artisphere.
His time as a former construction worker and the architectural base drawings for kitchen remodels is where his expertise with pencil drawing started. After picking up both photography and water coloring eight years ago, Goldsmith slowly found his way back into drawing with pencil.
Suzanne Schmid's living art
"If you water them, they can live forever," is how Suzanne Schmid described her living art, combing jewelry and gardening. "This is a result of merging my two loves of jewelry and gardening," she said. "So this is wearable, living jewelry."
Schmid's artwork comes both in jewelry and sculpture form. Her necklaces can be worn with living flowers but also hung in kitchen windows to get sunshine and grow.
The Springfield, Illinois resident is a University of California at Santa Barbara sculpture graduate and believes her jewelry allows her to make small sculptures.
– A.J. Jackson covers the food & dining scene, along with arts, entertainment and more for The Greenville News and Anderson Independent Mail. Contact him by email at ajackson@gannett.com, and follow him on Twitter @ajhappened. | https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/greenville/downtown/2023/05/13/artisphere-festival-brings-large-crowds-to-downtown-greenville-sc/70215058007/ | 2023-05-14T00:55:22 | 0 | https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/greenville/downtown/2023/05/13/artisphere-festival-brings-large-crowds-to-downtown-greenville-sc/70215058007/ |
BEAVERTON, Oregon — The City of Beaverton is considering reducing library staff and hours in response to recent budget challenges.
“It feels like a slap in the face for [librarians],” said Adam Korst, library union president.
Earlier this month, Korst said he sat in the same room with eight Beaverton librarians as city officials told them their jobs were unofficially on the chopping block, pending approval by city council.
“It's gut wrenching,” said Korst. “This is people's livelihood and librarians — it's a very niche job and it's very hard to find jobs within that field. This is something people have worked a very long time for.”
The pending cuts come as the city of Beaverton responds to what they call “unprecedented” funding challenges.
“Economic conditions like rising inflation and expenses outpacing revenues have exacerbated the financial strains brought on by the pandemic,” said Dianna Ballash, spokesperson for Beaverton. “As a result, fiscal year 2023-24 budget development includes recommendations that are being considered to address a $10 million general fund shortfall, a $1 million library fund deficit and immediate steps toward a path of long-term fiscal sustainability.”
This week, the budget committee recommended cutting 18 library staff positions. That includes two part-time positions at the Beaverton City Library, eight full and part-time positions at the Murray Scholls Branch and one vacancy. The city could also reduce hours at the Murray Scholls Branch from seven down to four days a week.
“I hate to see anyone lose their job,” said library guest John Payne. “At the end of the day they provide a service, and it's a service that the community uses.”
Payne said he uses the Murray Scholls branch about three times a week and lives less than a mile away. He said he would feel the impact of reduced hours.
“If you've got to go to the main branch, that's a fantastic facility, but at the same time it's nice having local access to a nice branch,” said Payne.
Another library guest told KGW he's indifferent to the reduced hours, happy to visit other branches and said he would not notice staffing cuts.
“They've got signs that say, ‘use the electronic checkout,’” said Art Bahrs. “You don't need a librarian anymore.”
Korst disagrees. He's hanging onto the city's words that the proposed cuts are not yet a done deal. He hopes that they can find a way to reduce the budget without reducing jobs.
“These are people, these are lives, these are stories,” said Korst. “It was incredibly challenging to sit with these eight librarians and hear the stories of how this is going to impact their lives.”
The next budget committee meeting is scheduled for May 23. A public hearing and possible approval by city council is slated for June 6. City officials said if the library cuts go through, guests should expect reduced hours to kick in late this summer or early fall. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/city-of-beaverton-considers-library-layoffs-due-to-funding-cuts/283-5bd4ddc7-4455-4053-a076-c430f535b2b9 | 2023-05-14T00:55:34 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/city-of-beaverton-considers-library-layoffs-due-to-funding-cuts/283-5bd4ddc7-4455-4053-a076-c430f535b2b9 |
CLACKAMAS COUNTY, Ore. — It's going to be a hot one through the weekend, and into Monday. Though the heat means many will flock to beaches, rivers and lakes, firefighters and first responders warn of cold water dangers.
On the Clackamas River, High Rocks Park proves time after time to be one of the most popular — and notorious — spot to cool down. On Friday, several people soaked up the sun, and some of them got in the water — remarking the frigid temperature.
"Very cold! Almost shocking. It took the breath out of me when I jumped in," said Rachel Tolliver. "At the same time it’s really nice and refreshing, especially to get out and be able to lay in the sun and air dry now."
To stay safe, she said she stayed close to the shore and where she could touch — avoiding the rushing current.
"The current's moving pretty quickly. It's pretty pushy," said firefighter Dusty Mauck. "It's a lot harder to swim in it if you're used to coming out here in the summertime."
He said there's a couple of things to keep in mind if you plan to visit. First, there are no lifeguards on duty. They don't start until Memorial Day. Fire crews and police officers will be nearby, and expect large crowds Saturday and Sunday, but they won't have eyes on the swimmers at all times.
Second, the cold water can become a problem, if you're not careful.
"You jump in, they call it 'cold water shock.' Your body has an initial reaction to take a big gasp, and so if you jump in and you’re underwater and you take that gasp, you can go right to the bottom," Mauck said. "Also you have about three to five minutes of purposeful movement before the body starts to get hypothermic and you don’t have good control of your arms and legs, and it makes it more difficult to get out." | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/high-rocks-park-warning-firefighters-visitors-dangers-during-hot-weather/283-c1309c5f-1965-458f-aaf3-abb40d6b572d | 2023-05-14T00:55:40 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/high-rocks-park-warning-firefighters-visitors-dangers-during-hot-weather/283-c1309c5f-1965-458f-aaf3-abb40d6b572d |
Man shoots teen stepdaughter and then himself, Goodyear police say
Police say a teenage girl was shot by her stepfather, who then shot himself, in Goodyear on Wednesday.
About 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, authorities responded to a medical call at a home on Larkspur Drive near Sarival Avenue and Elwood Street in Goodyear.
Upon entrance, officers found two bodies, one belonging to 18-year-old Aaliyah M. Anderson, the other to her 41-year-old stepfather, John D. Castro, police said.
Castro and Anderson were found by family members who called 911, police said.
Due to evidence at the scene and autopsy reports, investigators believe Castro fatally shot Anderson before ultimately turning the gun on himself, police said.
"It is still not completely clear as to what caused Castro to resort to this violent act, and investigators will continue to search for more information," said Sgt. Sean Clarke, a spokesperson for the Goodyear Police Department. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/southwest-valley/2023/05/13/man-shoots-teen-stepdaughter-and-then-himself-goodyear-police-say/70215661007/ | 2023-05-14T01:07:46 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/southwest-valley/2023/05/13/man-shoots-teen-stepdaughter-and-then-himself-goodyear-police-say/70215661007/ |
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There’s a good reason that “coming of age” is its own prolific genre that includes thousands of books, movies and songs.
It's a turbulent time during which teenagers transition to adulthood, and it can be even more fraught when that teenager is aging out of the foster system and experiencing life on their own for the first time with little support.
A report released Monday from the Annie E. Casey Foundation outlined national and Idaho data showing some progress in outcomes for foster youth, but that there were still many young people who aren't accessing available resources as they age out of the system.
In 2021, 40% of Idaho’s foster youth aged out of the system when they turned 18 without permanent, legal connections to family or caregivers. Those who exit the system without these connections are more exposed to risks such as homelessness or economic instability, according to the report.
There are currently 383 young people in foster care age 14 and above, said Marjean Hazen, foster care program manager at the Department of Health and Welfare.
When Ivy Smith aged out of foster care in 2016, she got a binder of phone numbers for services she could potentially access, but most of the information was out-of-date and "essentially useless." When Smith served on the Idaho Youth Advisory Board, she said the members highly recommended that the state create a consolidated place where foster kids can find resources and services available to them.
“There’s a lot of education that needs to be done and more awareness about all the different programs that are available to foster youth as they age out,” said Smith, who’s now the community relations and outreach specialist at Idaho Voices for Children.
Extended foster care, which allows youth to stay in the system until they are 21, wasn’t yet an available option in Idaho when Smith aged out. This federally reimbursable program was created in 2008 with Congress’s passage of the Fostering Transitions to Success and Increasing Adoption Act.
Smith said she learned about the program and that Idaho wasn’t participating when she was doing her capstone project as a student at Boise State University.
"Idaho could've accessed it since 2008," Smith said, "and so I just became really upset and angry that this is a program that Idaho could've had all this time, something that could've helped me when I was aging out."
She became part of the team that advocated for the Legislature to pass HB 336 in 2021, which allowed Idaho’s foster youth to opt-in to the program if they’re eligible.
Idaho Voices for Children Director Christine Tiddens said that young people who use this program are more likely to progress further in education, have more access to health and behavioral health services, experience less financial hardship and housing instability and have fewer experiences with the criminal justice system than those who leave at age 18.
By the end of 2022, 29 young adults utilized this program in Idaho. As of Thursday, there were currently 26 people in extended foster care.
“When foster youth are not getting the supports and services to transition into adulthood, then they are falling behind their peers,” Tiddens said. "So when we talk about next steps, this (The Annie E Casey Foundation) report is really helpful because it highlights the urgent need to ensure that foster youth have the full benefit of all the resources needed to thrive and contribute to their communities."
The Annie E. Casey Foundation report found that 61% of foster youth who were 21 years old in 2021 had experienced incarceration; and 80% who were 21 in 2018 had been incarcerated. Around 80% of Idaho youth who’d been in foster care had a high school diploma or GED, the report found, which is lower than the average American, 90% of whom has finished high school or received a GED, according to the Census Bureau.
Requirements for eligibility include that the foster youth must be enrolled in high school, post-secondary school or in a workforce training program, or working at least 80 hours a month. Staying in the foster program would allow them to stay with their current foster family or allow them to access resources to help find housing, apply to college and scholarships or receive educational training vouchers. Those with documented disabilities or medical conditions that prevent them from being employed or in school are also eligible.
Those who don't choose to opt-in right as they age out are still able to any time before they turn 21, as long as they're eligible.
"This helps give foster youth a little bit more security while they’re learning the ins and outs of becoming an adult and essentially gives them a type of safety net,” Smith said.
Not enough young people in the foster system know about these services or know how to access them, Tiddens and Smith both said.
A persistent issue has been workforce shortages at child welfare agencies, Tiddens said. There’s been progress in increasing incentives to improve recruitment and retention, especially in the 2022 legislative session, but there still needs to be more social workers, she said.
“There’s a lot more than can be done to elevate the child welfare profession,” she said.
One goal of Idaho Voices for Children is advocating for is partnering with universities to increase the number of professionals going into the field.
Smith said when she was in the system, her Idaho Department of Health and Welfare social worker had too high of a case load to really dedicate much time or space to her. It wasn’t until Smith started meeting with a social worker through the foundation Casey Family Programs that she felt like her needs were really being fully met.
"She had so much more time and capacity to almost mentor me and meet with me and hear me in ways that I had never felt like I'd been heard or seen before by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare social workers," Smith said. "I don't necessarily blame the social workers at the department, I just know that their cases are so overloaded that they're just not able to dedicate that time and space to the youth.
"So when I was finally assigned a Casey Family worker, I felt like I had finally been seen and there was someone in my corner advocating for me as hard as I was."
Hazen, with the health department, said that every young person in foster care who meets requirements to extend it is told about the option. When youth are between 17 and 18, they are provided information at transition and independent living meetings, she said.
She said the department does what it can to make sure the young people are provided for, even after they turn 18.
"We will help them if they choose to access (services)," Hazen said. "There have been times that kids have turned 18 and we pay room and board, we pay whatever we can to help them until they are stable."
There have been a number of improvements to Idaho’s foster care system. The state Office of Performance Evaluations released studies in 2017 and 2018 that highlighted shortfalls in the state’s program capacity, organizational structure and system-level oversight, which resulted in a number of reforms.
Tiddens said many of the reforms passed through the Legislature unanimously and there’s been strong bipartisan support for improving the system, such as HB 336, but there’s more that could be done.
“Foster care is a system based in trauma and there are so many more steps we can do to better support kids and youth as they grow and develop,” Tiddens said.
Future changes to the system will need to center around hearing from the foster kids themselves and understanding what challenges they face and how they can be addressed, she said.
There’s also a need for volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocates, or CASAs. These advocates help ensure young people, especially those under 12, are getting a say in the decisions being made about their lives.
Additionally, Tiddens and Smith both underscored a huge need for more foster families in Idaho, especially those willing to take in teenagers.
Hazen also noted that statewide, it's difficult to find foster families for older kids and, in some areas, it's difficult to find any foster homes.
"Foster families have declined steadily in the last three years," Hazen said.
This is especially true for the older kids. Many families are interested in taking in infants and toddlers, she said.
"A lot of families are not interested in providing for our teens," she said. "They're scared of teenagers, for good and bad reasons."
In an earlier interview with the Idaho Press, a 15-year-old boy said he'd been in foster care for 10 years before being adopted. He said he was left by 13 families in that time.
Hazen said she hopes more families will give these young people a chance.
"I think that teens in foster care get a really bad rap for a small minority of the population," she said. "Our kiddos are good, they just have trauma."
Having a supportive adult around at this juncture can make a huge difference in the trajectory in these young people's lives, all of the officials said.
“There are a lot of foster youth, especially older foster youth, who are in desperate need of a foster home," Smith said, "and these are youth who, they’re in stages of life where that guidance, that parental figure, is so crucial." | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/report-resources-for-older-foster-youth-in-idaho-are-underused/article_03c1736e-ee99-11ed-852e-4300dcbabc16.html | 2023-05-14T01:17:15 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/report-resources-for-older-foster-youth-in-idaho-are-underused/article_03c1736e-ee99-11ed-852e-4300dcbabc16.html |
Have you ever woken up with an empty stomach, wondering whether you’ll be able to eat that day?
As a child, did you ever sit through a school day, hoping that there would be food at home when you arrived? Have you ever had to choose between eating and paying for your medications?
For thousands in Kenosha County, this is a reality. Hunger is an epidemic that seems unlikely to ever go away, regardless of how developed our community becomes.
As many Kenosha residents have faced challenges over the last several years, the Shalom Center has watched the numbers increase and community members have faced a difficult realization – they are not able to afford food for themselves or their families. We know that having access to nutritious food is paramount in helping people live better. The Shalom Center’s food pantry has always been a self-select, free-choice food pantry, giving food with dignity and respect.
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While on the frontline in helping those in need connect the dots, we recently launched our virtual ordering service, where pantry participants can select their own food and goods and choose their pick-up times during our distribution hours.
Over the last few months, we have already transferred a little over 1,000 pantry customers to online ordering, allowing us to cut down on food waste; because households are selecting what they want and need, and serve even more clients efficiently. Providing this ordering option also allows our pantry team more opportunities to have conversations with our customers about other resources available to them within our community. It’s not required for our pantry customers to use our virtual ordering service, but it provides another access point. T
o learn more about our food programs and how you can receive food/goods or donate visit https://www.shalomcenter.org/food-programs/food-pantry/.
As the Shalom Center continues to increase partnerships with our local food distributors, we still rely on individual community support to ensure we have enough food/goods to support those in need. We predict the summer months will draw an increase in pantry participants, especially with the decrease in federal benefits.
Therefore, the Shalom Center, along with other local food pantries, is honored to once again partner with the National Association of Letter Carriers for the 31st annual Letter Carriers’ “Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive” which will take place Saturday, May 13, countywide. Participating is easy and effortless.
All you must do is fill a bag with canned vegetables, canned fruit, canned tuna, peanut butter, or any other non-perishable and healthy food. Leave it on your porch and your letter carrier will pick it up on May 13th. If you miss it, you can always donate directly to Shalom Center at 4314-39th Ave.
Help us make this year’s effort the biggest and most successful yet! Thank you for helping us #StampOutHunger. For more information about our food and shelter programs, visit us at www.shalomcenter.org. We look forward to continuing to partner with each of you. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/community-update-from-shalom-center-its-time-to-stamp-out-hunger/article_ee425b18-f1c0-11ed-bb66-67033c0d3473.html | 2023-05-14T01:19:32 | 0 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/community-update-from-shalom-center-its-time-to-stamp-out-hunger/article_ee425b18-f1c0-11ed-bb66-67033c0d3473.html |
SEATTLE — Mail deliveries in some south Seattle neighborhoods are being halted, forcing thousands of people to go to their local carrier annex to pick up their mail.
"We deliver for you," is the slogan for the United States Postal Service. But lately, in some neighborhoods throughout south Seattle, that message hasn't been received.
"Why is the box empty all the time? So, we were worried too that somebody was taking our mail but apparently, this is what's happening," said Veronica Cannon.
Officials with the U.S. Postal Service told KING 5 that some customers in zip code 98118, which stretches from Columbia City to Rainier Beach, have been directed to pick up their mail at the Columbia Carrier Annex along Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
"This is awful, I tried to come get my mail a few days ago and I gave up because I realized the people ahead of me had been waiting awhile," said Cannon.
Cannon is just one of thousands of people that have been impacted by this recent halt in delivery services. With some waiting in line for at least an hour depending on the day.
"Get it taken care of, there are people that need this service," said Nancy Truittpierce, who was picking up her mail at the Columbia Carrier Annex on Saturday.
Residents KING 5 spoke with said USPS didn't notify them about the stoppage in services or inform them on where to go. So, how did they know where to collect their mail?
"From neighbors and on Facebook, and it was kind of touch and go if this was even the right place and if this was even the right door,” said Truittpierce.
KING 5 reached out to the Postal Inspection Service, which is the law enforcement branch of the government agency, about what led to the disruption. They didn't have anyone available to speak with us on Saturday. But KING did find a notice in one mailbox container less than a mile away from the Columbia Annex that said, "Due to the rise in mail theft and vandalism we will be holding all mail for your address. We do not have an exact date of when all master locks will be replaced."
"I was asking one of the women when I was picking up my mail, 'how much longer?',” said Truittpierce. “They don't even know they can't tell us. They're telling us to rent a post office box, that's not an answer, that's a ridiculous answer, there are people who aren't able to do that." | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/mail-deliveries-halted-seattle-neighborhoods/281-7ff28c3d-3496-4a46-ba3c-a549de493d73 | 2023-05-14T01:31:17 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/mail-deliveries-halted-seattle-neighborhoods/281-7ff28c3d-3496-4a46-ba3c-a549de493d73 |
SNOQUALMIE PASS, Wash. — Snoqualmie Pass Fire and Rescue responds to all kinds of calls as the area is popular for skiing, hiking and water sports.
Fire Chief Jay Wiseman said there are increased hazards this weekend with the quick switch from winter to summer weather.
“When we have weather anomalies like we're having, where it's warmed up so fast, it certainly creates additional hazards,” said Snoqualmie Pass Fire and Rescue Chief Jay Wiseman.
He is asking people to understand the risks and to be prepared when they come into the mountains.
“If you come up here and you’re planning on going on a summer hike because it feels like summer, you may not run into summer conditions,” said Chief Wiseman.
Wiseman said people may still need to have crampons and ice axes as some places are icy. He said on some trails normal running shoes and summer hiking boots may not do the trick.
“If you're wearing tennis shoes or even summer hiking boots, you can't really kick into that snow,” said Wiseman. “And that can create a real hazard for people sliding on the surface and not being able to stop.”
At Snoqualmie Pass Fire and Rescue, they have to be prepared for anything, which is why on Saturday they started their 48-hour technical rope rescue course, which are skills that can be used in a variety of situations.
“Whether that's cars over steep embankments or up in the mountains for somebody that might have fallen in a creek or off a cliff,” said Wiseman.
With the snow melting rapidly, Chief Wiseman said avalanches can be a concern due to the melting snow creating wet, loose avalanches. He said the most important thing is to avoid avalanche-prone terrain.
“Cornices start to fall off ridges and that can trigger an avalanche that could catch people. So, you've got to be on alert,” said Wiseman.
Not only are there risks in the mountains for hikers this time of year, but snow melt can also cause dangers in the water.
“The creeks and rivers, they rise. And when it is hot, people want to get into that water and it was just snow not that long ago,” said Wiseman. “So, the water's extremely cold. Hypothermia is a big deal. It doesn't take long, like a minute, before somebody's body starts to shut down in this cold of water.”
Wiseman hopes people will take additional precautions this weekend. But no matter what, their rescuers are trained and ready to jump into action.
Wiseman said they have been seeing an increasing number of rescues in the summer months since 2020. He said this is due to the increased popularity of the area and people not being prepared. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/rescue-crews-unseasonal-temperatures-increase-hazards-mountains-water/281-dd320911-b506-45de-a9ca-e97817f21c03 | 2023-05-14T01:31:23 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/rescue-crews-unseasonal-temperatures-increase-hazards-mountains-water/281-dd320911-b506-45de-a9ca-e97817f21c03 |
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – Lightning struck a home in unincorporated Apopka on Saturday and caused minor damage to the roof, according to the Seminole County Fire Department.
Fire officials said they responded to the home on Ballentyne Place around 5:23 p.m. and discovered a hole “about the size of a grapefruit.”
Crews were able to extinguish the smoldering and placed a tarp on the damaged area, according to a news release.
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No injuries were reported and the residents are able to stay in the home, officials said.
According to the release, as rain storms throughout the season become more common, lightning strikes can hit houses.
Fire officials said it is good to call 911 if you suspect lightning hits your home as there could be a fire that starts and needs to be smoldered, or needs to be stopped from spreading.
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WATERVILLE -- A man is left injured after shots were fired in the downtown Waterville area.
According to a press release from the waterville police Department police heard gunshots in the area of silver street extension just before midnight, friday.
Responding officers found a 21-year-old man who had been shot in the leg.
Police say the victim has been uncooperative with the investigation.
Several flights reportedly broke out in front of the Cancun restaurant on Silver Street extension, which led to police calling for additional backup from neighboring agencies to the scene of the incident.
Officers from Fairfield, Oakland, and Winslow police departments responded.
Officers arrested 23-year-old Devon Marhefka of Massachusetts for failure to disperse.
But, Waterville police are still searching for a suspect. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/shooting-leaves-one-man-injured/article_82f59414-f1ee-11ed-8ad9-475d5bcb710f.html | 2023-05-14T01:32:58 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/shooting-leaves-one-man-injured/article_82f59414-f1ee-11ed-8ad9-475d5bcb710f.html |
DULUTH — It was graduation day for hundreds of students at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth with ceremonies at Burns Wellness Commons Fieldhouse on campus Saturday.
Spring commencement included a master's, certificate and doctorate ceremony at 11 a.m. while the undergraduate ceremony took place at 3 p.m.
According to Holly Mirau, director of media relations and communication at the College of St. Scholastica, 200 graduate students and 309 undergraduate students participated in Saturday's ceremonies. A total of 668 CSS students applied to graduate this spring.
Framed by two undergraduate students, a banner for the College of St. Scholastica hangs behind the stage at Burns Wellness Commons Fieldhouse ahead of spring commencement Saturday in Duluth. Dan Williamson / Duluth News Tribune
Students line up on the balcony inside Burns Wellness Commons Fieldhouse ahead of spring commencement for undergraduate students at the College of St. Scholastica Saturday in Duluth. Dan Williamson / Duluth News Tribune
Students gather on the balcony inside Burns Wellness Commons Fieldhouse ahead of spring commencement for undergraduate students at the College of St. Scholastica Saturday in Duluth. Dan Williamson / Duluth News Tribune
Megan Perry-Spears, College of St. Scholastica Dean of Students, high-fives people the academic procession ahead of spring commencement for undergraduate students at Burns Wellness Commons Fieldhouse Saturday in Duluth. Dan Williamson / Duluth News Tribune
Undergraduate students and spectators stand during the College of St. Scholastica's spring commencement ceremony at Burns Wellness Commons Fieldhouse Saturday in Duluth. Dan Williamson / Duluth News Tribune
College of St. Scholastica undergraduate students await the start of spring commencement at Burns Wellness Commons Fieldhouse Saturday in Duluth. Dan Williamson / Duluth News Tribune
College of St. Scholastica undergraduate students await the start of spring commencement at Burns Wellness Commons Fieldhouse Saturday in Duluth. Dan Williamson / Duluth News Tribune
Dr. Barbara McDonald, President of the College of St. Scholastica, addresses undergraduate students during spring commencement at Burns Wellness Commons Fieldhouse Saturday in Duluth. Dan Williamson / Duluth News Tribune
A spectator uses a mobile phone to record video during the College of St. Scholastica's spring commencement at Burns Wellness Commons field house Saturday in Duluth. Dan Williamson / Duluth News Tribune
Ashley Radtke delivers the student address during the College of St. Scholastica's spring commencement at Burns Wellness Commons Fieldhouse Saturday in Duluth. Dan Williamson / Duluth News Tribune
Undergraduates move the tassel on their caps from the right side to the left side during the College of St. Scholastica's spring commencement at Burns Wellness Commons Fieldhouse Saturday in Duluth. Dan Williamson / Duluth News Tribune
Dr. Barbara McDonald, President of the College of St. Scholastica, applauds the 2023 College of St. Scholastica undergraduates during spring commencement at Burns Wellness Commons Fieldhouse Saturday in Duluth. Dan Williamson / Duluth News Tribune
Derek Schommer and Katelyn Schommer perform a musical piece during the College of St. Scholastica's spring commencement at Burns Wellness Commons Fieldhouse Saturday in Duluth. Dan Williamson / Duluth News Tribune
Finigan Huffington Bryan walks toward Dr. Barbara McDonald, President of the College of St. Scholastica, to receive his diploma during spring commencement at Burns Wellness Commons Fieldhouse Saturday in Duluth. Dan Williamson / Duluth News Tribune
Omoyemi Davies shakes hands with a fellow undergraduate after receiving a diploma during the College of St. Scholastica's spring commencement at Burns Wellness Commons Fieldhouse Saturday in Duluth. Dan Williamson / Duluth News Tribune
Isiah Hendrickson walks toward Dr. Barbara McDonald, President of the College of St. Scholastica, to receive his diploma during spring commencement at Burns Wellness Commons Fieldhouse Saturday in Duluth. Dan Williamson / Duluth News Tribune
Kiersten Strate holds up her diploma while walking back to her seat during the College of St. Scholastica's spring commencement at Burns Wellness Commons Fieldhouse Saturday in Duluth. Dan Williamson / Duluth News Tribune
Hunter Klund shakes hands with Dr. Barbara McDonald, President of the College of St. Scholastica, while receiving his diploma during spring commencement at Burns Wellness Commons Fieldhouse Saturday in Duluth. Dan Williamson / Duluth News Tribune
Undergraduate students sit and wait during the College of St. Scholastica spring commencement at Burns Wellness Commons Fieldhouse Saturday in Duluth. Dan Williamson / Duluth News Tribune
An undergraduate students wears a decorated mortarboard while participating in the College of St. Scholastica's spring commencement ceremony at Burns Wellness Commons Fieldhouse Saturday in Duluth. Dan Williamson / Duluth News Tribune
Ryan Sandefer, College of St. Scholastica Vice President for Academic Affairs, leads the audience in a round of applause for the undergraduates during spring commencement at Burns Wellness Commons Fieldhouse Saturday in Duluth. Dan Williamson / Duluth News Tribune
Janey Deutsch hugs her stepmother, Shelly Deutsch, after graduating with a degree in psychology at the College of St. Scholastica's spring commencement at Burns Wellness Commons Fieldhouse Saturday in Duluth. Dan Williamson / Duluth News Tribune
Dan Williamson joined the Duluth News Tribune in June 2021 where he's involved in digital content such as video, photos and podcasts. Previously, he worked in television broadcasting as a Sports Director/Anchor at WDIO-TV in Duluth, Sports Director/Anchor in Bismarck, N.D., News and Sports Anchor at KSAX-TV in Alexandria, and Reporter/Photographer/Editor with the syndicated show "Life to the Max" in Eden Prairie. He was also the Development Director for the Duluth Salvation Army. Williamson grew up in Alexandria, graduated from St. Cloud State University and has lived in Duluth since 2012. | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/photos-st-scholastica-undergrads-celebrate-graduation | 2023-05-14T01:33:36 | 0 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/photos-st-scholastica-undergrads-celebrate-graduation |
TAMPA, Fla. — Editor's note: The main image used for this article is a file photo and not from the scene of the crash.
A crash has caused all southbound lanes of Interstate 275 at the Busch Boulevard exit Saturday evening in Tampa to close, traffic cameras show.
Drivers are seen being diverted off the highway at Fowler Avenue.
Traffic cameras show law enforcement currently at the scene of the crash.
10 Tampa Bay has reached out to the Tampa Police Department to receive more information about the crash.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/i-275-southbound-lanes-busch-boulevard-closed/67-67b5e81c-d534-4cd9-9a40-055044bf5df2 | 2023-05-14T01:38:35 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/i-275-southbound-lanes-busch-boulevard-closed/67-67b5e81c-d534-4cd9-9a40-055044bf5df2 |
WAKEFIELD — For what is believed to be the first time, the proposed 2023 operating budget for the town of Wakefield was voted down this spring, leaving officials and employees bewildered.
“We’re in uncharted territory,” said Dino Scala, Wakefield’s town administrator. “I believe this is the first time in town history the operating budget didn’t pass.”
Officials are still wrestling with the consequences as they tighten budgets and cut back on services. Because voters did not approve the 2023 budget, the town automatically reverted to the 2022 budget.
After postponing because of snow, Wakefield held elections on March 28. More than 1,200 citizens voted. Many came specifically to vote on Warrant Article 8, which, if passed, would have approved the construction of a new municipal Parks and Recreation Department building.
The proposed $4.9 million building, which would have doubled as Wakefield’s emergency shelter, was an item of contention leading up to the election. The proposal was shot down for the second year in a row, with 678 votes against and 540 votes for.
The 2023 operating budget received 88 fewer total votes than Warrant Article 8, failing 596-534. Town officials were left to wonder why 88 people skipped voting on the operating budget.
Resident Kim Mendell, owner of Sharper Image Hair Salon in Wakefield, said she can understand why so many people abstained from voting on the budget.
“The town budget should’ve been No. 8 (on the ballot) with the parks and rec building last. I think a lot of people got upset, and said enough is enough,” she said.
The budget was the last item on the four-page ballot of 33 warrant articles, causing officials to speculate that voter fatigue was a factor.
“It’s the voter’s right to abstain from voting on something, but 88 is a lot of people to abstain,” Scala said.
The proposed budget came to $7,697,739, with the default budget coming in at $6,874,366, a difference of $823,373.
Town Hall closed Mondays
Cuts being made now include town hall hours: Town offices will be closed on Mondays the rest of the year.
Town employees no longer have long- or short-term disability leave.
Other changes include a reduction in full-time town employees’ hours to 35 a week, the elimination of cost-of-living increases in 2023 and the loss of paid time off.
“The selectmen made it very clear, we want to protect the wages and salaries (of town employees),” Scala said. “It still stings, because we had to take away the cost-of-living raises, but that was a $52,000 savings right there. But it does sting, because everyone, including me, lost that benefit.”
Resident Andrew Fisher is concerned about how town employees are affected.
“I think it’s not fair that the employees of the town lost all of their raises. They lost all of it because the townspeople would not approve the budget,” he said. “I don’t think that’s fair and I don’t think that’s right.”
Resident Donna Barchard feels communication between residents and the town is lacking.
“We pay a lot of taxes, but we don’t know where it goes,” she said.
Library closed Saturdays
Also cut were payments made to outside agencies, including regular payments to the Wakefield Food Pantry, the Gafney Library, the Acton/Wakefield Watershed Alliance, the Greater Wakefield Resource Center, Granite VNA, Northern Human Services, Children Unlimited, Cornerstone VNA, White Horse Addiction Center, Tricounty Community Action and Starting Point Sober Living, among others.
Only two outside agencies will receive funds from the town this year, including Ossipee Concerned Citizens and the Greater Wakefield Resource Center, both of which provide meals to the elderly.
“We really didn’t want to cut deep enough to take meals away from local senior citizens,” Scala said.
The two agencies will receive a total of $36,000, compared to the $131,00 the town usually splits between the outside agencies.
“That was a really big cut,” Scala said.
The Gafney Library requested $180,000 for its 2023 operating budget, hoping to use a portion of the money to hire new staff. After receiving $120,000 — $13,000 of which will go to running the Wakefield Public Library — the prospect of more staff is off the table.
Library Director Beryl Donovan did an analysis of other libraries in New Hampshire, comparing their town populations, budgets and hours of operation. What she found starkly contrasted with the Gafney.
“They’re up above $200,000 a year to adequately serve their populations, and they’re open more hours. For a population (the size of Wakefield’s) we should be open 35 to 40 hours a week,” Donovan said.
Before the budget crises the library was open 25 hours a week. After the cuts, it is open fewer than 20.
“We’re now closed Saturdays. Closing Saturdays is hard, because that’s when we get a lot of families, but that also allows our staff to pick up part-time jobs if they need to, since we’re cutting their hours by 26 percent,” Donovan said.
The library also cut its children’s Summer Reading Program, book purchases and the Adult Learning Program.
“There will be no buying books, which is our business,” Donovan said.
Donovan and volunteer tutors are most upset about the Adult Learning Program being cut.
“I started (the program) 22 years ago with one tutor and one student, and we’ve grown to have over 3,000 people go through it. A few hundred have received their HiSATs (high school equivalency certificates),” Donovan said. “It makes me very sad to see that go away.”
No fireworks this year
Some of the cuts affect Wakefield’s various departments, such as Parks and Recreation. “We’re adapting to things as we need to,” said Parks Director Wayne Robinson.
The department normally puts on such popular events as the yearly Independence Day fireworks, free adult and children’s concerts in Turntable Park, a car show, day trips for seniors and summer camp for children, many of which have been cut.
“Every department in town has retooled their budgets because of this,” Robinson said. “I’ve been working for the Parks Department for over 20 years, and helping them out since I was 15. This is the first time we’ve really had to scale things back like this.”
Part of that scaling back includes the Independence Day fireworks show, which cost roughly $10,000 to put on.
“People are really going to feel it when there’s no fireworks or concerts in the park this year,” Robinson said. | https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/local/no-fireworks-this-year-voters-in-wakefield-reject-operating-budget-prompting-cuts-in-services/article_81df5711-388d-583f-83bb-417080209ee7.html | 2023-05-14T01:41:30 | 0 | https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/local/no-fireworks-this-year-voters-in-wakefield-reject-operating-budget-prompting-cuts-in-services/article_81df5711-388d-583f-83bb-417080209ee7.html |
TWIN FALLS — Law enforcement officers, dignitaries and the public gathered Saturday at Twin Falls City Park to remember law officers who gave their lives while protecting the safety of citizens.
More than 70 law enforcement officers have died while on duty in Idaho. It's a large number, but the public also needs to consider the sacrifices that law officers make every day, and the burden put on families that “have fear and anxiety when their loved one goes out for duty,” said Jim O’Donnell, Twin Falls Sheriff’s Office chaplain, who spoke during the Magic Valley Law Enforcement Memorial Service.
The highlight of the solemn event, held yearly, was when the names of the fallen were read, including those of the nine Magic Valley officers.
Roses were presented to relatives in attendance.
Keynote speaker Idaho Sen. Linda Wright Hartgen, praised law enforcement officers.
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“The men and women who have this calling are very special indeed, and to them we say ‘thank you,’” Hartgen said. “To the families of those we have lost, thank you for your sacrifice as well. To the family of the living officers want to say thank you for sharing your spouse. …
"Our hearts and prayers go out to all of you.”
Magic Valley’s law enforcement officers face increasingly dangerous times, Twin Falls County Prosecuting Attorney Grant Loebs said.
He recounted a sobering moment in August when he visited the site of an officer-involved shooting near Buhl and sat in a deputy's car that had bullet holes shot into the windshield during the incident.
The deputy was fortunate to not have been injured, he said.
Twin Falls Mayor Ruth Pierce and Twin Falls County Commissioner Don Hall read a proclamation for Police Week, to be celebrated Monday through May 21.
In part, the proclamation states that it is important for citizens to learn about the sacrifices law officers make, and calls for organizations to observe the week, "with appropriate ceremonies and observances in which all of our people may join in commemorating law enforcement officers past and present.” | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/annual-event-pays-tribute-to-magic-valleys-fallen-police-officers/article_e4727f64-f1ca-11ed-a3f3-63d26e779cbf.html | 2023-05-14T01:56:06 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/annual-event-pays-tribute-to-magic-valleys-fallen-police-officers/article_e4727f64-f1ca-11ed-a3f3-63d26e779cbf.html |
DALLAS — (AP) — A man who didn't want his girlfriend to get an abortion fatally shot her during a confrontation in a Dallas parking lot, police said.
He was jailed on a murder charge as of Friday.
Texas banned abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy in September 2021. But nearly all abortions have been halted in Texas since Roe v. Wade was overturned last summer, except in cases of medical emergency.
Gabriella Gonzalez, 26, was with her boyfriend, 22-year-old Harold Thompson, on Wednesday when he tried to put her in a chokehold, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. She had returned the night before from Colorado, where she had gone to get an abortion.
“It is believed that the suspect was the father of the child,” the affidavit said. “The suspect did not want (Gonzalez) to get an abortion.”
Surveillance video from the parking lot shows Gonzalez “shrugs him off,” police said, and the two continue walking. Thompson then pulls out a gun and shoots Gonzalez in the head. She falls to the ground and Thompson shoots her multiple times before running away, the affidavit said.
Thompson was arrested later Wednesday and is being held in the Dallas County Jail without bond. Court records did not list an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
Gonzalez’s sister was at the scene and heard the shooting, police said. Another witness saw Thompson try to choke Gonzalez but couldn't call police because she did not have her cell phone.
At the time of the shooting, Thompson had been charged with assault of a family member, who accused him of choking her in March.
The affidavit from March does not specifically name Gonzalez as the person who was assaulted. But it does say the woman told police that Thompson “beat her up multiple times throughout the entirety of their relationship” and that Thompson told police the woman was pregnant with his child at that time.
The woman “reiterated that she is scared of the suspect because he had made threats to harm her family and her children,” according to the affidavit.
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WASHINGTON D.C., DC — Representatives from the Atlanta Police Department were among those to visit the White House this week as guests of the U.S. Secret Service.
The Secret Service said in a release that APD reps and others from Charlotte, Chicago, Miami, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Phoenix toured the White House as part of National Police Week.
"The guests were from select police departments and were treated to a guided tour of the mansion, as well several demonstrations from the U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division," the release said.
According to the release, activities included time with the Secret Service canine unit, a presentation from the Hazardous Agent Mitigation Medical Emergency Response team; meet-and-greets with the counter sniper and specialized rifle units; and a briefing with the Mission Assurance Mobile Field Force.
“The Secret Service values the strong relationships we have with our local law enforcement partners,” Director Kimberly Cheatle said. “We work hand in hand with local law enforcement to protect our nation’s leaders and investigate cases of financial fraud. Inviting our partners to the White House gives them a glimpse of our mission and capabilities, and we believe it will encourage further collaboration.” | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/atlanta-police-department-secret-service-white-house/85-6ced8e31-45a6-41c0-be8d-f4b273982188 | 2023-05-14T02:00:16 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/atlanta-police-department-secret-service-white-house/85-6ced8e31-45a6-41c0-be8d-f4b273982188 |
KNOXVILLE, Iowa — A sinkhole that baffled Marion County officials and residents may be the result of a limestone mine, according to a final site investigation report by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship (IDALS).
The sinkhole is located in the east right of way of 135th Place, just south of a limestone quarry operated by Bruening Rock Products, and extends onto a private landowner's field.
IDALS concluded the sinkhole formed from a collapse of a limestone mine based on the available evidence.
The department claims roof problems in the area are known to exist, based on a sinkhole repair due to a limestone mine collapse that occurred in 2009.
Furthermore, IDALS referenced conversations between Marion County and Bruening Products that indicated other roof collapses in the portion of the mine.
However, Bruening Rock Products told officials that "this portion of the mine is abandoned and that the extent of their mining did not go south of the house", according to the site investigation report.
When a Mine Safety and Health Administration inspector entered the mine to investigate, they informed Marion County that the southeast portion of the mine is currently underwater.
"Therefore, no underground limestone mine observations were possible near the sinkhole for verification," the site investigation report reads.
Still, there is little evidence to suggest the sinkhole could have been caused by anything else, IDALS said.
"Even though the limestone quarry indicated they did not mine this far south, their maps are not very detailed or georeferenced to the surface," the report reads.
Originally, officials believed the sinkhole could have been formed from an abandoned coal mine. The area has reported the existence of abandoned coal mines in the past.
However, this theory was disproven when IDALS bore into the ground and found only one coal seam, "which is unlikely to have been mined because of its small thickness", the report said.
Since it cannot be definitively determined if the sinkhole is related to an underground coal mine, IDALS is not authorized to spend grant money to mitigate the sinkhole.
"We recommend this report be provided to Bruening Rock Products for their use," the report states.
After receiving the report on May 4, Marion County met with "interested parties" on Thursday to discuss next steps, according to a press release. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/sinkhole-135th-place-marion-county-iowa-road-department-closure-cause-idals-bruening-rock-products/524-9798b6c3-f6ef-4fd4-a072-701c9d469d54 | 2023-05-14T02:04:44 | 0 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/sinkhole-135th-place-marion-county-iowa-road-department-closure-cause-idals-bruening-rock-products/524-9798b6c3-f6ef-4fd4-a072-701c9d469d54 |
INDIANAPOLIS — Downtown Indianapolis was packed Saturday with people enjoying Asian Fest in celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
People got to experience Asian culture through art, music and food.
The event also included a community health fair and had something for everybody.
"Diversity is wonderful. The more people we have here, the more welcoming of a place we are, the faster we'll grow, the stronger we'll grow. So we love this and it just provides us with such tapestry of wonderful things to do and see and experience here in Indiana," said Jody Blankenship, CEO of the Indiana Historical Society.
It wasn't the only festival happening in Indy Saturday. Hoosiers are also celebrating Caribbean culture.
The Caribbean Festival features the tastes and music of the islands.
There are several community organizations out at Military Park to help with jobs and education opportunities.
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INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD's missing persons section is looking for 14-year-old Tim Kirkland.
He was reported missing from a home on Indy's west side Saturday morning.
Kirkland, who may also use the name George, is 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighs 135 pounds and has brown hair.
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PHOENIX — It’s an issue that a lot of working parents have to deal with, getting their kids to and from school, not to mention, practice and summer activities when the kids are out of school.
But now, two Valley brothers have come up with a solution they hope will help parents, while helping the environment at the same time.
Since August 15-year-old Ishan Bagai and his 12-year-old brother Sahil have been busy creating an app that addresses something busy parents often encounter.
“We saw how hard it is for parents to commute to schools and activities,” Ishan told 12News. “They work very far, and my brother goes to school in Scottsdale. I’m in school in Phoenix, so it gets tough for pickup and drop off.”
With the help of funding from their parents and guidance from a developer, they launched the app, Lets Ride Kids, and their website a couple of weeks ago, helping parents coordinate carpools while helping the environment at the same time.
“We wanted to help reduce congestion on the roads and once you get into those school lines,” said Sahil.
“It matches parents who live near each other and going to the same destination to each other, so that they can meet up and take their kids to the same places,” Ishan said. “We’re excited for where it can go.”
It’s easy to use.
“Once you download it, we need verifications… driver's license, identity, phone number, email address…,” said Ishan.
Then you can start publishing and searching for rides. It’s a great way to plan carpools for your kids to get to school, summer camps and activities.
Their mom Roshini says safety is the key component.
“It’s a secure network that we’re creating with our neighborhood,” she said.
Recently they met with the Mayors of Scottsdale and Paradise Valley to get feedback.
“It was really exciting to see that the mayors liked it,” said Sahil.
Their goal is to get the eyes of school administrators across the Valley.
“To be able to implement this for summer schools and plan this out during the summer and use it when the next school year starts,” said Ishan.
On any given day, their parents used to drive between two and three hours to get them to and from school and their extracurricular activities, but carpooling has changed that.
“It’s actually cut down our commutes by half, because half the time we’re commuting with other families we’ve connected with, and it’s been wonderful,” said their dad, Rajesh.
They’re thankful their sons are passionate about working toward a solution to save them a lot of time and gas money.
For these brothers, this is just the beginning.
“I like artificial intelligence and where that’s going, but I also like medicine a lot,” said Ishan.
They have big plans.
“Engineering and medicine,” said Sahil.
But until then, their schoolwork, sports, and extracurricular activities will keep them plenty busy.
As for the app, they’re hoping it eventually goes nationwide.
“I hope it takes off,” their mom Roshini said.
Right now, the Lets Ride Kids app is available to download for free in the Google Play Store and Apple Store.
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Attendees take a moment of silence for all those who have died from drug overdoses or fentanyl poisonings at Sounds of Sarah's Walk and Run on…
HIGHLAND — A couple months ago, Sounds of Sarah Executive Director Patty Stovall sponsored billboards around the Region, with the faces of residents who died from fentanyl poisonings.
On Saturday, she again honored the lives behind the faces at Sounds of Sarah's first 3K Walk and Run at Wicker Park.
"One of the scariest things we can say is, 'It will never happen to me, it will never happen to my child'," Stovall said. "For those who have lost a child or loved one, I want everyone to know they're not alone."
Stovall was joined by local groups promoting local resources, such as Gary Harm Reduction and Northwest Indiana Suicide Prevention Council. As participants made their way to each organization's booth, others waited eagerly to begin their trek around the park. Supporters wore shirts with the nonprofit's logo, a purple butterfly, and the phrase "We Fight Together" across the chest. A banner hung with photos of the same faces who were on Stovall's initial billboard — this time, she more than quadrupled the number of images.
A phrase in capital letters at the top of the banner clamored out to the crowd: "Can you see me now?"
Sounds of Sarah Executive Director Patty Stovall addresses the crowd Saturday at the nonprofit's inaugural 3K Walk and Run at Wicker Park in H…
Stovall introduced the board of directors to the crowd. All five members said how honored they were to be part of the cause and talked up the importance of promoting resources for people struggling with substance abuse, opioid use and mental illness.
"Through nonprofits such as Sounds of Sarah, we are able to take charges and lead the lost to resources," Dorothia Smith said.
Rep. Mike Andrade, D-Munster, noted the Legislature's role in promoting resources and preventing deaths by illicit fentanyl use. Andrade co-sponsored Senate Enrolled Act 379, which heightened penalties for people who are caught selling or in possession of substances that contain fentanyl. It was signed into law April 20.
"This is an urgent threat to our communities and all Hoosiers," he said. "Let us continue to raise awareness about the dangers of fentanyl and bring those dealers to justice."
Before the walk began, Stovall invited all mothers and other loved ones who had lost someone to a drug overdose or poisoning to walk to the front of the stage for a Mother's Day gift. As she embraced each mother, she handed over a butterfly figurine.
Patty Stovall hugs Maggie Leslie as David Leslie looks on. The Leslies lost their daughter, Deborah, to a drug poisoning in September.
One of the women, Dana Summers of Lowell, lost her son, Garett, in November 2021. He was 21.
"I don't think you ever heal from this," Summers said. "You just learn to cope."
Summers said she is frustrated at the lack of resources and help available for people struggling with substance use or opioid use disorders in her area. She took her son to several treatment centers and felt that his individual needs weren't being prioritized.
"All patients have different genetics, different addictions," she said. "But they treat everybody the same."
A group of participants recoup Saturday after walking and running around Wicker Park at Sounds of Sarah's 3K Walk and Run.
Joe Saczawa knows this better than many people. He's battled heroin use for 17 years and been in and out of recovery. He said a massive part of his recovery has been to identify situations that might trigger behaviors or reactions that lead to drug use.
"It affects you mentally, physically and spiritually," he said. "It's about being aware and cognizant of triggers, things that are associated with the nature of addiction."
Today, he's celebrating six months in recovery.
"It's about learning to regulate feelings and behaviors in a healthy way," Saczawa said.
He said he's relied on his friends, time spent in Narcotics Anonymous and especially his mom, Lora, for support: "Recovery is about connection."
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If you or someone you love is struggling with mental illness, substance use or opioid use disorder, call the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's hotline, 800-662-HELP or visit samhsa.gov for additional resources. Hoosiers can also call Indiana's 988 Suicide and Crisis Hotline.
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A Helping Hands Ending Hunger appreciation celebration to highlight the work done by the Helping Hands school coordinators was held this week at the Albany Civic Center.
ALBANY — A Helping Hands Ending Hunger appreciation celebration to highlight the work done by the Helping Hands school coordinators was held this week at the Albany Civic Center. The event was was sponsored by Georgia’s Own Credit Union.
Coordinators and other staff who ensure that the program runs smoothly at their schools were invited to a buffet breakfast with door prizes and goodie bags.
The event marked the completion of five years that the program has been administered in the Dougherty County School System. During this time, more than 344 tons of food items have been collected, stored and given out each Friday to more than 28,000 school system families, impacting 48,500 adults and 71,700 children. Excess food items also are donated to 18 nonprofits in the community.
Helping Hands Ending Hunger has more than 200 community volunteers who help with the program by packing the bags each Friday, by picking up excess milk and delivering to nonprofits, and by transporting food items from one school to another.
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Phoebe Putney Health System officials reminded southwest Georgians that anyone currently enrolled in Medicaid or PeachCare for Kids needs to ensure their contact information is up to date to receive notification or information about their status.
ALBANY — Georgia recently began the redetermination process for Medicaid and PeachCare for Kids. During the redetermination process, the state of Georgia reviews existing members to see who is still eligible to receive coverage. Anyone currently enrolled in Medicaid or PeachCare for Kids needs to ensure their contact information is up to date to receive notification or information about their status.
“We know people with insurance coverage are healthier and more likely to use health care resources available to them and have better health outcomes,” Dr. Dianna Grant, chief medical officer with Phoebe Putney Health System, said. “It is critical that Medicaid and PeachCare for Kids members ensure their information is up to date. We don’t want anyone in southwest Georgia to lose their health care coverage simply because they were unaware that they needed to update their information or because they forgot to do so.”
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Medicaid and PeachCare for Kids eligibility stayed the same. However, due to recent changes at the federal level, Georgia is required to redetermine eligibility for approximately 2.7 million Medicaid and PeachCare for Kids members over the next 14 months. Every Georgia Medicaid member must respond to requests for required information in a timely manner.
To update contact information and ensure reception of important updates and alerts, go to staycovered.ga.gov. For reading or communication support, call 1-877-GADHS-GO (1-877-423-4746). Services, including interpreters, are free. Additionally, in-person visits also can be scheduled by contacting a local Division of Family & Children Services office. To find the location and business hours for a local office, visit dfcs.georgia.gov/locations.
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Morgan Wright was named St. Teresa’s Catholic School’s 2023 STAR Student at the school’s recent Awards Day Ceremony. Also recognized at the ceremony was Linda Johnson, Wright’s STAR Teacher selection. “I feel like I’ve won an Academy Award,” Johnson said after being honored.
ALBANY — Gary Morgan Wright was named St. Teresa’s Catholic School’s STAR Student for 2023 at an awards day celebration at the school this week.
Morgan selected Linda Sowell Johnson as his STAR Teacher, saying she has encouraged and inspired him since the fifth grade. STAR (Student Teacher Achievement Recognition) Teachers are usually selected from the teachers students encounter during their school years. Morgan said he selected Johnson because of the “impact she had on me, beginning in elementary school.”
Johnson is an administrator and teacher with 38 years of teaching experience in St. Teresa’s and the Dougherty County School System. She served as principal at St. Teresa’s for several years before returning to teach at Live Oak Elementary in Albany. She was invited to return to St. Teresa’s and is now teaching religion and serving as the assistant principal. This is the first time she has been recognized as the STAR teacher.
In addition to a stellar academic career, Morgan has been as an altar-server for nine years. An Eagle Scout, his Eagle Project was painting the basketball court’s walls at the YMCA on Gillionville Road. He earned the honor of being named valedictorian of his senior class, and he also recently joined the Knights of Columbus.
Morgan said he plans to attend Georgia Tech in the fall to study Electrical Engineering. He also received offers from Mercer University and Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Holland Wright of Albany.
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From left, Tift Regional Medical Center Chief Nursing Officer RN Tonia Garrett, OB nurse and DAISY Award winner RN Alana Durrance, and Southwell President/CEO Christopher Dorman take part in a DAISY Award ceremony.
TIFTON -- Tift Regional Medical Center recently honored RN Alana Durrance with The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. The award, which was bestowed to Durrance during National Nurses’ Week, is part of the DAISY Foundation's program to recognize the extraordinary efforts nurses perform each day.
Durrance has worked in the obstetrical unit at TRMC for more than a year. A co-worker nominated her for the empathy and warmth she demonstrated to a patient who suffered from the loss of a newborn due to fetal demise.
“Alana exemplified so much compassion by dressing the baby, getting footprints as a keepsake, explaining the process for transporting the baby to the funeral home, and doing other things to help the parents as they grieved,” RN Tonia Garrett, the chief nursing officer at TRMC, said in a news release.
Garrett said that the patient and family consistently complimented Durrance on the care and compassion that was exhibited during the process. The patient stated, “I couldn’t have done this without her. She was simply amazing.”
RN Julie Williams, the director of perinatal services at TRMC, said Durrance has proven multiple times that she would be a wonderful candidate for the DAISY Award.
“Thank you, Alana, for being an extraordinary, dedicated, valuable and very-much appreciated nurse,” Williams said.
As part of the recognition, Durrance’s entire department was treated to a special celebration.
The not-for-profit national DAISY Foundation was established by family members in memory of a man who died in 1999 from complications of a little-known auto-immune disease. The care he and his family received from nurses inspired the award as a way to thank nurses for making a profound difference in the lives of their patients and patient families.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – A local woman claims employees at a Publix told her they could not write the phrase “Trans people deserve joy” on a cake.
Yasmin Flasterstein describes what she experienced at a store on Colonial Drive near North Mills Avenue as a “shock.”
“It was kind of just this reality check that shook me,” Flasterstein said.
Flasterstein is the co-founder of Peer Support Space, a nonprofit that aims to create peer support communities across Central Florida, so no matter what someone is navigating they don’t have to do it alone.
Flasterstein and another founder of Peer Support Space stopped at the Publix on April 26 to pick up a cake for an event that evening designed to create care packages for the trans community.
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“It was a spreading trans joy volunteer event,” Flasterstein said.
Flasterstein says the pair picked out a sheet cake with blue and pink on it. They walked up to the bakery associate and asked for the message “trans people deserve joy” to be added.
“He did look a little bit confused, so I thought he didn’t know what I said. So, I spelled out “trans” and he said, ‘Ok.’ And, then he said, ‘I’ll be right back.’”
She claims a manager later came out and told them they could not write the entire message because they cannot write messages that could be deemed political.
“I asked her, ' I can’t write trans people deserve joy on the cake because that’s taking a stance on something?’ She said, ‘Yes. I’m really sorry.’ My follow-up question was, ‘You understand that’s really hurtful, right?’”
Flasterstein says the denial was especially hurtful to her cofounder, a trans non-binary person.
“Imagine being trans and someone telling you to your face that deserving joy is taking on stance on something,” Flasterste said. “It’s been a long few months for the LGBTQ+ community, and day after day I am just holding space with people who are struggling, that are trying to flee Florida. My job has been really heavy lately.”
Flasterstein said bakery staff gave her icing and left space at the top of the cake so she could finish writing the phrase.
Flasterstein decided to post to Facebook about her disappointment. The post now has over 100 reactions and comments, including a message from Publix’s verified page that says, “Thank you for sharing your concern with us. We are sorry that our associates did not handle your request appropriately. Please message us for more details, and we will gladly make the cake. Thank you.”
Flasterstein says she also received apologies in emails that she exchanged with employees at the company after she got in contact with Publix’s corporate office.
News 6 reached out to Publix’s public affairs office asking for their response and for the company to share more about their store policy. We are waiting for a response back.
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Flying Clovers’ homing pigeons visiting Petoskey library May 18
PETOSKEY — Mike Netzky and the 4-H Flying Clovers are returning to the Petoskey District Library again this year with their homing pigeons for an event at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 18.
Netzky and the 4-Hers will discuss more about pigeons and how they love to fly. When released from their home loft, pigeons will often go “ranging” and fly miles around just for the fun of it before they come back to their home loft for food and shelter. The program will take place at the library’s outdoor labyrinth with the pigeons’ loft set up along Waukazoo Avenue.
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Kids of all ages are welcome to this free event where they can learn more about these birds, explore the pigeons’ home, get a close-up look at the pigeons, and even have the opportunity to hold and release the birds.
For more information about this or other events, contact the Petoskey District Library at (231) 758-3100 or visit petoskeylibrary.org. | https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/news/local/2023/05/13/flying-clovers-homing-pigeons-visiting-petoskey-library-may-18/70202750007/ | 2023-05-14T03:19:10 | 0 | https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/news/local/2023/05/13/flying-clovers-homing-pigeons-visiting-petoskey-library-may-18/70202750007/ |
SAN ANTONIO — One person was found with multiple stab wounds near the downtown area Friday evening, according to San Antonio Fire Department.
Fire officials were sent to the Via Central Plaza at the 200 block of N. Frio Street around 8:55 p.m. Friday.
SAFD says they arrived to the scene and found a person to have two stab wounds that were non-life threatening. The person told fire officials the stabbing occurred on 1000 block of W. Commerce Street after an argument turned into a fight.
The suspect has not yet been found and the investigation is ongoing. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/downtown-stabbing-san-antonio/273-a1231405-ad39-42b4-801d-96e031c1ee98 | 2023-05-14T03:33:57 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/downtown-stabbing-san-antonio/273-a1231405-ad39-42b4-801d-96e031c1ee98 |
'The future belongs to you': Bill Gates delivers graduation speech at NAU
Gates received an honorary doctorate before offering graduates advice in the form of five lessons he's learned throughout his career as the Microsoft co-founder and prominent philanthropist.
Bill Gates, one of the most successful self-described college dropouts in modern history, concluded Northern Arizona University's commencement ceremonies on Saturday afternoon by giving students the graduation advice he said he never received.
The sea of navy blue gowns erupted in applause when Gates received his honorary doctorate and officially joined their ranks as a Lumberjack, representing just a fraction of the network of more than 200,000 university alumni worldwide.
"So what does a college dropout know about graduation? Not much personally, to be honest," he said after reaching the podium.
After acknowledging the dedication required of students and their families to reach this point, he referred back to his decades-long career as the Microsoft co-founder and co-chair of the nonprofit Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, outlining the lessons he's learned.
"Your life isn't a one-act play," he said. "What you do tomorrow, or for the next 10 years, does not have to be what you do forever."
Gates, who left college after three semesters to form Microsoft, highlighted his shift from working in programming to focusing on philanthropy — a change he didn't necessarily anticipate when he was young but has since found extremely fulfilling.
Despite the pressure that many graduates might feel today, he said, they are always free to change course.
"Not only is it OK to change your mind or have a second career ... it can be a very good thing," he said.
Secondly, he said, "you are never too smart to be confused."
Gates encouraged the graduates to embrace what they don't know and seek out help and guidance from others, as he did throughout his career.
"Everything I have accomplished happened because I sought out others who knew more than me," he told them.
Calling back to the shift in priorities that Gates experienced himself, he encouraged graduates to "gravitate toward work that solves a problem."
"The good news is, you are graduating at a time of immense opportunity to help people," he said.
Outlining the advances in industries ranging everywhere from forestry to computer programming, Gates expressed optimism for the audience's ability to use these developments to change the world.
"When you spend your days doing something that solves a big problem, it energizes you to work," he said. "It forces you to be more creative and it gives your life a stronger sense of purpose."
Reinforcing something that has been particularly impactful in Gates' life, he advised the soon-to-be alumni not to underestimate the "power of friendship."
Gates recounted meeting one of his best friends, Paul Allen, while in school. They initially bonded over a shared interest in science fiction and computers, he said, and they would later join forces to form Microsoft together.
"The only thing more valuable than what you walk offstage with is who you walk onstage with," he said.
Lastly, Gates reminded everyone that relaxation is just as important as hard work: "You are not a slacker if you cut yourself some slack."
He recalled the workaholic tendencies that characterized his early years at Microsoft, when he prioritized work over all else and expected everyone around him to do the same.
"But as I got older, and especially once I became a father, I realized there is more to life than work," he said. "Don't wait as long as I did to learn this lesson."
As such, Gates encouraged the graduates to take time to recognize and celebrate their accomplishments in school before focusing on next steps.
Saturday's final ceremony featured graduates from the College of Engineering, Informatics and Applied Sciences as well as the College of the Environment, Forestry and Natural Sciences, which university President José Luis Cruz Rivera said was the perfect crowd to relate to Gates' personal experiences.
"His message really not only helped articulate a way forward for our students but also elevated the quality of education that they are walking away with," Cruz Rivera said after the ceremony. "The fact that we are tackling these tough problems, that we are providing them with the tools they need to not only have careers of consequence but live lives of purpose is something that I think not only spoke to our students and everybody gathered here today but I hope will resonate with all Arizonans."
"Class of 2023, the future belongs to you," Gates said, stating that he believes they hold the answers to the world's biggest problems today, including climate change and economic disparity.
"I cannot wait to see how you will drive progress around the world," he said.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A man was killed Saturday afternoon after a person driving a car crashed into him during a hit-and-run in St. Petersburg, police say.
At 3:30 p.m., Jonathan Hughes, 57, was heading westbound on 22nd Avenue South on a motorcycle in the curb lane as he approached 45th Street South, authorities say.
That's when the driver of a white Jeep Grand Cherokee was heading in the opposite direction on 22nd Avenue South in the median lane. The Cherokee tried to make a northbound turn onto 45th Street South, failed to yield the right of way and collided with the motorcycle, the St. Petersburg Police Department said in a news release.
The driver in the Jeep reportedly continued to drive away from the crash.
Law enforcement is asking anyone with information regarding the deadly hit-and-run to contact the police department at 727-893-7780.
Authorities have not yet said if the 57-year-old died at the scene of the crash or was pronounced dead at a later time.
The investigation of the incident remains ongoing. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/man-killed-st-pete-hit-and-run/67-1db99e36-81e4-490d-8ecd-bdd543432191 | 2023-05-14T03:40:33 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/man-killed-st-pete-hit-and-run/67-1db99e36-81e4-490d-8ecd-bdd543432191 |
SARASOTA, Fla. — A shooting Saturday night in Sarasota has led to the closure of a large road in the area, deputies say.
At 8:08 p.m., a shooting occurred at the intersection of Fruitville Road and Cattlemen Road, the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
All people involved in the shooting have been arrested and there is no current threat to those in the area, law enforcement says.
As a result of the shooting, the sheriff's office says Fruitville Road eastbound is closed from Paramount Drive all the way to Interstate 75. Drivers are asked to avoid the area.
Deputies say the investigation of the shooting remains ongoing. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/sarasotacounty/road-closed-sarasota-shooting/67-7a60da01-f0c6-4ea6-bc7e-f76f7bf05f68 | 2023-05-14T03:40:39 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/sarasotacounty/road-closed-sarasota-shooting/67-7a60da01-f0c6-4ea6-bc7e-f76f7bf05f68 |
CANYON COUNTY, Idaho — Two people were killed and another person was taken to an area hospital Saturday after a two-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 95 in Canyon County, Idaho State Police reported.
Police said a 57-year-old man from Nyssa, Ore., was driving eastbound in a Ford mustang on U.S. Highway 20 when he failed to stop at a stop sign. The mustang collided with a Ford F350 pickup heading southbound on Highway 95.
The driver of the F350 pickup, a 20-year-old woman from Weiser, was taken to an area hospital by ground ambulance.
According to Idaho State Police, the 57-year-old Nyssa man and his passenger in the mustang – a 94-year-old man also from Nyssa – both died at the scene of the crash.
The crash occurred around 1:55 p.m. Saturday at milepost 53.5 on U.S. Highway 95. ISP said traffic was blocked off in the area for roughly three hours.
Saturday's collision is under investigation by Idaho State Police.
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BOISE, Idaho — Members of the Boise Fire Department's Dive Team rescued a man holding onto a tree in the middle of the fast-moving Boise River on Saturday.
The man was floating the river when he fell out of his tube. According to a social media post from Boise Fire, the man was not did not have a life jacket on at the time.
The Boise River is currently running at roughly 6,000 cubic feet per second (cfs), and the water temperature is cold. Due to the fast and frigid conditions, Boise Fire said the man was unable to swim to shore, but fortunately grabbed ahold of a tree.
After hanging on, Boise Fire's Dive Team brought the man to shore. He reportedly had early signs of hypothermia, but fortunately is expected to make "a full recovery."
The Boise Fire Department posted a "Dangerous River Condition" notice at the end of April for the Boise River, as warmer temperatures accelerate area snowmelt. In Saturday's release, Boise Fire said it encourages everyone to take the notice seriously.
A flow rate of 6,000 cfs is four times what's considered safe for river floating. Float season typically begins in mid-June or early July.
"The water is fast moving and very cold," the Boise Fire Department said.
Under a Boise city ordinance, the city may impose a charge to recover its costs for responding to an emergency on the river in cases where first responders need to rescue people who have knowingly entered any area that has been closed to the public.
For more information on floating and Boise River conditions, visit the City of Boise's new website 'Float the Boise' by clicking here.
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At the same time in the same place, neighbors gathered exactly one week after a gunman opened fire at the Allen Premium Outlets, murdering eight people.
One by one, volunteers read the victims’ names as they encouraged those present to reflect.
They also sought comfort from strangers who were also struggling to reconcile the tragedy that unraveled in their own backyard.
"For all of us, it's still surreal,” said Allen resident Inga VanWagoner.
"I was going to say, I think a week later too, the hurt is still real. It's a week later, but nothing seems like it's changed. Everyone person that's walked up in here, and I'd say thousands have walked to us, everyone has had a new hurt, a new set of tears that we've experienced. A new question of why, why did this happen?" said Allen resident Cheryl Jackson.
Jackson and VanWagoner are among the group of volunteers who’ve watched over a growing memorial since Saturday’s shooting, ensuring it will be preserved for eight days, one for each of the victims.
Saturday, they led those present in a moment of silence at the request of city officials.
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At exactly 3:36, the time of last week’s shooting, everyone paused for 60 seconds.
They broke with a call to action.
"All of us together as one voice, we can make change happen,” said Jackson. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/moment-of-silence-held-one-week-after-allen-mall-shooting/3257584/ | 2023-05-14T03:51:48 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/moment-of-silence-held-one-week-after-allen-mall-shooting/3257584/ |
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