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The Bismarck Tribune won’t publish a paper on Monday, Memorial Day, but there will be an e-edition available online.
For the latest local, national and world news, go online at www.bismarcktribune.com. Readers can enjoy their favorite Monday comics and crosswords when they are published in Tuesday’s edition of The Bismarck Tribune. | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/tribune-wont-print-paper-on-memorial-day/article_7c09de56-fc0e-11ed-860e-f74ef08cb595.html | 2023-05-27T11:44:04 | 0 | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/tribune-wont-print-paper-on-memorial-day/article_7c09de56-fc0e-11ed-860e-f74ef08cb595.html |
Photo exhibit at Newtown’s Betty J. Johnson Public Library celebrates Black history project
Photo exhibit at Newtown library celebrates project on Black history
A photo exhibit celebrating a project on African American history is opening today at Newtown’s Betty J. Johnson Public Library.
The project, called The Freedom School, was sponsored by the Manasota branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. About 50 young people attended 10 free two-hour weekly sessions at the library. The project, aimed at students in grades 3-12, focused on the Black experience in America from slavery to present day and sought to foster critical thinking and informed citizenship.
The exhibit, which includes a reception today from noon to 3 p.m., features works by Michael Kinsey, a Sarasota-based filmmaker and photographer, plus photos generated by the Freedom School. The library, located at 2801 Newtown Blvd. in Sarasota, will host the exhibit for several weeks. For information, visit asalh-manasotafl.org.
Funding for the Freedom School was provided by the Community Foundation of Sarasota County, Barancik Foundation, Gulf Coast Foundation, Johnston Family Foundation, Masala Giving Circle, Gamma XI Boule, and individual donors. Accommodations were provided by the Friends of the Betty J. Johnson Library and the African American Cultural Resource Center.
Ringling, New College students receive arts group scholarships
Women Contemporary Artists recently awarded two $3,000 scholarships to students from Ringling College of Art and Design and New College of Florida.
This year the group is supporting Lizi Budagashvili, who is completing a fine arts degree at Ringling College, and Annie Dong, who is working towards a degree in psychology and art at New College. Budagashvili plans to pursue a Master of Fine Arts at New York Academy and was recommended by her instructor, Joe Fig. Dong, who will graduate in 2024, was recommended by instructors Kim Anderson and Ryn Burssens.
Women Contemporary Artists, founded in 1984, has grown to 140 members in Manatee and Sarasota counties who are committed to recognizing women’s accomplishments in visual fine arts. For more information, visit womencontemporaryartists.com.
JFCS of the Suncoast gainsenergy upgrade from FPL
Florida Power & Light Company and its nonprofit Energy Makeover program recently donated nearly $10,000 in energy efficiency services and upgrades to the Jewish Family & Children’s Service of the Suncoast.
FPL’s energy experts conducted an evaluation of the facility and found ways JFCS can save up to $1,200 a year on energy bills. The upgrades included converting 50 two-lamp fluorescent fixtures to LED lighting and installing occupancy sensors.
The nonprofit mental health counseling and human services provider plans to reinvest the money into funding its mission of empowering individuals, families, seniors and veterans toward well-being and self-reliance. For information, visit jfcs-cares.org.
Take Stock in Children receives Neal Communities donations
Neal Communities was a $2,500 sponsor of the recent Take Stock in Children of Sarasota County’s annual Celebration of Hope event and also donated $10,600 to Take Stock in Children of Manatee County to support a college/technical college scholarship.
“Take Stock in Children is incredibly grateful for community leaders like Neal Communities for dedicating resources to ensure local students reach their greatest potential,” said Diana Dill, development director for Take Stock in Children of Sarasota County.
In total, Neal Communities has donated $29,200 to Take Stock in Children. The private homebuilder has given more than $7.5 million to charities throughout Southwest Florida.
Masala Giving Circle provides support for Meals on Wheels
Meals on Wheels of Sarasota recently received a $10,000 grant from the Masala Giving Circle to provide freshly prepared meals to African Americans in north Sarasota.
“We are grateful for the support from Masala Giving Circle to help our most vulnerable residents," executive director Rhonda Leiberick said. "Monday-Friday, volunteers deliver 700 freshly prepared meals to deserving residents. Without our program, many would not eat that day."
Masala Giving Circle, established in 2013, is a diverse group of African-American women with a passion for creating positive change in the African-American communities of Sarasota and Manatee counties. Learn more at masalagivingcircle.org.
Temple Emanu-El rabbis earn honorary doctorates
Temple Emanu-El Rabbis Brenner Glickman and Elaine Rose Glickman recently received honorary doctoral degrees during graduation ceremonies for Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion held at Temple Emanu-El in New York.
Brenner and Elaine Rose Glickman were each awarded a Rabbinical Alumni Doctor of Divinity in recognition of "commitment, dedication, and service to Jewish values and the Jewish people for the past 25 years,” Hebrew Union College President Andrew Rehfeld said.
The Glickmans were ordained in 1998 and have served in Sarasota since 2006. Brenner Glickman also is a longtime leader for All Faiths Food Bank and a board member of American Friends of Leket, Israel’s national food bank. Elaine Rose Glickman serves part-time at Temple Emanu-El and is assistant executive director of the Women’s Network.
Submissions by Carol Rescigno, Nancy Hielscher, Melanie Hayes, Christine McKelvey, Rhonda Leiberick, Elaine Rose Glickman, Donald Rilla. | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2023/05/27/photo-exhibit-at-newtown-library-celebrates-black-history-project/70244608007/ | 2023-05-27T11:44:20 | 1 | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2023/05/27/photo-exhibit-at-newtown-library-celebrates-black-history-project/70244608007/ |
Sarasota health officials confirm malaria case; person treated and recovered
SARASOTA —The Florida Department of Health in Sarasota County and Manatee County announced in a news release that the health department had one confirmed case of malaria in a person "who spent extensive time outdoors."
The agency said the person "was promptly treated at a hospital and has recovered."
No other information about the circumstances of the case, including when or where the infection may have occurred, was offered.
Health officials said they were working closely with local governments and county mosquito control. Aerial and ground mosquito spraying is being conducted "to mitigate the risk of further transmission."
This type of malaria was identified as the P. vivax species, which is not considered as fatal as other strains.
What to know about malaria
The federal Centers for Disease Control reports that about 1,500 to 2,000 cases of malaria are diagnosed in the U.S. each year. Most involve travelers and immigrants returning from countries where malaria occurs, including sub-Sharan Africa and South Asia, the CDC web site reports.
A published health journal on the National Institute of Health web site reports four outbreaks of malaria have been reported in the U.S. since 2000, with the most recent being in Palm Beach County in 2003.
Health officials noted that malaria is not transmitted from person to person. Only infected Anopheles mosquitoes can transmit malaria to humans.
"Effective treatment is readily available through hospitals and other health care providers. Individuals in this area with symptoms of fever, chills, sweats, nausea/vomiting, and headache should seek immediate medical attention," the release stated.
How to protect against malaria
To protect yourself from any mosquito-borne illness, the health department advised the following prevention steps:
Use mosquito repellent that contains DEET (10-30 percent), picaridin, oil of lemon eucalyptus, para-menthane-diol, 2-undecanone or IR3535.
Wear long sleeves and pants.
Check and repair screens on doors and windows to prevent mosquitoes from entering your home.
To help reduce the population of mosquitos around your home, drain and cover areas around your home. Mosquitoes reproduce in freshwater from rainstorms, sprinklers and other source. Drain pools of freshwater around your home and yard. Empty pet bowls, garbage cans, garbage can lids, bottles, tires, and anything where freshwater has accumulated.
More:Sarasota County crews battling pesky mosquitoes
Residents of Sarasota and Manatee counties were advised to contact their local government for more information about specific mosquito control.
More information on mosquito prevention in Florida can be found here.
More information about malaria worldwide can be found through the CDC. | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2023/05/27/sarasota-health-officials-report-malaria-case-in-person-who-recovered/70263351007/ | 2023-05-27T11:44:26 | 1 | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2023/05/27/sarasota-health-officials-report-malaria-case-in-person-who-recovered/70263351007/ |
Sarasota Memorial Hospital Level II trauma center in Sarasota earns recertification
Recertification process occurs every seven years; Sarasota trauma center first opened in May 2015
After an extensive review of every aspect of its trauma program, Sarasota Memorial Hospital’s Sarasota campus has been recertified as a Level II Trauma Center.
The Level II facility at Sarasota Memorial’s Sarasota campus is the county’s only trauma center, meaning it is equipped with advanced treatments, technology and highly skilled trauma surgeons and subspecialists ready around the clock to provide lifesaving care to critically injured people in the region.
Related:Steube thanks SMH trauma team for treating him after fall from 25-foot ladder
Florida trauma centers undergo the recertification process every seven years to demonstrate compliance with state rules governing higher levels of care that trauma centers provide.
In its first renewal survey since opening, the SMH-Sarasota trauma team met or exceeded all national benchmarks, with no deficiencies noted by the team of American College of Surgeons trauma experts who performed the on-site assessment.
“Our trauma program strengthens the safety net of care available in the community, delivering a level of care not available in most hospitals, at a time when people need it most,” Sarasota Memorial Health Care System CEO David Verinder said in a prepared statement “We are extremely proud of our trauma team and the lifesaving care they deliver every day.”
The Sarasota County Public Hospital Board approved the funds and resources necessary to open the local trauma center in 2015.
Earlier:Sarasota Memorial trauma center off to busy start
In its first year, the trauma team cared for more than 1,000 patients.
Today, it treats about 4,800 patients a year, with survival rates that exceed national benchmarks.
National studies have found that care provided in a trauma center decreases the chance of death following injury by 25% compared to care in hospitals without trauma centers.
Level II centers address the needs of injured patients across the entire spectrum of care, providing not only emergency and acute hospital care, but also post-hospital care and rehabilitation.
SMH also provides important injury prevention programs, such as its ongoing Stop the Bleed classes, which encourage bystanders to become trained, equipped, and empowered to help in a bleeding emergency while waiting for professional help to arrive.
The next classes will be held June 1 at SMH-Venice and June 22 at SMH-Sarasota. For more information visit https://www.smh.com/calendar. | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/sarasota/2023/05/27/sarasota-memorial-hospital-trauma-center-earns-recertification/70259925007/ | 2023-05-27T11:44:32 | 0 | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/sarasota/2023/05/27/sarasota-memorial-hospital-trauma-center-earns-recertification/70259925007/ |
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Memorial Day closings, changes and activity
Greensboro city offices will be closed.
Guilford County offices will be closed.
North Carolina state government offices will be closed.
Federal government offices will be closed.
Guilford County Schools will be closed.
Garbage collections will be postponed one day.
Other collections will be on a regular schedule.
The JustOne Foundation and VFW Post 2087 will honor fallen veterans at a Memorial Day Event at VFW Post 2087. The ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at 2605 S. Elm-Eugene St.
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The Memorial Day ceremony at the Carolina Field of Honor will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Triad Park, 9652 W. Market St., Kernersville.
The speaker will be Al Stewart, a retired assistant Greensboro police chief.
Stewart is also a decorated Vietnam veteran. He was an Airborne-Ranger sergeant and a Night Hawk gunship gunner.
Stewart has served serval tours as an adviser to soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon since his retirement.
Lawn chairs are recommended. The ceremony will be held rain or shine.
For more information, go to https://www.carolinafieldofhonor.org/ and click on the events menu.
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Thomasville hosts its annual Memorial Day Parade in its downtown historic district at 9 a.m. on Monday.
Now in its 35th year and billed as the largest such parade in the Southeast, it's a time to remember fallen soldiers.
This year's grand marshal is WWII veteran Glenn Ray Leonard.
The parade ends at Cushwa Stadium with a paratrooper drop-in.
Thomasville is about a 30-minute drive from Greensboro.
Call 336-870-8735 for more information. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/thomasville-n-c-hosts-southeasts-largest-memorial-day-parade-on-monday/article_5fab849c-fb43-11ed-aa55-bfa750bc3864.html | 2023-05-27T11:54:01 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/thomasville-n-c-hosts-southeasts-largest-memorial-day-parade-on-monday/article_5fab849c-fb43-11ed-aa55-bfa750bc3864.html |
Average daily flows
Snake River at Jackson 384 cfs
Snake River at Palisades 10,225 cfs
Snake River at Heise 12,802 cfs
Snake River at Blackfoot 8,004 cfs
Snake River at American Falls 8,073 cfs
Snake River at Milner 0 cfs
Little Wood River near Carey 810 cfs
Jackson Lake is 54% full.
Palisades Reservoir is 78% full.
American Falls Reservoir is 86% full.
Upper Snake River system is at 78% of capacity.
As of May 26 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/average-daily-streamflows/article_a73a7e78-fc13-11ed-a1d1-4b54ae6137a3.html | 2023-05-27T11:58:53 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/average-daily-streamflows/article_a73a7e78-fc13-11ed-a1d1-4b54ae6137a3.html |
While finishing up her high school experience, Ashlynne Garrison of Twin Falls hasn’t been walking school halls and visiting classrooms.
She’s enrolled in an online school, and although there were things about a traditional school she missed, this much is clear: For her, it was the right way to go.
Garrison attended Kimberly schools from fifth grade through her freshman year, but then had some bouts with depression, some brought on by bullying from a group of girls.
She ended up in a bad place, and was admitted to a mental institution.
Things got turned around. She learned coping skills and ways to deal with anxiety.
“It was pretty amazing,” Garrison said. “I came out a new person.”
She learned that ultimately, you are the only one who can make you happy.
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She enrolled in the virtual school iSucceed Virtual High School out of Boise in 2021 and will graduate soon.
But that doesn’t mean she hasn’t at times thought about the things she missed, including school dances.
“I saw my friends going to prom with their dates,” Garrison said. “That took a toll on me.”
A few tears were shed.
But besides being in a better place for her mental health, she has shown the dedication someone needs to do the work on her own.
“When you are at home by yourself,” she said, “you need to have the persistence to do it.”
And here she is, only 16, and ready to graduate from high school.
“It is crazy,” she said as she reflected on the position she’s in. “That makes me feel smart.”
She is on the verge of having the credits necessary to graduate from high school, but is staying in the online school to take dual credit courses. She hopes to have about 30 college credits to her name by the time she enrolls for the spring semester at the College of Southern Idaho.
“It’s a pretty good setup,” she said.
Her virtual school holds students accountable, she says, and it’s essentially three absences and you are out, although it does take in account students’ mental health situations, Garrison said.
She admits to not being a good morning person, but she gets online and stays dedicated, putting in on average four or five hours per school day. If she wanted to spend the time, she could get done with a week’s worth of lessons in a couple days.
And teachers keep track of her.
“I get random calls from teachers making sure I’m OK,” Garrison said.
“She wants to stay ahead of the game,” said her stepfather, Tyler Jones, who runs the food truck Porked Out.
But when she gets done for the day, she often helps out with the food truck or hangs out with friends.
The school’s teachers have “office hours” when they can be contacted online or by a phone call.
And the school holds activities so students can get together, she said, although she has been too busy to attend. But one thing Garrison doesn’t want to miss out on: The graduation walk.
“I still want to experience that,” she said.
Garrison’s senior project — a suicide awareness fundraiser with the theme “You’re Here for a Reason” — was held May 20. Involving speakers, music and food trucks, it raised almost $3,200 for the suicide prevention group Jae Foundation, with the money used to set up the Hannah Bridges Scholarship, in honor of a relative of her mother who took her own life when she was 12 years old.
Garrison took the stage during the event to talk about her experience with mental health and urged young adults to be honest with parents, and for parents to listen to their children and to not treat them like they aren’t good enough.
She did the planning and organization herself, with a little advice and some connections from her parents. Jones agreed, saying one of the only things he did was help arrange some of the permits.
“She has been working on this project since January,” he said. “She put in a lot of hours.”
And Garrison was satisfied with the event’s success.
“I am a very ‘go big or go home’ person,” she said. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/soon-to-be-grad-says-online-courses-work-best-for-her/article_b0804e52-fbfc-11ed-a5bc-8f320062f27d.html | 2023-05-27T11:58:59 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/soon-to-be-grad-says-online-courses-work-best-for-her/article_b0804e52-fbfc-11ed-a5bc-8f320062f27d.html |
Unusual weather struck Friday in the Magic Valley that included a rare tornado touching down in southern Cassia County.
Pocatello’s National Weather Service reported the tornado at 2:36 p.m. in a sparsely populated area southeast of Elba, near the Idaho-Utah border. It quickly dissipated and no injuries were reported. There were also warnings of possible pea-sized hail.
A tornado watch in the area lasted until 3 p.m.
A funnel cloud, in addition, was reported near American Falls.
Flash-flood warnings were issued for several parts of the Magic Valley, including in Cassia County, and Shoshone, where an estimated 0.5 to 1.25 inches of rain had fallen. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/weather-warnings-echo-across-the-magic-valley-on-friday/article_115d2e8c-fc40-11ed-9357-df696422d56a.html | 2023-05-27T11:59:05 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/weather-warnings-echo-across-the-magic-valley-on-friday/article_115d2e8c-fc40-11ed-9357-df696422d56a.html |
TUPELO — When the sound of "Taps" rings out across Tupelo's Veterans Park during the annual Memorial Day ceremony, it will no longer be played on Retired USMC Master Gunnery Sgt. Bob Verell's silver bugle.
Verell, a constant presence at local events honoring veterans and soldiers who never made it back to the United States, died on April 4 at age 82.
A photo of Verell will be placed in the seat he usually occupied, and his bugle will be displayed while "Taps" is played over the sound system Monday morning.
Verell's life and legacy will not be the focus of the ceremony; after all, that's not what he would have wanted. But his life was one well worth remembering.
A Pontotoc resident at the time of his death, Verell previously lived in Houston, Mississippi, and had roots in Tupelo, having graduated from Tupelo High School in 1958. He and Caryn Campbell Verell were married on May 4, 1973. He died just one month shy of their 50-year anniversary.
Verell joined the Marine Corps in 1965 and served multiple tours during the Vietnam War. He served in 80 countries during his military career through embassy duty and service as a security guard for foreign dignitaries. He retired after 26 years of active service.
Back home in Northeast Mississippi, he dedicated much time and energy to preserving the memory of soldiers and veterans.
Ret. USMC Lt. Col. Rex Moody first met Verell while serving as president of the Vietnam Veterans Chapter in Tupelo more than 15 years ago. Verell was interested in joining, and the two men, having much in common, became friends.
"Any time that we needed something done, he was one of the worker bees that we had that would step up, perform and do the job," Moody said.
Though retired, Verell still wore his Marine Corps uniform regularly and with great pride.
"He was a Master Gunnery Sergeant when he retired, and at times he thought he was still a Master Gunnery Sergeant," Moody said, laughing. "He was just hardheaded in the good way, the bad way, in the Marine Corps way, and he always stuck to the Marine Corps way."
Moody and Verell served together on the Tupelo Veterans Council and in the Marine Corps League. In recent years, Moody and Verell provided honors for more than a dozen military funerals in the area.
"It was difficult sometimes, a two-man honor service," Moody recalled. "We would both have to fold the flag and he would, prior to my presenting it to the next of kin, he would get the bugle and step off to the side and play 'Taps' at the appropriate time."
The men didn't feel that it was a job; they considered it an honor.
With a heart for public service instilled in him by both his father and mother, Verell was always passionate about making sure that veterans were taken care of.
Leigh Ann Mattox, recreation director for Tupelo Parks and Recreation, got to know Verell through his service on the Tupelo Veterans Council and his presence at events through the years.
"He was always about his brothers, about ways to honor them and make sure that they were remembered," Mattox said. "Remembrance was a big thing for him."
In 2017, a poignant photo of Verell kneeling at Tupelo's replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall captured by Daily Journal photographer Thomas Wells was republished across the United States.
Verell was remembering a friend who never made it home from Vietnam when the photo was taken.
"It really resonated just how much love he had for his country, how much respect he had and how big of a patriot he was as well," Robert Verell, Bob Verell's son, said of the photo. "He had a genuine love for all of his brothers in arms."
Verell was a regular at Romie's Grocery in Tupelo, where he sat at the bar on Saturday nights for around 20 years.
"He had a certain spot at the end of the bar," Taylor Brown, bartender and server at Romie's, said. "When he passed away, we retired the seat."
She remembers him walking through the door around 7 p.m. and hanging out until 10 o'clock.
"I knew him very well," Brown said. "He was one of my first regulars when I started bartending, and I just developed a relationship with him over the last three years."
She remembers Verell as witty, with a heart of gold. He was the type of person to do anything he could to help anyone. He would strike up a conversation with servers or patrons, showing genuine kindness to each person.
"He could always read if somebody was upset or going through something," Brown said. "He was always there to offer his words and his shoulder to cry on."
He was known by many nicknames at different points in his life, including "Sarge," "Top," and "Bubble Nose," according to his son.
"But to me, he was always just 'Dad,'" Robert Verell said. "He was just a very loving man and was willing to give anything to anybody if he felt like it would help them out. We just need more people like that."
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- The first debate of the political season for Duluth mayoral candidates was held yesterday at Northland Country Club. Candidates Brooks Anderson, incumbent John Fedo, Wayne Gilbert and Shirley Swain succinctly outlined their platforms and answered questions.
- A new restaurant will replace the Highland Supper Club, one of Duluth's premier restaurants, its owner said yesterday. The Highland was closed this week after 2 ½ years of financial losses, and it will reopen in November under a new name.
News Tribune, May 27, 1923
- Fourteen Duluth Boy Scouts headed to the Auto Club grounds at Pike Lake yesterday morning to plant trees and learn lessons on forestry. One hundred trees were planted at the entrance and along the road that leads to the lakeshore.
- Capt. Henry Cleveland, manager of the Duluth Park Board, said yesterday the city is not prepared for the large number of tourists he expects this summer. He said only $1,200 has been spent this year to prepare the city's three tourist campsites. | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/bygones-duluths-highland-supper-club-closed-40-years-ago | 2023-05-27T12:26:19 | 0 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/bygones-duluths-highland-supper-club-closed-40-years-ago |
SILVER BAY — On a warm summer day, parked cars will line both sides of Mensing Drive to Minnesota Highway 61, nearly a mile away from their destination: Black Beach on Lake Superior.
“You go down there on a weekend, you can’t believe it,” said Silver Bay Mayor Wade LeBlanc.
Established as a park just a few years ago, visitors flock to the black “sand” beach, which is exploding in popularity thanks to photos and articles shared online.
“That’s been the biggest thing,” LeBlanc said. “I mean, I am not a social media guy, but I do realize the importance of it for getting information out to people and so I’m not foolish to think that it doesn’t help us.”
Earlier this month, FamilyDestinationsGuide.com ranked Black Beach No. 61 on a list of “America’s Favorite 100 Secret Beaches,” but it incorrectly said the beach was made up of “black volcanic sand.”
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That’s true for the black beaches of Hawaii, but Black Beach on Lake Superior is not made of naturally occurring black sand. It’s made of mining pollution disposed of in the lake.
From 1955-1980, Reserve Mining, Northshore Mining’s predecessor, pumped its tailings, or waste rock, directly into Lake Superior.
When it’s hot down in the Twin Cities, it drives people up here … it’s a massive body of water and the black sand, it’s unique.
After taconite is mined near Babbitt, it’s taken by rail to Silver Bay, where it’s crushed into fine pieces. Magnets take out the iron, which is processed into marble-sized pellets and shipped off to make steel. And since 1980, the fine pieces of non-iron leftovers, or tailings, are then taken inland to the Milepost 7 tailings basin and kept behind a dam.
But before a landmark environmental lawsuit required the construction of that basin, the fine pieces of waste rock were dumped into Lake Superior.
From 1955-1980, Reserve sent up to 67,000 tons of tailings per day down a chute into Lake Superior. The current took some of the tailings with it, causing the lake to appear green in places. But many of the tailings stayed near the Silver Bay plant, forming a massive delta along the shore.
And Black Beach, sometimes called Onyx Beach, is the northernmost end of that delta.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sued Reserve in 1972 to stop it from dumping its tailings, and just before the trial began, asbestos-like fibers were discovered in Lake Superior and in the drinking water of cities that sourced their water from the lake, like Duluth, but had not filtered the water.
Eventually, the fibers were traced back to those tailings, prompting Judge Miles Lord to order Reserve to close. But shortly after, the appeals process kept the mine, processing plant and tailings disposal into Lake Superior to continue until the basin was completed in 1980. (The basin, Milepost 7, is located a few miles inland and still takes the facility’s tailings today. Plans are underway to expand it) .
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So, given the asbestos-like fibers, is it safe to play, picnic and swim at the beach?
Dr. Jeffrey Mandel, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, has studied why so many people who had worked in taconite plants were getting mesothelioma, a lung cancer that is caused by asbestos exposure, as part of the Minnesota Taconite Workers Health Study.
In 2018, he and Dr. Nnaemeka Odo published a study that could not connect taconite workers’ mesothelioma to those asbestos-like fibers (non-asbestiform amphibole elongate mineral particles) found in taconite. The fibers occur in taconite mined from the easternmost end of the Iron Range, where ore is sourced for Northshore Mining.
Instead, it was likely caused by asbestos-form material in insulation or other equipment in the plants, Mandel said.
That’s because the fibers found in taconite are non-friable (don’t separate easily), shorter and more easily eliminated by the body’s immune system via white blood cells that engulf or ingest the fibers, Mandel said.
But the longer friable fibers tend to stay in the body. Long fibers are defined by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration “as 5 micrometers or longer, with a length-to-diameter ratio of at least 3 to 1.”
“(Long fibers) tend to migrate out to the periphery of the lung, which is exactly where the mesothelioma occurs, in the periphery,” Mandel said. “(Mesothelioma) occurs actually in the tissue surrounding the lungs, it’s not actually in the lung. (The long fibers) work their way out to the periphery of the lung and cause ongoing irritation of that tissue, which ultimately results in mesothelioma.”
Mandel said his former University of Minnesota colleagues are further studying the short fiber’s health impacts.
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So, an afternoon on the beach? Probably fine.
“It's not likely that there's any substantial risk with that type of exposure. There might be some risk, but I think that would generally involve a much larger exposure where you're working or playing there day in and day out for year after year,” Mandel said. “That’s the setting where the exposure may be more pronounced. I think a casual sort of visit to the beach or a weekend at the beach — I guess I wouldn't be too concerned about that knowing what we know about short fibers.”
Today, the tailings line the beach in a coffee ground or sand-like texture. And trees and other plants are growing out of them.
Besides the tailings, there’s other evidence of the beach’s industrial past.
A fence laden with no trespassing runs along the beach, with the pellet plant and related facilities just on the other side.
And strong waves over the winter uncovered a broken electrical wire, which was jutting out of the ground in two places along the beach’s south shore on a recent visit.
For Silver Bay, Black Beach’s transformation into a usable beach has spurred other developments on the road leading to it, including Black Beach Municipal Campground and Black Beach Mini Golf. And across Highway 61, there’s North Shore Adventure Park.
Combined, visitors are now stopping in Silver Bay rather than just passing through en route to state parks lining the North Shore.
“Being right next to (Lake) Superior is probably 10 to 15 degrees cooler than a mile or two inland,” Leblanc said. “When it’s hot down in the Twin Cities, it drives people up here … it’s a massive body of water and the black sand, it’s unique. It’s unique to our area; it’s unique to our region. So it’s just another attraction to get people to stop in our area.”
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MUNSTER — Munster High School will be the first inductee to the David Adams Hall of Fame, a new hall dedicated to student journalism and free speech, the Indiana High School Press Association announced this week.
The hall, named for the former Indiana University student media director and fierce student rights advocate, will honor one school every year that promotes and protects First Amendment freedoms within the school and community, IHSPA said. Adams died in 2007.
MHS's student media department is led by English teacher Sarah-Anne Lanman and includes Crier, the student newspaper, and Paragon, the school's yearbook.
The judge this year was Ruth Witmer, editorial adviser for IU student media and longtime colleague of Adams. She said she was impressed with MHS's commitment to the First Amendment, press freedom, media law and ethics, and having the student voice front and center.
"The degree to which Munster is tackling the kinds of stories that would need advice from the Student Press Law Center, an organization where Adams served, is in itself striking," Witmer wrote in her evaluation. "The students in Munster are covering stories on mental health, race, sexual assault, gun violence, free speech and more. These students at the Crier and Paragon fully embrace the responsibilities and challenges of covering their community."
For this honor, MHS will receive $250 for its student media department, plaques for the school’s main office and journalism classroom, and permanent recognition on the IHSPA website.
"It’s been maintained by holding fast to the things that make media organizations strong, trusted and indispensable: independence, integrity, fairness, attention to stakeholders, accuracy and courage in seeking and reporting the truth in storytelling," Witmer wrote. "Dave Adams, this honor’s namesake, would be proud of the student media program at Munster High School." | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/education/munster-high-school-becomes-first-to-join-student-press-hall-of-fame/article_4737a73e-f8e5-11ed-b126-a7b4a7a112b3.html | 2023-05-27T12:29:01 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/education/munster-high-school-becomes-first-to-join-student-press-hall-of-fame/article_4737a73e-f8e5-11ed-b126-a7b4a7a112b3.html |
On Friday morning, Flagstaff Police assisted a very large and furry Coconino County resident as they attempted to cross Interstate 40 — a black bear.
Just before 5:30 a.m., the animal tried to cross the freeway near the Fourth Street bridge. According to the Flagstaff Police Department, when they arrived, the bear was stuck in the median between west and eastbound I-40.
Police say they kept an eye on the bear, and set up traffic control measures to ensure the safety of the critter and passing traffic while they waited for backup from Coconino County Animal Control and the Arizona Game and Fish Department.
Police say it took some “creative wrangling,” but first responders were eventually able to help the bear safely cross I-40 and return to “the wild near Harold Ranch Road.” | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/a-bear-able-traffic-delay-flagstaff-police-help-black-bear-safely-cross-i-40/article_ac973a4c-fbf9-11ed-a49f-af1a696f674f.html | 2023-05-27T12:32:12 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/a-bear-able-traffic-delay-flagstaff-police-help-black-bear-safely-cross-i-40/article_ac973a4c-fbf9-11ed-a49f-af1a696f674f.html |
Elizabeth Archibeque has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and child abuse in the death of her 6-year-old son.
The boy had been locked inside a small bedroom closet without food until he died in March of 2020. At the time of his death, police remarked that the boy weighed less than 30 pounds — well under the average weight for his age.
Archibeque was charged alongside the boy’s father, Anthony Martinez, and his grandmother, Ann Marie Martinez.
The adults told police investigators they regularly locked the boy and his brothers in a small closet in their east Flagstaff apartment to “discipline” them, denying them food. They told police the boy had been in the closet for “about a month.”
Two surviving siblings were taken into the custody of child protective services at the time. They were 2, 4 and 7 years old.
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Archibeque is now set to appear before Judge Ted Reed for sentencing later this summer. The first-degree murder charge could have her facing life in prison. According to the terms of the plea agreement Archibeque signed this month, she will not be eligible for probation. If she is sentenced to life, she will not be eligible for any kind of parole or work release. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/archibeque-pleads-guilty-to-murder-child-abuse-in-the-starvation-death-of-6-year-old/article_09457682-fbf0-11ed-a656-6b96ef592318.html | 2023-05-27T12:32:18 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/archibeque-pleads-guilty-to-murder-child-abuse-in-the-starvation-death-of-6-year-old/article_09457682-fbf0-11ed-a656-6b96ef592318.html |
Police are investigating after an early morning shooting in Philadelphia's Fairhill neighborhood on Saturday left a man dead.
According to police, officers responded to a shooting along the 600 block of Cambria Street, at about 12:50 a.m., found a man who had been shot multiple times while sitting in a car.
Officers said the man was transported to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced at about 3:19 a.m.
Police said they located a second man shot nearby but could not confirm if this incident is related to the Cambria Street shooting.
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NORMAL — Illinois State University’s Office of Student Research announced the winners of the summer 2023 FIREbird research grants.
The grants support student and faculty independent research experiences with up to $3,000 in funding for salary, research materials or travel.
Students receiving the award will work approximately 20 hours per week on their project over the course of eight to 10 weeks during the summer.
This year’s recipients are as follows:
- Kyle Clark, Bloomington; Kristen Lane, Grand Ridge; and Harsh Patel, Downers Grove, from the School of Biological Sciences, “Dopamine contributes to associative and non-associate memory in crayfish” with Wolfgang Stein
- Fawwaz Ali Chowhan, Normal, School of Biological Sciences, “Genetic Screening of Drosophila Melanogaster to recover Hto inserts with distinctive subcellular localization patterns” with Kevin Edwards
- Brendan Czajka, La Grange Park, Department of Physics, “Characteristics of Pair Creation” with Rainer Grobe and Charles Su
- Lylia Gomez, Moline, Department of Physics, “Mathematical Modeling for Thermoreception in C. elegans” with Epaminondas Rosa
- Alejandro Gonzalez-Jimenez, Rolling Meadows, Department of English, “Secondary English Teachers’ Use of Writing and Conversation to Make Meaning of their Action Research Findings and Future Socially Just Instruction” with Danielle Lillge
- Katie Helmink, Breese, Department of Chemistry, “Synthesis and reactivity of novel rhenium selenide cluster complexes containing alykyl ligands” with Lisa Szczepura
- Alma (Allie) High, Bloomington, Department of Politics and Government, “Investigating Outcomes of STEM Summer Camps in Bloomington-Normal” with Will Lewis and Rachel Sparks
- L.T. Hodges, Mahomet, Department of Special Education, “Technology Use in the IEP Process” with Kim Fisher
- Kiana Itschner-Washington, Peoria, School of Biological Sciences, “Freshwater Soundscapes: Do fish howl at the moon?” with Bill Perry and Catherine O’Reilly
- Grady Jacobsen, Wentzville, Missouri, Department of Chemistry, “Characterization of the inactivation mechanism of the transcriptional repressor RcrR” with Jan-Ulrik Dahl
- Brianna (Sage) Lauper-Cook, Dalton City, Department of Chemistry, “Investigating The Reactivity of Cs[Re6Se8I3]” with Lisa Szczepura
- Amelie Mwilambwe, Bloomington, Department of Agriculture, “Pollen diet diversity and its influences on bee microbiota and nutrition” with Ben Sadd
- Lane Nichols, Farmer City, Department of Physics, “Block Copolymer Nanostructures Fabrication” with Mahua Biswas
- Caroline Okleiteris, Plainfield, School of Biological Sciences, “Intron analysis of the rfk-1 gene driver” with Tom Hammond
- Delaney Reynolds, Kewanee, School of Biological Sciences, “Characterizing the Role of LXR in the Regulation of Maternal Glucocorticoid Exposure” with Ryan Paitz
- Lillian Ridinger, Normal, Department of History, “Reconstructing Ancient Agricultural Economies and Trade Networks at Valle Gianni, Italy” with Kathryn Jasper
- Tyler Simpkins, Murphysboro, School of Biological Sciences, “Effect of rcrB on antibiotic resistance in Uropathogenic E.coli” with Jan-Ulrik Dahl | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/education/a-look-at-the-latest-central-illinois-academic-successes/article_2d77d26e-fa67-11ed-be77-a7adff218b69.html | 2023-05-27T12:44:05 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/education/a-look-at-the-latest-central-illinois-academic-successes/article_2d77d26e-fa67-11ed-be77-a7adff218b69.html |
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The bright red metal Narcan kits are strategically placed in four locations at Highland Regional High School where they can be reached quickly in case of an emergency.
The South Jersey school system was among the first districts in Camden County equipped with the kits last fall in case a student needed the potentially lifesaving treatment after a suspected fentanyl overdose — and now it will be part of a pilot to provide the kits to school bus drivers beginning in September.
Since October, Camden County, believed to be the only county in New Jersey doing this, has installed the boxes in about 244 locations — including nearly every public, private, and parochial school in the county, said John D. Pellicane, director of the county's Office of Mental Health and Addiction.
Besides schools, the county has added the boxes to churches, boarding houses, apartment complexes, shelters, food pantries, courtrooms, and social service facilities.
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Located in Blackwood, Highland Regional has about 1,200 ninth through 12th graders and would be the first school to get them for bus drivers. Details still must be worked out on how the kits would be assigned to drivers and who would be responsible for bringing them on the bus daily as they transport students.
"I think it's necessary," said Highland Regional senior Gloria Simmons, 18, who plans to study sociology at Princeton University in the fall. "You're trying to take care of the 'what-ifs.' Students nowadays don't know what they're consuming."
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County officials launched the Narcan program in response to the growing opioid crisis that claimed more than 350 lives in the county in 2022, according to statistics compiled by the state. A cheap synthetic opioid, fentanyl is 50 times as lethal as heroin. As Narcan has become more widely available, some experts say everyone should consider including it in their first aid kit. The county plans to add a geographic mapping system (GIS) to quickly locate where the nearest medication is located.
Camden County ranked only second in the state behind Essex County, with 2,041 Naloxone administrations in 2022 to people showing signs of an opioid overdose, according to statistics compiled by the state Attorney General. Burlington County had 605 administrations, and Gloucester County had 461.
Pellicane said schools have largely embraced the Narcan program after a slow start, with only a few religious schools and preschools in the county declining the kits. The county distributed the kits free to the schools, although they cost about $46,000 total.
"There was some pushback," Pellicane said. Seminars were held and training conducted for more than 700 school employees, including teachers, nurses, janitors, and coaches, he said. Training may be provided for students in the next phase, he said.
At Highland Regional, the kits containing naloxone spray, the generic name for Narcan, which can reverse an overdose from opioids, was put in the library, the gym, a hallway frequented by students and teachers, and in a second-floor hallway.
"They're visible," said Caryelle Lasher, director of the county Department of Health and Human Services. "It's hopefully empowering students and staff if there's an emergency."
AtlantiCare will distribute free naloxone Wednesday to mark International Overdose Awareness Day.
Principal Ryan C. Varga said Narcan has been administered once since the kits were installed in October. Each kit, secured in a metal box, holds four doses, given as a nasal spray. The school also provided Narcan inhalers to its medical response team and athletic trainers, he said.
When Narcan is needed, the school activates a code blue, Varga said. School nurses monitor the person's vitals and call 911 for an ambulance, he said. Highland has provided Narcan to its school nurse and resource officer since 2017.
County officials say having the kits readily accessible reduces the stigma attached to them. They compare them to having a defibrillator in the event of a cardiac emergency.
"Anyone can save a life," Lasher said. "People should be on the lookout for Narcan boxes."
In January 2022, a 12-year-old boy was found unresponsive on a school bus at nearby Gloucester Township Elementary School. A school nurse performed CPR until emergency responders arrived with Narcan.
The boy later died from what was ruled drug intoxication from fentanyl. His uncle was charged in his death for directing the boy to clean drug paraphernalia that contained fentanyl.
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Under the program, police chiefs who distributed the kits to their local districts are expected to provide details about their use to the county in October for a year-end report, said county spokesman Dan Keashen. About half of the municipalities have so far reported not administering any naloxone, he said. The remaining municipalities have not yet reported either way.
"We gave them to every chief of police," Pellicane said. "Some schools wanted more."
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MERRILLVILLE — Attendance was low Friday for the opening of Deep River Waterpark, and that wasn't necessarily a bad thing as far as park officials are concerned.
Having only 50 to 100 people come through the gates by noon allowed new employees to get into the swing of things, said Katie Hill, the guest services team leader.
A lifeguard shortage last year forced the park to reduce hours, General Manager Chris Nawracaj said. It only had staffing to open the park, 9001 E. Lincoln Highway, five days a week.
This year he was able to hire 161 water-safety employees for the start of this season, and some of that crew reported for duty Friday.
He wants to increase that number to more than 200 by the end of June, hoping to recruit guards after a lifesaving training class scheduled for 4 to 6 p.m. June 2 at Hobart High School.
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Waterpark supervisors began looking for lifeguards for the 2023 season shortly after the park closed last year.
The planning paid off, Nawracaj said: “We got a lot of kids from a lot of schools. Our focus this year was to get things back to normal and operate seven days a week."
Things were back to normal for a Chesterton family, despite temperatures in the low 60s.
“We never miss opening day,” Erica Lynch said.
Deep River Waterpark is synonymous with the start of the summer season for Lynch, her son, Bradley, 9, and her mother, Deb Hehr of Hammond.
The family arrived early to enjoy the water slides, wading pool and lazy river.
Similarly, Annie Cronin of Valparaiso said she wanted to use the park and her season pass as much as possible.
Cronin rubbed sunscreen on her five children, ages 1 to 10, while the family was still in the parking lot.
“I have to put on the sunscreen in the parking lot because once I go inside, they will all scatter. Bring on summer,” she said.
Deep River Waterpark is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily through the Memorial Day weekend.
It will then be open June 2, 3 and 4 and goes to seven days a week June 9 through Aug. 13.
After Aug. 13, the park will be open weekends only through and including Labor Day.
Regular admission is $39.95 weekdays, $41.95 weekends.
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Downtown Petoskey Farmers Market opens for season
PETOSKEY — The Petoskey Regional Chamber of Commerce Farmers Market officially opened for the summer season on Friday, May 26.
Chamber of commerce officials and market vendors celebrated the first market of the season with a ribbon cutting, while shoppers browsed through booths with flowers, fresh produce, sauces and more.
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The downtown market, located on Howard Street, will be in operation every Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. from May 26 to Sept. 29.
The Petoskey market will also feature four kids’ days on June 23, July 21, Aug. 11 and Sept. 8 where there will be special activities for kids of all ages.
For more information, visit Petoskeychamber.com.
— Contact Jillian Fellows at jfellows@petoskeynews.com. | https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/news/local/2023/05/27/downtown-petoskey-farmers-market-opens-for-season/70257227007/ | 2023-05-27T13:12:52 | 0 | https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/news/local/2023/05/27/downtown-petoskey-farmers-market-opens-for-season/70257227007/ |
BALTIMORE — Who is the baddest pig you’ve ever seen? There’s only one answer: Miss Piggy.
You can see Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog and their other beloved pals at “The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unleashed,” on display at the Maryland Center for History and Culture through the end of the year. Early iterations of popular characters, storyboards and video clips line the gallery as viewers are taken on a journey through Henson’s extensive career, including fan-favorite films like “Labyrinth” and “The Dark Crystal,” as well as his work on children’s shows such as “Fraggle Rock” and “Sesame Street.”
Walking through the exhibit is nostalgic, but Barbara Miller, curator and deputy director of New York’s Museum of the Moving Image, wants people to know it’s more than that. “You’ll learn things about television history and things about Jim Henson that you wouldn’t have known before,” Miller said, such as his experimental film period — a venture that almost made him leave puppetry behind.
Items on display come from the Henson archives in Los Angeles and New York — the latter “like a block away” from Miller’s home institution. The proximity allowed her to pore over the materials that helped her tell the story of Henson’s life and gave her access to the creature shop, which made it easier to conserve the puppets.
Those familiar with Henson may know he has a strong connection to Maryland: He grew up in Prince George’s County and graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park. Though this is the exhibition’s 10th venue nationwide, visitors can only see the portion of the exhibit that pertains to his life in Maryland, curated by Jim Henson Company Archives Director Karen Falk, here in Baltimore.
Erickson said that Henson’s Maryland connection gives visitors “an idea of how he persevered” through his early arts career and shows just how far the Muppets have come. You can see black-and-white footage of his “Sam and Friends” series, which premiered on local Washington, D.C., television in 1955, with an early, hand-stitched version of Kermit in a black bowl-cut wig.
Erickson, who worked alongside Henson for decades and travels with the exhibition, still sees so much joy in his work. “I often tell people, ’You think you enjoy watching the Muppets in any way, shape or form? You have no idea how much fun we had working with Jim.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2023/05/27/exchange--jim-henson-exhibition/9e09c5b8-fc8e-11ed-bafc-bf50205661da_story.html | 2023-05-27T13:14:19 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2023/05/27/exchange--jim-henson-exhibition/9e09c5b8-fc8e-11ed-bafc-bf50205661da_story.html |
HARRISONBURG, Va, — Harrisonburg-based dancer and teacher Bin-Shin So has quite the story to share, from Taipei, Taiwan to the Shenandoah Valley, via many an international stop, this artist brings decades of skill, experience and passion to the community.
When she was a young child, So’s mother opted for her and her sister to attend a boarding school in Taipei. After auditioning, she was granted a place at an exclusive boarding school for training in Peking Opera, a complex traditional Chinese theatrical form that requires intense physical and vocal training from a very young age.
From fourth to sixth grade So and her classmates began their day at five-thirty a.m. with physical training before starting a regular day of schooling at 9 a.m.
“We would do handstands for twenty, sometimes thirty minutes,” Said So. “It was like gymnastics training.”
Once the regular school day had finished it was back to physical and vocal training in the traditional forms, most days until 8 p.m.
This amount of movement training at such a young age creates an extraordinary level of strength and flexibility. For So, it would have been a shame to let the growth fade by ending training too early, so upon moving to a smaller city in Taiwan and having to leave the boarding school, So decided to continue her dance and performance training. So was enrolled in a studio-style middle school. Again merging performance techniques with regular schooling this enabled So to later complete high school at the prestigious National Taiwan Academy of Arts, now named the Taiwan University of Arts.
It was at the Taiwan Academy of Arts during her three years of high school and two years of specializing at the college level that So discovered ballet and studied the cultural exchanges between ballet and Peking Opera in the early 20th century.
“In Peking Opera, everything is inspired by a circle, like a round circle,” she said. “The shapes of the hands and feet. In Ballet it’s about making the line longer.”
Even after five years of the Taiwan Academy of Arts, So was not done with Education and training, then earning herself a place at the Chinese Culture University for another two years, during which she took on her first experiences as a teacher of Chinese dance during cultural exchanges. These experiences were also So’s first journey into the wider world, with classes taking her from the Philippines to Peru.
The work of sharing culture and traveling the world would not end with those classes. After graduating from the Chinese Culture University, So was selected numerous times to work for government-sponsored Taiwanese cultural exchange programs, taking arts, dance, and music around the world in diplomatic and cultural endeavors.
The government cultural exchange program saw So performing in intensive traditional pieces for long periods on international tours, with performances taking the small group of six dancers and musicians from across Europe, South America and Asia, including Malaysia and Singapore
“Sometimes it’s two months of intense training then forty-five-day tours twenty-five shows in that time.” Said So “Sometimes it was every day.”
After several years this schedule, travel itinerary, and the intensity of the movement work began to take its toll.
Dancers endure a great deal of physical strain in their careers, especially at such elite levels, with injuries being commonplace. So herself had a bad injury to her ankle as a young child after landing awkwardly from a jump.
“To this day, I wonder if it was broken,” she said after revealing she was treated for a sprain but suspects it was something worse.
By age 23, So was already reaching the point in many dancers’ careers where they must begin to take notice of the physical effects of so much dance.
“After so many intensive years of dance performances and teaching in Taiwan, it felt like an injury,” she said.
To date, So describes the toll of the intensity of the work and landing many thousands of jumps as having “worn out” her knees and hips.
The realization that the body couldn’t sustain that level of performance brought So to the United States with a place at Lesley College in Boston for Graduate School, studying dance movement therapy.
“It was psychotherapy” explained So,” after that two years of study I worked for another two years as a dance movement therapist. My population was little kids with ADHD — and also I worked 5 days a week with those kids and still worked at weekends as a dance teacher.”
It was in Boston that So met her husband in a Bible study group. A Chinese citizen himself who has a physics degree from Peking University and Ph.D. in history, So’s husband is now a history professor at James Madison University. So describes him as an academic through and through, and to this day they still revel in their different approaches to teaching and learning, finding an interesting mix of academic and kinesthetic practices.
A few short years after they were married in 2004, So arrived at another crossroads in her career.
“After a few years, I got married and had kids, and thought I probably need to step down from dance therapy,” she recalled
Which led to nearly a five-year break from dance in what to date had been an unbroken chain of training, teaching, and performance since fourth grade. There was a period when So thought her relationship with dance was over entirely.
When So’s husband had the opportunity to join the history faculty at JMU in 2012, the family moved to the Valley to settle, and So credits the natural beauty of the area and the community in it with changing her outlook on life.
“This valley encouraged me to really enjoy life more,” she explained.
Once settled just outside Harrisonburg, it would actually be one of her two daughters that brought So back into the world of dance.
“It was my little one. I saw her moving and thought she is a dancer,” So said. “I started looking for somewhere for her to start dance. I couldn’t find anywhere so decided to start teaching her myself.”
So admits to some trepidation in allowing her daughter to follow in her footsteps given the enormous toll dance can take on the body, but with both her children displaying strong artistic talents in both dance and music, So gave space to their passions.
Once the powerful desire to dance had returned, and after settling in the Shenandoah Valley to raise her family there was no stopping So in bringing all of her experience and talent to the people of the community. So began with starting an after-school dance program at Redeemer Classical School in Keezletown, which runs to this day, offering training in Modern, Ballet, Tap, and even Classical Chinese Dance.
“It gave the little kids some variety for recital pieces” So said.
From there her work with children and adults at all levels of experience has expanded further. So recently worked with another Harrisonburg powerhouse of creativity, Joy Anderson, as choreographer for the Eastern Mennonite School production of Godspell, using her experience to bring a subtle mix of Eastern and Western forms to the movement, which created a beautiful and unexpected aesthetic to the physical storytelling in that piece.
So has also found a creative home in the valley with the Harrisonburg Dance Cooperative, a collective of professional dancers founded by Ellie De Waal and Lara Mack to create a space for dancers of all experience levels to learn, perform and practice together.
“It felt great coming back to dance,” said So. “I can finally do something with a professional group again.”
Additionally HDC offers classes to adult beginners, with So acting as one of their primary teachers.
“Not many adults get the opportunity to learn Ballet and Modern,” said So, which is a key reason for the offer from HDC.
After decades of training, from thirty-minute 6 a.m. handstands at boarding school in Taipei to a master’s degree from Boston, to classes in Harrisonburg, Bin-Shin So has collected a lifetime of experience in dance and is a valuable artist asset in the community, bringing not only knowledge but a great open willingness to share the joy of dance with others.
“Dance is something that can cheer you up, not just working out and exercising your body — but also mentally, visually, everything,” she said. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2023/05/27/exchange-dancer/a7ceeccc-fc8e-11ed-bafc-bf50205661da_story.html | 2023-05-27T13:14:25 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2023/05/27/exchange-dancer/a7ceeccc-fc8e-11ed-bafc-bf50205661da_story.html |
Police are investigating a SUV crash that injured a 64-year-old California man early today in DeKalb County.
Officers said a Jeep Grand Cherokee was traveling north on Interstate 69 at the 324 mile marker when it apparently lost control and ran off the highway, hitting a road sign and guardrail about 4 a.m.
The Stockton, California, man suffered neck pain and was taken to a hospital, police said. They said speed is believed a factor in the crash. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/california-man-hurt-in-dekalb-crash/article_01d6fb9c-fc7b-11ed-9b65-eb2f872a8b11.html | 2023-05-27T13:24:33 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/california-man-hurt-in-dekalb-crash/article_01d6fb9c-fc7b-11ed-9b65-eb2f872a8b11.html |
FOREST PARK, Ga. — Almost two dozen animals were taken into a shelter after being rescued from a hoarding situation. Police thought a dead body was inside because the stench was so foul at the home.
A seemingly peaceful street in Forest Park concealed a secret. Clayton County Animal Control Supervisor James Townsend said the smell caught the nose of neighbors.
“I believe they called with a genuine concern because it smelled like decomposition," Townsend said.
Townsend said officers arrived at a home along Holly Circle and saw a woman throwing dogs out of a window. They were horrified to see the conditions inside.
“There was waste of not disposed and just strewn about," Townsend said.
Clayton County Animal Control sent 11Alive pictures of what investigators call "horrific conditions" in the home. They discovered 18 dogs and a rabbit living in piles of feces.
Those at Clayton County Animal Control say there are certain signs you can watch out for someone who may be hoarding.
“They attempt to conceal the smell, and they'll put plastic over the windows," Townsend said. "If you're their friend and you go to visit them, they will come out and meet you in the driveway because they don't want you to go inside."
Another sign of hoarding is hearing dogs but never seeing the owner take them outside.
“Right on the exterior window, you'll see clusters of flies, and the smell is unforgettable," Townsend said.
Adalee, Alba, and Amelia are among the dogs who will be looking for their fur-ever homes. Many of them are emaciated and have skin issues.
Animal Control believes they are Labrador and German Shepherd mixes, about six months to a year old, and they should be up for adoption late next week. Campbell the bunny is ready to go to his forever home now.
Townsend has this message for people who may have good intentions of taking in too many animals.
“Don't take on more than you can handle because you being overwhelmed with dogs and cats is actually worse than doing nothing," Townsend said.
Amelia and the 17 other dogs are now putting their best paws forward and hoping for a new leash on life.
Five cats and dogs are the maximum number of animals allowed in Clayton County. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/almost-two-dozen-animals-rescued-from-horrific-conditions-in-a-hoarding-situation/85-c08fd11b-ecad-434c-84c8-2cb4f8f31d34 | 2023-05-27T13:42:31 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/almost-two-dozen-animals-rescued-from-horrific-conditions-in-a-hoarding-situation/85-c08fd11b-ecad-434c-84c8-2cb4f8f31d34 |
Thomasville hosts its annual Memorial Day Parade in its downtown historic district at 9 a.m. on Monday.
Now in its 35th year and billed as the largest such parade in the Southeast, it's a time to remember fallen soldiers.
This year's grand marshal is WWII veteran Glenn Ray Leonard.
The parade ends at Cushwa Stadium with a paratrooper drop-in.
Thomasville is about a 30-minute drive from Greensboro.
Call 336-870-8735 for more information. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/thomasville-to-host-southeasts-largest-memorial-day-parade-on-monday/article_5fab849c-fb43-11ed-aa55-bfa750bc3864.html | 2023-05-27T13:52:52 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/thomasville-to-host-southeasts-largest-memorial-day-parade-on-monday/article_5fab849c-fb43-11ed-aa55-bfa750bc3864.html |
Roanoke, VA - Today, Saturday, May 27th, through Monday, May 29th, from 12 pm to 6 pm, Angels of Assisi will open for walk-in adoptions.
Dog adoption fees are $25 for Memorial Day weekend!
Angels of Assisi has adoptable dogs looking for loving homes.
Angels of Assisi will approve applications on the spot, meaning you could go home with your new family member this weekend for $25! Puppy adoption fees will be $100.
The Memorial Day Adoption Weekend will take place at Angels of Assisi, located at 415 Campbell Ave SW, Roanoke. The organization asks that the community come together to help find loving homes for these amazing animals. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/27/angels-of-assisi-pet-adoption-event/ | 2023-05-27T13:53:25 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/05/27/angels-of-assisi-pet-adoption-event/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – Roanoke Vice Mayor Joe Cobb speaks to the WSLS 10 about how to address gun violence in the Star City.
Joe Cobb speaks about how city leaders are addressing gun violence
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ROANOKE, Va. – Roanoke Vice Mayor Joe Cobb speaks to the WSLS 10 about how to address gun violence in the Star City.
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ST. ANTHONY - Many rural cemeteries in the Mandan area are maintained yearlong by a committee, but there’s one that gets some extra care right before Memorial Day.
The Rural Union Methodist Association Cemetery, or simply the Rural Union Cemetery, is north of St. Anthony. A small Methodist church built in 1949 by the Ulkenholz family stands beside it. Graves from the early 1900s are found there. And bright vibrant flowers can be found on every tombstone right before Memorial Day, thanks to the descendants of the Schauss family.
The tradition started over 50 years ago. Members of the Schauss family grew up and went to church in south Mandan. Sisters Dorothy, Clara and Arlene would come out to the cemetery to maintain their grandparents’ graves. It started with just their family’s tombstones. But since they were already there, the sisters began to clean more and more of the surrounding area.
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Lynn Crouse, daughter of Dorothy, came out to the cemetery once when she was teenager with her mother and aunts. It usually was just the three of them in the beginning, she said. Only after the sisters died did Crouse and her cousins — Wanda Guenthner, Kim Hust, Bonnie Petryszyn, Colette Barth and Danielle Pulkrabek — begin to take over their mothers’ work.
Now, every year before Memorial Day, they send out an invite to members of the family — the cousins’ spouses, children and grandchildren. They notify the cemetery committee that they’ll be in charge for cleanup in May.
“Memorial Day is the time when you remember those who have passed,” Crouse said.
The family brings in riding mowers, push mowers and weed whackers sometime in mid-May. They wash the stones and trim around them. Newer graves are left alone since some of those families are still around. But older graves most likely don’t have family in the area anymore, and the Schauss family descendants will place flowers on those tombstones.
They get their flowers via donations. Crouse's grandparents and parents are buried in town, and the Schauss family descendants will bring the older flowers from those grave sites to Rural Union Cemetery when the town gravesites get new flowers. Everything is recycled.
The family has a potluck afterward. They bring sandwiches and salads. Pulkrabek, who died last year, would bring chicken that her nieces and nephews always looked forward to. Around 10 people usually show up to help and spend time with family, according to Crouse. One year around 20 people attended.
“If they can make it, they make it,” Crouse said. “They have a good time, too. And of course the little kids love running around, hanging on the gate.”
For the family it’s not just a way to keep up the tradition, but to also keep in contact. Crouse and her cousins hope that their children will carry on the tradition.
Crouse mentioned that as she and her cousins are getting older, it’s harder to work in the cemetery. This year it was particularly hot. The cleanup took more than two hours instead of the usual hour and a half.
The oldest grave in the cemetery dates to 1903, and stones of the ones from before the 1940s have sunken into the ground. But even though the family doesn't know any of them, “We just need to remember those people," Crouse said. "That’s where we came from.” | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/mandan/family-maintains-rural-cemetery-since-the-1970s-as-a-tradition/article_9aed8ad4-fb46-11ed-ad3c-3f1420a0c90c.html | 2023-05-27T14:04:35 | 0 | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/mandan/family-maintains-rural-cemetery-since-the-1970s-as-a-tradition/article_9aed8ad4-fb46-11ed-ad3c-3f1420a0c90c.html |
Pima Community College’s Governing Board is weighing the fate of three historic hotel properties on Drachman Street north of downtown Tucson.
At a board study session Monday, dozens of community members came out in support of preserving the structures and using the spaces to support the college’s operations instead of tearing them down.
“You’re inheriting a moral duty to do the right thing,” Carlos Lozano, who served eight years on the Tucson-Pima County Historical Commission, told the board. “The Drachman hotels can be used productively." He added that in his view, "Local governments and public institutions that serve the community are held to a higher standard than the average developer.”
But some aren't so sure PCC should be putting its money toward historic preservation projects, especially because the college originally set aside $10 million for the project, but new estimates show a tentative plan the board advanced two years ago would now cost $35.7 million.
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Board member Maria D. Garcia said at a study session in April that she’s “fully supportive of cultural history,” but that given the college’s declining enrollment, renovating these properties “should not be a priority for PCC.” She added that “If the city wants them, let the city do something with them.”
The college purchased the hotels — the Tucson Inn (1952), Frontier Motel (1941) and Copper Cactus (1942) — several years ago. They've sat vacant since, sustaining damage from weather and vandalism. All of the buildings would need considerable physical repairs and modifications before they could serve the college's needs.
When it meets next month, the board will pick one of the following options:
- For $35.7 million: Keeping the original plan the board advanced in 2021, which included restoring the Frontier Motel and Copper Cactus and the diner at the Tucson Inn and creating a 26,750-square-foot space over a portion of the Tucson Inn that would be demolished.
- For $8.9 million: Demolishing the Copper Cactus, Frontier Motel and the back half of the Tucson Inn, but repurposing the inn's front half which includes the diner. The plan also calls for preserving the hotel signs. The plan would create a 4,500-square-foot space in addition to a 190,000-square-foot parking lot.
- For $17.3 million: Repurposing the front of the Tucson Inn, demolishing the Copper Cactus, maintaining all signage and building a new 6,000-square-foot building. This would create 10,500 square feet of space and 137,500 square feet for parking.
- For $3.6 million: Demolishing all three hotels, but maintaining signage. This would create a 220,000 square-foot parking lot.
Part of historic district
All three hotels are contributing properties to Tucson’s Miracle Mile Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Former PCC board member Demion Clinco, who lost his bid for re-election last fall, wrote the nomination for the district in 2017.
The district is considered historically significant because in the mid-20th century it served as a commercial corridor for travelers touring the nation, and represents the rise of auto culture in the United States.
According to the Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation, the Tucson Inn, which architect Anne Rysdale designed in 1952, is considered one of the finest examples of roadside architecture in the city and the state, alongside Tucson's Ghost Ranch Lodge on Miracle Mile and Flamingo Hotel on Stone Avenue.
While the Tucson Inn's fate remains unknown, PCC recently completed restoration of the hotel's iconic neon sign.
How PCC may use properties
The upcoming vote has been more than five years in the making.
In September 2017, the board approved purchase of the Tucson Inn at 127 W. Drachman St. for roughly $1.1 million. It subsequently approved buying the nearby Frontier Motel for $1.3 million and the Copper Cactus for $1.6 million in June and November of 2018, respectively.
According to PCC’s 2018 facilities master plan and other board documents, the board approved the purchase of the hotels with an intent to expand the college’s downtown footprint "to allow for program growth, program relocation and potential new centers."
The college has proposed multiple possible uses for the spaces, which could include:
- Using the diner at the Tucson Inn for the PCC culinary and hospitality program.
- A diversity, equity and inclusion center.
- A teaching and learning center.
- An innovation center.
- An education technology lab.
At a June 2021 board study session, PCC Chancellor Lee Lambert — who on Tuesday announced his imminent departure for a new job helming a California community college — and his staff presented multiple options for the “planning, design and construction for the adaptive repurposing and development of the Downtown Campus Hotel/Motel properties.”
Those options included a significant range in estimated cost and scope — from $3.7 million to demolish all of the properties and build a parking lot in their place, to $83 million to repurpose the hotels and build an additional building.
But one option emerged as the leading choice for the board.
It involved restoring the Frontier Motel and Copper Cactus and the diner at the Tucson Inn. This plan additionally called for building a parking lot over a portion of the Tucson Inn that would be demolished.
Two days after the five-member board heard these project options, it approved a motion to move forward with pursuing that plan, with a modification to conduct a feasibility study “related to the south-end building of the Tucson Inn for either parking and/or hotel use.”
At that time, that option with those modifications was estimated to cost around $13.6 million.
But the motion the board passed in June 2021 did not authorize spending any money, it only authorized consideration of the project and a feasibility study. However, in anticipation of the project moving forward, college administrators earmarked $10 million to have on hand for when the renovation project got underway.
Project never had full support
And while the board approved the motion to move forward in June 2021, it did so with support from only three of its members, and none of those supporters, who included Clinco, are still on the board.
Garcia and board member Luis L. Gonzales, who have publicly criticized Lambert for years, abstained from voting on the 2021 motion. They are now the only two current board members who were present when the initial discussion of the project started.
In an interview Thursday with the Arizona Daily Star, Lambert said the college’s attention to the hotel properties met a pause shortly after the 2021 motion passed.
That’s because around that time, the college was also dealing with complaints — which Garcia and Gonzales openly endorsed — about Lambert’s leadership an ex-employee made to PCC's accreditor, the Higher Learning Commission. It took more than a year for the commission to investigate and resolve those complaints, but last fall it issued its final report, which dismissed the majority of the accusations.
“We only have so much bandwidth as an institution,” Lambert said. “We had to focus our energies in certain areas. This (hotels project) did not require us to make an immediate decision. The HLC issues required a greater level of attention, and then we also had an election coming up.”
But by this spring, other costly maintenance issues — including a failing HVAC system at PCC’s 29th Coalition Center — had arisen, which, according to Lambert, prompted the college to revisit its plans for the hotel properties within the context of its broader discussions about budgeting for facilities maintenance.
Cost estimates detailed
At an April 24 board study session, where a range of maintenance issues were discussed, facilities management staff told the board that a recent feasibility study showed the plan for the hotels the board approved in 2021 would cost about $35.7 million — roughly $26 million more than the $10 million the college had originally allocated for the project.
While members of the historic preservation community have questioned those major cost discrepancies, Brandye D’Lena, assistant vice chancellor for facilities, explained that it’s not a direct comparison.
The $10 million figure “was never intended to represent a project budget,” D’Lena told the board on Monday. “Rather, it was an amount set aside so we could go through this process and get into construction, and at that point understand truly what the budget would be.”
According to a presentation by GLHN Architects and Engineers, Inc., the local firm that did a feasibility study for the project, the $35.7 million estimate can be traced to a drastic rise in construction costs over the past three years.
According to the firm’s research, new construction costs of specialized spaces (the hotel properties have potential to fall into that category) could run upwards of $1,000 per square foot. Additionally, the report also notes that heavy renovation costs in the Phoenix area (the closest geographic area with this available data) have risen from $350 per square foot prior to 2020 to $625 this year.
At the April board meeting, Lambert said that because the board had already “made a commitment to adaptively reuse those properties,” it should weigh that before it makes a final decision.
“If you change the commitment," he said, "we need to be able to explain very clearly the reasons why (you made) the change.”
Kathryn Palmer covers higher education for the Arizona Daily Star. Contact her via e-mail at kpalmer@tucson.com or 520-496-9010. | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/pcc-might-tear-down-historic-tucson-hotels-needing-costly-work/article_db322696-fa5a-11ed-a08c-ff4f4bbef420.html | 2023-05-27T14:10:51 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/pcc-might-tear-down-historic-tucson-hotels-needing-costly-work/article_db322696-fa5a-11ed-a08c-ff4f4bbef420.html |
The following is the opinion and analysis of the writer:
I recently had the great joy to spend a week in Washington D.C. with my youngest daughter. The National Mall is a marvel of information and inspiration. Our time spent in the museums and walking the two mile long mall was wonderful. What strikes me in retrospect is the emergence of a cabal of predominantly under-educated, white men who want to subvert the principles on which this nation was founded.
In the National Archives, we were able to see the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Having just personally viewed the original document, I know that the Constitution does not begin with the words “We, a few ignorant, bigoted white guys, do hereby proclaim that the rest of you need to do as we say and women especially need to stay in their place and listen to us because we know more than any of you.”
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In front of the Lincoln Memorial are monuments to those who gave their lives in WWI, WWII, Korea, and Viet Nam. A short metro ride will get you to Arlington National Cemetery where row upon row of white grave markers, gleaming in the morning sun, are another reminder of the sacrifice that men and women have made to keep our country free from tyranny and to help others achieve freedom.
After almost 250 years, we see an America that is being overtaken by a few men who want to reshape this country in the manner of an authoritarian regime. Men and women did not give their lives in war so that a few politicians could tell the rest of us what to read, what to think, what to believe, and how to live.
In a few weeks time we will celebrate Memorial Day and then Independence Day. The America in which I was raised was founded on the principles of freedom to choose our own path, to practice a religion if we so chose, but more importantly to strive to be part of a great nation that saw everyone as equal in all aspects of their lives.
We have seen the emergence of politicians who are willing to subvert truth in order to gain personal stature by preying on the ignorance, religious beliefs and vulnerabilities of those they purportedly want to save from some great evil.
We the People, through the power of our votes, can stand against this new tyranny of right-wing extremism and declare that our nation will not become a country ruled by ignorance and religion. The more perfect union envisioned by the drafters of the Constitution is one of freedom and tolerance towards all people not one of fear and persecution.
Retired professor and research scientist. | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-we-the-people/article_c2ac1a10-e3cf-11ed-9f49-937e88bf83d8.html | 2023-05-27T14:11:09 | 0 | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-we-the-people/article_c2ac1a10-e3cf-11ed-9f49-937e88bf83d8.html |
ORLANDO, Fla. – A batch of sales tax holidays is kicking off this summer, saving Floridians some money. It’s all part of a $1.3 billion package of tax breaks signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Batteries, gas cans, flashlights and even dog food are tax free for two weeks starting May 27 as part of Florida’s Disaster Preparedness sales tax holiday.
″Keep in mind that these are holidays that are intended to be geared toward disaster preparedness, but it’s certainly not restricted to that. So, it’s a great time to shop for those items and get out and save a few dollars,” said Florida Retail Federation President Scott Shalley.
Hurricane season officially starts June 1st.
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“Think of the things you needed the last time when the storm came,” said Greg Parsell of Ace Hardware in Sanford.
Retailers, including Ace Hardware, are encouraging shoppers to take advantage of the tax-free holiday and stock up on important supplies sooner rather than later.
“Not everybody takes advantage of the sales tax holiday and that creates a rush when storms come close. Lets face it, not everybody has the money to buy these things and think they can do without them,” Parsell said.
Those who miss this tax free holiday will have another opportunity.
For the first time, a second two-week exemption will take place in September, right before the peak of hurricane season.
The sales tax holiday begins Saturday, May 27, and extends through Friday, June 9. The second exemption period will begin Saturday, Aug. 26, and extend through Friday, Sept. 8.
But storm supplies aren’t the only things exempt from sales tax this season.
A three-month collection of tax breaks, dubbed “Freedom Summer,” starts Monday, allowing shoppers to avoid paying sales tax for things like concerts, sporting events, entry to state parks and camping supplies.
“It provides a great opportunity for consumers to save, and it provides a great opportunity to generate retail activity,” Shalley said.
Click HERE for a list of all the sales tax holidays and details from the Florida Department of Revenue.
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TITUSVILLE, Fla. – Titusville police officers responding to a reported hit-and-run near an intersection early Saturday found a dead man who had been shot, according to a news release.
Officers responded around 4 a.m. to the area of Airport Road and Dixie Avenue, locating the unidentified man and noting his apparent gunshot wounds.
Detectives believe the incident was isolated based on preliminary evidence, yet acknowledge that the suspect or suspects responsible remain at large.
Anyone with information about the incident is urged to contact the Titusville Police Department at (321) 264-7800, or Crimeline at (800) 423-8477 to remain anonymous. Tips to Crimeline that lead to an arrest in a homicide case may be eligible for a reward of up to $5,000.
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No other details were shared.
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Gathered together in a circle, with smiles and laughter lighting up the room, nearly a dozen people incarcerated at the Kenosha Correctional Center took turns reading children’s books aloud.
Tessa Fox-Pawlaczyk, early literacy librarian at the Kenosha Public Library, gives a demonstration on reading to children in an engaging and f…
From “Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type,” to “A Big Guy Took my Ball,” the group practiced how to read to children in a fun and engaging way. It was part of the “Dynamic Dads” program, which teaches people in the Kenosha Correctional Center how to read aloud to children in an engaging way. The goal is to help foster a love for reading, as well as how to choose age-appropriate books.
Aaron Grandberry reads a picture book for young children during the Dynamic Dads program Monday afternoon.
Each workshop, which meets roughly once each month, has 10-12 participants.
The program started after Heather Thompson, head of Youth and Family Services at the Kenosha Public Library, brought the idea to Correctional Center Superintendent Michelle Hoffman after learning about the different types of public library-prison partnerships at a library conference.
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“In (one) of these programs, people who are incarcerated are able to visit with their children virtually and read stories to them. This was facilitated by the library, which furnished books to the prison, as well as space at the library to make the calls,” Thompson said. “I loved the idea of keeping children connected to their parents during a difficult time by reading books together. In 2019, I approached Superintendent Hoffman about creating a similar program locally.”
Parish Eckford reads aloud a book for young children aimed at teaching them shapes and colors during the Dynamic Dads program Monday afternoon.
After talking, Thompson and Hoffman realized the best approach for the Kenosha Correctional Center would be to hold in-person classes for fathers and father figures.
Wilirian Smith laughs as another group member reads "Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type," during the Dynamic Dads program Monday afternoon.
“One of our now-retired early literacy specialists, Linda Potter, designed a curriculum that would impart a love of reading aloud to children, as well as an understanding of how to select age-appropriate books for reading aloud,” Thompson said. “At the end of each class, participants select a book to share with their child during their next visit.”
During Monday’s session, Kenosha Public Library Early Literacy Librarian Tessa, Fox-Pawlaczyk, opened with an explanation of different books for different ages and reading levels after the group gave introductions. Fox-Pawlaczyk explained specific details of each type of book, from chapter books without pictures to early childhood books with many pictures and few words.
After giving a rundown of all the books, Fox-Pawlaczyk gave a read-aloud demonstration to the group using the book “The Book With no Pictures,” by B.J. Novak. From there, group participants were instructed to find a book to read aloud, with stories ranging from “Frozen” movie characters Elsa and Anna to nonfiction history books.
“One of my favorite parts of this program is to see the guys who were kind of like ‘I don’t really want to do this. I don’t really want to be here. I don’t want to read out loud,’” Fox-Pawlaczyk said. “And then everyone does it ... and everyone is smiling and laughing.”
At the conclusion of the workshop, Fox-Pawlaczyk gave an overview of the offerings at the Kenosha Public Library aside from books. They include museum passes to snow shoes.
“It was a lot more educational than I thought it was going to be, honestly,” inmate CP said. “There’s a lot more stuff for kids than I thought there would be.”
“I learned a lot of things about public libraries and the things they provide that I didn’t know, and I’m an avid reader,” inmate RC said. “(Reading) is highly imperative and necessary in our lives ... I try to teach my daughter how important it is.”
Fox-Pawlaczyk said the importance of having the program available is getting participants excited about reading so they can share that excitement with their children.
“I think it’s always really important to get grown-ups excited about sharing books with kids, particularly their male role models. You see a lot more girls who are into into books than young boys and I think a lot of that has to do with the role model and representation of who they see as a reader, who books are for and who reading is for,” Fox-Pawlaczyk said. “To get these grown men excited about reading to their kids, sharing books with their kids and seeing the value in it is great, because we need more of that everywhere.”
“From the reentry aspect, it’s a resource for them that they don’t even know is available,” Hoffman said. “The opportunity for free things for the men to take their family or their children to do is beneficial.”
Hoffman said the impact with the program she sees is exposing the people who are incarcerated to new thing they might not have known about.
Fox-Pawlaczyk said the impact she sees with the program is, “seeing the lighter side of some of these guys.”
“I think a lot of people who aren’t involved don’t see the humanity of people who are incarcerated. Programs like this, you get to learn a little bit about their families,” Fox-Pawlaczyk said. “Everybody has preconceived notions about who incarcerated people are, and that’s definitely not true for everyone, so getting to meet some the different guys and know a little bit more about them and see their humanity and them as parents or as individual people, is great.” | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/dynamic-dads-literacy-workshop-teaches-incarcerated-people-how-to-make-reading-fun-for-kids/article_ddbe3806-f8dd-11ed-b213-c3a264d9b059.html | 2023-05-27T14:17:39 | 0 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/dynamic-dads-literacy-workshop-teaches-incarcerated-people-how-to-make-reading-fun-for-kids/article_ddbe3806-f8dd-11ed-b213-c3a264d9b059.html |
May 27 is Sunscreen Day, a good reminder that while you’re having fun in the sun, always use sunscreen. The sun may offer light and warmth, but it also has damaging ultraviolet rays. Sunscreen can help prevent skin cancer and keep you from getting a nasty sunburn, too.
Raise a glass at the Petrifying Springs Park Biergarten, open noon to 9 p.m. today. The outdoor venue, at the south entrance to Petrifying Springs Park, 5555 Seventh St. in Somers, celebrates a new summer season this weekend. Live music today features Fallon Schultz, performing 6 to 9 p.m. For more details, check the biergarten’s Facebook page.
The Aquanuts — coming off a 2022 season in which they won the state tournament for the second consecutive year — start their 2023 season with a free water-ski show, 6 p.m. today at Lance Park, 55 Lance Drive, in Twin Lakes. For more information, call the Aquanuts hotline at 866-754-7469 or go to aquanutwatershows.com.
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“The Servant of Two Masters” comedy wraps its run tonight in Tremper High School’s Studio Theater (Room 120), 8560 26th Ave. Written in 1746, “The Servant of Two Masters” has been adapted several times over the years, including a 2012 Broadway production — with the title “One Man, Two Guvnors” — starring James Corden. 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $13 for adults, $11 for senior citizens (55 and older) and $6 for students and staff and can be purchased online at kusd.edu or by calling 262-359-6388.
This weekend is your last chance to see these exhibits at the Anderson Arts Center, 6603 Third Ave.: Works from the Racine Art Guild, plus solo show winners from the Winter Juried Show 2022 and works from the Area Artists Group and Kemper Lakefront Studios. The shows run through Sunday. The Anderson Arts Center is open from 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Admission is free. For more information, go to kempercenter.com. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenosha-area-events-for-saturday-may-27/article_d681033c-fb41-11ed-a39f-771e432b6536.html | 2023-05-27T14:17:46 | 1 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenosha-area-events-for-saturday-may-27/article_d681033c-fb41-11ed-a39f-771e432b6536.html |
Name: Omarian Hughes
School: Bradford High School
Mother: Patricia Hughes
Most memorable high school moment: Go to my first FBLA competition events and be placed in my competition.
Most influential teacher: Ahmed Dakwar in Geometry; Mr. Dakwar helped me through some of the tough times in my life. Always encouraged me to challenge myself academically. Helped me become a more vocal and outgoing person.
School activities/clubs: Future Business Leaders of America, Link Crew, African American Youth Initiative
School offices held: Treasurer for FBLA
Honors, letters or awards: National Society of High School Scholars
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Out-of-school activities/hobbies: Art; Basketball; Video games; Reading books
College choice: Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Ariz.
Intended major/field of study: Cybersecurity
Role model: Ben Hughes
Three words that best describe my role model: Responsible, Caring, Courageous
What I hope to accomplish in my lifetime: To spread awareness of the many dangers of the internet. Open a business that helps protect people from getting their personal information stolen and gives safety advice for navigating the internet. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/todays-teen-2023-omarian-hughes-of-bradford-high-school/article_184e45b6-fbdf-11ed-ac1a-e792501cef10.html | 2023-05-27T14:17:52 | 0 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/todays-teen-2023-omarian-hughes-of-bradford-high-school/article_184e45b6-fbdf-11ed-ac1a-e792501cef10.html |
Hutchinson City Council hires interim city manager
Hutchinson City Councilmembers voted to hire Mary Grace Clements as the Interim City Manager late Friday afternoon.
As Councilmember Greg Fast was not in attendance, four councilmembers of the five-member organization voted to approve Clements for the position during a special open meeting at 4 p.m. May 26.
Clements is most likely the first female city manager in Hutchinson, at least for the past 40 years.
A native upstate New Yorker, she has lived around the country, most recently serving as vice president for Allegiant Airlines and executive director of the Reno County Historical Society. She has lived in Hutchinson since 2015.
"I welcome the opportunity to work here alongside some dedicated employees, the hard working employees of the city," Clements said. "My intent is to lead them with integrity and fairness and honesty and transparency."
Clements said she wants to work in unison with both the councilmembers and the board. She wants to make Hutchinson a better place for every individual in the community.
"I look forward to just doing what I can to help move things forward," she said. "And to make sure that we set it up for the next city manager."
Councilmember Stacy Goss said she was able to speak with Clements and was excited to have her in the position.
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"I liked what you have to say, I like where your head is at, and I look forward to working with you," Goss said. "And I think that we are lucky to have you on board."
Clements said she looks forward to helping the city thrive and is happy to serve until the council hires a fulltime city manager.
"I have a lot of respect and compassion for this community," Clements said. "And I'm excited for the work, and I'm excited because I think we have lots of talent here, and I just want to help in any way I can."
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Kendal Francis
Hutchinson's last city manager was fired on May 16 for inappropriate conduct.
After several closed-session meetings with the City Council, the City Attorney and an "investigator," Kendal Francis was fired during last Tuesday's City Council meeting.
The investigation found two issues with regards to creating or contributing to an unproductive work environment − participating in or allowing horseplay, and at least one incident that could be considered luring, whistling or physical contact, such as touching, according to Hutchinson Mayor Jon Richardson. | https://www.hutchnews.com/story/news/local/2023/05/26/hutchinson-city-council-hires-interim-city-manager/70262722007/ | 2023-05-27T14:20:28 | 0 | https://www.hutchnews.com/story/news/local/2023/05/26/hutchinson-city-council-hires-interim-city-manager/70262722007/ |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) – Teachers in Birmingham are demanding an apology from Senator Tommy Tuberville, and they aren’t the only ones responding to remarks he made about inner-city teachers.
While commentating as a guest on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast “Triggered” Thursday, Tuberville said “Most of them are inner city and I don’t know how they got degrees. I don’t know whether they can read or write.”
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin tweeted at Tuberville Friday, stating “Stop dog whistling –it’s beneath the office you hold.” Congresswoman Sewell also came to teachers’ defense on social media.
“They don’t deserve to be maligned by their senior senator,” she stated via a Tweet.
Local teachers are sounding off too. Many educators are angered and in disbelief that Tuberville is questioning their ability to read and write and teach children these skills.
“I don’t know why he came after us but Tommy Tuberville, we can read, we can write, we can do math and we have teachers who are chemical engineers,” says Dodi Traylor, a teacher for 28 years, around 20 of those being with Birmingham City Schools.
Traylor says she was deeply angered by Tuberville’s comments on inner city teachers.
“We are well-educated, we are called to do this job and for him to say that, and I’m a history teacher, social sciences teacher, and if I remember correctly, he didn’t even know the branches of government,” says Traylor.
Tuberville said on the podcast people who can’t read or write can’t live in a country like this and not have somebody help them through life.
“The COVID really brought it out about how bad our schools are and how bad our teachers are,” says Tuberville.
Traylor says inner city schools are often talked down upon and there are countless meetings where different programs are introduced but not followed through on, or money is spent in other areas not helping inner city schools. She says in Harlem City Schools, what helped kids’ test scores go up was having stable mentors who volunteered with the students.
“People that want to come in, that want to work with them, that want to mentor them, they decide to spend the money on micromanaging us,” says Traylor.
The Alabama Education Association released a statement saying:
“Hearing Senator Tuberville’s recent statements is disheartening to the men and women who choose education as their profession and work daily in Alabama classrooms. Our teachers put their total dedication and time into ensuring students can succeed and thrive – and as a former coach at an Alabama university, he should know the rigor and steps it takes for teachers to receive their degrees and certification. AEA and many Alabamians know who our teachers are and the work they do. Their heroic actions during the COVID-19 pandemic and what they continue to do has not gone unnoticed and are commendable. As many teachers prepare for a well-deserved summer break, we hope they do not take Senator Tuberville’s statements to heart and understand it for what it is – a political soundbite.” | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/alabama-educators-react-to-senator-tommy-tubervilles-comments-on-inner-city-teachers/ | 2023-05-27T14:25:11 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/alabama-educators-react-to-senator-tommy-tubervilles-comments-on-inner-city-teachers/ |
TEXAS, USA — What does it mean to be Texas' attorney general?
It's an office most of us don't think about very often, if ever, but one a legislative expert says impacts every Texan's life.
Ken Paxton is the state's attorney general, making him the state's top lawyer.
University of Houston political science professor Brandon Rottinghaus said actions taken by Paxton and his team of nearly 750 attorneys reach every level of society.
“The attorney general has a lot of responsibilities that we don’t see every day but that always touch a person’s life," Rottinghaus said.
The roles of Texas' attorney general
The attorney general's office enforces open government laws. The office also collects, distributes and enforces child support payments.
Another focus -- investigating Medicaid and consumer fraud.
“If you’ve got gas prices that are too high outside the market value, then that’s something that you see the attorney general’s office engaging in," Rottinghaus said. "Diploma mills is another example. If you feel like you’ve been defrauded by a for-profit institution, then this is another example of a case the attorney general’s office might take.”
Paxton's office forced 48 gas stations accused of price gouging during Hurricane Harvey to refund customers. Paxton has also gone after opioid makers and human traffickers in Texas.
Earlier in May, he even announced an investigation into Texas Children’s Hospital over gender-affirming care.
Another major role for the attorney general is representing the State of Texas when suing or being sued by other states or the federal government.
Paxton has taken legal action over DACA, the Affordable Care Act, the 2020 election results and environmental rules.
“Sometimes you see states pushing back, and Texas is often at the forefront of that," Rottinghaus said.
Texas lawmakers have brought 20 articles of impeachment against Paxton, ranging from bribery to abuse of public trust.
Rottinghaus believes all Texans should be watching what happens with this impeachment vote.
“The biggest reason people should care is it’s about accountability,” he said. “There is the impeachment process built into the separation of powers because if you have one agent in government who’s doing something problematic, either criminal or unethical, then the other branches are supposed to check that. This is the core foundation of how the separation of powers works.”
Texas voters choose the attorney general every four years, most recently in 2022. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-attorney-general-job/285-5597b139-aff6-455c-aad3-1ad9a2bdcb0f | 2023-05-27T14:28:06 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-attorney-general-job/285-5597b139-aff6-455c-aad3-1ad9a2bdcb0f |
Ten lighthouses that for generations have stood like sentinels along America's shorelines protecting mariners from peril and guiding them to safety are being given away at no cost or sold at auction by the federal government.
The aim of the program run by the General Services Administration is to preserve the properties, most of which are more than a century old.
The development of modern technology, including GPS, means lighthouses are no longer essential for navigation, said John Kelly of the GSA's office of real property disposition. And while the Coast Guard often maintains aids to navigation at or near lighthouses, the structures themselves are often no longer mission critical.
Yet the public remains fascinated by the beacons, which are popular tourist attractions and the subject of countless photographers and artists.
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“People really appreciate the heroic role of the solitary lighthouse keeper,” he said, explaining their allure. “They were really the instruments to provide safe passage into some of these perilous harbors which afforded communities great opportunities for commerce, and they’re often located in prominent locations that offer breathtaking views.”
The GSA has been transferring ownership of lighthouses since Congress passed the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act in 2000. About 150 lighthouses have been transferred, 80 or so given away and another 70 auctioned, raising more than $10 million.
This year, six lighthouses are being offered at no cost to federal, state or local government agencies, nonprofits, educational organizations or other entities that are willing to maintain and preserve them and make them publicly available for educational, recreational or cultural purposes.
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They include the 34-foot (10.4-meter) tall Plymouth/Gurnet Light in Massachusetts. The octagonal wooden structure dates to 1842, although a lighthouse has been at the site since 1768. A previous beacon at the site was staffed by America’s first female lighthouse keeper.
Kelly's personal favorite is Warwick Neck Light, in Warwick, Rhode Island. The 51-foot (15.5-meter) tall lighthouse that dates to 1827 was an important navigation tool for mariners making their way to Providence.
“Warwick Neck is really at quite a prominent location up on a cliff overlooking Narragansett Bay," he said. “That’s probably one that I would say that has a real ‘Wow' factor when you get out and look at it."
The other lighthouses being offered at no cost are Lynde Point Lighthouse in Old Saybrook, Connecticut; Nobska Lighthouse in Falmouth, Massachusetts; Little Mark Island and Monument in Harpswell, Maine; and Erie Harbor North Pier Lighthouse in Pennsylvania.
Some are already maintained by nonprofits, and those agencies will have the opportunity to apply to continue doing do, Kelly said.
If a new owner is not found, the lighthouse is offered for competitive bidding at auction.
The four lighthouses being sold at auction include Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Light, a 50-foot (15.5-meter) steel tower dating to 1911 that is only accessible by boat but has spectacular views of the city skyline.
The others are Penfield Reef Lighthouse in Fairfield, Connecticut; Stratford Shoal Light in the middle of Long Island Sound between New York and Connecticut; and Keweenaw Waterway Lower Entrance Light in Chassell, Michigan.
Some of the lighthouses purchased in the past have been converted into private residences by people who want a unique living situation.
“They all have their own interesting history,” Kelly said. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/always-wanted-a-lighthouse-us-is-giving-some-away-selling-others-at-auction-2/3573964/ | 2023-05-27T14:28:07 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/always-wanted-a-lighthouse-us-is-giving-some-away-selling-others-at-auction-2/3573964/ |
FALA senior, musician, composer, and President of FALA's Indigenous Student's Club Meredith Talley sits at one of the school's grand pianos Wednesday morning. Talley hopes to pursue Forensic Psycology as well as start a band after she graduates high school.
Rachel Gibbons, Arizona Daily Su
Meredith Talley, FALA senior, musician, composer and president of the school's Indigenous Youth Club, works on a school mural Wednesday morning. Talley hopes to pursue forensic psychology at Northern Arizona University.
Meredith Talley has focused on leadership, music and the Indigenous Youth Club during her time at FALA. After graduating Friday, she plans to attend Northern Arizona University to study forensic psychology.
Talley has attended FALA since the ninth grade, moving to online learning in the middle of her first year due to the pandemic.
Quinn Darr reacts to the photograph his parents chose for his high school diploma presentation during Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy's graduation ceremonies Friday afternoon in Ashurst Hall at Northern Arizona University.
Olivia Jardine is captured on a parent's cellphone Friday afternoon after performing “City of Stars” during graduation ceremonies for Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy in Ashurst Auditorium at Northern Arizona University.
Daisy Kotalik, center, and Joshua Kristinat, left, react to a valedictorian speech Friday afternoon during Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy's graduation ceremony in Ashurst Auditorium at Northern Arizona University.
Joshua Kristinat takes mortar board decoration in a new direction as he wore his ball cap balanced on top of his graduation cap Friday afternoon during commencement ceremonies for Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy.
Valedictorians Sierra Woodruff, Catherine Wagner and Otis Koller each give speeches during the Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy's graduation Friday.
Orion Van Ness addresses parents, staff and fellow graduates Friday afternoon during commencement ceremonies for Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy in Ashurst Hall at Northern Arizona University.
FALA graduates took part in commencement ceremonies on Friday.
Quinn Darr reacts to the photograph his parents chose for his high school diploma presentation during Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy's graduation ceremonies Friday afternoon in Ashurst Hall at Northern Arizona University.
Jake Bacon, Arizona Daily Sun
Olivia Jardine is captured on a parent's cellphone Friday afternoon after performing “City of Stars” during graduation ceremonies for Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy in Ashurst Auditorium at Northern Arizona University.
Jake Bacon, Arizona Daily Sun
Daisy Kotalik, center, and Joshua Kristinat, left, react to a valedictorian speech Friday afternoon during Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy's graduation ceremony in Ashurst Auditorium at Northern Arizona University.
Jake Bacon, Arizona Daily Sun
Joshua Kristinat takes mortar board decoration in a new direction as he wore his ball cap balanced on top of his graduation cap Friday afternoon during commencement ceremonies for Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy.
Jake Bacon, Arizona Daily Sun
Valedictorians Sierra Woodruff, Catherine Wagner and Otis Koller each give speeches during the Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy's graduation Friday.
Jake Bacon, Arizona Daily Sun
Orion Van Ness addresses parents, staff and fellow graduates Friday afternoon during commencement ceremonies for Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy in Ashurst Hall at Northern Arizona University.
Jake Bacon, Arizona Daily Sun
Meredith Talley gives the land acknowledgement at the start of graduation ceremonies for Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy Friday afternoon.
Jake Bacon, Arizona Daily Sun
Quinn Darr walks into graduation ceremonies for Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy Friday afternoon in Ashurst Hall at Northern Arizona University.
Jake Bacon, Arizona Daily Sun
“I kind of just jumped from ninth grade to junior year,” she said. “For junior year, I was like, 'I need to do things,' and I really put my mind to literally everything.”
She focused on her studies, joined some clubs and even picked up a new instrument.
What’s most defined Talley’s time at FALA, she said, was her involvement in the Indigenous Youth Club, which also started in her junior year.
Talley is now the club president (after moving from secretary to vice president last year), helping lead meetings and organize community service projects.
“That’s probably one of my favorite things at FALA and why I continue to go here and love this school,” she said.
She added: "I really like creating a space where Indigenous students have a space that they can share their thoughts and feelings in, and I like to create that space where they feel like, 'Oh, yay, we have club today. I can say what I've been wanting to say in my history classes,' for example, or just the feeling they feel at school. I think there’s something really special abut that."
Club members spent a day helping build ramps to make homes on the Hopi Reservation more accessible this year, and last year, they organized a blanket drive, distributing more than 250 donated blankets in Kykotsmovi Village and Tuba City in about 10 minutes.
Talley also works with a group outside of school to advocate changing the name of Agassiz Peak to Ömaki -- its Hopi name.
Talley also enjoys giving speeches and has incorporated that skill in her work for the club. Over the past year, she’s given three history presentations in FALA's classrooms after seeing gaps in the curriculum.
She said she has even more speeches she’s written that have yet to be delivered.
“I like to write my own reports and write my own speeches just for fun, because I like to acknowledge things that have happened in the past,” she explained. “I recognized that throughout the curriculum at FALA, a lot of the history classes don’t really go over a lot of the things that have happened in history and when they do go over it, it’s pretty sugar-coated or it's glazed over or it's pushed to the side.
"[So] what I decided to do this year was, ‘OK, I’m gonna make presentations of things that I want people to know.' ... I thought people should be educated on this history, since it’s very close to where we are.”
She’s also part of the school’s Environmental Coalition, taking a trip to the Arizona Capitol.
And she plays both piano and trumpet, starting the trumpet in fourth grade at the Peak School and picking up piano two years ago at FALA, where she’s also the National Music Honors Society historian, helping keep a record of club members’ accomplishments. In addition to playing, she’s also a composer, saying that her favorite genre was either classical modern or “Ethiopian jazz inspired improv.”
FALA’s piano and jazz band teacher, Chase Coleman, said Talley was one of his most "enthusiastic and wonderful" students, noting her rapid progress in piano over the past two years.
"Meredith is one of those students who brings the other students together in a positive and joyful way," he said. "About two years ago this young person wandered into my piano class and kept visiting, and next semester they joined class and their progress was phenomenal," he said. " ... One thing led to another and now they're in virtually every music ensemble and one of the best piano students at Flagstaff. A remarkable progress."
Talley plans to spend the summer playing music in a band with some friends (a mixture of funk and jazz) before beginning a forensic psychology degree.
She said she’s been interested in forensics since she was young, remembering that in kindergarten she had wanted to become a police officer.
“I was just so interested in what’s going on behind the scenes, and I guess as I got older and more educated as to what exactly I’ve wanted to learn, I’ve narrowed it down to forensic psychology,” she said. “ ... Something about knowing what’s going on in the mind of someone is really fascinating to me.”
She also hopes to minor in math, as she loves the subject, particularly algebra, which is her "favorite thing ever.”
Her hope is to find a way to move to New York City eventually, after falling in love with the Big Apple on a recent visit.
She said her studies at FALA helped develop her leadership abilities, which she plans to use as she moves on. She said she was thankful for the leadership opportunities she’s had at the school as well as the chance to do public speaking and learn that she enjoys informing others.
“I’m really glad I came here and have an opportunity,” she said. “I'm also really grateful for the drive I have to get to these places, because it is not easy."
Graduates from the Coconino High School Class of 2023 throw their mortar boards into the air at the end of commencement ceremonies in the Walkup Skydome on Northern Arizona University's campus Friday afternoon.
Ashley Attakai delivers the welcome in the Navajo language Friday morning during Coconino High School's graduation ceremony in the Walkup Skydome on the Northern Arizona University campus.
Coconino High School Principal Stacie Zanzucchi speaks to the class of 2023 during commencement ceremonies in the Walkup Skydome on the Northern Arizona University campus Friday morning. It was Zanzucchi’s last graduation, as she is retiring.
Coconino high School senior line up for the processional in to their graduation ceremony in the Walkup Skydome Friday morning on the Northern Arizona University campus.
Coconino High School students from the class of 2023 walk in to their graduation ceremony Friday morning at the Walkup Skydome on Northern Arizona University's campus.
Decorated mortar boards dotted the heads of the graduation class of 2023 Friday morning during Coconino High School’s commencement ceremonies in the Walkup Skydome.
Decorated mortar boards dotted the heads of the graduation class of 2023 Friday morning during Coconino High School’s commencement ceremonies in the Walkup Skydome on the NAU campus.
Coconino High School Principal Stacie Zanzucchi, who is set to retire, leads her final graduating class into their commencement ceremony Friday morning in the Walkup Skydome.
Coconino High School hosted its graduation ceremonies Friday.
Graduates from the Coconino High School Class of 2023 throw their mortar boards into the air at the end of commencement ceremonies in the Walkup Skydome on Northern Arizona University's campus Friday afternoon.
Jake Bacon, Arizona Daily Sun
Ashley Attakai delivers the welcome in the Navajo language Friday morning during Coconino High School's graduation ceremony in the Walkup Skydome on the Northern Arizona University campus.
Jake Bacon, Arizona Daily Sun
Sofia Tabares Ramirez speaks Friday morning during graduation ceremonies for the Coconino High School class of 2023 in the Walkup Skydome.
Jake Bacon, Arizona Daily Sun
Coconino High School Principal Stacie Zanzucchi speaks to the class of 2023 during commencement ceremonies in the Walkup Skydome on the Northern Arizona University campus Friday morning. It was Zanzucchi’s last graduation, as she is retiring.
Jake Bacon, Arizona Daily Sun
Coconino high School senior line up for the processional in to their graduation ceremony in the Walkup Skydome Friday morning on the Northern Arizona University campus.
Jake Bacon, Arizona Daily Sun
Coconino High School students from the class of 2023 walk in to their graduation ceremony Friday morning at the Walkup Skydome on Northern Arizona University's campus.
Jake Bacon, Arizona Daily Sun
Decorated mortar boards dotted the heads of the graduation class of 2023 Friday morning during Coconino High School’s commencement ceremonies in the Walkup Skydome.
Jake Bacon, Arizona Daily Sun
Decorated mortar boards dotted the heads of the graduation class of 2023 Friday morning during Coconino High School’s commencement ceremonies in the Walkup Skydome on the NAU campus.
Jake Bacon, Arizona Daily Sun
Coconino High School Principal Stacie Zanzucchi, who is set to retire, leads her final graduating class into their commencement ceremony Friday morning in the Walkup Skydome.
FALA senior, musician, composer, and President of FALA's Indigenous Student's Club Meredith Talley sits at one of the school's grand pianos Wednesday morning. Talley hopes to pursue Forensic Psycology as well as start a band after she graduates high school.
Meredith Talley, FALA senior, musician, composer and president of the school's Indigenous Youth Club, works on a school mural Wednesday morning. Talley hopes to pursue forensic psychology at Northern Arizona University. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/education/fala-graduate-spotlight-meredith-talley-looks-to-expand-her-leadership/article_05e7a164-fb4f-11ed-a2d0-db44719f9064.html | 2023-05-27T14:29:37 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/education/fala-graduate-spotlight-meredith-talley-looks-to-expand-her-leadership/article_05e7a164-fb4f-11ed-a2d0-db44719f9064.html |
Flagstaff Unified School District (FUSD) hosted graduation ceremonies for all three of its high schools this week, recognizing its more than 600-member class of 2023.
Summit High School graduated 35 students this year, while Coconino High School (CHS) and Flagstaff High School (FHS) each graduated about 300.
As speakers from each school noted, this year's graduates are the only class to have attended high school before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. This was only the second year of post-pandemic in-person graduations for the district.
The graduating seniors had made academic accomplishments, as seen in this year's school letter grades. Speakers at the ceremonies mentioned that Summit and FHS had both received A ratings this year, while CHS moved from a C to a B.
The class of 2023 is the 100th to graduate from FHS as the school celebrated its centennial anniversary this year.
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This was also the last graduation ceremony for two of the high schools' principals. Stacie Zanzucchi of CHS will be retiring this year, while Chris Koenker of Summit will be joining Sinagua Middle School as principal next year after 10 years at Summit.
Principals, teachers and graduates from Summit, CHS and FHS spoke at the ceremonies, recognizing their schools' graduates and giving them advice for their next stage of life.
"I'm really proud of our students' growth, their resilience, especially through the winter months, the disrupted schedules and a lot of the success that we've experienced," FUSD Superintendent Michael Penca said at a board meeting Tuesday. "I hope everyone takes with them some memories created over this school year."
Here are some highlights from this year's ceremonies:
Summit High School
Summit celebrated its graduates Thursday evening in an outdoor commencement ceremony that took place in the school’s parking lot.
The class address was delivered by DeAnna Luna, who had graduated from Summit a year early this December and is now working at Flagstaff Medical Center while earning her nursing degree.
Luna specifically acknowledged the students in the Teenage Parent Program (TAPP).
"You have accomplished so much and you should be proud, walking with your little bundles of joy by your side,” she said. “You had to work extra hard with more responsibilities but you did it. Graduates, as you leave this evening, know your hard work until now completes this milestone and remember to look forward, fulfill your potential and follow your dreams. So here’s to the class of 2023. We made it.”
Dean of students Jeremy Williams gave the faculty address, saying he was proud of this class’s accomplishments and calling them both “the toughest kids in the city” as well as “the sweetest,” for their resilience, achievements and kindness in response to obstacles.
“Summit High School is a project. It’s an ongoing attempt to bring the best out of students that may or may not have been successful in a traditional setting,” he said. “Our theory for how to accomplish this is actually quite simple. ... If you assist someone in need, there’s a wide range of benefits that can result.”
He advised the graduates to do the same.
“Help others, help your families, help your friends, help your communities," he said. "Begin with the immediate circle around you and remember: help is what you decide it should be. ... The challenges are not going to stop, but with this accomplishment today, you are taking a significant step in the right direction.”
After the ceremony, graduate Kristan Frank said she’d enjoyed her time at Summit, highlighting the supportive teachers and atmosphere. She'd come to the school at the beginning of this year.
"I loved it. I loved going to Summit,” she said, adding that her teachers “were always coming up to me, talking to me, asking about how I could graduate this year. They really did help me so much."
She said she especially appreciated English teacher Sara Stahl and math teacher Julien Folstrom.
Frank said she was feeling "kind of happy" to have graduated. “[It feels] very good,” she said. ”I’m excited.”
Joshua Noel similarly said the friends he'd made and the support from teachers meant he had enjoyed his time at Summit.
"It's been really fun," he said. "I liked it a lot."
He had come to the school during his senior year and was planning to go to trade school to become an electrician.
Among the people there to support him were his mom, Vanessa Herder, and family friend Bob McGuire.
Herder said she was feeling "awesome."
"I'm so proud of him," she said.
"The future is completely bright," McGuire added. "He's going to do great things in the world."
Coconino High School
Coconino's graduates and their friends and families filled the Walkup Skydome on the Northern Arizona University campus Friday morning for the school’s commencement.
Zoe Sather gave the honor address during the ceremony, while Carly Nelson, the senior class president, gave the senior address and CHS Student Body President Mabel Bingham gave the closing remarks.
“Now it’s time to breathe in and let the weight off your shoulders. We are finally done,” Bingham said in a speech she’d been rehearsing the entire school year.
She finished with some advice.
"Everyone in this room has potential. Everyone in this room can do anything they set their mind to," she said. "Every single one of you is going to make a great path to success.
She added: "If you feel like you’re doing the same thing over and over and over again or it feels like nothing's going well, I want all of you graduates to think about this statement: what can I do to change this?"
CHS’s teacher dedicatees this year were Terry Wilson and Cooper Elliot. Wilson has taught at the school for 26 years, and Elliot has been there for two. Both were recognized for the “kindness, dedication and support” they provided students.
Elliot also referenced the pandemic in his speech.
“Through the masks, distance learning and all, you’ve persevered and achieved your goals,” he told the graduates. “ ... Take each day as an opportunity to better yourself in every aspect of your lives.”
Graduate Kayden Smith was waiting for her family after CHS's graduation and said her time in high school had been “really good.”
“It was a good year,” she said.
One thing she said was memorable from her time in high school were the teachers, including Jessie O’Keefe, Wilson and Robert Locke.
“All the teachers were really friendly and always willing to help you in a matter,” she said
She wasn’t quite sure what she wanted to do next, so she was planning to take a gap year to wait for inspiration to strike.
Due to COVID-19, she said her senior year was the first “full complete year” of high school without any learning format changes.
“It’s definitely a struggle learning online, that’s a big difference for me,” she said of COVID’s influence on her education. “But it pushed me to work harder and see what I can achieve.”
Another graduate, Aaliyah Baker, had already found some of her family. She said she was excited to have graduated and was planning to attend Northern Arizona University in the fall to start earning a nursing degree.
“I’m feeling good, I’m happy,” she said, adding that she appreciated the friends she'd made at CHS.
Baker's mom, Thomasina Hosgood, said she was "really proud” of her daughter.
She said she was especially happy for this achievement as the family had hitchhiked from the reservation for Baker to attend school for two years before they were able to find a home in Flagstaff. They’d done that, she said, so her daughter could have access to an honors program and the family has now lived in Flagstaff for 11 years.
“We’re really proud, and it took us a lot time to get here,” Hosgood said. “ ... But it paid off, all the time that we had to spend.”
Flagstaff High School
Flagstaff High School had its graduation in the Skydome Friday afternoon, celebrating its centennial class.
In her address, Principal Libby Miller listed several of the class’s accomplishments, including the girls basketball team winning the 4A Conference state championship, the record-breaking 51 seniors winning Advanced Placement certificates and $180,000 in scholarships earned by students in the culinary program.
Overall, the graduating class was awarded $10 million in total scholarships, she said.
Among the many student speakers featured at the ceremony were musical performances from the FHS Choraliers and Thick Brass.
“As we depart from this school and move on to the next portion of our lives, I have no doubt that this class will do tremendous things,” student body president Conner Stickler said in his speech. “I just ask that you savor every moment and not just take things as they are given, but take in every day as if it were the last.”
FHS’s 2023 teacher dedicatee is math teacher Kevin Salmon, who graduate Keira Robertson said “lives and teaches with a passion and inspires students every day.”
He told the graduates about his “meandering” journey to teaching after he had graduated from FHS in 2009.
“I want you to imagine what you can accomplish if you challenge yourself and stay engaged with whatever you are interested in,” he said. “ ... You’ll be faced with so many decisions in your future, some easy, some difficult, some dangerous.
" ... You get to choose what’s next. You get to choose your version of good enough or you can choose your version of excellent. Wherever you go next, please make it worth your time and energy. You’ve been through some confusing, strange and stupid years. Given the talent, compassion and fire I see in your eyes, I know you’re up to the impossible.”
Graduates Mikayla Begay and Koby James were walking together after the ceremony. Both said they’d had fun at FHS and were planning to attend college. James was planning to study something related to coding at the University of Arizona, while Begay would study anesthesiology at Coconino Community College.
“It sounded interesting,” she said of her choice of major.
Another graduate, Seth Lund, met with his mother Rachael Lund and grandmother Mary Jones after the ceremony. The family is a longtime FHS family, with Lund’s father and brother both having graduated from the school and his grandmother working there as a paraprofessional.
Jones said she was proud of both her grandson and the four students she taught who had also graduated Friday.
“I'm proud of Seth, what he did,” his mom added. “He started his freshman year during COVID and he’s accomplished quite a bit.”
Recordings of all three ceremonies are available on FUSD's Vimeo page: vimeo.com/fusd1. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/education/flagstaff-unified-school-district-celebrates-2023-graduate-class-that-experienced-range-of-pandemic/article_bf53e37e-fbfe-11ed-857e-93b901787788.html | 2023-05-27T14:29:43 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/education/flagstaff-unified-school-district-celebrates-2023-graduate-class-that-experienced-range-of-pandemic/article_bf53e37e-fbfe-11ed-857e-93b901787788.html |
It’s late May and that means the beautiful -- although fleeting -- bloom time of lilacs. On a recent walk around my neighborhood, I was taken aback by the diversity of colors and fragrances these old-world plants bring to our gardens. It got me thinking about lilac history, the pruning techniques required to ensure growth of strong blossoms, and those particular French lilac varieties that are my favorites.
History of Lilacs
French or common lilacs (Syringa vulgaris) bring a rustic elegance to the garden. These tough and long-lived plants were originally native to southeastern Europe but have been widely cultivated throughout Europe since the 1500s. They were introduced to North America during the 1600s by colonial settlers. Additionally, lilacs were planted throughout the American Southwest by Spanish explorers and missionaries. In days long before weather apps and university extension services, the Spanish looked to lilacs to help determine planting times of their agricultural crops, as they had observed that lilac flowering usually correlates with decreasing days of frost.
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Hundreds of French lilac cultivars have been developed over the years. However, many of the cultivars we know and love today were bred in France during the 19th century. This is why we often call them the “French Hybrids.” The main ornamental feature of the numerous cultivars is their highly fragrant clusters of showy flowers that bloom late spring (May in most regions) in hues of purple, white, rose, pink, and magenta. French lilacs should not be confused with other species of lilacs that are available in garden centers such as Syringa meyeri, commonly called Korean lilac; ‘Miss Kim’ lilac (Syringa pubescents subsp. patula); late lilac (Syringa villosa); and Syringa reticulate, commonly called Japanese tree lilac.
When to Prune Lilacs
Lilacs bloom on the growing tips of last year’s growth, so hold off on pruning your plants until immediately after they have flowered. Once you are ready to prune, you can remove the spent flowers and shape the shrubs as needed. However, finish your pruning by mid-summer so that you don’t remove the forming flower buds for next year. It is also good practice to prune annually 1/4 to 1/3 of the oldest stems at the base of mature plants. This helps provide disease resistance, along with sunlight to improve flowering.
French Lilac Varieties
Here are three of my favorite varieties and a little history about each. On average, these lilacs will grow 10 to 12 feet tall and wide and form a multi-stem deciduous shrub that will freely sucker if allowed. Plants perform best with consistent watering; however, they can be drought tolerant once established. Lilacs are great to use as shrub borders, in groupings, or as individual specimens. To create a real showstopper in spring, plant in an area receiving at least six hours of sun with an understory of bulbs like tulips and daffodils, and early flowering perennials like basket-of-gold (Aurinia saxatilis) and creeping phlox (Phlox subulata).
‘President Grevy’
This lilac was named after the French president Jules Grevy who was in office from 1879-1887. He is remembered as the first real president of France since his predecessors were monarchists who tried to restore the monarchy after its fall. The cultivar offers soft, almost Wedgewood-like-blue flowers that are sweetly fragrant.
‘Beauty of Moscow’
This, an all-time favorite of mine, was actually bred in Russia, not France. The flowers and buds take on a pale pink and white cast with an intense fragrance upon opening.
‘Charles Joly’
This French lilac was introduced in 1896. The forming buds are deep purple, opening to clusters of double magenta flowers. The fragrance is also heavenly!
Nate O’Meara is the Executive Director of the Arboretum at Flagstaff (www.thearb.org) and has worked as an ethnobotanist and horticulturist. This article was adapted from his blog www.omearagardens.com. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/gardening-etcetera-history-pruning-and-varieties-of-french-lilacs/article_aa9186c8-fbfc-11ed-bdac-c717109d0ebb.html | 2023-05-27T14:29:49 | 0 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/gardening-etcetera-history-pruning-and-varieties-of-french-lilacs/article_aa9186c8-fbfc-11ed-bdac-c717109d0ebb.html |
Townsend Winona Road was closed between Rio Ranch and Slayton Ranch Road on Thursday night after a fatal crash involving two vehicles and a motorcycle.
According to the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office, the crash happened at around 5:28 p.m. Thursday. A truck heading east on Townsend Winona Road collided with another vehicle and a motorcycle.
The driver of the motorcycle died at the scene of the crash. Another driver was taken to Flagstaff Medical Center with minor injuries.
Summit Fire, the Arizona Department of Public Safety and Coconino County Public Works all helped respond to the crash, and assist CCSO with their investigation of the collision. That investigation is still underway. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/one-dead-one-injured-after-three-vehicle-collision-on-townsend-winona-road/article_0e113c66-fbd0-11ed-b82d-933b8b089c4a.html | 2023-05-27T14:29:55 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/one-dead-one-injured-after-three-vehicle-collision-on-townsend-winona-road/article_0e113c66-fbd0-11ed-b82d-933b8b089c4a.html |
A lifelong dream finally became reality for standout Coconino Panthers guard Memphis James.
James officially signed his letter of intent to play basketball for NAIA school Sterling College on Thursday. It was a joyous scene inside the Coconino High School gymnasium as family and friends gathered to watch James begin his transition from mountain living to balling out in America’s heartland in Kansas.
“It’s a special moment for me,” James said.
In his senior season, James impressed on and off the court. He led the team with 17.8 points per game on shooting 47% from the field and 35% from 3-point range. James showed an awareness on the court that put him in situations to succeed. His ability to battle bigger players in the paint allowed for second-chance opportunities, and his quickness is an attribute that any team would like to have.
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His skills on the court were put on full display during the Panthers' 2022-2023 season, though his willingness to succeed in the classroom was just as high.
“I take a lot of pride in my education, because both my parents have really pushed me since childhood to care about athletics and education,” James said. “You know, student-athlete, student comes first.”
Sterling College offers an athletic training program that James will be majoring in as he continues his education. The institution also has a master's program in which James can enroll in after he is done playing basketball.
It was the academic draw along with a coaching staff that showed great interest in him as a player that excited James about the possibility of joining a team on the rise.
“Their education really attracted me and the coaches want me to play there, and I’m just looking to develop through the years,” James said. “If I don’t have a big role in my first year, then I’m willing to work hard like I did in high school.”
James took time to appreciate the moment, but his parents were just as excited about their son's future. They have been heavily involved in his career and were very proud of the moment he signed to play at the next level. His father began coaching him when he was in fourth grade and playing at the Prescott YMCA. He continued to train him as a kid and also coached him on club teams with the Flagtown Kings and AZ Unity Flagstaff.
Through the years his parents have had the chance to see him develop as both a player and a person.
“It’s been rewarding. Hard, but rewarding,” James’ father, Jason, said.
Being so close to his son throughout his life, Jason has seen him grow exponentially in his basketball knowledge. His ability to understand and execute schemes on both ends of the courts is an ability that has propelled him to where he is now.
“His IQ for the game, and thinking of the game from a coaches perspective, that’s where I’ve seen huge improvement,” Jason said. “I think that’s going to benefit him greatly at the next level.”
Not many parents get the chance to watch their children grow like James has. His talent as a player and student have rewarded him the opportunity to continue playing on a bigger stage, but it is his parents who are truly rewarded.
“For any athlete coming out of high school, it’s a difficult climb ... for him to accomplish this and take that next step is definitely gratifying,” Jason said.
They have had the opportunity to coach James and his teammate, Ivory Washington, throughout the years and have witnessed the strides that they have made as players. James’ mother, Ophelia, was especially happy.
“It’s so nice to see the boys, what they’ve set out to do and what they’re finally going to get to do,” Ophelia said.
The young guard's talent comes far and few between, but the way he conducted himself throughout high school has created a template for future Coconino student-athletes. He did nearly everything right to put himself in a position to help himself play at a higher level and to help his team.
One trait that Panthers head coach Cooper Elliot saw is that he was never afraid to put in the work. James never missed an open gym and practice. He was also never late.
“Tenacity, ferocity, skill. Those three things are something that he shows every day,” Elliot said. “He’s one of those guys that, at the end of the game, he wants the ball every single time instead of shying away from it. He’s a competitor.”
Elliot also served as one of James’ teachers and developed a good professional working relationship during their time together. As a student James shined brightly, putting in equal the amount of effort in his academics as he did in the gym. His work ethic was unlike any other, but Elliot also said his personality will be greatly missed within the walls of Coconino.
Though he is departing, the opportunity that James has received to play at a four-year college will propel future generations to reach even greater heights.
“He showed what it’s like to win a Grand Canyon Region; that’s not something we take lightly here,” Elliot said, “to show the upcoming guys that it can be done at Coconino, regardless of who we have.”
There is no doubt in Elliot’s mind that the legacy James leaves is one of success.
“I know guys look up to him in the program and are trying to emulate him, and not only achieve what he’s achieving, but going even bigger than that,” Elliot said.
The end of high school is a time to celebrate, but James knows that the hard work is not done. He recognizes that there will always be down time and struggles. College especially always has its fair share of struggles, though perseverance is the key that James sees will push him past any endeavor.
“It’s not always going to go how you imagine or dream of, but at the end of the day you have to look at the glass half full and appreciate what you have and just persevere and always grind through the hard times,” James said. | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/panthers-guard-memphis-james-commits-to-sterling-college/article_9ab2beae-fc22-11ed-9529-73319501ff7c.html | 2023-05-27T14:30:01 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/panthers-guard-memphis-james-commits-to-sterling-college/article_9ab2beae-fc22-11ed-9529-73319501ff7c.html |
Litchfield Park approves ride-share service for seniors, people with disabilities
Litchfield Park has signed with Valley Metro for a new ride-share service starting July 1.
Litchfield Park City Manager Matthew Williams said residents had asked for access to transportation for seniors and those with disabilities.
RideChoice, in partnership with Valley Metro, caters to people who are 65 and older and have disabilities.
With RideChoice, services are brokered from ride share companies, like Uber and Lyft, with accessible vehicles. In Maricopa County, Valley Metro has partnered with 17 different companies, for a total of 129 wheelchair-accessible vehicles.
Valley Metro is required to provide paratransit services for senior citizens and those with disabilities in areas three-quarters of a mile from areas where fixed route and light rail services are provided, said Tom Young, manager of accessible transit services for Valley Metro. The Americans with Disabilities Act provides the criteria that determines who is eligible to use the services, Young told the Litchfield Park City Council.
Valley Metro provides paratransit services south, east and north of Litchfield Park, but the city is not within the three-quarters of a mile radius, which is why Litchfield Park does not have Valley Metro paratransit.
RideChoice is Valley Metro's alternative service for cities that are not within the radius. Young said RideChoice is more flexible since it isn't subject to federal regulations like the other services, with some cities including people who are low-income or veterans.
Litchfield Park only will allow the service to be used by people with disabilities and people 65 and over, Williams said.
With RideShare, people typically will have 20 allocated trips per month. For those who attend school, work or have frequent medical appointments, that number can increase to 50 appointments per month, Young said.
People pay $3 for every trip within eight miles and an additional $2 for every mile after that. They can travel with a caretaker at no extra cost. People cannot use the service once they've hit the limit, and unused trips don't roll over into the next month.
Litchfield Park residents also may be eligible for a different program that allows them to travel up to 400 miles per month. It was offered because of the needs of people who must travel 15-20 miles for frequent medical appointments such as dialysis, Young said.
Demand for the service exists in Litchfield Park. Young said several residents already have applied to use RideChoice.
To use the service when it launches, Litchfield Park residents must register with Valley Metro and be ADA paratransit certified. Rides can be scheduled by calling (602)-716-2111. For more information, visit valleymetro.org/accessibility/ridechoice.
Valley Metro estimates that the service will cost the city $23,000 for fiscal year 2024. Litchfield Park has been approved for $17,300 in Arizona Lottery funds, which will be applied to the program, Williams said.
The city contribution allows the riders to pay a smaller amount, Williams said.
The RideChoice contract will last for one year. Since it's a pilot year, Williams said the service will be re-evaluated next year.
Reach the reporter at ahardle@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @AlexandraHardle. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/southwest-valley/2023/05/27/southwest-valley-city-approves-ride-share-with-valley-metro/70262397007/ | 2023-05-27T14:30:02 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/southwest-valley/2023/05/27/southwest-valley-city-approves-ride-share-with-valley-metro/70262397007/ |
Phoenix murder case sent back to detectives after man in case sentenced on weapons charge
An investigation into a young woman’s murder continues after the Phoenix Police Department’s case against a young Phoenix man was sent back to detectives by the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office.
Judvian Gadson-Scott, 19, was never indicted in the murder of Destiny Hernandez, 18, though he was arrested on suspicion of it.
Instead, he was indicted and later pleaded guilty to a prohibited weapons possession charge.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Margaret LaBianca sentenced Gadson-Scott to two years for the charge on Thursday.
According to court records filed by police, a group of men wearing ski masks broke into Hernandez’s home on July 13. They shot into her bedroom, killing her and injuring an unidentified man who would survive the gunshots.
Detectives watching Gadson-Scott as part of a separate investigation arrested him the next day on the weapons charge. They said in court filings they saw him walk to a car holding a Draco pistol that matched one used in the murder.
Draco pistols are Romanian semi-automatic guns that resemble smaller versions of the popularized AK-47. The pistol usually holds large amounts of bullets. According to police, this model could hold 60 rounds.
Court records describe one witness looking out his window that night and seeing a man jump into a car that could have been a "Chrysler 300 or a Cadillac."
A GPS tracker had been placed on a silver Chrysler through a search warrant by detectives. They claim that Gadson-Scott was “known” to drive the Chrysler. Police did not reveal what investigation led them to apply a GPS tracker to the Chrysler.
Police say GPS location data placed the Chrysler at Hernandez’s house the night of the murder and also at the homes of Gadson-Scott’s mother and girlfriend that same day.
The police court records also describe officers finding the machine gun in Gadson-Scott’s attic that matched the style used in the murder. They said the casings found at Hernandez’s murder were fired from the gun.
In December, police booked Gadson-Scott in the killing and suggested to the county attorney that he be charged with first-degree murder.
But the County Attorney’s Office sent the case back to detectives to be further investigated.
During questioning, Gadson-Scott denied being involved in the shooting.
For now, the murder case remains open. Gadson-Scott will be serving time in prison for the prohibited possession felony.
During his sentencing, Gadson-Scott told Judge LaBianca that he understood that violating the weapons charge was wrong and that he wanted to distance himself from the type of trouble that landed him in prison.
He had just had a baby, he said, and that had changed him. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2023/05/27/maricopa-county-attorneys-office-sends-murder-case-back-to-phoenix-police/70260877007/ | 2023-05-27T14:30:14 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2023/05/27/maricopa-county-attorneys-office-sends-murder-case-back-to-phoenix-police/70260877007/ |
UPPER TOWNSHIP — Bike path routes, rogue ATV riders and house-shaking explosions were all part of the discussion during a recent meeting of the Township Committee.
These were not the implosions that shook the region as part of the ongoing demolition work at the former B.L. England power plant, but rather explosions in the woods behind a resident’s property.
Seth Pashley was one of the residents who came to discuss plans for a bike path. While some property owners have expressed concerns about security, privacy and property values, he said he fears there could be more explosions near his home if it is easier to reach the wooded area.
“There have been many explosions that kids and adults have set off on the train tracks,” he told committee members. “Easier access to (the area) is not going to help with the explosions. There have been numerous explosions that have actually shook my house, no exaggeration.”
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They were definitely not fireworks, he said.
“You think somebody’s shooting Tannerite or something?” asked Committee member Curtis Corson.
UPPER TOWNSHIP — About 1,000 pounds of explosives will tend to make an impression.
“That’s probably what it was,” Pashley said. “That would be my guess.”
Tannerite is a brand of target that will produce an explosive effect. It has been used for special effects, and even for gender reveal parties, or just to add excitement to target shooting.
Described as a brand name for a binary explosive, Tannerite includes oxidizers and aluminum powder, which are each inert when shipped separately. When combined as directed in the container and struck by a high-velocity bullet, the product explodes dramatically. The manufacturer describes it as a shot indicator, meaning you would have no doubt if you hit or missed the target.
The company recommends firing from at least 1,000 yards away from targets of up to one pound, or 2,000 yards from two pound targets, available for $17.99. Shooting with a handgun or a shotgun will not cause the reaction, according to the site. It won’t go with a lit fuse or with electricity, either. It needs to be struck by a bullet traveling faster than sound.
The company’s website cautions against placing the targets on the ground, where the blast might throw stones or other debris, or enclosing the targets. But a quick Google search results in multiple videos labeled “Tannerite gone wrong,” with exploding trucks, cars and rider lawnmowers. In some instances around the country, there have been serious injuries from people combining multiple targets or standing too close.
“It’s actually crazy that it’s legal,” said Corson after the meeting. He said he has shot the targets, when he has vacations in remote areas in the mountains.
UPPER TOWNSHIP — A campground devastated by a large fire that torched close to two dozen cam…
But Pashley was at the meeting to discuss bike path plans, not the nearby explosions. Other residents also had concerns. Resident Mike Scanlon worried about new access to his neighborhood, which is set back from Route 9.
“Most of the people spent a lot of money to buy back there and build back there. One of the reasons is the lack of public access,” he said.
The roads are publicly accessible now, but not many people even know that the neighborhood exists. He said the children in the neighborhood are now free to go out and play, telling committee members that would not be the case if the bike path route includes his street.
Scanlon raised several security concerns.
“You’re basically giving getaways for smash-and-grabs,” he said.
The project is a long way from being built, said Committee member Kim Hayes. The route has not been finalized, she said, and there will be chances for public input.
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“This is by far not done or written in stone yet,” Corson said.
The South Jersey Transportation Planning Organization is working with Cape May County on the feasibility of creating a bicycle and pedestrian trail connecting with the existing county bike route, which ends in Dennis Township. It would tie the route to Atlantic County, and could become part of miles of bicycle routes that extend across South Jersey.
Multiple studies have found no connection between bike paths and increases in crime, but security remains a consistent concern for neighbors when bike paths have been considered.
Pashley said he hears ATVs running through the woods near his house, but told the committee they have not been a major problem.
Not everyone has the same reaction. Joe Cotton, of the Marmora section of the township, says he is as close as he can be to an area that attracts many ATV riders, a former sand pit. The area has been the subject of multiple discussions in the township. Officials say there have been problems with ATV riders for decades.
Cotton said he cannot use his backyard because of the noise.
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“The noise that I hear every single day, including when I left to come here, is outrageous,” he said.
“I hear it every day,” responded Mayor Jay Newman. “I have the same issue with kids in our neighborhood. It has been an issue for as long as I can remember.”
He said there are new limits on what State Police can do, describing troopers as “handcuffed,” and saying state directives prevent officers from chasing riders.
In earlier interviews, State Police officials have said it is too dangerous to chase someone operating an ATV, which could run the risk of someone crashing and being seriously injured.
Committee member Mark Pancoast, who is a police officer in Ocean City, said property owners have laid trees across the trails, only to find them cut with chainsaws and removed.
“They’re driving down the highways in Philly,” Pancoast said.
The township has installed signs, and plans to take further steps to control access, including installing new barricades. But part of the area includes private property, township officials said, and it can be tough to keep out vehicles that have “all terrain” right there in the name. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/bikes-atvs-and-exploding-targets-part-of-the-upper-township-discussion/article_5d9a67b8-fc06-11ed-ab9e-5f1331add9d8.html | 2023-05-27T14:36:48 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/bikes-atvs-and-exploding-targets-part-of-the-upper-township-discussion/article_5d9a67b8-fc06-11ed-ab9e-5f1331add9d8.html |
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Police said two men were killed and two others were hospitalized after a shooting at a home in Virginia.
When officers arrived, they found one man outside the home who was later pronounced dead. Officers found three additional gunshot victims inside the home. One of the men later died at the hospital. Two other men remain hospitalized. Police said the extent of their injuries are unknown.
Detectives are investigating to determine what led up to the shooting. The identities of the victims were not immediately released.
Maj. Kevin Hughart told WTOP-FM that investigators do not believe the shooting was random, and they’re looking for one suspect. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2023/05/27/shooting-two-killed-two-hospitalized-virginia/42ce3b44-fc97-11ed-bafc-bf50205661da_story.html | 2023-05-27T14:45:39 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2023/05/27/shooting-two-killed-two-hospitalized-virginia/42ce3b44-fc97-11ed-bafc-bf50205661da_story.html |
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ELDORA — Police are on the hunt for a man whom they believe is connected to the Friday death of a female.
Authorities are looking for Nathan Cole Bahr, 28, who’s driving a 2020 gray Toyota Camry with an Iowa blackout license plate that reads EMRGLL. Police responding to a 5:45 a.m. 911 call at 1401 17th Ave. in Eldora discovered the deceased female inside the residence.
A homicide investigation is underway.
Bahr is a white male with brown hair and blue eyes. He is five feet, nine inches tall and weighs 195 pounds.
The Eldora Police Department was assisted at the scene of the crime by the Hardin County Sheriff's Office, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, the Iowa State Patrol, Eldora Emergency Management and Eldora Emergency Medical Services.
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Authorities ask anyone with information to contact the Hardin County Sheriff's Office at (641) 939-8189 or another local law enforcement agency as the investigation continues. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/eldora-police-seek-man-in-connection-with-homicide/article_95078106-fc31-11ed-a9c7-4bc03cd2af30.html | 2023-05-27T14:52:31 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/eldora-police-seek-man-in-connection-with-homicide/article_95078106-fc31-11ed-a9c7-4bc03cd2af30.html |
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Volusia County beaches closed to driving due to high tides Saturday
Katie Kustura
The Daytona Beach News-Journal
Volusia County's beaches are closed to driving due to extremely high tides, a Volusia County Beach Safety Ocean Rescue official said.
Deputy Chief Tammy Malphurs said high tide usually doesn't occur until about 2:30 p.m.
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The conditions were expected as parts of Volusia County were deluged with heavy rain in recent days. | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/27/beach-driving-closed-in-new-smyrna-saturday-due-to-high-tides-rain/70263598007/ | 2023-05-27T14:52:53 | 1 | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/27/beach-driving-closed-in-new-smyrna-saturday-due-to-high-tides-rain/70263598007/ |
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LAGO VISTA, Texas — One person is dead after a single-vehicle motorcycle crash in Lago Vista on Saturday morning.
The crash happened on Boggy Ford Road near Lee Lane around 4 a.m., according to Austin-Travis County EMS.
Crews performed life-saving measures, but they were not successful.
The person was pronounced dead at the scene.
There are no other details at this time. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/lago-vista-motorcycle-crash-boggy-ford-road/269-eef8fdfb-febc-4198-bbb6-6a445316dc0a | 2023-05-27T15:44:44 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/lago-vista-motorcycle-crash-boggy-ford-road/269-eef8fdfb-febc-4198-bbb6-6a445316dc0a |
The following is the opinion and analysis of the writers:
The lower basin states of Arizona, California and Nevada recently announced a proposal to voluntarily cut some 3 million-acre-feet of water, or almost 14% of their Colorado River allocation. The latest proposal represents a cooperative move between the states where tensions have been running high in recent months. It answers the call from the feds for action from the states to address shortage in the basin. And the plan is tied to some new federal investments in the region. There is a lot to celebrate here, but by no means is the crisis over for Arizona.
This plan just gets us to 2026. It is a band aid, not a long-term solution. It represents just 50% of the minimum cuts that the feds originally wanted — the amount they said is needed to account for the shortage in the basin and keep the reservoirs from running dry over the long term. We got lucky this year with the winter precipitation that is giving our reservoirs much needed water, but climate experts tell us that the longer-term pattern of lower flows and drought will be the new normal. One wet year should not distract us from the real challenges still at hand.
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Ultimately, basin-wide, all 7 basin states and Mexico need to come to new terms with a smaller river. The average Colorado River flow for the past 30 years has only been about 60% of the 16.5 million acre-feet that has been allocated. Additionally, tribal water users are an important part of the conversation, and the solution. Tribes in the basin currently have recognized rights to 20% of total allocations, but many are not using all their allocated water, and still others have unsettled water rights claims that impede tribal economic development and basin-wide planning.
In many ways, this current deal is a no-brainer for Arizona. California is willing to take cuts. Federal money will help tribes, cities and farmers better manage the water cuts. But real trade-offs still need to be made that affect the future of agriculture in Arizona and our development patterns and growth.
We likely cannot expect the federal government to provide billions of dollars each year for temporary conservation measures. It is time to end the annual cycle of collective breath-holding about how much water needs to be cut each year and who will receive water. We need a durable plan that provides certainty in terms of minimum water deliveries to all water users under various conditions. We need to negotiate new, permanent agreements that enable access to affordable and reliable water for all in the basin. Let’s celebrate this one but keep working to build a more sustainable, resilient future for all Arizonans.
Andrea K. Gerlak is Director of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy and a professor in the School of Geography, Development and Environment at the University of Arizona. She is a Tucson Public Voices fellow with the OpEd Project.
Juliet McKenna is a hydrogeologist and water planning consultant. They are both members of the City of Tucson’s Citizen Water Advisory Committee. | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-good-news-about-the-latest-colorado-river-deal-but-more-work-to-be/article_02a28f08-fa75-11ed-bab7-67cdffb420ac.html | 2023-05-27T16:01:11 | 1 | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-good-news-about-the-latest-colorado-river-deal-but-more-work-to-be/article_02a28f08-fa75-11ed-bab7-67cdffb420ac.html |
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Try walking five miles, without water, across uninhabited desert in June in southern Arizona. Then try 20 miles. Only if you have experienced walking in extreme heat can you know the difficulty. Thousands of people from Mexico and Central and South America have walked hundreds of miles in such conditions, to reach the United States border. Others may be escaping gang violence, murder, kidnappings and extortion. They are leaving areas where there may be no jobs whatsoever, or ones paying $12 per day or less, inadequate to support a family. Their long journeys are desperate acts of survival.
Some have started in South America, then must cross the hazardous Darien Gap into Central America. They may encounter gangs, dangerous animals and brutal weather, yet push onward. When they finally make it to Mexico, there are hundreds of miles to the United States border. When they do arrive, there is no assurance of entry. Some may cross illegally, and others wait along the border in the thousands, hoping to be granted asylum from situations formerly endured.
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In some instances, immigrants have crossed with negative intent. There is human smuggling, and drugs like fentanyl are illegally transported, because we buy them. There may be others intent on doing harm, but those numbers are a small percentage, receiving the greatest attention. The vast majority simply want a chance at a better life.
Our Congress has not found a satisfactory method to solve the legal and humanitarian border crisis for the past 30 years. Fear and paranoia are used. Claims may be that immigrants are coming to take jobs. Their gangs will plunder, vandalize, injure, or worse. They will get free health care, free education, free everything, destroying our economy. The warnings are only limited by conspiratorial thinking. The vast majority just want to support their families. Getting into trouble could mean potential deportation.
We have all heard that immigrants will do the jobs that no one else wants to do. The truth is that few people want to pick crops, work on roofs, or perform landscaping in long days of hot or cold weather, mostly undertaken by those considered inferior.
What are solutions to the border impasse? Improving the asylum system is key. Many seeking asylum must wait not weeks or months, but years. Imagine having made the difficult trip to the border, then existing without adequate food, shelter, clothing or medical care in deplorable conditions for that long. Significantly increasing the number of asylum judges seems to be a necessary solution.
Some desperate immigrants pay a coyote thousands of dollars to get them across the border, often with disastrous results. As a possible pathway to citizenship, there must be a way for vetted immigrants to pay and receive work visas for a certain length of time. If they contribute positively, they can reapply, or receive documentation as a legal avenue to become productive members of our nation.
It is a massive problem as it now exists since Title 42 has ended, but Congress could work in a bipartisan way to try and solve it. It appears, however, in our divided two party system, that one political side may not want the other to receive credit for doing so. It is much easier to assign blame. Meanwhile, thousands wait with faint hope.
There are organizations who provide assistance with basic necessities for the migrants in many ways. The Green Valley-Sahuarita Samaritans is one. Their site is www.gvs-samaritans.org. Sahuarita’s Good Shepherd Church Randy Mayer, an exceptional humanitarian, is strongly affiliated with this group, which assists with needs at the border in many ways.
Another way is to contact your elected representatives with positive ideas to help remedy the so far unresolved border situation.
Paul McCreary was raised on an Illinois farm, he spent 29 years in education, retired to Indiana, Colorado and now Arizona, where he and his lovely wife and I try to remain active and creative. | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-the-border-crisis/article_4fc88eaa-f8c6-11ed-9a22-57dc4a25a7dd.html | 2023-05-27T16:01:17 | 1 | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-the-border-crisis/article_4fc88eaa-f8c6-11ed-9a22-57dc4a25a7dd.html |
ATLANTIC CITY
Lifeguards: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Beach tags: Not required
Beaches open: As of July 1, all beaches from Caspian Avenue to Jackson Avenue are open.
What to do: Swimming is permitted only when a lifeguard is present. Surfing is permitted at Crystal Beach at New Hampshire Avenue, Delaware Avenue and Raleigh Avenue. Kayaking and windsurfing are permitted at the Jackson Avenue beach only. Volleyball is allowed in designated areas. Fishing is permitted from the jetties.
More information: atlanticcitynj.com
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AVALON
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Beach tags: $30 preseason (before May 31), $35 seasonal, $17 weekly, $8 daily. Free for children 11 and younger.
What to do: Rafts are permitted on all bathing beaches. Surfing is permitted at 10th-11th Street, 13th-14th Street and 30th Street. Surfing and stand-up paddle boarding are permitted at 16th-17th, 20th, 39th, 63rd and 67th streets. Kayaking is permitted at the 57th Street beach, as well as the bay. Surf fishing is permitted between 40th and 60th streets, just not near the lifeguard stands.
There are also free sunscreen dispensers at 30th Street and the beach, the 8th Street tennis and pickleball courts, the Bay Park Marina and the 39th Street playground.
More information: visitavalonnj.com
BRIGANTINE
10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Beach tags: $20 preseason, $25 seasonal, $15 weekly, $10 daily. Seniors ages 60-64 can get a preseason beach tag for $8. Beach tags are free for seniors 65 and older with proof of age (one tag per identification), active military (four per family) and veterans (free only for that veteran).
What to do: Swimming is permitted while lifeguards are on duty at the following beaches: 10th Street North, 7th Street South, 22nd Street South, 38th Street South, 5th Street North, 14th Street South, 26th Street South, 43rd Street South, 2nd Street North, 15th Street South, 28th Street South, Bramble Drive, 2nd Street South, 16th Street South, 32nd Street South, Surfside Road, 4th Street South, 20th Street South, 34th Street South and Sandy Lane. Surfing is permitted at 12th Street North, 10th Street South, north of the South End Jetty and south of the Sandy Lane bathing area. Fishing is allowed north of 14th Street North, 45th to 47th streets, north of Seaside Road on 49th Street, south of the jetty or on the Brigantine Bridge. Kayaking is permitted adjacent to all lifeguard-protected beaches, 26th Street South-City Dock area, Absecon Inlet beaches and the area between Sandy Lane and Seaside Road lifeguard station.
More information: bb-nj.org
CAPE MAY
10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Beach tags: $30 seasonal, $20 weekly (Saturday to Saturday), $15 for three days, $8 daily. Free for active military and family members, veterans and kids 11 and younger. Commercial beach tags for hotels, motels, Airbnbs, etc. are $100 per tag.
What to do: Swimming is permitted. Skimboarding is allowed with lifeguards’ permission. Volleyball is also permitted; a beach tag and ball are required to play. Nets are located at Steger Beach (Beach Avenue and Jackson Street) and at Second Avenue. Food is permitted, but not alcohol. Fishing is allowed just east of the Brooklyn Avenue storm pipe and is prohibited at all other beaches during lifeguard hours. Kayaking is allowed past the bathing zone. Surfing is permitted at Poverty Beach (Wilmington Avenue), The Cove, Surfing Beach (Gurney Street) and South Queen (Queen Street).
More information: capemay.com
LONGPORT
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Beach tags: Preseason beach tags are $20 for adults and $5 for seniors before June 2. After that, seasonal tags are $30 for adults, $10 for seniors. Beach tags are free for active military, veterans and children 11 and younger. Beach tags will be available at Borough Hall, Monday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
What to do: Swimming is permitted when lifeguards are present. Surfing is permitted at 12th, 22nd, 28th and 32nd avenues. Kayaks can be dropped in between 14th and 15th avenues, 22nd and 23rd avenues, 27th and 29th avenues and 32nd and 33rd avenues.
More information: longportnj.gov
MARGATE
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Beach tags: Preseason beach tags are $10 for people 12 and older, and $3.50 for seniors until May 31. After that, seasonal tags for all general public over 12 and senior citizens are $20. Beach tags are free for ages 11 and younger, active military members and veterans. Badges can be picked up daily between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. at the Martin Bloom Pavilion, as well as Granville Avenue and the beach.
What to do: Swimming is permitted in the presence of a lifeguard. Kayaking and surfing are allowed only at specific beaches. Contact Beach Patrol headquarters for those locations.
More information: margate-nj.com
NORTH WILDWOOD
10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Beach tags: Not required.
What to do: Swimming is permitted in areas designated by lifeguards. Surfing is permitted between 11th and 13th avenues. Volleyball nets are provided at 19th, 13th, 8th and Ocean avenues. Handicapped beach transport is available via surf chairs at the 15th Avenue first aid station. Contact the Wildwood Beach Patrol at 609-522-7500.
More information: northwildwood.com
OCEAN CITY
Beaches are guarded from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekends and holidays and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. Beaches at Brighton Place, Eighth Street, Ninth Street, 12th Street and 34th Street will be guarded for extended hours until 7 p.m. daily.
Beach tags: Preseason tags are $30 before May 31. Then, tags cost $35 seasonal, $20 weekly and $10 daily. Children 11 and younger, veterans and active military members, along with their spouses and immediate children up to age 23, are also free.
What to do: Swimming. Surfing is permitted at Waverly Boulevard, Seventh Street and 16th Street. Tents and canopies will be limited in size to 10 feet by 10 feet and cannot block public or emergency vehicle access. Unsafe ball playing, fires, alcohol and smoking are prohibited.
More information: ocnj.us
SEA ISLE CITY
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekends.
Beach tags: $25 seasonal, $10 weekly, $5 daily, free on Wednesdays. Free for children 11 and younger and veterans, as well as active military members and their families.
What to do: Swimming is permitted at 24th, 28th, 32nd, 34th, 38th, 40th, 43rd, 45th, 49th, 51st, 54th, 56th, 59th, 61st, 64th, 68th, 71st, 75th, 77th, 81st, 84th, 86th, 89th and 92nd streets. Surfing is allowed at 26th, 37th, 42nd, 48th, 53rd, 63rd, 74th and 82nd streets. Rafting is permitted at 24th, 28th, 34th, 40th, 45th, 51st, 56th, 59th, 64th, 68th, 75th, 81st, 86th and 92nd streets. Volleyball nets and poles are available at 25th, 35th, 53rd, 57th, 67th and 72nd streets. Kayaking is permitted at 30th, 35th, 58th and 79th streets. Fires, glass bottles, alcohol and picnics are prohibited on all Sea Isle beaches.
More information: sea-isle-city.nj.us
STONE HARBOR
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Beach tags: Preseason tags are $32 until May 31. Then, beach tags are $40 seasonal, $17 weekly, $8 daily. Free to children 11 and younger. Also free to veterans and active military and their families (available for purchase/pickup at the Stone Harbor Beach Tag Office at 95th Street and the beach).
What to do: Lifeguards are on duty from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Memorial Day to Labor Day. Lifeguard protected beaches include 81st, 83rd, 86th, 87th, 90th, 93rd, 94th, 95th, 96th, 100th, 102nd, 103rd, 105th, 108th, 110th, 112th, 113th, 116th, 117th, 120th and 122nd streets. Swimming and rafting are permitted at all beaches except 81st, 86th, 110th, 112th and 122nd streets. Licensed sailboats are allowed in designated areas. Surfing is allowed 81st and 110th streets. Kayaking and catamaran rides are allowed from 122nd through 126th streets. No alcohol, picnics, fires or glass bottles.
More information: stoneharbornj.org
UPPER TOWNSHIP
Beesleys Point, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Strathmere, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday-Sunday. Protected beaches in Strathmere are at Williams Avenue, Whittier Road, Tecumseh Avenue, Sherman Avenue, Prescott Road and 1495 Commonwealth Ave. Beesleys Point protected beaches are to be determined.
Beach tags: Not required
What to do: Surfing is permitted south of Tecumseh Avenue and north of Sherman Avenue. Fishing is allowed south of Prescott and north of Seacliff. Lifeguards may allow surfing and fishing on other protected beaches pending the conditions of the given day. Boogie boards and rafts are permitted. Beach parties, fires, motor vehicles, alcoholic beverages and changing of clothes are not permitted.
More information: uppertownship.com
VENTNOR
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Beach tags: Preseason beach tags before June 1 are $10 for people 12 and older. After that, tags are $20 seasonal and $3.50 for seniors. There are no daily or weekly tags. Beach tags are free for veterans.
What to do: Lifeguards will be on duty at all beaches from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Swimming is allowed. Surfing is allowed next to the fishing pier at Cornwall Avenue and the Boardwalk. Kayaking is permitted at Princeton Avenue and the beach. Beach volleyball is open near the fishing pier on Cambridge Avenue. Beach mats are located at the Suffolk, Dorset, Newport, Derby, Oxford and Somerset avenue beaches. Surf chairs are available daily through reservations via the Beach Patrol by calling 609-823-7948. Alcohol is prohibited.
More information: ventnorcity.org
WILDWOOD
10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Beach tags: Not required
What to do: Swimming. Ask lifeguards on duty if ball throwing, surfing, kayaking, canoeing or use of an inflatable is allowed. Surfing permitted at Taylor Avenue. No glass containers, barbecues or alcohol. For handicapped access, contact the lifeguard headquarters at Lincoln Avenue and the beach by calling 609-522-8528.
More information: wildwoodnj.com
WILDWOOD CREST
10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Beach tags: Not required
What to do: Swimming. Surfing is permitted at Hollywood Avenue (10 a.m.-noon only), Rambler Road and Aster Road. Kite flying, ball playing, Frisbees, etc., are restricted to the back areas of the beach. No animals, alcohol, fires, barbecues or picnics are permitted. Surf fishing is prohibited in bathing areas during bathing hours. For handicapped access or first aid, call the lifeguard headquarters at Rambler Road and the beach at 609-522-3825.
More information: wildwoodcrest.org | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/here-s-how-much-a-beach-badge-costs-in-south-jersey/article_1113fb34-faf3-11ed-acce-1f1bab16e074.html | 2023-05-27T16:08:08 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/here-s-how-much-a-beach-badge-costs-in-south-jersey/article_1113fb34-faf3-11ed-acce-1f1bab16e074.html |
This isn't goodbye. Far from it. But after today, you won't see this column leading off in future issues of Ground Zero.
I've been kicked upstairs to the A section. Starting Tuesday, I'll be finding interesting twists on Lincoln's CEOs, entrepreneurs and restaurateurs, while also looking for those quirky stories — anyone in the mood for a Rueben sandwich? — that make picking up the morning paper worth the effort.
After nearly four years of overseeing Ground Zero, it's time for a new set of eyes to lead Lincoln's premiere entertainment publication.
So beginning Monday, Zach Hammack will be the guy. After spending the last two years on the education beat, he's ready for recess.
Make no mistake, writing about entertainment — from the musicians to the actors to the comedians — has been nothing but fun. Maybe that's why L. Kent has been doing this for so long.
They were fine. Gracious people. But truth be told, the most fun came in finding the stories of local people, like Mike Herman, the college biology professor playing bass in a local garage band, or someone like Jeanne Kern, a retired English teacher whose golden years have been spent writing books and acting on the community theater circuit.
Don Mayhew, the Lincoln school board president who dabbles in a cover band, and Karen Freimund, who beat a rare form of cancer and returned to the stage, also come to mind.
These are the people doing it for all the right reasons, for the enjoyment it brings to them and their community. For them, this is a hobby, a release from the daily grind.
And thankfully, some of them are out there, like drummer Nick Woodward — a pediatric dentist by day — playing with a local band called the Hafnicks, who, between sets earlier this spring, rescued a woman from a rollover accident, performed CPR and saved her life.
There was a time when he was a rising star in the comedy circuit. He returned from Los Angeles about a decade ago to take care of his ailing father and in doing so, left behind a blossoming career that saw him opening for the late Joan Rivers.
Rather than sulk, he would go on to start a Sunday-night comedy show at Zoo Bar that would grow into one of the region's best by attracting nationally known comics to Lincoln.
When he died last October, the city mourned. It was a gut punch. Six months later, a new comedy show has begun and we wish them well. Still, there will never be another like Stewart.
That goes across the board in Lincoln, where the guy making the pizzas at Vic's, Ramos or Pie-zano's and the dude creating those amazing burgers at Honest Abe's care only about making the best food possible.
These people deserved to be recognized and I'm proud that we used this space to get them noticed.
Morrie Enders and Bob Rook, who have played big roles in our local theater community, deserve recognition, too. Overcoming the pandemic might have been even harder for them. I now appreciate what they do a lot more after writing about the Lincoln Community Playhouse and TADA Theatre, which are city treasures.
There was also great joy in seeing Lincoln's youth — the ones who still dream big — shine brightly.
I have enjoyed watching Ingrid Griffin's burgeoning musical career at the University of Southern California. It's nice to know that a young lady who spent all last summer playing with her father at the Haymarket farmers market, might someday become a star.
Speaking of the Haymarket Farmers Market, that's where I met Brian Hull, playing the keyboards in that multicolored outfit. He's been one of my favorite people I've written about.
There are so many — too many to mention, really, but, as I said, this isn't goodbye. I'm just heading to a different section of the paper. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/as-entertaining-as-ground-zero-has-been-the-time-has-come-to-turn-the-page/article_8afc0cfe-f7f9-11ed-ae04-13ac38c4dc74.html | 2023-05-27T16:10:48 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/as-entertaining-as-ground-zero-has-been-the-time-has-come-to-turn-the-page/article_8afc0cfe-f7f9-11ed-ae04-13ac38c4dc74.html |
National artists to headline Ripon Summer Concert Series, plus more Fond du Lac news in weekly dose
Hinder plays Aug. 12 and Love and Theft plays Sept. 1. The Jimmys kicks off the series June 2.
FOND DU LAC - The Horicon Bank Ripon Summer Concert Series returns for its 29th season. The free concerts will take place 7-10 p.m. Fridays all summer at the Village Green in downtown Ripon.
Event-goers are encouraged to take lawn chairs or blankets to sit on. A variety of beverages will be available for purchase. Carry-ins are not allowed.
A free bonus concert will kick off the series June 1 featuring the Ripon Middle and High School Jazz Bands. The official series kickoff is June 2 featuring The Jimmys.
Several local favorites are scheduled including new and returning groups The Glam Band, June 9; The Michael Weber Show, June 23; Star Six Nine, June 30; Cherry Pie, July 7; Big Al Dorn & The Blues Howlers, July 14; Jordan Blanchard, July 21; Road Trip, July 28; Madison County, Aug. 4; and Ask Your Mother, Aug. 18.
National recording artists Hinder, playing Aug. 12 and Love and Theft, set for Sept. 1, also have been signed.
Donations are welcome and still needed to fully fund the series. Donations may be sent to: Ripon Main Street Inc., P.O. Box 365, Ripon, WI 54971. For more information, visit downtownripon.com.
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▶ Holiday Automotive earns fourth consecutive Ford President's Award:Holiday Automotive has been named a Ford President’s Award winner by the Ford Motor Company for the fourth consecutive year.
The prestigious award recognizes the achievements of the top-performing Ford stores nationwide that have achieved the highest level of customer satisfaction in all aspects of their operations.
“Our team works very hard to earn the trust of our guests, and in doing so, we continue to receive recognition from Ford as one of the top-performing teams in the nation," said Holiday Automotive CEO Thor Gilbertson in a news release. “We’re honored to earn the Ford President’s Award, and doing so four years in a row speaks to the remarkable relationships our teammates have with our loyal guests.”
Holiday Ford joins just four other Wisconsin Ford dealers to earn the 2022 Ford President’s Award.
▶ Fond du Lac Area Transit offers discounted summer bus pass: Fond du Lac youth can ride the city bus unlimited from June to August with the Student Summer Bus Pass. The pass is $35.
Kids ages 5-17 can ride the bus to summer school, pools, parks and more.
Passes can be purchased from bus drivers, city hall or Fond du Lac High School.
For more details, call Fond du Lac Area Transit at 920-322-3650.
▶ Ripon Library seeks public input on renovation plans: The Ripon Public Library is asking for input from the public as it works on a plan to update the library.
A survey is available online at surveymonkey.com/r/RiponPL or a paper copy can be obtained at the library.
The survey should take about 10 minutes and responses are anonymous. Community members and leaders are invited to attend an informational meeting at 5:30 p.m. June 8 at the library, 120 Jefferson St.
The library plans to make renovations, both inside and outside. Interior renovations include a new entryway, interactive play area for children, teen hangout spot, enlarged windows, a new computer and study alcove, additional meeting spaces, and accessible family-friendly restrooms. Outdoor renovations will increase accessibility and usability.
Updates will be shared on social media and in the library’s newsletter. For more information or to make a donation, visit riponlibrary.org/renovation/ or contact Desiree Bongers at dbongers@riponlibrary.org or 920-748-6160.
▶ Red Cross holds blood drives in Fond du Lac area: The American Red Cross is seeking donations of blood or platelets. There has been a recent drop in donation appointments that could lead to fewer transfusions for patients in the weeks ahead. Type O blood donors are especially needed.
Local blood drives will be held at the following times:
- May 31, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at The Commonwealth Companies, 24 S. Brooke St., Fond du Lac;
- June 2, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Community Center, 280 Garfield St., North Fond du lac;
- June 9, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the YMCA, 90 W. Second St., Fond du Lac; and
- June 14, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Church of Peace, 158 S. Military Road, Fond du Lac.
To make an appointment, download the Red Cross Blood Donor App, visit RedCrossBlood.org or call 800-733-2767.
▶ Recycling event runs June 12-17 at bulky waste site: City of Fond Du Lac Municipal Service Center, in collaboration with RecycleThatStuff.com, will hold a week-long recycling event June 12-17.
The event will run during regular hours at the Municipal Service Center Bulky Waste Drop-Off Site, 490 Doty St.
Only residents of the city of Fond du Lac may participate. Payment must be cash. Credit cards and checks will not be accepted.
Recycling fees for TVs, monitors, microwaves and copy machines range from $15 to $60. Items that can be recycled at no cost include: computers, laptops, hard drives, printers, scanners, VCR and DVD players, fax machines, radio, stereo, typewriter, keyboard, mice, circuit boards, cables, cellular phones, telephones, cameras, camcorders, cordless power tools, video games, small kitchen appliances, and other small electronics.
For more information, visit fdl.wi.gov/public-works/bulky-waste-disposal/.
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Douglas County Commissioners and local officials celebrated the opening of the North Loop at the Umpqua Dunes RV Park with a ribbon cutting on Tuesday, May 23.
The project more than doubles the amount of campsites available at the County-owned facility in Winchester Bay. The newly opened camping loop also features group sites, five new cabins and a new commercial retail and market facility.
“We are excited to create an opportunity that really hasn’t existed in Douglas County before for dunes enthusiasts,” said Douglas County Commissioner Chris Boice during the ribbon cutting ceremony.
Campers can access the dunes right from the park. With the addition of an onsite market, campers will have all the amenities they need, Boice said.
The new commercial facility includes laundry, a convenience store with snacks, cold drinks and pizza. It also has riding gear and supplies available.
The family that is leasing the market also operates the Pelican Plaza building just off Highway 101 in Winchester Bay.
“We are fortunate to have a family that has been in this industry run this business,” Boice said.
Brothers Jeff and Steve Bailey said they are excited to open the store at the RV Park.
“We made it into a one stop shop,” Jeff Bailey said.
The Baileys brought a lot of popular items from their original store to the new location. They said they like the atmosphere being at an RV park, and tend to go out of their way for customers.
“Customer satisfaction is big for us after 30 years of doing this. People really appreciate that,” Steve Bailey said.
Commissioner Boice thanked the Baileys during the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony, as well as his fellow commissioners, the parks department and Douglas County law enforcement.
He also reported that Morello Construction, which won the bid on both the South and North Loop campground projects, had done a great job.
Boice said the County used a significant amount of grant funds for the original land acquisition on the parcel formerly known as Discovery Park in 2018, as well as the South Loop campsites which opened in 2020 and the recently completed North Loop renovation projects. The majority of the project is now finished and open to the public. The new cabins are slated to be open in time for the Fourth of July holiday.
Umpqua Dunes RV Park is located at 1 Umpqua Dunes Way in Winchester Bay, Oregon. For more information, contact (541) 957-7001. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/new-campsites-and-onsite-market-open-in-winchester-bay/article_edda7976-fbe8-11ed-ad3f-7768f9e14371.html | 2023-05-27T16:14:49 | 1 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/new-campsites-and-onsite-market-open-in-winchester-bay/article_edda7976-fbe8-11ed-ad3f-7768f9e14371.html |
A former Monmouth County Correctional Institution officer has been sentenced to five years in state prison for smuggling drugs into the jail where he worked.
According to Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond Santiago, Bryant Mack, 55, of Shamong, in Burlington County, -- a former corrections officer who had served for 18 years -- was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty to smuggling drugs and other contraband into the prison.
Last year, Mack pleaded guilty after an investigation found that he would smuggle drugs and other items into the facility hidden in potato-chip bags.
He would then provide the items to an inmate, who would then facilitate the distribution of the items throughout the jail, investigators said on Saturday.
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Law enforcement officials said the scheme came to light in September of 2021, after officers caught two inmates with synthetic marijuana and other contraband in their cells.
During a plea hearing held in November 2022, Mack admitted that he entered into an agreement with an inmate to smuggle synthetic marijuana into the jail in exchange for payment, pleading guilty to a charge of second-degree conspiracy to distribute a controlled dangerous substance. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/prison-for-former-officer-who-smuggled-drugs-into-new-jersey-jail/3574602/ | 2023-05-27T16:17:10 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/prison-for-former-officer-who-smuggled-drugs-into-new-jersey-jail/3574602/ |
A missing 13-year-old from Benbrook who was believed to be with a person with a history of sex trafficking has been found, the girl's family says. No further information has been confirmed. Because the girl is a juvenile, her name, photo and other identifying information have been removed from the story below.
With each passing day, the search across DFW grows more frantic for a 13-year-old missing from Benbrook.
It’s been 10 days since loved ones said the missing girl kissed her grandmother, who is her legal guardian, goodbye and disappeared from their Benbrook home.
“She’s just the sweetest little girl. I know this has been very difficult on the family,” said a family friend.
Shortly after the girl's grandmother reported her as a runaway on May 16, Benbrook police found communication between the teen and a man they say was previously arrested for human trafficking.
“Knowing that she’s associated with an individual like that leads us to the concern that she’s probably doing things that a 13-year-old girl should never be a part of,” said Commander of Field Operations Michael Mullinax.
In the days since Mullinax said the girl had been spotted in West Dallas and Irving.
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“This is a girl that I think thought she knew what she was doing early on. And I’m really thinking that at this point, she’s seen that at this point she’s not where she belongs. She needs to be home. It is just a matter of time before something really bad happens to this girl that might impact the rest of her life and it won’t be reversible, so we’re pretty desperate to get her home,” he said.
For loved ones, the girl’s safety is the number one priority.
“I just want her to know that I’m here for her. Her friends are here for her. Her family’s here for her. We’re so sorry this is happening, but please come home,” said a family friend.
Family and friends will expected to gather Saturday in Benbrook to pass out fliers.
“We’re not going to stop looking,” she said. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/missing-benbrook-teenager-found-family-says/3266286/ | 2023-05-27T16:34:27 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/missing-benbrook-teenager-found-family-says/3266286/ |
A statewide Amber Alert has been issued for two children out of San Antonio who are believed to be in grave or immediate danger.
Police are looking for 2-year-old Zylah Faulks and 9-year-old Kamil Brown-Sykes. A photo of Zylah was not provided.
The children were last seen on the 3200 block of Bolmore Drive in San Antonio at 4:50 p.m. on Thursday.
Investigators have not said who the children may be with or shared any other information about their disappearance.
Anyone who sees the woman and/or the children, or knows of their location, is asked to call 911 or the San Antonio Police Department at 210-207-7660.
TEXAS STATEWIDE ALERT PROGRAMS
There are seven kinds of alerts that can be issued for people in Texas. They are listed below with links to a page with more information.
- Active Shooter Alert (in development)
- AMBER Alert
- Blue Alert
- Silver Alert
- CLEAR Alert
- Camo Alert
- Endangered Missing Person Alert | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/amber-alert-issued-for-2-texas-children-from-san-antonio/3266392/ | 2023-05-27T16:34:33 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/amber-alert-issued-for-2-texas-children-from-san-antonio/3266392/ |
A statewide Amber Alert has been issued for four children out of El Paso who are believed to be in grave or immediate danger.
Police are looking for 4-year-old Michael Carmony, 12-year-old Audrit Williams, 14-year-old Isabella Williams and 16-year-old Aidan Williams. A photo of Aidan was not provided.
The children were last seen on the 5300 block of Woodrow Bean in El Paso at 6 p.m. on Friday.
Investigators believe the children are with 42-year-old Jennifer Carmony and that they may be traveling in a red 2004 Ford F150 pickup. Police say the truck may have been spray-painted black. The truck has a Texas license plate -- BE8 8718.
Officials have not released any further information about the woman or the children's disappearance.
Anyone who sees the woman and/or the children, or knows of their location, is asked to call 911 or the El Paso Police Department at 915-212-4040.
TEXAS STATEWIDE ALERT PROGRAMS
There are seven kinds of alerts that can be issued for people in Texas. They are listed below with links to a page with more information.
- Active Shooter Alert (in development)
- AMBER Alert
- Blue Alert
- Silver Alert
- CLEAR Alert
- Camo Alert
- Endangered Missing Person Alert | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/amber-alert-issued-for-4-texas-children-from-el-paso/3266381/ | 2023-05-27T16:34:39 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/amber-alert-issued-for-4-texas-children-from-el-paso/3266381/ |
The City of Kenosha is accepting applications for lifeguards to work at the city’s two public pools (located at Washington Park and Anderson Park) from June to August.
The city lifeguard salary is $15.50 to $17 per hour.
The City of Kenosha will reimburse lifeguards up to $150, who complete and pass the American Red Cross Lifeguard Certification or (Re)certification and complete 30 working days. Note that employees must sign the Lifeguard (Re)Certification Agreement prior to being reimbursed. Candidates selected for interviews will be provided additional information.
Pools are open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, beginning in mid-Jun, weather and water quality conditions permitting. Lifeguards work up to 48 hours per week, and are required to work evenings, weekends and holidays. Lifeguards may be scheduled to work between the two pool locations.
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Lifeguard duties include: supervision of the swimming area to maintain order and protect swimmers from accidents or drowning; enforce swimming rules and regulations; maintain and clean pools and surrounding areas.
Further details are available on the City’s website on the employment page https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/kenoshawi/jobs/3933241/lifeguard?page=2&pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/city-of-kenosha-is-hiring-lifeguards-for-summer-season/article_01369c8e-fbda-11ed-b9f0-a32e3e315228.html | 2023-05-27T16:50:35 | 1 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/city-of-kenosha-is-hiring-lifeguards-for-summer-season/article_01369c8e-fbda-11ed-b9f0-a32e3e315228.html |
'My heart is completely filled': Months after dognapping, Phoenix woman and service dog reunited
A Phoenix woman and her service dog have been reunited following six months of separation after the pooch was dognapped during a park visit.
Mya, a female American Bully who aides Lindsay Deyo, 35, with her seizures, went missing the morning of Nov. 9 at a dog park off Interstate 17 and West Northern Avenue. An animal search and rescue volunteer leading the missing dog case found Mya on May 16, some miles from where she disappeared.
Dog and owner were reunited that same day.
“The hole in my heart is completely filled right now,” Deyo told The Arizona Republic about having Mya by her side again.
On the day of the reunion, Deyo woke up to a knock at the door with two volunteers for the Phoenix-based nonprofit Humane Animal Rescue & Trapping Team (HARTT) telling her they had a surprise for her.
“I kind of freaked out because I kind of knew what it was, you know? And then they brought Mya out of the car and I just started crying,” Deyo said. “I've always had hope that one day soon we’d be reunited. I wasn't thinking it was gonna be this soon.”
After being briefly distracted by a cat at the doorstep, Mya licked Deyo’s face as she wagged her tail. Mya appeared to have lost some weight, Deyo said, mentioning she planned to get a full veterinary checkup on her this week.
“We've just been hanging out and it's been awesome,” Deyo said.
Spotting Mya on the road
According to HARTT President Cheryl Naumann, a volunteer spotted a dog that resembled Mya being walked by a man when driving on Indian School Road near Seventh Avenue.
The volunteer had been helping search for Mya since Deyo reported her missing.
Deyo quit her part-time waitressing job to look for Mya, who would warn her of seizures and get her medication while she experienced a seizure. The woman would think back to her dog to hold back on seizures. The stress led to Deyo suffering a miscarriage, she told The Republic in April.
Deyo looked away briefly while at the dog park and then Mya was gone. Six months later, just as suddenly, the volunteer found Mya on the side of the road.
According to Naumann, the man walking the dog did not fit the description of the man seen with Mya after being dognapped.
Approaching the man and dog with dog food, the volunteer asked about how the pup came into his life, the man said he had bought her a few months earlier.
The volunteer "was pretty excited by this. This could actually be this missing dog," Naumann said.
With the use of the microchip scanner, the volunteer was able to confirm the dog was in fact Mya. "Like a lot of our volunteers she always has dog supplies in her car," Naumann said about the microchip scanner.
But parting with Mya did not come easy for the man."He said, 'Please just take her back to her family and get her out of here before I start crying,' and (the volunteer) said his eyes started tearing up" as she took Mya, Naumann said.
How to keep dogs safe and from going missing
Dogs should wear a snug-fitting collar with updated contact information on the tag, especially when traveling, Naumann said.
"Sometimes they get away. Someone can quickly reunite you with your furry family member," Naumann said.
Also, teenagers and adults should walk dogs as they will be able to hold onto a leash tighter than a small child can, Naumann said.
To avoid pets running away, Naumann explained that owners should keep their homes secure. Naumann mentioned how some circumstances like parties or family get-togethers may make pet dogs and pet cats nervous and cause them to flee. Visitors, she pointed out, may not be careful with closing doors.
"Anytime the environment as a whole changes, it's important to be vigilant," Naumann said.
Owners, she said, should regularly check for broken fence panels where a pet may dig themselves out or for nearby objects which a pet may jump over.
"Never take your eyes off" your dog at a park or other public space, Naumann said. "It's really easy to become distracted and talk to people around you and watch other pets playing."
If someone appears to be approaching your dog, then immediately go to them and ensure the pet is secured in place, Naumann advised. And pets should never be off leash anywhere but their own yard with locked gates, she added.
"A good-meaning person might assume this is a stray that needs help or needs a home because the dog is not in the vicinity of an owner," she said.
Over 120 volunteers on the lookout
Naumann said the organization's volunteers are always on the lookout for a stray while driving down a street or browsing online for found pets.
HARTT has more than 120 active volunteers in Maricopa County and in Arizona’s Rim Country, according to Naumann. Volunteers reunite pets with owners, they rescue dogs and cats and their work has led to a yearly recovery of 800 at-risk animals, Naumann reported.
Deyo said HARTT’s continued efforts to find Mya kept her optimistic throughout the ordeal of having the service dog away. And Deyo is striving to keep Mya from going missing again.
“I always have my eyes on her at all times,” Deyo said of Mya.
For owners who have lost a pet, “my advice would be just to stay positive. Just spread the word as much as possible on Facebook groups, and just try to get the word out there,” Deyo said. “Contact HARTT because they are awesome.”
Those interested in learning how to help HARTT’s mission through education, volunteering, animal adoption or donations can visit azhartt.org.
Reach breaking news reporter Jose R. Gonzalez at jose.gonzalez@gannett.com or on Twitter @jrgzztx.
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Scottsdale ranks 2nd for finding a summer job in the U.S. for young adults, study finds
If you're a young adult looking for part-time work over the summer, search no further than Scottsdale, as the bustling Arizona city has ranked second in a study ranking the best places for summer jobs by personal finance website WalletHub.
In this study, more than 180 job markets in the U.S. were examined across 21 key metrics that matter to job finders such as median income to availability of part-time jobs. These metrics were graded on a 100-point scale, with a score of 100 being the most favorable conditions. Then, a weighted average was calculated to find an overall score to rank the cities.
Scottsdale's weighted average in this study was 61.20, trailing just behind Orlando, Florida at a score of 61.28. Scottsdale was found to have the highest median income for part-time workers in the nation which was adjusted for the cost of living and ranked as $30,334, the study said.
Outside of the average ranking system, Scottsdale was ninth for the availability of part-time summer jobs and eighth for net employment outlook. The lowest ranking Scottsdale received was 170th place for access to public transportation.
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Top 10 Cities for Summer Jobs
How did other Arizona cities rank?
Several other Arizona cities made the list, mostly past the top 20. There were 182 total cities ranked.
- Tempe: 26
- Chandler: 48
- Mesa: 75
- Glendale: 76
- Phoenix: 96
- Gilbert: 106
- Peoria: 110
- Tucson: 133
Methodology
In this study, WalletHub compared 182 cities — including the 150 most populated U.S. cities, plus at least two of the most populated cities in each state — across two key dimensions, “Youth Job Market” and “Social Environment & Affordability.”
The cities were then evaluated using 21 relevant metrics that were graded on a 100-point scale, with a score of 100 representing the most favorable conditions for individuals seeking summer work.
Then each city’s weighted average across all metrics was calculated to find its overall score.
Data was pulled from the U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, ManpowerGroup, Indeed.com, Internships.com, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and more. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/scottsdale/2023/05/27/scottsdale-ranks-2nd-for-finding-summer-jobs-in-the-u-s-study-finds/70260850007/ | 2023-05-27T16:54:25 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/scottsdale/2023/05/27/scottsdale-ranks-2nd-for-finding-summer-jobs-in-the-u-s-study-finds/70260850007/ |
A pair of entrepreneurs’ dreams came true as they were crowned the winner of the 9th annual Gauntlet Business Competition and Program Thursday.
The program includes ten weeks of classes, followed by a competition where businesses compete for cash, grants, and in-kind prizes and services.
The winners, newlyweds Travis and Mandi Hundley, own the wellness bar in uptown Martinsville. It’s an IV and vitamin hydration lounge that offers alternative health and wellness options.
They took home a prize package valued at more than $23,000.
10 News spoke to the couple about not only winning and what this will do for their business, but also what it’s like accomplishing a goal with a spouse.
“It’s been a whirlwind for the past two years and this just adds to the accomplishments,” Travis Hundley said.
“I married my best friend and he is my teammate. we can do anything together and I think this proves it,” Mandi Hundley said.
In total, over $300,000 worth of cash and one-of-a-kind prizes were awarded to 45 businesses.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Nothing brings in “hot Portlander summer” like an inaugural trip to one of the Rose City’s rooftop restaurants and bars.
Whether you’re looking for a brunch spot, pre-concert drink or just a 360-view of the city, here are seven local businesses with rooftop seating.
Xport Bar and Lounge
Location: 1355 SW 2nd Ave, Portland, OR 97201
Found in The Porter Hotel, Xport Bar and Lounge boasts classic cocktails and the best view in Downtown Portland. The bar’s signature bites include spicy buffalo chicken sliders, garlic truffle fries, and veggie and chicken skewers.
The Sunset Room
Location: 100 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR 97232
KEX Hotel’s seasonal rooftop bar is officially open for business as of Friday, May 26. The Sunset Room, an extension of drinking and dining hall Pacific Standard, serves margaritas, daiquiris and small bites guests can enjoy while taking in the summer breeze.
Departure
Location: 525 SW Morrison St 15th Floor, Portland, OR 97204
This restaurant and lounge perched atop The Nines Hotel just reopened after renovating the space and curating a new menu for the summer. Reserve a spot at Departure to try its usual Asian-fusion food and drink options, or to attend one of the first dinners in its Sake Series.
Metropolitan Tavern
Location: 1021 NE Grand Avenue, #600, Portland, OR 97232
Nestled within Hotel Eastlund, Metropolitan Tavern offers spectacular views of Downtown Portland at any time of the day. But if guests make a reservation between 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. on a weekend, they can enjoy the restaurant’s almost-bottomless mimosa deal, also known as “brunch with every bite.”
Radio Room
Location: 1101 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR 97211
This Alberta Arts District spot was once a gas station but has since been transformed into a neighborhood restaurant and lounge. Radio Room’s menu features burgers, BLTs, booze and more.
Tope
Location: 15 NW 4th Ave., Portland, OR 97209
Journey to the top of The Hoxton Hotel and you’ll find Tope, a restaurant that specializes in tacos and cocktails, and just so happens to have “sweeping views of Mount Hood.” The rooftop taqueria’s offerings include carnitas tacos, ceviche and spicy margaritas.
Revolution Hall
Location: 1300 SE Stark St. Portland, OR 97214
The Roof Deck is just one part of Portland’s iconic music venue Revolution Hall, but it’s a hot spot for concertgoers who want to pregame before a show. Seating at the rooftop patio is always first-come, first serve. | https://www.koin.com/local/soak-up-the-summer-at-these-portland-rooftop-bars-and-restaurants/ | 2023-05-27T16:57:58 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/local/soak-up-the-summer-at-these-portland-rooftop-bars-and-restaurants/ |
SEATTLE — The first affordable high-rise in Seattle in more than 50 years opened on Tuesday.
The 17-story building in Seattle's First Hill neighborhood will be operated by two nonprofits: Bellwether Housing and Plymouth Housing.
In 2018, Sound Transit approved a free land transfer for the project.
“Today we have reason to celebrate. This building is proof that we can make real strides toward ending homelessness in our region” said Karen Lee, CEO of Plymouth Housing. “When we came to Sound Transit with an idea for this site, they understood how important it was to provide homes for people experiencing chronic homelessness. When we asked Bellwether to join us, we gained a partner who is doing transformative work providing homes for individuals and families. And of course, we wouldn't be here today if it weren't for our community, and the support of the First Hill neighborhood.”
The 17-floor building has two apartment complexes. Plymouth will operate "Blake House" on floors two through five, with a total of 112 studio apartments focused on serving seniors and veterans who are experiencing homelessness. There are also three staff apartments, three community rooms, a courtyard and computer lab.
The name of this portion of the building honors Blake Nordstrom, who led the department store chain Nordstrom as co-president. Blake Nordstrom died in 2019. Nordstrom was also known for efforts to help end homelessness in the city.
Bellwether will operate "The Rise on Madison" on floors six through 17. That section will provide 250 homes to families making 60% or less of the area median income with 10% of those homes featuring two and three bedrooms. Rents will range from $1,015 to $1,783. It will feature a community room, kitchen, and more.
In total, there are 362 supportive and affordable units.
“This development represents so much of what is great about Seattle — support for an innovative development that will serve a broad range of needs, collaboration among committed partners, and a deep commitment to ensure that lower income people have a place in this city,” Bellwether CEO Susan Boyd said. “I’m grateful for our state and local government leaders who made this development a priority, to neighborhood leaders who were active proponents of the project, and to the brilliant and committed staff at Plymouth and Bellwether Housing who worked so hard to make this happen.” | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/washington/seattle-affordable-high-rise-first-hill-neighborhood/281-577fdc9d-f582-49c2-8369-36f2d6e2e635 | 2023-05-27T17:00:20 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/washington/seattle-affordable-high-rise-first-hill-neighborhood/281-577fdc9d-f582-49c2-8369-36f2d6e2e635 |
STACKER—Life expectancy in the United States has generally been on the rise. Between 1960 and 2019, the life expectancy of Americans rose by roughly a decade to the age of 79. Greater longevity can be attributed to improved health care such as diagnostic and medical advancements, as well as healthier lifestyle choices relating to diet, smoking, and alcohol consumption. Since 2020, however, life expectancy has started to decline.
The opioid epidemic, COVID-19, and unintentional injuries—largely driven by drug overdoses—were the leading causes of a three-year decrease in life expectancy over the last two years. Stark disparities among certain segments of the population have also been observed. American Indians/Alaska Natives saw a life expectancy decrease of more than six years; Hispanic and Black Americans, a drop of four years; and white and Asian Americans, a decrease of about two years. While no one single factor determines the overall health of an entire community, certain socioeconomic and environmental factors such as access to health care, substance abuse treatments, clean air, clean water, and affordable housing contribute significantly to the general health and well-being of the entire population.
Using 2022 County Health Rankings & Roadmaps from the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, Stacker identified counties with the shortest life expectancy in Texas. Life expectancy measures the average number of years from birth a person can expect to live and is calculated based on the number of deaths in a given time period and the average number of people at risk of dying during that period.
Counties with unreliable or insufficient data were excluded from the analysis. Mortality data came from the National Vital Statistics System.
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49. Limestone County
- Average life expectancy: 74.6 years (3.8 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #228
— Length of life rank: #210
— Quality of life rank: #231
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48. Shelby County
- Average life expectancy: 74.6 years (3.8 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #204
— Length of life rank: #193
— Quality of life rank: #203
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47. Henderson County
- Average life expectancy: 74.6 years (3.8 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #185
— Length of life rank: #209
— Quality of life rank: #148
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46. Gregg County
- Average life expectancy: 74.6 years (3.8 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #177
— Length of life rank: #176
— Quality of life rank: #175
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45. Hale County
- Average life expectancy: 74.6 years (3.8 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #138
— Length of life rank: #148
— Quality of life rank: #139
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44. Marion County
- Average life expectancy: 74.5 years (3.9 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #231
— Length of life rank: #232
— Quality of life rank: #207
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43. Bowie County
- Average life expectancy: 74.5 years (3.9 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #205
— Length of life rank: #183
— Quality of life rank: #210
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42. Hockley County
- Average life expectancy: 74.5 years (3.9 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #194
— Length of life rank: #190
— Quality of life rank: #182
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41. Wheeler County
- Average life expectancy: 74.5 years (3.9 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #155
— Length of life rank: #178
— Quality of life rank: #96
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40. Brown County
- Average life expectancy: 74.5 years (3.9 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #153
— Length of life rank: #170
— Quality of life rank: #114
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39. Trinity County
- Average life expectancy: 74.3 years (4.1 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #209
— Length of life rank: #208
— Quality of life rank: #190
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39. Kleberg County
- Average life expectancy: 74.3 years (4.1 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #160
— Length of life rank: #169
— Quality of life rank: #131
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38. Jim Hogg County
- Average life expectancy: 74.2 years (4.2 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #212
— Length of life rank: #202
— Quality of life rank: #197
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37. Floyd County
- Average life expectancy: 74.2 years (4.2 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #199
— Length of life rank: #206
— Quality of life rank: #179
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36. Liberty County
- Average life expectancy: 74.2 years (4.2 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #193
— Length of life rank: #181
— Quality of life rank: #189
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35. Jim Wells County
- Average life expectancy: 74.1 years (4.3 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #232
— Length of life rank: #225
— Quality of life rank: #224
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34. Morris County
- Average life expectancy: 74.1 years (4.3 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #223
— Length of life rank: #217
— Quality of life rank: #209
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33. Jasper County
- Average life expectancy: 74.1 years (4.3 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #222
— Length of life rank: #223
— Quality of life rank: #193
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32. Panola County
- Average life expectancy: 74.1 years (4.3 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #206
— Length of life rank: #199
— Quality of life rank: #200
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31. Lynn County
- Average life expectancy: 74 years (4.4 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #225
— Length of life rank: #212
— Quality of life rank: #220
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30. Wilbarger County
- Average life expectancy: 74 years (4.4 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #221
— Length of life rank: #195
— Quality of life rank: #222
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29. Howard County
- Average life expectancy: 74 years (4.4 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #197
— Length of life rank: #186
— Quality of life rank: #188
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28. Orange County
- Average life expectancy: 74 years (4.4 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #191
— Length of life rank: #196
— Quality of life rank: #176
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27. Gray County
- Average life expectancy: 74 years (4.4 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #165
— Length of life rank: #182
— Quality of life rank: #123
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26. Young County
- Average life expectancy: 74 years (4.4 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #105
— Length of life rank: #194
— Quality of life rank: #23
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25. Zavala County
- Average life expectancy: 73.9 years (4.5 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #239
— Length of life rank: #214
— Quality of life rank: #239
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24. Nolan County
- Average life expectancy: 73.9 years (4.5 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #174
— Length of life rank: #198
— Quality of life rank: #140
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23. Delta County
- Average life expectancy: 73.9 years (4.5 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #150
— Length of life rank: #215
— Quality of life rank: #44
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22. Lamar County
- Average life expectancy: 73.8 years (4.6 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #219
— Length of life rank: #228
— Quality of life rank: #180
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21. Ector County
- Average life expectancy: 73.8 years (4.6 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #173
— Length of life rank: #200
— Quality of life rank: #130
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20. Lamb County
- Average life expectancy: 73.7 years (4.7 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #214
— Length of life rank: #203
— Quality of life rank: #201
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19. Knox County
- Average life expectancy: 73.7 years (4.7 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #168
— Length of life rank: #205
— Quality of life rank: #95
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18. Crosby County
- Average life expectancy: 73.6 years (4.8 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #226
— Length of life rank: #216
— Quality of life rank: #217
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17. Hutchinson County
- Average life expectancy: 73.6 years (4.8 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #200
— Length of life rank: #219
— Quality of life rank: #161
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16. Montague County
- Average life expectancy: 73.5 years (4.9 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #210
— Length of life rank: #230
— Quality of life rank: #150
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15. Swisher County
- Average life expectancy: 73.4 years (5.0 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #241
— Length of life rank: #234
— Quality of life rank: #225
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14. Baylor County
- Average life expectancy: 73.4 years (5.0 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #207
— Length of life rank: #226
— Quality of life rank: #157
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13. Terry County
- Average life expectancy: 73.3 years (5.1 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #234
— Length of life rank: #221
— Quality of life rank: #229
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12. Dawson County
- Average life expectancy: 73.2 years (5.2 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #242
— Length of life rank: #231
— Quality of life rank: #241
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11. Anderson County
- Average life expectancy: 73.2 years (5.2 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #184
— Length of life rank: #220
— Quality of life rank: #115
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10. Coleman County
- Average life expectancy: 72.8 years (5.6 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #233
— Length of life rank: #238
— Quality of life rank: #186
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9. Winkler County
- Average life expectancy: 72.5 years (5.9 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #240
— Length of life rank: #241
— Quality of life rank: #196
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8. Potter County
- Average life expectancy: 72.5 years (5.9 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #236
— Length of life rank: #233
— Quality of life rank: #215
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7. Polk County
- Average life expectancy: 72.5 years (5.9 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #196
— Length of life rank: #213
— Quality of life rank: #154
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6. Donley County
- Average life expectancy: 72.5 years (5.9 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #181
— Length of life rank: #102
— Quality of life rank: #227
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5. Martin County
- Average life expectancy: 72.4 years (6.0 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #198
— Length of life rank: #236
— Quality of life rank: #61
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4. Crockett County
- Average life expectancy: 72.2 years (6.2 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #230
— Length of life rank: #242
— Quality of life rank: #121
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3. Brooks County
- Average life expectancy: 72.1 years (6.3 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #244
— Length of life rank: #243
— Quality of life rank: #238
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2. Red River County
- Average life expectancy: 72 years (6.4 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #243
— Length of life rank: #244
— Quality of life rank: #204
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1. Collingsworth County
- Average life expectancy: 72 years (6.4 less than the statewide average)
- Health outcomes statewide rank: #136
— Length of life rank: #102
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How Time Flies is a daily feature looking back at Pantagraph archives to revisit what was happening in our community and region.
100 years ago
May 28, 1923: A program which will include songs, an address and an airplane flight over the lake in Miller Park has been arranged for Wednesday. The exercises will be for dead Marines, sailors and airmen, and will be held by the Women's Relief Corps of the G.A.R., the Daughters of Civil War Veterans and the Ladies of the G.A.R. Circle.
75 years ago
May 28, 1948: A campaign to gain McLean County Republican and Independent support for Adlai E. Stevenson, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, was launched Friday. Mr. Stevenson outlined his political views and campaign hopes to about 30 men at a session at the Illinois hotel.
50 years ago
May 28, 1973: A major project essential to continued development on Bloomington's east side should be underway this summer. The project involves the northeast pumping station, water storage tank and 24-inch water main to connect with a water main on IAA Drive, south of Towanda Avenue.
25 years ago
May 28, 1998: On the first day of a two-day trip through 14 Central Illinois cities, a group that included U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun and gubernatorial nominee Glenn Poshard made it clear they want to put the heat on a party that's gripped the state's highest office for 22 years. Attacking Republicans and specifically gubernatorial foe George Ryan, Poshard and Moseley-Braun dared their opponents to accept debates.
101 years ago: See vintage Pantagraph ads from 1922
Gerthart's
Union Gas and Electric Co.
Hoover
Dr. J.A. Moore Dentists
Moberly & Klenner
W.P. Garretson
W.H. Roland
Pease's Candy
Thor 32 Electric Washing Machine
The Kaiser's Story of the War
Ike Livingston & Sons
Gossard Corsets
Cat'n Fiddle
'Stolen Moments'
Case Model X
The Johnson Transfer & Fuel Co.
The Pantagraph want ads
Franklin Motor Car Co.
'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'
Calumet Baking Powder
Mayer Livingston & Co. Newsmarket
'The Emperor Jones'
'California Fig Syrup'
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Q. My ex is trying to get out of paying child support by concocting a plan for our 16- year-old daughter to get married. Can he do that?
A. The short answer is yes, for now. In Idaho, a court can only make child custody and child support decisions for a minor child the minor reaches the age of majority, is emancipated by marriage or emancipated by a legal proceeding. A minor aged 16 or 17 can become emancipated by marriage if at least one parent consents to the marriage. Idaho law does not require that both parents give their consent before a minor can get married.
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The bock was blessed and the ceremonial keg was tapped at Friday evening’s season opening festivities at the Petrifying Springs Biergarten.
As in past years, the Rev. Brit Windel from DayBreak Church offered a blessing for the new season, before Kenosha County Executive Samantha Kerkman joined Biergarten co-owner Mike Grab for the ceremonial pouring of a beer from a keg of German-style Maibock that was then given to patrons for free until it ran out.
Now in its seventh season, the Biergarten is a public-private partnership between its owners and Kenosha County Parks. A share of the revenue generated from the business goes back to the county to support park improvements.
Biergarten hours are 4 to 9 p.m. Monday-Friday, noon to 9 Saturdays, and noon to 8 Sundays. The menu includes imported German and local craft beers, hard seltzers and soft drinks, sausages, Bavarian pretzels, and more.
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Police are investigating after a morning shooting in Kensington on Saturday left one woman dead and another in critical condition.
According to police, the shooting happened around 6:18 a.m. on the 100 block of E. Allegheny Avenue.
Law enforcement officials said the victims -- a 44-year-old woman who had been shot once in the chest and a 21-year-old woman who was shot twice in the thigh -- were transported to a local hospital by a private vehicle.
The older woman, officials said, was pronounced at about 6:34 a.m. and the other woman was placed in critical condition.
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A man died on Saturday morning after he was struck by a car while riding his bike in West Philadelphia.
According to police, a man -- believed to be in his 40s or 50s -- was riding a bike along the unit block of N. 63rd Street, just before 7 a.m., when he was struck by a green Dodge Charger.
Officials said the driver of the vehicle stayed at the scene of the crash.
First responders took the bicycle rider to a nearby hospital after the incident, but officials said, he was pronounced at about 7:27 a.m.
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MAYS LANDING — Corey San Chirico faced numerous challenges growing up with autism, but at 38, he hasn’t let the neurological condition keep him from enjoying his best life.
However, he’s now wearing a makeshift badge around his neck, conveying to the public he isn’t the sex offender people believe he is, in an attempt to prevent being screamed at or put into stressful situations.
“He gets like verbally assaulted, and it’s been causing him a lot of anxiety lately to the point where he’d come home and start digressing,” said Stefan San Chirico, Corey’s brother. “He doesn’t understand why people are doing this.”
Corey San Chirico’s family says he’s being confused with Talal Aridi, a former township resident who is listed on the state’s sex offender registry. Their long hair and bushy beards have likely caused the confusion.
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At least 12 times over the past six months, he’s been screamed at by people mistaking him for Aridi.
A few weeks ago, his mother said, a person came up to her neighbor, a police officer, telling her they thought he was the sex offender for which he’s been mistaken.
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Other times, police came to her house asking for Corey’s identification because he was spotted walking near the Joseph Shaner School down the street.
Camille San Chirico’s phone number is listed on Corey’s badge, should a passerby feel it necessary to call his mother for verification.
The fact that Corey has repeatedly been mistaken for Aridi has his mother distraught, trying also through social media to get people to stop screaming at her son.
The case of mistaken identity has progressed to police involvement, the family says.
“It’s like, ‘Here we go again, now I have to explain this again,’” said Camille San Chirico. “I’ve had the cops come here a few times for the mistaken identity.”
Police Chief Greg Ciambrone said his officers have received several calls mistaking Corey for Aridi. The department knows who he is, but they have to follow through on calls, confirming callers did, in fact, not spot Aridi when they dialed police.
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“If we keep getting calls, we’re going to go out,” Ciambrone said. “Our officers know very well who he is.”
Aridi, whom the family says it knows through Aridi’s father’s medical practice, was charged with trying to lure an 11-year-old girl into his car in 2018. Aridi stopped his vehicle on Berry Drive, asked the girl for her phone number and whether she needed a ride, took pictures of the girl and followed her to a friend’s house.
Aridi’s listed address is an apartment in Lindenwold, Camden County, according to the New Jersey Sex Offender Registry’s website.
It was unclear whether Aridi has an attorney that can speak on his behalf.
San Chirico’s family said someone started a rumor about Aridi’s return to the township after spotting Corey walking near the Shaner School on Third Street. They learned through a security guard about the mistaken identity.
Hamilton Township Superintendent Jeff Zito declined to comment.
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“A lot of it happens at Wawa because he likes to go to Wawa,” Stefan San Chirico said, referring to the convenience store on Route 50 in downtown Mays Landing.
The staff knows him, but plenty of customers don’t, making the situation stressful, the family says.
Wawa said Wednesday it “worked quickly” to help the family and community resolve the misperception.
“We are committed to making sure our stores maintain an environment that is positive and welcoming,” Lori Bruce, a senior public relations manager for Wawa, said in a statement.
Aggressive encounters can be detrimental to an autistic person who doesn’t always understand certain social situations, the family says.
The stress of getting approached in such a manner has boiled over, the family says.
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Aridi, 38, faces new charges he allegedly used his phone to photograph a teenager walking to her bus stop in the area of Pine Glen Drive and Jarvis Road in Sicklerville last year. The case has yet to go before a grand jury, state court officials said.
The mistaken-identity incidents extend beyond the past six months. His mother remembers a situation at The Cove beach at Lake Lenape during the summer where a man forced his daughters from the water, urging them to avoid Corey, believing him to be Aridi.
Learning about Corey San Chirico’s disability and having an autistic son himself, the man apologized, Camille San Chirico said.
His mother wants everyone to know her son isn’t a threat, posting to social media with messages explaining his condition and urging people who see him around town to be kind.
While it hopefully prevents further encounters that could aggravate Corey’s anxiety, it’s one they shouldn’t have to take, altering his life to stay safe, Camille San Chirico said.
“It’s frustrating, and then you get so mad that you want to go out to people yourself and say, ‘What the hell?’” she said. “I’ve had to do this since he was a baby because of his autism. People would say, ‘What’s wrong with him?’ People didn’t even know what autism is, and I had to explain it and bring it to the school because I always wanted him to go to a regular school.”
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Corey San Chirico has grown up in the township nearly all his life, going through the school system and briefly attending Atlantic Cape Community College.
He began showing signs of autism as a young child, using shorter words and phrases when he spoke. He also would be found spending time alone, not interacting as much with others, Camille San Chirico said.
Camille wants Corey to be known most for his artwork, some of which dates to when he was 5. Several pieces of his are hung around their home on Fourth Street.
He also enjoys exploring the woods nearby and being environmentally friendly in his spare time, retrieving recyclables from the forest and disposing of them.
“We live in the age where everything is false information, and it spreads so easily,” Stefan San Chirico said. “It seems like nobody has their own mind anymore to make their own conclusion on something.” | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/autistic-mays-landing-man-mistaken-for-sex-offender-family-says/article_d8f1e6e4-faf2-11ed-b7b3-9fd2407719d5.html | 2023-05-27T17:39:29 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/autistic-mays-landing-man-mistaken-for-sex-offender-family-says/article_d8f1e6e4-faf2-11ed-b7b3-9fd2407719d5.html |
OCEAN CITY — Forward Andrew Kitch scored an early goal for the Ocean City Nor’easters against Philadelphia Lone Star FC on Friday night.
There was plenty of drama in the second half in the matchup of unbeaten teams, but the goal held up for a 1-0 Ocean City win.
Ocean City seemed to be cruising with the lead, but Philadelphia’s Eugene Dennis broke toward the net with the ball in the 73rd minute and was taken down by defender Josh Jones. Lone Star was awarded a penalty kick, and Jones was issued a red card and ejected, putting O.C. a man down for the rest of the game.
But Nor’easters goalie Stefano Camerlengo thrilled the fans as he dove to his left and made the penalty kick save on Philly’s Aboubacar Camara. Ocean City played with just 10 men the rest of the way, but Camerlengo and the defense preserved the shutout.
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The Nor’easters, defending champions of the Mid-Atlantic Division of the United Soccer Leagues' League Two, improved to 3-0 overall and in the division. Friday's win was their home opener. Philadelphia Lone dropped to 2-1, also all in division games.
A Philadelphia defender misplayed the ball near his own goal, and Kitch got control of it and scored from 4 yards out. Lone Star goalie Liam Smith got a piece of it, but the ball still rolled into the net to make it 1-0.
“We’ve had a lot of chances on goal early in the game in all three of our games,” Ocean City first-year head coach Matt Perrella said. “It’s the perfect way to start a game. The guys have just done a great job to connect and find those early goals.”
Perrella questioned the call of a red card on Jones.
“If it’s a foul, I don’t agree that it’s a red card, but he called the red card,” Perrella said. “I think it was more of a shoulder to shoulder rather than from behind. I think if he had clipped him from behind it’s very clear, but I think shoulder to shoulder in a game like this, I just didn’t agree. But regardless, down a man, Stefano comes up with the big save to keep it 1-nil. We made adjustments from there and got the win.”
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Kitch, a former Shawnee High School player, will be a freshman playing for the University of North Carolina in the fall.
“I was handed an opportunity, and I just jumped on it and was ready,” said Kitch, a Medford resident, of his goal. “I was composed, I finished the ball which gave us the lead and ultimately led to the win.
“The penalty kick was like something that jumps at you. But our goalkeeper stayed composed and everyone kind of pulled together, and we got a great win and there was a lot of energy. It was very exciting.”
Camerlengo played well throughout the middle of the game but then made the stop on the penalty kick and earned the team’s Man of the Match award. The 6-foot-4 Camerlengo, a native of Pescara, Italy, is a rising senior goalie for the University of Missouri-Kansas City, an NCAA Division I program.
“I dove to my left, and it was nice,” said Camerlengo. “It was really nice when you can help your team and bring home this important win for Ocean City. Hopefully we’re going to keep going this way.
“Being down a man was a hard moment for us. It was tough for our defense. They (Lone Star) were a team that was pushing a lot. We were down a man, so we had to kind of grope a little and put them (passes) on the sides. The guys did a great job. I’m really happy for how they did.”
One of those 10 Nor’easters was former Mainland Regional High School standout Jack Sarkos, a forward who played well after coming into the game late.
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Ocean City tried to pass the ball around and eat up the clock. Nor'easters fans cheered but stayed nervous because there were six minutes of stoppage time. Sarkos had a shot deep of the right side in stoppage time, and Smith made the stop.
Camerlengo finished with five saves and Smith had four.
The Nor'easters' will play next Saturday, June 3, against Reading United AC at Alvernia University in Reading, Pennsylvania. Their next game at Carey Stadium — the Beach House, as they affectionately refer to it — will be Saturday, June 10 against Lehigh Valley United. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/noreasters-win-home-opener-1-0-over-philadelphia-lone-star-fc/article_858399a8-fc41-11ed-8fb2-1bfd0dac8b7a.html | 2023-05-27T17:39:35 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/noreasters-win-home-opener-1-0-over-philadelphia-lone-star-fc/article_858399a8-fc41-11ed-8fb2-1bfd0dac8b7a.html |
“Everybody love everybody.”
That is what Tucson musician Gabriel Ayala says he learned from his son Tomas Ayala, who was killed recently in a crash.
When Ayala asked his son what he meant by that, Tomas Ayala told him that there is so much anger already and if everybody loved everybody, the world would be better.
“He just stopped me in my tracks, and it shocked me that this young man was even teaching me,” Gabriel said.
Gabriel described Tomas as a bright light, calling him the “most wonderful son in the world.” He was respectful, radiated love and always willing to go above and beyond in order to help people, whether or not he knew them.
He was one of those people who was always smiling and had an infectious laugh.
“No matter how I was feeling, his laugh would lift me up and that's what I miss in this household right now,” Gabriel said.
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Tomas Ayala, 20, the son of well-known Pascua Yaqui musician Gabriel Ayala, died on May 13 in a car crash in Sahuarita. The other driver involved in the crash, Camron Ortega, 24, has been arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder, driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death.
Throughout middle school and high school, Tomas Ayala did it all. He played cello for many years, performed in several plays and loved to draw, his father said.
Despite his many talents, Tomas’ main passion was cooking. He aspired to be a chef.
Father and son would often barbecue together. At night they'd watch cooking shows.
Tomas Ayala made salads that were so beautiful, his father said, they'd look like pieces of art. Ayala said he'd tell his son they looked like they should be hanging on a wall.
“I don't think there was ever a meal that I can say I didn't love from him,” Gabriel Ayala said. “It was just amazing to see him cook, and be able to just sit back and watch him orchestrate these whole meals.”
Tomas Ayala eventually got a job at the Cup Café inside downtown Tucson's Hotel Congress. He worked there for about 15 months and was loved by his colleagues, said Shana and Richard Oseran, the owners of the hotel.
Tomas Ayala was dedicated to his job. He'd prepare for work an hour before he had to leave. He even took his own special knives to the job interview, the elder Ayala says.
Once in a while, Gabriel Ayala would secretly go in and eat at the café. He would instantly be recognized as Tomas’ dad by his coworkers and later, Tomas would personally come out and deliver his food to the table.
Tomas loved working at the café and left a big impact despite only being there for a short time, the Oserans said.
“In his short time here on this earth he impacted many people, the people that he worked with and the people that he encountered,” Shana Oseran said. “When you meet a special person like that, you know you've been blessed.”
After the crash, Gabriel Ayala said he called the Oserans to explain why his son wouldn’t be at work, saying Tomas was proud of his work and would never want to let anybody down.
“He told me Tomas wouldn't want anybody to think that he failed to go to work without calling in, so he made it a point to call,” Richard Oseran said.
The morning of the day he died, Ayala says he and his son drove together to pick up breakfast. During their trip, Gabriel told Tomas he should open his own food truck one day and had his full support.
“I said, I promise that I'll buy it for you and be there for you,” Gabriel Ayala said. “He just smiled about it. It was just something that I wanted for him. I wanted him to be able to fully express himself and reach that full potential that I knew he had as an individual.”
Since his passing, so many of Tomas’ peers have reached out to the Ayala family and told them stories about how Tomas watched over them, kept them laughing or helped them be a better person.
Gabriel Ayala said they held a traditional Native American ceremony for his son. He's also planning to hold a memorial concert in honor of Tomas Ayala at Hotel Congress soon.
Gabriel Ayala said he'd tell his son that one day, he was going to be a better man than him, and when that day came he'd be able to leave this world knowing Tomas would be okay. Though Tomas left before him, Gabriel Ayala said he'd already grown to be the better man.
“He always had to live in my shadow because of who I am and what I do as a musician. I hated he had to do that,” Gabriel Ayala said.
“But now, I tell people, I get to live in his shadow and I'm very honored to be that individual. Instead, I’m Gabriel Ayala, the father of Tomas Ayala, and for me that's more important than anything in the world.”
Jamie Donnelly covers breaking news for the Arizona Daily Star. Contact her via e-mail at jdonnelly@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/tucson-musician-remembers-son-killed-in-crash-as-bright-light/article_97900242-fb30-11ed-b389-efa27e0b7c25.html | 2023-05-27T17:41:02 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/tucson-musician-remembers-son-killed-in-crash-as-bright-light/article_97900242-fb30-11ed-b389-efa27e0b7c25.html |
In part one of this two-part series, we discussed the basics of understanding how to read your insurance plan’s explanation of benefit/EOB. Each payer has their own EOB. As we move to part two, we will look to reconcile the insurance EOB with your healthcare provider’s charges and statements.
Recommended steps:
1) The insurance’s EOB can take approximately 30 days from the date of service. In the meantime, you may receive an itemized statement or a monthly statement from the healthcare provider. If it is received before the insurance EOB, hold onto it as a good reconciliation tool. (It may say: “This is not a bill “-as it an informational document.) If it is received after the insurance payment, the statement should reflect the insurance payment and any adjustments/amounts that are absorbed/written off by the healthcare provider due to the allowed amount. This is a bill. (Remember, reference Part one on how to read the EOB.)
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2) Now it is time to compare the healthcare statement against the insurance EOB side by side.
3) Each healthcare provider’s statement is unique to that provider. Each EOB is unique to that insurance plan. Get familiar with your insurance EOB -follow the steps from the Part one article.
4) Using the two documents, begin matching: date of service, billed charges, amount paid by the insurance, amount absorbed -difference between billed charges and contracted /allowed amount and the final amount that is owed.
5) There is no short cut to this step-by-step process. Sometimes there are questions about the charges or services that were billed. Definitely call the healthcare provider for clarity as the insurance plan can only reply to how the claim was paid, not if the services were performed.
Due to the lapse in time between services and the insurance payment, there can easily be “gaps” in memory of what was done.
Again, ask and ensure there is clarity as the patient portion is calculated based on the individual insurance coverage.
Let’s look at the below example from Part one. Using the EOB example, ensure all the totals match when comparing against the healthcare provider’s statement. All totals should be represented as outlined below. The amount due to the provider in the below example would be $13 as the deductible has not been met.
EX) Medical (sometimes patients have services and do not remember what was actually done.
This was a pre-operative EKG interpretation done by a physician/unknown to the patient. Physician’s name is listed for each line item.) Amount billed: $18 Amount not covered: $5 Your discounted/in-network/allowed rate $13.
Applied to your deductible $13.
Amount the insurance paid $0 as the deductible of $3500 was not met so the insurance plan paid zero.
The total amount that is due to the healthcare provider is $13/in-network discounted rate/contracted rate.
The difference between charges ($18) and the discounted/allowed amount ($13) is written off by the provider ($5) as part of their contact with your insurance plan.
The process can be difficult but take it one step at a time. Be patient. Create a good understanding of how your insurance plan ‘pays’ and when in doubt, always ask. Once the healthcare provider’s statement is received, reconcile and when in doubt, always ask. There is help available.
You are already struggling with your health challenges. Let’s try to keep the payment process simple thru education.
Day Egusquiza is the president and founder of the Patient Financial Navigator Foundation Inc. — an Idaho-based family foundation. For more information, call 208-423-9036 or go to pfnfinc.com. Do you have a topic for Health Care Buzz? Please share at daylee1@mindspring.com. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/health-care-buzz-reading-an-insurance-explanation-of-benefits-eob-part-2/article_cd3c4e50-fbe9-11ed-abad-2f6967a16adb.html | 2023-05-27T17:45:31 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/health-care-buzz-reading-an-insurance-explanation-of-benefits-eob-part-2/article_cd3c4e50-fbe9-11ed-abad-2f6967a16adb.html |
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Two people have been sentenced to 40 years in prison for the 2017 killing and dismemberment of their former roommate in Maryland.
Body parts of Tilman, an Annapolis mother of two, washed up along the Shady Side shoreline weeks after she was killed.
In the fall of 2017, Rice and Harnish were roommates of Tilman and her elderly mother and had relied on their financial support. When Tilman stopped providing that support, she disappeared, prosecutors said.
Tilman’s family reported that they stopped hearing from her. Her ex-husband reported receiving suspicious text messages and seeing social media posts on her account that were different from her normal communications.
By that time, Rice and Harnish had fled to Arizona by bus, State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess said in a news release.
The Baltimore Sun reported that public defender Anne Stewart-Hill said Harnish entered a three-way romance with Rice and Tilman after leaving an abusive relationship. She moved in with the couple and Tilman’s ailing mother.
Police and prosecutors said Harnish and Rice manipulated Tilman, who was intellectually disabled, out of her mother’s money.
Assistant State’s Attorney Glen Neubauer said it was Tilman’s money that paid for Harnish and Rice’s bus tickets to Arizona, where they lived in a homeless encampment for nearly four years. They were extradited to Maryland in February 2022 after being arrested by local officials in Pima County, Arizona.
Attorneys for both defendants said the fatal fight with Tilman was fueled by alcohol and crack cocaine. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2023/05/27/killing-dismemberment-maryland-roommate-tilman/0ee17004-fcaa-11ed-bafc-bf50205661da_story.html | 2023-05-27T17:48:44 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2023/05/27/killing-dismemberment-maryland-roommate-tilman/0ee17004-fcaa-11ed-bafc-bf50205661da_story.html |
The story behind a mysterious letter found tucked inside the wall of a Peoria-area home
PEORIA — Imagine if the walls could talk in a house built in 1872. In a way, they did for a home located in the heart of tiny Green Valley, a village located 30 miles south of Peoria.
A 14-year-old girl's message, written 48 years ago and hidden in a bottle behind a wall in an ancient house in Tazewell County, was discovered this month by a carpenter, sparked a mystery, and led to a viral video on an online social media site and tales on a Facebook page.
Sunnyland resident Dakota Mohn was working on the house as part of restoration from a fire. When he pulled apart the living room wall, the framework had a message scrawled on it: "Note 9/29/1975" and arrows pointing to a notch in the wood. Behind that notch was a compartment as a resting place for a bottle holding a two-page note signed by Stephanie Herron.
"My crew was in there demolishing the front living room of the house," said Mohn, an Illini Bluffs graduate who is a third-generation carpenter. "I was cleaning up debris and I looked up and saw lettering on the wall said 'Note.' I stuck my cell phone in there and took a picture and saw it in this bottle. Took it out and read the note.
"It was like this 14-year-old girl was standing there talking to us, took us back almost half a century right there."
Who is Stephanie Herron?
Stephanie Herron grew up one of five girls, living with her parents at the old house in Green Valley from 1968 until she headed off to college at Western Illinois University. Her parents continued living there until 2002.
Today, she is Stephanie Poit, she is 61, and she's lived a lifetime in New York, married and with five kids.
"I was shocked, absolutely shocked, when I heard about the note," she said. "Honestly, I forgot all about it. Life goes on, years go by … I can't believe how much this has struck people. I've gotten notes from people who remember me as a kid growing up in Green Valley. It was a good place to grow up.
"And I'm getting notes from people I don't know, teachers a lot of them, who are inspired to have their students do the same thing now. Hey, I guess I'm a Facebook sensation. The whole thing is amazing."
She's a TikTok sensation, too, with a video about her hidden message approaching 1 million views this weekend.
The house in Green Valley had a railroad track running next to the property, and she and her siblings would watch the trains every day. Her father was a lineman for the Chicago & North Western Railway. The old house was initially a one-level structure, but the family kept adding additions, closing in a front porch to create a living room, kitchen and bathroom.
During one such renovation in 1975, Stephanie Poit wrote a two-page letter, rolled it up into a small bottle, and put it behind the frame, where it remained hidden behind the wall for nearly 50 years.
"Do you remember why you did something at age 14?" Poit said, laughing. "We were moving into the bicentennial, and everyone was doing time capsules, it was a thing all over the place in 1975. So I did one. Then I went off to college, and moved to New York City and forgot all about it."
'To whoever finds this'
Poit's hand-written note included her parents' occupations, her sibling's name, the name of the current President, the railroad near their yard and special wishes for those who might one day live in the house.
To whoever finds this:
Today is Sept. 29, 1975. My name is Stephanie Herron. I live here with my mother, father (Earnest), Becky and Valerie.
Gerald Ford is president. Mrs. Lay is our neighbor. Mom is pregnant and the baby is due any day now. As far as we know, this house was made in 1872. We are remodeling the house.
The Illinois Central Railroad is on the west side of the house. We have lived here for 8 years.
My dad works the Chicago Northwestern Railroad. Green Valley has about 650 people. I am 14, Val is 16 and Becky is 12.
I hope you have lots of happiness in this house.
Steph
PS: My mother's name is Rose Herron. She is a registered nurse. She works at Hopedale Nursing home. She was born in Nebraska.
She is a very good mother.
Her youngest sister, by the way, was born the very next day.
Life after Green Valley
The Herron family lived in the Green Valley house until 2002, although Stephanie was off to college and New York well before that. Her father died in 1998, and her mother died in 2002. She has a sister residing in Hopedale and another in Decatur.
She hasn't seen the house in Green Valley in decades.
"I went to New York after college because I wanted to work with inner-city kids, and I did that for a lot of years," Poit said. "I lived in the Bronx for a while. Now I live in Brooklyn. I worked for a boys club program that put children and animals together. I'm working now in a chiropractic office, and I teach children through my church. Teaching is where my heart is. The Lord opened some doors for me."
And fortunately, closed up some walls, too, or we wouldn't have this mystery and walk back through time.
What happens to the note?
There was more than Poit's note found at the house in Green Valley.
Poit hid some coins in another location, and those have turned up. Mohn also found a toy car.
"That's a mystery, I didn't have any brothers and my sisters and I didn't have any toy cars," Poit said. "I have no idea who put that there."
Mohn said the house is owned now by Dylan Alig. He says their plan is to build a shadow box into the wall, displaying the message on the wood.
"And both of us are going to leave a note in the wall for someone else to find in the future," Mohn said.
And Mohn says there is another mystery in Green Valley. He says Poit recalls a time capsule being buried somewhere in the town over 50 years ago. It's been forgotten to time, and he says it's never been found.
As for Stephanie Poit's letter, what is to become of it?
"I think they should just put it back," Poit said. "Let it stay in that wall, be a mystery for someone else to find later."
Dave Eminian is the Journal Star sports columnist, and covers Bradley men's basketball, the Rivermen and Chiefs. He writes the Cleve In The Eve sports column for pjstar.com. He can be reached at 686-3206 or deminian@pjstar.com. Follow him on Twitter @icetimecleve. | https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/local/2023/05/27/green-valley-girls-message-hidden-in-wall-of-peoria-illinois-house-found-48-years-later/70263384007/ | 2023-05-27T18:01:14 | 1 | https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/local/2023/05/27/green-valley-girls-message-hidden-in-wall-of-peoria-illinois-house-found-48-years-later/70263384007/ |
Lincoln Police Department is investigating a shooting that injured a 31-year-old man Friday night, according to police.
Officers were called to an apartment complex near S 11th and F Streets at around 7:40 p.m. in response to a reported shooting, and found the victim with a gunshot wound to his leg, according to a press release from the department. The man was taken to a local hospital.
The department's investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and no arrests had been made as of Saturday morning, according to police.
Police are asking anyone who witnessed this incident to come forward with any information they may have regarding this case, including video or photographic evidence to call 402-441-6000 or Crime Stoppers at 402-475-3600.
What you missed this week in notable Southeast Nebraska crimes and court cases
This week's local crime and court updates from The Lincoln Journal Star.
An Omaha man accused of leaving the scene of a crash that killed his wife was ordered to be held on $10 million bail during his initial court appearance Wednesday.
Scott King, 42, was found dead at the scene of the crash northeast of Kearney.
The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office will run a seat belt checkpoint between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. along U.S. 6 just west of 98th Street.
A Cass County District Court judge on Monday ordered a 19-year-old man charged with first-degree murder to undergo a mental examination to determine if he was sane at the time of the slaying.
"Mr. Chavez is a predator. His M.O. is to prey on young females, lie about his age, bring them to his home and have sexual intercourse with them," the prosecutor said.
Listen to the final chapter of Late Edition: Crime Beat Chronicles that examines the circumstances surrounding a death in a New Jersey resort town.
According to a crash report, Todd Bruns, 66, left the road, ran through a ditch and hit an embankment. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Motorists cruising this weekend will notice substantive changes to traffic flow on O Street, which will be policed by the same number of officers as last year.
A couple was arrested on felony neglect charges for allowing three of their children to rack up a large number of absences and tardy days from elementary school, records show.
The author of the new book "The Lost Sons of Omaha" describes the deaths of James Scurlock and Jake Gardner in 2020 as a “pure tragedy" without heroes or villains, only flawed human beings.
Pierre Brayman has been charged with leaving the scene of a crash that killed his wife.
In an email Monday, a company spokesperson said that "the health and safety of the workers and communities in which we operate are our top priority."
Multiple law enforcement agencies responded to a "help an officer" call for shots fired that resulted in one arrest in western Douglas County.
🎧 Reporter Karen Robinson-Jacobs discusses the racial makeup of police departments in relation to the communities they serve. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-courts/lincoln-shooting-leaves-31-year-old-man-hospitalized-police-say/article_15491d58-fca4-11ed-b84c-bbe2ea47c835.html | 2023-05-27T18:03:57 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-courts/lincoln-shooting-leaves-31-year-old-man-hospitalized-police-say/article_15491d58-fca4-11ed-b84c-bbe2ea47c835.html |
Harper Woods police probe shots fired in parking lot ahead of prom event
Officials are investigating shots fired in a parking lot that resulted in vehicle damage but no reported injuries ahead of a prom event Friday night, according to the Harper Woods Police Department.
The incident happened just before 8 p.m. in the Triumph Middle School parking lot at 19890 Anita Street, about 13 miles northeast of downtown Detroit. The two vehicles hit by gunfire were part of a convoy to an out-of-city location for the Harper Woods High School prom, police said in a news release.
The staging of vehicles and convoy, officials said, was not known or authorized by the Harper Woods School District or Harper Woods Police Department.
No further details were released.
Harper Woods detectives are working with several local law enforcement agencies and investigating the incident, police said.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact to the Harper Woods Police Department at (313) 343-2530 or CrimeStoppers at 1-800-SPEAKUP.
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BLOOMINGTON — A McLean County judge is weighing whether to grant a Bloomington woman, who is serving 55 years for murder, a new trial on a related charge.
Misook Nowlin, 57, was convicted in 2012 of first-degree murder in the strangulation death of her mother-in-law, Linda Tyda. Before her trial began, she pleaded guilty to one count of concealment of a homicidal death.
Nowlin has asked the court to conduct an evidentiary hearing “and ultimately vacate her guilty plea on count four of the indictment and set that matter for a new trial,” according to a petition submitted by her attorney, Jeff Brown.
During a hearing on Friday, Nowlin testified that she thought her trial attorney, Brian McEldowney, had told her she would be sentenced to two years in prison if she pleaded guilty to the concealment charge. She also said she did not understand that her sentence on that charge, which was five years, would be served consecutive to the sentence on the murder charges, for which she is serving 50 years.
According to the petition, she did not understand these elements “because she was not advised by her counsel or admonished by the court.”
Nowlin, whose first language is Korean, said if she had understood that the sentence could not be served at the same time as the murder sentence, she would have gone to trial on the concealment charge rather than pleading guilty.
In 2015, she was given the option to move to withdraw her guilty plea or to move to reconsider the sentence, according to court documents.
McEldowney testified Friday that he had advised her to choose to file a motion asking Judge Robert Freitag to reconsider her sentence and that she agreed.
“The evidence on that count was substantial,” he said, explaining that she had made a “detailed admission” to police that she had hid Tyda’s remains and showed officers where to find them.
Tyda’s body was found Sept. 12, 2011, in a shallow grave near a forest preserve off Interstate 55 around Des Plaines, according to court documents.
McEldowney said he advised his client to plead guilty to that charge before the trial began because he hoped that Nowlin “taking responsibility for what she did” in regards to the concealment would increase the credibility of her self-defense claim as part of their trial strategy.
He said he did not promise a specific sentencing outcoming, though he had hoped for two years on the concealment and acquittal or a lesser conviction of second-degree murder because he argued that she was justified in the killing.
“Although she had a right to file a motion to withdraw the guilty plea, it wouldn’t have changed the strength of the state’s case. The evidence was still overwhelming,” McEldowney said, adding that he believed she would have been convicted on the concealment charge had it gone to trial.
After McEldowney told the presiding judge that they would seek reconsideration of the sentence, Nowlin filed a post-conviction petition without an attorney, “wherein she alleged her right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when she was not reasonably informed with respect to direct consequences of pleading guilty to concealment of a homicidal death,” according to the petition.
Freitag denied the motion to reconsider the sentence. Nowlin appealed that ruling, “claiming her guilty plea to concealment of a homicidal death should be vacated," said Brown, her current attorney.
In 2017, an appellate court dismissed the appeal, saying it did not have jurisdiction in the matter because McEldowney did not file a motion to vacate the guilty plea.
Noting this, Brown argued Nowlin had ineffective assistance of counsel: “The only motion that would have adequately addressed her identified defects, which were in the record in the form of a rather lengthy post-conviction petition … would have been the motion to vacate the guilty plea.”
If the correct motion had been filed, Brown said, “there’s a reasonable probability that it might have been granted and she might have had another crack at this.”
Brown said Nowlin voiced her concerns regarding the outcome of the case in her post-conviction petition, but that wasn’t considered by McEldowney when he sought instead to have her sentence on the concealment charge reconsidered.
“She should have had her day in court if she wanted her day in court,” Brown said.
Assistant State’s Attorney Mary Koll asked Judge Scott Kording to deny Nowlin's petition. To prove ineffective assistance of counsel, she said, the petitioner must meet a two-pronged burden known as the Strickland test. Under those standards, Nowlin would need to prove that her trial attorney's performance was objectively deficient, and if so, the performance affected her case — essentially showing that the outcome would have been different with a different attorney.
Koll said McEldowney’s performance was reasonable and sound trial strategy, considering Nowlin “confessed to killing a frail and small elderly woman, although she raised various claims that she was acting in self defense. … Then she described in detail that she concealed that body in a way that was extremely degrading to this deceased victim.”
She noted that Nowlin did not object to McEldowney’s advice and it was ultimately Nowlin’s choice, after the judge had reviewed the options with her at length, to pursue a motion to reconsider the sentence.
“This was a lose-lose situation. Ms. Nowlin was not going to get a better outcome; there was almost zero chance of that if she had proceeded with a motion to withdraw,” Koll said, adding that she believed Nowlin “certainly” would have been convicted again had the concealment charge gone to trial.
Kording questioned the advantage of asking for a reconsidered sentence rather than a vacated plea, which could result in two chances at a lesser sentence, because of the appeals process.
“On the deficiency prong, what’s the upside for the defendant to only pursue the sentence reconsideration motion?” he asked.
After some back and forth, Koll said that in terms of practicality, a downside of a motion to withdraw would be wasting all parties’ time because the end result of conviction and sentencing would have been the same.
She also noted that the motion to withdraw was not what Nowlin was asking for, so if McEldowney had pursued it initially, he would have been going against his client’s wishes.
Even if Nowlin proved that her attorney's performance was deficient, Koll argued, she “does not and cannot demonstrate prejudice.”
Given the strength of the evidence on the concealment charge, “there was simply no defense to that count,” she said. If Nowlin had vacated the guilty plea and proceeded to trial, “... I cannot imagine a scenario where the defendant now not taking responsibility of that conduct would leave (Freitag) to give her a lesser sentence.”
Kording said he would review the evidence presented Friday, which included multiple transcriptions from previous court proceedings. He plans to issue an oral motion on this issue on Aug. 11.
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AUSTIN, Texas — A pedestrian is in a critical condition after being hit by a train in South Austin on Saturday morning.
Austin-Travis County EMS said the incident happened near the intersection of South Lamar Boulevard and Treadwell Street around 10 a.m.
An adult was taken to Dell Seton Medical Center with critical, life-threatening injuries, ATCEMS said.
Several railroad crossings were blocked south of the location following crash. Motorists are asked to expect traffic delays in the area due to the train blocking crossings.
No other information is available at this time. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/pedestrian-train-crash-lamar-treadwell/269-202410ba-7cf2-4ff9-85be-2e7cfe46fa70 | 2023-05-27T18:31:47 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/pedestrian-train-crash-lamar-treadwell/269-202410ba-7cf2-4ff9-85be-2e7cfe46fa70 |
A Cool Holiday Weekend!
Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start to summer but temps will be staying on the cool side through next week. The holiday weekend will be dry with clouds around the coast and plenty of sunshine inland. Keep a jacket handy near the coast! Patchy dense fog possible in the morning hours all weekend as well.
An unsettled weather pattern will reinforce the cooler air over the region with only a brief warm up on Saturday. All in all, expect cooler than normal temperatures both on the coast and inland for the next 7 days with widespread coastal clouds and brief afternoon sunshine. No rain expected outside of any coastal drizzle.
AIR QUALITY: Good
Saturday: Early morning fog with low clouds becoming widespread. Areas of drizzle possible. Temperatures will be in the low to mid 60s near the coast, mid-60s to low 80s inland with coastal clouds and sun and mostly sunny in the interior locations.
Saturday Night: Cloudy with patchy dense fog around the coast and inland valleys with lows in the upper 40's to low 50's along the coast and inland. Low visibility is possible in some spots.
Sunday: Few more clouds around and slightly cooler especially inland. Highs in upper 50s to low 60s coastal and 60's to 70's inland. Breezy onshore winds.
Extended: Our daily cloud cycle will continue out of the holiday weekend with cooler-than-normal temperatures.
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This week's normal temperatures:
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HIGH: 66ºF
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LOW: 48ºF
HIGH: 77ºF
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-The outlook from the Climate Prediction Center for June 2nd – 8th calls for the likelihood of BELOW normal temperatures and near normal precipitation.
- El Niño/La Niña STATUS: El Niño Watch
- Forecast: Neutral through the end of spring with El Niño developing this summer.
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Originally published May 26 on IdahoCapitalSun.com.
A consultant from the Washington, D.C., area is no longer the director of Idaho’s central health records repository, the Idaho Health Data Exchange.
Hans Kastensmith — managing partner of Capitol Health Associates, a consulting group based in Washington, D.C. — became executive director of the Idaho Health Data Exchange in October 2019. Jesse Meldru, who had been serving as director of finance, has replaced Kastensmith in that position, according to court records filed this month.
The exchange filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last August, as the Idaho Capital Sun first reported. The organization said at the time that it owed $4 million to creditors.
The bankruptcy has prompted questions from legislators and others about how the exchange will move forward, after receiving more than a decade of government support and millions of patient records.
It is now the subject of an Office of Performance Evaluations inquiry that the Idaho Legislature ordered in its 2023 session.
In response to questions from the Sun, Meldru said that Kastensmith’s last day with the organization was April 30.
“Hans came to (the Idaho Health Data Exchange) during a period of rapid innovation in the underlying technology of the exchange, which is his specific area of expertise and the primary focus of his consulting business,” Meldru wrote in an email to the Sun. “Now that IHDE is transitioning toward a stronger focus on the exchange’s day-to-day operations, Hans decided to move on to other projects through his consulting practice that align with his passions and expertise.”
Meldru said he plans to continue in his role as the exchange’s chief finance officer in addition to executive director.
ROAD TO FINANCIAL CRISIS
The exchange is a private nonprofit that launched its medical records portal in 2009, using millions of dollars in seed money from federal grants and ongoing federal funds for operations and improvements.
The federal income stream did not last forever, though. The exchange had to shift toward relying on user fees — memberships from health care providers large and small, who would pay to use its infrastructure to share their patients’ medical records in a streamlined portal.
The HITECH Act, a 2009 law, expired in 2021, which took away a major source of revenue for the exchange.
Kastensmith told the Sun last August that the exchange’s management was working to identify a new source of income to keep the repository alive.
“We have been working to increase revenue while reducing costs,” he said.
The exchange had three employees and 10 to 12 outside contractors, he said at the time.
“We had done a lot of work to right-size the company and keep it moving so it can deliver the service that’s expected of it,” Kastensmith told the Sun.
WHAT IS THE IDAHO HEALTH DATA EXCHANGE?
The exchange is not a state-run agency, though it has roots in state and federal government. The Idaho Legislature passed a bill in 2006 to codify Idaho’s intent to improve health care through use of technology.
Medical records at the time could be painstaking or impossible to transfer quickly if a patient needed to see a specialist, change doctors or get emergency care in another part of the state.
The goal of the Idaho Health Data Exchange — like similar health records repositories in other states and regions — is to make all patients’ health records accessible to all Idaho health care providers, all the time.
The exchange’s medical director told the publication Healthcare Innovation in 2021 that the exchange was taking in about 100,000 medical records per day.
According to Healthcare Innovation, the health data exchange held medical records of more than 3 million people as of September 2021. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/leadership-changes-at-idaho-medical-records-organization-as-bankruptcy-continues/article_eae83534-fc18-11ed-a99d-7797d3e419c3.html | 2023-05-27T18:37:36 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/leadership-changes-at-idaho-medical-records-organization-as-bankruptcy-continues/article_eae83534-fc18-11ed-a99d-7797d3e419c3.html |
Originally published May 26 on IdahoEdNews.org.
Lynn Manning John remembers learning Idaho history in a Boise fourth-grade classroom. There were lessons about Sacajawea and Chief Joseph. But there were no lessons about modern Native American people, like herself.
Her classmates were fascinated by her.
Kids would come up to her at recess and ask if she was “a real Indian” and if she really came from a reservation. When she said yes, one kid would gloat: “I told you so!” And they’d run off.
“I was a novelty,” said Manning John, a Shoshone-Paiute tribal member. “I was a dare: go up and talk to the Indian girl.”
The alienation she felt there stung even more, because the Boise, Bruneau, and Mountain Home areas are her tribes’ homelands.
She sympathizes for her family members who still live in the area.
“I can only imagine what their experience has been being invisible in Boise, which is our ancestral homelands,” she said. “Unless they stand up and assert themselves as a Native person, they’re probably just missed.”
Native American people frequently talk about that feeling of invisibility, especially in classrooms. And it’s a nationwide phenomenon.
Shelly Lowe, Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities and a Navajo tribal member, travels the country and sees it often.
“I run into people all the time who tell me they didn’t know Native Americans still existed in this country,” she said. “And it’s because we don’t teach a history that accurately tells individuals who Native people are and how we are still here, how we are a contemporary people.”
And when the history is told, it’s not from a Native perspective. To combat that erasure, there’s a need for more Native American curriculum, teachers, and education leaders.
But in Idaho, there are only four Native American administrators out of 1,280 (or 0.3%). Comparatively, there are 3,146 Native American students out of 312,000 statewide (or 1%).
Efforts to diversify the administrator pool seem to be in a holding pattern.
Increasing the number of Native American administrators was once a statewide goal, but was one of many initiatives dropped from the Indian Education Strategic Plan in 2021. Leaders of a University of Idaho program that focuses on getting more Native American teachers in the classroom aspire to add an education leadership component someday. But that is a long-term goal, as it will depend on securing funding from grants.
For now, the state’s few Native American administrators are a rarity.
The same is true in Nevada, where Manning John is now the vice principal of the Owyhee Combined School, a public school on the Duck Valley Reservation that serves Idaho tribes and students. She’s one of two known Native American principals in the state.
Part of the reason for the scarcity of leaders, she suspects, is education’s complicated history with tribes.
ON DUCK VALLEY RESERVATION, MANNING JOHN COUNTERS EDUCATION'S TOXIC PAST WITH NEW HOPE FOR NEXT TRIBAL LEADERS
The Duck Valley Reservation is a land of binaries.
It is home to both the Shoshone and Paiute tribes, and is located in both Nevada and Idaho, crossing the state line.
“The line doesn’t matter in our community,” Manning John said. “It’s only when you leave the reservation that Idaho begins or Nevada begins.”
The community, which is about 100 miles or more from a major city in any direction, is so remote that it’s like an island nation. In some ways, that isolation has protected the tribes’ culture and identity.
“It’s the only place in the world where being Shoshone-Paiute is normal,” Manning John said. “Duck Valley is just really unique and dynamic and amazing because of that.”
There, people combine words from the English, Shoshone, and Paiute languages — their own unique version of Spanglish. When they leave the reservation and say phrases like “Brrrrr! It’s cold!” in their native tongue, they’re surprised to see the look of confusion cross people’s faces.
Away from Duck Valley, they become minorities for the first time.
At the community’s only school, the K-12 Owyhee Combined School, the dualities continue — its hallways hold both a dark history and a brighter future.
Once a place where students were taught to “become white,” it’s become a place to celebrate culture. Tribal elders provide twice-weekly Shoshone and Paiute language classes. And on certain days, students and staff wear their beadwork or ribbon skirts.
But it wasn’t always that way.
Some of the school’s staff members are former students, and they still have pencil tips embedded into their scalps, remnants of teachers who would violently poke them for speaking their native language.
Back then, it was just a K-6 school, and students were punished for bringing in their Shoshone-Paiute culture and language.
“They were not allowed to come through the doors as a full person,” Manning John said. “They were expected to shed their nativeness in order to become a student.”
Progress since that time has been steady, but it’s also been slow. It was only two months ago, for example, that Manning John got the district to rescind its English-only policies that were still in place.
And Manning John has had to combat a sense of distrust that some Native Americans hold toward public education — a feeling she understands.
A COMPLICATED HISTORY AND A DEDICATION TO CHANGE
As a child, Manning John loved school — and she was good at it. Her peers teased her for being a standout student and called her “white.”
Historically, excelling in school was the same as becoming assimilated — becoming culturally white in the process, Manning John explains.
“It was moving away from your tribal culture, language, and traditions, and it was looked down upon in tribal communities,” she said.
She is speaking to the history of boarding schools that aimed to assimilate, weaken, and oppress Native Americans. But even day schools and public schools, like the past version of Owyhee Combined, inflicted trauma on tribal kids.
That history has soured some Native Americans on public education, which they have come to see as antithetical to their culture and identity.
“Kids can sometimes be reluctant to want to do well for fear of being ostracized within the community,” she said.
Manning John’s own love of learning came in spite of the scars her family carries from boarding schools.
Her maternal great grandmother, Marjorie Sam Kelly, was forced to attend Carson City’s Stewart Indian School, likely sometime in the 1920s.
At the time, hygiene standards were poor, and infectious diseases spread rapidly. While at the school, Kelly went blind. The reasons why are unclear: was it from the shared towels? Was it the iodine put into her eyes to rid her of infection? Nobody knows.
But the fact is, Kelly lost her sight. It meant she couldn’t participate in the afternoon’s manual labor — domestic work, ironing, cleaning, and cooking.
So, she was sent home where she could speak her native Paiute language fluently, with her connections to culture and tradition still strong, and she was able to pass that knowledge down to her daughter — Manning John’s mother.
In that way, a lifelong disability was better than more time spent in the boarding school.
But, as is common, Manning John also knows those who had positive experiences at boarding schools.
Her paternal grandfather was a student at Sherman Boarding School in Riverside, Calif., where he learned to become a mason and a mechanic. When he returned to Duck Valley, he was able to open a service station and become a business owner.
And her mother, who taught at Owyhee Combined School until retirement, also instilled in her a love for education.
It inspired Manning John to start her own journey to becoming an educator, which took her away from Duck Valley as she earned her degree and gained classroom experience. And then she decided to take it a step further, becoming first a program administrator, then a vice principal.
She never knew a Native American education leader growing up, and she wanted today’s kids to be able to see that, to have their eyes opened to another view of education — one with a place for them, their languages, their culture, and their identity.
So while Manning John said she feels burdened by the knowledge of education’s troubling history, she also feels empowered to use education as a tool for good.
She came back to the reservation in 2014, and she said she’s never leaving.
“Although we might venture out, coming home is in our blood,” she said. “This is my home. This is my community. These are my people. The students … are the future of my tribe.”
And leaders like her, who are well-versed in the traumatic history of Native American education in the United States and who are part of their tribal communities, are making a difference.
“The lens through which I view education is (being) very much aware of the history of Indian education, but also very much in a position where I can influence change,” she said.
ON NEZ PERCE RESERVATION, PRINCIPAL D'LISA PENNEY SAYS ACKNOWLEDGING HISTORY, BUILDING TRIBE'S FUTURE IS 'DUAL DANCE'
Walking through the halls of Lapwai Middle/High School, Principal D’Lisa Penney greets students by name and asks how their game went or how their family is doing.
One child runs up and gives her a hug.
There’s a sense of community in the school, where hallways are lined with Nez Perce murals, words, and phrases.
But it’s taken work to foster that welcoming environment.
“We have a huge group of people who are impacted with that transgenerational historical trauma,” said Penney, who is a Nez Perce tribal member but did not attend school in Lapwai. “Even with me looking how I look, I struggle sometimes with that relation of trust because of that history.”
And “that history” means, in part, boarding schools — and the family separation, language loss, and assimilation that came with them.
Mistreatment that started in classrooms still impacts students and families, so rebuilding trust with them is essential.
“How we approach learning, and how we communicate with our families, and how we respond to a lot of things that wouldn’t be an issue in other schools is critical,” Penney said. “As is that mindset and that background and that lived experience of having people of color and people of the culture in the building.”
And Penney takes her role seriously; Lapwai schools educate the majority of the Nez Perce tribe’s future generation: “We are the helm. We are the heart.”
It’s a careful balancing act between grappling with the past and looking toward the future.
“It’s a dual kind of dance; we can’t ever let go of the historical facts that impact education,” Penney said. “Yet, there is an immense amount of responsibility and trust that are given to us, which is beautiful.”
Like Manning John, Penney followed her parents’ footsteps into education; her mother and father were both teachers. In that way, she feels lucky.
“I don’t know what it’s like to not have Native educators in my life,” she said.
And now, she’s ensuring that the students at her school won’t know that feeling either.
ON FORT HALL RESERVATION, MATT WILSON WENT FROM HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT TO HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL
Matt Wilson’s Kiowa name is “Taw-Heen,” meaning Herd Bull or “one that takes care of others.”
The name fits.
Over the years, he has built relationships with Native American students in a number of ways: by starting and running the Fort Hall Legends Wrestling Club; by working as Shoshone-Bannock Jr./Sr. High School’s guidance counselor and dean of students; and by emceeing community events and basketball/football games “across Indian country.”
Now, as an administrator at Shoshone-Bannock High, his students remind him every day that he’s not a “typical” principal.
Wilson’s son, Keen Wilson, attends the high school and said his dad has a unique approach: “Anytime that anyone gets in trouble, he relates to them on that level — he understands what they’re going through,” Keen said.
It’s because Wilson’s been in their place.
“During my years in high school, I spent more time trying to get out of school than I did in the actual classrooms,” he wrote in an email to EdNews. “I absolutely dreaded going to high school and eventually dropped out.”
He didn’t feel wanted or needed in that school. And that was on top of childhood adversity he faced, like homelessness and abuse.
But one school changed his mind about education: Haskell Indian Nations University.
It’s a small college with a predominantly Native American faculty and staff that serves about 1,000 students, all of whom are tribal members. There, for the first time, Wilson felt like he belonged and had potential. It inspired him to create that kind of school for others.
“This is the reason I got into the education field, to help young Native youth understand that they are cared for and belong,” he said.
Recently, Wilson and his son emceed a powwow held at a Pocatello elementary school. They introduced speakers and let out whoops of appreciation after each dance, stoking the crowd’s enthusiasm.
“We’re just spreading awareness that Native folks are still here,” Wilson said of the powwow. “We’re still thriving. We’re still doing all of our traditional doings and holding on the best we can.” | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/native-american-principals-a-rarity-create-schools-where-tribal-students-are-seen-and-celebrated/article_ba2c7546-fbfe-11ed-b9ad-f3379a5c5c35.html | 2023-05-27T18:37:42 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/native-american-principals-a-rarity-create-schools-where-tribal-students-are-seen-and-celebrated/article_ba2c7546-fbfe-11ed-b9ad-f3379a5c5c35.html |
Family mourns 'sweet and loving' Phoenix man after stabbing death
Woman recalls slain brother as someone who would happily walk away from fights.
Facebook messages Jessica Morgan would send her brother often went unanswered. Errol Morgan Jr., 30, would tell Jessica, 29, he wanted to achieve complete self-reliance before immersing himself in correspondence with family back home in Las Vegas.
Errol Morgan took odds jobs to maintain that independence, moving from Nevada to Oklahoma in 2018 before settling in Phoenix about three years ago. Then on the morning of May 3, Morgan was fatally stabbed near 48th and Washington streets in Phoenix.
Police have said the person who stabbed Morgan argued self-defense and the case remains ongoing.
Police informed Morgan’s 54-year-old mother of his slaying soon after. The family was shaken to learn of Morgan’s violent death as they knew him as someone who would happily walk away from fights.
“Hearing that he was stabbed … it was hurtful,” Jessica told The Republic.
Despite the lack of regular communication, Morgan’s family knows he loved them.
“He was very sweet and loving to his nieces and nephews,” Jessica said, adding that he was an affectionate son who only left Vegas because he wanted to unburden his mother who was caring for his epileptic father.
Their dad’s death from a seizure last year led Errol to depression, further distancing his communication with family, his sister said.
Family learns details on Errol's stabbing death
According to Jessica Morgan, police told the family Errol’s heart was pierced by a steak knife wielded by a man her brother approached at a van parked under a bridge. Errol suspected this man had stolen his personal belongings, his sister said police told her.
Jessica said an eyewitness to the altercation that left her brother dead has said the killing was not in self-defense. This person, however, is fearful for their safety and has declined to come forward to police with this information, Jessica said.
“This investigation is ongoing, and detectives are working with Maricopa County Attorney's Office in this case,” said Phoenix Police spokesperson Sgt. Brian Bower in a Friday afternoon email responding to questions from The Republic.
The man was released by police, and Jessica said they have refused to tell the family whether they are monitoring his whereabouts.
Though no arrest has been made, Jessica said the family learned the name of the man who killed Errol.
Since no charges have been filed, The Republic is not releasing his name.
'I told him I love him': Sister cherishes last interaction with Errol
As the family awaits updates in the investigation of Errol’s death, his sister is left contemplating a life cut short.
“He was very ambitious. If he set his goal to do something, he would get it done,” Jessica said of Errol.
The sibling's birthdays were exactly a year apart, falling on the same day and month. The sister is left embracing one final memory she has of her older brother.
On Valentine’s Day through Facebook Messenger, Jessica sent Errol what would be her last message to him.
“I told him I love him and if he was my Valentine, I told him I would be really happy. Then he looked at it but he didn't reply,” she said.
Still, Errol reacted to his sister’s message with a heart emoji.
“It kind of made me feel like he accepted my Valentine,” Jessica Morgan said.
Reach breaking news reporter Jose R. Gonzalez at jose.gonzalez@gannett.com or on Twitter @jrgzztx.
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Man extradited to Maricopa County from Mexico on multiple charges of sex crimes against children
A man wanted on multiple charges of sex crimes against children in Peoria was extradited Friday evening from Mexico.
Gilberto Buitimea Bacasegua, 52, was charged with two counts of sexual conduct with a minor, two counts of sexual abuse and one count of kidnapping in March 2016, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
In securing Bacasegua's capture and extradition, the Peoria Police Department and the Maricopa County Attorney's Office received help from the U.S. Marshals Service, which worked with Mexican law enforcement, the federal agency said. The extradition unfolded without incident, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
In a statement, Acting U.S. Marshal Van Bayless praised the "outstanding investigatory and collaborative efforts" of the police department, the county attorney's office and the federal agency for locating Bacasegua and returning him to Arizona.
"Cases like this show just how vital it is for agencies to diligently work together to ensure the safety and security of the community," Bayless said in his statement.
The U.S. Marshals Service did not disclose where in Mexico it was Bacasegua resided or for how long he had been in the country. An agency spokesperson could not be immediately reached for comment. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/peoria/2023/05/27/man-extradited-to-maricopa-county-on-sex-crimes-against-children-charges/70263764007/ | 2023-05-27T18:38:54 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/peoria/2023/05/27/man-extradited-to-maricopa-county-on-sex-crimes-against-children-charges/70263764007/ |
'Don't speak to him': Ex-Sheriff Eric Magrini on leave from Shasta assistant CEO job
Former Shasta County Sheriff Eric Magrini has gone on leave from his job as assistant executive officer, a county official confirmed.
Magrini, who resigned his job as sheriff in June 2021 to become assistant CEO, went on leave 30 to 40 days ago, county Board of Supervisors Chairman Patrick Jones said.
Jones said he did not know why Magrini went on leave and did not know when, or if, he would return to his job with the county.
"We got a memo from our attorney saying, don't speak to him," Jones said, adding that the memo did not say why he should not speak to Magrini. "It just said refrain from having any contact with Eric Magrini."
Jones said he did not know any more about Magrini's leave of absence than what was in the memo. He said that he had not seen Magrini in at least a month, and the two did not often cross paths in the county administration building.
Magrini did not respond to a text message and voice mail message. Emails sent to County Counsel James Ross and acting County Executive Officer Mary Williams also were not acknowledged.
David Maung, a county public information officer, said that due to privacy personnel issues he could only say that Magrini still worked for the county.
Magrini was sworn in as sheriff in January 2020, after the Board of Supervisors appointed him to the post in December 2019, after Tom Bosenko retired from the job that year.
However, a year later the sheriff's office was in turmoil. The Sheriff's Administrative Association and the Deputy Sheriff's Association had both approved votes of no-confidence in Magrini.
The administrative association, composed of the captains and lieutenants in the department, requested an investigation into complaints against the sheriff.
Background on the claims, job promotion
The groups accused Magrini of poor communication and leadership that resulted in low morale throughout the department.
In March 2021, at the request of the administrative association, the county hired the law firm Ellis & Makus to look into the allegations. In April 2021, Pat Kropholler, who was then a captain in the department and president of the administrative association, filed a whistleblower report with the county.
Kropholler made numerous allegations, including that Magrini illegally used an official statewide database to obtain incriminating information about former CEO Matt Pontes, who at the time was applying for the county executive position.
Kropholler also claimed in the whistleblower letter that Magrini, while he was sheriff, lied to the public about not coordinating with a local militia that was present during a Black Lives Matter protest in Redding in June 2020.
The letter alleged Magrini went so far as to send drone images to militia members during the march, and later worked with the county's information technology department to thwart a public records request seeking his communications with the militia members.
But on June 10, 2021, Pontes hired Magrini to become the assistant CEO.
Pontes praised Magrini, saying the former sheriff had the knowledge and experience to lead efforts to build a new jail that would include mental health and drug addiction treatment for inmates. He was also hired to lead the county's efforts to eradicate illegal marijuana grows.
The new job came with a 31% pay raise for Magrini.
Lawsuits against county
Shortly before Magrini stepped down to take the job as sheriff, Kropholler said he was placed on administrative leave in retaliation for filing the whistleblower report. Kropholler eventually was allowed to return to his duties but he retired in January 2022.
In the meantime, county officials said the Ellis investigation ultimately found most of the allegations made against Magrini were "not sustained" and four were characterized as "inadvertent mistakes." County officials, however, would not release the full findings of the report.
In July 2021, the Board of Supervisors appointed former Anderson police Chief Michael Johnson as sheriff, without holding public interviews and with limited public input on the process.
In May 2022, Kropholler filed a lawsuit against the county, claiming he was retaliated against for blowing the whistle on what he called "serious" misconduct in the sheriff's office.
The Record Searchlight also sued the county in July 2022 to obtain copies of the Ellis investigation.
Prior to suing the county, the paper submitted four separate California Public Records Act requests for copies of the report. The newspaper also asked for copies of all communications among top county officials surrounding the Ellis report and Magrini and Johnson's hirings. The county denied each of the requests.
After a trial in January, a Shasta County Superior Court judge ruled April 10 the county must, within 15 days, relinquish copies of the report and communications. Instead of handing over the records, the county requested a delay in enforcing the order and asked the judge to either vacate his ruling or hold a new trial.
Judge Stephen Baker denied the county's requests and ordered the county to turn over the documents to the paper by Friday, May 26.
Dig deeper:'Pure aggression': Shasta County fires back at Record Searchlight in documents case
The Record Searchlight's attorney, Walt McNeill, said that on Friday the county's attorneys supplied Baker with copies of the documents the newspaper requested and proposed redactions to the records.
Prior to releasing the records to the paper, the judge will review the information for possible redactions to remove personal, private information. McNeill will also get a chance to either approve or object to the proposed deleted information.
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Lubbock entertainment news in brief
The Edge presents 'American Buffalo'
The Edge Theatre, 4228 Boston Ave., wraps up its production of "American Buffalo," directed by James Bush, Ph.D., at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.
Don Dubrow (played by Sean Allen Jones), the owner of a junk shop where the action takes place, decides to steal a customer’s coin collection when he feels that he has been bested in a transaction including a valuable Buffalo nickel.
He enlists the help of a young junkie named Bobby (played by Nathaniel Connor Goins) but is later convinced by a manipulative friend that Bobby is incompetent. Unable to trust either, Don invites Walter Cole “Teach” (played by Demetrius “Mechie” Scherpereel) to join them.
Bobby becomes a scapegoat as the burglary plot unravels and tensions build into suspicion, anger, and violence.
This production is for mature audiences only.
Tickets are $17 for adults and $15 for seniors and students (plus taxes and fees). For more information or to purchase tickets, visit https://edgetheatrelubbock.org/
Alamo hosting 'On the Town' brunch
New York, New York's a wonderful town.Join Alamo Drafthouse Lubbock for an "On the Town" brunch at 11 a.m. on Sunday, May 28.
Three sailors – Gabey (Gene Kelly), Chip (Frank Sinatra) and Ozzie (Jules Munshin) – are let loose in New York City on a 24-hour leave. On a subway, Gabey sees a poster of "Miss Turnstiles of the Month" – a woman named Ivy Smith, and the trio spends the day looking for her. Along the way they run into a cab driver, Hilde, who is wild for Chip, and a gorgeous anthropologist named Claire.
A special brunch menu will be available for this screening as well as the Alamo's regular full menu.
Tickets for the movie are $10 and available online in advance at drafthouse.com/lubbock
Sparta to rock Jake's
Sparta, an El Paso band featuring Jim Ward, will be heading on tour to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their critically acclaimed, debut album "Wiretap Scars".
The group is scheduled to play at 6 p.m. June 1 at Jake's Sports Cafe, 5025 50th St. For more information on tickets, visit Jake's Sports Cafe on Facebook.
Ramsey to perform live at Cactus
Legendary songwriter Willis Alan Ramsey will be live at the Cactus Theater at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 2.
The Texas singer-songwriter is in the middle of a little tour, which seems inexplicable. He released one self-titled record in 1972, and has been mostly silent since: no more albums, few performances, few new writing credits. But that one album, released on CD a few years ago, continues its slow-burning life, with its motley instrumentation, its folkish, post-honky-tonk Southern mood and its enclosed cosmos of small-time characters.
Tickets for this show are $27.50 for the first four rows, A-D; $25 for remaining floor rows (E-M) and standard balcony; and $50 for balcony box seats, which include concessions.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit cactustheater.com
Dance Warehouse Studios presents showcase
Dance Warehouse Studios presents its 14th annual performance showcase, An iHeart Entertainment Production at 5:30 and 8 p.m. Friday, June 2; and at 2 and y p.m. Saturday, June 3, at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center.
Enjoy two separate shows, iHeart Radio, a showcase of their younger classes and iHeart TV, a showcase of their older classes.
As the Winner of Best of the West and Best of Lubbock numerous times, along with dozens of choreography awards over the years, Dance Warehouse Studios exemplifies some of the most unique and original dance instruction in Lubbock.
General admission tickets for this show are $15. To buy tickets call the Select-a-Seat Box Office at (806) 770-2000, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets are also available online at selectaseatlubbock.com
Military tribute at Cactus benefits Honor Flight
Sounds of West Texas presents a Tribute to Our Military at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 3, at the Cactus Theater. The concert will benefit the South Plains Honor Flight.
Some of Lubbock's finest musicians will be doing a great mix of music and some fantastic patriotic songs to honor our military in the way in which they truly deserve. Along with your purchase of a show ticket, a donation bucket and a silent auction.
Featured performers will be: emcee Billy Don Hampton, Larry Allen, Steve Burrus, Jimmy Henderson, Brenda Hopkins, Mike Huffman, Donnetta Lippe, Katherine McLamore Lowrance, Donnie Martin, The McCreights, Kallie Rogers, Rustic Road, Betty Smith, Baxter Vaughan, Mark Wallney, Steve Williams and Erin Wolffe.
The doors will open at 6:15 p.m., and some door prizes will be given away at 6:50 p.m. Tickets are $20 for all floor and standard balcony seats; while the limited eight box seats in the balcony are $40, which includes concessions.
Tickets are available online at www.cactustheater.com, or by calling the box office at (806) 762-3233 or going by during new business hours, Tuesday-Friday from 3-5:30 p.m. Or, you can purchase tickets at the door on the evening of the show.
Dance Gallery School presents 'Portrait'
The Dance Gallery School of Dance Arts will host its 42nd Anniversary with a Major Production, “Portrait", at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 3, and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 4, in the Helen Devitt Jones Theater of Buddy Holly Hall.
“Portrait” is a celebration of the arts and the artists who create them. The dancers will explore a gallery of fine arts from Degas’ ballerinas to Van Gogh’s Starry Night, portray fashion icons like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe, and honor spiritual leaders like Mother Theresa.
Audiences will be enchanted by the art of Cinderella and the magic of fairytales and captivated by the art of literary greats such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Bram Stoker. Enjoy the music of the Beatles, Elvis, David Bowie and more as the dancers pay tribute to some of music’s greatest artists.
Dancers consist of preschool through high school aged students performing pieces in the styles of tap, ballet, jazz, contemporary, pointe and hip hop.
Reserved seat tickets for this production range from $16 to $33 (plus taxes and fees), depending on seating. For more information or to purchase tickets, visithttps://www.buddyhollyhall.com/
Alamo hosts special 'Cheerleader' brunch
Celebrate Pride month with a special menu brunch screening of "But I'm a Cheerleader" at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 3, at Alamo Drafthouse.
Megan (Natasha Lyonne) considers herself a typical American girl. She excels in school and cheerleading and she has a handsome football-playing boyfriend, even though she isn't that crazy about him. So she's stunned when her parents decide she's gay and send her to True Directions, a boot camp meant to alter her sexual orientation.
A special brunch menu will be available for this screening as well as Alamo's regular full menu.
Tickets are $10 each and available online in advance at drafthouse.com/lubbock
Tinseltown to show 'Raiders' on big screen
Cinemark Tinseltown Lubbock and XD, 2535 82nd St., is hosting a special big screen showing of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" at 4 and 7 p.m. June 4 and 7 p.m. June 7.
Indy (Harrison Ford) and his feisty ex-flame Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen) dodge booby-traps, fight Nazis and stare down snakes in their incredible worldwide quest for the mystical Ark of the Covenant.
Tickets for this special event are $12.45 and available in advance online at www.fathomevents.com.
Cinemark presents 'The God Man'
Cinemark Movies 16 and XD 5721 58th St., will host a special screening of "The God Man" at 7 p.m. on June 6.
In "The God Man", filmmaker Darren Wilson turns his focus on the most famous person in history, Jesus Christ. Led by a series of dreams, chance encounters, and impossible timing, Wilson follows a spiritual rabbit trail that eventually leads to a remarkable conclusion about the nature and character of Jesus.
From the wilds of Alaska, to the slums of Rio, to the tropical beauty of the Caribbean, this sweeping film chases a Jesus who is not bound by rituals and religious dogma, but who is real, alive, and active in the world today. He is not church. He is not religion. He is not hypocrisy. He is Jesus, and he is far better than you can ever imagine.
"The God Man" is the final chapter in Wilson’s 15-year, six-film saga that includes "Finger of God", "Furious Love", "Father of Lights", "Holy Ghost", and "Holy Ghost Reborn".
Tickets for this special screening are $12.45 and available online in advance at https://www.fathomevents.com/
Alamo screening 'Purple Rain'
Alamo Drafthouse Lubbock is hosting a special screening of 1980s Prince film "Purple Rain" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 6.
"Purple Rain" is the semi-autobiographical tale of The Kid, a Minneapolis musician navigating the club scene while dealing with a romantic rival and a difficult family life.
A massive hit upon release, it's a showcase for the Purple One’s otherworldly musical, visual, and sartorial stylings, and introduced the world to the glory of "When Doves Cry," "Let's Go Crazy," and of course, "Purple Rain."
As the man himself once sang, “U better live now.” Words 2 live by.
Tickets for this special screening are $7 and available in advance online at drafthouse.com/lubbock
Moonlight Musicals hosting season kickoff event
Moonlight Musicals is hosting a 2023 season opener celebration dubbed "Hello Moonlight" on Wednesday, June 7, at the Moonlight Musicals Amphitheater, 413 E. Broadway. There will be a 6 p.m. dinner al fresco followed by an 8 p.m. private performance.
There are different ticket levels including:
Irene Molloy: $50 per person. Includes a special preview of "Hello Dolly!" Bring your own picnic dinner and chairs of your choice.
Dolly Levi: $150 per person. Includes individual seating for the el fresco dinner. Bring a seating of your choice for the performance.
Horance Vandergelder: $2,000 per table. Includes four tickets for the 2023 season. As a table of 8, enjoy all the benefits including two bottles of complimentary wine and a private after-part on stage. It also features preferred seating for dinner and chairs for the performance will be provided.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit https://moonlightmusicals.com/shows/
Alamo Film Club screens 'Pink Flamingos'
Still filthy, 50 years later, Alamo Drafthouse Film Club presents "Pink Flamingos" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 7.
John Waters' "Pink Flamingos" follows megalomaniacal matriarch Babs Johnson (Divine) and her twisted family of miscreants as they vie for the title of "the filthiest people alive" with the Marbles (David Lochary and Mink Stole).
It's a colorful, raunchy, tasteless tour of tacky interiors, gaudy fashion, and the private lives of people so outrageously bad that you can't help but love them.
Alamo Drafthouse Film Club is a reflection a continuing commitment to sharing the independent, classic and international films we love with audiences everywhere.
Tickets for this special screening are $10 and available for purchase in advance online at drafthouse.com/lubbock
Moonlight Musicals opens season with 'Hello Dolly'
Moonlight Musicals Lubbock kicks off its summer 2023 season with "Hello Dolly" at 8 p.m. on June 8-10, 15-17, and 22-24, at the Moonlight Musicals Amphitheater, 413 E Broadway.
Say “Hello!” to a great summer with "Hello Dolly." This musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s hit play "The Matchmaker" bursts with humor, romance, energetic dance and some of the greatest songs in musical theatre history.
The romantic and comic exploits of Dolly Gallagher-Levi, turn-of-the-century matchmaker and “woman who arranges things,” are certain to thrill and entertain audiences again and again.
Tickets for the show are $25, which include Select-A-Seat fees. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit https://moonlightmusicals.com/shows/
Carole King tribute coming to Cactus
Tapestry: The Carole King Songbook featuring Suzanne O Davis is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 8, at the Cactus Theater.
This show recreates the sound and vibe of a 1970s Carole King concert experience following her legendary album, "Tapestry".
Fans will be transported back to the iconic image of her multiple-Grammy-winning album of 1971.
The concert performance will also bring to life many hits from the Broadway musical smash, "Beautiful".
Tickets for this show are $35 for first six floor rows; $32.50 for remaining floor rows; $30 for standard balcony; and $65 for balcony box seats, which include concessions.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit cactustheater.com
Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition coming to Amarillo
The internationally acclaimed Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition is coming to Amarillo on June 9 and runs through July 23. It will be the inaugural exhibit at the newly renovated Sunset Center in Amarillo, now called Arts in the Sunset.
This globally successful exhibit has been all around the world from Shanghai to Chicago, Phoenix, Berlin, Vienna and more. Tickets are on sale today and can be purchased online at artsinthesunset.org.
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition is a collection of the artist’s renowned ceiling frescoes from the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, reproduced in a format allowing viewers to be faceto-face with the masterpieces. Through artfully displayed reproductions, this innovative presentation brings the audience just a few feet away from world-renowned pieces like The Creation of Adam and The Last Judgment.
Arts in the Sunset is located at 3701 Plains Blvd. The exhibit will be open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. until 7:30 p.m., with the last entry at 6 p.m. On Sundays, the exhibit will be open from 1-5:30 p.m., with the last entry at 4 p.m. The exhibit is wheelchair accessible. Viewing time is estimated between 60 and 90 minutes. Tickets rangefrom $19 to $26.50, based on age and time of day.
Proceeds from the exhibit will benefit the Downtown Women’s Center (DWC), Catholic Charities of the Texas Panhandle (CCTXP), the Amarillo Art Institute and the Amarillo Cultural District of the Texas Commission on the Arts.
Madagascar Live coming to Holly Hall
Get ready to move it, move it! Join Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria as they escape New York Central Park Zoo and onto the stage in a live musical spectacular. Madagascar the Musical Live is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday, June 9, in the Helen Devitt Jones Theater of Buddy Holly Hall.
Based on the Dreamworks® movie, Madagascar The Musical Live! will have audiences of all-ages cheering and dancing as the crack-a-lackin’ friends find themselves on an unexpected journey to the madcap world of King Julien’s Madagascar.
Featuring new songs written for the stage, a bevy of dancing menageries and even some puppets, Madagascar The Musical Live! is an out-of-this zoo fun experience of friendship and more.
Tickets for this production range from $34 to $100 (plus taxes and fees) depending on seating. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit https://www.buddyhollyhall.com/
Bollywood star coming to Holly Hall
Mika Singh, a famous Indian singer, composer, music director, and movie artist of Bollywood fame, is coming to West Texas for the first time at 7 p.m. Sunday, June 11, at Buddy Holly Hall.
Singh is one of the most popular singers in India, with many hit songs and compositions.
He has enthralled audiences worldwide with full-house live performances. Accompanied by his orchestra team and chorus singers, audiences will enjoy an electrifying, colorful, multi-cultural show, with popular songs and dance tunes. Talented Lubbock dance artists will perform along with Singh, singing and dancing with his band.
Reserved seat tickets range from $59 to $249 (plus taxes and fees) depending on seating and VIP features.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit https://www.buddyhollyhall.com/
'Hairspray' marks 35th anniversary
Cinemark Movies 16 and XD, 5721 58th St., presents Fathom's Big Screen Classics showing of "Hairspray" for its 35th anniversary. The movie will be shown at 4 and 7 p.m. June 11 and at 7 p.m. June 14.
"Hairspray": It's Baltimore, 1962, and a rebellious teenager with the biggest bouffant on the block attempts to win the coveted "Miss Auto Show" crown as she fights against racial discrimination in this film created and directed by John Waters and featuring Divine in his/her last role.
Tickets for this special anniversary screening are $12.45 and available online in advance at www.fathomevents.com
Cactus features 80s rock tribute
Caldwell Entertainment presents A tribute to Motley Crue, AC/DC, and Metallica at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 9, at the Cactus Theater.
These heavy metal legends rocked the nations with their chart-topping hits “Kickstart My Heart,” “Thunderstruck” and “Master of Puppets!’ Come take a ride through space and time with this incredible salute to these metal legends.
The Caldwell Collective band and singers will blow you away with their tribute to these iconic bands.
Tickets are $25 for all floor and standard balcony seating; and $50 for balcony box seats, which includes concessions.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit cactustheater.com
Seger touring tribute comes to Cactus
Cactus Theater brings to the stage Seger System, the ultimate Bob Seger touring tribute at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 10.
Highly experienced musicians with over 75 years of combined touring and studio careers formed the Seger System tribute band to honor the music of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Bob Seger and his Silver Bullet Band.
Seger System has re-created the sound, look, and feel of the legendary rocker who gave us songs like “Old Time Rock And Roll”, “Night Moves”, “Against The Wind”, “Turn The Page”, “Mainstreet”, “Fire Down Below”, and many other chart-topping hits.
Tickets for this show are $27.50 for the first six rows, A-F; $25 for rows G-M; $22.50 for standard balcony seats; and $50 for balcony box seats, which includes concessions.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit cactustheater.com
Alamo hosts 'Dirty Dancing' movie party
Champagne Cinema presents a "Dirty Dancing" movie party at 6 p.m. Sunday, June 11, at Alamo Drafthouse Lubbock.
When "Dirty Dancing" came out in 1987, it changed lives. Baby and Johnny showed the world the power of dance, the power of love, and most importantly, the power of a shirtless and swingin' Patrick Swayze.
This film set the standard not only for dance movies but for romance in general – and more than 30 years later, we still dream of nailing that lift. And here at Alamo Drafthouse, there's no better place to celebrate Baby and Johnny, where you're encouraged to quote, sing, and dance along at this Movie Party screening. You'll also receive themed props, like your own "Staff Quarters" keychain, watermelon beach balls, and pink glow necklaces.
Tickets for this special movie party are $15.15 and available in advance online at drafthouse.com/lubbock/
Valli rescheduled for June 16
The original Jersey boy himself, Frankie Valli is coming to Buddy Holly Hall at 7 p.m. Friday, June, 16, for a rescheduled date from January. Tickets for the January performance will be honored.
Valli's career with the Four Seasons, as well as his solo success, have spawned countless hit singles. With unforgettable tunes like “Sherry,” “Walk Like A Man,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Rag Doll,” “December ‘63 – Oh What A Night,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You,” and of course, “Grease.”
His songs have been omnipresent in other iconic movies such as "The Deer Hunter", "Dirty Dancing", "Mrs. Doubtfire", "Conspiracy Theory" and "The Wanderers".
Valli and the Four Seasons have sold more than 100 million records worldwide. They continue to tour throughout the U.S. and abroad to packed houses receiving nightly standing ovations from thrilled fans of multiple generations.
Reserved seat tickets for this show range from $54 to $175 (plus taxes and fees) depending on seating and VIP features.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit https://www.buddyhollyhall.com/
Comic Con hosting Father's Day Edition
Celebrate Dad at West Texas Comic Con, Father's Day Edition, set for June 16-18 at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center banquet hall.
The goal is to renew the comic con experience for fans and vendors to be fun, memorable, and exciting by uniting the elite of the pop culture -- showcasing the best in comics, toys, collectibles, artists, celebrities, cosplay and fandom.
There are multiple tickets types available for the weekend to fit your needs including adult and child single-day passes, and three-day passes (Friday, Saturday and Sunday); military three-day passes; local hero’s three-day Pass, $30 (includes police, EMS, firefighters, teachers, healthcare workers and public servants); local hero’s family weekend Pass: $75, includes two (2) adults and up to (4) four children full access to WTCC on June 16-18; and military family weekend pass: $75, includes two (2) adults and up to (4) four children full access to WTCC on June 16-18.
To buy tickets, call the Select-a-Seat Box Office: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at (806) 770-2000. Tickets are also available online at selectaseatlubbock.com
Dad Jokes Comedy rings in Father's Day weekend
Just in time for Father's Day, take dad to the Dad Jokes Comedy Show at the Cactus Theater at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 16. The comedy show features Daryl Felsberg, Aaron Aryanpur and Brandon Davidson.
Felsberg (XM Comedy, NBC’s Last Comic Standing), Aryanpur (Comedy Central, iTunes) and Davidson (XM Comedy, Keenan Thompson Presents) will keep you in stitches when they share their stories and jokes of fatherhood and life as they kick off Father’s Day Weekend.
Tickets for this show are $27.50 for rows A-C; $25 for rows D-M; $20 for standard balcony; and $50 for balcony box seats, which include concessions.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit cactustheater.com
Hot Club of Cowtown brings Western Swing to Cactus
Hot Club of Cowtown celebrates 25 years of Western Swing at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 17, at the Cactus Theater.
Award-winning Austin, Texas-based Hot Club of Cowtown may be the world’s most globe-trotting, effervescent string trio, who’s joyful sound blends the traditional Western swing of the 1940s American southwest with European hot jazz influences of the same era.
The Hot Club of Cowtown writes its own original songs and reinterprets everything from hoedowns to American songbook standards in its own, original style. The band is guitarist Whit Smith, fiddler Elana James, and upright bassist Zack Sapunor.
Reserved seat tickets are $27..50 for rows A-F; $25 for rows G-M; $25 for standard balcony; and $50 for balcony box seats, which include concessions.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit cactustheater.com
Tucker to perform at Buddy Holly Hall
West Texas native Tanya Tucker is set to perform at 8 p.m. Friday, June 23, at Buddy Holly Hall.
Born in Seminole, Tucker had her first country hit, the classic “Delta Dawn,” at the age of 13 in 1972. Since that beginning, she has become one of the most admired and influential artists in country music history, amassing 23 Top 40 albums and a stellar string of 56 Top 40 singles, ten of which reached the No. 1 spot on the Billboard country charts.
Tucker's songs include some of country music’s biggest hits such as “Soon,” “Two Sparrows in a Hurricane,” “It’s a Little Too Late,” “Trouble,” “Texas (When I Die),” “If It Don’t Come Easy” and “Strong Enough To Bend.”
Reserved seat tickets for this show range from $39 to $129 (plus taxes and fees), depending on seating, and are available online at https://www.buddyhollyhall.com/
Tucker is donating $1 per ticket to support Farm Aid and its work to cultivate a vibrant, just and resilient family farm-centered system of agriculture in America.
LTC presents 'Liberty Valance'
Dawmi Entertainment and Lubbock Theater Company present "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, June 30 and July 1, and at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 2, at Buddy Holly Hall.
"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" is a classic story of good versus evil, law versus the gun, one man versus Liberty Valance. A tale of love, hope and revenge set against the vicious backdrop of a lawless society in the American West.
Reserved seat tickets range from $25 to $40 (plus taxes & fees), depending on seating. There is a special offer of $5 off for students and seniors (60 and older), with proof of valid ID.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit https://www.buddyhollyhall.com/
Bryan brings Country on Tour 2023 to USA
Country music superstar Luke Bryan will be taking the stage on July 27 at the United Supermarkets Arena as he brings Country on Tour 2023 to the Hub City.
Special guests will be Tyler Braden, Ashley Cooke and Jackson Dean.
Bryan has been named Entertainer of the Year five times, awarded by the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association. In 2019, his 2013 album "Crash My Party" received the first Album of the Decade award from the ACM. Worldwide, he has sold more than 75 million records.
Some of Bryan's biggest hits include "Do I" "Rain is a Good Thing" "Someone Else Calling You Baby" "Country Girl (Shake it for Me)" and "Drunk On You", among many others. He has had nearly 30 No. 1 hits.
Tickets for this concert range start at $35 and up depending on seating and VIP package features.For more information or to purchase tickets, visit selectaseatlubbock.com
Ranching Heritage Center to host inaugural Ranch Verse
Join cowboy songster Andy Hedges and special guests, Boots O’Neal, Randy Rieman, Dave Stamey, Red Steagall, and Andy Wilkinson, for a day of Western storytelling, song and poetry at the inaugural Ranch Verse on Saturday, Aug. 5.
"Ranch Verse will feature a variety of programming that will include working cowboy stories, cowboy poetry, western music, and discussions of ranch culture,” host Andy Hedges shared.
Daytime events will be free to the public and take place from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the National Ranching Heritage Center (NRHC) in Lubbock. A special welcome performance of cowboy poetry, range ballads, and storytelling by Red Steagall, Andy Wilkinson, Randy Rieman, and Dave Stamey will kick off the day from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
From 1 to 2 p.m., visitors will have the opportunity to hear a live, onstage interview with Four Sixes Ranch cowboy and Ranching Heritage Association Working Cowboy Award recipient Boots O’Neal for broadcast on the Cowboy Crossroads podcast with Andy Hedges.
Randy Reiman will take the stage from 2:15 to 3:15 p.m. to present the illustrated letters of cowboy artist Charles M. Russell through slides, commentary, and the spoken word.
Daytime events will conclude with a discussion from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. featuring Red Steagall, Andy Hedges and Dave Stamey on the poetry, music, and art emerging out of Western culture.
An evening performance will follow from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at the historic Cactus Theater with cowboy songster Andy Hedges, western songwriter Dave Stamey, and the legendary Red Steagall. Tickets for the evening performance start at $25 and are on sale on the Cactus Theater website.
To learn more about Ranch Verse, visit bit.ly/ranchverse. For questions, contact (806) 742-0498.
Jelly Roll coming to USA
Jelly Roll has announced a 44-date headlining tour and will be taking the stage at the United Supermarkets Arena at 7 p.m. on Aug. 29, with his Backroad Baptism Tour 2023.
Jason Bradley DeFord, known professionally as Jelly Roll, is an American singer, rapper, and songwriter known for his collaborations with Lil Wyte, Struggle Jennings, and Tech N9ne In 2023, he won three CMT Music Awards for the song "Son of a Sinner".
Before his transition into country music with 2023's Whitsitt Chapel album, Jelly Roll launched his career in hip hop.
Tickets for this show range from $21 to $650 (plus taxes and fees), depending on seating and VIP package features.
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Perry Township remembers fallen heroes
- The 10th annual Operation Flags of Freedom Heroes Remembrance Ceremony at Perry High School featured speaker and U.S. Navy Seal Hershel B. Davis.
- Operations Flags of Freedom and the Perry Township Rotary Club host the event.
- The ceremony included a wreath-laying, rifle salute and taps.
PERRY TWP. − More than 70 people gathered Saturday morning to remember the people who gave their lives serving the country.
The 10th annual Heroes Remembrance Ceremony at Perry High School featured speaker and U.S. Navy Seal Hershel B. Davis. It was coordinated by the nonprofit Operations Flags of Freedom and the Perry Township Rotary Club.
Steve Toohey, president of Operation Flags of Freedom, said the flags posted on the school grounds represent each of the 303 Ohioians killed during military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. He also dedicated 11 light post banners, each memorializing a Perry High School graduate killed in action.
"May we all remember these men on this Memorial Day and every day," Toohey said.
Davis shared a brief history of Memorial Day and statistics that show fewer people have carried the burden of the Global War on Terror, a counterterrorism campaign launched after 9/11 that ended in 2021. Less than 1% of the country's population now are on active military duty.
"The average citizen was asked to sacrifice nothing," Davis said.
He said the decision itself to serve makes a person part of "an elite group" and military veterans don't need to wonder if they've made a difference in the world.
Davis received a standing ovation before Dave Huprich, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, shared the significance of the rememberance table set up for prisoners of war and people missing in action. A POW/MIA poem followed, read by Brian Gunn.
"You could've been anywhere else this morning but you chose to be here," Gunn said in appreciation to the audience.
Perry Township Ficsal Officer Craig Chessler later read a local "roll call of fallen heroes" with a bell toll after each name. Gold Star Families, who have a family member killed in the line of duty, were then recognized during a somber performance of "Amazing Grace" on bagpipes.
Country artist Ricky Lee also performed during the event. Township safety forces laid a wreath at the veterans memorial and a rifle salute and taps followed before the ceremony came to an end.
"It was such a beautiful, touching service," said Renee Martin, the sister of Perry Rotary President Mark Martin. She said it's a sad occasion but important to take time to honor the lives lost.
Jerry Snyder, of North Canton, also attended out of a sense of civic duty. He's been to the service two or three times and said it's always a "nice community function."
Ken McGill, a 1966 Perry High School graduate who lives in North Canton, rode a motorcycle he built to honor the Perry graduates killed in action. McGill is a U.S. Army combat veteran who served from 1969 to 1971. He didn't graduate with any of the men but knew four of them personally.
"It's a very emotional weekend for me," McGill said of the national holiday to remember his brothers in arms.
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It's A Toy Show was held Saturday at Farpoint Toys & Collectibles in Mays Landing. This was the sixth year the shop has hosted the show.
JOHN RUSSO, Staff Writer
Tom Hunter, a toy photographer and diorama maker, shows off his Star Wars displays Saturday at It's A Toy Show at Farpoint Toys & Collectibles in Mays Landing.
JOHN RUSSO, Staff Writer
Tom Hunter, a toy photographer and diorama maker, shows off his Star Wars displays Saturday at It's A Toy Show at Farpoint Toys & Collectibles in Mays Landing.
JOHN RUSSO, Staff Writer
Farpoint Toys & Collectibles owners Justin Daniels, left, and Penelope Daniels, right, with their daughter Skylar, 22, at It's A Toy Show at Farpoint Toys & Collectibles in Mays Landing.
JOHN RUSSO, Staff Writer
Pro wrestler Brian Heffron, known as the Blue Meanie, with his cousin Jim Cheeseman at It's A Toy Show at Farpoint Toys & Collectibles in Mays Landing.
JOHN RUSSO, Staff Writer
Pro wrestler Brian Heffron, known as the Blue Meanie, with his cousin Jim Cheeseman on Saturday at It's A Toy Show at Farpoint Toys & Collectibles in Mays Landing.
JOHN RUSSO, Staff Writer
Sean Mahoney, 44, of Wilmington, Delaware, dressed up as Sgt. Slaughter on Saturday at It's A Toy Show at Farpoint Toys & Collectibles in Mays Landing. He's seen chatting with Brian Heffron, known as the pro wrestler the Blue Meanie.
The free-to-vend, free-to-attend show featured dozens of vendors with tables loaded with some of pop culture’s most popular items. That includes toys, comics, Funko Pops and brands including Star Wars, Marvel and DC, anime and more.
Former WWE and ECW star Brian Heffron, who goes by the Blue Meanie, was on hand to sign autographs, sell action figures and take photos. Heffron grew up in Atlantic City with shop co-owner Justin Daniels and is a 1993 Atlantic City High School graduate.
The husband-wife duo of Justin and Penelope Daniels have run the show for the last six years. They continued the show that originated with It’s A Toy Store in Buena Vista Township 16 years ago. The Danielses partnered with It’s A Toy Store owner Frank Mosentoff before buying him outright.
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It's A Toy Show was held Saturday at Farpoint Toys & Collectibles in Mays Landing. This was the sixth year the shop has hosted the show.
Tom Hunter, a toy photographer and diorama maker, shows off his Star Wars displays Saturday at It's A Toy Show at Farpoint Toys & Collectibles in Mays Landing.
Tom Hunter, a toy photographer and diorama maker, shows off his Star Wars displays Saturday at It's A Toy Show at Farpoint Toys & Collectibles in Mays Landing.
Farpoint Toys & Collectibles owners Justin Daniels, left, and Penelope Daniels, right, with their daughter Skylar, 22, at It's A Toy Show at Farpoint Toys & Collectibles in Mays Landing.
Pro wrestler Brian Heffron, known as the Blue Meanie, with his cousin Jim Cheeseman at It's A Toy Show at Farpoint Toys & Collectibles in Mays Landing.
Pro wrestler Brian Heffron, known as the Blue Meanie, with his cousin Jim Cheeseman on Saturday at It's A Toy Show at Farpoint Toys & Collectibles in Mays Landing.
Sean Mahoney, 44, of Wilmington, Delaware, dressed up as Sgt. Slaughter on Saturday at It's A Toy Show at Farpoint Toys & Collectibles in Mays Landing. He's seen chatting with Brian Heffron, known as the pro wrestler the Blue Meanie. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/farpoint-holds-annual-its-a-toy-show-in-mays-landing/article_5747dc5a-fc25-11ed-879d-6f50951d39c1.html | 2023-05-27T19:10:50 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/farpoint-holds-annual-its-a-toy-show-in-mays-landing/article_5747dc5a-fc25-11ed-879d-6f50951d39c1.html |
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May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest against a proposed wind farm was held with a walk across the 9th street bridge.
OCEAN CITY — Opponents of plans for offshore wind power development showed their opposition Saturday with a march along the Route 52 causeway.
Participants gathered at Mark Soifer Park at Ninth Street and Asbury Avenue before departing across the bridge to Somers Point.
The protest was organized by Guardians of the East Coast, a private group on Facebook, that formed this year and describes itself as “a proactive group of Patriots that are currently working around the clock to stop offshore wind from destroying our ecosystem, killing our mammals, and will destroy local economies, kill tourism, small businesses, and our fishing industry."
There are several groups fighting plans to build wind turbines off the New Jersey coast, including a project that could start construction this year. Ocean Wind 1 plans 98 turbines beginning 15 miles from shore.
The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management recently completed an environmental impact study on that project and opened public comment on a draft environmental impact study on another project, Atlantic Shores, planned to the north of the Ocean Wind project.
State and federal officials have lauded the wind energy projects, saying they will bring good jobs to New Jersey and provide clean, renewable electricity. Gov. Phil Murphy describes wind power as a key part of plans to ween the state off fossil fuels.
Ocean City Wind Farm Protest
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power was held starting at the Mark Soifer park.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, Congressman Van Drew was present for a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power, with some protesters holding signs that read "Stop Windmills, Save Our Shore, Jeff Van Drew, For U.S. Congress"
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, Rick Herwig, a Princeton resident, showing his support for a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, (l-r) Jessica Aiello and her daughter Madelyn, 12, both from Toms River, came to show their support for a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, (center) Sylvia Lockwood, a resident from Cape May Court House, showed her support for a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, Kathleen Harper, a resident of Dennis Twp., came to support a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, (l-r) Joseph Norris, a seasonal resident of Brigantine, speaking with Congressman Van Drew before a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
Ocean City resident Mary Claire Shuster came to show her support for the protest.
MATTHEW STRABUK, Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, (l-r) Janet McMahon and Karen Martine, from Marmora and Vineland, show their support for a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, Pennsburgh PA resident DJJ Hutchinson showed his support for a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
Nancy Hutchinson holds a sign with a quotation attributed to Albert Einstein.
MATTHEW STRABUK, Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, Ocean City resident Kelly Hudak pushes her kids Ollie and Clay, 8 and 4 , duringa a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
On May 27, 2023, in Ocean City, Ray McNeely, a city resident, shows his support for a protest walk over the Ninth Street bridge against offshore wind power.
MATTHEW STRABUK Staff Photographer
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Stockton University teammates Shahyan Abraham and Kayla Kass competed in the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships on Friday at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York.
Abraham broke her own school record in the shot put with a throw of 13.80 meters. Her toss was 13th best in a field of 22 athletes. It came on her third and final attempt and was the the last career throw for the senior.
Kass placed 19th in the 800-meter run. The freshman finished in 2 minutes, 13.72 seconds.
Kass and Abraham each qualified for the meet by ranking in the top 20 in the nation in their events. Abraham made her second national meet appearance, having competed in the weight throw in the NCAA Indoor Championships in March.
Abraham finished her career with eight U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Region honors to go with USTFCCCA Metro Region Field Athlete of the Year for the 2022-23 indoor season.
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Abraham earned 11 all-New Jersey Athlete Conference honors in indoor and outdoor track and in field. She won six NJAC event titles, which earned her first-team honors. Abraham also was a three-time NJAC second-team selection and twice received an honorable mention. She was named NJAC Outstanding Field Athlete for the 2022 outdoor and 2022-23 indoor seasons.
Abraham also finished her career with school records in the indoor shot put (13.29) and weight throw (17.59).
This school year, Kass was named NJAC Rookie of the Year in cross country and outdoor track and field to go with USTFCCCA All-Region in all three seasons, with both track honors coming in the 800.
Kass was selected to the all-conference first team in the cross country and the outdoor seasons. She was also named second team in the indoor season and earned an honorable mention in the indoor and outdoor season in the 4x400 relay.
The freshman also won eight NJAC Rookie of the Week awards in the three sports.
In April, Kass broke the 12-year-old program record in the outdoor 800 (2:12.07). | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/stocktons-shahyan-abraham-kayla-kass-close-out-season-at-ncaa-championships/article_acc6815e-fc98-11ed-accb-e7d9fbb0f9b0.html | 2023-05-27T19:11:02 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/stocktons-shahyan-abraham-kayla-kass-close-out-season-at-ncaa-championships/article_acc6815e-fc98-11ed-accb-e7d9fbb0f9b0.html |
Graduates with elaborately decorated mortarboards, ranging from floral accents to teacher-themed celebratory statements, poured into the A.F. Siebert Chapel for Carthage College's spring commencement ceremony Friday night.
Master's degrees awarded Friday night included those majoring in music theater vocal pedagogy, business design and innovation, and education. Bachelor's degrees conferred Friday include nursing and arts.
In total 620 Carthage students are participating in commencement weekend activities, according to the college.
"This accomplishment here tonight was your goal, and you achieved it," Carthage President John Swallow told the graduates. "Like so many markers in life, we recognize that it is not only an end, but a beginning."
Nina Weisling, assistant professor of education, was selected by the graduating class to give the faculty address.
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"When life becomes overwhelming, focus squarely on what guides you... and tackle it bird by bird with small steps with and toward your guiding lights," Weisling said. "Find the things that matter to you, that you believe are just and moral and good and fight for them."
Liam Carls, a physics major who received the distinguished senior award, gave the class address.
"The fact that we are all here today for a common goal suggests to me that you, too, defeated fear and challenges through hard work and you showed up to class, office hours, practice, games, meets, tournaments, rehearsals, shows, clubs and other things," Carls said. "We owe it to ourselves and every person that has helped us get to this position to step off this campus and into the world with a fiery appetite to continue to grow and meet our potential."
Carthage also presented 2023 distinguished alumni and honorary degree honors to two during the ceremony.
Cherie Matthaidess Robinson, a graduate of the Carthage class of 2001, received the distinguished alumni award Friday night. Robinson is vice president of human resources for Amazon’s international stores, which employ more than 150,000 workers in over 40 countries.
U.S. Navy Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt received an honorary Doctoral degree in public service. Bauernschmidt is the first American woman to command an aircraft carrier, and has served as senior military adviser to the Office of Global Women’s Issues, which is an arm of the Secretary of State that works to enhance peace and security for women worldwide. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/carthage-college-confers-degrees-to-bachelor-and-masters-students/article_220a073a-fc1f-11ed-b4d4-bba78c762a71.html | 2023-05-27T19:18:36 | 1 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/carthage-college-confers-degrees-to-bachelor-and-masters-students/article_220a073a-fc1f-11ed-b4d4-bba78c762a71.html |
Don't let the summer boredom kick in — go to the movies!
From dive-in movies to movies in the park, you can catch these screenings for $5 or less this summer. In fact, most of the screenings are FREE.
Movies at Casa Video and Film Bar
Casa Video and Film Bar is a blast from the past with rows upon rows of movies for rent. Beyond the rentals, you'll find a full bar and frequent movie screenings. Check out their calendar to see what's screening next.
When: Lots of dates!
Where: Casa Video and Film Bar, 2905 E. Speedway
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Cost: Free to attend, bring money for drinks at the bar and a food truck outside
Visit the event page for more information.
Movies in Oro Valley
So you've heard of drive-in movies. What about dive-in movies? Visit the Oro Valley Aquatic Center, which has a slide and diving boards, to watch a screening of Disney's "Luca" on a big inflatable screen on June 3. Beyond the dive-in movie, Oro Valley has a whole roster of movies being shown on the lawn of their rec center this summer.
When: 7 p.m. Saturday, June 3 for the dive-in movie; movies on the lawn are screened around 7:30 p.m. Saturdays, June 17, July 15, Aug. 19 and Sept. 16.
Where: Oro Valley Aquatic Center, 23 W. Calle Concordia, for the dive-in movie; Oro Valley Community & Recreation Center, 10555 N. La Cañada Dr., for the movies on the lawn.
Cost: $5 per person or $14 for a family of up to 6 for the dive-in movie. Tickets must be purchased in advance. Movies on the lawn are free to attend.
Visit this event page for more information about the dive-in movie. Visit this event page for more information about movies on the lawn.
Movies at Reid Park
Every other Friday beginning June 2 and ending July 28, catch a family-friendly movie in Reid Park thanks to Cox Communications. There will be pre-show entertainment including performances, games and prizes. Food trucks will be onsite, too! The movie begins when the sun goes down.
When: 6 p.m. Fridays, June 2, June 16, June 30, July 14, July 28
Where: Demeester Outdoor Performance Center in Reid Park, 800 S. Concert Place
Cost: Free to attend, bring money for food trucks. Bring chairs or blankets!
Visit the event page for more information.
Screening at the Tucson J
The Loft Cinema is collaborating with the Tucson J for a free outdoor screening of "Israel Swings for Gold," a documentary about Israel's baseball team competing in the Olympics. Family-friendly activities will kick off the event and Kosher dinner will be available for purchase.
When: 6:30 p.m. Sunday, June 4. Movie begins at 8 p.m.
Where: Tucson Jewish Community Center, 3800 E. River Road
Cost: Free to attend, bring money for food. RSVP required.
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Movies at the Short Rest Tavern
Mondays are for low-budget films at the Short Rest Tavern, a hidden bar tucked inside Tucson Mall's Tucson Games and Gadgets.
When: 7 p.m. Mondays
Where: Short Rest Tavern, 4500 N. Oracle Road. Park between Sears and Dillards, the store/bar is located upstairs.
Cost: Free to attend, bring money for drinks
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Movies in Marana
Outdoor movie screenings in Marana stretch all the way into the fall season. Most movies take place on the third Saturday of the month. Some are dive-in movies and others take place in parks. All of them feature family-friendly movies alongside local food vendors!
When: Movies begin at sundown. Saturdays, June 17, July 15, Aug. 19, Sept. 2, Sept. 16 and Oct. 21.
Where: Various locations in Marana
Cost: Free to attend, bring money for food trucks. Bring chairs or blankets!
Visit the event page for more information.
Loft Kids Fest
Loft Kids Fest is back for another summer of family-friendly movies. The festival kicks off with an outdoor screening of "Looney Tunes" on June 23. Then, every Saturday and Sunday morning from June 24 through July 16, free screenings will take place indoors at The Loft with pre-show entertainment from local toy shop Mildred & Dildred.
When: 6 p.m. Friday, June 23 for the outdoor screening of "Looney Tunes." On other days, doors open at 9:15 a.m. for pre-show activities and movies begin at 10 a.m. weekends June 24-July 16.
Where: Kickoff event is at Himmel Park, 1000 N. Tucson Blvd. Other screenings are at The Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway
Cost: Free to attend
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Sonoran Cinema
OK, OK. It's not until Sept. 15, but that's *technically* still summer. Visit Tohono Chul's Sonoran Cinema for an indoor screening of Disney's "Encanto." Get cotton candy and popcorn from the concession stands!
When: 7 p.m. Friday, Sept 15. There are even more movies slated for fall.
Where: Tohono Chul, 7366 N. Paseo del Norte
Cost: $4
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List: 35+ movies filmed in Tucson and southern Arizona
The Fabelmans (2022)
Tucson locations: Tucson Mountain Park and the Sonoran Desert
Cast: Michelle Williams, Gabriel LaBelle, Paul Dano, Judd Hirsch, Seth Rogen
Genre: Drama: Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker.
Tombstone (1993)
Tucson and Arizona locations: Old Tucson, Babocomari Ranch in Sonoita, Texas Canyon, Little Dragoon Mountains, Skeleton Canyon, Empire Ranch in Sonoita, Elgin, Sonoran Desert, Chiricahua National Monument, San Simon Valley, Mescal, Tucson Mountains, San Pedro River, Las Cienegas National Conservation Area, Patagonia, Whetstone Mountains, Turkey Creek, Mount Lemmon, Fort Crittenden, Tucson, Harshaw, St. David, Granite Mountains in Prescott, Sierrita Mountains, Benson.
According to the Internet Movie Database, Tombstone was not a location for the movie shoot.
Cast: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton
Genre: Biography, drama, history: A dramatic retelling of the events leading to and following the famous Gunfight at the OK Corral.
Box office gross: $56.51 million
Almost Famous (2000)
Tucson and Arizona locations: Old Ajo Highway, Tumacácori, Interstate 19, Amado, Tucson
Cast: Billy Crudup, Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson
Genre: Adventure, comedy, drama: A high schooler travels with a rock band for a story in Rolling Stone magazine.
Box office gross: $32.53 million
A Star is Born (1976)
Tucson and Arizona locations: Tucson Convention Center, Pima County Courthouse, Old Tucson Studios, Sonoita and Tempe.
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey, Oliver Clark
Genre: Drama, romance, musical: A has-been rock star falls in love with a young, up-and-coming songstress.
Box office gross: $80 million
Major League (1989)
Tucson locations: Hi Corbett Field, Tucson
Cast: Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen, Margaret Whitton
Genre: Comedy, sport: The new owner of the Cleveland Indians puts together a team she hopes will lose so she can move the team. The team disagrees.
Box office gross: $49.8 million
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
Tucson location: Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Boneyard
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson
Genre: Action, adventure Sci-fi: The Autobots and Decepticons battle in this sequel.
Box office gross: $402.11 million
Wild Wild West (1999)
Tucson location: Old Tucson
Cast: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Salma Hayek
Genre: Action, comedy sci-fi: Based on the old TV show of Secret Service agents after the Civil War.
Box office gross: $113.81 million
Public Enemies (2009)
Tucson location: Congress Hotel front
Cast: Christian Bale, Johnny Depp, Christian Stolte, Jason Clarke
Genre: Action, biography, crime: Feds try to take down John Dillinger.
Box office gross: $97.1 million
Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
Tucson locations: Davis-Monthan Air Force Base boneyard, Scoops on Speedway, a house on North Hill Farm Drive, a house on North Christmas Avenue, The Loft Cinema, Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson High School, Tucson Mall, Arcade on Speedway, Speedway boulevard, Winterhaven neighborhood, Hill Farm
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Amanda Peterson, Courtney Gains
Genre: Comedy, drama, romance: An outcast pays the most popular girl in school to be his girlfriend for a month.
Box office gross: $31.62 million
Young Guns (1988)
Tucson locations: Old Tucson, Tucson, Sonoran Desert
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen
Genre: Action, western: Young gunmen led by Billy the Kid become deputies and take their authority too far.
Box office gross: $45.66 million
Young Guns II (1990)
Tucson and Arizona locations: Old Tucson, Bisbee, Sonoran Desert, San Rafael Ranch State Park in Patagonia, Tucson Mountains, Ironwood Forest National Monument, Sierrita Mountains, Warren, Tumacácori National Historical Park
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater
Genre: Action, western: Patrick Floyd Garrett receives a bounty to kill Billy the Kid.
Box office gross: $44.14 million
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
Tucson locations: Catalina Park Inn, Catalina Park, Bear Down Gym at the University of Arizona, Friends Meeting House on Fifth Avenue, University of Arizona, Cochise Hall at UA, Old Main at UA, Scottish Rite Temple on Scott Avenue, Old Tucson
Cast: Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Timothy Busfield, Andrew Cassese
Genre: Comedy: A group of bullied college outcasts and misfits fight back.
Box office gross: $40.9 million
The Quick and the Dead (1995)
Tucson and Arizona locations: Old Tucson, Mescal, Sierrita Mountains, Sonoran Desert, Tucson Mountains, Ironwood Forest National Monument, Sonoita, Las Cienegas National Conservation Area
Cast: Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe
Genre: Action, romance, thriller: A female gunfighter enters a dueling tournament to avenge her father's death.
Box office gross: $18.64 million
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)
Tucson locations: Tucson streets
Cast: Mira Sorvino, Lisa Kudrow, Janeane Carofalo
Genre: Comedy: Two dimwitted friends concoct an elaborate lie to impress classmates at their high school reunion.
Box office gross: $29.21 million
Stir Crazy (1980)
Tucson locations: Downtown, Tucson Rodeo Grounds, Pima Community College West Campus, former Whistle Stop bar on Craycroft Road, Pima County Courthouse; other Arizona locations: Arizona State Prison in Florence, Arizona
Cast: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown, JoBeth Williams
Genre: Comedy: Two friends are set up and wrongfully accused of a crime they didn't commit.
Box office gross: $101.3 million
The Trial of Billy Jack (1974)
Tucson locations: Old Tucson Studios and Colossal Cave Mountain Park
Cast: Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Victor Izay, Teresa Kelly
Genre: Action, drama
Box office gross: $89 million
The Cannonball Run (1981)
Tucson location: Old Tucson
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise
Genre: Action, comedy: Eccentric competitors participate in a cross-country road race.
Box office gross: $72.18 million
Three Kings (1999)
Arizona locations: Tucson, Casa Grande. Sacaton Mine in Casa Grande, Yuma, Eloy, Sonoran Desert, Coolidge, Marana, Phoenix
Cast: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze
Genre: Action, adventure, comedy: After the Persian Gulf War, four soldiers plan to steal gold that was stolen from Kuwait.
Box office gross: $60.65 million
Tin Cup (1996)
Tucson and Arizona locations: Hotel Congress, Tubac, Sonoita, Nogales.
Cast: Kevin Costner, Rene Russo, Don Johnson, Cheech Marin
Genre: Comedy, drama, romance: A washed up golf pro tries to qualify for the US Open.
Box office gross: $53.85 million
Glory Road (2006)
Tucson location: Bear Down Gym at the University of Arizona
Cast: Josh Lucas, Derek Luke, Austin Nichols, Jon Voight
Genre: Biography, drama, sport: Texas Western coach leads the first all-black starting line-up college basketball team to the NCAA championship.
Box office gross: $42.64 million
Three Amigos (1986)
Tucson and Arizona locations: Old Tucson, Coronado National Forest, Florence, Apache Junction, Superstition Mountains, Apache Trail, Superstition Wilderness, Sonoran Desert, Gold Canyon
Cast: Steve Martin, Checy Chase, Martin Short
Genre: Comedy, western: Three actors go to a Mexican village to perform their onscreen roles unaware they are in a real fight.
Box office gross: $39.25 million
The Family That Preys (2008)
Tucson and Arizona locations: Tucson, Sonoita
Cast: Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard, Sanaa Lathan
Genre: Drama: Two families from different walks of life learn to work together.
Box office gross: $37.02 million
Murphy's Romance (1985)
Tucson and Arizona locations: Tucson (street scenes), Florence, Tubac, Keating Building in Florence, Eloy, Coolidge, Main Street Vault in Florence, Valley Art Theater in Tempe, Tempe, Main Street in Florence
Cast: Sally Field, James Garner, Brian Kerwin
Genre: Comedy, drama, romance: A divorcee and her son move to a ranch and she befriends a local man.
Box office gross: $30.76 million
Cannonball Run II (1984)
Tucson and Arizona locations: Tucson, Bisbee, Old Tucson, Arizona State School for the Deaf and the Blind Campus
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin
Genre: Action, comedy: This sequel features another cross country race.
Box office gross: $28.08 million
Escape from New York (1981)
Tucson location: Fox Theater
Cast: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine
Genre: Action, adventure, sci-fi: Manhattan is now a maximum security prison and the U.S. president has crashed into it.
Box office gross: $25.24 million
Boys on the Side (1995)
Tucson and Arizona locations: Tucson, Tumacácori, Teatro Carmen, Elusian Grove Market in Barrio Viejo, Tucson General Hospital (since demolished), Big Horn Restaurant in Amado, Tucson Elks Lodge, Amado
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Drew Barrymore, Matthew McConaughey
Genre: Comedy, drama: Three very different women drive cross country and become close friends.
Box office gross: $23.45 million
Madhouse (1990)
Tucson and Arizona locations: Tucson, Phoenix
Cast: Richard Alexander, Kirstie Alley, John Larroquette
Genre: Comedy: A yuppie couple's villa is overrun by uninvited guests.
Box office gross: $21.04 million
8 Seconds (1994)
Tucson location: Tucson Rodeo Grounds, other Tucson locations
Cast: Luke Perry, Stephen Baldwin, James Rebhorn
Genre: Biography, drama, sport: The life of Lane Frost, 1987 PRCA Bull Riding World Champion.
Box office gross: $19.6 million
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
Tucson and Arizona locations: Old Tucson, Monument Valley, Kayenta, Red Mesa, Kaibab National Forest, Williams (Grand Canyon Railway), Mexican Water, San Francisco Peaks, Skeleton Canyon, Teec Nos Pos, Tucson
Cast: Jason Patric, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall
Genre: Drama, history, western: The story of the Apache chief and his resistance to the U.S. Government's subjugation of his people.
Box office gross: $18.64 million
Posse (1993)
Tucson and Arizona locations: Old Tucson, Florence, Sonoran Desert, Empire Ranch in Sonoita, Sierrita Mountains, Tucson Mountains, Benson, Tucson
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Stephen Baldwin, Charles Lane
Genre: Western: Buffalo soldiers find gold, desert and help defend a black town from the KKK.
Box office gross: $18.29 million
Lightning Jack (1994)
Tucson and Arizona locations: Old Tucson, Page, Sonoran Desert, Tucson Mountains, Sierrita Mountains, Flagstaff
Cast: Paul Hogan, Cuba Gooding Jr., Beverly D'Angelo
Genre: Comedy, western: An Australian outlaw in the wild west.
Box office gross: $16.82 million
Terminal Velocity (1994)
Tucson and Arizona locations: Old Tucson, Douglas, Little Colorado River Canyon, Tucson, Flagstaff, Phoenix
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Nastassja Kinski, James Gandolfini
Genre: Action, mystery, romance: A maverick skydiver and a former KGB agent team up to stop the Russian mafia.
Box office gross: $16.48 million
The Getaway (1994)
Tucson and Arizona locations: Tucson, Prescott, Phoenix International Raceway, Hotel Del Sol in Yuma, Downtown Yuma, Flagstaff, Sonoran Desert, Coolidge, Maricopa County Courthouse and Old Phoenix City Hall, Apache Lodge in Prescott, Arizona Biltmore Resort in Phoenix, Phoenix Greyhound Park, Union Station in Phoenix
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen
Genre: Action, adventure, crime: An ex-con and his wife flee after a heist goes wrong.
Box office gross: $16.1 million
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
Tucson and Arizona locations: Tucson, White Stallion Ranch, Nogales
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney
Genre: Biography, comedy, crime: Adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impresario Chuck Barris.
Box office gross: $16 million
Flirting with Disaster (1996)
Tucson and Arizona locations: Tucson, Cave Creek, Phoenix, Scottsdale, Carefree, Marana
Cast: Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Téa Leoni
Genre: Comedy: A young man searches for his birth parents.
Box office gross: $14.89 million
Fire Birds (1990)
Tucson and Arizona locations: Army Pilot Training Post in Tucson, Mammoth, Mesa, Sonoran Desert, Apache Leap Mountains in Superior, Superstition Mountains, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Superior, Picketpost Mountain in Superior, Superstition Wilderness, Miami, Globe, Reymert, Tonto National Forest, Apache Junction, Amphitheater High School
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones, Sean Young
Genre: Action, adventure: Elite Apache helicopter pilots must destroy powerful drug cartels.
Box office gross: $14.76 million
Stay Tuned (1992)
Tucson and Arizona locations: Old Tucson, Florence, Tucson
Cast: John Ritter, Pam Dawber, Jeffrey Jones
Genre: Adventure, comedy, fantasy: a husband and wife are sucked into television sets and must survive twisted versions of TV shows.
Box office gross: $10.74 million
Cyborg (1989)
Tucson and Arizona locations: Titan Missile Museum in Green Valley, The Domes in Casa Grande, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Casa Grande, Green Valley, Tucson
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Richter, Vincent Klyn
Genre: Action, sci-fi, thriller: Hunt for a killer in a plague-infested future.
Box office gross: $10.17 million
The Wraith (1986)
Tucson locations: North Sixth Avenue, Fourth Avenue, Sabino Canyon, Catalina Highway, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, East Fifth Street, West Ajo Way and East Benson Highway.
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes, Sherilyn Fenn, Randy Quaid
Genre: Sci-fi, horror: A high-schooler returns from the dead to get revenge on the psychotic drag racer who killed him.
Box office gross: $3.5 million | https://tucson.com/news/local/8-places-to-see-free-or-cheap-movies-in-tucson-this-summer/article_1365c5dc-fb22-11ed-89f1-3bc186efab34.html | 2023-05-27T19:20:29 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/8-places-to-see-free-or-cheap-movies-in-tucson-this-summer/article_1365c5dc-fb22-11ed-89f1-3bc186efab34.html |
A zoning dispute of biblical proportions is now entering its fourth year in Oro Valley, where hot pink protest signs lead the way to the unlikely center of the standoff: a decades-old church at the heart of this suburban town.
The Oro Valley Church of the Nazarene wants to build an indoor multipurpose sports complex and a lighted, outdoor ball field on the property surrounding its growing campus on the northeast corner of Calle Concordia and Calle Buena Vista.
But ever since church leaders launched their ambitious plans to expand their sports ministry in 2020, the proposal has faced organized resistance from nearby homeowners, who don't want any more traffic, noise or light in their once-rural neighborhood.
Standing in the middle is the Oro Valley Town Council, which will be asked later this year to decide whether to grant a zoning change that will allow the church to proceed with its expansion.
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That vote is expected to happen in the fall, after the church submits the latest version of its proposal with updated traffic data the town recently collected in the area.
The matter seems likely to wind up in court no matter what the council decides. Both the church and the neighborhood opposition group have hired attorneys, setting up a potential legal fight with broad implications for the intersection between municipal land-use rules and religious freedom.
“We’re not quitting with the city council,” said Tim Tarris, who has lived across Calle Buena Vista from OVCN for 30 years.
Tim and his wife, Vicky, are the unofficial leaders of the Concordia/Buena Vista Group, a collection of about 150 area residents who have lined up against the church expansion.
“It's not a religious situation. I want to emphasize that,” Tim Tarris said. “We're not arguing about their faith or ours. We're arguing about a complex that they want to put in there.”
Opponents insist the church is already impacting the neighborhood in a negative way.
The congregation has roughly doubled in size since 2015, with Sunday services that typically draw about 3,000 worshippers.
On those days, Tim Tarris said, parked cars line the street in front of his property. But Calle Buena Vista becomes impassable altogether during big events like Easter or the church’s annual Christmas tree lighting, when the sounds of the festivities can easily be heard from inside their house, he said.
“They don't have the capacity to do what they're doing right now, and they want to grow this thing four to five times and run it from early in the morning until 10 o'clock at night, seven days a week,” he said.
“Our quality of life is going to be greatly diminished,” Vicky Tarris added.
Lofty plans
Such reactions to the project have caught church leaders by surprise.
“We weren't prepared at all for the amount of pushback that we're getting,” said OVCN executive pastor Chris Collins. “And we certainly didn't expect to be in the seventh revision of a proposal after three years because we continue to make changes that town staff is asking us for and advising us to do based on neighborhood opposition.”
Collins said the church started its youth sports program in 2018 as a way to spread the gospel by connecting with more kids and families.
“Every church at some point probably has to decide how they want to reach their community," he said. "As we have prayed through this over the last five-plus years, we feel like there's an opportunity for our church to reach our community through sports ministry."
Designs for the 75,000-square-foot sports facility include four basketball courts, an indoor turf practice field, a stage and a new youth center featuring a conference room and seven classrooms for Sunday school and other uses.
Directly to the north of that building, the church wants to put in an outdoor field large enough for football or soccer, with 70-foot light poles so it can also be used at night.
The proposed expansion is expected to cost $10 million to $12 million, Collins said.
OVCN’s initial proposal called for the field to be enclosed inside a 50-foot-tall building, but that structure was soon dropped from the plans after backlash from neighbors and concerns from town planners.
Since then, Collins said, church officials have made numerous other changes to ease the impact of the project on surrounding residents. They added an 8-foot sound wall around the outdoor field, moved a proposed driveway to keep the headlights of vehicles from shining directly into a house across the street, and agreed to pay for a new center turn lane on Calle Concordia to improve overall traffic flow.
To limit light pollution as much as possible, OVCN has adopted what Collins called “the most stringent lighting plan for any outdoor field in all of Southern Arizona,” at an additional cost of nearly $250,000.
The church has also agreed to schedule its events so they don’t overlap with busy times at Canyon Del Oro High School or the town park and swimming immediately to the east of OVCN.
But the project's staunchest opponents remain unswayed. They want the new facilities to be built in some other part of town or not at all, a demand Collins said he simply can’t meet.
“We've said this from the beginning: They have asked all the right questions, and they deserve answers from us,” he said. “The problem that we're running into is they don't like the answers.”
Ed Clary lives a block west of OVCN on Calle El Milagro. He said if the land were already zoned for what the church wants to build there, he and his neighbors would have no choice but to live with it.
“But if I proposed something like this, I'd be laughed out of the room by everybody. The only reason we're even discussing this is because it’s a church,” Clary said. “What was Jesus’ second great commandment? Love your neighbor as yourself. Well, I don’t feel the love. I don’t think any of us feels the love.”
Taking on faith
So far, the only public vote on the proposal was held on Feb. 7, when the five-member Oro Valley Planning and Zoning Commission recommended against the church’s expansion in a 3-2 vote.
In a staff report to the commissioners prior to their decision, a senior planner for the town listed a number of reasons why the proposal was incompatible with the surrounding neighborhood. Ultimately, though, she recommended its approval because “federal and state statutes and case law take precedence over local policy and ordinances.”
An attorney for the church has already suggested that the project must be approved on religious grounds, regardless of the town’s zoning rules. To reject the expansion plan would violate OVCN’s religious freedoms under federal law and the First Amendment, the attorney argued.
Oro Valley Mayor Joe Winfield declined to comment on the church’s proposal or the neighborhood opposition to it.
OVCN’s expansion will need at least five votes from the seven-member town council to pass, thanks to an Oro Valley ordinance requiring a supermajority for any zoning change that draws written protests from at least 20% of property owners immediately surrounding it.
Vicky Tarris said all 14 of the landowners surrounding OVCN have protested the expansion.
The dispute has turned ugly at times.
Tim Tarris said one member of their group was threatened by someone driving through the neighborhood, while others have had their yard signs stolen or vandalized.
At the same time, Collins and another OVCN pastor have seen pictures of their homes in Oro Valley posted to the Concordia/Buena Vista Group's website — and since taken down — along with suggestions that the two men are serving money, not God, and are hypocrites for choosing not to live next to the church they are trying to expand.
OVCN has been in the neighborhood for as long — or longer — than many of its neighbors.
Collins said the church was founded in 1978 and moved to its current location about a year later.
It began with a few small buildings on a 9-acre parcel at 500 W. Calle Concordia. “Then, over the years, as is the case with most churches, our church grew,” Collins said.
Elizabeth Robb can attest to that. She has lived next door to the Tarrises and across from OVCN since about 1997.
“I moved into a nice quiet place, and there was a little church in behind some trees,” she said. “Now I feel like I'm living next to a megachurch, and it's getting worse.”
A little over 20 years ago, OVCN built a large new sanctuary to accommodate its growing flock. Then about 10 years ago, the church acquired almost 9 acres immediately to its east from another house of worship that decided to relocate to Marana.
OVCN expanded again in 2019, adding a large foyer outside the sanctuary and a dedicated wing for its kids ministry, complete with an elaborate indoor play area.
The following year, church leaders acquired 10 more acres — this time zoned for rural residential use — from a homeowner just to the northeast of OVCN. Within months, the church was requesting a zoning change for new sports facilities it planned to build.
The hot pink protest signs started popping up around the neighborhood last fall, in anticipation of a town council vote that never materialized. They read “Neighbors against OVCN rezone” and include the opposition group’s web address.
More than 40 of the signs now decorate roadsides and front yards within a mile of the church. Many of them have faded from the weather.
“We never thought they’d be up this long,” Vicky Tarris said.
Contact reporter Henry Brean at hbrean@tucson.com or 573-4283. On Twitter: @RefriedBrean | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/zoning-fight-pits-growing-oro-valley-church-against-neighbors/article_807673ae-f5c0-11ed-87f4-c326f37b3d82.html | 2023-05-27T19:20:35 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/zoning-fight-pits-growing-oro-valley-church-against-neighbors/article_807673ae-f5c0-11ed-87f4-c326f37b3d82.html |
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