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STOCKTON, Calif. — A Mustang ran from California Highway Patrol units, leading them on a high speed chase that ultimately ended in a brush fire.
CHP Stockton officials say the 2018 Mustang was part of a sideshow and peeled out in front of officers before taking off down Lower Sacramento Road. It's unclear how long the chase lasted and what speeds it went up to, but the driver lost control in some dry brush.
The heat from the engine and car eventually caught the brush on fire, fully engulfing the car.
It is unclear if the driver was injured in the incident. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/stockton/mustang-stockton-fire-chase/103-333c5fe2-a591-4754-92be-13e2e4f7fca1 | 2023-06-28T02:52:23 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/stockton/mustang-stockton-fire-chase/103-333c5fe2-a591-4754-92be-13e2e4f7fca1 |
Harold "Gary" Peterson, 74, of Buhl died Sunday, June 25, 2023, at home. Arrangements are under the care of White-Reynolds Funeral Chapel, Twin Falls.
Ryan Mark Gratzer, 25, of Burley died Monday, June 26, 2023, at Cassia Regional Hospital in Burley. Arrangements are under the care of Rasmussen-Wilson Funeral Home, Burley.
Barbara Jean Mai Gochnour, 84, of Burley died Sunday, June 25, 2023, at Cassia Regional Hospital in Burley. Arrangements are under the care of Rasmussen-Wilson Funeral Home, Burley.
Helen Moore, 98, of Rupert died Saturday, June 24, 2023. Arrangements are under the care of Joel Heward Hansen Mortuary, Rupert.
Paul Russell Shetler, 91, of Filer died Sunday, June 25, 2023, at home. Arrangements are under the care of White-Reynolds Funeral Chapel, Twin Falls. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/death-notices/article_322f17de-1517-11ee-b365-1373de049b9a.html | 2023-06-28T02:52:28 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/death-notices/article_322f17de-1517-11ee-b365-1373de049b9a.html |
Florida state officials filed a notice of appeal on Tuesday after a state judge granted an injunction for Hamburger Mary’s last week against the Protection of Children law.
Friday’s ruling paused the law, which allows state agencies to fine or revoke the license of venues that allow children into performances where sexually explicit live performances are held.
Hamburger Mary’s — a drag show venue in Orlando — sued the state and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis last month in federal court, with the owners claiming the law is too vague and broad to satisfy the requirements of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and that it has a chilling effect on protected speech.
Additionally, Hamburger Mary’s claimed that the law dissuaded customers from attending its performances, cutting into the venue’s revenue.
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“We obviously had to stop allowing people to bring their children in and the moment we announced that 20% of our bookings went down on Sunday and cancelations and then the following Sunday, so it is taking a hit on the business,” owner John Paonessa told News 6 last month.
In a response filed on June 2, the state attorney said Hamburger Mary’s wouldn’t be impacted by the law, as it doesn’t host “adult live performances.” Instead, officials explained that the law was aimed at live performances with sexually explicit content.
“Hamburger Mary’s claims it has excluded children from its performances because of the act, but it also claims no intention to host performances that even arguably would require it to exclude children,” the defendants wrote.
The judge wrote in the ruling that the plaintiff Hamburger Mary’s “fifteen years of incident-free, harmless drag shows demonstrates the absence of any substantial harm to Defendant or to the public interest.”
“Moreover, existing obscenity laws provide Defendant with the necessary authority to protect children from any constitutionally unprotected obscene exhibitions or shows. The harm to Plaintiff clearly outweighs any purported evils not covered by Florida law and a preliminary injunction would not be adverse to the public interest,” the judge wrote.
Jeremy Redfern, press secretary for Gov. DeSantis, told News 6 that the ruling was wrong and that the state would be appealing the decision.
“Of course it’s constitutional to prevent the sexualization of children by limiting their access to adult live performances. We believe the judge’s opinion is dead wrong and look forward to prevailing on appeal,” he said.
The state officially filed its appeal against the injunction on Tuesday.
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With extreme heat plaguing much of Central Florida, your monthly power bill might suffer from similarly high costs thanks to increased A/C usage.
However, there are ways to cut back on those power costs this summer without sacrificing the comfort of a nice, cool home.
The Natural Resources Defense Council — a non-profit dedicated to environmental advocacy — has a list of ways that homeowners can save on those costs throughout the hot season.
GET A POWER STRIP
According to NRDC, “idle load electricity” — electronic devices like computers in sleep mode, speakers or televisions — can make up about 23% of power consumption, even though you aren’t making use of those devices.
Using a power strip can help cut back on that power usage by tethering several devices to one power strip.
If you don’t want those devices to use up power while you’re not using them, you can simply flip the strip’s switch, and the power will be removed from all of them at once.
BUY OUTLET TIMERS
Plugging devices into outlet timers can be a great support for those who forgot when to turn things on or off.
As NRDC states, using timers with electronics that you only use at specific times — like coffee makers or heated towel racks — can help cut down on the amount of energy they use throughout the day.
USE STREAMING SERVICES ON YOUR TV
Popular streaming sites like Netflix and Hulu are usually available on your smart TV through a low-power-consuming device like an Apple TV or Roku stick.
This means that you can ditch devices like set-top boxes and DVRs, which could be more costly in the long run.
GRAB A POWER METER
Power meters can tell users just how much energy a device is using up while it’s sitting idle — a great tool for figuring out where to pull back on power usage.
Additionally, smart power meters can help detect how much energy you’re using when everything seems to be turned off.
KEEP A/C DOWN
Marcos Rodriguez, an energy consultant for Florida Power and Light, told News 6 that one of the better methods for saving on energy costs is to moderate your A/C temperatures.
“One of the things that we recommend our customers is to try to keep their A/C at about 78 degrees when they’re home,” he said.
Rodriguez added that users can take advantage of ceiling fans to help keep the home cool instead of relying on A/C too often.
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Three minors and one adult were hospitalized following a multi-car crash on Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia Tuesday evening.
A 7-year-old girl is in critical condition (not life threatening) after being ejected from a car that was involved in the crash that occurred at 6:07 p.m. at the intersection of Roosevelt Boulevard and Southampton Road in the southbound lane, according to police.
Also injured in the crash were a 4-year-old girl who did not sustain any injuries and an 11-year-old girl. Both were taken to the hospital as well and placed in stable condition, police said.
A 32-year-old man was also taken to the hospital and placed in stable condition.
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Police have not released any further details about the crash such as how many vehicles were involved or if there were any more injured.
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June 5, 1965 – June 20, 2023
A Celebration of Life is planned for Robert A. Noah, 58, of Lakeside, on Saturday, July 8, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. at the Tugman State Park Gazebo. Please join us to celebrate Robert’s life, share stories, eat Robert’s favorite pizza and listen to music he enjoyed. All are welcome.
Robert was born on June 5, 1965 in Portland, Oregon and passed on June 20, 2023 in Lakeside. He was a longtime resident of Lakeside and many people knew and loved him. He was kind and gentle and along with his twin brother, Richard, helped countless people who were struggling and needed a friend, a meal or a place to stay. Robert was a good friend to many, a great uncle, and a great brother to Richard.
Robert is survived by his twin brother, Richard Noah; his older brothers, Fred Noah and Darrell Haskins; sister, Jeris Chavez; nephews, Sean Noah, Michael Noah and Dylan Noah; great nephew, Jackson Noah; nieces, Joeline Scharer, Krista Scharer and Tori Noah; family dog, Cooper; and girlfriend, Gloria Titus.
Robert was preceded in death by his parents, Fred and Laverna Noah; sister, Drexel Haskins; and his longtime girlfriend, Penny Holbrook.
Friends and family are encouraged to sign the online guestbook at www.coosbayareafunerals.com. Donations may be made in Robert’s name to the Lakeside McKay’s Market. Arrangements are under the care of North Bend Chapel, 541-756-0440. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/obituaries/robert-chief-noah/article_2da80f10-1542-11ee-916a-1be478fe2721.html | 2023-06-28T03:14:12 | 1 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/obituaries/robert-chief-noah/article_2da80f10-1542-11ee-916a-1be478fe2721.html |
A national grocery chain is eyeing a new store along Tucson’s Sunshine Mile.
Developers plan to reconfigure the southwest corner of Broadway and Plumer Avenue for the grocer, at the site of a vacant Dollar Store and tabernacle.
“The grocer is very selective and they grow conservatively,” developer Marcel Dabdoub told the Rio Nuevo board. “It’s one of the reasons they’re so successful.”
The Rio Nuevo board voted to give the project $1.5 million upon opening of the store, not upfront.
“Projects like this attract residential development and other projects,” said board chairman Fletcher McCusker.
Dabdoub said the chain is expected to make a final decision on the new Tucson site in the coming weeks after its real estate committee meets and a liquor license is approved.
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“This is a chance for us to bring in a grocery store and redefine Broadway and the Sunshine Mile,” board member Edmund Marquez said.
Because not all of the grocer’s sales are taxed, the return to the Rio Nuevo district is expected to be about $230,000 a year.
If all goes accordingly, the new grocery store is expected to open in 2025.
In other action at the monthly Rio Nuevo board meeting Tuesday, La Estrella Bakery proposed to open an 800-square-foot shop across the street from the St. Augustine cathedral, on the corner of Stone Avenue and Ochoa Street.
The store would also have a small outdoor seating area.
Rio Nuevo agreed to pitch in $200,000 toward the project, assuming the bakery is not exempt from paying sales tax under the groceries exemption or be willing to pay taxes voluntarily.
Rio Nuevo generates its revenue from sales taxes.
The matter was referred to the board’s executive staff to determine the bakery’s eligibility.
Contact reporter Gabriela Rico at grico@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/business/real-estate/tucson-grocery-store-midtown/article_84c560ae-153d-11ee-b283-a7b733964cf8.html | 2023-06-28T03:15:30 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/business/real-estate/tucson-grocery-store-midtown/article_84c560ae-153d-11ee-b283-a7b733964cf8.html |
Coralville's four-day 4thFest blasts off on Saturday. What to expect:
Coralville’s 4thFest provides four days of action-packed fun this weekend, highlighted by a concert from several former lead singers of classic rock bands.
4thFest kicks off with the 5K walk or run early Saturday morning and ends with a bang on Tuesday night as the city’s fireworks show lights up the night sky. In between, free food, entertainment, and continued celebrations of Coralville’s 150th anniversary highlight the weekend.
Since the Fourth of July falls on a Tuesday this year, Saturday morning’s 5K, the kids’ 26.2-yard mini-marathon and the youth cross-park race are the day one's only events. The 5K begins at 8 a.m.
The carnival is in town from Sunday to Tuesday. Ride tickets can be purchased in advance at City Hall through June 30 and at the Recreation Center until July 1 for a discounted price. Tickets can be purchased during the carnival for $1 per ticket or 22 tickets for $20. The carnival will open at 1 p.m. Sunday and 12 p.m. Monday and Tuesday. The carnival can be found in the parking lot of the Coralville’s Aquatic Center.
A weekend of live performances
The long weekend festivities also include five free concerts, headlined by Monday night’s performance by the Voices of Classic Rock featuring former lead singers from Chicago, Santana, Boston, and ASIA.
The 4thFest musical performances will be held at Coralville’s ST Morrison Park.
Bill Champlin, Alex Ligertwood, Fran Cosmo and John Payne will belt out “hit after hit of classic rock songs” starting at 8 p.m., according to the city’s website.
The Beaker Brothers Band will also pay tribute to hit music from the 1960s and 1970s on Monday night. The group honored the legacy of "jam bands" — The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, the Doors, and more — for more than 15 years. The performers will hit the stage at 6:30 p.m.
On Sunday, solo acoustic artist Jarrod Hogan from Cedar Rapids will perform beginning at 5:30 p.m. His set will coincide with the free Coralville 150th-anniversary picnic, which begins at 5 p.m. The gathering will include hot dogs, hamburgers and chips.
Fringe & the Backstabbers will put on a 90-minute performance prior to Tuesday night's fireworks beginning at 5:45 p.m. The Iowa City Community Band will take the stage at 8:30 p.m. and conclude before the fireworks show at 9:45 p.m.
Activities for kids and history of Coralville on full display
The 4thFest also provides several activities for children as well as opportunities for visitors and residents to learn about the 150-year-old history of the Coralville community.
Sunday’s events begin with a kids’ pedal tractor pull, where children who weigh less than 80 pounds are tested to see who can pull weight the furthest. Registration and weigh-in begin at 1 p.m., before kids can hop on the pedal tractors and pull from 2-5 p.m. Pre-registration and weigh-in are required to participate in the event.
A petting zoo, including donkeys, baby pigs, a giant rabbit, ducks, and more will also be available throughout Sunday afternoon.
City Hall will host a Coralville Historic Display from 1-8 p.m. on Sunday and 11-8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday. An hour-long history talk with local historian Rex Brandstatter will begin at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday.
Children ages 5-10 can visit the Coralville Aquatic Center beginning at 11 a.m. Monday for a treasure hunt. Registration is required and will cost Coralville residents $15 or non-residents $18.75.
Local food vendors will dot the landscape at ST Morrison Park on Monday and Tuesday, featuring Cedar Rapids’ Kona Ice, BassFarms, and Rodney’s Jamaican Jerk. The Girl Scouts and U.S. Army will also be in attendance on Tuesday.
The Recreation Center will host a pancake breakfast Fourth of July morning. Tickets will be sold at the door beginning at 7 a.m. The breakfast costs $8 for adults and children over 10, $5 for children between the ages of 5-10, and free for children under five.
The city’s Center for the Performing Arts Young Footliters will also take the stage at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday.The detailed schedule of events happening over the Fourth of July weekend is also available on Coralville’s website.
Ryan Hansen covers local government and crime for the Press-Citizen. He can be reached atrhansen@press-citizen.com or on Twitter @ryanhansen01. | https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/local/2023/06/27/coralville-4thfest-parade-fireworks-blasts-off-this-weekend/70361135007/ | 2023-06-28T03:17:59 | 1 | https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/local/2023/06/27/coralville-4thfest-parade-fireworks-blasts-off-this-weekend/70361135007/ |
A Lancaster County Court judge Tuesday bound over a Lincoln man's first-degree murder case, sending his case on to arraignment despite defense arguments that the stabbing last month was self-defense.
Joseph Kruger doesn't dispute he swung a steak knife at his father, 59-year-old Mark Kruger, on May 7, at a celebration-of-life party for a relative diagnosed with cancer.
But he said his father — who isn't his biological father but raised him from birth — came at him, knocking him to the ground, punching him and charging at him several times as he tried to get his keys and leave.
Deputy Lancaster County Public Defender Sarah Safarik said the evidence was insufficient to show first-degree murder or even second-degree murder, with which Lincoln Police initially referred him for prosecution before talking to more witnesses.
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"The evidence shows he (Joseph Kruger) did not intend to or want Mr. Kruger to die," Safarik argued.
She said he stayed at the scene, performed CPR on Mark Kruger in an attempt to save his life and was described as hysterical.
Lincoln Police Investigator Xavier Schwerdtfeger testified at the hearing that Joseph Kruger told him Mark Kruger punched him, suddenly knocking him to the ground, in response to him verbally disciplining a child. He described Mark Kruger bull-rushing him multiple times before he picked up a steak knife from the picnic table and swung it at his approaching father.
But, Schwerdtfeger said, witnesses gave conflicting accounts of what happened, and Mark Kruger's fatal wound — a stab to the heart — didn't match up with a slashing motion.
Two witnesses said Joseph Kruger had picked up the knife and told Mark Kruger to stay back. One, his mother, essentially said her ex-husband charged at him and impaled himself.
Joseph Kruger's sister and her fiancé described a physical back-and-forth between the two men, with Mark Kruger ultimately being pushed up to a fence, before the fight appeared over and Joseph Kruger got the knife and stabbed Mark Kruger in the chest.
Schwerdtfeger said that based on the witness accounts, he concluded the fight was over or easily could've been, "and that Joseph and Mark both could have went separate ways easily. But instead a knife was retrieved and now Mark's dead."
Deputy Lancaster County Attorney Eric Miller said all of the witnesses indicated Joseph Kruger grabbed a knife and stabbed Mark Kruger. That indicates he meant to do that.
"And that single stab wound killed Mark Kruger," he said.
County Court Judge Thomas Zimmerman noted that at a preliminary hearing the test isn't whether guilt is established beyond a reasonable doubt, but whether evidence worthy of consideration renders the charge against the defendant within reasonable probabilities.
"Self-defense certainly is an issue. But it is a trial issue," he said, finding the state had met its burden to establish probable cause that the offenses alleged were committed and Kruger committed them.
Zimmerman set his case for arraignment next month. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-courts/judge-binds-lincoln-mans-murder-case-over-for-arraignment/article_7584732e-151e-11ee-bb03-b3065062675e.html | 2023-06-28T03:18:00 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-courts/judge-binds-lincoln-mans-murder-case-over-for-arraignment/article_7584732e-151e-11ee-bb03-b3065062675e.html |
Music will start at 10 a.m. July 28 on Coralville's three stages, with Bush headlining at night.
A full day of rocking music will overtake Coralville as RAGBRAI rolls through town next month.
The full event lineup was announced Monday, providing free entertainment from artists near and far in honor of the 50th-anniversary ride, which pedals into town Friday, July 28. Coralville is the final overnight stop on the 500-mile, week-long journey, the resting spot for bicyclists traveling 80 miles from Tama-Toledo.
Performances will occur across three stages in and around Coralville’s ST Morrison Park, highlighting the city’s all-day RAGBRAI events.
The headliners, Bush, will take the main stage around 8:30 p.m. They are expected to perform for about two hours. Plush is the 7 p.m. opening act, an all-female rock band from New York. The rock group has also opened for Alice IN Chains, KISS and Evanescence. Lead vocalist, Moriah Formica, was a contestant on season 13 of The Voice on NBC.
Nearly 12 hours of live music will begin at 10 a.m. Friday, July 28 on the Metronet Family Stage opening with DJ Buck. The dance party will be followed by The Juggling Jesters and Camp Cardinal who will smash out groovy tunes bleeding into the early afternoon.
The nearby MidWestOne Bank Kids Zone will include bounce houses, face painting, and a balloon artist from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Iowa City's own Nick Stika takes the family stage at 2 p.m. ahead of The Black Donnelly's, the Irish band that attempted to perform 60 shows in all 50 states in 40 days. The two-decade-old Funk Daddies, another band from Iowa City, will perform on the family stage until 6 p.m.
Coralville’s beverage garden will open at 3 p.m. and run until 11 p.m.
The heaviest influx of RAGBRAI riders is expected to flow into town around 5 p.m. July 28.
Main stage entertainment begins with blues artist Kevin BF Burt at 4 p.m. while 42 Romeo, a self-described rock group part of the 34th Army Band of Iowa National Guard will take the stage at 5 p.m.
“The amount of free quality entertainment we’ll have performing in Coralville at RAGBRAI is outstanding,” Carrie Bopp, the Coralville RAGBRAI entertainment chair, said in a statement to the Press-Citizen. “This will be a festival enjoyed by locals and riders alike.”
The nearby Coralville food pantry will host a third stage, with performances by local artists including ADE at 2 p.m., Blast Choir at 3:30 p.m., and The Dandelion Stompers at 5 p.m.
Free movies, sponsored by Hills Bank, will also be screened inside the Coralville Center for Performing Arts. They include Up, Fast & Furious, Tommy Boy, and Top Gun: Maverick. Show times have not yet been determined.
Coralville still needs volunteers to assist with event staffing, everything from the kid's zone to the beverage garden. Officials are also expecting roughly 8,000 riders to stay in the designated campgrounds, Think Iowa City’s Nick Pfeiffer said in an email to the Press-Citizen in early June.
“This truly is an opportunity for us to showcase our community to people from all over the nation and actually across the globe,” Coralville Mayor Meghann Foster told the Press-Citizen earlier this month. “We know that there are people that come from other countries to participate in RAGBRAI and we are really proud of our community and everything that we have to offer.”
Ryan Hansen covers local government and crime for the Press-Citizen. He can be reached atrhansen@press-citizen.com or on Twitter @ryanhansen01. | https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/local/2023/06/27/coralville-ragbrai-announces-full-entertainment-lineup-bush-the-black-donnellys/70358569007/ | 2023-06-28T03:18:05 | 1 | https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/local/2023/06/27/coralville-ragbrai-announces-full-entertainment-lineup-bush-the-black-donnellys/70358569007/ |
A 24-year old W. Des Moines resident allegedly provided gun in downtown shooting
A third arrest has been made in connection to the May 13 shooting in the Clock Tower parking ramp that injured one.
Narada Poole Jr., 24, of West Des Moines was arrested Monday and charged with dominion control of a firearm by a felon and transfer of a firearm to an unauthorized person. This is the third arrest made in this case after his brother Marquel Poole, 22, and Alexander O. Voudhivong, 22, were arrested in mid-May.
A criminal complaint alleges that Narada Poole’s gun was used in last month’s altercation. Marquel Poole was seen on video obtained by police handing a gun to Voudhivong shortly before shots were fired.
Narada Poole was also present at the scene when the gun was given to Voudhivong, court filings allege.
When police arrived, they found an adult man on the sidewalk on the Iowa Avenue side of the parking ramp. He had sustained multiple gunshot wounds. Iowa City Fire Department first responders and the Johnson County Ambulance Service also arrived in support, and the man was taken to a hospital for treatment of serious injuries, police said.
Voudhivong allegedly fled the scene near the intersection of Iowa Avenue and Gilbert Street and changed clothes nearby to allegedly disguise his identity.
A gun was recovered at the parking ramp and shell casings from the gun match those discharged during the shooting, police said.
Narada Poole’s bail was set at $10,000 for the two charges and $5,000 for violating his parole. He posted bail on the charges related to the shooting on Monday and for violating probation on Tuesday. He is scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 4 to potentially revoke his probation, according to court documents.
Poole Jr. has prior gun charge on record
This most recent arrest is Narada Poole’s second firearm-related offense.
He was arrested in Iowa City in 2021 and late last year pled guilty to the fraudulent purchase of firearms, a deferred judgment felony conviction. His Monday arrest violated his probation, which was set to last two years.
The conviction stemmed from a pair of search warrants police served at residences associated with Narada Poole, where they found four guns he had purchased as well as marijuana and “other drug paraphernalia.”
Further investigation led police to discover that Narada Poole had lied about drug use in a firearms application. He had affirmed that he does not use marijuana or other substances on the form, though further evidence that Narada Poole had possessed marijuana was found during the investigation. Police also collected a urine sample indicating he had lied on the ATF form.
Narada Poole also failed to appear for a court date related to these charges in December 2021 and was arrested. He posted bail shortly after.
Poole's brother tapped with gun charges, too
Narada’s brother, Marquel Poole has also been convicted of prior gun-related crimes. He was arrested and later convicted of possessing a loaded Glock 26 handgun while under the influence outside of Pints Bar in downtown Iowa City in 2021.
Marquel Poole was not permitted to carry while he also tested at .099 for blood alcohol content. Poole was only 20 then and was fined for being underage in a bar. He was handed a deferred judgment and sentenced to one-year probation.
Voudhivong does not have any other criminal history in Iowa. He remains at the Johnson County jail and unsuccessfully attempted to lower his bail, which is $165,000. His trial is set to begin at 9 a.m. Aug. 1.
Ryan Hansen covers local government and crime for the Press-Citizen. He can be reached atrhansen@press-citizen.com or on Twitter @ryanhansen01. | https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/local/2023/06/27/narada-poole-is-third-arrest-connected-to-clock-tower-ramp-shooting/70361994007/ | 2023-06-28T03:18:12 | 0 | https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/local/2023/06/27/narada-poole-is-third-arrest-connected-to-clock-tower-ramp-shooting/70361994007/ |
KILLEEN, Texas — The Killeen Police Department arrested 42-year-old Michael Terrance Sneed for his involvement in a deadly hit-and-run on Tuesday, June 27.
According to police, on Monday, May 1, around 12:30 a.m., officers were called to the 4600 Block of E. Central Texas Expressway regarding a crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian.
When officers arrived, they found 48-year-old Rasha Kendrick lying in the road. She was taken to Seton Medical Center Harker Heights Hospital where she later died, police said.
Upon investigating, police learned that Kendrick entered the outside lane of the roadway when an Infinity Sedan going eastbound struck her, police said. The driver of this vehicle returned to the scene.
A second vehicle, also going eastbound, also struck the victim, but left, police said.
According to police, the investigators with the Traffic Unit were able to identify Sneed as the driver of the second vehicle, a Dodge Journey.
A warrant was issued for Sneed's arrest on Monday, June 26 and he turned himself in to the Bell County Jail, police say. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/killeen-pd-arrests-suspect-in-hit-and-run-that-left-48-year-old-woman-dead/500-d1c895a3-1d66-49f1-8ba4-d1dac73f803c | 2023-06-28T03:22:17 | 1 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/killeen-pd-arrests-suspect-in-hit-and-run-that-left-48-year-old-woman-dead/500-d1c895a3-1d66-49f1-8ba4-d1dac73f803c |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The Knights of Columbus St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Council 10483 is operating a fireworks stand for charity.
“We use this as our fundraiser. It funds our charitable giving throughout the year,” Fireworks Coordinator Brian Scharping said. “We’ve raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in our first 16 years. What’s cool about it, we’re all volunteers, we give all the money away. It’s so fun to do.”
Scharping says they have donated to over 40 organizations over the years.
“We have a handful of core groups that we donate to, and then after that, it’s if a group comes to us,” said Scharping.
Scharping says they have just one location near the intersection of West Central Avenue and North 119th Street West.
“I couldn’t imagine running more than one. It takes about 2,000 man-hours to operate this tent. We have about 500 volunteers over the week, and it’s hot. It’s a holiday. It’s crazy to try and get volunteers out here, but like I said, we’re all volunteers, and we do it because it’s fun, and we help so many people with it,” Scharping said.
Scharping says they have previously seen 6,000 to 7,000 people during the week their tent is open. He is expecting more this year.
“This year, I am expecting to see an uptick of about 10 to 20 percent,” said Scharping.
To stay up to date with the Knights of Columbus’s fireworks stand, like “Fireworks for Charities” on Facebook. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/knights-of-columbus-operating-fireworks-stand-for-charity/ | 2023-06-28T03:23:38 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/knights-of-columbus-operating-fireworks-stand-for-charity/ |
PHOENIX — A 9-year-old boy is in extremely critical condition after being pulled from a swimming pool in central Phoenix, according to the Phoenix Fire Department.
The incident happened Tuesday evening near 19th Avenue and Camelback Road.
Crews responded to the scene just after 6:00 p.m. and firefighters immediately started advanced life support measures on the child.
It's unclear at this time how long the child was under water.
This is a developing story; additional details will be added when they become available.
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Drowning is the leading cause of death for children between ages 1-4 aside from birth defects, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Three children die every day as a result of drowning. Here are some tips from the CDC on how to protect children around water:
Learn life-saving skills.
Everyone should know the basics of swimming (floating, moving through the water) and CPR.
Fence it off.
Install a four–sided isolation fence, with self–closing and self–latching gates, around backyard swimming pools. This can help keep children away from the area when they aren’t supposed to be swimming. Pool fences should be completely separate the house and play area from the pool.
Life jackets are a must.
Make sure kids wear life jackets in and around natural bodies of water, such as lakes or the ocean, even if they know how to swim. Life jackets can be used in and around pools for weaker swimmers too.
Keep a close watch
When kids are in or near water (including bathtubs), closely supervise them at all times. Because drowning happens quickly and quietly, adults watching kids in or near water should avoid distracting activities like reading books, talking on the phone, or using alcohol and drugs. | https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/child-pulled-from-phoenix-pool-19th-avenue-and-camelback-road/75-c06fdfcf-3478-491a-962f-9e3be7caafaf | 2023-06-28T03:25:01 | 1 | https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/child-pulled-from-phoenix-pool-19th-avenue-and-camelback-road/75-c06fdfcf-3478-491a-962f-9e3be7caafaf |
PHOENIX — Sky Harbor International Airport has been awarded $10 million to construct a "cultural corridor" that's intended to connect the airport's neighboring communities with the downtown area.
The City of Phoenix Aviation Department will use the grant money to make improvements along 7th and 16th streets, which includes the historic neighborhoods of El Campito, Cuatro Milpas, Ann Ott, Green Valley, and San Juan Batista.
The improvements include sidewalk upgrades, installing lights, adding bike lanes, creating public art projects, and constructing bus shelters.
The corridor is intended to provide a route where "children, members of the community, and visitors can travel safely while learning about the area’s past," records show.
"For years, the community has advocated for their neighborhoods’ needs, and this grant is a great investment in that vision,” Vice Mayor Yassamin Ansari said in a statement.
Officials said this corridor is intended to benefit disadvantaged communities around the airport by creating a "sense of identity" for residents living in these areas.
“This grant will enable us to honor the legacies, histories, and identities of existing communities while also improving safety and mobility in the region," Mayor Kate Gallego said in a statement.
The grant was allocated through the federal government's Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity program.
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PEA RIDGE, Ark. — It was a scene of controlled chaos at Pea Ridge Primary School Tuesday morning as multiple agencies came together to prepare for a day they hope will never come.
Pea Ridge police and fire departments joined with Bella Vista police and fire, Little Flock police, and the Gravette Fire Department for a two-day active shooter training program.
“Unfortunately, active shooting events are becoming more prevalent in America,” Cpl. Haley Evans with Bella Vista Police said. “We want to make sure that our officers and fire departments are trained and ready in case that were to happen.”
Lt. John Langham with the Pea Ridge Police Department said it is a training they hope they never have to use, but it is necessary.
“We've seen across the country what happens when agencies don't prepare,” said Lt. Langham. “And we do not want to be one of them.”
Officers and medical personnel are run through different scenarios all day at the school, each one forcing them to work together and adapt to the unexpected.
“We have probably 30 to 35 actors of all ages who play students and teachers that are yelling, screaming, and putting officers through everything that they will experience,” Evans said.
Langham says creating a high-stress environment during training is critical.
“If they've never experienced that stress, they won't know what to expect of themselves going in,” Langham said. “Anytime that you're in a stressful situation, it's very difficult without having been in that situation before to control your own emotions and your own reactions."
Langham says one of the scenarios involves actually removing victims from the building, and getting them loaded into ambulances to go off-site, possibly even including air ambulances.
Evans and Langham say they’re doing this to protect their communities and to be prepared to lend a hand to other agencies.
“If something happens, even our neighboring agencies, we will be there, they will know that we are there, we have the same training, and we're ready to help whenever they need it,” Evans said.
The training will resume on Thursday, and the Pea Ridge Primary School campus will be closed from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For safety reasons, Pea Ridge Police asks that anyone not involved in the training avoid the campus during that time.
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BOISE — As the weather heats up and dries out, wildfire season is looming in the West, and with it brings an inherent risk to the men and women who battle the blazes.
National Wildland Firefighter Day, established last year on July 2, is officially Sunday, but leaders from different agencies gathered Tuesday at the National Interagency Fire Center to recognize the occasion.
“Wildfires transcend boundaries and know no limits,” said Meagan Conry, deputy assistant director of fire and aviation at the Bureau of Land Management. “This requires a coordinated and collaborative response. Interagency partnerships like those represented here today play a vital role in accomplishing this mission.”
National Wildland Firefighter Day coincides with Wildland Firefighter Week of Remembrance, held annually June 30 to July 6, to honor those who have died in the line of duty.
The increased frequency, intensity and impact of wildfires — due to climate change and growth in the urban-wildlife interface — has meant increased risk to firefighters, said Jerry Perez, director of fire and aviation for the U.S. Forest Service. Because of this, it’s vital that these personnel are adequately compensated and provided needed physical and mental health resources, he said.
“Pay, benefits, and career opportunities that reflect the importance and danger of the work that we do is critical for retaining the world’s best firefighting force as we confront a growing wildfire crisis,” Perez said.
Perez highlighted the Forest Service’s Casualty Assistance and Critical Incident Stress Management programs, which aim to help recovery, assess needs and provide services when an incident occurs. He also noted the Employee Assistance Program, which directs employees to mental health resources; Congress recently approved more funding to build out this program, he said.
“We look at it as a continuum, from the time an employee enters an organization to the time when they may deal with a tragic event,” Perez said. “So it’s still continuing. When I dealt with my first fatality in 2005, there were none of these programs in place … it is a work in progress, but we recognize that we need to continue moving in that area.”
Locally, Boise Fire Department Chief Mark Niemeyer said Treasure Valley agencies have “robust” peer support teams, which comprise firefighters trained in mental health. The departments also all work closely with the Emergency Responders Health Clinic, located in Ada County, and the International Association for Firefighters Center for Excellence if personnel need higher levels of care.
In April, firefighters from around the country gathered in Boise to discuss the mental health and well-being of wildland firefighters and the challenges they face. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack spoke at the conference that was designed to “spearhead the development of a joint wildland firefighter behavioral health program, funded with the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law,” according to the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Perez said that President Joe Biden’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2024 includes $180 million for the U.S. Department of Agriculture to raise base pay for federal wildland firefighters. The proposal would also support the addition of 970 additional federal firefighters, which is an 8.5% increase over 2023 capacity, according to the USDA. The budget will need to be approved by Congress to go into effect.
The Idaho Department of Lands recently told the state Land Board that most of its seasonal personnel this year are in their first or second year as firefighters, the Idaho Press previously reported.
Casper Urbanek, southwest fire protection district fire warden at IDL, said the department isn’t deterred by lack of experience when hiring, because it provides the needed training. Becoming a firefighter is extremely competitive, he said, and those who currently hold the position competed with hundreds of applicants for it. However, finding those with sufficient experience to lead the crews is a challenge at the department and at other agencies as well, Urbanek said.
The state agency is at a particular disadvantage for retention because its wages are comparatively lower, with starting firefighter pay set at $15.45 an hour, he said. In 2022, the Legislature approved pay increases, but Urbanek said other agencies in that time have provided larger increases, so the gap continues to widen.
“The only time the firefighters ... really make decent money is when they’re on fire, and they work long shifts and earn overtime and hazard pay,” he said, “that’s the only time they really make the good money, the decent money, which is a shame.” | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/officials-recognize-wildland-firefighters-acknowledge-more-to-be-done-to-improve-pay-benefits/article_7cb94666-153b-11ee-9166-335776fc8008.html | 2023-06-28T03:32:32 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/officials-recognize-wildland-firefighters-acknowledge-more-to-be-done-to-improve-pay-benefits/article_7cb94666-153b-11ee-9166-335776fc8008.html |
A man is in custody, accused of pulling a gun on another driver following a road rage crash Tuesday afternoon on the President George Bush Turnpike in Collin County, state troopers say.
A Texas DPS spokesman said troopers were called shortly after 3 p.m. to a report of a man with a gun on the eastbound lanes of the turnpike near Preston Road.
The driver of a 2018 Hyundai Elantra, driven by Christiano Pinheiro De Abreu, "was road raging" when he struck a 2008 Hyundai Sonata, the spokesman said.
After both drivers pulled over, De Abreu was seen pointing a gun toward the other driver.
Ryan Haddox said he saw the tense situation and took a picture.
"There was traffic so we started slowing down, and then we saw that to the side," Haddox wrote in a message to NBC 5. "We got over a lane and got out of there right as a police officer was pulling up to the scene."
A United States Postal Inspection Service officer saw what was happening and detained both drivers until state troopers arrived, the DPS spokesman said.
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De Abreu was arrested on two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He was booked into the Collin County Jail.
No injuries were reported.
The DPS investigation is ongoing, the spokesman said.
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ROANOKE, Va. – Galen College of Nursing now has a new campus in Roanoke.
Thanks to a partnership with LewisGale, the private school opened a 34,000-square-foot facility on Electric Road Tuesday afternoon.
It features multiple skill labs with mannequins that simulate real-life patients.
The program provides two-year associate degrees in nursing and an LPN to ADN program.
Galen currently has 19 in-person campuses nationwide along with an online option. Learn more on their website. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/06/28/galen-college-of-nursing-opens-roanoke-campus/ | 2023-06-28T03:42:12 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/06/28/galen-college-of-nursing-opens-roanoke-campus/ |
LYNCHBURG, Va. – A very short and heated conversation ended Lynchburg City Council’s meeting on Tuesday.
The last item on Lynchburg City Council’s agenda Tuesday was a discussion regarding a resolution proposed by Councilman Marty Misjuns.
Last week, Misjuns announced on Facebook he would be bringing forth a resolution that he says will “promote merit, excellence, and opportunity in city government.” The resolution was accompanied by a letter by Misjuns that says the item will “contribute to improving workplace culture and ensuring our taxpayers are not funding unnecessary and divisive concepts in the workplace.”
In the resolution, Misjuns lays out a list of definitions for “racist or sexist concepts,” and essentially calls for the city to cease communications, training, and professional development using public funds and employment practices that promote any of the concepts he listed.
During Tuesday’s council meeting, more than a dozen people spoke against the resolution. Groups like the Lynchburg branch of the NAACP and Central Virginia YWCA were amongst some of the groups to talk.
Other comments came from Lynchburg residents like M.W. Thornhill.
“City council and public officials have been placed here to represent the citizens of Lynchburg. What better way of understanding our citizens than having training on diversity,” Thornhill said.
During the agenda item right before Misjun’s resolution, Vice-Mayor Chris Faraldi made a motion to adjourn following the vote on the previous agenda item.
“It was downright insulting to see how city staff were treated and I do not believe that resolution has earned the right to even be debated,” Faraldi said.
Misjuns responded to the motion saying there are serious issues within the city.
“If you talk to the people that work on the front lines. There are serious culture issues within the city government ... serious culture issues. It’s unbelievable,” Misjuns said.
Misjuns went on to say that he was ready to propose moving the agenda item to a work session so it can be discussed by City Council further.
Vice-Mayor Faraldi’s motion passed 5-2 and the meeting was adjourned. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/06/28/lynchburg-city-council-discusses-workplace-resolution/ | 2023-06-28T03:42:19 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/06/28/lynchburg-city-council-discusses-workplace-resolution/ |
DALLAS — A man has been arrested after a road rage incident on a highway Tuesday afternoon in Dallas, officials said.
The Texas Department of Public Safety said troopers responded to the incident just after 3 p.m. on the eastbound lanes of the President George Bush Turnpike near Preston Road.
According to DPS, driver Christiano Pinheiro De Abreu was involved in a road rage situation when he hit another vehicle on the road. Both of the drivers pulled over on the side of the highway.
Texas DPS said Abreu allegedly pointed a gun at the other driver. A photo taken by a witness showed both drivers out of their vehicles and the suspect pointing a gun at the other.
Officials said a federal post office police officer saw the incident and detained both drivers until Texas DPS troopers arrived.
Abreu was arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He was booked into the Collin County Jail.
Further details were not released as the investigation continues. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/man-seen-pointing-gun-driver-dallas-road-rage-arrested-texas-dps/287-795e1c98-3246-4ad3-84d1-065aefe9fdf8 | 2023-06-28T03:46:33 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/man-seen-pointing-gun-driver-dallas-road-rage-arrested-texas-dps/287-795e1c98-3246-4ad3-84d1-065aefe9fdf8 |
FORT WORTH, Texas — Inside a Fort Worth law firm, a head of pink hair rounds the corner and walks toward a conference room near the front door.
It's effortless to recognize Maitlyn Gandy these days -- she hasn't changed the color of her bright hair since her 7-year-old daughter, Athena Strand, was murdered in November of last year.
It is a visual reminder, she said, to keep fighting for her daughter's legacy.
Something that isn't always easy.
May 23 would have been the little girl's 8th birthday.
"Her birthday was very hard," Gandy said. "Every day is a different day. Some days are good, and some are not good. I'm getting used to the pink, it helps remind me and others why I get up every day."
"Every time I'm asked about this hair, I will tell Athena's story and how wonderful of a little girl she was."
Gandy sat down and spoke with WFAA alongside her attorneys for the first time since December 2022.
Weeks before that, investigators said her daughter was strangled to death by a driver for FedEx who later dumped her body in a rural part of Wise County.
The driver, Tanner Horner, confessed to accidentally hitting the little girl with his truck while dropping off a Christmas present at her home. The gift was a box of Barbie dolls that were intended for Athena.
Horner later said he panicked about the accident and killed the girl, fearing what would happen to him.
He has since been indicted for capital murder for a person under ten and aggravated kidnapping. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty, and Horner has pleaded not guilty. A trial date has yet to be set.
Gandy and Athena's father have since jointly filed a lawsuit against FedEx after the company terminated Horner.
As Gandy awaits a criminal and potential civil trial, she has worked tirelessly over the previous months to apply any lessons learned from her daughter's death in the state legislature.
With the help of state Rep. Lynn Stuckey, Gandy crafted a new bill signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott precisely three weeks after what would have been Strand's 8th birthday.
The legislation dubbed the "Athena Alert" bill allows law enforcement to send out a regional missing child alert without needing to prove that a child has been abducted.
Proof of abduction is required for statewide AMBER Alerts. The regional "Athena Alert" would only go to people within a 100-mile radius of where the child is believed to have gone missing or was last seen.
When Athena went missing, law enforcement waited almost 24 hours to issue an AMBER Alert. By only the process of elimination did they deduce that she was abducted.
During that delay, Gandy admits that she was upset.
"I felt helpless, and the entire time I was frustrated," Gandy said. "I would never blame law enforcement, but it was an obstacle we had to overcome."
Gandy even spent time in Austin lobbying lawmakers for change after the bill was filed. She spoke in front of several House members asking for the bill to be given the green light.
"I was so nervous I didn't know what I said until I watched back the video," Gandy said. "We all know there will be another child, there will be another that goes missing. I hope this brings that child's parents some comfort."
With a new alert cementing Athena's legacy, Gandy feels like her daughter would be proud.
The state knows her name, and so does the governor who runs it.
"We can't help Athena; that's up to the Wise County DA and the jury put on her case," Gandy said. "But we can help others. I hope that as terrible as my situation is and as terrible as Athena's life ended, we can impact at least one child's life not to end the way Athena's did."
"I do believe, even now in her death, if I could speak to her--that she would be very proud if she could understand the impact that her death and her life has made for other children."
Gandy told WFAA that now she will look to other states to see if she can help adapt or improve their AMBER Alert systems. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/mom-of-athena-strand-reflects-daughters-legacy-texas-law-named-after-her/287-b9149c28-fc5d-45e5-a591-e9ce7e14776a | 2023-06-28T03:46:39 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/mom-of-athena-strand-reflects-daughters-legacy-texas-law-named-after-her/287-b9149c28-fc5d-45e5-a591-e9ce7e14776a |
DENTON, Texas — Angela Simpson says that for the past week, her family has been trying to beat the heat.
They moved into the Oak Meadows Apartment Homes in Denton several months ago. But Angela says this week, her thermostat reading is seriously incorrect.
"The thermostat is saying that it's 60 degrees in here," Simpson said.
The temperature was nowhere near 60. Simpson notified the office at her complex the AC was out days ago.
"It's been about a week ago, I went to the office to let them know that it was hot and that the air was out," said Simpson.
Tuesday afternoon, one of the technicians was using a water hose to clean the AC units. The crews also spoke to several of her neighbors, who noticed them going from unit to unit. One maintenance crew member explained to Simpson's neighbor that they were not the only repairs underway.
During this week's back-to-back 100-degree-plus days, Simpson said things have gotten worse.
"It feels more like 85 to 90 degrees to me," Simpson said. "Yes, it's really uncomfortable."
But Simpson said she has an even bigger concern. Even with fans set up in her living room blowing 24/7, she keeps an inhaler nearby, fearing the heat inside her apartment will impact on her health.
"I am just afraid that after a while, it won't matter and I will have to end up going to the hospital," said Simpson, "I have had to use the inhaler twice today already."
WFAA reached out to Oak Meadow property managers by phone and at the office. A maintenance worker shared that we could only meet them in person by appointment.
Simpson hopes to have her AC fixed sooner rather than later. For people needing a place out of the heat, the city of Denton set up cooling centers and strongly suggests families use them as needed. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas-heat-wave-puts-ac-units-across-dfw-to-test-including-units-at-denton-apartment-complex/287-e834eb7c-e2f1-439c-a456-7e31087c73e7 | 2023-06-28T03:46:45 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas-heat-wave-puts-ac-units-across-dfw-to-test-including-units-at-denton-apartment-complex/287-e834eb7c-e2f1-439c-a456-7e31087c73e7 |
Pitching has been on point for the Bismarck Senators Legion baseball team thus far.
Tuesday evening, Sens hurlers Jason Juma and Hayden Emter got the benefit of crucial outs in the field to continue that run at Municipal Ballpark.
Thanks to a triple play in the first and a double play in the sixth, the Bismarck Senators beat cross-river Class A Legion rivals, the Mandan A's, 3-2.
"It was a good effort by the whole team," Juma said. "We had competitive at-bats every time, we were locked in from the start, and it was good that we were able to come back."
"The best thing about these last few days for us is that our pitching has been really good," Senators head coach Troy Olson said. "We're in a stretch where we're playing seven games in four days, and it takes everybody (to do that). I've been impressed with how we've been on the mound."
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Juma had hardly completed his warmup tosses to catcher Tyler Kleinjan when he found himself in deep trouble in the top of the first.
Mandan's first three batters reached base. Ty Weiler tripled and Doug Sheldon doubled before Cameron Beaver worked a walk.
Facing cleanup hitter Kingsley Briscoe, Juma was able to breathe a sigh of relief when Briscoe lined out to Senators shortstop Ben LaDuke, who touched second to double up Sheldon before throwing the ball to first baseman Andrew Jablonski.
"That triple play was huge," Olson said. "The first inning, it's frustrating when you need to get bailed out like that, but the guy hit the ball hard and Ben made a great play. It was good for us to get out of that."
Small ball allowed Mandan to extend their lead in the top of the second, as Tristan Ulmer led off the inning with a walk, stole second and third, and then came in on catcher Jensen Schulz's RBI knock to center.
That was all the damage the Senators allowed, though not from a lack of trying by the A's.
"I was staying confident out there, knowing I had a good defense behind me so I could let them hit the ball," Juma said. "I stayed confident, threw pitches in the strike zone and let my defense do the work."
Mandan starter Rob Bird Horse sent down the first four Senators hitters he faced by way of three strikeouts and a flyout before the Senators hitters finally got to him.
"I think we can do a better job in the early innings," Olson said. "Our first three at-bats in the first weren't great, but the positive side was that as the game went on, we started having better at-bats."
Juma helped his own cause by doubling in Kleinjan and putting Bird Horse in a second-and-third, one-out hole, but Bird Horse escaped with a fielder's choice that got Jablonski tagged out at home and a strikeout of Jared Frank.
"Tyler's been swinging the bat well, but Juma's been struggling a little by getting some unlucky breaks," Olson said. "The bottom of our order performed well today and gave us a chance to score some runs."
In the third and fourth innings, Mandan had a pair of runners on, including a second-and-third, nobody out jam in the fourth, but Juma got the Senators back in the dugout with no damage done.
"The biggest thing is we kept the walks low," Olson said. "Mandan with how they were hitting the ball around the park, they were earning everything they got because we didn't give them much."
The fourth-inning escape was particularly meaningful, as the Senators knocked out Bird Horse with three hits across four batters to load the bases.
"Our guys started focusing better at the plate, in the early innings we were striking out and popping out a lot," Olson said. "You can't have the heart of your lineup doing that, especially in plus counts, because those are pitches we need to drive."
Weiler entered to try and put out the fire, but the A's were only able to manage one out on a double-play-ball grounder to second. A throwing error on the attempt to first allowed both Kleinjan and Juma to score, giving the Senators the lead before the inning came to an end.
"That was good baserunning, we've practiced all year putting pressure on defenses," Juma said. "That's exactly what (left fielder Jared Frank) did, hitting it hard right at the second baseman and it caused some commotion out there."
Weiler did his job otherwise, allowing just a sixth-inning single to Jablonski in 2 2/3 innings, but the damage was done.
Mandan's offense, which had started strong, fizzled out late, going down one-two-three in the fifth and seventh innings.
The A's did manage to force Juma out of the game in the sixth, thanks to an error and a walk that put runners on first and second with one out, but Emter's entry was met on the very first batter with another line-drive double play, as the Senators doubled off Ulmer from second on a lineout by Peyton Koppy.
"Great job by Emter, he went in and did his job," Juma said. "Great shutdown performance from him."
Weiler (2-for-4, triple, run), Sheldon (1-for-4, double, RBI) and Schulz (2-for-2, double, walk, RBI) had all five of Mandan's hits.
The Senators were led offensively by Kleinjan (2-for-3, two runs), Jablonski (1-for-2, walk), Juma (2-for-3, double, run, RBI) and Emter (1-for-2).
"We had good approaches at the plate," Juma said. "Tyler is great at inside-outside swings and sending everything oppo. He's been hot and he stayed hot tonight. We attacked fastballs, jumping on fastballs early put pressure on defenses early and gets us runners on."
The A's look to rebound from the loss with a doubleheader tomorrow at home against Dickinson in their final games of June.
As for the Senators, they host Watford City at Haaland Field at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, followed by a road pair against Jamestown on Thursday.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WIAT) — Thousands are expected to go boating on Lake Tuscaloosa and many other rivers and lakes in Alabama for upcoming Fourth of July celebrations.
ALEA Senior Trooper Freddie Ingram is reminding boaters to play it smart while on the water for the holiday. Ingram took CBS 42 on a boat ride along Tuesday to discuss boat safety.
“We are asking every boater to make sure you’ve got a good lookout, make sure you know where you are at all times on the lake. Make sure you are not acting in a careless or reckless manner, and we will not tolerate any alcohol-related offenses,” Ingram said.
Boater Samantha Sumner says she is planning to be careful and obey the law when she hits the water with friends on the Fourth of July.
“I think it’s very important to be safe while boating because you don’t want to lose loved ones,” Sumner said. “I’ve actually lost someone on the lake that I knew on the Fourth of July, and they weren’t being safe so wear your life jacket and make sure you are being cautious”.
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PITTSBURGH — Two juveniles and a Port Authority police officer were taken to the hospital after a crash along the East Busway on Tuesday night.
Pittsburgh Regional Transit said a private car was traveling on the busway between 9:30 and 9:45 p.m.
Police tried to stop the vehicle, which sped off. The pursuit was stopped for safety reasons.
The car eventually hit a cruiser near Liberty Avenue.
No serious injuries were reported. PRT said both vehicles are reported to be badly damaged.
According to Pittsburgh Regional Transit, the juveniles were in a stolen vehicle.
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PITTSBURGH — All eyes are on the Supreme Court this week as justices weigh some major decisions, including President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan.
“Four degrees, lots of loans needed to be taken out to pay for all of that,” said nurse practitioner Laura Heltman who’s working on her post-masters certificate at Pitt.
If the court rules in favor of the program, most qualified borrowers would get up to $10,000 in debt relief. Some borrowers would get as much as $20,000.
Pitt college student Dayquon Henderson is closely watching how the student debt plan plays out in the Supreme Court.
“It definitely has been hard for me to be a student and worry about money,” Henderson said.
Henderson graduates in the fall and believes he’ll have to repay more than $100,000 in student loans. He said the debt relief program would help him out a lot, including his mom who he said raised him on her own.
With the more than three-year-pandemic pause on student loans set to expire on September 1, some borrowers, who are already struggling to keep up, are worried about yet another expense.
“It’s a lot of money each month I’m paying for these loans that could otherwise be used for, everything is more expensive now than it ever has been, housing and just cost of living has gone up over the years,” Heltman said.
Many are staying hopeful.
“It does worry me about how I’m going to take care of myself and taking care of my student loans but if we can find a way to help us mitigate that cost, and I believe they can,” Henderson said.
According to the White House, as many as 43 million eligible borrowers could benefit from the plan.
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SCRANTON, Pa. — A child welfare agency in Pennsylvania failed to protect children from horrific abuse and neglect, allowing them to languish for years in homes overtaken by animal waste and garbage, a prosecutor said Tuesday as he announced criminal charges against five caseworkers.
Three caseworkers and two supervisors at Lackawanna County’s Office of Youth and Family Services in Scranton were arrested on felony charges of child endangerment and failing to report abuse, days after state authorities downgraded the county agency’s license.
The caseworkers knew that children were living in dangerous, deplorable conditions, but “instead of coming to the rescue, they chose to walk away,” said District Attorney Mark Powell. In some cases, he said, the workers “falsified reports to make it seem like everything was OK when they knew it wasn’t.”
A Lackawanna County spokesperson declined to comment on the allegations — which involve eight children in three households — or whether any reforms were planned at the child welfare agency.
In one case, police went to a house for a report of loose dogs and found what court documents described as a house of horrors: Broken windows, piles of junk, swarms of mites or fleas, walls and floors covered in animal feces and urine, and an “overwhelming smell of feces, rotten garbage, fly activity, and decay” that required an officer to use a respirator.
The children in the home, ages 9 and 10, were underfed, covered in flea bites and slept on the floor without a pillow or blankets. The younger child was not toilet trained, according to court documents.
The mother said she knew she was failing to provide a safe home for her children — and told police she’d repeatedly and fruitlessly begged the Office of Youth and Family Services for help, according to a police affidavit.
She was “desperately seeking help, tools, treatment, and services, which never came,” police said.
Last week, following an annual inspection, the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services downgraded the county’s license to provisional status and ordered it to submit a plan of correction.
In response to the state inspection, the Office of Youth and Family Services tried to shift blame to Scranton police, whom the agency accused of running a “questionably motivated criminal investigation” into its practices.
“Bad actors in the police department are routinely using threats and intimidation” to investigate the child welfare agency, county officials said in their formal response. “The investigation’s primary outcome appears to be the denigration and defamation of both individuals in the agency as well as the entire mission, vision, and practice of the agency.”
A message was left with Scranton Police Chief Thomas Carroll seeking a response to the agency’s claims.
The county agency also blamed staff shortages for some of the problems, saying it was trying to increase its ranks and take other steps to address the shortcomings identified in the state inspection.
Powell, the district attorney, said a lack of staff had nothing to do with the criminal behavior of some of the agency’s employees.
“The children in these cases didn’t fall through the cracks because OYFS was understaffed. These cases were on the agency’s radar for a long time,” said Powell, adding that referrals had come from neighbors, landlords, teachers, code inspectors, medical professionals and others.
He said the abuse and neglect that children suffered because of the agency’s indifference was “heartbreaking and unacceptable.”
The defendants were identified as Randy Ramik, 59, of Clarks Green; Bryan Walker, 51, of Eynon; Erik Krauser, 45, of Dickson City; Sadie O’Day, 34, of Scranton; and Amy Helcoski, 50, of Scranton. Each defendant was freed on $20,000 unsecured bail with an order to return to court next month.
Court documents did not list attorneys for any of the defendants. A woman who answered the phone at a number for Ramik hung up on a reporter. The other defendants could not be reached.
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NORTH BRADDOCK, Pa. — Tuesday, plans to establish the Eastern Regional Mon Valley Police Department took a big step forward.
The North Braddock Borough Council voted unanimously to move forward with forming the regional police department, alongside Rankin and East Pittsburgh.
“This here was a huge step forward,” said North Braddock Mayor Cletus Lee.
“I think going with regional police is wonderful,” said North Braddock resident Barbara Rawls.
“I think it’ll set a tone for the neighborhoods to find other ways to work together and to create a culture that causes our neighborhoods to thrive,” said Borough Council President Lisa Franklin-Robinson.
She will join Mayor Lee and Council Member Juanita Giles serving two-year terms as North Braddock’s three representatives on the commission overseeing the new police force.
Rankin and East Pittsburgh are set to officially vote to join the commission and nominate their members next month, on July 11 and 18, respectively.
“Hoping that all goes well with their vote, then we’ll be moved into phase two which will start the onboarding of employees, starting to build out that professional policing culture that this area desperately needs and wants, and we’ll be well on our way to be operational on January 1,” said Gerald Simpson, a peer consultant with the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development who has been assisting throughout this police department merger.
The new police commission will have to hire officers and a chief.
Preliminary budgets show the new department will have 12 full-time and some part-time officers.
According to Simpson, that means these communities will no longer have to rely on patrol help from State Police.
“It’ll be big and vital to this community to have that 24-hour service that’s readily available to respond to their emergency needs or their calls for service,” Simpson said.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Family and friends gathered Tuesday night to celebrate the life of a man gunned down after a party on Saturday night.
Investigators said a party involving about 100 people was wrapping up at the Unity Banquet Hall on North Hiawassee Road when someone opened fire.
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Two people were killed in the shooting.
Tuesday, a vigil was held for 36-year-old Jonathan Frazier, a local pastor, and owner of the banquet hall.
Family members told Channel 9 that Frazier was closing the hall after hosting a birthday party there when he was shot.
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Frazier’s older sister, Felicia Frazier, said her brother and his wife rented the hall out, held events there, and worshipped there.
“I want justice for my brother. This was senseless. Senseless,” Frazier said. “To get gunned down in the place he worshipped at. Oh wow.”
Deputies said no one has come forward to give them any leads at this time.
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The family of the 36-year-old said they are saddened and frustrated that no one who was there that night has come forward with any information.
“If you know something, you say something, that’s how we need to stop this violence. It could be one of your family members. What if it was one of your family members,” Frazier added.
Crimeline is offering a $5,000 reward for tips leading to an arrest in this shooting.
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SAN ANTONIO — Three members of the San Antonio Police Department have been arrested after shooting and killing a 46-year-old woman believed to have been suffering a mental health crisis at the time.
The suspects – two of them officers with SAPD, and the third a sergeant – were arrested within 19 hours of the shooting, which unfolded around 2 a.m. on Friday, June 23. The aftermath has evolved into the highest-profile criminal investigation involving San Antonio police since the shooting of a local teen in October of 2022.
Here's everything we know about the incident and the ensuing investigation.
What happened?
Police arrived at the home of the victim, Melissa Perez, around 2 a.m. on June 23 after she tinkered with her fire alarm, sparking a law enforcement response. Officials later said it's believed she was suffering a mental health crisis.
Perez eventually locked herself in her unit, according to authorities, launching an apparent standoff. Police say additional officers arrived, establishing positions outside her front door and at her back porch.
Police say Perez eventually shattered a window from the inside with a hammer, prompting one officer to fire in her direction, missing her.
Perez eventually returned to the patio door, still holding the hammer. At that point, the three now-arrested officers respond by shooting at her, hitting her at least twice. Perez was pronounced dead at the scene, officials say, despite police breaking in and trying to provide medical aid.
Body camera video released by SAPD shows the police response and eventual gunfire. Before the shooting, Perez can be heard yelling: "You ain't got a warrant!"
At around 9 p.m. the same day, SAPD Chief William McManus announced the arrests of the three officers, saying the use of deadly force "was not reasonable." The officers were also suspended without pay.
What was the response from leaders?
McManus later said the actions of the suspended officers were "not consistent with SAPD evidence and training."
Elected officials responded as well, most notably City Council member Jalen McKee-Rodriguez, who has pushed for police accountability. While acknowledging McManus' swift decision in suspending the officers, he said on Twitter that "out community, and this family, deserve justice."
The San Antonio activist group ACT4SA published a strong rebuke of the shooting online, saying in part that "this senseless loss of life should never have occurred."
"We have mental health crisis response programs and I'm just wondering why they had not been called to respond to the scene, because it led to a deadly escalation and that's the whole point of having these types of teams here to avoid this from happening," ACT4SA Executive Director Ananda Tomas also told KENS 5.
Who are the officers charged?
The arrested officers are Eleazar Alejandro, 28; Nathaniel Villalobos, 27; and 45-year-old Alfred Flores, a sergeant.
Flores has been with SAPD for 14 years. Alejandro and Villalobos have been with SAPD for five and two years, respectively. All were briefly in jail on individual $100,000 bonds, but were released after posting bail by the next morning.
Former Bexar County District Attorney Nico LaHood is representing Villalobos, and told KENS 5 "murder charges should not be taken lightly, especially against three individuals, whether (they are) police officers or not."
"We just have never seen the case move this quickly through the justice system," he added.
Another San Antonio attorney, Ben Sifuentes, hired to represent Alejandro, said, "we believe that an incomplete investigation has been done at this stage and we are looking forward to getting all the evidence and defending our client vigorously."
It's unknown if Flores has hired legal representation.
All three suspects have a preliminary hearing set for July.
Who was Melissa Perez?
Perez was a 46-year-old San Antonio resident and mother. After the shooting, her daughter, Alexis Tovar, gave a brief statement in which she said she was "heartbroken by the actions" of the arrested SAPD officers.
The family has said it intends to file a civil lawsuit against all three officers. The attorney representing them told KENS 5 Perez suffered from mental illness, saying officers should've worked to de-escalate the situation on June 23 through mental health specialists.
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DENTON, Texas — Angela Simpson says that for the past week, her family has been trying to beat the heat.
They moved into the Oak Meadows Apartment Homes in Denton several months ago. But Angela says this week, her thermostat reading is seriously incorrect.
"The thermostat is saying that it's 60 degrees in here," Simpson said.
The temperature was nowhere near 60. Simpson notified the office at her complex the AC was out days ago.
"It's been about a week ago, I went to the office to let them know that it was hot and that the air was out," said Simpson.
Tuesday afternoon, one of the technicians was using a water hose to clean the AC units. The crews also spoke to several of her neighbors, who noticed them going from unit to unit. One maintenance crew member explained to Simpson's neighbor that they were not the only repairs underway.
During this week's back-to-back 100-degree-plus days, Simpson said things have gotten worse.
"It feels more like 85 to 90 degrees to me," Simpson said. "Yes, it's really uncomfortable."
But Simpson said she has an even bigger concern. Even with fans set up in her living room blowing 24/7, she keeps an inhaler nearby, fearing the heat inside her apartment will impact on her health.
"I am just afraid that after a while, it won't matter and I will have to end up going to the hospital," said Simpson, "I have had to use the inhaler twice today already."
WFAA reached out to Oak Meadow property managers by phone and at the office. A maintenance worker shared that we could only meet them in person by appointment.
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DICKENSON COUNTY, Va. (WJHL) — One person is in critical condition and another is in custody following a shooting in the Clinchco community on Tuesday night.
According to a statement from Dickenson County Sheriff Jeremy Fleming, the incident happened at around 9 p.m. on Banner Street when two subjects reportedly began fighting.
Fleming told News Channel 11 that the suspect brandished a firearm and shot the victim in the chest. Fleming went on to say the victim is stable, but in critical condition and being transferred to a trauma center.
The suspect was taken into custody and charges are pending, according to Fleming.
Neither the identity of the suspect nor the victim has been released.
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PUYALLUP, Wash. — At a press conference on Tuesday, the Puyallup Police Department made its case for a $56 million bond measure that would fund a new police station and jail for the city.
Puyallup Police Chief Scott Engle says the current police station is falling apart, and can’t properly house the 95-person staff.
He also says the current jail is overcrowded. Originally, the jail was designed to hold 21 people, but now, 52 people are detained there.
“We lack the ability to grow any further in a community that is absolutely still growing,” he said.
The total cost of the project is $76 million. In addition to the $56 million that would come from the bond, the other $20 million would be paid through bonds issued to the city.
The bond measure will go up for a vote this November. If approved, work will begin on designing the new building next year, and homeowners in Puyallup would pay around an extra $180 in annual property taxes.
The police department has made its case to voters about the need for new facilities since 2021 but has so far failed to get enough support.
Business owner Chris Chisholm says the issue for him isn’t the police station, it’s the jail.
“We don’t need a whole new jail,” he said. “We need some holding facilities, where people who are waiting to appear in front of the judge can be held.”
Like many cities, Puyallup makes use of the Pierce County Jail for felony arrests, but Engle says staff shortages make the county jail unreliable.
“Our officers face booking restrictions at the Pierce County Jail on a daily basis for felony offenders,” Engle said. “We absolutely disagree that they are going to be able to take misdemeanor offenders from Puyallup on the amount and consistency that we need to ensure safety and security in our community.”
Chisholm says the money could be spent on other services that Puyallup needs.
“All of those infrastructure projects are not going to happen for another 25 years here in Puyallup,” he said.
But Engle says this is an investment in the community that will pay off for Puyallup in the long term.
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SEATTLE — Mental health professionals will soon be dispatched to some 911 calls that would usually be handled by Seattle police. This is due to a new alternative 911 response pilot program that is set to launch in October.
The pilot program will allow dispatchers to send mental health professionals to certain crisis calls instead of police officers. The pilot was created by Mayor Bruce Harrell’s office and is being carried out by the Community Safety and Communications Center, which handles 911 calls and dispatch.
On Tuesday, Seattle City Council’s Public Safety and Human Services Committee got an update on the pilot program.
“Mental health responders are uniquely trained and situated to address the very unique needs of folks who are not engaged in criminal activity, but still really need some help,” said Seattle City Councilmember Lisa Herbold, the chair of the Public Safety and Human Services Committee.
During the update, Amy Smith with the Communications Safety and Communications Center said they are still in the hiring process for some positions. She said by August they would be staffed for the pilot and that they would do field testing in August and September.
The pilot will officially launch in October.
This pilot program has been in the works since 2020, when people in the community called for police reform.
“There are moral and ethical reasons, there are financial reasons, and there are actually reasons related specifically to the ability of our police officers to respond to all of the 911 calls they receive,” said Herbold.
The pilot program will have six mental health professionals who will work in teams of two to respond to calls where dispatchers believe police are not needed, like wellness checks on people downtown showing mental health crisis symptoms.
Something people familiar with police reforms believe this could work well, because they say mental health professionals have training that police officers don’t.
“They'll bring their professional training on how to de-escalate and be able to talk to people in a different way,” said Reverend Harriett Walden, the director of Mothers for Police Accountability.
She said that not only could mental health professionals be better suited for these wellness check calls, but it will also take those calls of the hands of police.
“They make a lot of well checks, really and truly, a lot,” said Walden. “So, so far I think that it’s a good idea.”
If the pilot shows success, the mayor’s office said it would expand it to become a new public safety department. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/seattle-pilot-program-mental-health-professionals-911-calls/281-b430fe23-c81b-410e-9002-6fd21e19807e | 2023-06-28T04:02:03 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/seattle-pilot-program-mental-health-professionals-911-calls/281-b430fe23-c81b-410e-9002-6fd21e19807e |
SEATTLE — An affordable housing complex for women and families is now open in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood along Denny Way.
"When it comes to housing, we've got to go big so people can go home and we're doing that right here today," said Gov. Jay Inslee at the building opening event on Tuesday.
YWCA staff will be onsite to provide wraparound services for residents. According to the City of Seattle, wraparound services are meant to support children and families in all aspects of their lives. These services will include referrals to employment training, job search support, transportation resources, food bank vouchers, assistance with applications for benefits and access to health care services, including mental health counseling.
Inslee said the project is an example of using available resources to create more affordable housing across the state.
"I think it's the perfect solution to our problem," Inslee said. "We took an existing building, instead of taking 10 years to build one and we've started a rapid acquisition program that I've asked the legislature to fund so we can get into existing buildings."
The YWCA operates more than 1,000 affordable housing units across the Puget Sound region.
According to the YWCA, half of the units in the building will be for households earning 30% or less of area median income (AMI), and half for households earning 50% or less of AMI. Fifty-four units will provide permanent supportive housing (PSH), which combines housing placements without time limits. PSH residents will receive individual case management services from a Resident Life Coach.
Download our free KING 5 app to stay up-to-date on news stories from across western Washington. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/ywca-affordable-housing-women-families-seattle-capitol-hill/281-b15cfda0-8446-4ac7-9753-f646ff5a719f | 2023-06-28T04:02:09 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/ywca-affordable-housing-women-families-seattle-capitol-hill/281-b15cfda0-8446-4ac7-9753-f646ff5a719f |
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TOWSON, Md. — The recent storms have caused trees to collapse on top of homes and in yards.
“Know where you stand with your trees, and there is so many warning signs that a licensed tree expert is going to be able to convey," said Johnny Giorgilli, who is a part of Nationwide Tree Service.
Johnny Giorgilli, who is an expert on trees and tree removal, says it's important for people to take the right steps after a tree has fallen on their property.
He said there are a lot of misconceptions about what to do.
“They believe that their insurance company is going to be paying for everything, it’s unfortunately not. In many cases, their deductible is equivalent to or actually below what they would be allowed to have it cleaned up," he said.
He says it's important to contact a legit tree removal company that will work with yourinsurance.
Don't try to remove a tree alone or with the help of family and friends.
He says it could be dangerous, and the expenses will then have to come out of your own pocket.
“Outside of a fire, and you’re properly insured, it is exactly what you’re paying for insurance for. So there is no reason for a home owner to try and tackle it themselves. In fact, about a mile from here, there was a homeowner that did that and ended up having their house boarded up for a year because they were then in a battle with the insurance company because they in essence did the work," said Giorgilli.
After a disaster, many people and companies will offer their services to help clean up any damage, Giorgilli says to be sure to only deal with licensed companies.
“One of the things we do is we always provide our certificate and license information; homeowners should be asking to see that as well as not just assuming that it's all good and active, but they can call the department of natural resources and find out that the person is properly licensed,” said Giorgilli.
He also said people should be aware of the conditions of the trees on their property at all times of the year, especially the ones near their home, to reduce the potential for property damage if and when a tree falls. | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/licensed-tree-expert-shares-advice-for-fallen-trees-after-a-storm | 2023-06-28T04:07:53 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/licensed-tree-expert-shares-advice-for-fallen-trees-after-a-storm |
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Ohio Veterans' Memorial Park to honor longtime park volunteer
The Repository
CLINTON − The Ohio Veterans' Memorial Park, 8005 S. Cleveland-Massillon Road, will honor longtime park volunteer and board member the late Richard (Rick) F. Stoltz on July 15.
Stoltz died May 28, and his tours included Vietnam and Cambodia, where he received two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star with an oak leaf cluster.
The Canal Fulton Community Band will perform at the event at 7 p.m. The rain date July 16.
Admission is free, but donations are welcome. Those attending should bring a chair. A handmade lap quilt and a custom-made wooden flag will be raffled off. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/2023/06/27/ohio-veterans-memorial-park-to-honor-park-volunteer-richard-stoltz/70346417007/ | 2023-06-28T04:28:45 | 0 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/2023/06/27/ohio-veterans-memorial-park-to-honor-park-volunteer-richard-stoltz/70346417007/ |
CANTON
Air quality alert issued for Stark County
Kelly Byer
The Repository
CANTON — Stark County is under an air quality alert for fine particulate matter because of wildfire smoke.
Canton City Health Commissioner James Adams issued the alert Wednesday and predicted the unhealthy air quality to continue throughout the day. People with respiratory diseases, children or older adults are most at risk.
In a news release, Adams advised people to avoid long periods or intense activity outdoors. The latest air quality readings are available at airnow.gov, and residents with questions about the alert can call 330-438-4640. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/canton/2023/06/27/air-quality-alert-issued-for-stark-county/70362150007/ | 2023-06-28T04:28:51 | 0 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/canton/2023/06/27/air-quality-alert-issued-for-stark-county/70362150007/ |
AUSTIN, Texas — While the City of Austin and the Circuit of The Americas (COTA) prepare for the U.S. Grand Prix in October, neighbors hope they have a plan for improving cell service and traffic.
Last year, the U.S. Grand Prix brought a historic 440,000 attendees to the Austin area. Elizabeth Cunningham said it brought her an ongoing headache.
"We've all been really vocal about it," said Cunningham. "People complain about the roads constantly."
Cunningham lives on Jacobson Road, which is a back way to a COTA parking lot. It was a new route for hundreds of shuttle buses to and from the 2022 Grand Prix.
"The sides of the road are so cracked and falling down into the drainage ditches that you can't keep your vehicle in that lane," said Cunningham.
KVUE saw drivers dodging the deep cracks on the narrow two-lane country road. Cunningham said those problems didn't appear until right after the three-day event.
"It's a country road," said Cunningham. "It was never the Ritz Carlton of roads, but it wasn't dangerous."
During the Formula One race, Cunningham said the bus traffic blocked her driveway, leaving her stuck at home.
"It was pretty scary for me," said Cunningham. "There's no way to get around them. Even if it was an emergency, there's no turn-off lane."
With hundreds of thousands in one spot, cell service was poor for multiple communities in the area. At the time, KVUE received numerous emails from viewers about the issue. Cunningham said she had no cell service at all.
"You literally cannot contact anyone off the property," said Cunningham.
With regard to cell signal, in a statement, a spokesperson for COTA told KVUE:
"Like any major event across the world, the number of individuals gathered in a certain area presents a challenge for cell service and data usage. However, we have identified a solution and are bringing in a robust system upgrade, with the expectation of better results at this year's event."
Traffic during the Grand Prix and other large COTA events is historically congested.
After the 2022 Grand Prix, Aida Ramirez, who lives just up the road in Del Valle in the Berdoll Farms neighborhood, said her 12-minute drive home was two hours in the F1 traffic.
According to a Travis County website, construction on problem areas like Ross Road and Pearce Lane won't be completed before the event in October. An expansion on Kellam Road just wrapped up. In 2022, Elroy Road, which leads to the venue, was expanded from two lanes to five.
Jacobson Road isn't on the list for improvements.
"Since they haven't repaired the roads at all, I wonder, how much worse can they get?" asked Cunningham. "Also, for them, I wouldn't feel safe riding in a bus on the roads the way they are right now."
COTA's team said shuttles will return for this year's Grand Prix weekend in October and it's working with the City of Austin to determine the best transportation routes and improvements.
Cunningham hopes they keep neighbors in mind. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/cota-us-grand-prix-neighbors-traffic-cell-service/269-351f22fb-d7bc-4741-92fd-c544ef514238 | 2023-06-28T04:29:50 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/cota-us-grand-prix-neighbors-traffic-cell-service/269-351f22fb-d7bc-4741-92fd-c544ef514238 |
SAN MARCOS, Texas — Dropping aquifer levels are forcing the city of San Marcos to enter Stage 3 drought restrictions, effective Sunday, July 2, at 12 p.m.
On Monday, the 10-day Edwards Aquifer index well average level was at 638.5 feet and the daily reading was at 636.4 feet. Stage 3 is triggered when the average falls below 640 feet above mean sea level (msl).
As Central Texas continues to see triple-digit heat, water levels in the San Marcos River remain low. Virginia Parker, the executive director for the San Marcos River Foundation, told KVUE the water levels are less than half of what the average is.
To conserve water, the City is asking people to restrict their use of sprinklers to one day every other week on a designated weekday determined by their address.
If you use hose-end sprinklers on your property, you're allowed to use them only on your designated weekday during designated usage times. If you use automatic irrigation systems, you're allowed to run them on your designated weekday beginning at 8 p.m. and ending the following morning at 4 a.m. Hand watering and using soaker hoses or drip irrigation is allowed on any day during the designated usage times.
The Stage 3 rules also limit washing cars at home and watering foundations to one day per week. Wasting water is prohibited.
If you have any questions about the rules, visit the City's drought website. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/san-marcos-stage-3-drought-restrictions/269-1bebef43-0726-4274-ae55-8ff6a79419b1 | 2023-06-28T04:29:56 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/san-marcos-stage-3-drought-restrictions/269-1bebef43-0726-4274-ae55-8ff6a79419b1 |
Hudson Amstutz catches a pitch from his buddy Judah Kurzen as the two practice baseball at Judah’s home near the corner of Kinnaird and Indiana on Tuesday afternoon. Both boys play on area little league teams and regularly touch up on their skills together. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/staying-sharp/article_fc2ab27e-153e-11ee-a981-4bcea568d3f6.html | 2023-06-28T04:33:08 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/staying-sharp/article_fc2ab27e-153e-11ee-a981-4bcea568d3f6.html |
Works continues on Fort Wayne Veterans Memorial Bridge Jun 28, 2023 31 min ago Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Workers from R.L. McCoy Inc. work Tuesday afternoon on newly added pieces of the downtown bridge that carries Spy Run Avenue over the St. Marys River. The renovated structure has been renamed the Fort Wayne Veterans Memorial Bridge. Stan Sussina | The Journal Gazette Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Works continues on Fort Wayne Veterans Memorial Bridge Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Most Popular Best bargain burgers in Fort Wayne area Memorial Coliseum is immersed in Van Gogh's work with new exhibit Wrongful death lawsuit filed against county officials, jail officers, health contractor New laws to take effect July 1 Victim of Greentree Court shooting identified Stocks Market Data by TradingView | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/works-continues-on-fort-wayne-veterans-memorial-bridge/article_4d35fbd8-153f-11ee-a670-4764fd52cc6e.html | 2023-06-28T04:33:14 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/works-continues-on-fort-wayne-veterans-memorial-bridge/article_4d35fbd8-153f-11ee-a670-4764fd52cc6e.html |
The 25th Annual “Brutus” Fluke Tournament was held Saturday, June 17 in waters around South Jersey. The event raised funds for Egg Harbor Township Elks Lodge #2563 and Somers Point American Veterans Post 911.
The tournament's organizers said it was their "best tournament ever," with the largest turnout at 166 people, the most fish ever weighed in at 48, and the first time both auxiliary categories had entrees.
The winners of the adult division were Tina Sims in first place, with a 6.07 lb., 25-inch fish, and Nick Giglio in second place with 5.26 lb., 24.5 inches. The junior category for those ages 14 and younger was won by AJ Davis, whose fish was 4.05 lb. and 22 inches.
Additional categories included Bluefish winner Tom Quarry with a 2.06 lb. fish and Striper winner Tim Fitzick with an 8.16 lb., 28.5 inch catch. Also in second place in the Striper category was Junior Angler Cody Gregory with a 7.84 pounder.
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The fishing tournament is named in memory of Walter “Brute” Gregory, Sr. For more information on the tournament, call 609-513-6219 or 609-626-2675. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/25th-annual-brutus-fluke-tournament-benefits-local-charities/article_65fc0df8-1452-11ee-bd6d-6b8aa9468caa.html | 2023-06-28T04:34:24 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/25th-annual-brutus-fluke-tournament-benefits-local-charities/article_65fc0df8-1452-11ee-bd6d-6b8aa9468caa.html |
Events
Wednesday, June 28
AVALON DUNE AND BEACH WALK: 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays through Aug. 30; Beach Entrance, 48th Street, Avalon. 609-967-7155 or avalonfreelibrary.org.
'BOND BETWEEN HUMANS AND ANIMALS': 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays through June 28; for ages 18 and older; join Cherie Scheurich, from Absecon Veterinary Hospital, for a 4-week course where you will learn all about the human-animal bond; Mays Landing Branch/Atlantic County Library System, 40 Farragut Ave., Hamilton. 609-625-2776 or atlanticlibrary.org.
BORED? GAMES!: 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesdays through Aug. 31; for ages 10 to adult; games are family-friendly classic board games meant for at least two players; Ventnor City Branch/Atlantic County Library System, 6500 Atlantic Ave., Ventnor; registration required. 609-823-4614 or atlanticlibrary.org.
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WEDNESDAY FAMILY GAME NIGHT: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Aug. 30; for all ages; board games provided; Pleasantville Branch/Atlantic County Library System, 33 Martin Luther King Junior Ave., Pleasantville; registration required. 609-641-1778 or atlanticlibrary.org.
Thursday, June 29
BOOK BIKE STORY TIME AT 39TH STREET PLAYGROUND: 10 to 10:30 a.m.; special visit from the Book Bike; Playground, 39th Street, Avalon. 609-967-7155 or avalonfreelibrary.org.
CYBER THURSDAYS: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursdays through Aug. 31; Pleasantville Branch/Atlantic County Library System, 33 Martin Luther King Junior Ave., Pleasantville. 609-641-1778 or atlanticlibrary.org.
FIRST RESPONDERS DAY: 10 to 11 a.m.; meet community members who keep us safe, explore their vehicles, and learn about their work from Community Policing Officer Lawrence; free activity for all ages; Ocean County Library/Stafford Branch, 129 N. Main St., Stafford Township. 732-349-6200 or theoceancountylibrary.org.
GALLOWAY GREEN MARKET: 4 to 7 p.m. Thursdays; fresh produce, local honey, baked goods, crafts, and more; 615 E. Moss Mill Road, Galloway Township. 609-742-7076.
SENIOR CRAFT AND ACTIVITIES: 10 a.m. to noon Thursdays through June 29; Pleasantville Branch/Atlantic County Library System, 33 Martin Luther King Junior Ave., Pleasantville. 609-641-1778 or atlanticlibrary.org.
Monday, July 3
BEACHCOMBING THE CREST: 6 to 7 p.m. Mondays through Aug. 28; wander the shore in search of tideline treasures; Cape May County Library/Wildwood Crest Branch, 6300 Atlantic Ave., Wildwood Crest. 609-463-6350 or events.cmclibrary.org.
ESL CAREER READINESS LAB: 9:30 a.m. to noon Mondays through July 31; learn how to use the Engen Language Upskilling platform, which provides ESL classes and tutorials with a focus on job interview skills, and the food and beverage industry and hospitality industry; Public Library, 1 N. Tennessee Ave., Atlantic City. 609-345-2269 or acfpl.org.
LINE DANCING - WITH SUSAN PENNYPACKER: noon to 12:45 p.m. Mondays; no meetings Sept. 4, Oct. 9; Wildwood Crest Branch, 6300 Atlantic Ave., Wildwood Crest. 609-463-6350 or events.cmclibrary.org.
MEDITATIVE DRUM CIRCLE: 5 to 6 p.m. Mondays; bring your own instrument or borrow one; no meetings Aug. 28, Sept. 4, Oct. 9, Nov. 6, Dec. 25; Cape May Court House Branch, 30 Mechanic St., Middle Township. 609-463-6350 or events.cmclibrary.org.
MESSY MONDAY CRAFT: 2 to 3 p.m. Mondays, July 3, Aug. 7; monthly crafts for all; start your week off with fun by getting into some glue, glitter or paint; for all ages; Pleasantville Branch/Atlantic County Library System, 33 Martin Luther King Junior Ave., Pleasantville; registration required. 609-641-1778 or atlanticlibrary.org.
For kids
Wednesday, June 28
FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT: 6 to 7 p.m. June 28, July 25, Aug. 29, movies to be determined; for ages 4 and older; refreshments provided; Hammonton Branch/Atlantic County Library System, 451 S. Egg Harbor Road, Hammonton; registration required. 609-561-2264 or atlanticlibrary.org.
NUTRITIONAL SNACK KITS FOR KIDS: June 27 through 30; Millville Public Library will be giving out free healthy snack food kits for kids; kits will include enough food for 4 servings; Millville Public Library, 210 Buck St., Millville. 856-825-7087.
PLAYDATE AT THE LIBRARY: 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesdays through Aug. 9; for ages 6-36 months; enjoy stories, rhymes and songs designed to develop early literacy skills; Mays Landing Branch/Atlantic County Library System, 40 Farragut Ave., Hamilton; registration required. 609-625-2776 or atlanticlibrary.org.
Thursday, June 29
123 READ & SING: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Thursdays through Aug. 10; for ages 1 1/2 to 5 and their caregivers; Galloway Township Branch/Atlantic County Library System, 306 E. Jimmie Leeds Road, Galloway Township. 609-652-2352 or atlanticlibrary.org.
DASH BOT PROGRAMMING CLASS: 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.; come meet Dash and see the many things he can do; learn about coding and how you can get Dash up and going; Millville Public Library, 210 Buck St., Millville. 856-825-7087 or millvillepubliclibrary.org.
KIDS' CONCERT AND DANCE PARTY WITH JESSICA CARROLL: 11 a.m. to noon; have fun singing and fancy stepping to new, classic, and upbeat childrens' songs; Ocean County Library/Long Beach Island Branch, 217 S. Central Ave., Surf City. 732-349-6200 or theoceancountylibrary.org/events.
KIDS' EVENT: LEGO THURSDAY: 10 to 11 a.m. Thursdays through Aug. 31; the library will supply the Legos, you supply the imagination; Public Library, 235 32nd St., Avalon. 609-967-7155 or avalonfreelibrary.org.
Saturday, July 1
DROP-IN LEGO PLAYTIME: 1 to 2 p.m. Saturdays through August; Egg Harbor Township/Atlantic County Library System, 1 Swift Drive, Egg Harbor Township. 609-927-8664 or atlanticlibrary.org.
SATURDAY FAMILY STORYTIME: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Saturdays through August; Egg Harbor Township/Atlantic County Library System, 1 Swift Drive, Egg Harbor Township. 609-927-8664 or atlanticlibrary.org.
Monday, July 3
PRESCHOOL STORYTIME - ABSECON: 10 to 11 a.m. Mondays; Absecon branch/Atlantic County Library System, 305 New Jersey Ave., Absecon. 609-646-2228 or atlanticlibrary.org.
PRESCHOOL STORYTIME - EGG HARBOR CITY: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Mondays through Aug. 28; Egg Harbor City Branch/Atlantic County Library System, 134 Philadelphia Ave., Egg Harbor City. 609-804-1063 or atlanticlibrary.org.
Groups
Wednesday, June 28
LIFE IN WAVES - ONLINE WORKING WOMEN'S GROUP: 7 to 8 p.m. second and fourth Wednesdays; support and discussion group for women in the workplace; hosted by Mental Health Association in Atlantic County. 609-652-3800 or MHAAC.info.
RATHER BE READING BOOK CLUB: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. last Wednesdays through Aug. 30; call for each month's book title; Somers Point Branch/Atlantic County Library System, 801 Shore Road, Somers Point. 609-927-7113 or atlanticlibrary.org.
Thursday, June 29
AL-ANON MEETING: 11 a.m. to noon Thursdays through December; by Al-Anon Family Groups; Cape May County Library/Lower Cape Branch, 2600 Bayshore Road, Lower Township. 609-463-6350 or events.cmclibrary.org.
CROCHET GROUP: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Aug. 31; learn and practice your craft in a fun and welcoming environment; Egg Harbor City Branch/Atlantic County Library System, 134 Philadelphia Ave., Egg Harbor City. 609-804-1063 or atlanticlibrary.org.
EHT BOOK CLUB: 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursdays, monthly book club; Egg Harbor Township/Atlantic County Library System, 1 Swift Drive, Egg Harbor Township. 609-927-8664 or atlanticlibrary.org.
Friday, June 30
AMERICAN MAH JONGG: 1 to 3 p.m. Fridays; Wildwood Crest Branch, 6300 Atlantic Ave., Wildwood Crest. 609-463-6350 or events.cmclibrary.org.
CONVERSATIONAL LENAPE LANGUAGE - WITH TERI HISLOP: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Fridays; newcomers welcome; Lower Cape Branch, 2600 Bayshore Road, Lower Township. 609-463-6350 or events.cmclibrary.org.
'LIGHTBULB' ONLINE GROUP: 3 to 4 p.m. Fridays; virtual group presented by the Mental Health Association in New Jersey; weekly online discussion group and forum to ask questions about mental health and wellness. 609-652-3800 or MHANJ.org.
Saturday, July 1
KNIGHTS OF THE SQUARE TABLE CHESS CLUB: 1 to 3 p.m. every other Saturday through Aug. 26; open to all ages; Absecon branch/Atlantic County Library System, 305 New Jersey Ave., Absecon; registration requested. 609-646-2228 or atlanticlibrary.org.
Monday, July 3
AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS: 11 a.m. Mondays; for those troubled by someone else's drinking; Egg Harbor City Senior Center, 351 Cincinnati Ave., Egg Harbor City. AL-ANON.org.
LONGPORT NEEDLERS: 10 a.m. to noon Mondays; bring your needle/crochet craft project and join us for a time of crafting and socializing; Longport Public Library, 2305 Atlantic Ave., Longport. 609-487-7403 or LongportPublicLibrary.org.
'MONEY TALKS' ONLINE DISCUSSION GROUP: 7 to 8 p.m. first Mondays; monthly online discussion group with thought-provoking topics related to money and wellness; virtual event hosted by the Mental Health Association New Jersey. 609-652-3800 or MHANJ.org.
Health, fitness
Wednesday, June 28
BUTTS & GUTS - MICHELLE BARBARO: 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. Wednesdays through Aug. 30; Cape May County Library/Wildwood Crest Branch, 6300 Atlantic Ave., Wildwood Crest. 609-463-6350.
EXPLORING SPIRITUALITY ONLINE WELLNESS GROUP: noon to 1 p.m. Wednesdays; hosted by the Mental Health Association in Atlantic County; wellness group exploring themes of faith, hope, sense of purpose, and fulfilment. 609-652-3800 or MHAAC.info.
MEDITATION MEET-UP WITH TED COSTA: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. and 5 to 6 p.m. Wednesdays through December; Woodbine Community Center, 812 Longfellow St., Woodbine. 609-463-6350 or events.cmclibrary.org.
MIND AND BODY VIRTUAL WORKSHOP: 11 a.m. to noon Wednesdays; workshop is provided to individuals who live with a disability; participants discuss topics such as adapting, goal setting, refocusing and more; offered by the Mental Health Association in Atlantic County. 609-652-3800, ext. 308 or MHAAC.info.
STRETCH & BURN - WITH KELLIE WOOD: 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesdays; hosted by Cape May County Library; virtual event; no registration required. 609-463-6350 or events.cmclibrary.org.
TAI CHI & QIGONG: 10 and 11:30 a.m. Wednesdays; with Cheryl Crews and Denise Jones; Lower Cape Branch, 2600 Bayshore Road, Lower Township. 609-463-6350 or events.cmclibrary.org.
ZUMBA - WITH JANET SPADA: 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesdays at Wildwood Crest Library, and Thursdays at Lower Township Library; no meetings July 12, 26, Nov. 22, 23. 609-463-6350 or events.cmclibrary.org.
ZUMBA - WITH KELLIE: 5 to 6 p.m. Wednesdays; Sea Isle City Branch, 4800 Central Ave., Sea Isle City. 609-463-6350 or Events.CMCLibrary.org.
Thursday, June 29
GENTLE YOGA - WITH ELIZABETH KILCOURSE: 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursdays; bring a yoga mat; Upper Township Branch, 2050 Tuckahoe Road, Woodbine. 609-463-6350 or events.cmclibrary.org.
'RISING MINDS' ONLINE MEETING: 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursdays; offered by the Mental Health Association in Atlantic County; peer-led meeting for individuals age 18 to 30; participants discuss mental health, share experiences, develop tools for self-care and connect to others. 609-652-3800 or MHAAC.info.
Friday, June 30
YOGA WITH TANYA DELFINI: 10 to 11 a.m. Fridays through December; no class Sept. 8, Nov. 10, 24; Cape May County Library/Sea Isle City Branch, 4800 Central Ave., Sea Isle City. 609-463-6350 or events.cmclibrary.org.
Saturday, July 1
MORNING RISE AND SHINE YOGA: 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. July 1, 15, Aug. 5, 19; summer session with certified yoga instructor; Mays Landing Branch/Atlantic County Library System, 40 Farragut Ave., Hamilton; registration required. 609-625-2776 or atlanticlibrary.org.
Sunday, July 2
MEDITATION - ONLINE GROUP: 7:15 to 8 p.m. Sundays; offered by The Mental Health Association in Atlantic County; staff offer a guided calming meditation or breathing exercise; to receive a link by email and join the group online, email btrendler@mhanj.org. 609-652-3800 or MHAAC.info.
Monday, July 3
CHAIR YOGA - WITH LYNNE CATARRO: 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Mondays; no class 9/4, 10/9, 12/25; Cape May County Library/Wildwood Crest Branch, 6300 Atlantic Ave., Wildwood Crest. 609-463-6350 or events.cmclibrary.org.
'GOT STRESS?' ONLINE GROUP: 4 to 5:30 p.m. Mondays; online group meets to discuss daily wellness, coping strategies and tools to relieve stress and reduce anxiety; offered by The Mental Health Association in Atlantic County; free. 609-652-3800 or MHAAC.info.
YOGA WITH SUZANNE KUBIK: 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Mondays and Thursdays through Sept. 14; no class July 6, Sept. 4; Cape May County Library/Stone Harbor Branch, 9516 Second Ave., Stone Harbor. 609-463-6350 or events.cmclibrary.org.
Music
Thursday, June 29
TONY MARTS PRESENTS 'ROCKIN' THE POINT' WITH THE BILLY WALTON BAND: 7 to 11 p.m. Thursdays through summer; The Point, 998 Bay Ave., Somers Point. 609-626-4693.
Friday, June 30
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DES MOINES, Iowa — The Des Moines City Council voted 6-0 Monday night to give Des Moines one of its first traffic circle, meant to slow down traffic at an intersection where 70% of drivers speed.
The council's decision gives the city approval to build this roundabout at the intersection of SE 36th Street and East Army Post Road in the southeast corner of the city.
"This will help that intersection, and it will slow folks down," said Councilmember Joe Gatto at Monday's meeting. "As far as your property goes, we will be fair."
The roundabout will affect four different properties, including that of resident Ken Ross, whose family owns a farm right alongside the intersection.
Ross told Local 5 he's concerned he won't be able to get farm equipment in from East Army Post Road once construction starts. He also said the farmer who grows beans on his land will also struggle to maneuver with his large farm equipment.
However, Ross said this roundabout would be a good thing, because he's seen drivers zip by and flip onto two wheels because they're going so fast over the years. He thinks a traffic circle would help prevent anything from going wrong.
The city council didn't officially decide if they would take any of Ross' or other properties' land to create the traffic circle, so now Ross just has to play the waiting game.
Aside from Des Moines, there are other metro cities with roundabouts: Waukee and Johnston.
Waukee has several roundabouts they've constructed, like the one on Hickman Road and North Warrior Lane.
City Administrator Brad Deets says their roundabouts have been a success, which he thinks would be the same in Des Moines.
"We've had very few instances of crashes, and certainly when there is a crash, it's less severe than if you have say, sort of a T-bone situation or just a four-way controlled stop," Deets explained.
Deets also told Local 5 that not only are these traffic circles safer for drivers, but also they're safer for pedestrians, because of the designed crosswalks drivers must yield to. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/des-moines-city-council-approves-roundabout-traffic-circle-se-36th-street-east-army-post-road/524-9a0170f9-61d4-4b92-9bac-448b112978eb | 2023-06-28T04:54:52 | 0 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/des-moines-city-council-approves-roundabout-traffic-circle-se-36th-street-east-army-post-road/524-9a0170f9-61d4-4b92-9bac-448b112978eb |
GREENE COUNTY, Iowa — One person is dead and two more are injured following a crash on Highway 30 in Greene County, according to an Iowa State Patrol crash report.
Iowa State Patrol said three cars were stopped in a row on Highway 30 near Forest Avenue due to road construction.
A fourth car collided with one of the vehicles, causing a "chain reaction crash" with each vehicle crashing into the next, Iowa State Patrol reports.
At least two people were injured in the crash, both of whom were transported to Greene County Medical Center.
84-year-old Mary Ann Haberl, of Carroll, died as a result of the crash.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A local non-profit has been working for several years to build a hospice that would serve the Sacramento area’s unhoused community. Its location, however, is generating pushback from not only neighbors but also an entire school district.
One unhoused person dies just about every five days in Sacramento County. That’s according to two decades’ worth of data gathered by the Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness. Some of those deaths are due to violence or accidents, but many are from natural causes.
Marlene von Friederichs-Fitzwater is on a mission to build a hospice for the unhoused, to provide a dignified, compassionate place to die. She’s the founder and CEO of Joshua’s House – named in memory and honor of her grandson.
“I had 34-year-old grandson that I was very, very close to, who struggled with homelessness and drug addiction and died in Nebraska, and that was it,” she said, telling ABC10 about her motivation for creating the hospice.
ABC10 first spoke with her in 2017. Back then, Joshua’s House was set to be located in an existing building on North C Street, near the unhoused service provider Loaves & Fishes.
“But unfortunately, it would have cost probably close to $7 million to retrofit it and prepare it,” said von Friederichs-Fitzwater.
So they eventually found a new location.
“The city came up with a property they owned, that they were willing to lease to us for 25 years and then renewable for another 25 years. We wouldn't pay any rent, but we would pay annual property tax,” she said.
That’s great for Joshua’s House, which von Friederichs-Fitzwater says is close to beginning construction, but the currently-empty South Natomas lot sits directly across the street from Garden Valley Elementary School, in the Twin Rivers Unified School District. It serves mostly diverse, low-income families – and parents and neighbors tell ABC10, they don’t think this site is the right place for a homeless hospice.
“We’re talking about four-year-old, five-year-olds,” said Raul Huerta.
He and his wife Letycia Huerta are members of the South Natomas United Neighborhood Association and worry about the safety of the students.
“Especially the little ones that are in kindergarten and preschool,” said Letycia.
South Natomas United opposes this location for the site of Joshua’s House.
“This community is already doing a lot to try to assist low-income households and the homeless,” said Raul. “Yet they keep pushing these types of projects in our neighborhoods, when we have been very clear to the city that what this community needs are parks, are community centers, are libraries or clinics - things that are going to help this community grow. This community is a low-resource, majority minority community that doesn't have those amenities or those resources.”
Other neighbors have concerns, too — especially those who help clean up the lot adjacent to the site of Joshua’s House, where encampments occasionally form.
“We think that it's not fair for city officials to put a program for homeless in front of a school,” said Juan Rangel, vice president of South Natomas United.
Speaking in Spanish to ABC10, neighbor Fernando Campos, whose property is adjacent to the lot, said, “It would be great if they didn’t put them here, that they change the location…But if it can’t be done, what can we do? But we are dissatisfied.”
Neighbors say they’re in favor of a homeless hospice – just not here.
“We're not talking about stopping the project. We're talking about just moving locations, to better make the project successful, to better protect our youth, because that's what we deserve,” said Eleanor Oliver, South Natomas United secretary and mother of a Garden Valley Elementary student. “It's about quality for our kids and equity for our community.”
In a rare move, Twin Rivers Unified School District has formally come out opposing this location as the site for the homeless hospice, passing a resolution last July stating their concerns about student safety.
Rebecca Sandoval is the Twin Rivers trustee for this area.
“Would you put a liquor store across the street? A cannabis facility across the street? But yet you're going to put some something across the street that - during hospice, people use morphine, fentanyl, it's going to be right there,” she told ABC10.
Twin Rivers Superintendent Steve Martinez tells ABC10 the district has offered Joshua’s House six alternative locations on other district property – sites that are not near a school. He said Joshua’s House – at one point – showed interested in the alternative site at 1251 Chuckwagon Drive in Sacramento, just a little over a mile from the current planned site.
“We would do everything in our legal power to provide them with the same type of lease agreement, if not a better agreement for them,” said Martinez. “And actually, the space that we're talking about is a lot bigger, so they could actually expand their facility and make it a facility where they can provide more care for more individuals as well.”
ABC10 took all these questions and concerns to von Friederichs-Fitzwater, asking her if there’s any circumstance under which she’d consider moving sites at this point.
“No, I've already spent a million dollars and about to spend a million more,” she said, referring to the modular buildings purchased for the site and the upcoming work to prepare the lot, respectively. “Like I said, if this had happened two years ago, yes, I would have considered it, absolutely. But they've waited until we've spent all this money, the lot is in a lease for us for 50 years, free. I mean, I can't walk away from all of that…I raised the money. I have people that are responsible, including the city and the county. They would not be happy.”
Neighbors and district leaders wonder - if she has waited this long to build Joshua's House, why not wait just a little longer to get the permits and zoning lined up at a big parcel of land offered by the district.
ABC10 asked her that question.
"It took us over a year to get city permits and to hire an inspector... We've already done all that. We'd have to start all over. And, frankly, this has been really hard on me. I'm 83 years old. I don't know how much longer I have to live and the stress it's been on me -- it's just been incredible," said von Friederichs-Fitzwater. "So I am so relieved that now, finally, we have all those permits and we have everything ready to go to get this done. Starting all over? Like I said in first place, it would cost a lot of money and take a lot of time that I don't have."
She said the facility will be run by YoloCares, a Davis-based hospice. Upon opening, it will be able to serve 15 terminally ill unhoused individuals, all of whom will be referred by hospitals with no walk-ins accepted. There will be security cameras and 24/7 security, she said.
“I encourage people to trust us and let us open this fall and then monitor us. Make sure what we've said is true,” said von Friederichs-Fitzwater. “If they could just be patient and see it open and realize it's not anything like they've pictured or anything like they've experienced for the homeless, then if they still have complaints, we'll deal with it.”
She said the unhoused people Joshua’s House will serve will not be wandering around the neighborhood.
“It will be private; it will be safe,” she said. “Our goal is to be a good neighbor and to be protective of the neighborhood but also protective of our residents. And these are people who are dying, so it's not like they're going to be out wandering around. Most of them are bedridden.”
On Wednesday, City Councilmember Karina Talamantes’ office is holding a meeting to discuss neighbors’ concerns. The South Natomas United Neighborhood Association will be there, along with Twin Rivers district leaders.
ABC10 asked von Friederichs-Fitzwater if anyone from Joshua’s House plans on attending. She said she and the non-profit’s attorney had asked organizers to change the date, as she and the attorney were both scheduled to be out of town. Organizers opted not to change the date. She said Joshua’s House board members told her—they’re not comfortable attending without her or the attorney, so nobody from her non-profit will be attending Wednesday’s meeting, she said.
The meeting takes place June 28 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Rio Tierra Junior High School in Sacramento.
Meanwhile, Twin Rivers district leaders and neighbors hold onto hope that something could still change. Superintendent Martinez said he has sent a letter to Sacramento City Council and the city manager, outlining the district’s concerns.
“I just don't know how productive it would be to have a facility where we know that some of our unhoused folks are going to live their last days, next to a school of kindergarten students. It just doesn't make sense to me,” he said.
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Phoenix planning campground for homeless people living in 'The Zone.' Where it may go
Phoenix plans to build a structured campground for people living in "The Zone," the city's largest homeless encampment, according to city officials and city records.
The city intends to build the campground on four acres of state-owned property at 1537 W. Jackson Street, two blocks from the Human Services Campus, where over a dozen homeless services nonprofits are located.
The land was previously used for the state’s surplus property but is now vacant, according to Megan Rose, spokesperson for the Arizona Department of Administration. The city approached the state about the site more than a month ago, Rose said.
The city will enter into a licensing agreement for the land with the state beginning August 1, pending City Council approval, and plans to purchase the land by October 1.
The state land will cost the city $5.4 million, and the campground will cost an additional $3 to $4 million per year to operate.
The campground will accommodate up to 400 people and will have security, showers and on-site services, according to city records. The city plans to open the campground in stages, with between 100 and 200 beds becoming available in August or September and another 100 to 200 beds becoming available in September or October, the records show. The city estimates the campground will operate for two to three years.
If approved, the land purchase for the campground will be covered by grant funds from the Arizona Department of Housing. The department awarded Phoenix $13.3 million in grant funds in June. The grant money is also covering the cost of temporarily leasing two hotels for shelter space.
Rachel Milne, director of the city's Office of Homeless Solutions, said the city's priority is still to be able to offer everyone in The Zone indoor shelter.
"But until we have the availability for everyone to have an indoor place, and until everyone is ready for an indoor place, this is an excellent alternative," Milne said.
Clearing:Third block of 'The Zone' is cleared without incident; hundreds remain in homeless camp
Plan takes some city councilmembers, nonprofit leaders by surprise
While some Phoenix councilmembers said they had been briefed on the plan for the structured campground, others said they were unaware of it — even though they will likely have to vote on the land agreement during the City Council meeting on Wednesday, June 28.
The council meeting agenda includes the land purchase but does not include any details about what the city intends to use the land for other than stating it is "to assist the unsheltered population."
Councilmember Debra Stark said Deputy City Manager Gina Montes briefed her on the campground plans last week after it was discovered that a site at 22nd Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road, where the city planned to build a shelter, was found to have multiple safety hazards, including issues with methane gas.
"We’ve got to do something. It’s hot, it's dangerous, and we’ve just got to do something as a stopgap," Stark said of the campground plans.
Councilmember Jim Waring also said Montes briefed him on the Lower Buckeye Road shelter site issues. He's skeptical of the campground plan and called for more "punitive" measures, such as criminalizing drug use and violence by people experiencing homelessness.
Milne, the Office of Homeless Solutions director, said Phoenix has intended to create a structured campground for months and that the campground plan is not in response to issues with the Lower Buckeye Road site. However, she confirmed that the city is looking for a new location for the indoor shelter planned for 22nd Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road because of the hazards discovered there.
Vice Mayor Yassamin Ansari, whose district includes the proposed campground site, said downtown Phoenix has "done its part" to address the city's homelessness crisis.
"It’s time for solutions to be equally distributed throughout our city," Ansari said in an email statement.
Brenda Muñoz Murguia, a spokesperson for Councilmember Laura Pastor, said Pastor knew a campground was being built but wasn't aware of the location.
Derrik Rochwalik, Councilmember Ann O'Brien's chief of staff, said O'Brien had not been briefed on the plan.
The news came as a surprise to leaders of some of the city's largest homelessness nonprofits.
Both Lisa Glow, CEO of Central Arizona Shelter Services, and Amy Schwabenlender, CEO of the Human Services Campus, said they were unaware of the plan until contacted by The Arizona Republic. The two nonprofits sit at the center of The Zone, just a few blocks from where the campground is planned.
Service providers previously told The Arizona Republic that a structured campground would be an improvement over the status quo in The Zone, though they worried the temporary fix could detract time and resources from pursuing more permanent solutions, such as indoor shelter space or permanent supportive housing.
During the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Maricopa County operated a structured campground in a parking lot near The Zone. It housed more than 200 people and had security, restrooms and staff providing services.
The Zone, which is near 12th Avenue and Madison Street, is home to between 600 and 1,000 people each night. It is at the center of a lawsuit, Brown v. City of Phoenix, in which nearby residents and business owners sued the city, claiming the encampment is a public nuisance, and the city hasn’t done enough to fix it.
As part of that lawsuit, a judge in March ordered the city to shut down the encampment. The city has been clearing the area block by block since May.
The next cleanup is scheduled for Wednesday, July 12, on 9th Avenue between Madison and Jefferson streets.
Phoenix City Hall reporter Taylor Seely contributed to this article.
Juliette Rihl covers housing insecurity and homelessness for The Arizona Republic. She can be reached at jrihl@arizonarepublic.com or on Twitter @julietterihl.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — A "for sale" sign hangs outside a modest home in Southeast Portland. Across the street is a homeless camp where people struggle with their addictions to fentanyl.
Portlanders selling their homes in an effort to get away from the dual crisis of drugs and homelessness say it's becoming more visible throughout parts of Southeast.
“There’re camps on every corner and things have just gotten out of hand since COVID,” said Susie, whose home has been on the market for three months. It’s located off Southeast 76th and Foster.
“Since June 1 there’s been a camp on my corner, so the showings have been canceled … Some don’t want to get out of their car or even come to the door,” she said.
Susie said she even dropped the price by $15,000.
“How do I feel? Sad. Sad for the whole city, sad for the neighborhoods, sad that this is going on and it feels like no one’s even making a difference or doing anything,” she said.
“I know how much she wants out of here. I know how long she’s been here. It’s time for her to go and she can’t,” said Susie’s daughter, Mandy, who’s watched her report the camps through PDX Reporter, to no avail. “I feel like Portland has a responsibility to clean up, get their act together.”
At the camp across the street is where Dustin stays. He’s been homeless in Portland for five years and struggles with an addiction to fentanyl. He sat beside his dog and a pint of melted vanilla ice cream.
“I can understand, I guess, where they’re coming from,” he said.
He sees how his camp effects the neighborhood.
“It makes me feel bad for her,” he said of Susie not being able to sell her home.
His campsite has been posted for removal. Those who live in the neighborhood said the city won’t be able to address it until late July.
“Well, what is she supposed to do? She’s just supposed to sit it out until the end of July?” asked Mandy.
The city’s latest data shows they’ve received nearly 3,000 new campsite reports in the week of June 12 to 18. They prioritize removing camps that pose the highest health and safety risks. This camp was not at the top of the list.
It’s a timeline that nearby businesses have no patience for. Classic Auto Body on 75th Avenue and Foster had a break-in on Sunday.
“Took about 40 years’ worth of tools, which was over $200,000 worth of tools,” said Shewbert, a mechanic at the auto shop.
It’s hard to say who did it, but he believes it's people living in nearby homeless camps.
“It used to be a city everybody wanted to come to and now it’s a city that everybody avoids,” Shewbert said.
“I don’t know that Portland will ever get back to what it once was,” added Susie.
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OREGON, USA — Caeli Cavanagh and her horse Þeyr are about to go on the trip of a lifetime. All the way to the Netherlands for the World Championships for Icelandic horses. They're part of team USA. Something they weren't expecting.
“It's a really big deal not something I was really anticipating,” said Cavanagh.
Þeyr is an Icelandic horse. They were the original horse of the Vikings.
“The Icelandic horse is often called the most useful servant,’ said Cavanagh.
They are unique in that they can perform five gaits. Everything from a walk to what's called the flying pace. Cavanagh and Þeyr will compete in all five gaits at the World Championships.
The next step is getting to the Netherlands. Þeyr will be on a special flight.
Cavanagh has set up a GoFundMe to help with the cost of the flight.
Þeyr has flown before when he came to the United States with Cavanagh. The two have been together for nine years. Cavanagh trained him as part of the curriculum in Iceland.
The World Championships are set for August 8-13.
Cavanagh and Þeyr will arrive in the Netherlands several weeks before the competition so they can get used to the venue there.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — With fire season now underway, Oregon's electricity providers are using the methods they developed after a series of very active wildfire years to keep a close watch on weather conditions that could threaten to bring down energized power lines and start fires.
The summer of 2020 proved disastrous for thousands of Oregon homeowners — and by extension, the electric company Pacific Power. When powerful winds threatened over the long Labor Day weekend in September, the utility did not de-energize its lines in places like the Santiam Canyon.
Fires that broke out that weekend grew rapidly, giving wildland firefighters little time to respond. Between them, those fires damaged or destroyed 2,500 properties across Oregon.
Electrical equipment hasn't been blamed for all of the fires. The cause of the devastating Almeda fire in southern Oregon, for example, remains unknown, but is believed to have been "human caused." Other fires, especially in the Cascades, were initially sparked by lightning.
But at the same time, Pacific Power's transmission lines in particular were implicated in contributing to a number of fires throughout Oregon, as the windstorm downed trees onto energized lines.
A class action lawsuit against Pacific Power followed, and a jury recently awarded damages in the tens of millions of dollars to homeowners.
But even prior to the 2020 fires and the lawsuit, meteorologist Steve Vanderburg said that the company was talking to him about becoming their fire forecaster as they worked to build up expertise during a new age of Northwest wildfires. Now Vanderburg leads Pacific Power's fire weather team.
"We're prepared year-round," he told The Story's Pat Dooris. "We're running models 365 days a year. We're doing analysis, we're looking at vegetation conditions. So yeah, we're prepared for fire season."
The past informing the future
Vanderburg worked for the National Weather Service for 10 years, then for an electric company in San Diego for another 10 years. Now he's in Portland, and he spent the last year and a half building a massive database of historical fire information for Pacific Power.
It took supercomputers over a year to crunch the numbers, Vanderburg said, millions of computation hours.
That data doesn't just sit in spreadsheets. It can be turned into graphics, holding 30 years of high-resolution weather and vegetation conditions across the entire western U.S.
"And now we're analyzing it. We're looking at — how does that data inform what happens in terms of wildfire risk, in terms of different kinds of impacts on the grid," he said. "And we're using that to create products to keep us ahead of the weather."
The value of that, Vanderburg added, is that they can look at any location on the map and put today's weather or tomorrow's forecast into the context of the past 30 years.
Unlike their counterparts over at Portland General Electric, Pacific Power does not have an array of cameras equipped with artificial intelligence walking for telltale signs of smoke to show that a fire has begun. Instead, Vanderburg and his team rely on these databases, along with remote weather stations and workers in the field.
They cover a vast territory, across Oregon and five other states. Six states, all of them diverse in topography, with different weather conditions shaped by the territory.
"It's both a challenge but also an advantage, because when it comes to understanding how do you predict these things, the more data you have to work with, the better results you may get," Vanderburg said. "So from an analysis standpoint and trying to understand how do all these conditions impact fire danger, it's an advantage to have a large service territory. But obviously, forecasting on this scale can be challenging because the weather varies from canyon to canyon and mountain to mountain, and we have a lot of canyons and mountains in our service territory."
His team is creating forecasts for each state, every day. They look over all of the weather models they've developed, combine that with real-time data collection, then produce a forecast for the company that covers Pacific Power's entire service area.
In the red
To demonstrate how it all works, Vanderburg went back to data from last year, during a time in September 2022 when Pacific Power and PGE both initiated power shutoffs for thousands of customers as a windstorm threatened.
Vanderburg pulled up a map showing one danger area from back then, the town of Sweet Home southeast of Corvallis. On the map, yellow lines demonstrated where the power grid was located.
"So here we are on the night of (September 8)," he said. "The green indicates light winds. We're pretty much seeing light winds across the area, right? And as we scroll forward in time, you'll notice that we start to see all these reds showing up along the Cascade crest, and the yellows kind of spilling down the mountains."
Vanderburg explained that red on this map indicates winds over 50 miles per hour. Yellow is anywhere from 30 to 50, depending on the shade.
"And you can see as we go through the event, how those winds shift and change over time," he continued. "And you can see here, especially on the night of the 9th into the 10th, how those winds really start to try and channel down the west slopes of the Cascades, right? And so that's where we're seeing, you know, where the winds could impact our infrastructure."
When the winds are high, this means there's a higher probability of outages — downed power lines.
At the same time, Vanderburg's team is monitoring on a separate display how dry the area could be.
"You can see it's all red everywhere, right? Red's bad," Vanderburg said. "So what we're able to tell from this is like, when we look at fuel moisture, every place was dry. But where is it that we're going to focus our actions, you know, to mitigate that risk? And it's where we see this overlapping with the outage risk."
And that's why Pacific Power cut the electricity for Sweet Home at 12:40 a.m. on Sept. 9, 2022. The outage left 2,400 customers in the dark for 28 hours until the company deemed it safe to re-energize the lines.
Another tool that Vanderburg's team uses is forecast projections of winds, paired with an overlay of actual wind readings from weather stations.
"This is the data we were pulling in at the time from Echo Mountain, which is just east of Lincoln City. And the black line represents the data we were getting from our weather stations every 10 minutes. And then the blue line represents a forecast of those conditions," he demonstrated.
"And you can see we're monitoring that, and now it's in the yellow and it's approaching the red," Vanderburg continued. "And this is when we're expecting the potential for those increased impacts to our power lines from those winds. So this is an example of the data that we can pull in, in real time, that gives us a look at, well, is it windier than forecast? Is it less windy? And how does that compare to what's normal for that location?"
The graph showed that a forecast of dangerous winds for this area was coming true, and so Pacific Power also shut off electricity there during the September 2022 windstorm.
Vanderburg said that the weather team's goal is to have most of the work done well before a storm hits. That allows time for the utility to put workers in place and warn the local community that the power may be shut off.
His team also runs fire simulations to see, if a fire broke out today, what would happen in a specific area.
"In this case I happen to be looking at flame length ... and here's a forecast going from Monday the 26th through Wednesday the 28th — and I can step through in time and we can see how does that change, power line by power line."
There are other models, like one showing the fire potential index for the greater Portland area. The biggest spike, by far, in the data history came in September 2020, when those disastrous wildfires tore through the state. It's one more tool that Pacific Power will use again this summer when deciding whether to turn off power ahead of a potential fire storm.
"All of this data really takes the guesswork out of it, it's really important to know not just what the weather's gonna do, but how that's going to impact the power lines and what does that mean in terms of the probability of something bad happening — that's really important," Vanderburg said. "And this is what these tools do. They don't just tell us what the forecast is and how windy and hot and dry it's gonna be, or how dry the vegetation's gonna be. It tells us what the potential probability of an outage is, the probability of an ignition occurring and the potential consequences of that ignition should it become a wildfire." | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/the-story/pacific-power-fire-weather-electricity-shutoffs/283-8d5b5d0a-bccc-46fb-b740-b24ecea76db6 | 2023-06-28T05:13:51 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/the-story/pacific-power-fire-weather-electricity-shutoffs/283-8d5b5d0a-bccc-46fb-b740-b24ecea76db6 |
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This is what parents are worried about when educating their kids. Buzz60’s Keri Lumm shares the results of a new study conducted by OnePoll on behalf of The Goddard School.
Kenosha police are conducting an investigation into the death of a 6-year-old girl in the city's Columbus neighborhood.
The incident was reported just after 10 a.m. on Tuesday and investigators responded to the 5100 block of 56th Street, according to Sgt. Cory Brennan of the Kenosha Police Department.
Police are not currently looking for any suspects and no arrest has been made. A representative of the Kenosha County Medical Examiner's Office also responded to the scene where the child was pronounced dead. The cause of death is pending an autopsy. Additional information was unavailable late Tuesday.
Today in sports history: June 27
1914: Jack Johnson wins a 20-round referee’s decision over Frank Moran
1924: Walter Hagen wins his second British Open
1950: Chandler Harper wins the PGA championship
1959: Mickey Wright wins second straight U.S. Women’s Open title
1999: Juli Inkster becomes second woman to win modern career Grand Slam
2006: Roger Federer wins his record 42nd straight grass-court match
2008: Zheng Jie completes biggest victory of her career at Wimbledon, beating No. 1 seed
2010: Cristie Kerr cruises to 12-stroke victory in LPGA Championship
2017: Florida sweeps LSU for first national baseball title | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/child-death-police-investigation-kenosha/article_3ed9c88a-155d-11ee-a784-8bcb295df919.html | 2023-06-28T05:15:21 | 0 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/child-death-police-investigation-kenosha/article_3ed9c88a-155d-11ee-a784-8bcb295df919.html |
One big inning carried the Bismarck Governors to a victory over the Mandan Chiefs
Shut out on five hits through four innings, the Governors exploded for 10 runs in the bottom of the fifth and posted an 11-3 victory at Municipal Ballpark on Tuesday.
Tommy Kraljic went 4-for-5, including a pair of hits in the 10-run fifth, to lead the way.
Staying focused through the early struggles was a key.
“Going multiple times through the order, you start to see stuff and I think that helped us, taking at bats and learning from them,” Kraljic said. “Then the errors and the hits kept building momentum that kept carrying and carrying.”
The Govs’ 1-2-3 hitters (Gavin Lill, Kraljic and Michael Fagerland) combined for nine hits.
The Govs had a chance to get on the board in the fourth with a two-out rally. Trailing 3-0, Jameson Johnson walked and Isaac Mitchell – who also had three hits on the night – doubled, putting two runners in scoring position.
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Chiefs reliever Tate Olson got out of the jam, getting Max Vig to fly to center for the third out.
That set the stage for the Governors’ big rally in the fifth.
“Jordan (Binder) came out and threw a great game right away. We were a little late on the bats,” Fagerland said. ”Coming into that next inning, we all got together, said let’s rally, let’s get some hits and we put the bat on the ball, they made a few errors.”
Lill and Kraljic started the fifth with back-to-back singles. Fagerland walked to load the bases and Lill scored the Govs’ first run on a wild pitch. A walk to Parker Sagsveen re-loaded the bases and three straight Mandan errors led to four Bismarck runs on a 5-3 lead.
“Definitely having a short-term memory, forgetting quickly the bad stuff that happens, just staying in the game, staying in it for your teammates,” Kraljic said. “And when everyone does that, it starts to carry over. It’s contagious.”
By the time the inning ended, the Govs sent 16 batters to the plate, scoring 10 runs on six hits, three errors and a pair of wild pitches.
Lill had an RBI single, Kraljic added a two-run double and Sagsveen an RBI single.
“We started off with a couple of singles, got guys on base,” Fagerland said. “He walked a couple of guys, they made a few errors, then hits started falling. It was a big inning for us.”
Vig added an RBI single in the sixth to sore Bismarck’s 11th run.
Seth Arenz had a two-out, two-run single in the third to help stake the Chiefs to the lead early on. Seth Gerhardt’s bases-loaded hit by pitch gave Mandan a run in the top of the first.
Binder went 3 2/3 inning, allowing no runs on five hits and striking out three.
“He was locating pretty well. He was throwing where he wanted us, keeping us off balance,” Kraljic said.
Tanner Groseclose started for the Govs and went three innings, allowing three runs on four hits. He walked three and struck out four but worked out of trouble early on, stranding seven base runners.
Traiden Kalfell got the win, pitching three scoreless innings, allowing one hit and one walk. Jace Groseclose finished up with a 1-2-3 seventh.
“Tanner started off great,” Fagerland said. “He gave up three runs but kept his head, got us through three innings. Traiden came in and threw a shutout from there and Jace came in and shut the door. Huge pitching for us today.”
The Governors improved to 10-6. They travel to Jamestown for a pair of state counters on Wednesday.
The Chiefs (12-7) travel to Fargo to play Post 400 on Thursday. | https://bismarcktribune.com/sports/local/big-inning-lifts-govs-over-chiefs/article_4c0a85fe-155c-11ee-b543-037bb04955eb.html | 2023-06-28T05:23:07 | 0 | https://bismarcktribune.com/sports/local/big-inning-lifts-govs-over-chiefs/article_4c0a85fe-155c-11ee-b543-037bb04955eb.html |
Mike Trout, 31, a 2009 Millville High School graduate, is a center fielder with the Los Angeles Angels and was the 2014, 2016 and 2019 American League MVP.
Monday: Scored from third base on a wild pitch with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Angels a 2-1 win over the visiting White Sox. He went 0 for 3, striking out three times, before starting the winning rally with a leadoff walk. After Shohei Ohtani walked, Trout advanced to third with his second stolen base of the year. He batted third and played center field.
Tuesday: Did not play in 4-2 win over Chicago. Winning pitcher Shohei Ohtani gave up one run and struck out 10 in 6 1/3 innings and got three hits, including his 27th and 28th home runs.
Wednesday: Lucas Giolito (5-5, 3.41) is scheduled to start the 9:38 p.m. game for Chicago. Trout is hitting .143 (2 for 14) with one home run and two RBIs against him. Giolito has walked Trout three times and struck him out seven times.
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Stats: Trout is hitting .253 (71 for 281) with 17 home runs, 41 RBIs and 51 runs scored in 75 games. He has walked 43 times and struck out 93 times. His on-base percentage is .363, his OPS .843. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/daily-mike-trout-report-angels-beat-white-sox-4-2/article_6204a450-154a-11ee-ab6d-73c123694e08.html | 2023-06-28T05:26:42 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/daily-mike-trout-report-angels-beat-white-sox-4-2/article_6204a450-154a-11ee-ab6d-73c123694e08.html |
ROCHESTER, Minn.--Juliana Silva and her brother, Luis are also bringing personal finance fundamentals in Spanish with The Sigma Show. The show researches and teaches topics from saving and spending money to even info on stocks and how to file tax returns.
Luis has experience working with stocks and Juliana also works as the director of navigation for the collider foundation which helps support local early stage entrepreneurs.
“The more you know about how to manage your money, you will be closing that gap, because you will be more conscious about how to save. How to invest. How to spend...that's very important." Juliana says.
Silva says for the Hispanic community, especially those migrating to the U.S., one of their barriers is 'not knowing the system'--for example needing certain I.D. to obtain loans or even interpreting the language of some documents.
According to bestcolleges.com, U.S. born Hispanic individuals ages 18-34 earned higher financial literacy scores than their peers born outside the country.
To follow The Sigma Show, click here. You can also send financial literacy questions to Julia Silva on her Instagram page @mjuliana_silva. | https://www.kimt.com/news/local/siblings-help-teach-financial-skills-to-the-hispanic-community/article_513b1acc-1569-11ee-b7e2-6b0456dedda1.html | 2023-06-28T05:32:45 | 1 | https://www.kimt.com/news/local/siblings-help-teach-financial-skills-to-the-hispanic-community/article_513b1acc-1569-11ee-b7e2-6b0456dedda1.html |
TEMPLE, Texas — An AMBER Alert has been issued for 7-year-old Kryslee Hernandez, who was allegedly abducted by 39-year-old Amanda Guerra on Tuesday, June 27.
According to the police, both Hernandez and Guerra were last seen in the 3100 of North 12th Street in Temple, Texas at about 11 a.m.
The alert states that Hernandez was last seen wearing a white t-shirt, shorts and and carrying around a backpack.
View an image of Guerra, the suspect, below:
Anyone with information is asked to call 9-1-1.
Also on KCENTV.com: | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/amber-alert-issued-in-texas-abducted-7-year-old-girl/500-db58ea44-2500-4454-9ba4-73523cae09e0 | 2023-06-28T05:37:23 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/amber-alert-issued-in-texas-abducted-7-year-old-girl/500-db58ea44-2500-4454-9ba4-73523cae09e0 |
TEMPLE, Texas — An AMBER Alert has been issued for 7-year-old Kryslee Hernandez, who was allegedly abducted by 39-year-old Amanda Guerra on Tuesday, June 27.
According to the police, both Hernandez and Guerra were last seen in the 3100 of North 12th Street in Temple, Texas at about 11 a.m.
The alert states that Hernandez was last seen wearing a white t-shirt, shorts and and carrying around a backpack.
View an image of Guerra, the suspect, below:
Anyone with information is asked to call 9-1-1.
Also on KCENTV.com: | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/amber-alert-issued-in-texas-abducted-7-year-old-girl/500-db58ea44-2500-4454-9ba4-73523cae09e0 | 2023-06-28T05:45:39 | 1 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/amber-alert-issued-in-texas-abducted-7-year-old-girl/500-db58ea44-2500-4454-9ba4-73523cae09e0 |
GRANBURY, Texas — When temperatures hit the high 90s, grass can start to shut down and turn brown regardless of care. And during 100-degree summer days, lawns could quickly die, but there are several tips that can help any homeowner thrive during the summer.
Brent Batchelor has been growing and researching grass for more than 30 years and is a regional program leader for Texas A&M’s Agrilife Extension.
He said a critical first step is just knowing the type of grass you have.
“It’s kind of a personal preference just like cars and everything else,” he said. “You can find a texture and a color that fits your palate.”
Most Texas lawns have Bermuda, St. Augustine or Zoysia. All can survive with typical twice-a-week water restrictions in most cities. Bermuda performs best in full sun but dies in shade, but by contrast, St. Augustine can thrive in shade.
“It’ll be enough to keep it alive. It may not thrive under those conditions. It depends on how much you can get out there,” Batchelor said. “Clay-based soil has a great ability to store water so if we can store that water for the rest of the week watering it will be sufficient.”
Timing is key to watering. By midday, most water just evaporates, and watering in the evening could allow water to grow disease if it’s not absorbed quickly enough.
Batchelor recommends watering between 3 a.m. and daylight for the best results.
"Then we get some sunshine that dries it off, but yet we get full use of the water that we’re putting on it,” he said.
The free website and app "Water My Yard" is a partnership between the A&M Ag Extension and North Texas Municipal Water District. Putting in an address provides localized advice on when to water a lawn and if it’s needed at all based on recent rainfall.
Batchelor has several cheap tips for monitoring lawns and watering.
One is to just walk through the yard. If footprints are still visible after three seconds instead of the lawn springing back up, then it’s likely in need of water.
The other tip he calls the "tuna can method." Put tuna cans around the different zones in the irrigation system and run the system for 30 minutes. Then, check the cans to see the output.
“If you don’t know how much you’re putting out, it’s hard to figure out how long you need to run your system,” he said.
Another method of water is called "cycle and soak," which Batchelor compares to spoon-feeding a lawn. It puts on a little water at a time and allows it to soak in but, it can require a higher-tech irrigation system.
Allowing grass to grow longer, and up to four inches for St. Augustine, can help roots grow deeper and allow the grass to absorb more water.
Summer lawn care can start in the winter, too. It's not free, but A&M and other local companies can do soil tests to make sure soil is prepared to grow grass in the spring and summer.
Researchers are currently creating drought-resistant grasses for a future in which water could be even more scarce and populations continue to grow. With 100-degree heat, though, everyone needs to conserve for now.
“We have a water deficit,” Batchelor said. “Across the state we have more people moving here every day and we need to have water for the essential uses that we have.” | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/lawn-care-expert-shares-simple-cheap-tips-keep-grass-green-texas-heat/287-d018aec0-33f1-4b5c-9e57-6cb7e53ce85d | 2023-06-28T05:45:45 | 0 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/lawn-care-expert-shares-simple-cheap-tips-keep-grass-green-texas-heat/287-d018aec0-33f1-4b5c-9e57-6cb7e53ce85d |
HOT SPRINGS, Arkansas — Cities all over Arkansas have been working to help the homeless and unsheltered.
It's something we have continued to cover as areas, like Pulaski County and Little Rock, develop tiny homes for those who need a place to stay.
Now, Hot Springs plans to move forward with an emergency shelter, unlike anything they've ever had before.
"I have to tell you my heart is full," said Sally Carder.
Carder and other organizations have been working on this project since 2016, and now that dream could soon become a reality.
A proposal for a first-ever community resource center was introduced at the Hot Springs Board of Directors meeting held on Tuesday night.
The center will be a place for homeless and unsheltered people to have access to a safe place to stay along with resources to get back on their feet.
"We know what's happening in our community and what we've done in the past isn't working," said Hot Springs City Manager, Bill Burrough.
It was standing room only as volunteers from churches and non-profits, who have worked on this vision for years, filled the seats hoping to see the proposal move to next week's agenda.
"We kind of decided to get together and all the non-profits that have been working to try to figure out what can we do to try to help these folks before they fall to a point where they are destitute and too far to bounce back," said Boyce Mitchell with Ouachita Behavior Health and Wellness.
If the board approves the community center, it will be built at the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church off Hobson Avenue.
It will be a one-stop shop where people can get mental health services, substance abuse services, as well as DHS services.
"They'll be able to eat and instead of standing out in the cold or the rain holding their plate they will be able to come in and sit down at a table and eat," Carder explained.
The next step before the dream can come to reality is the board of directors' approval. Then, the groups hope to get the building up to code.
The proposal will be on next week's agenda. If it is approved, the city will buy the building for $750,000. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/hot-springs-board-emergency-shelter-homeless/91-63291b57-76b2-4089-b317-d75dd8c8db27 | 2023-06-28T05:45:45 | 0 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/hot-springs-board-emergency-shelter-homeless/91-63291b57-76b2-4089-b317-d75dd8c8db27 |
VANCOUVER, Wash. (KOIN) — Clark County sheriff’s investigators are saying the gunman responsible for a suspected murder-suicide on Monday forced his way into his estranged wife’s home.
The victim’s two girls, ages 12 and 16, were at the home when the incident took place.
But how did the system fail to keep this family safe?
Washington lawmakers passed the Tiffany Hill Act in 2020, which was named after a Vancouver mom who was murdered by her estranged husband.
This law allows courts to order people accused of domestic violence to wear GPS ankle monitors so victims can know if their abuser is coming.
But the suspect, in this case, did not have an ankle tracker on him.
The Clark County Sheriff’s Office says James Jordan forced his way into this home and is suspected of killing his estranged wife, Erica Jordan, before turning the gun on himself. The incident took place near NE 42nd Avenue and 56th Street in the Minnehaha neighborhood.
Erica’s daughters were the ones to call 911 after witnessing the shooting.
“That is a lot for a community to take and for young children to take. And tonight, they go to bed without their mom,” said Michelle Bart from the National Women’s Coalition Against Violence and Exploitation.
Bart said this could have been prevented because the court records piece together a timeline of Erica doing everything she can to protect herself.
In August, Erica reported that James threatened to kill her, according to court documents KOIN 6 obtained. As a result, the courts granted a protection order, barring him from coming within 1000 feet of her. James violated that order in April. He was arrested and had to wear a GPS ankle monitor after he was released from jail.
In late May, James pleaded guilty and authorities tell KOIN 6 News that he no longer had to wear the ankle monitor.
“That could have saved this victim’s life. Erica didn’t even know that he was coming. That would have alerted her. And the question I have tonight is, why did the court take that away?” said Bart.
As a victim’s rights advocate, Bart said there are laws on the books that can protect domestic violence victims, but that judges need to use them properly.
“We can’t keep meeting like this over ludicrous decisions from the court system that need to go back and get more training to understand what victims are going through,” she said.
If you are in danger, there are multiple resources to call and get help.
- YWCA’s 24-hr SafeChoice Domestic and Sexual Violence hotline: 1.800.695.0167
- National 24-hr Domestic Violence Hotline: 1.800.799.7233
- Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence Friends & Family Guide Call to Safety Crisis Line (Portland survivor support): 1.888.235.5333 | https://www.koin.com/local/clark-county/could-have-saved-victims-life-murder-suicide-suspect-had-ankle-monitor-removed/ | 2023-06-28T05:51:40 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/local/clark-county/could-have-saved-victims-life-murder-suicide-suspect-had-ankle-monitor-removed/ |
LYNNWOOD, Wash. — The Lynnwood Police Department (LPD) is adopting a new technology they say will help them keep up with suspected criminals without having to chase them.
The new tech and tactics come as departments across the state are learning to operate under new guidelines.
A small box that sits on the front of a squad car is the latest in tech and is designed to tail a suspect who for whatever reason doesn’t want to pull over.
“With the recent law changes regarding pursuits this gives us another option,” said Sgt. Brad Reorda, a detective with the LPD.
At the press of a button, a small air compressor inside the squad car’s engine bay can propel a GPS tracker through the air and onto the back of a suspect’s vehicle -- a system known as StarChase. Lynnwood police say they must have reasonable suspicion of a felony crime before they fire away.
“It’s really safer for everyone. The officer doesn’t have to engage in that pursuit, we don’t have to worry about what the other person how erratic they’re driving, we’re able to deploy StarChase and then just hopefully follow from a distance,” said Reorda.
Lynnwood isn’t the first in the area to use it. Redmond police have been using it since January of this year.
“Just the latest iteration in tools and technology to improve the profession of law enforcement,” Chief Darrell Lowe of the Redmond Police Department told KING 5 in February of 2023.
State laws passed in 2021 imposed limits on when law enforcement can pursue suspects -- with exceptions for violent crimes and domestic violence among other circumstances. In April of this year Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill that slightly lowered the bar for police to initiate a chase – specifically changing the threshold from “probable cause” to “reasonable suspicion.”
Washington State Patrol adapted to the regulations by taking to the air.
“They’re not expecting it at all, they have no idea they’re being surveilled from the air,” said Chris Loftis of the Washington State Patrol told KING 5 in May.
Loftis says WSP is relying more than ever on their fleet of five aircraft to crack down on everything from speeding to street racing. For Lynnwood, their arsenal of GPS trackers is at the ready -- a tactic they say will be deployed only for suspected felony cases and say the device only emits a signal for about eight hours.
“You’ve seen the evolution of pursuits and laws change and everything, so this is just another tool that allows us to do it and again it’s really just safer for everyone.” Reorda continued. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/public-safety/lynnwood-police-gps-tracking-technology-reduce-pursuits/281-ff380020-9d56-49d2-b9b3-fd3346b45824 | 2023-06-28T06:07:55 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/public-safety/lynnwood-police-gps-tracking-technology-reduce-pursuits/281-ff380020-9d56-49d2-b9b3-fd3346b45824 |
MIDLAND, Texas — The City of Midland held a press conference on Tuesday to discuss the Midland Fireman’s Relief and Retirement Fund.
Earlier in 2023, the pension fund received an update on where it currently stood following evaluations that started in November of 2021.
The Midland Fire Department, or MFD, has grown over the past six years, but it’s underfunded pension fund has done the same.
“Midland Firefighter’s Retirement Fund Pension is about $109 million underfunded," said Chad Clark, chair on the board of trustees. "I say that not lightly. That’s a significant amount of money, and it’s going to take a significant amount of effort to fix that.”
The city noted that it has taken 10-15 years for it to get to this point due to a number of reasons, and now they are working to get it resolved.
Clark highlighted that current pension benefits not being sustainable, overtime payments when the fire department was short on staff and low investment returns are factors that led to the problem.
MFD is now just 10 firefighters short as it actively recruits, and two upcoming votes by the fire department are expected to help the pension troubles.
“One of those being unscheduled overtime, the other one would be your high-60 and how that’s calculated," said Midland Mayor Lori Blong. "We’re asking for your partnership in this decision so that we can say that we’re doing this together. The city is going to be partnering with you and moving forward in making up this difference of $109 million.”
Partnership between Midland and its fire department is key, as well as outside support from consulting firms, including for investment decisions.
“There will have to be a change in our investment strategy, and part of bringing this consultant in will help us to optimize that investment strategy — to help us offload the investments that are not sound, and to get money put into things that are going to have higher returns that are more stable and predictable and dependable for the fire department and for your families," said Blong.
The city is in the process of hiring a new investment advisor, and Clark added what that support will bring.
“They have a real knowledge of what’s out there and what’s going on, so they’ll be able to help us identify the changes that we need to make," said Clark. "And some of that’s asset allocation, and some of that’s simply just changing, maybe replacing the money manager who’s underperforming."
A team effort is needed as positive growth is now the hope from an unfortunate situation.
“It’s not one person or one entity that’s responsible, and along the same line, it’s not one person or one entity [that] can fix it," said Clark. "It’s going to take all of us working together to address the challenge and to fix it.”
The mayor mentioned that she believes they can make a significant impact by the end of the year in fixing the problem. She also stated that this is an issue that is important to the entire Midland community, so they will provide updates on the progress made. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/midland-underfunded-fire-department-pension-fund/513-52b544fd-dff3-4caa-beea-08c9763af179 | 2023-06-28T06:23:09 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/midland-underfunded-fire-department-pension-fund/513-52b544fd-dff3-4caa-beea-08c9763af179 |
Heat leads to rescue as busy summer for Organ Mountain searches continues
LAS CRUCES – Rescue crews helped a man off an Organ Mountain trail on Friday after they said triple-digit heat stranded a group of hikers.
Vic Villalobos, a member of Mesilla Valley Search and Rescue, told the Sun-News that the man showed signs of heat exhaustion after he tried hiking toward the Organ Needle on the evening of June 23. Temperatures at the Las Cruces International Airport were recorded as high as 104 on Friday.
"In these temperatures, it's really almost impossible," Villalobos said, referring to the ability to climb the trail. "You almost can't take enough liquid with you to rehydrate your body at the rate that you're putting it out."
According to a news release from the City of Las Cruces, the Las Cruces Fire Department received a call around 5 p.m. about a group of hikers near The Needle, the highest point of the Organ Mountains.
Rescue teams – including Mesilla Valley Search and Rescue, Organ Mountain Technical Rescue, and New Mexico State Police – discovered five hikers in the area. Villalobos said teams took a two-pronged approach to the operation. Some rescuers ascended The Needle trail, while others used trails near the Modoc Mines.
As the rescue teams ascended the trail, they met two of the hikers on the way down. The other three had to be assisted by the rescue teams. One of the hikers was suffering from heat exhaustion symptoms, according to the news release.
By 11:40 p.m., all the stranded hikers could leave the mountain trail on their own accord. The man who suffered from heat exhaustion symptoms was treated for non-life-threatening injuries, according to the news release, but did not need hospitalization.
"This has been a busy year up in the Organs so far," Villalobos said. "You know, usually we get one or two missions in the Organs through the whole year, and I think we've already had three or four."
Villalobos speculated that many hikers needing rescue this year were not from the area, unfamiliar with Las Cruces' scorching afternoon temperatures and unaware of the trail's inherent difficulties. Villalobos said those factors combined put a lot of stress on the body.
"If you started your hike at seven this morning, it feels pretty good," Villalobos said. "By two o'clock, three o'clock in the afternoon, if you're trying to go to The Needles and you're still not down, you're in trouble."
Tips to keep safe during Organ Mountain adventures
Las Cruces Fire Department has released updated tips and advice when hiking in the Las Cruces area. The updated guidance includes:
- Know your capabilities and the terrain in which you will be in.
- Plan your trek carefully and consider weather reports, the expected duration and other conditions you might face during your adventure.
- Never hike, bike, backpack or adventure alone.
- Keep groups together unless it is essential to separate for survival.
- Follow all signage and refrain from straying from established trails.
- Carry a fully charged cellular or satellite phone in case of an emergency. Avoid depleting a cell phone’s battery by overusing the camera function.
- Pack a power bank and the proper cord to recharge a depleted cell phone battery.
- Carry a flashlight and extra batteries even if your hike is during the daytime.
- Avoid pushing daylight to take in a glorious sunset or full moon. Once the sun sets, following trails and finding your bearings on unknown terrain is difficult.
- Take plenty of drinking water and food to sustain you during the trek. Remember, warm daytime temperatures and relatively high elevations expend energy quickly.
- Wear or carry proper attire for the trek. It’s best to dress in layers that can be easily removed – or added – depending on conditions.
- Wear a hat or proper head covering.
- Wear boots or hiking shoes that are comfortable and suitable for the terrain to be covered.
- Be aware of changing weather conditions and the potential for flash floods from rain upstream from your location.
- Be extremely cautious of setting or using fire.
- Beware of more active snakes during warmer weather and as daytime temperatures rise. Snakebite victims should seek help immediately.
- Beware of wild animals that frequent the Organ Mountains and other nearby areas: bobcats, mountain lions, coyotes, foxes, deer, and African oryx. Never approach or attempt to handle a wild animal.
- If hiking with a dog, consider its needs and safety requirements for the trek.
- Refrain from allowing your dog to run off-leash as it might give chase to wild animals and could quickly become lost or injured.
- Stay within the limitations of your vehicle (or your driving skills).
- Ensure your vehicle, tires, and spare tire are in good condition for the terrain.
- Monitor your fuel gauge to ensure you do not run out of gasoline.
- Stay on developed roads or dedicated tracks.
- Respect signage and avoid driving onto private properties or dedicated wilderness areas.
- Do not attempt dangerous water crossings.
- Properly wear seatbelts or harnesses at all times when the vehicle is in motion.
- If stranded, it is recommended first to try calling for help. Abandoning a vehicle and walking for help could be more dangerous than staying put and waiting for help to arrive.
- Tell a friend or relative where you are going and when you expect to return. If you have yet to return by the designated time, they should know to contact authorities.
- Dispose of waste properly and use the “Pack it In – Pack it Out” motto to help keep wild areas pristine.
Justin Garcia covers public safety and local government in Las Cruces. He can be reached via email at JEGarcia@lcsun-news.com, via phone or text at 575-541-5449, or on Twitter @Just516Garc. | https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/2023/06/27/heat-leads-to-rescue-as-organ-mountain-searches-continues/70357503007/ | 2023-06-28T06:23:12 | 0 | https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/2023/06/27/heat-leads-to-rescue-as-organ-mountain-searches-continues/70357503007/ |
Intakes spikes as Las Cruces animal shelter faces staffing struggles
This article contains discussions of animal deaths. Animal Protection New Mexico hosts a list of locations in Doña Ana County to access spay and neuter resources.
LAS CRUCES – More animals were put down last month than any month in years, according to data collected by the Mesilla Valley animal shelter.
The data was presented during a meeting of the Animal Services Center of Mesilla Valley Board of Directors on Thursday. Clint Thacker, executive director of the shelter, presented intake numbers saying they were the highest he's seen in the last two and half years.
In all, Thacker said the shelter had received 1,019 animals in May. Thacker presented data showing a 34 percent increase compared to the same month last year. Thacker said summer typically sees the highest intake totals during the year, but that data shows this year's intakes are exceptionally high.
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Overall, the shelter's data reports 4,112 from January to May, according to their data. That puts the shelter on track to reach its highest intake levels in the post-pandemic era. Last year, the shelter saw 8,869 intakes, according to its annual report.
For May, the intakes included 608 dogs, 405 cats, and six other species. Thacker said that over 80 percent of the intakes last month came from local animal control officers picking up strays or the public bringing strays into the shelter. Most of the rest were owner surrenders.
"As we have to keep populations at a level that we can care for, there's going to be more euthanasia, there's going to be more (rescued animals) trying to go out," Thacker said. "Just a lot more efforts."
More animals euthanized as intakes raise
The increase in intakes has led to an increase in euthanasia, Thacker said while showing that 30 percent of all animals who've left the shelter this year were euthanized. According to Thacker's data, it's the most common outcome for animals in the shelter this year. Overall the data showed:
- 132 animals adopted
- 108 animals reclaimed
- 236 animals rescued
- 83 animals became community cats
- 311 animals euthanized
"We're constantly looking at ways to lower euthanasia rates," Thacker said, adding that this year's rate of releasing animals from the shelter alive was the lowest in two years. "The intake is what it is. It's difficult to say, 'don't bring this in, don't bring that in.'"
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Thacker added that the shelter favors euthanizing animals with medical issues, behavioral issues or who staff feel cannot be domesticated, among other factors. The shelter's data also showed that no animals that staff deemed healthy and adoptable were euthanized.
"If we had time and we had space, we would hold on to them longer," Thacker said.
There's no good time to be short staffer, Thacker said in an interview with the Sun-News after the meeting. But the problem becomes especially acute during a surge in intakes.
Thacker said one place the shortage is felt acutely is in staff responsible for caring for kenneled animals. Animal caregivers, as the shelter calls them, clean the kennels, feed the animals, and generally caretake them while they're at the shelter.
"It is hard for us, because we have to balance the quality of care with the number of animals we have," Thacker said. "It greatly affects how many animals we can have."
Despite surge, intakes remain below historical highs
While about 8,000 animals enter the shelter on a yearly bases post-pandemic, intakes today are half of what they were a decade ago.
Shelter data shows that the shelter saw between 12,000 and 15,000 intakes between 2009 and 2013. Since then, the numbers have declined steadily and reached a decade-long low in the pandemic under stay-home orders. But it didn't last. By 2021, the numbers ticked up and have yet to fall.
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In the shelter's 2022 annual report, Thacker condemned the situation and highlighted the efforts of shelter workers.
"Nothing will change until something changes," Thacker wrote. "There are so many good people in our community who care about animals; yet this goodness alone is not enough to effect the drastic change required for something to change."
"Change must come because people are tired of 10,000 animals entering the ASCMV each year; tired of animals allowed to be bred and sold by non-professional backyard breeders; tired of not having resources for pet sterilization for people who simply cannot afford a veterinarian."
Justin Garcia covers public safety and local government in Las Cruces. He can be reached via email at JEGarcia@lcsun-news.com, via phone or text at 575-541-5449, or on Twitter @Just516Garc. | https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/community/2023/06/27/intakes-euthanasia-spikes-shelter-faces-staffing-struggles-animal-services-center-of-mesill/70352228007/ | 2023-06-28T06:23:18 | 0 | https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/community/2023/06/27/intakes-euthanasia-spikes-shelter-faces-staffing-struggles-animal-services-center-of-mesill/70352228007/ |
NORMAL — Vernon Avenue may see more safety measures such as bike lanes and pedestrian-friendly crosswalks if some of the recommendations made at a public meeting Tuesday come to pass.
Almost 80 residents attended the Town of Normal's public meeting at Uptown Station to see ideas for improving Vernon from West Beaufort Street to Towanda Avenue and offer their own thoughts. Many said heavy and fast-moving traffic on Vernon needs to be addressed for pedestrian and bicyclist safety, especially near Coleen Hoose Elementary School and Constitution Trail.
"Crossing on Vernon is very difficult off the trail. You have four lanes of cars and they're all going about 40 or 35 miles an hour," said resident Kate Reeves. "Bikes are quick and easy to get across but if you're walking it's very difficult (and) if you have a younger person, it takes a very long time to cross four lanes of traffic."
Vernon serves as an east-west corridor from Illinois State University to the business district along Veterans Parkway. That stretch includes residential and commercial areas, several access points to the trail and Hoose and the school's new, 16-acre natural playground.
The town is contemplating a "road diet," reducing the roadway from four lanes to two or three lanes with bike lanes, parking and shared use paths as possible additions.
There also was discussion of creating safer crosswalks at points where the trail crosses Vernon near Linden Street and again near Towanda Avenue. Changes could include rapid flashing beacons, raising the crosswalk like a speed bump and adding a pedestrian island in between.
Updating Vernon has been on the town's radar since before 2005, said Cindy Loos, project manager at Hanson Professional Services, the Springfield-based engineering firm consulting on revamping the street. With the town's Complete Streets Ordinance adopted in 2016 and the pavement reaching the end of its useful life, now is a good time to renew the street with a different approach, she said.
"We don't live and work and play on that street so we want information from the people who use the street to help us give better informed decisions," Loos said. "At the end of the day, you all will still be here using the street so we want to make sure we make good decisions based on the needs."
Loos said the main goals of the project, in accord with the complete streets concept, is to provide safe accommodations for all people, lower vehicle speeds, increase driver awareness and provide safe travel for users.
Daily traffic along Vernon currently averages around 6,000 to over 8,000 vehicles a day before it reaches Towanda Avenue where it averages upward of 12,000 vehicles a day.
"Looking at it as a complete street is really important and that's the whole goal of the project," Loos said. "We understand motorists are going to be there and our goal isn't to stop the motorists from coming, it's to slow them down a little bit and the best way to do that is to reduce the number of lanes."
"That then provides the benefit of adding some of those other elements that make it safer for transit and bikes and pets," she added.
Following the presentation, those in attendance were allowed to view different portions of Vernon Avenue on large maps in groups and offering recommendations with notes on the maps.
They also saw the different possible cross-sections of Vernon, which included keeping the exiting four-lane design or using a three-lane or two-lane design with added bikes lanes or a separated path.
Kate and Timothy Reeves of Bloomington said they attended the meeting because they are avid bicyclists who travel along Constitution Trail and Vernon quite a bit.
The couple said they would like to see more visible signage or indicators along the trail where it intersects Vernon to make it easier for drivers to know someone is crossing and possibly a raised crosswalk that would make pedestrians easier to see.
They are not opposed to having more bike lanes along the street but noted that they can become blocked with parked vehicles or debris and that can discourage riders from using them.
"We just want to make sure that bicyclists interests are kept in mind along with residences and school," Timothy Reeves said.
Megan Toon of Bloomington said she attended the meeting with her sister Alexa Killian to address the safety issues with the intersection at Augustine Way next to Hoose, which is where a student was hit by a car in August 2022.
Both sisters have children who attend Hoose and said they want to see the existing four-lane street reduced to three lanes with the middle lane being used as a turn lane to minimize traffic congestion.
They also want to see rapid flashing beacons and signage used at the intersection along with implementing a raised crosswalk with a refuge island to increase visibility and safety.
"The safety of the children comes to my mind first but again that's why it's important to ask a lot of people because everybody's going to look at it from a different perspective," Toon said.
John Stephens, who works as a crossing guard at Hoose, said he came to the meeting because he wants to see a traffic light installed at the intersection to make it safer for parents and students to cross.
Stephens, who lives right across the street from the school, said he started looking out for oncoming traffic ever since the incident where the student was hit by a car.
After the previous crossing guard left, Stephens said he decided to volunteer as a crossing guard, making sure people cross safely and that traffic stops. Since January he has been employed by the school as a full-time crossing guard.
"It's a race track, people will not slow down and it's just a shame," Stephens said. "What they're showing here is just a Band-Aid. ... They need to put a light right there because whenever parents drop off their kids they don't pull up near the school because there are buses there."
"So whenever they drop them off, the parents will pull down here on Augustine Way and ... they will walk them across all the way up to the school," Stephens added.
Loos said they are looking at narrowing the cross-sections as far as where Vernon ends at Beaufort Street, but they still have a lot to think about and hope that the feedback from Tuesday's meeting will bring about some solutions.
At the end of the meeting, people were asked to submit a list of recommendations and can submit comments until July 7.
"If you don't get it by next Friday, I'm not going to not take your comment," Loos said. "We're just trying to keep the process moving because the goal is we will have an idea of a solution so we can try to get some stuff in the budget next year."
Ryan Otto, Normal's director of public works and engineering. said there is no estimated schedule or budget for the project, but it is expected to be built in phases as funding allows.
"We're always talking to our state and federal partners, so I think a road diet is a project that kind of rises to the top in terms of safety being a priority for a lot of people," Otto said.
The recommendations will be compiled to make some more defined options to be reintroduced for another public meeting in August, Otto added.
The presentation and other materials will be available on the town's website after the meeting at www.normalil.gov. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/government-politics/residents-offer-ideas-on-making-vernon-avenue-safer-in-normal/article_07401416-1552-11ee-86c2-03401fd30201.html | 2023-06-28T06:35:56 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/government-politics/residents-offer-ideas-on-making-vernon-avenue-safer-in-normal/article_07401416-1552-11ee-86c2-03401fd30201.html |
CITRUS HEIGHTS, Calif. — Authorities have closed down a portion of Antelope Road after a deadly accident in Citrus Heights.
Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District confirmed the crash involved a vehicle and a pedestrian. It's not clear what led up to the crash, but fire officials said several utility poles and a traffic light were damaged.
The accident was reported around 8:19 p.m. Arriving police officers found a pedestrian on the sidewalk, but despite their efforts, the pedestrian was ultimately pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said the driver of the car was found and was not injured.
Citrus Heights Police Department has closed the eastbound lanes of Antelope Road, west of Auburn Boulevard and east of Lauppe Lane.
It's not clear when the roadway will reopen, and it isn't known whether drugs or alcohol played a factor in the crash. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
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Chesterfield County Police are investigating a fatal motor vehicle crash that occurred in the 400 block of Ruthers Road on Tuesday afternoon.
Police said a 2007 Chevrolet Impala was traveling north on Ruthers Road when it left the road and struck a tree. The driver was transported to an area hospital, where he died of his injuries. Identification was being withheld pending notification of next of kin.
The investigation into this crash continues. Anyone with additional information is asked to call the Chesterfield County Police Department at (804) 748-1251 or contact Crime Solvers anonymously at (804) 748-0660. The P3 app may also be used.
Stock your car first aid kit with these essentials for summer road trips
1. Bandages
Small cuts and scrapes are common during road trips, especially if you plan on camping or hiking. Grab a variety pack of adhesive bandages to quickly address minor injuries and protect wounds from dirt. This 300-piece variety pack from Curad includes antibacterial, heavy-duty, and waterproof bandages in a variety of shades and sizes.
2. Gauze Pads and Tape
Hopefully you don't get a larger wound, but if you are in a more serious accident it’s helpful to have gauze pads and tape on hand. If you have an injury that’s too large for an adhesive bandage, apply the gauze directly to the wound to control bleeding and secure it with tape until you can seek medical attention. This Rite Aid variety pack includes sterile gauze pads and tape.
3. Alcohol Prep Pads
Keeping an injury sterile will help it heal faster and reduce the risk of infection. When you’re on the road, soap and water might not be available, so keep some alcohol prep pads, like these wipes from Ever Ready , on hand.
4. Anti-Itch Soothing Balm
While insect repellent is probably already on your packing list, bug bites and stings are inevitable if you spend enough time outside in the summer. This pocket-sized tin of soothing balm from Murphy’s Naturals will save you some discomfort.
5. Instant Cold Packs
If you sprain or strain your ankle on a hike, instant cold packs can be a serious vacation saver. These disposable cold packs from AllSett Health Store don’t require refrigeration and can help bring down pain and swelling.
6. Scissors and Tweezers
A pair of first-aid scissors can help you safely cut tape, gauze, or clothing in case of an emergency. Tweezers are also helpful to have for bee stings or splinters. This set from First Aid Only Store contains both for under five dollars.
7. Pain Relievers
Whether you sustain a sprain on a hike or just have a headache after a long day of driving, keeping an anti-inflammatory pain reliever, like Ibuprofen , on hand will ensure your summer road trip goes as smoothly as possible.
8. Aloe Vera Gel
Even if you slather on sunscreen, some sunburns can feel unavoidable in the summer. Keeping a bottle of aloe vera in your car first aid kit, like this hydrating gel from Sun Bum , can help you cool down.
9. Burn Relief Cream
Who doesn’t love long summer nights around the campfire? Unfortunately, sometimes minor burns happen to even the most careful campers. Keep some Neosporin burn relief cream in your car to treat any injuries.
10. Poison Oak and Ivy Wipes
No one wants to deal with an itchy rash from poison ivy or poison oak, especially while stuck in a car for several hours a day. If you run into any poison plants on your summer hikes, these Tecnu waterless detox wipes can remove the irritating oils so your skin clears up more quickly. | https://richmond.com/news/local/driver-dies-in-crash-in-chesterfield-county/article_dd88e90e-1579-11ee-8d65-1764bb87c960.html | 2023-06-28T06:55:19 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/driver-dies-in-crash-in-chesterfield-county/article_dd88e90e-1579-11ee-8d65-1764bb87c960.html |
Sheriff's office on hunt for suspect in Salisbury stabbing
A suspect is wanted by the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office on multiple charges, including attempted second-degree murder, in a stabbing that took place in Salisbury earlier this month.
Tywuan Hunter is being sought by the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office on charges of attempted second-degree murder, reckless endangerment, first- and second-degree assault and deadly weapon with intent to injure following a June 15 stabbing, according to a release. Hunter also has an additional warrant for his arrest.
On June 15, 2023, Wicomico County Sheriff's Office responded to TidalHealth Peninsula Regional in reference to a stabbing. The victim was observed to have multiple stab wounds on his body, and it was determined that the stabbing occurred in the 500 block of Overbrook Drive in Salisbury.
The suspect, Hunter, was at the residence in violation of a protective order and in a physical altercation with a female resident, according to the release. The victim of the stabbing then responded to check on the welfare of the female when Hunter began to stab him, the sheriff's office said.
Detectives were able to apply for charges against Hunter at the District Court Commissioner and received an arrest warrant for him.
If anyone has any additional information regarding this investigation, or the location of Hunter, contact the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation at 410-548- 4898 or Crime Solvers at 410-548-1776
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The man accused in the subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely is set to face a judge again on Wednesday, this time to learn the charges from a grand jury indictment issued earlier this month.
Daniel Penny was initially charged with manslaughter last month in the May 1 death of Neely, a former Michael Jackson impersonator who struggled in recent years with homelessness and mental illness.
A spokesperson for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had stated the specific charges in the indictment would be unveiled at an arraignment scheduled for Wednesday morning. Penny had initially been charged with manslaughter in the second degree, which carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison, but a grand jury's approval of charges was needed for the case to continue.
Neely was shouting at passengers and begging for money when Penny, a former U.S. Marine, pinned him to the floor of the moving subway car with the help of two other riders. Penny then held Neely in a chokehold that lasted more than three minutes until his body went limp.
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Penny has said he was protecting himself and other passengers, claiming Neely shouted “I’m gonna’ kill you” and that he was “ready to die” or go to jail for life.
“He was yelling in their faces saying these threats,” Penny said in a video released by his attorneys this week. “I just couldn’t sit still.”
A freelance journalist who recorded Neely struggling to free himself, then lapsing into unconsciousness, said he was acting aggressively and frightening people but hadn’t assaulted anyone. Neely was Black. Penny is white.
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Neely’s death prompted protests by many who saw it as an example of racial injustice, setting off a debate about vigilantism and public safety in New York City. Several commentators, including Rev. Al Sharpton, compared the chokehold death to the Bernhard Goetz case in 1984, in which a white gunman shot four Black men on a subway train.
Others have rallied around Penny, including several of the Republican candidates for president. A fund set up to pay for Penny’s legal defense has raised more than $2.8 million, according to his lawyers.
The attorneys, Steven Raiser and Thomas Keniff, have said they were confident that a trial jury would find Penny's actions on the train justified.
“While we respect the decision of the grand jury to move this case forward to trial, it should be noted that the standard of proof in a grand jury is very low and there has been no finding of wrongdoing," they said.
In a statement, attorneys for the Neely family — Donte Mills and Lennon Edwards — said the grand jury’s decisions “tells our city and our nation that ‘no one is above the law’ no matter how much money they raise, no matter what affiliations they claim, and no matter what distorted stories they tell.”
Neely, 30, had been arrested multiple times and had recently pleaded guilty to assaulting a 67-year-old woman leaving a subway station in 2021.
Penny, 24, was released on $100,000 bond following a May 12 court appearance.
In a statement following news of the indictment, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the indictment would allow for justice to move forward.
“I appreciate DA Bragg conducting a thorough investigation into the death of Jordan Neely," he said. "Like I said when the DA first brought charges, I have the utmost faith in the judicial process, and now that the Grand Jury has indicted Daniel Penny, a trial and justice can move forward.” | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/daniel-penny-grand-jury-charges-to-be-unsealed-at-wednesday-arraignment-for-chokehold-case/4426221/ | 2023-06-28T07:02:01 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/daniel-penny-grand-jury-charges-to-be-unsealed-at-wednesday-arraignment-for-chokehold-case/4426221/ |
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Yusef Salaam, who as a child was part of a group of teenagers wrongly accused, convicted and imprisoned for the rape of a woman jogging in Central Park, took a commanding lead Tuesday in a Democratic primary for a City Council seat in New York.
Salaam faces two veteran politicians, New York Assembly members Al Taylor, 65, and Inez Dickens, 73, in the race for a seat representing part of Harlem. The incumbent, democratic socialist Kristin Richard Jordan, dropped out of the race in May but remained on the ballot.
The contest was taking place more than two decades after Salaam and four other men — known as the Central Park Five — were exonerated by DNA evidence in one of the city’s most notorious and racially fraught crimes.
The Associated Press has not declared a winner in the race and the election’s outcome might not be certain for days because of New York’s ranked choice voting rules. That system kicks in if no candidate claims more than 50% of the total vote.
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It was unclear early Wednesday whether Salaam would stay above that threshold. With about 95% of votes counted, Salaam had a little less than 51% of the vote, with Dickens trailing substantially in second place.
Salaam nonetheless declared victory in a speech to supporters late Tuesday.
“What has happened in this campaign has restored my faith in knowing that I was born for this,” he said.
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Salaam likened his youthful imprisonment to being “kidnapped,” but he also called his nearly seven years in prison a gift that allowed him to see a racially unjust criminal justice system from the “belly of the beast.”
“I am here because, Harlem, you believed in me,” he said.
Dickens conceded late Tuesday, but promised to “continue to fight for what my community needs.”
If Salaam were to prevail in the primary it would virtually assure him a general election victory in a district unlikely to elect a Republican. It is his first time seeking public office.
While all three candidates focused on promoting affordable housing, controlling gentrification and easing poverty in Harlem, Salaam capitalized on his celebrity in neighborhoods that consider the Central Park Five — also called the Exonerated Five — living symbols of the injustices faced by the Black and Latino residents who make up about three-fourth’s of the district’s population.
Salaam was 15 when he was arrested in 1989 and accused, along with four other Black and brown teenagers — Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise — of beating and raping a woman in Central Park.
Members of the group served between five and 12 years in prison before prosecutors agreed to reexamine the case. DNA evidence and a confession ultimately linked a serial rapist and murderer to the attack. The convictions were vacated in 2002 and the city ultimately agreed in a legal settlement to pay the exonerated men $41 million.
“When people look at me and they they know my story, they resonate with it,” Salaam told The Associated Press in an interview before the election. “But now here we are 34 years later, and I’m able to use that platform that I have and repurpose the pain, help people as we climb out of despair.”
New York City's ranked choice voting rules allows voters to rank the candidates by order of preference. Because of the complexity of the system, it has become tricky to forecast a winner.
If one candidate is the first choice of a majority of voters — more than 50% — that person wins the race outright, just like in a traditional election. But if that threshold isn't met, the eventual winner will be determined by ranked choice voting. That means the vote count is conducted in rounds. The candidate with the lowest number of first-choice votes is eliminated, and that person's votes are redistributed to those voters’ second choices.
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BUHL — Linda Carol Blanchard, 76, of Buhl, passed away May 29, 2023, in Casa Grande, Ariz. A celebration of Linda’s life will be held on Saturday, July 1, 2023, at 11:00 am, at the LDS Stake Center, 840 West Midway Street, Filer, Idaho, 83328.
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April 23, 1947—June 19, 2023
TWIN FALLS — Marie Edith Smith, 76, of Twin Falls, Idaho, passed away June 19, 2023, at the Transitional Care Center, in Twin Falls.
Marie was born on April 23, 1947, to Jesse and Louise Smith in Payette, Idaho. She was the oldest of four children. The family moved from Payette to Burley in 1960. She attended Burley Junior High and Burley High School where she played the clarinet in the high school band and graduated in 1965.
Marie attended Northwest Christian University. Marie was very active in the Payette and Burley Christian Churches. She knew her Heavenly Father and studied his word.
While in high school, Marie started her career as a Candy Striper and earned her certification as a Nurse Aide after college. Before Marie went to California to help care for her grandmother, she worked in Nampa and Burley in care centers. Upon returning to Burley, she started her career as a personal care provider, caring for clients 24/7. They were like family members to Marie. In 1987, she provided care for her mother until she passed away.
Marie had a love of animals and dearly loved her two pets, a beautiful Pomeranian, Simba, and a cat named Honey. Marie also had a passion for reading, teaching Sunday school, and working with youth.
In 2016, Marie moved from Burley to Twin Falls to be close to her sister, Becky Coon. Marie lived at the Valley Vista Senior Center until she moved to the Twin Falls Transitional Care Center where she passed away.
Marie was preceded in death by her infant brother, Kenneth Jay; her father, Jesse Amos; and mother, Louise Irene (Nelson) Smith; and both sets of grandparents, aunts and uncles, and cousins.
She is survived by her brother, Gary Eugene Smith (Roberta) of Boise, and sister, Becky Ann Coon (Jerry Lee Coon) of Twin Falls; a niece, Shannon Marie Smith (Etienne) of Boise; two nephews: Jason Lee Coon (Chelsey) of Jerome, and Tyler Jay Coon of American Falls; one grand-niece, Isabella Anne DeVilliers of Boise; and one grand-nephew, Axel Jesse Coon of Jerome.
A memorial service will be held at 3:00 p.m. Saturday, July 1, 2023 at the South Hills Retreat Center, Camp Kum Ba Yah, which Marie assisted in building.
Marie requested to be buried next to her parents. A graveside service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, July 6, 2023, at Pleasant View Cemetery, 1645 E. 16th St., in Burley, Idaho.
Cremation arrangements have been entrusted to the care of Rasmussen-Wilson Funeral Home of Burley. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/marie-edith-smith/article_e65c8bc7-eaf4-53f3-a932-8d1330ba711e.html | 2023-06-28T07:09:47 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/marie-edith-smith/article_e65c8bc7-eaf4-53f3-a932-8d1330ba711e.html |
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Isaiah Harris-Cook entered not guilty pleas to four criminal counts Tuesday morning, including vehicular homicide, following a crash in March that took the life of his girlfriend Jessie Uch.
Prosecutors said toxicology tests found that Harris-Cook, 18, was under the influence of THC at the time of the crash.
Investigators said he lost control of his car and crashed into oncoming traffic on March 5. The TCSO investigation revealed that Harris-Cook's vehicle lost control as it approached a curve and veered into the oncoming lane. His vehicle was struck on the passenger side by another vehicle driven by a 24-year-old woman.
By the time paramedics arrived at the crash scene, Uch was deceased, according to court documents.
Uch, a 17-year-old senior at Rainier High School, was set to attend Eastern Washington University after graduating.
Instead, classmates remembered her in speeches and with an empty chair at their graduation ceremony earlier this month.
“It was kind of hard at first,” said Jessie’s brother, Jacob Uch, who sat beside his sister’s empty chair during graduation, “But it did feel like she was with me.”
Jacob Uch also graduated with Rainier High School’s Class of 2023.
Tuesday morning he was in the courtroom. He hoped to make eye contact with Harris-Cook.
“He wouldn’t even bear to stare at me once,” said Jacob Uch.
Harris-Cook is set to go to trial in September. Thurston County charged him with vehicular homicide, vehicular assault, driving under the influence, and a minor driving after consumption charge.
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Still no new fiber network in Bloomington — 10 weeks after city said connections are live
GigabitNow? More like GigabitNotYet.
Ten weeks after Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton and executives of GigabitNow and Hoosier Fiber Networks announced the first 100 households in the city could connect to new high-speed fiber Internet, not a single household in Bloomington can actually connect.
The city of Bloomington is supporting the creation of the new network with a $10 million tax break.
Neither Hoosier Fiber Network’s new CEO, Dave Brodin, nor the mayor’s office could be reached to explain why the companies and the mayor said people were able to connect to the network, even though nearly three months later they still cannot.
Brodin, via email, blamed “a tight equipment market” for the delays, and Rick Dietz, the city’s information technology director, said via email the company during testing discovered “an issue … that required a signal boost in the fiber path from Indianapolis to Bloomington.” Dietz could not be reached to explain what that means, but said the matter had been resolved.
GigabitNow fiber connection in Bloomington 'isn't live just yet'
In early April, the companies and Hamilton said 100 households in the South Griffy Lake neighborhood, northwest of the Indiana University golf course, could connect to the new network and 3,700 more homes would be able to connect in a matter of weeks.
Yet this week, when The Herald-Times spot checked two addresses in the South Griffy neighborhood, GigabitNow, through its chat function, said the area “isn’t live just yet.”
Brodin, the new CEO for Hoosier Fiber Networks, said Friday the first sign-ups are being connected “within the next two weeks.”
“Hoosier Fiber Networks' final completion and testing of the network’s connectivity took longer than expected given a tight equipment market but has now been resolved,” he said.
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Brodin said the company has installed about 400,000 feet of fiber conduit — the sleeve that holds the actual fiber — and 100,000 feet of fiber, “with more being placed every day.”
The CEO said the first homes that will be connected are in the South Griffy Lake area, followed by the area between North Kinser Pike and Bloomington North High School and between Ind. 46 and Cascades Golf Course.
“We expect to connect 1,000 of those homes by the end of July with an additional 6,100 connected by (the) end of the calendar year,” Brodin said.
Hamilton: New Bloomington fiber network the beginning of a 'new era'
Hamilton and the companies had announced the allegedly available connections 10 weeks ago in a ceremony at city hall.
"The first hundred homes in Bloomington are ready for connection to this new citywide high-speed fiber network," Hamilton said April 4.
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He said the city was ringing in a “new era” and taking a step toward becoming a more equitable community by creating opportunities for people who previously did not have access to high-speed internet.
The mayor said the Crestmont community, for example, would have access to the fiber service within six months, and most Bloomington Housing Authority clients likely would get the service for free thanks to a federal subsidy of $30 per month for income-eligible households.
Hamilton said the city worked for years to get another internet service provider into the community that would offer the service to “virtually all” of Bloomington, as traditional ISPs left certain neighborhoods behind — mainly where they don’t believe the infrastructure investments would generate a good return because too few people would be able to afford to sign up.
The city council agreed last year to give infrastructure company Meridiam a $10 million tax break for its planned $50 million investment in the local network. Dietz said last week the city will reimburse the taxes the company pays on the business personal property — but that reimbursement will happen only once the infrastructure and equipment has been installed.
Existing broadband providers criticized the deal, saying the city was giving GigabitNow an unfair competitive advantage. In addition, a spokesman for Comcast said that company already is offering high-speed internet in virtually all of the city, including in the Crestmont community, for $25 per month — or free for income-eligible households thanks to the federal subsidy.
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Greensboro community members are invited to attend one of three public city meetings concerning the Downtown Parking Plan on Wednesday and Thursday.
There are two opportunities for people to attend the Wednesday discussion; the first from 4-5:30 p.m. and the second from 6-7:30 p.m. Both meetings will be held in the Nussbaum Room of the Central Library at 219 N. Church St. Thursday's meeting will be held virtually over Zoom and will start at 12:30 p.m.
The Department of Transportation has been conducting a study about city parking issues since the fall of 2022. Director Hanna Cockburn hopes that the study can be concluded by October 2023 with a recommendation given to city council, although this timeline is dependent on feedback from the public.
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So far, the study has included an inventory of parking options and availability, engineering reviews of parking structures and facilities, identification of issues and concerns regarding investment, and a comparison and analysis of the practices other peer communities around the nation have implemented.
Attendees of this first round of public meetings should expect to hear from city staff and from the consulting group Kimley-Horn about these findings. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/city-meetings-to-discuss-downtown-parking-plan-set-for-wednesday-and-thursday/article_7c655a82-151e-11ee-bfd9-0b25661da581.html | 2023-06-28T09:15:47 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/city-meetings-to-discuss-downtown-parking-plan-set-for-wednesday-and-thursday/article_7c655a82-151e-11ee-bfd9-0b25661da581.html |
GREENSBORO — A facility to care for unaccompanied immigrant children may be closer to opening now that a key contract has been awarded.
But federal officials are still mum on when children will be accepted at the former American Hebrew Academy on Hobbs Road.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services last year signed a five-year, $50 million lease on the school grounds to house and educate unaccompanied immigrant minors. Children would stay there while the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement works to place them with a “vetted sponsor” — often a family member — while their immigration status is adjudicated.
Initially, the children were expected to begin arriving in July 2022. But that date was postponed and now the federal government is not publicly giving a timeline.
However, Councilwoman Nancy Hoffmann, whose district includes the campus, said it’s likely to be soon.
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“The latest information that we had as of a few days ago is that … timing is imminent in terms of the start of the usage by the federal government,” Hoffman said. “But that’s all I know.”
A June 22 email sent to “stakeholders” — a select group that includes local elected officials and neighborhoods extremely close to the facility — noted that the facilities management contract was awarded earlier this month.
That contract, potentially worth $273.7 million, was appealed and had to be rebid. It was eventually awarded to Deployed Resources of Rome, N.Y.
A letter sent by a public affairs officer with the Office of Refugee Resettlement notes: “This contract is necessary to ensure that the GPA is ready to welcome unaccompanied children.”
"GPA" stands for Greensboro Piedmont Academy, the name officials are calling the facility, which could house up to 800 children.
“As a result, contractual activities will continue to occur onsite throughout the summer and into next year,” the June email states. “We appreciate your understanding and support as we prepare for the upcoming opening.”
The Office of Refugee Resettlement's media office did not respond to a News and Record email seeking an update on the project.
Buses recently entering the campus created a stir as some people thought they might already be transporting immigrant children.
However, Mayor Nancy Vaughan said the buses were transporting employees, not children.
“Taking neighborhood concerns (about traffic) into account, they have rented an off-campus park and ride,” Vaughan explained. “Their employees park and they bring them over in buses.”
Vaughan said she was not aware of when the children could arrive.
At least 1,500 people are expected to staff the facility around the clock, including case managers, mental health and medical clinicians, administrators and food service providers among others.
The average stay in similar facilities is 17 days, according to a September 2022 letter sent to U.S. Rep. Kathy Manning from DHHS Assistant Secretary January Contreras. The Office of Refugee Resettlement “will notify stakeholders within 15 days of activating the facility,” the letter states.
By law, DHHS must care for children who have no lawful U.S. immigration status; are younger than 18; and who have no parent or legal guardian available to provide care and physical custody here.
Most of the children are apprehended by immigration authorities while trying to cross the border or come to the attention of immigration authorities after crossing the border, according to a federal fact sheet.
In fiscal year 2021, about 72% of all children referred to the Office of Refugee Resettlement were older than 14, and 66% were boys. The youth in the program generally came from Guatemala (47%), El Salvador (13%) and Honduras (32%).
According to local officials, DHHS has told them the facility will accept boys and girls ages 13 to 17 and that they will be separated by gender.
Mark Hobson, a Westridge Forest resident who opposes the facility, said the amount of money being spent to staff the place is “equally nauseating.”
“There’s masses of cars parked in the parking lot, but no sign of anyone,” he said. “Someone’s getting paid and no one seems to be doing anything at this point.”
Terry Billings, who also lives in Westridge Forest, said he’s seen an “acceleration in what I would refer to as preparation.” | https://greensboro.com/news/local/greensboro-immigrants-minors-border-crossing-hebrew-academy/article_442cb15c-1513-11ee-a3a6-c797c2c81b0a.html | 2023-06-28T09:15:53 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/greensboro-immigrants-minors-border-crossing-hebrew-academy/article_442cb15c-1513-11ee-a3a6-c797c2c81b0a.html |
Monthly e-cigarette sales increased by 46.6% in nearly three full years from 2020 to late 2022, the Centers for Disease Control found in a study published Friday.
As sales increased from 15.5 million units in January 2020 to 22.7 million units in December 2022, the number of brands increased by 46.2%, to 269. Sales of youth-appealing flavors such as fruit, candy, and desserts also increased, the CDC said in its latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
E-cigarettes pose a health risk to brain development among youth because of the nicotine found in the e-cigarettes, officials said.
“Most e-cigarettes contain nicotine, and nicotine is highly addictive and can also harm brain development in adolescents,” said Dan Suffoletto, public information manager for Public Health - Dayton and Montgomery County. “The brain continues to develop even into the mid-20s of someone’s age, so you don’t want to do anything that could hinder that development.”
Using e-cigarettes puts people at risk of developing a vaping-associated lung injury, EVALI, which can result in a permanent lung injury or death, officials said. There have been 2,807 cases of EVALI reported in the U.S with many cases directly linked to vaping, said Leah Behler, tobacco cessation grant coordinator at the Clark County Combined Health District.
Youth who use e-cigarettes may be more likely to use cigarettes later in life, the CDC says. Nearly nine out of 10 adults who smoke cigarettes daily first try smoking by age 18, and 99% first try smoking by age 26, according to the CDC.
“This data points to the fact that large numbers of American children will become addicted to nicotine and are at risk for becoming a regular tobacco user,” Suffoletto said.
Using tobacco increases the risk of dying prematurely from tobacco related diseases, said Behler.
“COPD, emphysema, heart disease, stroke and lung cancer occur at higher rates in people who use tobacco products,” Behler said. “Youth who use tobacco before the brain is fully developed at age 25 can experience impacts on learning, ability to focus, and mood regulation.”
Common signs of a teen who might be vaping are drinking more liquids than usual, persistent coughing, nosebleeds and increased irritability, Behler said.
Reported usage
The Clark County Combined Health District conducts its own Youth Risk Behavioral Survey, collecting data from school districts. The middle school results for 2021 showed approximately 16.8% of students had used an electronic vapor product and 10.6% had used one at least once within 30 days.
For high schoolers, approximately 35.8% had tried an electronic vapor product, 21.1% used one at least once within 30 days and 7.3% had used an electronic vapor product 20 or more times.
“We have a concerning rate of youth tobacco use,” Behler said. “Youth between the ages of 11 and 17 are engaging in using vapes. Vaping is considerably problematic within our school districts.”
One in three students are estimated to possess a vaping product according to the resource officer at Tecumseh High School, Behler said. Additionally, hundreds of of vape products are confiscated from students in schools in Clark County.
“Schools are having a difficult time controlling students vaping in school,” Behler said.
Montgomery County Prevention Coalition provided a breakdown of students who had used an e-cigarette in the last 30 days at Montgomery County schools:
- Seventh grade: 4%
- Eighth grade: 4%
- Ninth grade: 6%
- Tenth grade: 4%
- Eleventh grade: 5%
- Twelfth grade: 12%
The data is from Montgomery County Prevention Coalition’s Panorama survey of students in grades 7-12 in Montgomery County, done through the Montgomery County Educational Service Center. This data, which is also from April 2023, also showed:
- 26% of students said there was little to no risk of using e-cigarettes every day.
- 9% of students said their parents think there is little to no risk of using e-cigarettes every day.
- 28% of students said their friends think there is little to no risk of using e-cigarettes every day.
Different flavors of e-cigarettes also make them more appealing to youth. Data show that a vast majority of students who use tobacco products reported using a flavored product.
“The tobacco industry is well aware that flavors appeal to and attract kids, and that young people are uniquely vulnerable to nicotine addiction,” said Robin Koval, CEO and president of the Truth Initiative, a nonprofit public health organization.
“While we are encouraged by FDA’s recent actions to curb unlawful marketing of flavored e-cigarettes, we all must work with even greater urgency to protect our nation’s youth from all flavored e-cigarettes, including disposables.”
Preventing use
As of Dec. 31, 2022, seven states including California, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Utah, along with 378 jurisdictions including counties, cities, towns, and villages, have some type of restriction on flavored e-cigarette sales in place, the CDC said.
Local agencies offer public information campaigns to help discourage use of e-cigarettes or smoking. Public Health - Dayton and Montgomery County offers CATCH My Breath, a youth nicotine vaping prevention program, to local schools to help stop the use of nicotine at an early age. The overall goal of CATCH My Breath is to prevent the initiation of e-cigarette use among preteen and teen adolescents. Suffoletto said 276 area youth participated from July 2022 to January 2023.
Public health experts also encourage parents to talk to their kids about vaping, address peer use, and practice refusal skills.
“Teens are encouraged to choose healthier activities and coping skills. There are a variety of strategies to use that are better ways to deal with stress instead of nicotine products,” Behler said.
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'Zeke is such a force.' 3-year-old Lewes boy recovering after lawnmower severed his leg
A 3-year-old Lewes boy’s enthusiasm for life is aiding in his recovery after he lost his lower leg in a lawnmower accident earlier this month.
Zeke Clark was riding on his dad’s lap as they mowed the grass at their home June 7. When he fell off and became trapped underneath, his right leg was severed below the knee.
“My husband came running in screaming to call 911,” said his mother, Maria Clark Deforrest.
Zeke’s father, Jonathan Clark, “experienced a rush of adrenaline” and was able to flip the lawnmower off his son, according to the news release from the crowdfunding website Help Hope Live. He used his belt as a tourniquet on Zeke’s leg while the family called for help.
Zeke is the second youngest in a family of six children. His siblings are Cameron, 16; Chole, 14; Eli, 13; Quinn, 11; and 4-month-old Blake. While their mother was on the phone with emergency dispatchers, Cameron and Chloe retrieved Zeke’s limb from the yard and placed it in a bag of ice, hoping it could be reattached.
“It was pretty intense,” Clark Deforrest said. “They were very strong-minded about it. They didn’t blink.”
Due to the smoke and haze brought to Delaware by Canadian wildfires, helicopters were permitted to fly to and from certain locations only that day, according to Clark Deforrest. Zeke was transported by ambulance to Delaware Coastal Airport in Georgetown, where he and his mother were then flown to Nemours Children’s Hospital in Rockland.
Zeke never lost consciousness, Clark Deforrest said. As the family was preparing to leave their home to go to the hospital, he tried to stand up.
“He was like, ‘Daddy, get up. We have to go to the doctor to fix my leg,’” she said. “Zeke is very inspiring. He’s just an alpha male. There’s no stopping him.”
Once they arrived at the hospital, Zeke and his mother were greeted by a team of medical professionals.
“It was like ‘Gray’s Anatomy,’” Clark Deforrest said. “There were like 30 people awaiting our arrival, swooping in.”
Despite learning his leg could not be reattached, she said, the doctors helped her to recover emotionally.
“They weren’t saying ‘when he’s fine,’ they were saying ‘when he’s running,’ and that just cut right through it,” she said. “I actually, strangely, was able to come to terms with it very quickly.”
The family attends St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Lewes. With the help of their pastor, the Rev. Jeffrey Austen Ross, Jonathan Clark was also able to “turn the corner” emotionally, Clark Deforrest said.
Zeke’s father stayed with him at the hospital, where he spent a total of 17 days and underwent five surgeries. In addition to losing his lower leg, he suffered a fracture to his femur.
The rest of the Clark kids tried to go about life normally in the days following the accident. One of them had a birthday party two days later. They finished the school year, and the oldest kids took their final exams.
“This is something they’re all going to have to deal with in their own ways, in time,” Clark Deforrest said.
Because of the fracture, Zeke can’t attempt to bear weight on his wounded leg yet, but that’s not stopping him. Zeke started scooting around as soon as he left the hospital.
In fact, the day he left coincided with Nemours' annual gathering for kids with lower extremity prosthetics, where Zeke bowled by happily scooting himself into the pins.
Now, the family is trying to get ahead of Zeke’s medical expenses. Clark Deforrest and her husband both own their own small businesses, and Jonathan Clark stopped working to stay with Zeke at the hospital.
“It’s definitely challenging,” Clark Deforrest said.
“Zeke will need on-going medical care, new prosthetics, continually changing equipment, a home that can meet his physical needs, long-term physical therapy, and continued support. This is a lifetime commitment for the family, requiring extraordinary and increasing expenses,” Zeke’s Help Hope Live page says.
As of Tuesday, about $41,000 had been raised via Help Hope Live, a community-based fundraising platform for medical expenses. Donations can be made at helphopelive.org/campaign/22355/.
“Zeke is such a force: he was walking at 9 months and running at 11 months. We have no doubts that he will again be doing this in due time and it’s through the support of our community that we have the strength to persevere through this tragedy,” Clark Deforrest said in the news release.
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Lawnmowing is a common child-parent bonding activity in the U.S. Zeke and his dad had been cutting the grass together since he was a year old, according to the news release. It was a “beloved weekly tradition.”
Many kids are fascinated by and eager to ride heavy machinery, despite warnings against it. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission urges parents to never allow children to ride on lawnmowers.
According to a 2021 study of lawnmower-related injuries to children over the past 25 years, there are over 9,000 such injuries reported annually in the U.S. Of the cases included in the study, open fractures occurred in 68.3% of patients and amputations were required in 38% of patients.
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Police recover partial remains of missing Lane County man Shane Sprenger
The Lane County Sheriff’s Office has recovered partial human remains, according to a Tuesday press release.
The remains have been identified as Shane Sprenger of Blue River. Sprenger went missing Nov. 3, 2021, and was last known to be near Blue River Reservoir, where he was possibly mushroom picking. Family members had said at the time they were in contact with Spencer the morning of Nov. 3, until he told a family member he lost the keys to his truck and needed a ride home. Two days after he went missing, Sprenger’s truck was found by family.
Sprenger's mother confirmed on Facebook early Monday morning his remains had been found.
The sheriff's office has not said where the partial remains were found.
Authorities are asking anyone with information to contact the sheriff’s office at 541-682-4150. | https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/local/2023/06/27/partial-remains-found-missing-lane-county-oregon-man-shane-sprenger/70363059007/ | 2023-06-28T09:43:18 | 0 | https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/local/2023/06/27/partial-remains-found-missing-lane-county-oregon-man-shane-sprenger/70363059007/ |
North Bend City Council quickly appointed Matt Hamilton to the vacant City Council seat this past week. Hamilton will serve through December 2024.
The Council wasted no time choosing their replacement for Former Councilor Eric Gleason, who resigned in March. After an application period that expired June 7, the Council discussed next steps at their June 12 work session. The agenda item stated that “staff requests a consensus on when to schedule candidate interviews before the Council” for the three candidates.
But during the work session, Councilor Garboden recommended City Council operate solely off the candidates’ applications. Interviews were not required as part of the process.
“I think we probably operate just off the applications,” Councilor Garboden said.
Councilor Schultz asked why the Council wouldn’t want to give each applicant the opportunity to speak, and her question was met with a short silence from the other councilors. Eventually, Councilor Goll contended the applications were enough, shifting the conversation to his preferred applicant.
“The applications kind of submits what they think and what they feel,” Councilor Goll stated. “We’ve had one citizen whose been here through all of this [stuff] that we’ve had a challenge on, and I have to give him credit for that.”
Mayor Engelke followed Councilor Goll’s statement by suggesting that one applicant stood out to her due to his attendance at the previous 14 Council meetings.
“There’s an applicant that stands out here to me that’s been to the last 14 council meetings and has been paying very close attention to what’s going on,” Mayor Engelke noted. “I would see that as somebody I would consider for the councilor position. There is an applicant, who I’m putting at the top of the pile, who is here with us tonight.”
Matt Hamilton was that applicant. He was also the only applicant present at Monday night’s work session. The City Council asked Hamilton to come to the front of the room and speak on his qualifications.
Hamilton currently works for West Coast Contractors in Coos Bay and has worked as a welder, foreman, superintendent, and project manager in the industrial construction industry for most of his life. His prior government experience consists of his attendance at the last 14 North Bend City Council meetings.
“I grew up in Wisconsin and went to high school and tech school there,” Hamilton told the council. “I ended up leaving there and going to a bigger city where I ended up on a construction crew. I have travelled literally everywhere. I’ve worked all over the United States. I really believe that when you go and experience other places, it opens your mind.”
Hamilton also said his work in the industrial construction industry has brought him to see how reliant many other local industries are on the oil industry.
“When you go down to Texas and Louisiana and understand how big [the oil industry is], you have no idea how many pipelines are actually running,” Hamilton said. “That’s what drives this whole United States. Locally, our chip industry, our logging industry, our fishing industry, everything plays into just that.”
The three biggest issues Hamilton believes North Bend is facing are funding for maintaining City infrastructure, growth and tourism, and community or quality of life. Hamilton said he wants to see bigger festivals and more community activities in the future.
Councilor Goll stated he appreciated Hamilton’s commitment to attending the Council meetings even when the issues were complicated.
“You’ve sat through one of the worst little projects we’ve had in Sisters in a long time, and that probably took some effort on your part to not get frustrated. You know what we went through, you know what you’re potentially getting yourself into, and you’re still here,” Councilor Goll said.
At the end of the June 12 work session, the Council decided they would appoint Hamilton at their June 13 regular City Council meeting. Hamilton was appointed the next day with all in favor, and none opposed.
During the public comment section of the June 13 City Council meeting, another candidate for the vacant position expressed his disappointment over the Council’s swift decision.
“I watched Matt’s presentation yesterday at the work session,” said John Ezra Scheirman. “I did notice that his experience and all the businesses he mentioned involved resource extraction. He even mentioned the pipeline, and I was not aware there was a pipeline project still in the works at all. The thing about resource extraction is that the people of this City would not be interested. Resource extraction is declining. What’s coming up is the information technology.”
Scheirman worked as an engineer for both an underwater acoustic technologies manufacturer and an electronics manufacturer before retiring. Since then, he has worked as a staff instructor at SWOCC, and he currently serves on the events committee for the Coos County Democratic Party.
Timm Slater was the third candidate for the vacant Council position. Slater served as the North Bend Mayor for 12 years after serving on the City Council for five years. Slater served again on the North Bend City Council from 2012 to 2022.
Councilor Hamilton will take his place on the North Bend City Council during their next regular meeting on June 27.
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Long known for its toe-tappin’, foot stompin’ country music, Little Ole Opry is adding a weekend of Motown music to its variety show in July. Enjoy this high energy show with songs like “Stop in the Name of Love” with the three-part harmonies of Kallie Mill, Melinda Hasel and Nina Corrie and “Ain't No Mountain High Enough” with dynamic sister and brother duo Jacob and Caylee Renard.
Now in its 42nd year, Little Ole Opry has something for everyone’s musical taste. Director Shirley Kintner says, “It’s a testament to the quality of the shows that the audience keeps returning year after year.
Les Engle is Opry’s music director, and he matches up the songs you love to hear with the right singers. We really miss our long-time co-director Becky Engle, who passed away earlier this year, and she would have enjoyed this summer’s music so much. Not only do we have Motown sounds, we’ve got Country and the fabulous Fifties decade too.”
In the early years of Little Ole Opry, the comedy team was brought on as a way to provide entertainment as microphones were changed. At that time, the show was broadcast on the radio, and no one wanted “dead air.”
Now, the comedy is an integral part of this variety show, with Joe Stoffel as their director. On any given weekend, you’ll see this team dress up in zany outfits, making rip-roarin’ jokes while entertaining the crowd between musical sets.
Get ready for the Little Ole Opry Dancers, and the ‘Tween dancers too, clogging to “Down at the Twist and Shout” and “Great Balls of Fire,” with Pete Ortega accompanying on keyboards. The dancers are choreographed by Kallie Mill, with Whitney Warr choreographing the younger group.
Some of the newcomers to the Opry stage will be Bradford McKeown singing “Reach Out,” and Harlan Morse, with “Why Don’t We Just Dance.” The trio of Emma Warr, Lucy Seedborg and Zosia Burns sing “Lollipop” at the Fifties weekend. Favorite performers are also returning, such as Kiri Goodson, Brian Hampton, Becky Armistead and the Young Bucs.
The Opry band is always the best in town, as they showcase their talents with guitars, percussion, keyboards and music highlighting saxophone, trumpet and fiddle.
Little Ole Opry on the Bay runs four weekends of different shows in July, opening with Country music on Saturday July 8-9. The following weekends are Fabulous Fifties July 15-16, Motown July 22-23 and Director’s Choice July 29-30. Saturday performances are 7 PM, Sunday matinees at 2 PM.
Tickets are available online at www.thelibertytheatre.org at call the box office at 541-756-4336. Doors open one hour before each show. The Liberty Theatre is 2100 Sherman Avenue, North Bend. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/photos-little-ole-opry-on-the-bay-brings-back-the-sounds-of-motown/article_ee20b188-1480-11ee-bcc9-0b44d77539a0.html | 2023-06-28T09:43:33 | 1 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/photos-little-ole-opry-on-the-bay-brings-back-the-sounds-of-motown/article_ee20b188-1480-11ee-bcc9-0b44d77539a0.html |
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ROANOKE, Va. – Roanoke Fire-EMS was dispatched to a fire in Northeast Roanoke overnight.
We’re told the fire occurred at about 2:41 a.m. in the 100 block of Christian Avenue Northeast, about a two-minute drive away from the Williamson Road Library.
Once at the scene, firefighters found heavy fire and smoke coming from the attic of the home.
Authorities say crews were able to extinguish the fire without incident.
No word yet on any injuries.
At this time, the fire remains under investigation.
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Wyatt Kingston has spent decades putting together programs to give structure, discipline, and the occasional bit of pocket change to at-risk youth in Richmond.
Carl Otto, a retired U.S. Navy commander and local business owner, is so synonymous with Gillies Creek Park that the city named the block of Stony Run Road that runs alongside the park in his honor in 2018. The park initially started as a landfill, but today is home to a disc golf court, sports fields and the only certified BMX racetrack in central Virginia.
But if you ask Otto, Wyatt Kingston is as responsible as anyone for making that happen.
“Every year, we would do something different,” Otto says. “We built the horseshoe pit. We built the disc golf course. His kids came up from Hillside (Court) and helped us take 500 tires out of there.”
Kingston, 71, is a longtime program specialist with the Richmond Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities. But he is perhaps better known as the man who is always coming up with a new activity or initiative to benefit the children of Richmond.
He is the kind of guy who will take on non-conventional projects, Otto says, “with the idea of teaching hard-nosed teenagers how to grow up to be an adult.”
Through close to 40 years of service, Kingston has helped children from poorer areas of Richmond experience new things and develop skills: archery and fishing, yard work and gardening, sports and weightlifting.
He has even given them a chance to use those skills to put money in their pockets — pairing them with senior citizens who needed their lawns mowed, or helping them secure a booth at a local market to sell the fruits of a community garden.
Kingston knows firsthand why the ability to make “an honest dollar,” as Otto calls it, is so important. As a teenager, he used to work as a golf caddie at the Country Club of Virginia, carrying bags on the weekend in order to help his aunt pay bills and put food on the table.
“There’s nothing more important when you’re poor than to have some income coming in,” Kingston says. “That’s what deters crime, domestic violence. All of that stuff is deterred by financial stability.”
Kingston was born in Richmond, but spent his earliest years in rural Fluvanna County. He graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1970, then joined the U.S. Army as a way to gain discipline.
He “just missed going to Vietnam” in his four years of service, but spent time stationed both at Fort Knox in Kentucky and in Germany.
He took some classes at VCU on the GI Bill after leaving the military, but left without earning a degree. Instead, he wound up getting involved with Richmond’s parks department through volunteer youth football coaching in Blackwell in the mid-1980s.
That experience was the spark for decades of unique efforts aimed at giving disadvantaged Richmond children something new: not just skills for life, but experiences that they might not get otherwise.
Kingston was responsible for Taj Henley’s first trip out of Virginia, his first airplane flight and for giving him the confidence to make it through a year at Fork Union Military Academy when he called his mother after three days, asking to come home.
Henley, 39, who grew up in Hillside Court, says he does not know where he would be without the man who first introduced him to weightlifting and exercise when he was 9 years old — who he calls “Mr. Kingston” to this day.
“He is pretty much the one who gave me the blueprint to life,” Henley says.
A multi-sport athlete at George Wythe High School in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Henley went on to captain the football team at Ohio University. But he was also part of Kingston’s crew, clearing space in Gillies Creek Park to help build the BMX track and cutting lawns for pocket money. He was named the 2001 Virginia State Youth of the Year by the Boys and Girls Club of America while he was working with Kingston.
Today, he oversees client intake at a Richmond law firm led by Geoff McDonald, who he met through Kingston, along with Jesse Pellot-Rosa — another Kingston mentee and Wythe alum who went on to be a four-year men’s basketball starter at VCU. And both Henley and Pellot-Rosa are following in Kingston’s footsteps and giving back to the community by starting local youth sports organizations of their own.
Henley’s RVA Bulldogs football club has achieved local and regional success on the field, but Henley is proudest of the fact that they provide mentoring and counseling to 136 children in the area.
“Football is just the attraction,” he says.
These days, Kingston is conducting strength training sessions for senior citizens at Hickory Hill Community Center in south Richmond three times a week — no small accomplishment, given that he only recently recovered from knee surgery.
But he is also talking about getting involved in Hillside Court again. He and Henley are part of a push to reopen the community center there and give the children a positive hub in their neighborhood.
Henley says it is a fitting next step for a man whose whole life is about giving kids a chance at something better than their circumstances might dictate.
“His name will live forever because of all the kids he’s affected,” Henley says. “If anybody in this world deserves a statue (in their honor), it’s him.”
From the Archives: Professional baseball in Richmond, 1953-1990
Wyatt Kingston, left, conducts a strength training session with Marshall Crenshaw at Hickory Hill Community Center in Richmond on March 27. Kingston, 71, has been working with the parks department for nearly 40 years on all kinds of initiatives, particularly those aimed at children in public housing communities.
Wyatt Kingston, center, conducts a strength training session with Marshall Crenshaw, left, and Kevin Wright at Hickory Hill Community Center in Richmond on March 27.
Wyatt Kingston has been working with the parks department for nearly 40 years on all kinds of initiatives, particularly those aimed at children in public housing communities. | https://richmond.com/news/local/making-a-difference-wyatt-kingston-parks-and-recreation/article_ff6337d0-c413-11ed-bcd0-c3761f654904.html | 2023-06-28T09:51:28 | 1 | https://richmond.com/news/local/making-a-difference-wyatt-kingston-parks-and-recreation/article_ff6337d0-c413-11ed-bcd0-c3761f654904.html |
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30 facts for South Kingstown's 300th anniversary. There's no way you know all of these.
Katie Landeck
The Providence Journal
With 300 years of history, there's a lot to know about the Town of South Kingstown.
It ranges from battles to love stories with tragic endings all the way to to grist mills and colleges. There are the historical places you can still visit today, and then the places that are nothing short of history-in-the-making.
As the town celebrates its 300th anniversary this year – including a fireworks display on July 4 at Old Mountain Field – The Providence Journal is marking the occasion with 30 tidbits about South Kingstown, one for every decade and in no particular order. Part history, part things to do, there's lots to explore, and almost definitely at least one thing you didn't know before.
- The land that consists of South Kingstown was purchased from the Narragansett Tribe as part of the Pettaquamscutt Purchase of 1658.
- Originally, there wasn’t a South Kingstown and a North Kingstown. It was just Kingstown. But that quickly became too large of an area to manage, so the General Assembly voted to divide them into two towns in 1723.
- Back when Rhode Island had 5 capitol buildings and rotated where the legislative session was held, the South Kingstown village of Little Rest was home to one of the capitol buildings. Today, people still visit the former state house, only now it’s the Kingston Free Library.
- Home to the University of Rhode Island, the school started as the state’s Agricultural Experiment Station and agricultural school in 1888. Using federal funds and local donations (even the Kingston postmaster chipped in), the school started with the purchase of the 140-acre Oliver Watson Farm. The farmhouse is still on the campus.
- South Kingstown has 13 villages. They are Bridgetown, Glenn Rock, Gould Crossing, Green Hill, Kingston, Matunuck, Peace Dale, Perryville, Rocky Brook, Tower Hill, Usquepaug, Wakefield and West Kingston.
- Kenyon Grist Mill is the oldest continuing manufacturing business in Rhode Island, dating all the way back to 1696. Fun fact: they still use the 1886 grist mill to grind the corn.
- In the mid-18th century, there were about 30 plantations in operation in Washington County. The owners were called the Narragansett Planters. It’s estimated that between 15% and 25% of Washington County’s population was enslaved, according to the South County History Center.
- The old Washington County Jail is one of the oldest jails in Rhode Island. It was first built with wood in 1792, but that created a whole host of problems, including that it was easy for prisoners to escape. It was redone in 1858 with stone. Today, it’s home to the South County History Center.
- South Kingstown is home to World War II Foundation Global Education Center, which has created more than 30 films on individuals’ stories from World War II. They are made available to the public for free and there’s a museum people can visit.
- Back in the day, the only fair in Rhode Island was the Kingston Fair, dubbed Little Rhody’s Big Fair. The September Fair featured racing and exhibitions in the early 1900s. Eventually, it petered out.
- The Kingston Fairgrounds had racing from 1948 through 1951. The track was a half mile and ran stock cars.
- South Kingstown is home to the only sculpture in Rhode Island by Daniel Chester French. The bronze sculpture, called “The Weaver,” is on the Peace Dale Library grounds.
- The Glass Station Studio and Gallery that started the treasure hunt for glass orbs on Block Island via the Glass Float Project is based in Wakefield. They make so much more than glass orbs.
- South Kingstown has more than 10 miles of beaches, including the popular Town Beach at Matunuck, and East Matunuck State Beach.
- Trustom Pond is the only non-developed salt pond in the state. Part of the Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge, created in 1974, the refuge is home to approximately 300 bird species, more than 40 mammal species, and 20 species of reptiles and amphibians.
- There’s a public garden with more than 1,000 cultivars and species of rhododendrons, azaleas, native and exotic trees, shrubs, and wildflowers. The Kinney Azalea Gardens was started by URI’s first botany professor Lorenzo Kinney Sr., then taken over by his son, then Tony and Betty Kinney Faella, and now cared for by a non-profit. They do sell plants.
- Peter Pots Pottery, one of the pioneers of midcentury design in pottery and founded by two RISD students, is based in a former wool mill in West Kingston. They’re celebrating their 75th anniversary this year.
- Did you know Narragansett was a part of South Kingstown through 1901? In 1888, Narragansett was made a separate voting district from South Kingstown and in 1901 the state incorporated Narragansett as a fully-vested separate town. The rise of Narragansett as a beach town was the main reason for the split. The Towers were built when it was still South Kingstown.
- URI started as a Land Grant university, but it is also a Sea Grant school. In 1968, they became the first institution on the East Coast to receive Sea Grant funding from the new program championed by Sen. Claiborne Pell.
- The Saugatucket River that runs through South Kingstown is important for herring spawning. Herring can’t jump though, so the Industrial Revolution-era dams present a problem. In 2016, two fish ladders were built, in part using funding from the 1996 North Cape oil spill off South Kingstown.
- In 1675, The Great Swamp Massacre decimated the Narragansett Tribe when colonists from Massachusetts, Connecticut and Plymouth attacked a fort by setting it on fire and killing men, women and children. In 1906, the Societies of Colonial Wars of Rhode Island and Massachusetts dedicated a monument, and in October 2021, the land was deeded back to the Narragansett Tribe.
- The Red House was the retreat of Edward Everett Hall, one of the most popular authors of the 19th century, in the summer. The house is still open for visitors.
- Theatre by the Sea, which is on the register for National Historic Places, is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year. They perform four musicals every season, as well as a children’s theater and concert series. Theater lovers should also check out The Contemporary Theater Company in town.
- Repeatedly recognized by the New York International Beer Competition as Rhode Island Brewery of the Year, Whalers was founded in 2011 in South Kingstown. Also check out nearby Shaidzon Beer Company and Sons of Liberty Spirit Company.
- That 40-foot wooden tower at the intersection of U.S. Route 1 and Route 138 is the Hannah Robinson Tower. To make a long story short, Robinson was the daughter of a Narragansett planter in the colonial era, fell in love with her French teacher and dance instructor, and then learned the hard way he only wanted her family’s money, according to the New England Historical Society. The tower was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933.
- South Kingstown will be home to the Matunuck Shellfish Hatchery and Research Center, which will be the largest hatchery in the state when completed. In the meantime, if you are interested in oyster farming, people can tour the Matunuck Oyster Farm.
- The Kingston Railroad Station opened in 1875, and still operates as an Amtrak stop. The station is on the National Register of Historic Places.
- Christiane Amanpour, chief international anchor for CNN, and John King, chief national anchor from CNN, both graduated from URI.
- The George II Fayerweather House was built by a local blacksmith and a descendant of a freed slave in 1820. Today, it’s home to a crafter’s guild that sells its goods in addition to teaching workshops.
- In the past five years, 29 players from the Ocean State Waves were drafted or signed a professional baseball contract. Part of the New England College Baseball League, the team plays at Old Mountain Field. | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2023/06/28/celebrate-south-kingstowns-300th-anniversary-with-these-30-facts/70356549007/ | 2023-06-28T09:56:11 | 0 | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2023/06/28/celebrate-south-kingstowns-300th-anniversary-with-these-30-facts/70356549007/ |
How Newport's mansions, and more, have been reimagined for 'The Gilded Age' Season 2
- Season 2 of the lavish historical drama by "Downton Abbey" creator Julian Fellowes wrapped up shooting in Newport last October. A launch date has not yet been announced.
- Hundreds of locals worked on the show, from extras to electricians to caterers. The show helped create 1,200 local jobs and worked with 500 local businesses.
- Here's what we know so far about which locations will be featured in Season 2, and how to visit them in the meantime.
SPOILER ALERT: This story does not divulge any plot developments in Season 2 of "The Gilded Age." Plot developments in Season 1 are discussed.
Filming in Newport for Season 2 of the HBO series "The Gilded Age" wrapped in October, and fans are eagerly awaiting an announcement of when it will air, but word is getting out about some of the locations that were used for the show this season.
The show doesn't just put a spotlight on Newport's beautiful backdrops, but it comes together with the help of hundreds of locals, from extras to electricians, carpenters to caterers. The show helped create 1,200 local jobs and worked with 500 local businesses.
Here's what we know so far, broken down by places that will be new to Season 2 and returning sets from Season 1, as well as a reminder of what locations can be seen in a Season 1 rewatch. We'll also tell you how to visit many of these places to see how they look in real life vs. the HBO series.
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New filming locations for 'The Gilded Age' Season 2 (and what won't come back)
The International Tennis Hall of Fame
Known historically as the Newport Casino, the Hall of Fame lent its horseshoe court for what might be called a cameo in Season 1. But the court looks to play a more substantial role in Season 2, as the setting for a social engagement and, of course, for tennis.
The kitchen in this Newport mansion prominently plays the kitchen for the New York City home of George and Bertha Russell, and more of the house will get a turn in Season 2. While watching, look out for the hallway and ballroom on the first floor, where George makes an appearance; a third-floor room in the former servants' quarters, which was remade into the office of butler Church; and the mansion's spacious backyard.
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Some familiar locations will be returning from Season 1, including the basement kitchen, as the Russells' kitchen; a second-floor hallway, as the same in the Russells' New York mansion; and the second-floor bedroom of Herminie Berwind, as the bedroom of Russell daughter Gladys.
The word is that The Breakers, which hosted one of the signature scenes in Season 1 — the debutante ball — won't appear in Season 2. (Unless maybe it's used in a flashback.)
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Chateau-sur-Mer, the oldest of the stone Newport mansions used in the series, did some heavy lifting in Season 1, playing at least four different buildings both in New York and Newport. It will have some new scenes in Season 2, shot in the Marble Hall and in the Green Room. No word though, on what roles these rooms will be playing.
Besides being the place where series creator Julian Fellowes is said to have, over dinner, committed to using Newport locations for filming, Marble House also hosted scenes in Season 1 and will be back in Season 2.
Keen-eyed viewers will see the house's giant dining room, though it's anyone's guess what type of event will take place there.
What Newport locations were in 'The Gilded Age' Season 1?
The International Tennis Hall of Fame
A small social gathering was set on the Executive Porch, overlooking the horseshoe court, while tennis was being played in the background.
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The Elms
Besides the kitchen, which stars in several scenes, the second-floor bedroom of Herminie Berwind was used again as Gladys Russell's bedroom. Plus, a second-floor hallway was used.
The Breakers
The billiard room was used as George Russell's billiard room. The Baumgarten Co. pool table was actually used in the scene, though the felt surface was temporarily covered by a new one. A marble bust of Cornelius Vanderbilt II in this room can be seen in the series.
The music room and part of the adjoining morning room doubled as the ballroom in the Russells' New York mansion. The spectacular scene of Gladys' debut ball, plus an earlier scene when Bertha was trying to host a society fundraising bazaar, were filmed there.
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Chateau-sur-Mer
Chateau-sur-Mer, the historical home of William Shepard Wetmore, father of 19th-century Rhode Island Gov. George Peabody Wetmore, played many roles in Season 1, including:
The exterior and front entrance doubled for Beechwood, the real-life summer home of Caroline Astor, who is also a character in the show. Beechwood was unavailable for filming as it undergoes renovations for new owner Larry Ellison, founder of software company Oracle, who bought it in 2010.
It is seen in Season 1 when Bertha Russell goes on a clandestine visit to Mrs. Astor's home, only to be hurried out a back door when Mrs. Astor suddenly arrives home early.
A rear entrance and the yard around it were Bertha's escape route, involving an encounter with chicken-plucking servants.
Several rooms on the first floor played socialite Mamie Fish's home when she hosted a doll's tea party, where heiresses Gladys Russell and Carrie Astor, Mrs. Astor's daughter, met, creating an eventual opening for the Russell family to join the Astors' social set.
The mansion was also used for a scene involving the delivery of a telegram, which was filmed in the foyer.
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Upstairs, the Butternut Suite played the rooming house flat of Oscar Van Rhijn, where the scion of the Van Rhijn family hid liaisons with his boyfriend.
The bedroom of Annie Wetmore, daughter of William Shepard Wetmore, is used as the bedroom of Agnes Van Rhijn, the matriarch of the "old money" New York family who lives across the street from the Russells and is in competition with them.
The bedroom of George Peabody Wetmore is used as the office where New York Alderman Patrick Morris shoots himself after George Russell financially ruins him.
And the bedroom of Anne Morris, his wife, was filmed in the bedroom of Edith Wetmore, George's wife.
Marble House
The bedroom of Consuelo Vanderbilt doubles as the bedroom of George Russell. (Wealthy couples in the Gilded Age slept in separate rooms.) The room is the setting where his wife's ladies maid, Turner, slips into bed and tries to seduce George.
The back stairway and basement kitchen are stitched together with footage from other places to be part of Bertha Russell's escape route from the fictional version of Beechwood.
How to visit the sites
The International Tennis Hall of Fame
The grounds of the hall of fame are open to the public, free, seven days a week, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
See www.tennisfame.com/visit/hours-and-admission for information.
The Elms, The Breakers and Marble House
The Elms, The Breakers and Marble House are open for paid tours seven days a week, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
See www.newportmansions.org/plan-a-visit/operating-schedule-2023 for information.
Chateau-sur-Mer
Chateau-sur-Mer is closed until July 31, when it will open the same hours as the other mansions.
See www.newportmansions.org/plan-a-visit/operating-schedule-2023 for information.
"The Gilded Age" Tour: The Elms, The Breakers, Marble House and Chateau-sur-Mer
All four houses, including Chateau-sur-Mer, are currently part of a paid tour that highlights the buildings' use in the TV series.
See www.newportmansions.org/events/inside-the-gilded-age-tour for information.
Other filming locations in Season 1
Newport's first appearance in "The Gilded Age" is the sweeping oceanfront scene filmed at The Ledges, a private property built in the 1860s.
The series also used School Street to portray Dansville, New York, in what's been called the Red Cross scene, and the area around Trinity Church was used in a funeral scene.
The series opens in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, where Newport's Hunter House played the office of lawyer Tom Raikes.
Two mansions also were used in Season 1: Rosecliff and Indian Spring, a private residence at 325 Ocean Ave. | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2023/06/28/hbo-the-gilded-age-reimagines-newport-iconic-mansions-season-2-filming/70274143007/ | 2023-06-28T09:56:17 | 0 | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2023/06/28/hbo-the-gilded-age-reimagines-newport-iconic-mansions-season-2-filming/70274143007/ |
You can still buy a house, or condo, for $300K in RI. Here's what the market looks like.
Real estate agents estimate a pre-pandemic $300,000 house costs closer to $750,000
- The median selling price for a single-family home in May 2023 was $427,000
This story is part of a continuing series on housing prices in Rhode Island. In May, we covered $1 million homes, in March, $700,000 homes, in February about $250,000 homes (the pre-pandemic median selling price) and in January about $400,000 homes (the post-pandemic median selling price).
PROVIDENCE − How much house can you buy for $300,000?
Before the pandemic, the answer was something pretty nice and slightly above average, as the median selling price for a single-family home was $250,000.
Interest rates have since increased, hitting their highest levels in a decade, just as the median house price has increased by 52%, pushing the $300,000 price point into starter home territory.
What you can buy for $300,000 depends on location. In Warwick, you can get a 900-square-foot condo on the water, in Providence and Cranston, single-family homes that could use some updated, and in Pawtucket, a brand-new townhouse, if your household meets the income restrictions.
Warwick
400 Narragansett Parkway, Apartment SC12
2-bedroom, 1-bathroom condo, building built in 1965, on the water in Pawtuxet Village. 900 square feet, 2 parking spaces, $367 monthly condo fee. $305 per square foot.
Asking: $274,900
A 900-square-foot condo in Pawtuxet Village (on the Warwick side) sits right on the water, with access to a private dock and pool. The kitchen in this condo has been renovated with granite countertops. On the first floor, the condo is great for people who don't want to deal with stairs, real estate agent Jill Sweetman said.
Condos on the third floor, with broader views of the water, have been commanding higher prices, up to $350,000, but ultimately, the market will decide how much the condo is worth.
"The property is also in close proximity to Johnson and Wales, and at the last open house, a parent came, talking about buying it for their kid, with a 10-minute commute to school," she said.
Cranston
195 Bay View Ave., Edgewood, Cranston
3-bed, 1-bath cottage-style single-family house built in 1920 in the Edgewood neighborhood. 1,138 square feet, with a garage/workspace. $259 per square foot.
Asking: $294,500
This 3-bedroom, 1-bathroom cottage-style house in Cranston's Edgewood neighborhood is not eligible for a Federal Housing Administration loan, because of peeling paint, which narrows the buying pool.
"The interior is in very good shape," real estate agent Robert Caron, with Streamline Realty Group, said.
To the side of the house is a garage with French doors that opens to the back yard, which Caron is calling a "she shed." The prior owner used it as a craft room and had a bar inside.
Providence
145 Indiana Ave., Washington Park, Providence
4-bed, 3-bath colonial-style single-family home, built in 1930 in the Washington Park neighborhood. 1,674 square feet above ground (700-square-foot basement) with a "bonus room" in the attic. $191 per square foot.
Asking: $319,900
With a redone kitchen, this big colonial-style home in Washington Park is about its location, right near a bus stop and near the Johnson and Wales campus. The price, $319,900, reflects that while the kitchen may have been updated, a prospective homeowner might still want to do more renovations, real estate agent Erny Francisco said.
The home was last sold in 2017 for $157,500. The owner's family outgrew it, and started renting it out, he said.
Pawtucket
50 Mavis St, Pawtucket, units 1-5
Five 2-bedroom, 1.5 bathroom townhouse condos with central air and private outdoor space. Each is brand new, 1,250 square feet. Monthly condo fee of $231. The purchase is income restricted. $239 per square foot.
Asking: $299,000 (firm)
Five townhouses in Pawtucket are up for sale to people making up to 120% of the area median income. They have expensive features, like granite countertops and central air, along with outdoor space for each unit and off-street parking.
While the units have two bedrooms, there is a third room upstairs, alternately referred to as an office or den, that doesn't fit the legal definition of a bedroom.
The townhouses were built and are being sold by Pawtucket Central Falls Development, a non-profit housing developer.
The income restriction on the condos, and the subsidies that made them possible, are aimed at the "missing middle," people priced out of the new median single-family home price of $427,000 (and by mortgage rates of 6.67%), but who make too much money for other "affordable" housing programs. The median selling price of condos is up to $393,000.
The condos are restricted to people who make up to 120% of the area median income, or AMI. In this case, that means up to $86,040 for a single person and up to $122,880 for a family of four.
Read more about the Pawtucket townhouses'Affordable housing:' New 2-bedroom condos with amenities go on the market in Pawtucket
What does the Rhode Island real estate market look like?
Real estate agent John Tripodi, with Re/Max preferred, had just one property in the $300,000 range, a 3-bedroom ranch-style starter home in Woonsocket. He put it on the market on a Wednesday and by the following Tuesday, the seller had accepted an offer, significantly over asking, in cash, with the buyer waiving the inspection. All the other offers were above asking, as well.
Built in 1955, one of the main selling points, beyond being priced below the current median price of over $400,000, was being just one level, great for older people trying to avoid stairs. While a lot of first time home buyers put in offers, the winning all-cash bid came from someone looking to find a place for their mother.
How quickly, and how much, the house sold for is a perfect encapsulation of the market, Tripodi said.
Rising interest rates combined with the 52% increase in the median home price in the last three years are pushing people out of the market, Tripoldi said.
"$400,000, just three years ago, 2020, that would have gotten you a really nice house," Francisco said. "For that same amount in 2020, $400,000, you're going to pay around $750,000 now, and that's keeping people put."
Even when cheaper houses come on the market, with prices driven down by maintenance deferred for decades, the cost for repairs and renovations is way up too.
"You're paying the same amount," he said. "There's no way around it."
Sweetman said she sees a disconnect between supply and demand. While prices normally go down when interest rates go up, as demand decreases, there is so little supply that the decrease in demand has no effect.
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PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh police are asking for the public’s help to locate a missing 11-year-old girl. She is considered at risk due to her age.
Teaja Parrotte is described as 5 feet, 3 inches tall, 150 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair styled with two puff-ball ponytails and two small braids in front of her face.
She was reported missing on June 27 from her mother’s home. She has several school friends in her neighborhood in the Hill District and is likely still in the area.
Teaja was last seen wearing a blue hoodie, blue jeans and white sneakers.
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A gun buyback program is set to return to Richmond for another year.
The City Council on Monday unanimously approved holding the collection, which will cost $80,000 to organize. The city plans to use American Rescue Plan Act dollars to fund it.
The decision to host another event comes as a part of the city’s ongoing attempt to curb gun violence and decrease the number of firearms in the community.
“This legislation, and the related grant contract, seek to prevent gun violence by reducing the availability of guns, providing a safe means of getting rid of unwanted guns, and creating collaborations amongst Richmonders working to create a safer city,” the ordinance reads.
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The last event, in August 2022, resulted in 481 firearms valued at $67,500 being handed over to authorities. A total of 227 handguns, 117 rifles, 10 inoperable guns, seven BB guns, five assault rifles and 115 guns of unknown classification were collected.
A date for the second collection has not been set, but it will be held at Liberation Church, 5501 Midlothian Turnpike, where the August event was held. The city is partnering with the California-based nonprofit Robby Poblete Foundation again.
Firearms are exchanged for a prepaid gift card to Walmart, Kroger, Amazon or Foot Locker ranging from $25 to $250, depending on the class of gun. The guns are turned into art materials through the foundation’s Art of Peace initiative.
Similar events have faced criticism over whether the collections are effective and if those most likely to commit crimes are likely to turn over firearms.
Rick Edwards, the interim Richmond police chief, has previously said the events are a good way for those with guns to turn over weapons.
The Virginia Department of Health reports Richmond has had a total of 116 firearm-related injuries so far this year. There were 349 in 2022 and 357 in 2021. | https://richmond.com/news/local/government-politics/gun-buyback-program-richmond/article_e2144f10-1437-11ee-8323-c3d27ae9ba5d.html | 2023-06-28T10:00:10 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/government-politics/gun-buyback-program-richmond/article_e2144f10-1437-11ee-8323-c3d27ae9ba5d.html |
SANFORD, Fla. — The heat is sticking around, and one Central Florida county has put an “Extreme Weather Plan” in place.
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Seminole County has set up cooling stations for residents.
Seminole County libraries are doubling as cooling stations because it’s so hot outside.
This emergency order went into effect Tuesday.
The heat index temperatures in the area are expected to meet or exceed 108 degrees.
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As a result, a heat advisory has been issued by National Weather Service and Seminole County Emergency Management has activated the extreme weather plan.
The extreme weather plan includes:
Seminole County Leisure Services making relief centers available to the public.
Relief centers are in county library branches and parks.
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Water and indoor, air-conditioned spaces are available for individuals wanting to stay cool.
Emergency management is also placing a shelter on stand-by for a worst-case scenario.
“We place a shelter on standby in the unlikely event there’s power outages or HVAC problems and a senior facility or assisted living facility,” said Seminole County Emergency Manager Alan Harris. “We need to have that shelter ready to go.”
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They also enlist help from organizations that help the homeless such as the Rescue Outreach Mission and the Sharing Center.
Both have an outdoor area with shade and huge fans, as well as an inside area.
See more in the video above.
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