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Catalyst Construction issued permit July 6, for $1,110,000 commercial new construction of Apostolic Fellowship Hall at 4408 E. Raab Road.
Moyi Enterprises Inc. issued permit July 7, for $220,000 new single-family detached residence at 1523 Duncannon Drive.
Moyi Enterprises Inc. issued permit July 7, for $220,000 new single-family detached residence at 1225 Duncannon Drive.
Paul Joyce issued permit July 7, for $63,180 residential solar panel installation on rooftop at 1603 Gig St.
SR Wilson Construction issued permit July 11, for $233,000 new single-family attached residence at 231 Cassidy Road.
SR Wilson Construction issued permit July 11, for $210,000 new single-family attached residence at 221 Cassidy Road.
SR Wilson Construction issued permit July 11, for $210,000 new single-family attached residence at 215 Cassidy Road.
SR Wilson Construction issued permit July 11, for $233,000 new single-family attached residence at 205 Cassidy Road.
Sri Karthik issued permit July 11, for $550,000 new single-family detached residence at 1247 Silver Oak Circle.
McLean County
Blunier Builders issued permit June 21, for $360,000 62 by 68 storage and livestock building at 18544 East 700 North Road, Bloomington.
Ken Hawthorne issued permit July 6, for $192,000 72 by 112 shed at 36003 East 1300 North Road, Saybrook.
Green Gables Bar & Grill issued permit July 6, for $968,840 for bar and restaurant with attached beer garden at 17485 East 2500 North Road, Hudson.
Luxury homes on the market in Central Illinois
3 Bedroom Home in Ellsworth - $674,900
Impeccable 7.5 Acre Equestrian Property with a stunning house. 48x36 Barn features: six 12x12 stalls, htd & cooled 14x11 tack room, 12x48 storage annex, speaker system & 300 bale hayloft. There is also an outdoor arena, round pen, six 16x24 dry paddocks, goat pasture, pony pastures, chicken coop & high tensile poly-coated 6 strand wire fencing around 4 acres. Wooded parameter with some apple trees too! Home features Gourmet Kitchen for the chef of the family with new granite countertops & backsplash. Main floor Bedroom Suite includes a large bathroom with dual sinks, whirlpool tub, sperate shower & WI closet. WB fireplace in the Living Room. Upstairs has 2 nice sized Bedrooms with WI closets & adjoining bathroom with separate toilets. Dad will love the 32x23 three car attached garage with epoxy floor & hot & cold running water. Cozy 16x16 deck leads to a fenced yard for the kids or pooches too! Large list of updates: New oak hardwood flooring on 1st floor. Geothermal htg & cooling 2016. Windows 2022. Garage doors 2019. House Roof 2016. Barn roof 2019. 20,000 watt Kohler whole house Generator. AT&T Tower goes with property (currently pays $737 monthly PLUS its share of yearly property taxes- approximately $8000) for remaining 13 years with periodic increases. Ideal location- you can ride to Moraine View Rec Area & its 10 miles of horse trails! Call Illinois #1 horse farm Specialist for more info or a private showing!
3 Bedroom Home in Normal - $850,000
Welcome to modern sophistication! This is an exquisite custom-built home by Prairie Woodworks - every detail is top of the line in style, design and function. The exterior features a metal roof, cedar shingles on the second floor, and James Hardie shingle siding. Private stained concert patio out back and custom landscaping by Chizmar Landscaping on your 1/2 acre lot. This home makes entertaining a dream with open concept main floor kitchen, dining and living room. A dramatic vaulted ceiling in the family room allows so much natural light with the stunning floor to ceiling windows equipped with Hunter Douglas automatic cordless shades, exposed beams, an impressive stone gas fireplace with custom lights by 186 lighting design. Hickory wood floors throughout the main floor. The stunning kitchen hosts custom made Cherry cabinets by Prairie Woodworks, a beautiful 9ft island, GE cooktop and double wall oven, quartz countertops and backsplash, and 10x7ft walk in butler's pantry with custom storage from SOS solutions. The main floor primary bedroom features vaulted ceiling, floor to ceiling windows viewing your private backyard with Hunter Douglas automatic cordless shades, spacious 11ft walk-in closet with custom organizer from SOS solutions. The primary bathroom hosts radiant floor heating, custom vanity, quartz countertop with double sinks, floor to ceiling tiled walk in shower and Toto smart toilet and bidet. The main floor study has custom built in bookshelves and cabinets, double wall cement board - with soundproofing- making working from home a dream. The second story showcases 2 generous sized bedrooms each with custom window treatments, and large spacious closets. The hall bathroom has custom vanity, tiled shower with glass doors and toto toilet. The elegant loft features a vaulted ceiling with exposed beams, a 3rd living room and office area with custom built in desk and bookcases. The finished basement offers a HUGE secondary living room with tons of space, 9ft ceilings, daylight windows, 2 custom closets with SOS storage organizers, and 3rd walk in closet. Full bathroom with custom vanity and tiled walk-in shower. The unfinished area offers 630sqft of storage, zoned HVAC and wet sink. No detail was spared in the construction of this beautiful home. Call today to schedule your private tour.
4 Bedroom Home in Leroy - $605,000
Hello Gorgeous! This luxury farmhouse is the perfect place to call home. With 5.8 acres of land, you can enjoy the peace and quiet of the countryside while still being close to all the amenities of the city. The 4 bedroom, 3 bath home features a gorgeous kitchen with vaulted ceiling, stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops, oversize island, chef's dream walk-in pantry space with butcher block counter tops and a beverage cooler. The living room is spacious and inviting, with a cozy fireplace and plenty of natural light. The primary suite has double closets, storage shelves, walk in tile shower and heated bathroom floors. Sliding glass door off the dining room leads to a separate patio. You'll find a second bedroom on the main level. Upstairs is two bedrooms and full bathroom. Enjoy the sunrise on you covered front porch or from the breezeway connecting the home and 2 car garage. The 6800SF pole barn has water and electric with partial concrete floor and floor drains. The turnout has a a solar powered electric fence. This home was completely renovated in the fall of 2022, down to the studs. New electrical, plumbing, HVAC, drywall, insulation, windows, roof, gutter and downspouts, radon mitigation system, reverse osmosis, and so much more!!
3 Bedroom Home in Hudson - $675,000
Life of Paradise on Lake Bloomington! You could make this an Airbnb with the new lease. Plentiful (Anderson) windows to enjoy the most beautiful views. Relax and enjoy the sunsets on one of the most prime lake lots with .38 acres. Entertain in the four seasons room or summer fun out on the docks. The kids will love the diving board and slide & 2 boat ramps. You'll be amazed seeing the deer in the woods out your back windows. This sprawling ranch style home is an open plan, with an updated eat-in kitchen, cherry cabinets, granite counters, tile backsplash & breakfast bar, Stainless Steel (Kenmore) appliances. There is a wood burning stove, a gas fireplace, and could easily have a first floor laundry for your convenience. Plenty of storage in the lower level, plus 123 ft. of steel seawall. Newer 50 year roof.
4 Bedroom Home in Bloomington - $675,000
Introducing the epitome of elegance and refined living, a custom-built luxury home that exudes sophistication and craftsmanship in every detail. This architectural masterpiece is a must-see for individuals with discerning taste, seeking the pinnacle of luxurious living. Meticulously maintained and exquisitely updated, every sq ft of this 4 bedroom (1st FLOOR MASTER), 4.5 bath home is simply stunning! Placed regally on a large corner lot in one of Bloomington's finest neighborhoods, the curb appeal is A+ with a brick & stone front, 3-car side-load garage, aggregate approach and lush professional landscaping. The grand 2-story entrance is breathtaking, boasting hardwood flooring, plenty of natural light from an abundance of Eagle by Andersen Windows, exquisite trim, dual staircases and a view of the most exceptional open floor plans in McLean County! The open-concept layout seamlessly connects the various living spaces, allowing for effortless flow and a perfect environment for hosting lavish gatherings or intimate evenings. The impressive two-story Family Room is a breathtaking space that seamlessly combines comfort and sophistication. The centerpiece of this magnificent room is a stunning gas fireplace, adorned with a marble hearth and exquisite floor-to-ceiling trim, creating a focal point that demands attention. The catwalk & loft offer impressive views of this beautiful room! The heart of this luxurious home is undoubtedly the gourmet kitchen. Designed for culinary enthusiasts, it boasts hardwood flooring, a walk-in pantry, butler's pantry, an adjoining hearth room with cathedral ceiling, custom cherry cabinets with 42" upper cabinetry, granite counters, a huge island & stainless appliance package! No expense has been spared in ensuring that this kitchen is as functional as it is aesthetically pleasing. The master suite is a sanctuary of comfort and tranquility. Featuring a generous floor plan, it offers a private retreat within the home and is appointed with a cathedral ceiling, dual walk-in closets (one is 17 x 16!!) and a "spa-like" en suite bathroom with two vanities, a large jetted tub and separate walk-in shower. The main level also includes a large laundry room, a powder room, a formal dining room and a living/flex room. The 2nd floor offers not only a loft with built-in bookcases mentioned previously, but also 3 additional bedrooms (one has a private en suite full bath and the other two enjoy a Jack & Jill bathroom. The absolutely incredible finished basement offers stairs to the garage and one sprawling room after another! The basement is finished with a unique concrete flooring finish that resembles marble- it's simply gorgeous! The basement offers a family room, a sleeping area/office (no egress, but does have a window), a Billiards Room, a 14 x 13 Wine "Nook," full bath and a sprawling workout/rec area (43 x 21). Tremendous storage throughout the home, as 1 Brookridge is not lacking for walk-in closets! The backyard is an oasis with the aggregate patio, lush professional landscaping & berm that creates the utmost privacy! This custom-built luxury home truly embodies the essence of quality and craftsmanship, combining timeless design, meticulous attention to detail, and the finest materials. It stands as a testament to the pursuit of perfection and offers an unparalleled living experience for those who appreciate the very best in life.
3 Bedroom Home in Bloomington - $599,900
Beautifully reimagined living spaces to accommodate today's lifestyle. Open floor plan with cathedral ceilings. Spacious 3 bedroom, 3.5 bath brick ranch in desirable Hawthorne Hills. Main floor entertaining/bar room. New kitchen (2022) featuring double high upper cabinets with glass and lighting features as well as quartz countertops, plus high end ZLINE appliances including microwave drawer. Amazing primary bedroom with 10x12 luxury walk-in closet; heated floor and quartz tops in primary bath. Expansive sunroom with heated floor, and windows with remote blinds on 3 sides overlooking a huge deck and beautifully landscaped yard. Finished basement has family room, full bath, exercise room, craft room, large workshop and more. Epoxy coated 3 car garage-separate 3rd stall is heated. So much more to see. You will enjoy your visit!
4 Bedroom Home in Normal - $695,000
If you are looking for size, space & style look no further than this sprawling 6 BED NEW CONSTRUCTION home nestled in one of our area's premier neighborhoods, Silver Oaks! Smartly designed 1.5 story offers many seller-provided upgrades to truly customize this space and make it your own! An inviting grand foyer and open staircase will greet your guests at the door for a welcoming first impression, guiding you to the formal dining room perfectly sized for entertaining. The main floor also features a primary master suite with 10' tray ceiling, lush carpet and a grand spa-like private bath and closet both appointed with soaring 12' ceilings! Primary suite features custom tile shower, wall of windows and double vanity for plenty of room to breathe. Enormous walk-in closet waiting for the closet system of your dreams (seller allowance provided)! The grand two-story great room features gorgeous slate gas fireplace with floating mantle surrounded by quality Quaker double-pane picture windows from floor to ceiling. Half bath and main floor laundry/mudroom with additional storage and custom built-ins add convenience. Well appointed eat-in kitchen with island and double wide pantry finished with fresh white cabinets and crown, herringbone tile backsplash and gorgeous quartz counters for lasting durability. Stainless LG appliance suite includes microwave, dishwasher and range plus an additional seller allowance to select the refrigerator of your choice. Upstairs, you'll find three carpeted and perfectly sized bedrooms including spacious closets and white shaker style entry doors, a tiled full bath includes double sink vanity plus tub/shower combo. Head to the lower level and enjoy a second spacious family room (fully finished with full egress for natural light) plus two additional bedrooms and another full bath (perfect for in-laws and guests). Thoughtfully placed wet bar rough-in ready to finish and recessed nook for the perfect home theater area plus room for fitness, an office and additional storage make this lower level a functional and fabulous part of this special home! Outside, a generously sized, deep lot features poured cement slab plus plenty of room for upgrades (seller allowance for sod and landscaping). Come make this home your own and see all that Silver Oaks has to offer.
2 Bedroom Home in Normal - $504,900
Perfection! This stunning newly built home by Compass Point Construction combines modern design with luxurious finishes. The exterior features a sleek and stylish design with clean lines, double door entry, and a blend of vinyl siding, brick and LP smart siding that creates a striking first impression. As you step inside, you will be greeted by a spacious floor plan, cathedral ceilings, and plenty of natural light! The main living area features a spacious living room with a tiled fireplace, a dining area perfect for entertaining with access to the patio, and a gourmet kitchen that is sure to delight any chef. The kitchen is equipped with high-end appliances, a large quartz island, and plenty of cabinet/pantry space. This home offers three generously sized bedrooms, each with its own spacious closet. The master suite is a true retreat with a spa-like bathroom, double vanity sinks & a huge walk-in closet! Additional features of this home include a large great room located in the basement; first floor laundry room, & a two-car garage that includes a circuit equipped for electric vehicles. Outside, the front and side features lush sod, while the back yard has been seeded and is ready for your personal touch. The 12x24 patio offers plenty of space for outdoor living & entertainment. Located in a desirable neighborhood, this home is just minutes away from shopping, dining, and entertainment options. Do not miss the opportunity to make this stunning new construction home your own!
4 Bedroom Home in Bloomington - $549,000
Spacious 4 bedroom 3.5 bath home in Hawthorne II that walks out to an incredible private lot ready for entertaining. Kitchen open to family room. Features include beautiful wood floors ('16) throughout main floor, granite butler's pantry, 3 access doors to beautiful 3 tier paver patio, 9+ foot ceilings, newer granite in kitchen & 3 bathrooms, some new carpet ('23), new appliances ('20-'22) & so much more. Finished basement has media room, tiled area for 2nd kitchen, full bath, & family room with fireplace that walks out to hot tub patio. The fenced backyard is a kid's playground complete with basketball court, pitching mound, playground equipment & plenty of shade. Easy access to Towanda Barnes. Very nice curb appeal.
6 Bedroom Home in Bloomington - $990,000
Luxurious elegance is found throughout this one of a kind lakefront property. Timeless and classic. Located on one of the most prestigious cul-de-sac streets in Bloomington Normal. Open and bright floor plan with beautiful lake views from nearly every room in the house. Grand two story entry, elegant living room and dining room. Spacious and completely updated eat-in kitchen with granite countertops, stainless steel appliances (double ovens), island seating and tons of cabinet storage- the perfect open layout for entertaining. Large family room with custom fireplace, crown molding, and a wall of sliding glass doors that show off the gorgeous lake views. Main level primary suite with custom built-ins, 2nd fireplace and a spa like primary bath- the shower is next level. 5 additional bedrooms on the second level with jack & Jill bathrooms. (The 5th bedroom is currently used as an office). Full basement with large family room, 7th bedroom (currently used as a gym), and a toy room which could also be the perfect theater room. The lounge (14x28) is the perfect hangout spot, and it has a custom wet bar and a wall of sliding glass doors that show off the stunning lake views and allow for an indoor outdoor entertaining space. Oversized lot with large expansive deck, custom landscaping, irrigation system and a dock- perfect for fishing, paddle boarding, kayaking or canoeing. Recent updates include but not limited to: Kitchen remodel 2013, main level remodel 2013, roof 2009, lounge remodel 2014, two new furnaces 2007, new a/c unit 2013, deck 2007. *Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed*
4 Bedroom Home in Bloomington - $1,600,000
Nestled among shady trees and lush landscapes, this perfectly composed brick and stone cottage looks as though it has been lifted from the pages of a storybook. With an arched solid Alderwood front door, massive front porch, architectural windows, and wood clad garage doors (with Juliet balcony above), the charm just cannot be overstated. As you enter the property with its stamped asphalt circular drive and follow walkways among fragrant flowering bushes, the fairytale not only comes to life, but has been reimagined with superior construction methods and SmartHome technology. Step inside the 2 story foyer and be astounded by the sheer volume of the interiors, so discreetly downplayed from the road. Solid walnut flooring stretches thru entire main floor (tile in baths, sunroom, utility rm). ALL flooring on 1st floor has 5 zoned radiant heat; solid Alderwood doors are used throughout the home. A commanding staircase with solid hardwood treads, iron railing & waterfall steps rises to the open hallway above, while connecting to the lower level below, creating an architectural masterpiece. Motorized Foyer chandelier lowers for cleaning (Living Rm also). Glimpses of the backyard through 2 sets of transomed French doors flanking the fireplace beckon you into the 2 story vaulted Living Room; beamed ceiling soars to open railing above in a gesture emphasizing the room's expanse and volume. Open to the Living Room and comprising an entire wing of laid back living & casual entertaining, the spectacular Kitchen, Hearth Room and Wet Bar are beyond compare. The Kitchen features Custom Amish cabinets that continue down a 6x15 ft back hall, with built-in appliances and awesome fold-out pantry. Appliances include 2 refrigerators, 6 burner Wolf range, 2 ovens, warming drawer, and microwave. Huge island includes prep sink & breakfast bar; hand painted tile backsplash with pot filler provide functional beauty. Handsome Wet Bar is positioned for serving the entire 1st floor. Alderwood cabinetry with granite tops, hand painted tiles, an ice maker, refrigerator, wine cellar & service sink equip the bar. A casual dining space with window seat is open to the Hearth Rm with massive FP surround, open bookshelves & TV area. An enormous Sunroom off the Hearth Room creates fantastic connectivity between indoors and outdoors. With soaring poplar ceiling, stunning views of the very private backyard, heated tile floors, a dining area & huge sitting area, nothing has been overlooked. French Doors open to paver brick terrace and serene back yard with award winning landscapes! A Formal Dining Room also overlooks the back yard with Venetian Plaster walls, hefty millwork & abundant windows. Architectural Pella Windows with enlarged panes to replicate old European design are used throughout home. The phenomenal 40x15 1st Floor Owner's Suite features vaulted ceiling with whitewashed rough cedar beams rising from 9' to 11'; arched windows frame peaceful views of the yard. Huge Closet has coffee station & island with laundry bins. The breathtaking Bath has natural stone flooring, custom built double vanity, cabinets galore & 3rd Makeup Vanity. The 4x10 ft double walk-in shower features bespoke arched leaded glass window, bench, and his/hers secluded shower areas. A Powder Room with custom vanity and basketweave marble flooring is accessed off the Foyer. The open 2nd floor hallway with walnut flooring & custom railing overlooks the Living Room below. The loft Den has gorgeous built-ins and sophisticated, functional design. Bedroom 2 has en suite bath & cozy sloped ceiling. French Doors open to gracious 3rd Bedroom with 3 closets (1 is cedar) and lovely Jack n Jill Bath shared with the huge Bedroom 4, which features Juliet balconied windows overlooking front yard. 9 ft Basement is set to finish with mechanical rooms and plumbing rough-ins. This very livable home feels warm and casual, not austere. PLEASE SEE attached brochures for FULL DETAILS too numerous to mention!
5 Bedroom Home in Bloomington - $799,000
Beautiful custom built brick ranch on huge lake lot with total of 6320 square feet. 5 car attached, heated garage with circle drive. 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 baths. Full walk out basement, Central Vac, sprinkler system. Full theater room, game room with deluxe bar. Imported Italian wood flooring. Gourmet kitchen with butler bar. Large office/storm room, exercise room, card room, Firepit, two decks and a patio. Beautiful water view from most the rooms. Aux back up, 2 fireplaces. Roof is ten months old. Whole house reverse osmosis system. Whole house audio system. 2 month old fishing pad. A/C 2 years old. alarm system. Fee covers lake maintenance and trails.
5 Bedroom Home in Normal - $500,000
This Custom Built Home brings a whole new feeling to Open Concept, from the moment you enter the front door. The natural light just floods through the main level, as you move from room to room. Whether you want to read a book in the sitting area, cozy up to a fire in the family room or cook a gourmet meal in the kitchen, this home has space for it all. You will find all 5 bedrooms on the second level (yes, I said 5 bedrooms on the same level) as well as the laundry room. The primary suite has a walk in shower, garden tub and separate vanities. The basement is finished with a bar/ rec room, family room, 2 additional rooms that are currently used as bedrooms (they do not have egress windows) and a full bath with a walk in shower. Let's talk about the sizeable backyard with space for entertaining, children to play and gardening. Close to Grove Elementary and NCHS
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The grounds are nearly ready for the major performers and tens of thousands of daily visitors at the 2023 Country Thunder music festival.
Wisconsin’s Country Thunder takes place Thursday through Sunday, July 20-23, with over 40 different acts at the events grounds set up at 2305 Lance Drive, Twin Lakes.
“I think that our lineup this year is one of the best compared to any other festival,” said Megan Benoit, Country Thunder digital manager.
Headliners this year will include Parker McCollum, Jon Pardi, Lainey Wilson, Keith Urban, Ashley McBryde and more.
On the grounds, the Electric Thunder tent will feature the new, “Dancing With the Thunder” slate.
Benoit said there will be line dancing and partner dancing competitions that people can register for now at countrythunder.com/wi-dwtt.
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“Dancing With the Thunder” will have competitions every day of the festival and will offer lessons for people to prepare.
“They (the competition) bring quite a crowd to compete,” Benoit said. “Winners get to dance on the main stage and win prizes.”
Benoit said each year’s music festival also features additional “small changes and things that we work on.”
The main performers for Thursday will include: The Reklaws at 3:30 p.m., The Washboard Union at 5 p.m., Chase Matthew at 6:30 p.m., Parker McCollum at 8 p.m. and Cody Johnson at 10 p.m.
The performance slate for Friday will include: John Morgan at 2 p.m., Halle Kearns at 3:30 p.m., Hailey Whitters at 5 p.m., Parmalee at 6:30 p.m., Lainey Wilson at 8 p.m. and Jon Pardi at 10 p.m.
On Saturday, July 22, Frank Ray is performing at 2 p.m., Shane Profitt at 3:30 p.m., Lonestar at 6:30 p.m., Carly Pearce at 8 p.m. and Jason Aldean at 10 p.m.
The headliners for the final day of the festival on Sunday, July 23, include Mackenzie Carpenter at 2:30 p.m., Priscilla Block at 4 p.m., Bailey Zimmerman at 5:30 p.m., Ashley McBryde at 7 p.m. and Keith Urban at 9 p.m.
There are additional performers at their Lake Stage throughout various times of the day including the Zach Matthews Band, Brad Morgan, Tim Gleason, Bootjack Road and more.
This year, attendance on any given day will be limited to 30,000 tickets sold. In June, the Kenosha County Board voted unanimously to limit the daily crowd. The previous capacity had been 50,000 per day at the four-day music festival.
Capt. Eric Klinkhammer of the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department said, in the past, Country Thunder officials had always estimated their attendance to be at 30,000 people or fewer. That number did surge to an estimated 50,000 during the Saturday of the festival a year ago, putting a strain on security.
The festival opens its grounds for campers on Wednesday, July 19 at 9 a.m.
“Tickets and camping slots are still available right now,” Benoit said. “We have really good discount tickets available at Walgreens and Menards.”
Tickets are still available for single day general admission, general admission for the entire weekend, Tito’s platinum experience standing and Tito’s platinum experience online at countrythunder.com/wi-tickets.
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(CNN) — The Powerball jackpot grand prize grew once again, climbing to a whopping $900 million after no ticket matched all six numbers in Saturday night’s drawing.
The winning numbers for the estimated $875 million prize Saturday were 2-9-43-55-57 and the Powerball was 18.
The jackpot for the next drawing on Monday – with an estimated cash value of $465.1 million – is the third largest Powerball jackpot and the seventh largest US lottery jackpot behind the world record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot won last year, and the $1.586 billion prize won in 2016, the lottery said.
While no one nabbed the grand prize Saturday, three tickets sold in Colorado and Texas matched all five white balls to each win $1 million prizes, according to Powerball.
There have now been 37 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner since its April 19 drawing, when a ticket in Ohio matched all six numbers to win a grand prize worth $252.6 million.
If a lucky winner matches all six numbers Monday night, they will have the choice between an annuitized prize worth an estimated $900 million or a lump sum payment estimated at $465.1 million – both before taxes, according to Powerball.
The Powerball isn’t the only massive lottery prize this week. The Mega Millions jackpot winnings grew to an estimated $640 million after there were no winners Friday, according to its website.
The next Mega Millions drawing will be Tuesday at 11 pm ET.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — The Florida Highway Patrol said a pedestrian has died after an Orange County crash Sunday morning.
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Troopers said the crash happened around 1:57 a.m.
According to a news release, a Honda Accord was traveling on State Road 429, north of Plant Street in Ocoee.
Investigators said the pedestrian was walking west from the east shoulder of SR 429 and was not in a marked crosswalk.
Read: Orlando Police continue to search for missing 64-year-old man
Because the man was in the path of the Honda, the car hit the adult man, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver, a 19-year-old man, was taken to Orlando Health Central with minor injuries.
FHP said it is waiting to identify the victim and the crash is under investigation.
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Man killed after walking on highway in Orange County, troopers sayNational Ice Cream Day 2023: This Central Florida place is giving away free ice creamWoman missing after reporting child on side of roadCentral Florida man accused of sexual battery of a boy under 12 years oldValencia College offers new computer technology concentration this fall
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Every day, Brian Keene drives miles across south Phoenix to provide occupational therapy to clients through Pure Hearts Therapy.
Keene’s therapy is intended to help clients learn and practice how to play, work, socially participate and take care of themselves and their families ― skills known as “executive functioning.” Many of his clients have autism, Down syndrome, or mental health conditions.
Keene started Pure Hearts to provide much-needed local therapy solutions
When he moved to south Phoenix in 2016, Keene wanted to work as an occupational therapist because he wanted to help people grow their abilities. But there was an issue.
“The crazy thing about it is when I first started working there, there were families that were on waiting lists (to receive therapy) for years,” Keene said.
Keene identified two reasons that made it harder to find therapy in that area of the Valley: The closest clinics take half an hour or more to drive to, and many families want in-home therapists because it can be difficult to commute with their loved ones.
The local area hardly had any in-home or nearby therapists. That’s when Keene saw a need and an opportunity.
Keene is not only a therapist, however ― at Pure Hearts Therapy, he is the sole owner and employee.
He started Pure Hearts Therapy in 2020, and since then, he’s been providing occupational therapy services to clients. The small business is run primarily out of Keene’s car, as he will often drive to clients’ houses to provide in-home occupational, physical, pediatric and speech therapy.
Pure Hearts primarily provides services for children, but also adults.
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He even started his own podcast, the Autism Family Resource Podcast, where he provides guidance for raising neurodivergent children.
“There's certain times where I'm doing the podcast, and I just get extra energy because it's so cool, collaborating with others and learning from others,” Keene said. “It feels very rewarding.”
Keene joined the Army before studying occupational therapy in college
Keene founded Pure Hearts Therapy just a year after he graduated from Northern Arizona University’s Doctor of Occupational Therapy program in 2019.
NAU’s program was a “new beast” for the Arizona native, who had taken almost a 10-year gap in education before joining.
In 2007, right after Keene graduated from high school, he enlisted in the U.S. Army.
“The funny thing is, I didn't even really know what it was, but it sounded awesome,” Keene said.
Enlisting in active duty had a huge impact on his life, as he became a medical laboratory scientist. While working in a blood bank to deliver transfusion medicine, Keene said a purpose resonated with him.
“I realized that (health care) came a little bit easier to me, and I kind of understood that all we needed to reach our goals was small changes,” Keene said. “Not a crash course diet, but simple changes. Do you need to drink more water? Are you exercising?"
“So I think that's when I started just wanting to help people,” he said.
Keene was stationed in Hawaii before he moved back to Arizona and began volunteering at a Veterans Affairs location. That’s ultimately where Keene saw his work as therapeutic, and he decided to pursue occupational therapy.
After studying at NAU’s Biomedical Campus in downtown Phoenix for four years, Keene graduated with his doctorate degree.
“It wasn't always easy,” he said. “There was a lot of studying, learning how to study everyone. But I think at the same time, you got to enjoy the journey. (Graduating) was kind of a relief, but then I asked myself, ‘Man, where’d the time go?’”
Making lemonade and teaching other skills
On any given day, Keene may visit up to five clients. On a recent day, Keene was visiting a client with autism. Keene planned to work on motor skills, communication and math.
He brought paper cups, drink mix and a calculator, and he helped the client set up a lemonade stand. Together, the two sold lemonade to the client’s mother and sister.
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“We went online, found how to make lemonade, he squeezed the lemons into the bowl and mixed sugar and water and taste-tested it to make sure it was the right sweetness,” Keene said. “His family would buy the lemonade and give him the cash, and he was responsible for getting the change and pouring the lemonade."
'There's a payoff. There's a reason for it all'
Working with people with disabilities can be a challenge, but not because they have different needs than others.
Keene said there’s a level of stigmatization surrounding individuals who have autism or Down syndrome because the general public doesn’t have much exposure to them.
The question then, Keene asked, is how do we create equal and correct representation for people with disabilities?
“I think (destigmatization is) a matter of being culturally competent and having cultural awareness,” Keene said.
Keene said the mass media, TV shows and social media can often dehumanize people.
“We’ve got to see them for who they are and for their abilities,” Keene said. “A lot of times with disabilities, we focus on what they can't do, as opposed to what they can do.”
Keene believes every person has gifts to offer, it’s just a matter of focusing on their strengths and celebrating their achievements.
Keene has pride in what he does because he helps individuals from both a therapeutic and cultural level to learn and practice new abilities.
“Being a therapist, I think there's a lot of work upfront. There's a lot of things I'm trying to put together and things I'm putting in place,” Keene said. “But there's a payoff. There's a reason for it all.
“So yeah, it brings light to me. It feels good,” he said.
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Catalina Foothills housing near Tucson OK'd despite concern over wildlife habitat
Catalina Foothills, an unincorporated area north of Tucson, is getting much-needed housing, despite neighbors’ concerns over traffic safety and potential destruction of critical wildlife habitat.
The Tucson area has a severe housing gap, with not enough affordable rentals or single-family houses.
A California-based developer, UIP Quail Canyon LLC, wants to build more than 300 units of housing in the highly sought-after area. Catalina Foothills is known for beautiful mountain views, upscale restaurants, expansive desert landscape and large lots, and is a popular area to live.
On July 11, the developer requested the Pima County Board of Supervisors approve its request to rezone 53 acres of land to allow for the construction of single- and multifamily homes.
The company proposed building a three-story, seven-building, 210-unit apartment complex on the north end of the property and 116 two-story single-family homes on the south end. Of the land to be developed, 22 acres are classified as a riparian area and will remain undisturbed except for the construction of a bridge, according to Pima County staff.
The land is on the former Quail Canyon Golf Course that opened in the 1960s and closed five years ago, located near the intersection of Oracle Road and Rudasill Road and intersected by the Pima Wash.
The Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to approve the rezoning, with Supervisor Adelita Grijalva voting against.
Grijalva reiterated many concerns voiced by community members, from the impact on wildlife to emergency access on the roads, and wondered if the company would continue to work with the neighborhood after the board's approval.
“Quail Canyon is the wrong place for a high-density project. … I continue to have concerns about how the community input is going to happen,” Grijalva said.
District 1 Supervisor Rex Scott, whose district includes the area, supported the proposal.
He called the project an “appropriate infill development” partly for its proximity to Oracle Road, a major north-south corridor, and its location near retail stores, employment and services. It also would add to the county’s housing stock, he said.
Scott said the company worked with the Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection, which supports the project, to protect the riparian area.
Transportation, flood control managers support the project
Despite residents’ concerns about road safety on Rudasill Road, which included blind spots, dangerous curves and steep hills, the county transportation department said there are no transportation concerns. Oracle and Rudasill are under capacity, according to a staff report.
The Pima County Regional Flood Control District also supported the project, noting that the development does not disturb intact riparian habitat and exceeds flood mitigation standards.
“The development, as proposed, meets and exceeds federal, state, and local flood mitigation standards for this type of development, and can be constructed such that it is at minimal risk of flood damage and that it does not cause an adverse impact to others,” the district stated in a June 15 memo.
The developer also committed to implementing ways to mitigate impacts on wildlife, including using low-level pedestrian lighting, maximizing rain harvesting, implementing renewable energy sources, using gabions to protect the banks of the Pima Wash and revegetating the wash.
The developer said it also would restore areas of the Pima Wash previously disturbed by the golf course.
The project is leaving much of the wildlife area untouched and preserving half of the 62 saguaros. But 5 acres of riparian habitat will be disturbed for parking and driveway circulation, according to a county staff report.
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Many area residents spoke out against the development, noting its location in a riparian habitat and fears that nearby roads could not handle more traffic.
The county received 730 written comments in opposition to the rezoning request, according to a June 16 memo.
At the July 11 public hearing, many residents in the area spoke about their concerns about the riparian habitat.
“This development turns a critical wildlife corridor into a terror zone for wildlife,” Joan Scott said. She noted the development would impact the resilience of the wildlife area, and additional residents would mean additional disturbance near a critical wildlife corridor.
Others noted the already busy streets would become more congested with additional residents nearby.
However, citing Tucson’s housing crisis, some residents spoke in support.
“I am here to speak for the hundreds of people who would benefit from this development plan who are struggling during this affordable housing crisis,” Miranda Lopez said. “I believe this project will help address our region-wide housing shortage and especially our need for infill development near existing jobs, schools and infrastructure.”
Reach the reporter at sarah.lapidus@gannett.com. The Republic’s coverage of southern Arizona is funded, in part, with a grant from Report for America. Support Arizona news coverage with a tax-deductible donation at supportjournalism.azcentral.com.
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Native students say Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action may limit paths to education
Tommy Rock never thought he would attend Princeton University, especially as a postdoctoral research fellow, and as he completes his time at the Ivy League institution, he believes he wouldn't have made it there if it were not for affirmative action.
“Princeton University is the last place I thought I’d end up,” said Rock, who is one of 10 recipients of Princeton’s Postdoctoral Research Associate and Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. “I learned a lot. I don’t think it would’ve been possible without affirmative action.”
One of the main elements of this fellowship is its focus on diversifying the university, but last month the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against the use of affirmative action in college admissions. In his majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that admissions programs used by the University of North Carolina and Harvard College violate the Constitution’s equal protection clause, which bars racial discrimination by government entities.
Whether the decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. vs. President and Fellows of Harvard College could impact prestigious programs such as the one Rock spent the last two years in isn’t clear. Rock, who is a member of the Navajo Nation and originally from Monument Valley, Utah, was the only Native American recipient of the fellowship in his cohort.
After the Supreme Court ruling, the Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber sent a letter expressing his disappointment.
“Diversity benefits learning and scholarship by broadening the range of questions, perspectives, and experiences brought to bear on important topics throughout the university,” he said. “Our multicultural society requires that, in the words of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, 'the path to leadership (must) be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.'”
A 2022 study by Quad Education Group reported that fewer than 1% of the school's incoming class at Princeton were Indigenous students. That year, Princeton University received 37,601 applications and accepted 1,647 students, for an acceptance rate of 4.4%.
“Princeton is predominately white,” said Rock. “There are very few Natives.”
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Rock's road to higher education didn’t start smoothly or in what many would consider a traditional way. After dropping out of high school, then going back, he attended junior colleges not knowing exactly what he wanted to do. He even enlisted in the Marines, but bad hearing prevented him from joining. He started to work odd jobs and hang out with the wrong crowd, eventually growing tired of that scene.
“I got fed up with it,” said Rock. “I hitchhiked back home, gathered my stuff, and I started to hitchhike out of there. A friend of mine from Kayenta picked me up. Telling him what I was doing, I told him ‘I’m going to school.’”
And from that point on, Rock has been in school. He holds a Ph.D. in Earth science and environmental sustainability, and an M.A. in sustainable community from Northern Arizona University, and a B.A. in interdisciplinary studies from Arizona State University.
While at Princeton, Rock was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Geosciences, where he initiated a program to expand the identification, monitoring, and communication of environmental hazards related to legacy uranium mining and ongoing oil and gas exploration in the Navajo Nation.
“I was really surprised I got in,” said Rock about his fellowship. “It's very competitive.”
The American Indian College Fund said it was disheartened by the Supreme Court ruling and concerned because it would affect the equitable access to affordable higher education for American Indian and Alaska Natives and other diverse student groups.
American Indian College Fund is a nonprofit organization that helps Native American students, supporting them with scholarships and funding toward higher education, because, despite common beliefs, Indigenous students don't all receive free higher education.
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Responding to a majority opinion that claimed affirmative action policies are unconstitutional because they “unavoidably employ race in a negative manner” and use “racial stereotyping,” the nonprofit argued that the “color-blind society” the court tried to perceive in its ruling is farfetched.
“With regard to the facts of our lives lived in the real world that show us that, in fact, we do not live in a color-blind world: Our histories and cultures are still being removed from curricula across the country,” the group said. “Students continue to face prohibitions from wearing regalia at graduation ceremonies. Native students are frequently excluded from accessing campus resources and rarely see themselves represented on college campuses.”
Educational success and tribal sovereignty are 'intertwined'
Wendy Shelly Greyeyes., a member of the Navajo Nation, an associate professor of Native American studies at the University of New Mexico and author of "A History of Navajo Nation Education: Disentangling Our Sovereign Body," said the decision is frightening for Native people because it means Indigenous students' opportunities to access education have shrunk.
“Highly competitive schools will not be permitted to factor race into their decision making, which reduces our access to these schools,” said Greyeyes. “Obtaining a college education is sometimes the only pathway for economic survival. It is disappointing that the majority of supreme court justices don’t recognize that race is still a reality for our country.”
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Indigenous young people carry the burden of generational poverty and low educational outcomes in their families, she said. To succeed in American society, a college education is necessary to be competitive in the job market.
“Our sovereignty as the Navajo people is intertwined into the success of our Navajo students,” said Greyeyes. “Because if our students aren’t going to college or in a career, they become dependent on our tribal government’s resources.”
It’s a “vicious cycle,” she said, and advocates must find a way to change the Supreme Court justices' effort to play politics and insert their racist ideology into our American democracy.
“If this is a country that is established on equal rights and equity then that should be the guiding principles for higher education,” said LeManuel “Lee” Bitsoi, a member of the Navajo Nation who is currently the vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.
“Bringing it all to the present day, in terms of affirmative action, because of this historical and systemic racism and discrimination, the playing fields are never going to be leveled until every community has equal access,” he said. “When we have that, then we can talk about eliminating affirmative action.”
He said colleges and universities should do away with the elitist legacy and donor admission policies and the preferential treatment of athletes in admissions.
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Bitsoi earned a bachelor of science degree from the University of New Mexico, holds a master of education degree from Harvard University and a doctorate degree in higher education administration from the University of Pennsylvania.
“I'm the first generation college-goer and graduate so education was instilled in me at a very young age by my mother,” said Bitsoi. “She is a boarding school survivor, even though she had not so good of an experience with boarding school she understood education as a way to become more socially and economically mobile.”
In 2022, Harvard University accepted only 2,320 applicants out of 57,786, an acceptance rate of 4%, the lowest in the Ivy League. According to the Quad Education Group study, about 1.1% of its incoming students were Native American students.
Bitsoi said he recommends that higher education in the country take a look at American Indian and Alaskan Native people through “the tribal sovereignty lens.”
“When they are reaching out and recruiting American Indian and Alaskan Native people it should be done under the framework of tribal sovereignty,” said Bitsoi. “Because as Indigenous people, American Indian and Alaskan Native people, we have tribal sovereignty, so we are dual citizens.”
American Indians and Alaskan Natives have enrolled tribal numbers as well as social security numbers, he said, so higher education should consider recruitment based on that dual citizenship.
“As Indigenous people we don't only have racial identity, we also have a political identity,” said Bitsoi. “That’s all rooted back to tribal sovereignty, treaties and agreements that were drawn up that guarantee education, natural resources, health care, social services etc.”
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Bitsoi mused about whether he believed he benefited from affirmative action, and said he probably did in some ways, but he was already academically proficient.
“At the graduate level, I believe I was a competitive candidate because I had the academic ability and GPA, I did have the GRE scores, letter of recommendations,” said Bitosi. “It’s a whole process of where you submit a personal statement and that allowed me to share who I was. My academic ability was already demonstrated, and I also brought another diverse perspective because there were very few American Indian and Alaska Native students at Harvard.”
Greyeyes and Rock both believe the ruling against affirmative action is a step back.
Although a Western education is of value for Native students, so is the learning and the retention of their tribe's culture and language, said Bitsoi.
"The future of Native America is the retention and renaissance of Native languages and culture because that's what makes us different from everyone else," said Bitsoi. "If there comes a time we aren't speaking our languages, we are going to lose our culture, and if that comes to pass, we will be the same as everybody else. If that happens, they will say we are like everybody else and we don't need tribal sovereignty, or land bases, or reservations, all these federal statute and statuses will be taken away and that's why we need to maintain our language and culture."
Arlyssa Becenti covers Indigenous affairs for The Arizona Republic and azcentral. Send ideas and tips to arlyssa.becenti@arizonarepublic.com.
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LYNCHBURG, VA – UPDATE 9:01 a.m.
VDOT says On US-460 in Campbell County, near the Bedford County line, motorists can expect delays due to standing water. All east lanes are closed. All west lanes are closed.Traffic is being detoured from Mt. Athos Road onto Stage Road onto Cabin Road back onto Richmond Highway.
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The Virginia Department of Transportation says there’s a road closure on route 460 in Campbell County due to flooding.
A detour is in place. We will update you once we get more information.
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BOTETOURT COUNTY, Va. – Virginia State Police are investigating a deadly two-vehicle crash.
Police say the crash happened at 4:32 p.m. on Friday along Route 11, just south of Mountain Pass Road in Botetourt County. A 2000 Dodge Ram was traveling north on Route 11, when the vehicle crossed the center-line and hit a 2001 Ford F-250 pulling a cattle trailer, which was traveling south, head-on.
The driver of the Dodge was identified as Mark Simpson, 62, of Fincastle. Police say Simpson was not wearing his seatbelt and was taken to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, where he later died.
The Ford was driven by Jeffrey M. Camper, 61, of Buchanan. Mr. Camper and a female passenger were both wearing their seatbelt and were taken to the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
Several of the cattle were euthanized due to injuries received in the crash.
The crash remains under investigation.
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PULASKI COUNTY, Va. – Pulaski County leaders recently announced a name change to Pulaski County Motorsports Park.
County Administrator Jonathan Sweet said the name change is a part of the county’s efforts to advance economic development in its growing tourism industry.
Pulaski County Motorsports Park President and CEO Rusty Wallace Racing said the park is also hosting SRX Series July 27th which includes big names like Tony Stewart, Bobby Lebonte, and Kyle Busch.
Tickets are still available.
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HOOVER, Ala. (WIAT) — Hoover Police confirmed Saturday night that Carlee Russell was safely located and returned home to her residence after being reported missing Thursday at around 9:30 p.m. Hoover Fire medics responded and transported her to a local hospital for evaluation.
Authorities say at around 8:20 p.m. Thursday night, just an hour before Carlee Russell disappeared, she left her job for the day in The Summit. Russell then took a turn onto Highway 280 as she headed towards The Colonnade and that’s where she made a stop to grab food before heading home.
After grabbing her food, Russell then made her way onto I-459 heading South. After passing the Hoover flyover near the Galleria, Russell called police to report a toddler walking on the side of I-459. Russell then called a family member to tell them she was stopping to check on the child between Galleria Flyover and Exit 10. When police arrived in the area, they located Russell’s car and some of her belongings nearby but did not find her or a child.
Over $50,000 in rewards was offered by Crime Stoppers, the Birmingham Association of Realtors, an anonymous source, and individual donations.
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(For the next several weeks, columnist Jim McKee will be contributing new columns on alternating weeks. On other weeks, the Journal Star will publish some of McKee's past columns. This one ran on Sept. 29, 2013.)
Evelyn Genevieve “Sharpie” Sharp attended high school in Ord and though her entire career as a pilot lasted less than a decade, she became one of the most famous aviators in the state and was well-known over the entire country.
Although Mrs. Jack Atkinson or Harriet Long Stotts probably were the first female pilots in Nebraska, Sharpie was one of the earliest female pilots in Nebraska and the entire country.
Lois Genevieve Crounse was born Oct. 1, 1919, in Melstone, Mont., but two months later her then-unmarried mother gave her up for adoption to John E. and Mary Sharp of Kinsey, Mont., who then changed her name to Evelyn Genevieve Sharp. It was not until Evelyn was nearly an adult that she was told that the woman she knew as Aunt Elsie was indeed her biological mother.
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Evelyn’s interest in flying began as a child and when her mother realized the fascination, she gave her a copy of Amelia Earhart’s biography.
Evelyn’s father seemed always to have two or three different businesses in operation, but after his primary interest burned to the ground, the family moved to Hastings. In 1924, Sharp acquired a ranch homestead under the expansion of acreage allowed by the Kinkaid Act, and the family moved north but still in Nebraska. With the Great Depression, the Sharps sold the farm and moved into Ord, where John started a restaurant and operated a rooming/boarding house.
One of the Sharp’s boarders was Jack Jeffords, who was a barnstorming pilot and Certified Flight Instructor in Ord and Broken Bow. In 1934 or 1935, Jeffords gave Evelyn a ride, and she was hooked. When Jeffords fell behind in his rent he agreed to give Evelyn flying lessons in partial payment. The first lesson was Feb. 4, 1935, when Evelyn was only 16, but she managed to solo only a few days later on March 4 in an Aeronca C-3 though some records show the solo was not until 1936, a more probable scenario.
While still in her senior year of high school, Evelyn received her private pilot’s license and became one of the five charter members of the Nebraska 99, whose members were all female aviators. Evelyn graduated from Ord High School in 1937, where she was in the school band, taught swimming and received the title “best girl athlete.”
At 18 Evelyn earned her commercial license, which enabled her to take passengers; her mother was first in line. Although she wanted to continue lessons, Jeffords moved away, leaving her without a teacher or an airplane. John Sharp began lobbying his fellow Ord businessmen and with the help of Glen Auble, $600 was raised as a down payment on a Taylor Cub, with the promise of repayment from proceeds of taking people for rides and generally aiding the community as needed. The plane was picked up in Omaha in August and flown back to Ord by Evelyn, with her father as passenger. When the Grand Island airport opened in 1937, Evelyn was the pilot of the first plane to land.
In 1938, Evelyn headed to Lincoln to attend the Lincoln Airplane & Flying School in order to get her Transport License. She may have flown from other fields as well, but primarily she was said to have used the field that ran north and south from Van Dorn to Calvert streets, roughly along what is now 19th Street.
In 1938, Evelyn earned commercial license No. 34711, becoming “the world’s youngest commercial pilot” and obtained a Curtis Robin OX-5 airplane that originally was owned by the infamous “Wrong Way” Corrigan. In May of that year, Evelyn flew the first airmail into Ord and became the first female airmail pilot in the United States.
As part of the Civilian Pilot Training Program, Evelyn began teaching flying in Spearfish, S.D., and later at Bakersfield, Calif. As one of only 10 female pilot instructors, she taught more than 350 men to fly in just more than a year.
When General H. “Hap” Arnold formed the WAFS or Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, Sharpie was assigned as the 17th member of the 2nd Flying Group at the New Castle Army Air Base in Wilmington, Del., in October of 1942. The WAFS were charged with flying planes from their manufacturer or rebuilder, mostly on the West Coast, to shipping points, mostly on the East Coast but never to combat zones. The WAFS were merged into the WASPs in 1943.
On April 3, 1944, Squadron Commander Sharp, one of the most experienced women pilots in the country had, had only three flights remaining to achieve the highest rating level available to women. She took off in a Lockheed twin engine P-38 from New Cumberland, Pa., on a delivery flight to California. Almost at once black smoke erupted from one of the engines that failed, causing a forced crash landing that killed Sharpie instantly.
Evelyn “Sharpie” Sharp was buried at Ord Cemetery, not far from the Ord Airport, now named Sharp Field on Nebraska 11, now renamed Evelyn Sharp Road. Every June the community remembers its most famous daughter as Evelyn Sharp Days and who, in 1992, was inducted into the Nebraska Aviation Hall of Fame.
Historian Jim McKee, who still writes with a fountain pen, invites comments or questions. Write to him in care of the Journal Star or at jim@leebooksellers.com.
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PORT RICHEY, Fla. — Authorities are searching for a 78-year-old man who has not been seen for several hours in Port Richey.
Paul Franklin Jr. was last seen around 8 a.m. on Sunday in the area of Liberty Drive in Port Richey. He is considered missing and endangered, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office says.
The 78-year-old man is 6 feet, 4 inches, 235 pounds and has green eyes with a white mustache, and is bald.
Franklin was last seen wearing a green shirt, jeans/pants and shoes. He may be driving a dark blue 2011 Hyundai Sonata with FL tag BG09CF, northbound traveling in the Ocala area
Anyone with information on the man's whereabouts is asked to contact the Pasco County Sheriff's Office at 727-847-8102, option 7.
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CARLTON — Authorities are investigating after human remains were found along the Nemadji River on Saturday.
A family canoeing along the river reported the remains around 1:30 p.m. southeast of the Soo Line ATV Trail and Minnesota Highway 23 intersection, the Carlton County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
First responders searched the woods nearby and found the body along the bank of the river. The body was turned over to the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office.
"The name of the person recovered will be released upon positive identification and the notification of the deceased’s next of kin," the release said. "The matter remains under investigation at this time."
The Sheriff’s Office was assisted by the St. Louis County Rescue Squad and the Wrenshall and Carlton fire departments.
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HAZEL GREEN, Ala. — HAZEL GREEN, Ala. (AP) — Before starting college, Taylor Mohead had never been outside her hometown of Houston, Texas. Now, the recent Tuskegee University graduate is trekking around trees in Hazel Green, Alabama, in fire gear and sweltering heat.
The U.S. Forest Service intern is among 20 students from historically Black colleges or universities who are participating in a prescribed burn demonstration under instructors' supervision. They clear paths, light fires and make sure the embers are out when they're done. It’s part of an apprenticeship program that will give them the credentials to hit the ground running toward a fire line.
It’s a grueling way to spend summer break, but Mohead is relishing it. She never pictured herself fighting forest fires.
“Look at me. I’m really small. I’m really short. And then being a woman of color, that’s something, too. I feel like that’s more inspiring," Mohead said, grinning. “I got goosebumps right now.”
The on-site fire academy is part of the 1890 Land Grant Institution Wildland Fire Consortium, a partnership between the U.S. Forest Service and a cluster of HBCUs comprised of Florida A&M University, Southern University in Louisiana, Tuskegee University and Alabama A&M University.
The recruitment effort comes as wildfire season around the U.S. grows due to climate change and minorities remain underrepresented in forestry and firefighting. The number of wildfires this year is below the 10-year average, but hot and dry conditions are raising the risk, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
The idea for a consortium came during the pandemic to address a “mission critical area of the Forest Service,” said Stephanie Love, the USDA Forest Service’s national diversity student programs manager and an Alabama A&M alum. The initiative became official in 2021.
“These four HBCUs have some of the top agricultural programs at HBCUs in the nation. So, it just makes sense to align our efforts and move together in the same direction,” Love said. “We’re trying to create a pipeline of students who are pursuing this natural resources education and forestry and fire.”
The hope is every student comes away with a foundation to chart one of many possible paths in forestry, ecology, agriculture or firefighting.
The consortium is building on top of a decadeslong relationship between Alabama A&M and the Forest Service. A USDA Forest Service Center of Excellence in Forestry was created at the school in 1993 to prepare students for jobs with the agency.
The Bulldogs established a nationally accredited firefighting team in 2009 made of students, called the FireDawgs. When class isn't in session, the FireDawgs are dispatched to wildfires or burn operations around the country.
The development programs that have come out of the Alabama-Forest Service collaboration are responsible for training two-thirds of Black foresters in the federal agency, said Love, who was in the first FireDawgs squad.
Diversity among the Forest Service's wildland firefighters has increased by 20% in the last decade, according to data collected by the agency. It has approximately 13,000 employees including firefighters and other staff who respond to wildfires. Between July 2010 and July 2022, white staffers fell from 86% to 66%.
Black fire personnel have remained mostly around 1.3%. Black women make up around 0.5%. Hispanics make up 12%, and Native Americans/Alaska Natives and Asians linger around 3% and 1%, respectively. Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders make up less than 1%.
The dearth of applicants of color may partly be due to a lack of awareness. They are not often encouraged to consider firefighting by guidance counselors or recruiters, said Terry Baker, CEO of the Society of American Foresters and its first Black leader. There also is a misconception that working outdoors isn't highly technical or doesn't require skill, he said.
Once students decide to study forestry or related fields, retaining them becomes the next challenge. Love said the Forest Service and HBCUs ensure there are mentorships, scholarships and internships.
Bradley Massey, an Alabama A&M junior and president of the school's forestry club, said the school sparked a passion he was missing. Massey said he was a student at Auburn University of Montgomery when he lost focus, working in retail back home in Huntsville before enrolling in Alabama A&M in 2021.
“As the school year progressed, that’s when more information about the FireDawgs presented itself,” Massey said in between running around in fire gear. “I wanted to just have experience and be able to make the most out of my college experience because I wasn’t just going back for fun. I was going back for a purpose.”
He has since accomplished feats like passing several firefighter work capacity tests including walking 3 miles (5 kilometers) in under 45 minutes while carrying a 45-pound (20-kilogram) pack. In October, he traveled to a conference in Boise, Idaho, where he went on field trips and talked with fire professionals and students from around the nation.
“I didn’t want to leave,” Massey said. “It was like going into Comic-Con and seeing all the cool stuff and just wanting to take many pictures ... I feel like it has helped me a lot in my career now."
Baker, of the Society of American Foresters, said the need for more firefighters will only increase as wildfires intensify with worsening climate change and droughts.
“If we’re going to meet these challenges, we’re going to have to have everyone,” Baker said. “What does that mean to a profession that has been primarily white male?”
Black firefighters can feel intimidated and isolated in the field when they parachute into fires in predominately white communities or don’t have other crew members of color around them, Baker said. He recalled fire scenes where “people became comfortable enough to openly say I was the first Black person they’ve ever met in real life that they didn’t see on TV.”
The current crop of students says it has been reassuring to meet HBCU alumni who have gone on to become fire or forestry professionals, noting there is something special about being in the field surrounded by classmates turned crew who look like them.
“It makes you more willing to go out there," Mohead said. "If you hit a road stop or obstacle, you have someone on your left who's probably been through it.”
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BALTIMORE — Police are investigating multiple shootings that occurred on Saturday night.
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The first shooting took place in the 2800 block of Boarman Avenue at 9:26pm.
Officers arrived to the area and found two men, a 40-year-old and a 54-year-old, suffering from gunshot wounds.
The 40-year-old later died at the hospital. The condition of the 54-year-old is unknown.
Later that evening, around 10:38pm, officers were called to the 3500 block of Cliftmont Avenue for reports of another shooting.
Police responded to the area and found a man who had been shot.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Just after midnight, officers were called to an area hospital for a walk-in shooting victim.
Police say a 21-year-old man was shot in the 300 block of South Exeter Street. His injuries are considered life-threatening.
Anyone with information regarding any of these shootings should contact Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7Lockup.
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A group of business, philanthropic and political leaders has given up on the idea of trying to get Arizonans to adopt a system of ranked-choice voting.
Political consultant Chuck Coughlin said polling for the group, Save Arizona Democracy, found insufficient interest in the sometimes controversial and confusing plan to have a single election of all candidates for a particular office and have voters rank their choices of first, second and beyond.
But Coughlin said the same polling shows there is a dissatisfaction with the current system of partisan primaries and the resultant election of candidates who cater more to the fringes of their own political parties than to the center.
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So the group members are putting the finishing touches on their plan to convince Arizona voters to scrap the method of nominating candidates by selling them on the idea of how much better the system could be.
Their plan, being prepared for the 2024 ballot, is a constitutional amendment to outlaw having the state run, and taxpayers pay for, partisan primaries.
Instead, there would be a wide-open primary where anyone who got the requisite number of signatures could be on the ballot and all Arizonans, regardless of party affiliation, or lack thereof, could vote. Then the top vote-getters would face off in the general election, also regardless of their party registrations.
So there could be two Republicans competing for governor or a legislative seat in the general election. Or two Democrats. Or any combination, which also could include independents.
GOP lawmakers have competing plan
Such a plan is likely to draw resistance from the parties that benefit from the current system.
For instance, state Rep. Alexander Kolodin, a Scottsdale Republican, isn't convinced voters are willing to trade in a system and process they know and understand — even if they don't like it — for something radically different.
Republican lawmakers have already proposed a constitutional amendment, HCR 2033, that, if approved by voters in 2024, would preempt any effort to change primary election laws to advance more than one person per political party to the general election.
Coughlin's mission is to ensure that the Save Arizona Democracy plan outpolls the GOP plan. That's because if both plans are approved, the one that gets the greater number of votes gets enacted.
Polls show support for equal ballot access
The way Save Arizona Democracy will explain its plan to voters starts with what the polling has shown to be basic beliefs, Coughlin said.
"Everybody wants to see all voters and all candidates treated equally,'' he said.
That means equal access to the ballot.
The current system is set up to benefit partisan candidates. Their signature requirement to get on the primary ballot is based on the number of people registered in that party.
Then the winner of each party's primary gets a guaranteed slot on the general election ballot.
Political independents have no primary.
That requires them to seek direct access to the general election ballot. More to the point, that means they could have to get up to six times more signatures than partisan candidates to get their name before voters.
The result has been a dearth of independent candidates for office even though registered political independents outnumber Republicans and Democrats in Arizona. No independents have ever been elected to the Legislature.
That partisan advantage would disappear with a single open primary.
Broader appeal
The argument is that having all the names on a single ballot — and having all registered voters able to make choices — could force candidates to broaden their appeal.
By comparison, one party or the other now has a registration edge in about 25 of the state's 30 legislative districts.
So in a district dominated by Republicans, candidates need to appeal only to GOP registrants — and specifically those who tend to turn out in partisan primaries. Then, with that registration edge, the winners of those primaries become all but unbeatable in the general election.
The same is true in Democrat-dominated districts.
Only thing is, Coughlin conceded, as much as people may not like the current partisan primaries, they at least are familiar with them. That leaves the question of whether the voters who go to the polls in 2024 will make the leap of faith that what is being proposed is better than what they know and understand.
"That has been one of the critical discussion points within our committee,'' Coughlin said. But he said the polling continues to create a simple message he believes will find a responsive chord among voters.
"What we're doing is creating equality for all voters and all candidates in Arizona, which is enormously popular,'' he said. It would ensure that the top picks of all voters in all races advance to the general election, regardless of party.
'The illusion of choice'
Kolodin, however, said Arizonans like political parties, which represent a shorthand about what a candidate believes.
"The point of the political parties is to be like, 'Here's the person who we think is the best exemplar of the conservative or liberal point of view to present to general election voters,' '' he said.
Kolodin does agree with Coughlin on one point.
He said eliminating partisan primaries and having everyone run against each other could lead to the election of more moderates. But he disagrees with Coughlin that would be a good thing.
"Politics in that case doesn't present a real choice at all,'' Kolodin said.
"If you have a system that's set up so that only moderates ever win ... what's the point?'' he said, mirroring a view held by some that there is little difference between the mainstream elements of the Republicans and Democrats. "So, it's the illusion of choice.''
While the opposition to open primaries in Arizona is coming from Republicans, it would be wrong to see this as a strictly partisan fight, Kolodin said.
"In states where Democrats have a strong majority, they oppose this like the devil opposes holy water,'' he said. "But here, in Arizona, they think it's to their advantage.''
Save Arizona Democracy isn't getting into deep details, during the campaign, of what the new system would look like. That raises the question: Would voters be willing to scrap the current system and support an initiative that won't spell out in detail exactly how nonpartisan primaries would work?
"What we are not doing is dictating the outcome,'' Coughlin said. "We can explain that. We can say it's up to the governor and the Legislature to decide that.''
Campaign funding
Even what Coughlin calls a simplified plan won't be an easy sell.
He figures it will take about $5 million to get the signatures to put the issue on the 2024 ballot. That doesn't count an equal amount of spending he said will be necessary to convince voters to approve it.
The group has not yet filed any campaign finance reports and won't have to until it starts the signature-gathering campaign. But Coughlin said a large chunk of the funds is coming from two of the group's board members: Sarah Smallhouse and Don Budinger.
Smallhouse, a Tucson native, is president of the Thomas R. Brown Foundation, named after her father, who was a founder of the now-defunct Burr-Brown Corp. The foundation provides grants for research, education, workforce development and civic leadership.
Budinger is chairman and founding director of the Rodel Foundation, which also awards grants.
Howard Fischer is a veteran journalist who has been reporting since 1970 and covering state politics and the Legislature since 1982. Follow him on Twitter at @azcapmedia or email azcapmedia@gmail.com.
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Can NSB ban certain businesses in Flagler Ave., Canal St. districts? Officials weigh in
NEW SMYRNA BEACH — In an effort to preserve the character of its iconic business districts, Flagler Avenue and Canal Street, the city of New Smyrna Beach is weighing the possibility of restricting certain types of shops in those areas.
The issue was first brought forth by City Commissioner Lisa Martin first broached the issue at an April meeting.
“The background of this is that there are businesses such as the smoke shop that I don’t really think we want on Flagler Avenue and, rather than wait for 17 more to pop up, I would like to ask staff to look at expanding the list to include pawn shops, tattoo parlors, smoke shops, gun stores and package (liquor) stores,” Martin said.
The two areas are zoned mixed-use and currently allow for several types of businesses, including some of those mentioned by Martin, such as pawn shops and package/liquor stores.
But a decision on the matter could take time, given that other city commissioners called for a careful approach as to how the city would want to proceed. The proposal does not involve shutting down businesses that are already open.
“I understand where you’re coming from,” City Commissioner Jason McGuirk responded to Martin at the meeting. “I know that there are some people on Flagler who’ve reached out to me with some concern of some smoke shops. This is more of a long-term process because you can’t just start banning different things. There’s a process to it.”
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The words of caution were echoed by Mayor Fred Cleveland, who said the City Commission would need to consider the optics of the measure and whether it could be seen as government overreach.
“I’m sensitive to what the optics are about us telling who what kind of shops they can open up and cannot open up,” Cleveland said. “So, I think we just need to be mindful of that.”
City seeks input from local businesses
Since the meeting, city staff has reached out to those business districts’ associations and sent out a citywide survey to gain feedback from residents and the business community.
According to the city, city planners have met with the Flagler Avenue Business Association and The Canal Street Business Association “to provide an initial overview of the project.”
In an interview with The News-Journal, Elizabeth Jones, owner of Nature in Beauty salon on Canal Street and head of the district’s business association, said the survey has been shared among the district’s business owners.
“Right now, what I’m getting from other business owners is that it would be nice if we could avoid having smoke shops, vape shops, gun shops, tattoo parlors,” Jones said. “That’s really all that we are, I think, looking at as something that could be a negative effect on the street.”
She added that “we would love retail, we want to keep the street prospering, and right now it is doing great.”
Jones said she believes the City Commission will “tread carefully” as they weigh in the balancing act of preserving the character of the city’s districts and avoiding stepping over business owners' rights.
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Zoe Neuner, president of the Flagler Avenue Business Association, did not want to offer any comment at this time, but said the district’s business owners are participating in the survey.
A ‘delicate balance’
The proposed restrictions would only apply to the two districts in question and not to the city as a whole.
There are certain regulations for such businesses already in place in the Flagler and Canal business districts. For instance, businesses that sell alcohol but not food on Flagler Avenue are currently required to maintain a buffer of at least 1,000 feet.
Joseph Posey, an attorney with Storch Law Firm in Daytona Beach, said he “can see the rationale for doing it, as long as it is done the right way.”
“You don’t necessarily want to discourage growth or prevent folks from utilizing their property either,” Posey said. “I can understand some of the ‘Where we want to be,’ and ‘How we want to grow’ perspective. As long as it is done in a way that collectively is in the best interest of everybody — it is that delicate balance.”
Posey said it would be important for the city to consult its citizens to gauge the community’s support for the idea and “invite those discussions.”
Posey said that the city should also keep in mind that “Flagler (Avenue) is very much a tourist corridor.”
“It is a very visited corridor by locals,” Posey said. “For any regulations that are being proposed, I would keep those things in mind.”
City staff has already come up with five different courses of action the city could take on the matter, which include:
- The commission could choose to do nothing and leave the mixed-use zoning district the way it is.
- The commission could choose to remove or add certain uses to the list of permitted uses by right in the mixed-use zoning district. Permitted uses by right are allowed without any approvals.
- The commission could choose to make certain uses special exceptions in the MU zoning district. Special exception uses must be considered by the Planning and Zoning Board at public hearings first for recommendations to approve or deny to the commission. Then a second public hearing occurs at the commission who gives the final approval or denial. Approvals are often accompanied by conditions such as hours of operation, noise control, etc.
- The commission could choose to put distance buffers between uses so similar or conflicting uses are not clustered together.
- The commission could allow certain uses by right with conditions. For example, tattoo parlors are currently allowed in the mixed-use zoning district, but they cannot front on Canal Street or Flagler Avenue.
City staff plans to present the survey’s findings and more information about the proposal to the city’s Planning and Zoning Board during its next meeting on Monday at 5:30 p.m.
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The city also plans to hold public meetings “in the near future.” Residents can find the survey at the city’s website at cityofnsb.com.
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EAST CHICAGO — The City Council is considering what can be done to regulate Airbnbs in the city.
The topic had been discussed before an incident June 3 at a house that was being rented in the 4400 block of Arbutus Lane.
Police had to respond there when a fight broke out at a party that Chief Jose Rivera said was attended by about 100 teenagers.
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Angela Jones, attorney for the City Council, said she reached out to Gary and Hammond to discuss what those cities have been doing regarding Airbnb rentals. She said she'd try to work with the city's executive branch to put forth an ordinance the city would be able to enforce.
Council President Monica Gonzalez, D-1st, said the council will need to determine whether such an ordinance will be necessary.
"I say that because the state of Indiana really limits us on what we can do for an Airbnb and, rather, we might look at our rental agreements that we have within the city and make sure that they're strict enough to accommodate the Airbnb and just have that under its umbrella," she said.
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A resident who lives near the Arbutus house recently addressed the council and said on that date she was talking to her neighbor in front of her own house and was hit by two females who attended the party. She said guns were also drawn on her.
She said East Chicago police did not come when called and that an officer told her the department was short-staffed.
Rivera said the lack of response was not due to being short-staffed but rather because of the type of call received.
He said a loud party at a private residence does not constitute a crime, and state law allows people to carry firearms in public.
Rivera said police eventually did respond and called the county for help when officers saw the number of people involved.
Rivera said the department is short-staffed in that it is budgeted for 98 officers, but eight new hires would only bring the total number of officers to 63.
"We have enough officers to patrol the city," he said. "We have enough officers to answer calls. I just have a budget for more than that."
He said hiring in the department is an ongoing, but difficult, process: "Nobody wants to be the police nowadays."
One thing that should help the department is a new online reporting system.
Rivera explained that when people call regarding minor crimes, they will be given a link to open an application where they can execute their own report.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Frank Lopez
Age : 55
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306256
Arrest Date: July 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Rashawn McClary
Age : 20
Residence: Riverdale, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306250
Arrest Date: July 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jaden Melton
Age : 20
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306229
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: WEAPON - POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
David Nava
Age : 41
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306226
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kelly Lee
Age : 40
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306217
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Oscar Lerma
Age : 34
Residence: Chicago Ridge, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306220
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Crown Point Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Derris Leblanc
Age : 24
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306237
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Other
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jose Hurtado
Age : 36
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306253
Arrest Date: July 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sharee Johnston
Age : 38
Residence: Hobart
Booking Number(s): 2306242
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Terrence Jones
Age : 40
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306227
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: N/A
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jaiden Guyton
Age : 20
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306234
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/SERIOUS BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Heather Hillis
Age : 43
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306258
Arrest Date: July 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hobart Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Andraleen Draper
Age : 22
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306257
Arrest Date: July 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Marcell Ellison
Age : 23
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306251
Arrest Date: July 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: WEAPON - POSSESSION - FIREARM - MACHINE GUN - W/NO PERMIT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Francisco Dehoyos Jr.
Age : 46
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306236
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - RESULTING IN SERIOUSLY BODILY INJURY-ENDANGERED ADULT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tommy Childers
Age : 32
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306249
Arrest Date: July 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT DEF. USES A VEHICLE; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Deja Burrell
Age : 22
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306260
Arrest Date: July 1, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Melvin Carr Sr.
Age : 48
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306228
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Eugene Brame
Age : 39
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306243
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Victor Becerra Jr.
Age : 25
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306219
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Griffith Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jose Romero-Avalos
Age : 41
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306037
Arrest Date: June 26, 2023
Arresting Agency: New Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Victor Macedo
Age : 44
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306019
Arrest Date: June 25, 2023
Arresting Agency: N/A
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
David McWilliams
Age : 35
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306031
Arrest Date: June 25, 2023
Arresting Agency: Highland Police Department
Offense Description: STRANGULATION; DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Sonia Beeler
Age : 51
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306029
Arrest Date: June 25, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Alvaro Lopez-Serratos
Age : 51
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306026
Arrest Date: June 25, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Eva Thomas
Age : 43
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306146
Arrest Date: June 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Richard Wilbourn
Age : 55
Residence: Chicago Heights, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306114
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - ON A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Derek Zanfei
Age : 33
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306113
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FAILURE TO RETURN TO LAWFUL DETENTION; RESISTING - ESCAPE; HEALTH- POSSESS HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Tracy Sizemore
Age : 57
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306127
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Javonte Roberson
Age : 37
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306118
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Yuron Robinson
Age : 46
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306119
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ashlee Price
Age : 29
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306108
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Aarion Mosley
Age : 28
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306120
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: WEAPON - POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
David Nagel
Age : 65
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306138
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
David Lapotka
Age : 56
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306107
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH PUBLIC SAFETY; CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Brian Mejia
Age : 20
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306125
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Baldemar Montemayor
Age : 39
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306133
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Merrillville Police Department
Offense Description: RESISTING - OBSTRUCTION OF TRAFFIC
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Karla Jenkins
Age : 30
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306147
Arrest Date: June 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Samantha Kane
Age : 29
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306122
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS; INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Dionte Dortch
Age : 35
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306117
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lee Derkacy
Age : 46
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306116
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: HEALTH- POSSESS HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Barron Arnold
Age : 43
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306110
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: N/A
Offense Description: STRANGULATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kyle Bentley
Age : 31
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306115
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Mercedes Cruz
Age : 28
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306124
Arrest Date: June 27, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ashley Sumpter
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306162
Arrest Date: June 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Tonya Wallace
Age : 35
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306179
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
John Santana
Age : 44
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306175
Arrest Date: June 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Timothy Moore Sr.
Age : 43
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306165
Arrest Date: June 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: WEAPON - USE - FIREARM - POINTING A FIREARM
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Terrence Petty
Age : 40
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306174
Arrest Date: June 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ricardo Pina Jr.
Age : 19
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306153
Arrest Date: June 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Whiting Police Department
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Victoria Reed
Age : 42
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306170
Arrest Date: June 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Merrillville Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Shauntavia Meeks
Age : 32
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306169
Arrest Date: June 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Schererville Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Deja Ta Johnson
Age : 27
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306180
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Timothy Lujano
Age : 41
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306184
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Chamier Bowman
Age : 42
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306181
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/PERMANENT INJURY OR DISFIGUREMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cameron Dotson
Age : 46
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306167
Arrest Date: June 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hobart Police Department
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anguel Anaya
Age : 24
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306154
Arrest Date: June 28, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hammond Police Department
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Demetrius Thomas
Age : 21
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306206
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: East Chicago Police Department
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sean Rogers
Age : 43
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306188
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: WEAPON - POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Luis Rodriguez
Age : 35
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306213
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alejandro Rios Sr.
Age : 42
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306198
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS W/DEADLY WEAPON (PERSON IS VICTIM)
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gilberto Noriega Jr.
Age : 53
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306214
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lowell Police Department
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Shianah Rainey
Age : 18
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306203
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gregory Hunter
Age : 45
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2306194
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Gary Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Darrell Jackson
Age : 32
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306189
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Crisantema Navarro
Age : 43
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306210
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Munster Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kane Hughes
Age : 23
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306205
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Merrillville Police Department
Offense Description: RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT - DEF. USES A VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Daniel Dillman
Age : 26
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306201
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Cedar Lake Police Department
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Blaize III
Age : 33
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306190
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Lake County Sheriff's Department
Offense Description: SEXUAL MISCONDUCT WITH MINOR/FONDLING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Cilek
Age : 47
Residence: Lake Worth, FL
Booking Number(s): 2306204
Arrest Date: June 29, 2023
Arresting Agency: Indiana State Police
Offense Description: SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION VIOLATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brian Birchall
Age : 20
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2306212
Arrest Date: June 30, 2023
Arresting Agency: Hobart Police Department
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
"The online reporting is going to be huge for us because the majority of our calls are misdemeanor report calls," Rivera said. "That takes up a lot of our time."
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — In Orange County, nearly a dozen organizations and businesses have the chance at millions of tourism tax dollars.
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The county’s Development Tax Citizen Advisory Task Force has held several meetings in the past few months.
They narrowed down the funding options to 11 organizations from the 55 companies that applied.
It was based on how ready the projects were to move forward, who could bring jobs into the county through tourism, and which projects have a high return revenue.
The Orange County Tourist Development Tax, or TDT, is funded by a 6% tax for hotel visitors and short-term rentals.
Last year, the county collected more than $330 million in TDT – money that the community raised with hopes of helping boost the economy.
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“If we’re going to invest the people’s money, they wanted a significant return on that investment that will allow our economy to continue growing to the benefit of all people within our community,” said Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings.
The highest-ranking organization in the county is among the candidates to receive millions of dollars from TDT.
“The Convention Center is part of the pipeline of overall community benefits for our community,” Demings said.
The second on the list is Florida Citrus Sports, which is asking for $800 million to complete renovations to Camping World Stadium, including replacing the upper terrace decks and adding a canopy-style covering.
Read: Dr. Phillips Center hopes to receive $145 million from Orange County tourist development tax
The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts is also on the list, and the venue is asking for $145 million.
It wants to build out the front plaza side and back of the campus, add an auditorium for 8,000 people, 10,000 square feet of event space, a roof garden and restaurants.
“The arts center has had the chance to really deliver its purpose,” said Kathy Ramsberger, president and CEO of Dr. Phillips. “And so, when you feel that people are behind that and enjoying it, it just makes all the effort worthwhile.”
Read: 11 Central Florida projects up for millions of dollars in revenue
The task force will meet for the last time on Monday to give their final recommendations to county commissioners.
Below is the list of the 11 organizations:
- Orange County Convention Center
- Florida Citrus Sports
- Amway Center
- Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
- UCF Sports
- Mennello Museum of American Art
- Orlando City Baseball Dreamers
- Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community
- Orange County Regional History Center
- Association to Preserve African American Society, History and Traditions
- Orlando Urban Film Festival Foundation
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KISSIMMEE, Fla. — New restaurant alert!
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Outback Steakhouse is set to open a new location in Kissimmee.
The restaurant will welcome its first guests on Monday.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held on July 19 at 10:30 a.m.
On the grand opening day, Outback Steakhouse will donate up to five thousand dollars of proceeds to Give Kids the World Village, a Kissimmee resort that gives free week-long vacations to critically ill children and their loved ones.
Read: National Ice Cream Day 2023: This Central Florida place is giving away free ice cream
The new location at 8005 W. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway will replace the one in West Irlo Bronson.
“We are thrilled about our relocation, its enhancements, and the opportunity to deepen our roots in the community,” said Jacob Dean, owner of the new restaurant.
The Kissimmee steakhouse will feature an innovative interior design, new equipment, and a modernized concept.
Guests can grab a drink on a marble Coral Reef bar with LED lighting while enjoying grilled steak.
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Also, the restaurant will be more spacious, with over 50 tables, more than the standard Outback Steakhouse locations.
Those looking for a job are encouraged to apply, as the restaurant has open positions.
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An advertisement in the March 2, 1977, Vidette publicizes Elaine Noble’s program at Illinois State University in Normal. Noble was the first openly LGBTQ+ state legislator in Massachusetts and in U.S. history.
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This Illinois Wesleyan University photo shows poet Allen Ginsberg, who was on the Bloomington campus March 14-15, 1970, as part of the IWU Fine Arts Festival.
Photo courtesy of Illinois Wesleyan University Tate Archives
The summer of 1969 saw a shift in LGBTQ+ activism in response to the police raid on the Stonewall Inn, located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. The Stonewall Riots were a series of spontaneous protests, over the course of six days, by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969.
Bloomington-Normal was not immune to this wave of energized activism. Prior to Stonewall, there is scant evidence of any local gay rights movement, but that all changed in 1970 with the formation of two student organizations at Illinois State University: the Gay Liberation Front and Women’s Liberation.
These two organizations worked together and sponsored ISU’s first gay dance on March 15, 1970, in the ISU Solarium atop Fairchild Hall. Bob Sutherland, an ISU faculty member, served as an observer for the American Civil Liberties Union as there was talk that ISU football players had threatened to crash and break up the dance.
Other student organizations, including Students for a Democratic Society and the Black Coalition were present at the dance to prevent any such disruption. Fortunately, the football players never showed up.
According to Sutherland, a band provided good music, and strobe lights transformed the Solarium into a fun dance floor.
It can be argued that this inaugural event, and the two student organizations who sponsored it, established the modern gay rights movement in Bloomington-Normal.
Ginsberg made himself at home at the dance and wrote his thoughts in the form of a poem called “Police State Blues.”
Ginsberg’s appearance in the Twin Cities was the first of many visits by famous LGBTQ+ activists.
Barbara Gittings visited B-N twice in the 1970s; both times speaking at ISU. Like Ginsberg, her support of LGBTQ+ equality far predated Stonewall. In 1958 she organized the New York City chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian civil rights organization in the United States.
She also was among a small group of LGBTQ+ activists who, in 1965, picketed in front of the White House to demand an end to the federal government’s discrimination against LGBTQ+ federal employees.
In her 1973 visit to ISU, Gittings drew an audience of more than 500 people. According to a Daily Vidette article, she described her history of activism and shared information about her work as coordinator of the American Library Association Task Force on Gay Liberation. Many in the large crowd stayed for the reception with Gittings that lasted until 2 a.m.
Gittings returned to ISU in the fall of 1976 with her presentation, “Homosexuality in the Literature of Children and Young Adults.” Gittings discussed her ongoing work with the American Library Association. According to a Daily Vidette article from Oct. 13, 1976, Gittings also provided guidance to members of the ISU Gay People’s Alliance (formerly the Gay Liberation Front) and their gay speakers bureau.
Sandwiched between Gittings’ visits to Bloomington-Normal was LGBTQ+ rights pioneer Frank Kameny, who came to ISU in April 1975.
In 1957, Kameny had been fired from his position as an astronomer with the U.S. Army because of his sexual orientation. He subsequently sued the government, and his appeal eventually ended at the Supreme Court, which declined to consider his case. Kameny’s case is the first known civil rights case based on sexual orientation pursued in the U.S. court system.
Kameny drew upon that and many other experiences in his presentation at ISU, and spoke against the myths that homosexuals should not be teachers, join the armed forces, or work for the government. His strong convictions undoubtedly opened the door for openly LGBTQ+ people to hold jobs in these areas.
The 1970s saw more noted LGBTQ+ activists visiting Bloomington-Normal. Lesbian stand-up comics Robin Tyler and Pat Harrison in 1975 entertained a crowd in what is now Braden Auditorium. Their routine drew the wrath of the Daily Vidette reviewer who dismissed the presentation as “revolting.”
In 1976, Morty Manford visited ISU’s campus to speak on “The Fear of Homosexuality.”
Manford, who was at the Stonewall Inn the night of the raid, with his mother Jeanne Manford later founded PFLAG, a national organization dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them. This year the organization — which includes a chapter in Bloomington-Normal — celebrates its 50th anniversary.
On March 2, 1977, Massachusetts State Rep. Elaine Noble, the first openly LGBTQ+ person elected to a state legislature, spoke in Hayden Auditorium at ISU about her efforts to secure equal rights for LGBTQ+ people in her state. Today, 23 states (including Illinois) and the District of Columbia prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
While these activists drew crowds and much attention in the decade following Stonewall, it can be argued that they were also successful in nurturing and inspiring local activism.
Jack Davis, an ISU student in the 1970s, lived off-campus in a house on Mill Street in Bloomington owned by a lesbian and a gay man. Several of the speakers who visited B-N during the 1970s stayed with Davis at the house because it was a safe, gay-owned property with no risk of harassment from a homophobic landlord.
Davis and fellow activists, emboldened by Stonewall and the speakers that came to Bloomington-Normal in the previous nine years, drove 20 hours in October 1979 to attend the National March for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Washington, D.C. It was the first national march for LGBTQ+ equality and drew between 75,000 and 125,000 people.
Bloomington-Normal soon began to cultivate and produce its own notable figures within the LGBTQ+ community. Tom Chiola, who graduated from ISU in 1974, became the first openly gay person elected to public office in Illinois when he was elected to the Illinois Circuit Court of Cook County in 1994.
ISU alum Rocco Claps became the first openly gay gubernatorial Cabinet official in Illinois history in 2003. In 2019 ISU alum Jim Bennett was appointed director of the Illinois Department of Human Rights. That agency with overseeing the Illinois Human Rights Act, which protects LGBTQ+ people against discrimination.
And IWU alum Phill Wilson went on to become a prominent Black HIV/AIDS activist and founded the Black AIDS Institute in 1999.
The chronicled history of the local LGBTQ+ community is admittedly more recent than that of other local minority groups, but there can be no doubt that much has been achieved in the past 54 years. It can also be argued that national LGBTQ+ activists who visited Bloomington-Normal in the early years of the movement planted the seed, the possibility, that the actions at the Stonewall in 1969 could reverberate across the country and bring about widespread change.
From Stonewall to today: 50+ years of modern LGBTQ+ history
From Stonewall to today: 50+ years of modern LGBTQ+ history
1969: Stonewall Riots
1969: Gay Liberation Front forms
1972: Sweden allows people to legally change gender
1972: UK has first Pride parade
1973: Lambda Legal forms
1973: Homosexuality is no longer classified as a mental illness
1974: First openly lesbian officials elected
1977: First openly gay man elected
1978: The rainbow flag is created
1979: First national LGBTQ+ march
1981: Norway enacts anti-discrimination laws
1981: Gay men affected with 'rare cancer'
1982: Wisconsin passes LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination law
1983: BiPOL forms
1984: HIV discovered
1986: Bowers v. Hardwick
1986: New York passes anti-discrimination bill
1987: UK opens first HIV/AIDS clinic
1987: Barney Frank comes out as gay
1987: ACT UP
1988: National Coming Out Day starts
1989: Denmark legalizes same-sex unions
1990: First Pride parade in South Africa
1994: 'Don't ask, don't tell' enacted
1994: American Medical Association opposes conversion therapy
1995: Gay and lesbian workers can get government security clearance
1996: President Bill Clinton signs Defense of Marriage Act
1996: High schooler starts Gay-Straight Alliance
1997: Ellen DeGeneres comes out
1998: Bisexual flag created
2000: Vermont recognizes same-sex unions
2000: Netherlands recognizes same-sex marriage
2002: New York City passes LGBTQ+ rights law
2003: US legalizes consensual same-sex acts
2004: Massachusetts performs first same-sex marriage
2009: Hate Crimes Prevention Act
2010: Same-sex marriage legal in Iceland
2011: 'Don't ask, don't tell' repealed
2012: First openly LGBTQ+ senator
2013: Supreme Court recognizes same-sex marriage
2014: Transgender students get federal protection
2014: First transgender person nominated for Emmy
2015: US legalizes same-sex marriage
2016: Ban lifted on transgender troops
2017: First openly transgender state legislator elected
2018: 'Rainbow wave' in politics
2019: Taiwan passes same-sex marriage
2019: Transgender troops banned from military
2019: Mayor Pete runs for president
2019: Being transgender no longer a 'disorder'
2020: NYC Pride March canceled by coronavirus
2021: Biden reverses Trump-era ban on transgender people in the military
2021: Gender-affirming care for minors is blocked—then overturned
2021: Switzerland and Japan make strides toward marriage equality
2022: Hundreds of anti-LGBTQ+ bills introduced in US states
2022: First openly lesbian women elected governor
2023: Gender-Affirming Care
Pieces From Our Past is a weekly column by the McLean County Museum of History. Dave Bentlin, a board member of the Prairie Pride Coalition, is a guest contributor on behalf of the museum.
An advertisement in the March 2, 1977, Vidette publicizes Elaine Noble’s program at Illinois State University in Normal. Noble was the first openly LGBTQ+ state legislator in Massachusetts and in U.S. history.
This Illinois Wesleyan University photo shows poet Allen Ginsberg, who was on the Bloomington campus March 14-15, 1970, as part of the IWU Fine Arts Festival.
Photo courtesy of Illinois Wesleyan University Tate Archives
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HAZEL GREEN, Ala. — HAZEL GREEN, Ala. (AP) — Before starting college, Taylor Mohead had never been outside her hometown of Houston, Texas. Now, the recent Tuskegee University graduate is trekking around trees in Hazel Green, Alabama, in fire gear and sweltering heat.
The U.S. Forest Service intern is among 20 students from historically Black colleges or universities who are participating in a prescribed burn demonstration under instructors' supervision. They clear paths, light fires and make sure the embers are out when they're done. It’s part of an apprenticeship program that will give them the credentials to hit the ground running toward a fire line.
It’s a grueling way to spend summer break, but Mohead is relishing it. She never pictured herself fighting forest fires.
“Look at me. I’m really small. I’m really short. And then being a woman of color, that’s something, too. I feel like that’s more inspiring," Mohead said, grinning. “I got goosebumps right now.”
The on-site fire academy is part of the 1890 Land Grant Institution Wildland Fire Consortium, a partnership between the U.S. Forest Service and a cluster of HBCUs comprised of Florida A&M University, Southern University in Louisiana, Tuskegee University and Alabama A&M University.
The recruitment effort comes as wildfire season around the U.S. grows due to climate change and minorities remain underrepresented in forestry and firefighting. The number of wildfires this year is below the 10-year average, but hot and dry conditions are raising the risk, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
The idea for a consortium came during the pandemic to address a “mission critical area of the Forest Service,” said Stephanie Love, the USDA Forest Service’s national diversity student programs manager and an Alabama A&M alum. The initiative became official in 2021.
“These four HBCUs have some of the top agricultural programs at HBCUs in the nation. So, it just makes sense to align our efforts and move together in the same direction,” Love said. “We’re trying to create a pipeline of students who are pursuing this natural resources education and forestry and fire.”
The hope is every student comes away with a foundation to chart one of many possible paths in forestry, ecology, agriculture or firefighting.
The consortium is building on top of a decadeslong relationship between Alabama A&M and the Forest Service. A USDA Forest Service Center of Excellence in Forestry was created at the school in 1993 to prepare students for jobs with the agency.
The Bulldogs established a nationally accredited firefighting team in 2009 made of students, called the FireDawgs. When class isn't in session, the FireDawgs are dispatched to wildfires or burn operations around the country.
The development programs that have come out of the Alabama-Forest Service collaboration are responsible for training two-thirds of Black foresters in the federal agency, said Love, who was in the first FireDawgs squad.
Diversity among the Forest Service's wildland firefighters has increased by 20% in the last decade, according to data collected by the agency. It has approximately 13,000 employees including firefighters and other staff who respond to wildfires. Between July 2010 and July 2022, white staffers fell from 86% to 66%.
Black fire personnel have remained mostly around 1.3%. Black women make up around 0.5%. Hispanics make up 12%, and Native Americans/Alaska Natives and Asians linger around 3% and 1%, respectively. Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders make up less than 1%.
The dearth of applicants of color may partly be due to a lack of awareness. They are not often encouraged to consider firefighting by guidance counselors or recruiters, said Terry Baker, CEO of the Society of American Foresters and its first Black leader. There also is a misconception that working outdoors isn't highly technical or doesn't require skill, he said.
Once students decide to study forestry or related fields, retaining them becomes the next challenge. Love said the Forest Service and HBCUs ensure there are mentorships, scholarships and internships.
Bradley Massey, an Alabama A&M junior and president of the school's forestry club, said the school sparked a passion he was missing. Massey said he was a student at Auburn University of Montgomery when he lost focus, working in retail back home in Huntsville before enrolling in Alabama A&M in 2021.
“As the school year progressed, that’s when more information about the FireDawgs presented itself,” Massey said in between running around in fire gear. “I wanted to just have experience and be able to make the most out of my college experience because I wasn’t just going back for fun. I was going back for a purpose.”
He has since accomplished feats like passing several firefighter work capacity tests including walking 3 miles (5 kilometers) in under 45 minutes while carrying a 45-pound (20-kilogram) pack. In October, he traveled to a conference in Boise, Idaho, where he went on field trips and talked with fire professionals and students from around the nation.
“I didn’t want to leave,” Massey said. “It was like going into Comic-Con and seeing all the cool stuff and just wanting to take many pictures ... I feel like it has helped me a lot in my career now."
Baker, of the Society of American Foresters, said the need for more firefighters will only increase as wildfires intensify with worsening climate change and droughts.
“If we’re going to meet these challenges, we’re going to have to have everyone,” Baker said. “What does that mean to a profession that has been primarily white male?”
Black firefighters can feel intimidated and isolated in the field when they parachute into fires in predominately white communities or don’t have other crew members of color around them, Baker said. He recalled fire scenes where “people became comfortable enough to openly say I was the first Black person they’ve ever met in real life that they didn’t see on TV.”
The current crop of students says it has been reassuring to meet HBCU alumni who have gone on to become fire or forestry professionals, noting there is something special about being in the field surrounded by classmates turned crew who look like them.
“It makes you more willing to go out there," Mohead said. "If you hit a road stop or obstacle, you have someone on your left who's probably been through it.”
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The Dayton Air Show will take flight next weekend in an environment where the demand for air shows is stronger than it has been in the past decade, said John Cudahy, president of the International Council of Air Shows (ICAS).
In fact, air shows these days tend to be breaking longstanding attendance records.
“There’s obviously some pent-up demand following Covid,” Cudahy said. “But I think the numbers we’ve seen suggest something maybe a little bit more than that.”
The two-day CenterPoint Energy Dayton Air Show Presented by Kroger opens July 22 at Dayton International Airport and continues the next day.
It will be headlined this year by the Air Force Thunderbirds, continuing the show’s tradition of alternating Air Force and Navy flight demonstration teams, one of the few shows in the country that can reliably do that without fear of interruption.
Cudahy said he has seen a clear appetite for shows, particularly when the weather cooperates.
In the last 10 years, the air show industry has faced federal budget sequestration, which made military participation in air shows more difficult, as well as the global pandemic.
At one point during the pandemic, when “social distancing” was an imperative, shows attempted drive-in style formats that kept show-goers watching flights from their cars. In the spring of 2021, show organizers in Dayton initially planned that approach before pivoting to the traditional format — crowds milling about on airport tarmacs and fields, enjoying ground displays and flights.
While the 2021 Dayton Air Show saw a relatively tame 50,000 people over two days, attendance surged to 80,000 last year.
Last year’s high number did not surprise Cudahy.
“If the weather has been good and there aren’t complicating factors, it has been one of the most consistent things I’ve seen in my 25 years with ICAS, and that is just big numbers and very enthusiastic fans,” he said.
The Montgomery County Convention and Visitors Bureau has estimated that the show has a $3.7 million economic impact.
“A huge difference this year”
But strong attendance can have a downside. When some 45,000 people attended the first day of last summer’s show, traffic substantially shut down in both directions around Interstate 75′s interchange with Northwoods Boulevard.
Ticket sales are pointing to another well attended show in Dayton this year.
Scott Buchanan, chairman of the U.S. Air and Trade Show, the nonprofit organization that produces the local show, said most air shows experienced problems with traffic last summer.
It’s a headache for any show, Cudahy said. “We hate that. We hate traffic problems.”
“Ours was a piece of cake compared to some of what we were hearing,” Buchanan said. “There were some shows that had to turn people around early in the morning because there was only one lane in.”
The plan Dayton organizers are pushing this year: Get to the show early, stake your claim on the grass or tarmac and enjoy static displays before flights start around noon (weather permitting).
“There’s a lot more on the ground than there used to be,” Buchanan said. “There are a ton of statics (static, ground-based displays). It’ll take you an hour or two to walk around and see everything.”
Static displays this year will include a pair of F-35s, a C-17 and KC-135, a KC-46, an A-10, CMV-22 Osprey, the historic DC3 “Flagship Detroit,” Fed-Ex 757 and more, many of the craft with crews and pilots nearby to answer questions
The show has taken steps this year to address traffic. The event now requires pre-paid parking.
Show leaders are asking visitors to buy vouchers for general admission before they attend the event. If a car gets in line and doesn’t have proof of paid parking, they will be removed from the line and moved to another area, a show representative said.
You can buy show tickets on the Internet, at the gate and at Cincinnati- and Dayton-area Kroger stores starting July 21.
And the show has had a three-lane access road built to accommodate traffic coming off the Northwoods exits from Interstate 75. The entrance to the access road will be at Northwoods and Engel Road.
“It’s just really trying to open it up as much as we can,” Buchanan said.
Traffic on surface streets, off the interstate, will be directed to Falls Creek Drive, then right on Northwoods near the Kroger store, and from there to the new parking access road at Northwoods and Engel.
Kevin Franklin, the show’s executive director, said that plan was created with Vandalia police.
“It’s going to be a huge difference this year,” he said.
All interstate traffic, from north and south, will continue to egress at the Northwoods exit, being directed to dedicated lanes to general admissions parking.
A ‘flagship show’
Featured performers include not just the Thunderbirds flight demonstration team but the Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet West Coast Rhino demo team, the Army Golden Knights, flights by the F-15 Eagle, a MiG-17, the Red Bull helicopter and Red Bull skydiving team, the Wright B Flyer “White Bird” and more.
For tickets, general admission parking and more, go to DaytonAirShow.com.
Last month, for the first time in 16 years, the three-day Columbus Air Show opened at Rickenbacker International Airport. The first two days of the show sold out, and the Navy Blue Angels team performed.
Cudahy expects the Columbus show to be back next June. He does not believe it will conflict with the Dayton show.
About 70% of attendance at any U.S. air show comes within 60 miles of that show’s location, he said. That puts the Dayton and Columbus-area shows in “fundamentally different” markets, he said.
Dayton International Airport and Rickenbacker are about 80 miles apart.
“Dayton remains a flagship show of our industry,” Cudahy said. “It has been around for a very long time, and it has a management team that knows what they’re doing.
How to go
The CenterPoint Energy Dayton Air Show is July 22 and 23.
Buy tickets and general admission parking vouchers at DaytonAirShow.com. Show leaders encourage guests to buy parking vouchers before the show.
Where: East side of Dayton International Airport. Take exit 64 at Northwoods Boulevard from Interstate 75. Follow signs to the new general admission parking entrance at Northwoods and Engle Road.
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TROY — The city is applying for state funds to help pay for an estimated $1.4 million roundabout planned for the intersection of Adams Street near Hobart Arena and Troy high and junior high schools.
The intersection of Adams Street with Staunton Road and Riverside Drive now is a four-way stop. The streets that connect at the intersection also have Duke Park on Riverside Drive and the Troy Aquatic Park on Staunton Road.
A Troy City Council committee July 10 was asked to recommend the full council approve the application for $600,000 from the Ohio Public Works Commission for the project. Council will be asked to approve the application at its meeting Monday, July 17.
The roundabout was being considered for a couple of years down the road, but city staff now recommends doing the intersection design next year and construction in 2025.
A roundabout at the intersection is “doable, but not cheap,” said Patrick Titterington, city service and safety director.
“A standard one-lane roundabout will replace the current four-way stop and improve the traffic flow in this area, particularly during events at Hobart Arena and heavier traffic from events at Duke Park,” a memo to council stated.
The change in plans came when the staff, which originally planned to use this round of OPWC money for upgrades to the West Main Street intersection with South Stanfield and Experiment Farm roads, needed more time, said Patrick Titterington, city service and safety director.
The staff continues to research more potential funding sources to supplement the rising cost of that large intersection’s updates. A “mega roundabout” is being considered for that intersection just west of Interstate 75 on West Main (Ohio 41).
That project “continues to evolve and will need significant discussion” whether the city wants a standard intersection versus a mega roundabout, Titterington said.
The city already had a roundabout at the intersection of South Dorset Road and McKaig Avenue, which opened in summer 2019. Troy’s Public Square also has a roundabout, or traffic circle, at the intersection of state routes Ohio 41 and Ohio 55.
The Public Square roundabout will get a closer look as part of an upcoming study by consultants for a conceptual design of downtown safety and streetscape renovation project. City Council also is being asked to approve a contract for that work with LJB Inc. for $225,000.
The Public Square design has been in place for decades, Titterington said. The review would help “to see if there are any new insights, traffic engineering wise and look at it comprehensively,” Titterington said.
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Man taken into custody for allegedly threatening Madison Heights business
Hayley Harding
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A 25-year-old man was taken into custody after threatening a Madison Heights business, officials say.
The Madison Heights Police Department learned of a threat against a business on the 32000 block of Concord on Saturday afternoon, the department said in a news release.
Police said officers spoke with the management, who decided to close the business for the day. Authorities say there is no threat to the public at this time.
The Madison Heights Police Department is asking anyone with additional information to call the department at 248-585-2100 or Detective Sgt. Greg Hartunian at 248-837-2737.
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AUSTIN, Texas — The owners of the local cookie company, Wunderkeks, have turned their passion for baking into a nonprofit.
Husbands Luis Gramajo and Hans Schrei moved to Austin in 2019 from their home country of Guatemala, and are co-founders of the Sunday Afternoon Foundation. The couple was looking for their very own Safe Space and successfully found it, but are now trying to help others find one of their own.
"Sunday Afternoon Foundation's mission is to create value create a world that is a safe space for everyone. We do that at the intersection of building communities, developing media, education and commerce," said Gramajo.
The nonprofit matches large brands with organizations solving large problems, developing a custom cookie partnership as a fundraising tool. Through Gramajo and Schrei's foundation, they want to tackle issues and create a space of endless opportunity.
"What we found is that we created with the cookies, a very powerful tool, to help other foundations to help companies to donate, to build their own bake sales, through our foundation, and then we can get them to talk," said Schrei.
According to the Sunday Afternoon Foundation website, the goal is to empower both everyday people and brands of all types with the knowledge base, tools, frameworks and networks to create safe spaces within their spheres of influence.
"Sometimes, it's also hard to find causes to support. So we join them together and then we run it for them. So that is a great way to talk about their cause, but about ours because the cookies do reflect that idea of the safe space. So I think it's a win for everyone," said Schrei.
To get further involved or make a donation to the Foundation, details can be found here.
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TEXAS, USA — Two lucky ticketholders in Texas are waking up with fuller pockets after Saturday night's Powerball drawing.
While there were no winners of the Powerball jackpot, which was at $875 million, two tickets in Texas claimed $1 million after matching all five winning numbers without the Powerball.
According to the Texas Lottery, one of the tickets was sold at the Exxon gas station on Clay Road in Katy. The other was sold at a Circle K gas station on Eldorado Parkway in the Frisco area. Another ticket worth $1 million was sold in Colorado.
Saturday's winning numbers were 2-9-43-55-57, Powerball 18 and PowerPlay 2X.
Since no one won Saturday's jackpot, the prize for Monday sits at an estimated $900 million, which would yield a $465.1 million cash option. it's the third-highest prize in Powerball history.
More than $1.5 billion is up for grabs between the estimated Powerball jackpot and the Mega Millions jackpot. Mega Million has not had a winner since April 18, while Powerball hasn't had a jackpot winner since April 19.
Back in May, another Houstonian won $1 million playing Powerball after buying a ticket at a Kroger near Jersey Village.
When is the Powerball drawing?
The Powerball drawing takes place live at 10:59 p.m. Eastern every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Tickets, which cost $2 per play, are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
What are my chances of winning the Powerball?
The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are one in 292.2 million.
Over the past few years, huge lottery jackpots have become more common as lottery officials have changed the rules and ticket prices to boost top prizes.
Powerball's biggest change came in 2021 when officials decided to add a Monday drawing to its weekly lineup of Wednesday and Saturday evening drawings. At the time of the announcement, Powerball proclaimed the addition of the Monday drawing would lead to "larger, faster-growing jackpots."
Powerball is played in 45 states, as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
What are the largest Powerball jackpots?
- $2.04 Billion – Nov. 7, 2022 – CA
- $1.586 Billion – Jan. 13, 2016 – CA, FL, TN
- $857 million (est.) - July 15, 2023
- $768.4 Million – March 27, 2019 – WI
- $758.7 Million – Aug. 23, 2017 – MA
- $754.6 Million – Feb. 6, 2023 - WA
- $731.1 Million – Jan. 20, 2021 – MD
- $699.8 Million – Oct. 4, 2021 – CA
- $687.8 Million – Oct. 27, 2018 – IA, NY
- $632.6 Million – Jan. 5, 2022 – CA, WI
What are the largest US lottery jackpots ever won?
- $2.04 billion, Powerball, Nov. 8, 2022 (one ticket, from California)
- $1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016 (three tickets, from California, Florida, Tennessee)
- $1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018 (one ticket, from South Carolina)
- $1.35 billion Mega Millions, Jan. 13, 2023 (one ticket, from Maine)
- $1.337 billion, Mega Millions, July 29, 2022 (one ticket, from Illinois)
- $1.05 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 22, 2021 (one ticket, from Michigan)
- $768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019 (one ticket, from Wisconsin)
- $758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017 (one ticket, from Massachusetts)
- $731.1 million, Powerball, Jan. 20, 2021 (one ticket, from Maryland)
- $699.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 4, 2021 (one ticket, from California)
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WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. — A sudden flash flood swamped a southeastern Pennsylvania road, sweeping several cars away and claiming at least three lives. Four other people, including a 9-month-old baby, remained missing, authorities said.
Officials in Bucks County’s Makefield Township said torrential rains occurred at about 5:30 p.m. Saturday in the Washington Crossing area. Other parts of the East Coast were experiencing heavy rain, including Vermont. Authorities there said landslides could become a problem on Sunday as the state copes with more rain following days of flooding.
“My team and I continue to monitor the situation as more rain falls in Vermont. There are flash flood warnings throughout the state today. Remain vigilant and be prepared,” Gov. Phil Scott said.
Sunday’s strong storms led to hundreds of flight cancellations at airports in the New York City area, according to the tracking service FlightAware. More than 300 flights were canceled at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey alone, while more than 160 flights were canceled at Kennedy International Airport in New York. Hundreds of flights were also delayed.
The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings and tornado watches for parts of Connecticut, western Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire. A tornado warning was issued for an area along the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border.
Thousands of power outages also were reported in the region.
In Pennsylvania, meanwhile, a sudden, torrential downpour turned deadly in Makefield Township.
Fire Chief Tim Brewer told reporters that the area got about 6 1/2 to seven inches of rain (about 18 centimeters) in 45 minutes.
“In my 44 years, I’ve never seen anything like it,” he said. “When the water came up, it came up very swiftly. We do not think that anybody drove into it, that they were actively on that road when it happened.”
There were about 11 cars on the road at the time, and three were swept away. There was about four to five feet of water over the road, he said.
Two women and a man, ranging in age from 40 to 60s, were found dead. Four people were missing, three females and a male. Among the missing was a 9-month-old baby.
Brewer declined to identify the relationships of the victims but said “one family has been severely affected.”
Eight people were rescued from the cars and two from the creek, he said.
All three vehicles swept away were later located, and no one was found inside. One was about 1.5 miles from where it entered the creek.
“We are treating this as a rescue but we are fairly certain we are in a recovery mode at this time,” Brewer said.
About 150 people were searching the creek during the night and 100 were involved Sunday morning, walking along the creek, he said.
Meanwhile, recovery efforts were underway in Vermont from recent days of heavy precipitation.
The Vermont Agency of Transportation said 12 state roads remained closed while 12 were partially open to one lane of traffic and 87 have been reopened that were previously closed.
The agency said 211 bridge inspections have been completed this week in damaged areas and there are 4 state bridges closed and 4 town structures currently closed.
Rail lines throughout Vermont were also damaged by the rain and flooding, the transportation agency said. The agency said it reopened 57 miles (about 92 kilometers) of rail lines, and 64 miles of rail line remains closed.
“Our crews have been working tirelessly all week to repair the damaged state roads and bridges, and to restore the state’s transportation infrastructure for Vermonters and visitors to our state,” said Transportation Secretary Joe Flynn.
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WASHINGTON COUNTY, Tenn. (WJHL)- On Friday, Isaiah 117 House communities across the United States began a summer lemonade stand fundraiser.
The event is paying homage to the first lemonade stand by the organization, which was held to raise money for their Carter County house in 2017. This would soon turn into an Isaiah 117 House tradition.
“That tradition has continued over the years,” said Corey Paulson, Co-Founder and Director of Development for Isaiah 117. “Now, in our fifth year, almost sixth year, we’re doing this all over the country and all of our locations.”
Paulson says the organization had over 600 stands supporting the houses across the nation last year.
“There was 650 lemonade stands last year across eight states and raised almost half a million dollars for Isaiah 117 house,” said Paulson. “So we hope to increase that this year and have even more stands and more awareness raised for kids entering foster care.”
Isaiah 117 aims to make the transition into foster care easier for children. The organization’s different homes provide clean clothes, toys and love for children entering foster care throughout the nation.
All proceeds from the lemonade stand fundraiser go straight to the Isaiah 117 House in the community where the stand was held.
“Those funds go directly toward getting stuff for kids, whether it’s you know, the toys and the clothes, the hygiene products that we provide to them, the new backpacks and the new duffel bags that they leave with this money goes toward purchasing all those items for them so we can just give them away,” said Paulson.
Members of the Isaiah 117 community were not the only ones involved. Tempa Bader, who is on the local advisory board for the group’s Washington County house, got her church’s women’s ministry involved. Bader said they got involved because they wanted to bring attention to the organization.
“The main reason we want to do it is to promote awareness,” Bader said. “Sometimes, I think, especially in the circles I’m in, you think everybody knows about Isaiah 117, but that’s not the truth. One of the purposes is to raise awareness and let people know what we do as a ministry.”
The lemonade stands will continue to operate through the evening of July 16.
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DELTONA, Fla. – A 29-year-old Cocoa Beach man accused of portraying himself as a minor online to have sex with a 12-year-old girl was arrested Saturday by Volusia County deputies after a detective reportedly assumed a false identity of their own to lure him in.
Brandon Donato was handcuffed around 10:15 p.m., having been met with law enforcement in a Deltona parking lot that he drove to under pretenses he would be meeting the young victim to have sex with her for a third time, the sheriff’s office said in a news release. Those pretenses were influenced by undercover investigators within the sheriff’s office when a detective took the girl’s place Saturday in an ongoing conversation she and Donato were having on Instagram, the release states.
The two had met on a different app called “Wink,” what the sheriff’s office referenced as “a social networking and friendship app for kids 13 and up that has been described as ‘Tinder for teens,’” according to the release. The girl told detectives that she thought she was chatting with a 17-year-old named Brandon Smith.
Investigators said they were made aware of Donato on Friday after the girl’s family found out she had shared videos from her phone of sex acts with the 29-year-old. Further review of the girl’s phone revealed the conversation and “an ongoing series of sexually explicit messages and descriptions of what they’d done” contained therein, the sheriff’s office said.
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Also seen in the messages was Donato’s interest in meeting again with the 12-year-old, following two previous rendezvous July 10 and 12 which investigators tied Donato to via the victim’s statements and county license plate readers, according to the release. The detective who assumed the victim’s place in the conversation arranged for that third meeting, as Donato was led to believe, the sheriff’s office said.
Multiple deputies, detectives and at least one K-9 unit were waiting for Donato’s arrival, as seen on body-camera video of the 29-year-old’s arrest that the sheriff’s office has since made public.
Donato was booked just after midnight and faces charges of showing obscene material to a minor, promoting the sexual performance of a child, using a computer to solicit a child, traveling to meet after using a computer to solicit a child, unlawful use of a two-way communication device to facilitate a felony and two counts of lewd or lascivious battery on a child. He’s being held on $350,000 bond at the Volusia County Branch Jail, records show.
Sheriff Mike Chitwood in a statement encouraged all parents and guardians of children to closely monitor their wards’ online activities.
“Today, thanks to the quick work of everyone involved in this case, there’s one less predator out there exploiting the same apps our kids use,” Chitwood said. “Unfortunately there are many more waiting for their own opportunity. Everyone should take the time and make the effort to protect our kids from predators who want to steal their childhood.”
The news release included a link to a list of social media and networking apps popular with children on ProtectYoungEyes.com, as well as links to sheriff’s office safety guides, such as one for sexual abuse prevention curricula.
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TEXAS, USA — Two lucky ticketholders in Texas are waking up with fuller pockets after Saturday night's Powerball drawing.
While there were no winners of the Powerball jackpot, which was at $875 million, two tickets in Texas claimed $1 million after matching all five winning numbers without the Powerball.
According to the Texas Lottery, one of the tickets was sold at the Exxon gas station on Clay Road in Katy. The other was sold at a Circle K gas station on Eldorado Parkway in the Frisco area. Another ticket worth $1 million was sold in Colorado.
Saturday's winning numbers were 2-9-43-55-57, Powerball 18 and PowerPlay 2X.
Since no one won Saturday's jackpot, the prize for Monday sits at an estimated $900 million, which would yield a $465.1 million cash option. it's the third-highest prize in Powerball history.
More than $1.5 billion is up for grabs between the estimated Powerball jackpot and the Mega Millions jackpot. Mega Million has not had a winner since April 18, while Powerball hasn't had a jackpot winner since April 19.
Back in May, another Houstonian won $1 million playing Powerball after buying a ticket at a Kroger near Jersey Village.
When is the Powerball drawing?
The Powerball drawing takes place live at 10:59 p.m. Eastern every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Tickets, which cost $2 per play, are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
What are my chances of winning the Powerball?
The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are one in 292.2 million.
Over the past few years, huge lottery jackpots have become more common as lottery officials have changed the rules and ticket prices to boost top prizes.
Powerball's biggest change came in 2021 when officials decided to add a Monday drawing to its weekly lineup of Wednesday and Saturday evening drawings. At the time of the announcement, Powerball proclaimed the addition of the Monday drawing would lead to "larger, faster-growing jackpots."
Powerball is played in 45 states, as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
What are the largest Powerball jackpots?
- $2.04 Billion – Nov. 7, 2022 – CA
- $1.586 Billion – Jan. 13, 2016 – CA, FL, TN
- $857 million (est.) - July 15, 2023
- $768.4 Million – March 27, 2019 – WI
- $758.7 Million – Aug. 23, 2017 – MA
- $754.6 Million – Feb. 6, 2023 - WA
- $731.1 Million – Jan. 20, 2021 – MD
- $699.8 Million – Oct. 4, 2021 – CA
- $687.8 Million – Oct. 27, 2018 – IA, NY
- $632.6 Million – Jan. 5, 2022 – CA, WI
What are the largest US lottery jackpots ever won?
- $2.04 billion, Powerball, Nov. 8, 2022 (one ticket, from California)
- $1.586 billion, Powerball, Jan. 13, 2016 (three tickets, from California, Florida, Tennessee)
- $1.537 billion, Mega Millions, Oct. 23, 2018 (one ticket, from South Carolina)
- $1.35 billion Mega Millions, Jan. 13, 2023 (one ticket, from Maine)
- $1.337 billion, Mega Millions, July 29, 2022 (one ticket, from Illinois)
- $1.05 billion, Mega Millions, Jan. 22, 2021 (one ticket, from Michigan)
- $768.4 million, Powerball, March 27, 2019 (one ticket, from Wisconsin)
- $758.7 million, Powerball, Aug. 23, 2017 (one ticket, from Massachusetts)
- $731.1 million, Powerball, Jan. 20, 2021 (one ticket, from Maryland)
- $699.8 million, Powerball, Oct. 4, 2021 (one ticket, from California)
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HAZEL GREEN, Ala. — HAZEL GREEN, Ala. (AP) — Before starting college, Taylor Mohead had never been outside her hometown of Houston, Texas. Now, the recent Tuskegee University graduate is trekking around trees in Hazel Green, Alabama, in fire gear and sweltering heat.
The U.S. Forest Service intern is among 20 students from historically Black colleges or universities who are participating in a prescribed burn demonstration under instructors' supervision. They clear paths, light fires and make sure the embers are out when they're done. It’s part of an apprenticeship program that will give them the credentials to hit the ground running toward a fire line.
It’s a grueling way to spend summer break, but Mohead is relishing it. She never pictured herself fighting forest fires.
“Look at me. I’m really small. I’m really short. And then being a woman of color, that’s something, too. I feel like that’s more inspiring," Mohead said, grinning. “I got goosebumps right now.”
The on-site fire academy is part of the 1890 Land Grant Institution Wildland Fire Consortium, a partnership between the U.S. Forest Service and a cluster of HBCUs comprised of Florida A&M University, Southern University in Louisiana, Tuskegee University and Alabama A&M University.
The recruitment effort comes as wildfire season around the U.S. grows due to climate change and minorities remain underrepresented in forestry and firefighting. The number of wildfires this year is below the 10-year average, but hot and dry conditions are raising the risk, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
The idea for a consortium came during the pandemic to address a “mission critical area of the Forest Service,” said Stephanie Love, the USDA Forest Service’s national diversity student programs manager and an Alabama A&M alum. The initiative became official in 2021.
“These four HBCUs have some of the top agricultural programs at HBCUs in the nation. So, it just makes sense to align our efforts and move together in the same direction,” Love said. “We’re trying to create a pipeline of students who are pursuing this natural resources education and forestry and fire.”
The hope is every student comes away with a foundation to chart one of many possible paths in forestry, ecology, agriculture or firefighting.
The consortium is building on top of a decadeslong relationship between Alabama A&M and the Forest Service. A USDA Forest Service Center of Excellence in Forestry was created at the school in 1993 to prepare students for jobs with the agency.
The Bulldogs established a nationally accredited firefighting team in 2009 made of students, called the FireDawgs. When class isn't in session, the FireDawgs are dispatched to wildfires or burn operations around the country.
The development programs that have come out of the Alabama-Forest Service collaboration are responsible for training two-thirds of Black foresters in the federal agency, said Love, who was in the first FireDawgs squad.
Diversity among the Forest Service's wildland firefighters has increased by 20% in the last decade, according to data collected by the agency. It has approximately 13,000 employees including firefighters and other staff who respond to wildfires. Between July 2010 and July 2022, white staffers fell from 86% to 66%.
Black fire personnel have remained mostly around 1.3%. Black women make up around 0.5%. Hispanics make up 12%, and Native Americans/Alaska Natives and Asians linger around 3% and 1%, respectively. Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders make up less than 1%.
The dearth of applicants of color may partly be due to a lack of awareness. They are not often encouraged to consider firefighting by guidance counselors or recruiters, said Terry Baker, CEO of the Society of American Foresters and its first Black leader. There also is a misconception that working outdoors isn't highly technical or doesn't require skill, he said.
Once students decide to study forestry or related fields, retaining them becomes the next challenge. Love said the Forest Service and HBCUs ensure there are mentorships, scholarships and internships.
Bradley Massey, an Alabama A&M junior and president of the school's forestry club, said the school sparked a passion he was missing. Massey said he was a student at Auburn University of Montgomery when he lost focus, working in retail back home in Huntsville before enrolling in Alabama A&M in 2021.
“As the school year progressed, that’s when more information about the FireDawgs presented itself,” Massey said in between running around in fire gear. “I wanted to just have experience and be able to make the most out of my college experience because I wasn’t just going back for fun. I was going back for a purpose.”
He has since accomplished feats like passing several firefighter work capacity tests including walking 3 miles (5 kilometers) in under 45 minutes while carrying a 45-pound (20-kilogram) pack. In October, he traveled to a conference in Boise, Idaho, where he went on field trips and talked with fire professionals and students from around the nation.
“I didn’t want to leave,” Massey said. “It was like going into Comic-Con and seeing all the cool stuff and just wanting to take many pictures ... I feel like it has helped me a lot in my career now."
Baker, of the Society of American Foresters, said the need for more firefighters will only increase as wildfires intensify with worsening climate change and droughts.
“If we’re going to meet these challenges, we’re going to have to have everyone,” Baker said. “What does that mean to a profession that has been primarily white male?”
Black firefighters can feel intimidated and isolated in the field when they parachute into fires in predominately white communities or don’t have other crew members of color around them, Baker said. He recalled fire scenes where “people became comfortable enough to openly say I was the first Black person they’ve ever met in real life that they didn’t see on TV.”
The current crop of students says it has been reassuring to meet HBCU alumni who have gone on to become fire or forestry professionals, noting there is something special about being in the field surrounded by classmates turned crew who look like them.
“It makes you more willing to go out there," Mohead said. "If you hit a road stop or obstacle, you have someone on your left who's probably been through it.”
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MITCHELL — The city’s wetland project along Firesteel Creek is on the horizon.
The Mitchell City Council will consider awarding a bid for the construction of the wetland project at Monday’s meeting, which begins at 6 p.m. at City Hall.
City officials are recommending Whiskeyboard Construction’s $583,997 bid to lead the project, pending approval from the state’s Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The roughly 35-acre wetland will be built on the former Kelley property that the city purchased in 2019, which sits about 2 miles west of Lake Mitchell.
According to Public Works Director Joe Schroeder’s memo in the council agenda, construction is set to begin in August 2024 and wrap up by November 2024. Ducks Unlimited recently completed the design of the wetland, which allowed the project to enter the bidding stages.
As part of the design, cattails will be planted in the wetlands to filter out phosphorus and runoff flowing toward Lake Mitchell. The high loads of phosphorus that funnel into the lake via Firesteel Creek is a key contributor to the lake’s long history of algae woes. City leaders’ goal of the wetland is to drastically reduce the phosphorus and sediment before reaching the lake.
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Firesteel Creek sits in a watershed that spans 350,000 acres, which collects around 900 parts per billion of phosphorus each year. Previous studies on the lake found that roughly 53 percent of the phosphorus and sediment entering the lake is coming in from Firesteel Creek, while 47 percent of it is in the lake itself.
There were 10 bids submitted for the project, and Whiskeyboard Construction’s bid was the lowest bid. Three bids came in at just over $1 million. Bids opened on July 10. Whiskeyboard Construction is based out of Oshkosh, Nebraska.
While city leaders have been focused on advancing a proposed Lake Mitchell dredging project, the wetland and continued work in the watershed is viewed by some city council members as vital steps before taking on a multimillion-dollar dredging project.
The city’s mission of working with landowners in the Firesteel watershed to reduce creek runoff received a big boost a few years ago from the $1.1 million North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) grant. Steve Donovan, a biologist and former manager of conservation programs with Ducks Unlimited, is administering the grant and has created 29 new acres of wetlands, according to city officials.
The grant has paid out roughly $174,000, city officials say.
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DURHAM, Maine — A barn used as a garage in Durham is a "complete loss" after a three-alarm fire tore through the structure overnight.
Durham fire and automatic aid units were called to the fire shortly after midnight Sunday for a report about a possible structure fire on Meadow Road.
"Crews faced a large volume of fire emanating from the barn/garage and threatening to catch the residence on fire," Durham fire said Sunday in a news release on their Facebook page. "Crews were able to prevent the fire spread to the residence, limiting damage to siding and exterior windows."
The garage was a complete loss.
According to the release, two members of the fire department were brought to Mid Coast Hospital to be treated for "exhaustion related illness," and both have been released. A third person identified as a mutual aid firefighter was evaluated at the scene by emergency medical crews and released.
No injuries were reported by residents or bystanders.
An investigation into the cause of the fire is being conducted by the Maine state fire marshal's office.
The Durham Fire Department was aided by Lisbon Fire Department, Brunswick Fire Department, Freeport Fire Rescue, Pownal Fire and Rescue, New Gloucester Fire and Rescue, Auburn Fire Department, Lewiston Fire Department, Yarmouth Fire Rescue, North Yarmouth Fire Rescue, and United Ambulance Service.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Gender reveals are where families get choked up thinking about their new addition. But how about just choking?
Eight-year-old Adler Theobald answers in a video that's amassed 15.9 million views.
“That's more than I can count to," said Adler.
Peg and Nick Theobald are expecting again. They’re parents of two, Adler and 10-year-old Everson.
“Maybe we just make boys," said Peg.
Or maybe, third time’s the charm.
“Deep down I really, really, really wanted a girl," she said.
“Since she was a little girl, she’s been saving clothes for a little girl," said Nick.
They gathered cupcakes with pink or blue frosting on the inside to capture the sweet moment, and started the video camera.
As they bit into them, they saw pink.
“I think I was basically wailing," laughed Peg.
It was a surprise that left them breathless — literally.
Amid the family's celebration, Adler was laughing with a mouthful of cupcake when he breathed in crumbs, causing an intense coughing fit.
Ironically, in the middle of her happy tears, Peg says "I can't breathe," while Adler stares into the camera and hacks.
“Normally, I’m pretty in tune with what's happening to my kids," she said. "I was so unaware of Adler."
Despite a lack of air, they’ll savor the memory (and the cupcake.)
“After that, I kept on, like, eating," said Adler.
“Even though he was choking," said Everson.
In the game of life, this family of four aas a fifth player waiting her turn.
“If she understanded me right away, I’d probably just tell her that I really love her," said Everson.
“Yeah," agreed Adler.
Choked up or just plain choking, they can’t wait to deal her in.
“I’m getting to meet her finally, this person I’ve been waiting for my whole life," said Peg through tears.
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LAKELAND, Fla. — Eight people were taken to the hospital Friday night after a semi-truck and an Amtrak train collided in Lakeland, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said.
The semi-truck hauling seven cars became stuck on a train track at Canal Avenue North, just south of US 92, authorities said in an update Saturday.
As the semi's trailer became stuck, Amtrak Train 92 — which had just left Lakeland Amtrak station on a Miami to New York trip — was approaching Canal Avenue north going 78 mph, authorities said.
The train's engineer, Ronald Webb, saw the semi-truck and began blowing the horn.
The sheriff's office said the crossing arms and lights became activated and began to impact the truck's trailer. Deputies said the truck driver, Walberto Carrazana Bermudez, and his passenger, Jose Luis Lahera Vidal, both jumped out of the semi before the collision.
Authorities said after the train and semi collided, the train kept going for about 200 yards before coming to a complete stop. The front portion of the lead engine derailed and a small amount of diesel fuel leaked, the sheriff's office said.
The train was carrying 163 passengers and 10 crew members. They were all transported to another place to stay until they can be taken back to Tampa.
Eight people were treated for minor injuries at Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center and are expected to be OK, fire officials said in a news conference Friday evening. There were no other reported injuries.
"It is truly a miracle that nobody was seriously hurt in this crash," Sheriff Grady Judd said in a statement. "A collision between a passenger train and a semi-truck could have been much worse. Our sympathies are with those who were injured. I don't think I could say enough about the incredible response and total team effort by all of the agencies involved."
The semi-truck driver was issued a citation for insufficient clearance at a railroad crossing.
Initial estimates provided by officials indicate damages to the train, tracks, CSX property, cost of cleanup and losses due to track downtime is estimated to be between $6 and 10 million.
US 92 and Canal Avenue North were closed for approximately ten hours. First responders worked overnight to get the train moving again.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A downtown McMenamins restaurant has renamed itself to commemorate a late employee whose influence made the space what it was.
According to the family-owned company, Mike and Mary Alice McMenamin first met Hal Finkelstein when he served as the general manager of Wildwood, a local eatery that opened in 1994.
Between Wildwood’s closing in 2010 and Zeus Café’s launch in 2011, Finkelstein was brought onto the McMenamins team as the restaurant’s manager.
“Hal brought a new ethos to McMenamins: His restaurant background was more of a fine dining style than much of what we had done to that point, and at the same time, he brought genuine warmth without a stuffy attitude,” the company said.
McMenamins remembered Finkelstein for his infectious team spirit and positivity, and says those traits didn’t go away when he got sick.
“He lost his sense of taste, but typical of Hal’s positivity, he continued to say, ‘When I get my taste buds back we’re going to have a feast!’ He declined chemo in the hope that he would regain his health, especially his taste and ability to walk, but it wasn’t to be,” McMenamins said.
According to the company, his wife Geri Ota rearranged the bedroom so he could still view the sunsets up to his death in January 2022.
As of this summer, the former Zeus Café is now called Hal’s Café in honor of the late manager.
Along with the name change, the restaurant that serves breakfast, lunch and dinner has updated its menu. The new offerings include “Hal’s Favorite” smoked steelhead benedict, a fried chicken sandwich with kimchi, and chicken and waffles topped with “piped pepper hot maple honey.”
Other menu items include spicy tuna tartare, deluxe burgers and short ribs.
The menu also features wines, ciders and a select few brunch cocktails for the daily brunch that runs from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The updated Hal’s Café is located within Downtown Portland’s Crystal Hotel at 303 SW 12th Ave. When visiting, guests will see a painted portrait of the restaurant’s namesake.
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DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. — State police say a 78-year-old man died early Saturday after crashing his motorcycle.
Clair L. Spicher was pronounced dead at the scene by the Dauphin County Coroner's Office.
Police say Spicher was traveling west on Powells Valley Road in Halifax Township when he lost control on a curve.
Spicher went off the road, struck a reflective marker, a small bush, and finally a traffic sign.
Police say he was thrown off his motorcycle when he hit the traffic sign and ended up under the motorcycle.
Police say, that although Spicher was wearing "protective equipment", he ultimately suffered fatal injuries.
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Carly Mikula, a 17-year-old graduate of Harborside Academy in Kenosha, found out she was going to the Jimmy Awards in New York City when she was with her voice teacher at Kopp’s Frozen Custard in Milwaukee.
“They called me and I started screaming in the restaurant, so it was kind of embarrassing,” Mikula said. “There were tears in my eyes. It was the coolest thing ever.”
She was eventually chosen as a semifinalist at the Jimmy Awards following the competition in New York City.
The Jimmys are a national high school musical theatre award program. She was selected to audition for the Jimmys after competing in the Wisconsin Jerry Awards for outstanding lead performance in the productions of “Mean Girls” and “Chicago.”
Mikula had been preparing for her potential Jimmy Award audition all year. She said she’s been wanting to go to the Jimmys for “as long as I can remember.”
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“I remember the medleys from when I was a kid,” Mikula said. “I really set going to the Jimmys as a goal that I really, really wanted to accomplish. So I worked really hard throughout the year.”
At the Jimmys, she said they prepped all week for the opening and closing number that everyone participated in and then either a medley or musical number depending what they’re cast in. Mikula was chosen to be in a musical number that was a tribute to Shakespeare musicals.
“It’s not based off whoever is going to win in the medleys, so they cast you depending on what they think you fit best in,” Mikula said.
Mikula said they also broke participants into smaller groups to work with Broadway professionals to workshop a song.
“They make it the best they can and then at the end of the week we get to perform it to a panel of judges. They are the biggest casting directors and people on Broadway,” Mikula said.
After her performance she was chosen as one of 16 named as semifinalists.
“I was not expecting to be a semifinalist or anything, so being called up there was special,” Mikula said. “The competition didn’t even matter for me, it was more just celebrating everybody there.”
She said everybody at the Jimmys was “insanely talented.” She said everybody there could have won in her opinion.
“These people are all so talented that I was screaming for them,” Mikula said.
Her favorite part of the awards was when they went to Times Square after “intense rehearsals.” At Times Square, she said she saw her name on a Broadway marquee and her headshot on the billboard next to it.
She said it was “amazing” to walk up and perform on a Broadway stage, adding her entire experience at the Jimmy Awards was “surreal.” Since she wants to be on Broadway when she’s older, she said performing at the Jimmys was a “cool little parallel” that she was hoping would happen.
In the fall, Mikula will be attending Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina and will be majoring in musical theater. After college, she plans to move to New York City and hoping to “get booked.”
“It (The Jimmy Awards) was the best experience of my life,” Mikula said.
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Mayor Brandon Scott announced a new agency being that's being added to his office.
The Mayor's Office of Small and Minority Business Advocacy & Development will consolidate the functions of the former Mayor's Office of Minority and Women-Owned Business Development with the Minority and Women's Business Opportunity Office.
The agency will serve as a resource hub for small and minority businesses, providing them with support, guidance and opportunities.
“I’m proud to launch this new enhancement to city government, which will serve as a catalyst for positive change and opportunities for small and minority and women-owned businesses,” said Mayor Scott. “By providing specialized resources and support, we aim to create a level playing field where women and minority-owned small businesses can thrive, contribute to our local economy, and play an integral role in our city’s success. Baltimore’s small, minority-and women-owned businesses have always been part of the engine for the City’s economic growth and this will be another spark that keeps that engine moving.”
Christoper R. Lundy, Esquire, was named as the inaugural director of the agency.
Lundy will oversee the integration of the former business opportunity office and the minority owned business initiatives.
“This underscores the city’s dedication to fostering an inclusive and vibrant business community,” said Director Lundy. “By combining our efforts, as a city, we are taking a significant step forward in promoting economic equity and creating an environment where all businesses can thrive and I am looking forward to leading the charge.”
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GREENSBORO — A man is facing charges after exchanging gunfire with police, authorities said.
Jaquan Singleton, 25, is charged with seven counts of assault with a firearm on a law enforcement official and discharging a firearm within city limits among other offenses, police said.
The incident occurred just after 1 p.m. Friday in the 5200 block of Fox Hunt Drive. Guilford Metro 911 received calls that a man with a gun in each hand was firing shots outside of a leasing office at The Madison at Adams Farm apartment complex.
When officers arrived, they found Singleton.
Moments later, he fired toward the officers. One officer returned fire, but didn't strike Singleton.
Singleton then ran into an apartment and barricaded the door, but surrendered almost two hours later.
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Investigators believe Singleton lives in the apartment complex. It's unknown what precipitated the incident.
The Greensboro Police Department's professional standards division will investigate the incident to determine if officers followed its policies. The officer who fired at Singleton was placed on administrative duty.
Police didn't identify that officer.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — The new school year is just around the corner!
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Students are not the only ones getting ready to back to school but parents as well.
Notebooks, pencils, and backpacks are shopping essentials for this season.
Still, parents are also beginning to plan their children’s lunchbox meals and snacks.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) encouraged families to prevent foodborne illness by following safe food handling practices at home during meal preparation and when packing a school lunch.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that foodborne illness results in roughly 48 million people getting sick, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths in the U.S. annually.
Here are nine tips to get an A+ in food safety for this season:
- Use colored cutting boards for meats and veggies.
- Always wash your hands and surfaces; germs that cause food poisoning can survive in many places.
- Wash your cutting boards, utensils, and counters with hot soapy water.
- Separate food to avoid contamination: The CDC said raw meat, chicken and other poultry, seafood, and eggs can spread germs to ready-to-eat food unless you keep them separate.
- Use a food thermometer to ensure you are cooking at the proper temperature.
- Put food in the fridge right away: Bacteria can multiply if left at room temperature; refrigerate perishable food (meat, seafood, dairy, cut fruit, some vegetables, and cooked leftovers) within two hours.
- Thaw frozen foods correctly: Thaw in the refrigerator, run under cold water, or use your microwave.
- Consider purchasing insulated soft-sided lunch boxes and gel packs.
- Choose thinner dishrags instead of sponges because they can better dry between uses. Wash dirty dishrags and towels often.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — While the Pride wraps up a two-week break, plenty of Pride international players are preparing to play in the 2023 World Cup.
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Before going on break, the Orlando Pride beat the OL Reign 1-0 at Exploria Stadium on July 7.
Rookie Messiah Bright had the game winning goal and was voted NWSL Player of the Week.
The Pride will return home on Sunday, July 23, in a Challenge Cup game against NY/NJ Gotham FC.
The Brazilian trio of Marta, Adrianna, and Rafaelle played a warmup friendly against Chile on July 2 before they traveled to Australia for their first World Cup match against Panama on July 2, 7 a.m. EST.
Along with Panama, Brazil’s group includes France and Jamaica.
France expects to make it out of Group F along with Brazil.
In 2019, France lost their bid to win on home soil when the U.S. women’s national team knocked France out in the quarter-finals 2-1.
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Brazil will face France on July 29, 6 a.m. EST.
Jamaica and Brazil will face off in back-to-back World Cups after playing each other in 2019. Brazil won that game 3-0 but failed to make it out of the group stage.
Brazil will face Jamaica on Aug. 2, 6 a.m. EST to wrap up group play.
The most recent signing, Argentina’s Mariana Larroquette, scored in the 17-minute of a friendly with Peru Friday night in a 4-0 win. Argentina heads to New Zealand for their opening World Cup match against Italy on July 24, 2 a.m. EST.
Argentina will play in Group G with Italy, South Africa, and Sweden.
Argentina and South Africa did not make it out of the group stage in 2019.
Italy made it to the quarter-finals in 2019 but lost to the Netherlands. A Netherlands team that also beat Sweden in the semi-finals before eventually moving on to beat the USWNT in the finals to win the 2019 World Cup.
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Argentina plays South Africa on July 27, 8 a.m. EST and Sweden on Aug. 2, 3 a.m. EST.
Group stages end on Aug. 3, with the championship game on Aug. 20.
Depending on how Brazil and Argentina do in the World Cup, once the tournament is over, the Orlando Pride will need to work on adding Mariana Larroquette and Rafaelle into the squad.
The earliest the new additions could be in the lineup is Aug. 9, an away match against Gotham FC, but the Aug. 20 home game against the Chicago Fire is more likely.
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As the driver careened the stagecoach down a barely perceptible trail, bouncing from rock to rock trying to avoid massive boulders lining the dusty highway, his face turned the color and consistency of sandpaper while his hair and eyebrows sported a coat of fine silt. If he had kept his mouth closed, he might have avoided the gritty taste of dirt tossed up by the coach’s horses but the man was a talker, regaling his passengers with tales of wanton cowboys who lay in wait to rob those daring to enter the territory.
The passengers listened with trepidation to the yarns that spewed from the man’s parched lips and he could barely hide his grin when he turned to see their horrified expressions. It was an unnerving 12-hour ride that the driver made daily, enjoying his reign of terror over tender-footed newcomers.
Arriving in Tombstone, the passengers plummeted out of the coach, a little unsteady on their feet after so many hours of sitting. Most were men and the majority had come to this desert wilderness seeking their fortunes in the silver mines that had opened a few years earlier. Just before the stage driver climbed back into his seat ready to head to the horse barn, out stepped a petite, attractive young woman.
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Samantha Fallon nimbly jumped from the coach, made a futile attempt to brush the dust from her clothing, adjusted her feathery hat, grabbed her bag, and scanned the town.
This was not her first trip to Tombstone although records do not indicate when Samantha first arrived in Arizona and she often gave conflicting dates concerning her whereabouts, her properties, and her husbands.
Born in Canada on Aug. 14, 1857, Samantha Elizabeth Steinhoff had shed one husband by the time she arrived on Tombstone’s streets. She may have left Mr. Fallon back in California although no record has emerged of their marriage.
On Oct. 9, 1879, Samantha purchased a couple of lots on the corner of Tombstone’s Fremont and Fifth Street with the idea of building a boardinghouse. That December she sold a portion of one of the lots, probably to obtain additional funds, but she still did not have enough money to finish the project. She started looking around for other sources of income.
Still in her 20s, Samantha enjoyed the attention of many of the town’s eligible men, including Tombstone founder Ed Schieffelin. According to Samantha, Ed refused to marry her because she would not settle for just one man in her life. But he was willing to loan her what she needed to complete her boardinghouse.
By June 1880, Samantha’s San Jose House was up and running, one of the first establishments built in Tombstone to accommodate overnight visitors and long-term boarders. The 12-room hotel rarely had a vacant room.
The boardinghouse soon became known as one of the best meeting spots in town. Samantha often hosted fund-raising dinners for the Methodist church and held auctions that advertised for sale an assortment of items. Lace, corsets, socks, and hats were among the articles on the auction block.
Boasting that the son of former U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses S. "Buck" Grant II, sometimes roomed at her establishment, Samantha also housed her share of those who frequented the rougher side of Tombstone.
According to lawman Wyatt Earp, he “used to take my prisoners down to the San Jose room house. They had no jail in Tombstone at that time. That was before the county was divided. It was all Pima County and we had to take our prisoners to Tucson. In holding them in Tombstone I used to get a room in the San Jose and put a guard over them.”
The bustle of activity at the San Jose House, along with Samantha’s proclivity for a lively social life, led many in town to assume her establishment might actually be a bordello with Samantha another of the local madams, but those rumors were never proven. And when she married local livery stable owner Zachary Hugh Taylor on Dec. 14, 1880, her standing in the community greatly improved.
“The wedding was very quiet,” according to the writeup in the Arizona Weekly Citizen, “only the most intimate friends of the couple being present. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor left immediately after the wedding in a four-in-hand private carriage for Benson, where they took the train for San Francisco and the East.”
In 1882, Samantha added a conservatory at the rear of the San Jose. According to the Tombstone Epitaph, “The flower beds, which are well stocked with choice plants, are tastefully arranged around the sides of the edifice, while the center is occupied by a low fountain — which, if the lady’s botanical efforts are crowned with success, will in the near future ‘gush forth in the midst of roses.’ This is one of the first experiments of the kind ever tried in Tombstone, and Mrs. Taylor deserves much credit for her enterprise and skill in projecting it.”
The exact date Samantha sold the San Jose House is speculative. She claimed she sold the property to a Mrs. Williams in 1909 but a Mrs. Gallen declared she bought the place in 1907. By then, Samantha had left Tombstone and eventually settled in Glendale, California, where she again established herself as a landlady by renting out rooms in her home. When she was hard up for money, she would rent her own bedroom and sleep on a cot in the kitchen.
Samantha died in Glendale March 16, 1931, and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. She supposedly left behind a manuscript describing her days in Tombstone, detailing the events she witnessed as well as the people she knew who made the town famous and infamous. The manuscript has not been located.
Today, one can still spend the night at the San Jose House. If a woman in a feathery hat passes by your window, give her a nod. She knows things about the town no one will ever uncover.
Jan Cleere is the author of several historical nonfiction books about the early people of the Southwest. Email her at Jan@JanCleere.com. Website: www.JanCleere.com.
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PHOENIX — At least one appellate court judge appears ready to let Cochise County do a full hand count of its early ballots.
But not of those voted at polling places.
And if that draft opinion holds after the three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals hears arguments on Tuesday in Tucson, that would be a partial victory for Republicans who have argued, without evidence, that vote-counting machines are untrustworthy and only hand counts can produce accurate results.
It also would open the door for election officials in the state's other 14 counties to conduct expanded hand counts of all early ballots.
They are the vast majority of all ballots cast in the 2024 election, making up more than 80% of the 2.56 million votes for governor. And that could slow up final results.
The draft ruling is the latest in a legal fight that had the Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans, a labor group, sue Cochise County after it announced plans before the November election to hand count all ballots in addition to the machine count.
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A trial judge blocked the move. But the county appealed — even after the election was over — seeking permission for such hand counts going forward.
At the heart of the legal fight are two sections of state law that govern audits of election results.
One deals specifically with those cast on Election Day. That involves comparing the results reported by tabulators from at least 2 percent of the precincts for selected races with the results of a hand count.
If that is within a designated margin of error, that ends the matter. If not, a larger sample is selected for review.
A discrepancy in that results in an even larger sample. And only if that is outside the designated margin can the county do a full hand count of all Election Day ballots — but only for the race at issue.
Attorneys for the Republican supervisors and County Recorder David Stevens sought before the November election to do a full hand count, arguing that 2 percent is a floor, permitting them to decide to do more.
"We disagree,'' the draft opinion states.
"When (the law) is reviewed as a whole, a complete hand count audit is permitted only after a multi-step process that includes conducting the less-expansive audits,'' it states. "Interpreting (the law) to allow a county to begin with a full hand count audit would render the statute's multi-step process superfluous.''
That determination, if adopted by the three-judge panel after Tuesday's hearing, conforms with a ruling right before the November election by Pima County Superior Court Judge Casey McGinley.
But the draft opinion also concludes that McGinley was wrong in interpreting a separate section of law dealing with early ballots and barring the county from doing a full hand-count of approximately 30,000 early ballots.
That law says the county is required to conduct a hand count of 1% of the total number of early ballots cast, or 5,000 early ballots, whichever is less. But it also says that counties "may elect to audit a higher number of ballots at their discretion.''
And there is similar language in the Elections Procedures Manual which is prepared by the secretary of state and has the force of law.
"We interpret the language of (the law) to represent minimum and not maximum requirements for a hand count audit of early ballots,'' the draft opinion states. "As a result, the county possesses the discretion to conduct a hand count audit of all early ballots in the first instance.''
The push for hand counts is the result of wild and unsubstantiated allegations, largely by Republicans, that voting equipment used in the 2020, the one lost by Donald Trump, was vulnerable to hacking. There even were claims of a link between Dominion Voting Systems and the family of now-deceased Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.
More recently Republicans Kari Lake and Mark Finchem filed suit before they lost their 2022 races for governor and secretary of state, respectively, seeking to prohibit machine counts as being inherently unreliable. That bid was tossed out by a federal judge and the case is now on appeal.
That same pattern emerged in Cochise County.
It was Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd, the two Republicans on the Cochise board, who wanted expanded hand counts.
Crosby argued that a full hand count would "enhance voter confidence,'' saying it could be completed prior to the deadline to certify the election results.
They were backed by Stevens, who also is a Republican.
The move was fought by Ann English, the lone Democratic supervisor.
But it wasn't a strictly partisan fight.
The 2-1 vote to pursue a full hand count came even after County Attorney Brian McIntyre, a Republican, advised otherwise.
"I implore you not to attempt to order this separate hand county," he told the board, warning that the action would be illegal and potentially subject the supervisors to personal liability.
It also was opposed by Lisa Marra, the county's elections director who testified at the initial trial about how it could delay results and imperil ballot security.
Marra eventually quit, saying she effectively was pressured by the GOP supervisors to participate in the hand count of the 2022 election. She eventually got a $130,000 settlement after complaining of a toxic work environment.
The draft opinion also brushes aside claims that the appellate court should not even review McGinley's pre-election ruling as the race is now over. Instead, it concludes that a ruling is appropriate given that the situation is likely to recur.
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GRAPEVINE, Texas — The Dive & Rescue Team under Grapevine's Fire Department (GFD) has recovered the body of a man who reportedly drowned in Grapevine Lake on Friday.
According to a city official, the fire department responded to a lake rescue call at about 4:30 p.m. on July 14.
The Flower Mound Fire Department and a Texas Parks and Wildlife Game Warden joined GFD in conducting sonar searches until just after sunset on Friday.
The missing man was said to be in his 50s. Officials say he was at the lake with friends and family when he dove into the water and did not return to the boat.
The man's body was reported to be found shortly after 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 15.
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SEATTLE — If you want to help paint a giant mural in Seattle, the Museum of Flight wants your help.
On Saturday, July 22, a gray exterior of the Archives building that is seen as you walk up to the museum, will be painted.
The 18-foot by 125-foot wall will feature an original design by artist Esmerelda Vasquez. Her design is inspired by the museum’s collection and the concept of flight. The mural will be outlined in paint-by-numbers style so participants will be able to easily fill in the colors.
The community mural project will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the museum’s West Campus. Attendees can expect live music and food trucks.
Registration is required to be a painter, and all registered painters will receive complimentary museum admission.
A parent or guardian must sign up for participants under the age of 18. Anyone younger than 18 needs a parent or guardian present at the event.
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EAGLE PASS, Texas — This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune.
Mexico’s incoming secretary of foreign affairs, Alicia Bárcena, said Friday that Texas’ deployment of buoys on the Texas-Mexico border to prevent migrants from crossing the Rio Grande are a violation of water treaties between the U.S. and Mexico.
Bárcena told reporters that the Mexican government sent a diplomatic letter to the U.S. on June 26 stating the barriers are in violation of a 1944 water treaty, Reuters reported. The Associated Press reported Friday that Bárcena plans to send an inspection team to the Rio Grande to see if the barrier extends into Mexico's side of the border and if it impedes the flow of water, which would violate the treaty.
Texas has been installing the buoys over the past week, along with razor wire on the Rio Grande river near Eagle Pass.
Those measures are the latest in Gov. Greg Abbott’s aggressive border security initiative Operation Lone Star, which launched in March of 2021. Abbott has also deployed the Texas National Guard, built new sections of border wall and bused more than 20,000 migrants from Texas to big cities led by Democrats.
Abbott’s office didn’t immediately respond to an email from The Texas Tribune seeking comment on the diplomatic complaint. But in previous statements he has touted the buoys as an effective way of preventing illegal border crossings.
“We’re securing the border at the border,” he said in June when he announced the approach. “What these buoys will allow us to do is prevent people from getting to the border.”
The new barriers haven’t just ruffled diplomatic feathers. Jessie Fuentes, owner of Epi's Canoe & Kayak Team, an Eagle Pass-based Kayak rental business, filed a lawsuit against Abbott and the Texas Department of Public Safety. The lawsuit alleges the installation of a buoy system had harmed his business and that Abbott did not have the authority to regulate cross-border traffic.
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NORMAL — Urban Air Adventure Park is set to open at 301 S. Veterans Parkway in Normal. The company has signed a lease for space in the same building as Crunch Fitness at the Shoppes at College Hills.
The 37,821-square-foot indoor play area will be open seven days a week and offer activities like a Snapology Classroom, Spin/Flip, Laser Tag, Twist Tower, Adventure Hub, Sky Rider and more, according to a news release.
Urban Air will employ 60 local residents and will begin accepting applications soon, the release said.
Urban Air, founded in 2011, has more than 330 locations open or soon to open around the world. Other locations in Illinois are primarily in the Chicago area, including Naperville, Mokena, St. Charles, Bloomingdale, Rockford, Burbank, North Riverside, Crystal Lake, Glenview and Vernon Hills, as well as Fairview Heights in the Metro East.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Orange County mother Pamela Dunston is calling on parents to listen up.
She said her 5-year-old daughter Traviana was recently diagnosed with a rare, aggressive brain tumor called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), with her doctors only giving her a few months to live.
It’s a rare, pediatric brain tumor that doctors said needs more funding for research.
“As me being a parent, I just have to be strong for Traviana and spend these sweet memories with her,” Dunston said.
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Dunston is trying her best to keep it all together for her brave, smart and energetic daughter who loves to sing, dance and have a good time.
She said that back on April 1, doctors diagnosed Traviana with DIPG.
“My reaction when the doctors told me that, I broke down,” Dunston said. “I had a lot of questions about where it came from, what I did wrong. So, it’s nothing I did wrong, the doctor just told me it’s something that just happens.”
She said she rushed her daughter to Orlando Health when she realized something wasn’t right.
“She went to limping and I’m in the house like, ‘Girl, stop playing like that,’ and this whole time my baby was really suffering, and I didn’t know that,” Dunston said.
But, after a few tests, she got the horrifying news.
“They told us, ‘Your daughter has cancer and it’s called DIPG,’” Dunston said. “They said, ‘We give your daughter six months to live.’”
Dr. Avery Wright is a pediatric oncologist at Orlando Health. She said in general there’s a lack of funding for research regarding pediatric brain tumors, and for that reason, there really are no known underlying causes for DIPG.
“It is one of the worst things that can ever be diagnosed in a child,” Dr. Wright said. “DIPG, it happens in 1 in 100,000.”
She said parents should particularly look out for weakness or numbness in one side of their child’s body, adding DIPG affects kids usually between 6 and 9 years old in any community and that surgery to remove the tumor is not really an option.
“You can do some radiation, you suggest the family can choose to go to a clinical trial or not, and in the majority of the time patients end up surviving about 9 to 12 months after their diagnosis,” Dr. Wright said.
It’s a sad reality for this mother of three who is trying to beat the odds.
She’s set up a GoFundMe account for funds to help her travel to and take part in a pediatric trial at Baptist Health in Miami that she hopes will help at least shrink her daughter’s tumor. Visit the GoFundMe by clicking here.
“I want other parents to know, just be on the lookout for your kids,” Dunston said.
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PHOENIX — A motorcyclist was killed Saturday night in a collision near 29th Avenue and Indian School Road., Phoenix police said.
Officers were called to the scene around 8 p.m., for a report of a collision between a vehicle and a motorcyclist. They found an adult male rider with serious injuries. He was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead.
Police said there were multiple vehicles involved in the collision.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The Wichita Fire Department is investigating a house fire that happened Sunday morning in east Wichita.
The call for the fire came in around 11:40 a.m. at a house near the intersection of East 14th Street North and North Grove Street.
Upon arrival, WFD Battalion Chief Doug Winter says they were met with a moderate amount of smoke showing from a house that was boarded up.
“For the size of the structure, it was a decent fire size for that,” said Winter.
Winter says the department was able to force entry, find the fire and extinguish it.
The cause of the fire is currently under investigation.
No one was reported injured.
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James Lynn “Jim” Dusold
September 23, 1945-July 14, 2023
James Lynn “Jim” Dusold, 77, passed away on Friday, July 14, 2023, at the Sheffield Care Center.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 am on Tuesday, July 18, 2023, at Epiphany Parish - Holy Family Catholic Church, 722 N Adams Ave, Mason City, IA, with Celebrant Reverend Ben Valentine.
Visitation will be held Monday July 17, 2023, from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm with Scriptural Wake Service beginning at 6:00 pm at Hogan-Bremer-Moore Colonial Chapel, 126 3rd St NE, Mason City, Iowa.
Jim was born on September 23, 1945, in Tacoma, Washington, the son of Edward and Hedwig (Richter) Dusold. He was a graduate of Newman High School's Class of 1964. Jim worked for various automotive dealerships before his longtime career with Federal Express. In the early eighties Jim was proud to be the first employee Federal Express hired in Mason City. He later transferred to the Waterloo office until his retirement in 2005.
He and his family felt that being a father and grandfather was his greatest accomplishment. Jim was a Third Degree Knight of Columbus, in which he was committed to the annual tootsie roll drive that supported those with disabilities. He always had them with him and would pass them out to whomever he met. His great sense of humor and gentle presence will be missed by many.
Jim was able to make friends wherever he was. He often made conversation about his favorite things, especially the Philadelphia Phillies, Minnesota Vikings, and the Iowa Hawkeyes. He participated in golf, bowling, fishing, and pheasant hunting. In later years he enjoyed playing cards, making trips to the Casinos, and attending various sporting events with his children and grandchildren. He was an avid supporter and attendee of the Iowa Special Olympics Competitions.
Those left to cherish memories of Jim are his children, Kevin (Rachel) Dusold, Laura (Nick Smith) Dusold, Korin Dusold and Terra Dusold; grandchildren, Sarah and Kyle Dusold, and Jackson Johanns; sisters, Judy (Michael) Lickteig, and Patti (Brad) Peterson; special cousin, Barbara Nixt; nieces and nephews, Caroline (Carlyle) Engel, John (Kayla) Lickteig, Matthew (Jacklyn) Peterson, Abbey (Russ) Linville, and Whitney Kading; as well as numerous great-nieces and -nephews; and longtime friend, Jack Lang.
Jim was preceded in death by his parents, Edward and Heddie Dusold; as well as a great-niece, Amandalena Lickteig.
The family would like to give a special thanks to the staff at Deerfield Place Assisted Living and Sheffield Care Center for their great care and love they showed Jim during a difficult time.
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WATERLOO – Cedar Valley Thrift and Outreach Outlet is hosting a back-to-school clothing and shoe donation drive.
The drive runs from July 10 to Aug. 7. A parking lot party with a free meal, as well as a $1 clothing sale will be held on Saturday, Aug. 12 from noon to 4 p.m.
The organization is asking for people to donate gently used clothes and shoes for students from kindergarten to high school in order to prevent children from being bullied because of their clothing.
The store, located at 1109 East Fourth St. in Waterloo is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays and Saturdays, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Friday. It is closed Sunday and Monday.
Monetary donations can be sent via Cashapp to $karmintcv2. Anyone with questions can contact Karmin Teague at (319) 433-8893.
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TAMA — A federal grand jury has charged a Des Moines man in connection with a homemade gun found at the Tama casino in 2022.
The grand jury handed up an indictment charging Som Boun Cam with prohibited person in possession of ammunition and possession of an unregistered destructive device.
According to court records, Cam was at the Meskwaki Casino and Hotel on April 14, 2022, when he was taken to the hospital for unspecified reasons.
He allegedly left behind a bag in the casino. Inside the bag, officials found a homemade pistol capable of firing .410 shotgun shells, a glass pipe, cash and cards. Cam returned to the casino to pick up the bag on April 19, 2022, and police found three bags of meth in his coat pocket when he arrived.
He later pleaded to state drug charges in connection with the case.
Authorities allege Cam is prohibited from handling firearms because of prior convictions for federal drug charges in 1996 and gun charges in 2017 in Polk County.
Photos: Guns in Northeast Iowa crime cases
Evidence photo of the Ruger 9mm pistol used to kill Jada Young-Mills in Waterloo in November 2020.
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Evidence photo of the .44-caliber revolver used to shoot Jean Smith at her Dundee home in March 2009.
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Evidence photo shows a 9mm Taurus PT92F handgun found in a couch during the search of 122 W. Wellington St. in January 2021.
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Hi-Point C9 9mm handgun police seized from Marcus DeShawn Harmon-Wright in April 2020.
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Court exhibit photo shows a shortened .22-caliber Mossberg Plinkster rifle seized in May 2019 that had the fingerprints of Devonner Coleman.
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Court exhibit photo shows a shortened .22-caliber Mossberg Plinkster rifle and bags of marijuana seized in May 2019 that had the fingerprints of Devonner Coleman.
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A SIG Sauer pistol investigators found near a truck parked at Dan Niebuhr’s Fairbank home in March 2019.
A SIG Sauer pistol investigators found near a truck parked at Dan Niebuhr’s Fairbank home in March 2019.
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Police seized four handguns in connection with an investigation into three shootings on Tuesday, April 7, 2015
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Court exhibit photo shows military-style rifles, a handgun and ammo found in a trunk during a March 12, 2016, traffic stop in Charles City.
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Prosecutors allege Kyle Hattrup pointed this Mossberg shotgun at an officer who went to his home after Hattrup allegedly started a fire in his parents’ garage in 2015.
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Prosecutors allege Kyle Hattrup pointed this Mossberg shotgun at an officer who went to his home after Hattrup allegedly started a fire in his parents’ garage in 2015.
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One of five shotgun shells found in the street near where Gary Lee Wilson collapsed after being shot in the early morning hours of Aug. 2, 2014.
Police found a shotgun shell after responding to a report of gunfire in the area of Linn and Cottage streets on Thursday, June 4, 2015.
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Police seized a .40-caliber Glock pistol found in Steve William Fordyce’s pickup truck shortly after Donald Harrington was shot on Locust Street in August 2015.
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A pistol and magazine sit in a squad car after police found the weapon in the backyard of a home following gunfire on West Parker Street on Sunday.
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Evidence photo shows a .40-caliber Smith and Wesson pistol ATF agents found in an Elma home were Michael Duane Strain was living in 2011.
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Court exhibit of a .50-caliber Desert Eagle pistol found while searching Damon Montano’s RV in July 2018.
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Exhibit from government's sentencing memo shows photo of three pistols found on Wayne Jones' phone.
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This .22-caliber Sig Sauer pistol was stolen during an April 2011 burglary to a home on William Drive. Police recovered it when they stopped Queshandis Seals in July 2014. Seals was found guilty of firearm and drug charges following trial in August 2015.
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A .22-caliber Chiappas Firearms pistol found during a May 2014 traffic accident in Dunkerton had been stolen from a New Franken, Wis., gun shop in May 2013.
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Police seized a .25-caliber Raven Arms pistol following a shooting at the former Rumors Bar on July 22, 2012.
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Waterloo police seized a 9mm Tec-9 handgun, left, and a .380-caliber Lorcin pistol while searching a home at 525 Locust St. on Wednesday, June 19, 2013. (COURTESY PHOTO)
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Evidence photo shows an AR-7 takedown rifle ATF agents found in an Elma home were Michael Duane Strain was living in 2011.
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Evidence photo of a refurbished Mosin Nagant, a Russian bolt-action surplus rifle ATF agents found when searching Michael Duane Strain’s Elma home in 2011.
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Authorities found this Ruger rifle during a June 6, 2017, search in Ossian while investigating opioid sales. The same gun had been seized in October 2012 during an investigation into a shooting in Calmar.
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Evidence photo showing a rifle seized during a search of an Ossian home during the investigation into furanyl fentanyl and heroin distribution on June 6, 2017.
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Police found a handgun, sawed-off shotgun and a shortened rifle in a Lehman Circle mobile home following a shooting Nov. 23, 2013.
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Authorities recovered an AK-47 style rifle, a 45-caliber handgun and a .40-caliber Glock handgun from Jeremiah Mumford and William Clayton following a bank robbery, chase and shootout that spanned two counties in October. A second rifle was found in the getaway vehicle. (Contributed photos)
Authorities recovered an AK-47 style rifle, a 45-caliber handgun and a .40-caliber Glock handgun from Jeremiah Mumford and William Clayton following a bank robbery, chase and shootout that spanned two counties in October. A second rifle was found in the getaway vehicle. (Contributed photos)
Authorities recovered an AK-47 style rifle, a 45-caliber handgun and a .40-caliber Glock handgun from Jeremiah Mumford and William Clayton following a bank robbery, chase and shootout that spanned two counties in October. A second rifle was found in the getaway vehicle. (Contributed photos)
Evidence photo shows a shotgun that ATF agents found in an Elma home were Michael Duane Strain was living in 2011.
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Authorities found this Remington shotgun during a June 6, 2017, search in Ossian while investigating opioid sales. The same gun had been seized in October 2012 after it was used in a shooting in Calmar.
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Police found this altered Mossburg shotgun in the back of a parked car in August 2013. On Dec. 31, 2013, jurors found Patrelle Green-Bowman guilty of felon in possession of a firearm and unauthorized possession of a sawed-off shotgun following trial.
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Police found this altered Mossburg shotgun in the back of a parked car in August 2013. On Dec. 31, 2013, jurors found Patrelle Green-Bowman guilty of felon in possession of a firearm and unauthorized possession of a sawed-off shotgun following trial.
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Authorities said a resident found this Smith & Wesson handgun in an alley in April 2014 a few blocks from a June 2013 fatal shooting. It was entered as evidence in the trial of Antonio Hutchins on Monday, Jan. 12, 2015.
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Waterloo police said they found this .22-caliber Beretta handgun in an alley behind Travon Jones’ Iowa Street home in Cedar Falls in January 2015.
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Police photo of a .45-caliber handgun and a .22-caliber handgun recovered during the investigation into the death of Ronald Randall.
Waterloo police said they seized this H&R revolver in September 2017. The weapon was an exhibit in the trial of Davionte Dashawn Barksdale in February 2018.
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An AR-15 rifle recovered by police in a traffic stop following a July 2018 shooting in Waterloo.
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An AR-15 rifle recovered by police in a traffic stop following a July 2018 shooting in Waterloo.
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The .38-caliber revolver that Vickie Butler was shot with during an argument with Michael Fristo in October 2016. Fristo was acquitted of charges in the shooting following trial on Nov. 30, 2017.
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A photograph of the .357-magnum revolver prosecutors said was used to kill Robert Shannon as he sat in a car on Dec. 14, 2011. Introduced as evidence in the trial of Montez Caples on Oct. 31, 2012. (JEFF REINITZ/ Courier Staff Writer)
Police found a sawed-off Ithaca .410-bore shotgun in the back of Adrian Zarate’s girlfriend’s SUV when it was parked at the Isle Casino Hotel parking lot in October 2018.
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Police found a Jimenez Arms .380-caliber handgun with an obliterated seriall number in Adrian Zarate’s hotel room in October 2018.
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Savage Model 67F 20-gauge shotgun found while searching Levi Farren Miller’s West Mullan Avenue in Waterloo in February 2019.
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Crime scene photo shows were police found a shotgun resting in a cat dish while searching a Waterloo apartment on Feb. 2, 2019.
Police found this Ruger handgun under Delvonn Battles’ seat during a traffic stop in Waterloo in January 2013. The weapon was used in a Des Moines shooting in December 2012. (Contributed photo)
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WATERLOO — Police responded to multiple shots fired incidents early Saturday morning.
Three incidents occurred within four hours and three blocks of each other on Logan Avenue.
At 2:40 a.m., Waterloo police were called to 523 Logan Ave. for a report of shots fired. Officers found shell casings but no property damage.
Two hours later at 4:40 a.m., police were dispatched to 813 Logan Ave. after someone claimed they were shot. Once police arrived, they could not locate anyone with injuries. No other evidence was found at the scene.
Captain Jason Feaker said these two cases may be related but officials don't know at this time.
At 6 a.m., police were sent out to 749 Logan Ave. for a report of shots fired. On arrival, officers found a parked vehicle struck by gunfire on its right passenger door. They also found shell casings.
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Feaker said no one has been arrested in any of these incidents.
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WATERLOO — Two Waterloo police officers were part of federal task force credited with the Saturday capture of a survivalist and homicide suspect who escaped from a Pennsylvania prison.
Michael Charles Burham, 34, had been on the run for more than a week when he was detained in a wooded area near Warren, Pennsylvania.
Images from the end to the manhunt show Waterloo officers Gavin Kramer and Keaton Northrup amid other agents, all outfitted with body armor and rifles, escorting Burham to a vehicle.
“All of us were always concerned that we would end up with a citizen harmed in some way, or even one of the officers harmed,” said Lt. Col. George Bivens with the Pennsylvania State Police. “You’re always worried about things like that, so to not have that play out, it’s a good day”
Authorities said Burham was awaiting trial for arson, burglary and kidnapping and was a suspect in a homicide investigation when he used tied bed sheets to escape from Warren County Prison on the night of July 6.
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According to the U.S. Marshals Services, Burham “is a prime suspect in the May 11 shooting death of 34-year-old Kala Hodgkin inside her William Street home in Jamestown. He is also alleged to have set fire to another woman’s car in Jamestown.”
During the search that followed the escape, authorities located a stash of food and clothing believed to have been left by Burham.
More than 15 federal, state and local agencies plus more than 200 law enforcement officers were involved in the manhunt. A $22,000 reward was offered for information leading to his capture.
On Saturday afternoon, a couple heard their dog barking in the back yard. They approached Burham, who claimed he was camping. They recognized him as a fugitive and called police, authorities said.
Agents used dogs to pick up his trail and he was detained shortly before 6 p.m. Pennsylvania time.
Kramer and Northrup are assigned to Waterloo Police Department’s Violent Crime Apprehension Team. Four members of the squad are deputized and United States Marshals, said Capt. Jason Feaker with WPD. He said part of their duties involve traveling to assist federal agents with manhunts and similar investigations.
The Waterloo officers went to Pennsylvania on Wednesday, he said.
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CEDAR FALLS — Members of the public will have another opportunity Monday to voice their thoughts on a proposed raise of nearly 72% in the salary for City Council members.
The ordinance setting a $12,000 annual salary comes to the floor during the 7 p.m. meeting at City Hall, 220 Clay St.
Last month, five residents spoke out against the 71.87% increase in the $6,982 pay, but the council majority defended the rationale and passed the measure the first time in a 5-2 vote. If the majority were to vote in the affirmative again Monday, the ordinance would have to pass one final time Aug. 7 before going into effect.
Much of the reasoning behind the bump was that the current salary is falling behind other cities of Cedar Falls’ size. In addition, the raise could make up for the money lost by councilmembers who take time off from their everyday jobs to fulfill duties of the office.
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Councilmembers Dave Sires and Susan deBuhr, who are likely not running for reelection after their terms expire at the end of this year, dissented because they don’t think the elected leaders should be paid at all.
The salary will see an increase each subsequent year based on the consumer price index as is already being done under the current ordinance.
The council’s night begins in committee at 5:15 p.m. when it receives an update from Grow Cedar Valley on the organization's work and initiatives.
Unlimited residential parking permits in municipal lots for anyone who shows proof of residency downtown will also be discussed. That would be a change from the current 48-hour limit for anyone with the pass. The proposal follows a public complaint by downtown resident Julie Shimek, who's also owner of Vintage Iron Co., 104 Main St.
Additionally, a stop sign request and councilmembers' email interactions will be discussed.
The North Cedar Neighborhood Association had been pushing to change the Lone Tree Road and Center Street intersection from a two- to a four-way stop in hopes of making it safer. And staff previously recommended that email interactions with the public be done through the addresses provided by the city as a matter of best legal and security practice, instead of personal ones.
In other business, the council will consider approving:
- An ordinance, on the second of three readings, to amend snow and ice removal requirements.
- The second of three readings of an ordinance rezoning 2.26 acres for Advanced Technical Services at 702 LeClair St. for a 6,900-square-foot expansion to the south of its existing facility.
- The second of three readings of an ordinance allowing new vinyl siding on residential buildings with six or fewer dwelling units in residential areas of downtown. The proposal is part of a flurry of changes introduced by a council majority to the fairly new code and reviewed by the Planning and Zoning Commission. It requires a supermajority to enact because the commission did not endorse the proposed change.
- Appointments of Gregory Holt, Matthew Hundley and Matthew Wilson to the Art and Culture Board; Robert Seymour to the Metropolitan Transit Board; Sandy Benak to the Health Trust Fund Board; and Brent Johnson to the Visitors & Tourism Board.
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WATERLOO — A developer who plans to build a senior housing complex will ask the City Council rezone more than four acres of land Monday.
The council meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall in the council chambers.
Ridgeway Heights LLC, doing business as San Marnan Heights Senior Living, wants to rezone land located east of 815 Tower Park Drive for the complex.
The proposed complex would be three stories with 110 units. The first floor would include 14 memory care units, 15 common areas, administration and service areas and a handful of other apartment units. Unit sizes range from studio to two-bedroom. Some of the common areas include dining rooms, a cafe, an ice cream parlor, a wellness center, a spa, a salon and exam rooms and clinics.
On the second floor, the complex would mostly be apartments but it will also have a theater and activity rooms. The third floor is almost entirely apartment units.
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No information was given about the cost of a development agreement. A public hearing will be held on the rezoning request, one of seven coming before the council.
Another public hearing will be held on a proposal to take additional action for the authorization of a loan, disbursement agreement and issuance of a little more than $4 million in sewer revenue capital loan notes from the State of Iowa Revolving Fund Loan.
Another of the hearings is for the sale and conveyance of city-owned property for $1 located at the southeast corner of Leversee Road and Hyper Drive. If approved, a development agreement with 3 Stooges, LLC, will allow for the construction of a new 50,000 square foot warehouse. The building has an assessed value of $1.45 million and would have tax rebates of five years at 50%.
The council will also consider:
- Approving the completion of the fiscal year 2022 street reconstruction program at a cost of $4.3 million.
- Renewing a liquor license for Flirt’s Gentlemens Club, 319 Jefferson St.
Prior to the regular meeting, there will be a work session at 4:15 p.m. to discuss dilapidated housing.
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WAVERLY – Waverly served up a slice of summer this weekend as hundreds of people lined the streets for the 36th annual Heritage Days Parade on Saturday morning.
More than 100 parade floats and groups — including businesses, community clubs, churches and first responders — queued up at the the start of the route at Waverly Sales Company on Fifth Avenue Southwest.
“Waverly is the kind of community that shows up no matter what, whether it be parades, athletics or floods,” said Teresa Arenholz, Waverly Heritage Days committee member. “Today, they showed up to celebrate Waverly.”
Starting with a giant flag carried by the Waverly Exchange Club, as well as the Waverly Fire Department and veterans organizations, the parade marched down Fifth Avenue past Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community. The residents look forward to the parade every year and come outside to cheer the procession. Arenholz said she hopes the route never changes because of their enthusiasm.
One Bartels denizen enjoying the spectacle was Eugene Zabel. The U.S. Army veteran and former worker at Carnation Milk Products Co., now Nestle, parked his wheelchair in the shade under a tree.
Zabel, known as Zip by residents and staff because of the speed he achieves in his chair, said this year’s parade was the best one yet.
“I’m out here every chance I get,” he said. “Every time they have something, I try to come out.”
With 44 children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, Zabel was bound to see someone he knew in the parade. One of his sons was on the Waverly-Shell Rock High School 50-year reunion float.
Also in the parade was Rada Manufacturing, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary. The cutlery company’s float was led by co-founder Sandra Aleff-Rada in a classic white car along with her dog, Willie. Behind her were employees walking alongside a big white cake, decorated with blue garland, to signify three-quarters of a century.
President Phil Jones said being in the parade was a way to say thank you to the employees, community and Rada family. The last time Rada was in the parade was for its 50th anniversary.
“It’s fun to have multiple generations celebrate three quarters of a century with a small-town business that cares about small towns,” he said.
The celebration continues Sunday with “Reggae on the River” at Kohlmann Park. Reggae band Dred I Dread from Minneapolis will play from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Food vendors will also be on site from noon to 5 p.m.
Arenholz said the celebration, which started Thursday, attracts 8,000 to 10,000 people.
Photos: The 2023 Waverly Heritage Days Parade
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The Waverly Exchange Club carries a large American Flag during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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A child throws candy from the Janesville Fire Rescue vehicle during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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A P&K Midwest tractor rolls down the street during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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Children pick up thrown candy during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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The Bremer County Historical Society Museum float during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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A dog from the Avenue of the Saints Animal Hospital greets paradegoers during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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The Waverly-Shell Rock High School 50 year class reunion float during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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The Rada Cutlery float during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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The Waverly Pack 90 Cub Scouts march during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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Revibe Waverly performs during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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The Bremer County Beef Royalty Princess Madison Hinrichs throws candy during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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Children throw candy from a Crystal Heating, Plumbing and Excavating backhoe during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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The Elsamiller Electric Co. float during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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A child sticks her head out of a Winnebago RV during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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A child rides the Rotary Club of Waverly float during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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Waverly's first motorized fire truck drives during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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The Waverly Area Veterans Post float during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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The Dairy Spot Trail Riders float during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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The Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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The Nestle Beverage float during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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Bremer County Fair Queen Sydney Matthias throws candy during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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Dan's RC Hobby House remote control cars go off a ramp during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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The Grace Baptist Church performs during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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The Waverly Health Center marches during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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The Greater Waverly Municipal Band performs during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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The CUSB Bank float during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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The Waverly Public Library float during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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A group performs on a float during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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Bubbles flow from the CENTURY 21 Signature Real Estate - Waverly float during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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The Union Baptist Church Crusaders perform during the Waverly Heritage Days parade on Saturday.
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What do Iowans want? An inside look at what 20 Iowans say about their lives, government
About the series
This year’s legislative session was hugely consequential, criticized by some Iowans and praised by others. The laws passed, from tax cuts to school regulations to book bans to restrictions on transgender students, will influence the everyday lives of people across the state for years to come.
We wanted to know how these actions and others by the state government affect the lives of people across the state. What they like, what they don’t like, where they see our leaders falling short and what they think needs more attention.
This story is part of a larger series involving Lee Enterprises newspapers in Council Bluffs, Davenport, Mason City, Muscatine, Sioux City, Waterloo-Cedar Falls and our Des Moines Bureau. The “What Do Iowans Want?” series attempts to probe the thinking of people across the state about how the government is working for them.
The 20 Iowans profiled represent the broad perspectives in our state. They’re teachers, artists, retirees and athletes. They’re Republicans, Democrats and independents. They’re your neighbors and your friends.
What Iowans want - Carl Cleveland
Photo: Tim Hynds, Sioux City Journal
Carl Cleveland Age: 72
City: Sergeant Bluff, Iowa
Occupation: Retired Sergeant Bluff-Luton Community School District transportation director
Family: Widower, with two grown children and two grandchildren
Years in Iowa: Entire life
Political affiliation: Republican
What presidential candidate did you vote for in 2020: Donald Trump
What are the biggest challenges you face in your everyday life: “Raising a family.”
How do you see Iowa’s government affecting your life? “Making tough choices. (Politicians) listening to their constituents.”
What issues do you wish government paid more attention to? “Education, immigration and the economy.”
Read more about Carl Cleveland
What Iowans want - Jesse Persons
Photo: Tim Hynds, Sioux City Journal
Jesse Persons
Age: 44
Residence: Moville
Occupation: Special education teacher at Pier Learning Center in Sioux City
Family: Husband and four children, two of whom have graduated from high school
Years in Iowa: From age 6-23 before leaving; returned in 2006
Political affiliation: Registered independent
Presidential candidate voted for in 2020: Joe Biden
What are the biggest challenges you face in your everyday life: Inflation. "I can't imagine what it must be like for a single-income family."
How do you see Iowa’s government affecting your life? Education. "We just worry about money being pulled from our already stretched thin public schools."
Persons has seen teachers leave the profession. If state funding doesn't keep up with inflation, will more teachers leave? The funding decisions made by the Legislature will have a major impact on the teaching profession and the state's schools.
"I worry, do we still have or will we still have highly qualified teachers in Iowa?" Persons said.
What issues do you wish government paid more attention to? Listening to all Iowans about controversial subjects such as removing books from school libraries and prohibiting discussions about LGBTQ.
Read more about Jesse Persons.
What Iowans want - Fatiya Adam
Photo: Jared McNett, Sioux City Journal
Fatiya Adam
Age: 34
City of residence: Sioux City
Occupation: Case manager for Lutheran Services in Iowa for a year and a half
Family: Married for 10 years and has five kids, the oldest is 18 and the youngest is 2 years old.
Years in Iowa: 10 years, all in Sioux City
Political affiliation: Non-affiliated
Which presidential candidate did you vote for in 2020? Joe Biden
What is the biggest challenge of the work you do? The community. We welcome people from all over. Different backgrounds. Different religions. Different cultures. And they get here, and they already have culture shock, and then we run into the community that is not very welcoming toward these people.
How do you see Iowa's government affecting your life? “Honestly, Iowa’s not very welcoming to refugees. But it’s better than a year ago. For example, we didn’t have any refugee offices in Sioux City. Now we have a refugee office open in Sioux City. I met the governor in person. Sometimes what you see and hear is different from meeting a person and sitting and talking. I did have a vision of Iowa before, but it’s completely different now.”
What issues do you wish the government paid more attention to? “School. Other states are accepting of more cultures. We have holidays, as Muslim people, and those holidays children miss school. Just for a couple of days. For Christmas, the whole week, we get off. And I’m happy. But kids in school, when our holiday comes, (they) miss school for a couple of days. They get points off; they miss tests, even though we tell them (the school) ... that should be excused as a holiday celebration.
Less attention to? If you come to this country, you are judged right away. Questioned. We should be accepted the same way everybody is accepted, basically. I don’t know if that’s even government, but as a person I wish for my kids to not grow up worried if they can play that sport. Acceptance. That’s my wish.”
Read more about Fatiya Adam.
What Iowans Want - Garie Lewis
Photo: Jesse Brothers, Sioux City Journal
Garie Lewis
Age: 60
City or town of residence: Sioux City
Occupation: Self-employed comedian, writer, artist, digital creator, painter
Family: Single
Years in Iowa: Last 23 in Sioux City
Political affiliation: Registered Democrat
What presidential candidate did you vote for in 2020? Joe Biden
What are the biggest challenges you face in your everyday life?
“Well, right now, it’s my health, because I’ve been suffering with long COVID since August. I haven’t been able to work because of it.”
How do you see Iowa’s government affecting your life?
“I’m lucky that I qualified for Medicaid. Medicaid is taking care of me. If funds for that get cut, that’s going to send me back to the old days of just not going to a doctor.”
What issues do you wish the government paid more attention to?
"I'd like to see them concentrate more on infrastructure, roads, housing, medical care, senior care, childcare. I'd like to see people realize that taking care of their brothers and sisters is one of the founding principles of most of the religions in this country and the founding of our government."
What issues do you wish the government paid less attention to?
“This game of gotcha they’ve got going on - my team against your team.”
Read more about Garie Lewis.
What Iowans want - Everett Hamner
Photo: Gary L. Krambeck
Everett Hamner
Age: 47
City or town of residence: Bettendorf
Occupation: Professor at Western Illinois University's Quad Cities campus
Family: Married (25 years), two kids
Years in Iowa: 20
Political affiliation: Independent
What presidential candidate did you vote for in 2020? Joe Biden
"I'm deeply critical of both major parties. If I have to caucus with one of them, it would be the Democrats, but that doesn't mean I align with everything that gets pushed there," Hamner said of his vote for Joe Biden.
What are the biggest challenges you face in your everyday life? Personally, Hamner doesn't feel many but has needed to advocate for his son's special education needs in the past. He also witnesses hateful rhetoric and Iowa's increasingly divisive atmosphere impact the diverse body of students he teaches and coaches.
How do you see Iowa’s government affecting your life? To Hamner, Iowa's government plays a notable role in everyone's lives, namely in the atmosphere it creates and/or upholds.
What issues do you wish the government paid more attention to? Less attention to? Hamner wishes Iowa's government paid more attention to supporting higher and K-12 education, climate and the environment. He wishes they put less effort in fearmongering or "scapegoating" other groups and issues, using anti-transgender legislation and anti-immigration rhetoric as examples.
Read more about Everett Hamner.
What Iowans want - Leslie DuPree
Photo: Elizabeth Pruitt
Leslie DuPree
Age: 70
City of Residence: Davenport, Iowa
Occupation: Retired
Family: Two children, five grandchildren
Years in Iowa: Around 44 years
Political Affiliation: Independent
What presidential candidate did you vote for in 2020?: Joe Biden
What are the biggest challenges you face in your everyday life? While she doesn't report any major daily complaints, DuPree is concerned about the environment's impact on her grandchildren's futures.
How do you see Iowa’s government affecting your life?
DuPree said she thinks about issues like climate change and environmental health every day, but again, is more concerned about its future impact to her family. Personally, she'd like to see more civility within government and politics.
What issues do you wish the government paid more attention to? Less attention to? DuPree wishes government paid more attention to environmental health, improving water quality and education and less attention to targeting LGBTQ+ groups or book and content banning.
Read more about Leslie DuPree.
Watch a video of Leslie DuPree.
What Iowans want - Akeem Carter
Photo: Chris Zoeller, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier
Akeem Carter
Age: 40
City of residence: Waterloo
Occupation: Owner, Team Akeem
Family: Two children
Years in Iowa: 33
Political affiliation: Conservative libertarian
What presidential candidate did you vote for in 2020? Donald Trump
What are the biggest challenges you face in your everyday life? Being independent when the government has high demands for fathers on child support.
How do you see Iowa’s government affecting your life? Meddling instead of helping in personal affairs.
What issues do you wish the government paid more attention to? Less attention to? More help with providing family counseling to young parents.
Read more about Akeem Carter.
What Iowans want - Forest Dillavou
Photo: Chris Zoeller, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier
Forest Dillavou
Age: 80
City of residence: Waterloo
Occupation: Retired
Family: Wife, four children
Years in Iowa: 80
Political affiliation: Republican
What presidential candidate did you vote for in 2020? Donald Trump
What are the biggest challenges you face in your everyday life? The biggest challenge he faces every day is government presence in his life.
How do you see Iowa's government affecting your life? As a senior, he is concerned about the lack of help for older people from the government.
What issues do you wish the government paid more attention to? Less attention to? He also believes the Iowa government is spending too much time on legislation that affects minority populations.
Read more about Forest Dillavou.
What Iowans want - Mary Heller
Photo: Chris Zoeller, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier
Mary Heller
Age: 73
City or town of residence: Waterloo
Occupation: Small business owner
Family: Husband David, two sons, Jason and Jeremy
Years in Iowa: 73
Political affiliation: Independent
What are the biggest challenges you face in your everyday life? "The biggest challenge is getting the city to realize they have to do something different if they want retail business to open downtown.”
How do you see Iowa's government affecting your life? She is pleased with the new property tax law, House File 718. She calls it “an important and good thing because seniors who want to stay in their homes need help.”
What issues do you wish the government paid more attention to? Less attention to? She is concerned about the federal government overstepping its boundaries “when it comes to personal rights and freedoms and free speech."
Read more about Mary Heller.
What Iowans want - Jamie Oberheu
Photo: Chris Zoeller, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier
Jamie Oberheu
Age: 36
City of residence: Waterloo
Occupation: Second-grade teacher at Orange Elementary School
Family: Husband and three children
Years in Iowa: 36
Political affiliation: Democrat
What presidential candidate did you vote for in 2020? Joe Biden
What are the biggest challenges you face in everyday life? Fears as a mom for the safety of her children and family, obstacles and restrictions in being able to teach in a way that best serves students.
How do you see Iowa's government affecting your life? Affects classroom abilities, child labor laws affect her children, gun safety legislation impacts feelings of safety for her family and students.
What issues do you wish the government paid more attention to? Gun safety.
Less attention? Monitoring libraries/social-emotional learning laws, LGBTQ+ restrictions, abortion restrictions.
Read more about Jamie Oberheu.
What Iowans want - Jamie Swartley
Photo: Chris Zoeller, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier
Jamie Swartley
Age: 25
City or town of residence: Waterloo
Occupation: Bartender
Family: Two parents, one brother and two sisters. No significant others or kids.
Years in Iowa: 23 years.
Political affiliation: Democrat
Presidential candidate supported in 2020: Joe Biden
What are the biggest challenges you face in your everyday life? Like many young adults, I need to handle my rent, college debt and health insurance. But as a transgender man, I fear future challenges because of the Legislature passing legislation that targets transgender people.
How do you see Iowa’s government affecting your life? There’s not much of a direct impact right now, as a lot of the legislation signed into law this past session targets transgender youth. I can’t think of any way it’s impacted me positively. But it’s indirectly taken a toll on me because I feel as a state we’ve gone backwards, and even if I speak up, I fear legislators telling me they don’t think I should exist.
What issues do you wish the government paid more attention to? Less attention to? Rather than banning books and discussion of sexual orientation in classrooms, I feel there should be more a focus placed on mental health, and on instituting music requirements in the upper grade levels to encourage them to be creative.
Read more about Jamie Swartley.
What Iowans want - Alyshea Gow
Photo: David Hotle
Alyshea Gow
Age: 43
City of residence: Muscatine
Occupation: Owner/interior designer, Feather Your Nest Interiors
Family: Husband and two children
Years in Iowa: 33
Political affiliation: None
What presidential candidate did you vote for in 2020? No answer
What are the biggest challenges you face in everyday life? Having enough people to operate Feather Your Nest.
How do you see Iowa's government affecting your life? I really don't. I prefer it when they stay out of it.
What issues do you wish the government paid more attention to? I wish the government would create an incentive program to encourage graduates to stay in Iowa.
See video of Alyshea Gow.
What Iowans want - Jason Squier
Photo: Kaylee Schuermann, Mason City Globe Gazette
Jason Squier
Age: 42
City of residence: St. Ansgar
Occupation: St. Ansgar Community High School business and social studies teacher
Family: Wife and three children
Years in Iowa: Entire life
Political affiliation: Moderate Democrat
Voted for in 2020: President Biden
What are the biggest challenges you face in your everyday life?
One of the biggest challenges of small-town life is not having supplies readily accessible.
How do you see Iowa’s government affecting your life?
As a teacher, the state’s decisions affect many aspects of my career, including funding, quality of education and broadband access.
What issues do you wish the government paid more attention to?
Iowa should concentrate on areas such as rural development, mental health services and maintaining youth.
What issues do you wish the government paid less attention to?
State government should focus less of their attention on national topics and conflicts and instead concentrate on laws that will directly affect the day-to-day lives of Iowans.
Read more about Jason Squier.
What Iowans want - Ryan Globe
Photo: David Golbitz, The Council Bluffs Nonpareil
Ryan Globe Age: 36
Gender: Male
Occupation: Custodial at Iowa School for the Deaf
Political party: Independent
Hometown: Council Bluffs
Education: Associate’s degree
What are the biggest challenges you face in your everyday life?
“Money. The buying power of my dollar goes a lot less further than what it was for my parents, for my grandparents.”
How do you see Iowa’s government affecting your life?
Ryan can’t take a walk with his son outside their building, because the sidewalks are in desperate need of repair; the same with the streets. Legalizing and taxing marijuana would create an income stream that could help pay to repair city, county and state infrastructure.
What issues do you wish the government paid more attention to? Less attention to?
Pay more attention to things that people can agree on, like the need to repair infrastructure, and less time encroaching on peoples’ private lives, especially in schools: “If you’re a teacher, just do your job. Shut your mouth, teach algebra, teach English.”
Read more about Ryan Globe.
What Iowans want - Deb Weilage
Photo: Joe Shearer, The Council Bluffs Nonpareil
Deb Weilage Age: 67
City: Lifelong Council Bluffs resident
Occupation: Part-time sales at Community of Christ Thrift Store & Food Pantry; has worked as a nurse’s aide, teacher, parent educator and museum tour guide, among other things
Family: Husband Daryl, three adult children, seven grandchildren
Years in Iowa: 67
Political affiliation: Republican
Last presidential vote: Trump (but only because I like Pence)
What are the biggest challenges you face in your everyday life?
For Deb Weilage, it is helping the families who come to the thrift store and pantry where she works find the assistance they need.
How do you see Iowa’s government affecting your life?
Weilage is concerned about taxpayers’ money funding scholarships to private schools.
What issues do you wish the government paid more attention to? Less attention to?
She feels more assistance should be available for people struggling with mental health issues, addiction and homelessness. The state could do less to help private schools.
Read more about Deb Weilage.
What Iowans Want - Laito Zarkpah
Photo: Caleb McCullough, Des Moines Bureau
Laito Zarkpah
Age: 23
City or town of residence: Pleasant Hill
Occupation: Intern at Family Planning Council of Iowa
Family: Parents, brother
Years in Iowa: Six
Political affiliation: Independent
What presidential candidate did you vote for in 2020? Did not say
What are the biggest challenges you face in your everyday life?
Being a black, queer woman, I mean, you walk out the door and there’s nothing but challenges. I think the legislation that’s being passed that would effectively make it harder for someone like me to receive reproductive health care. I think that also … the transphobic rhetoric that's being tossed around, I think that it just makes it harder to feel like I'm welcome. Especially in the state of Iowa because it's a bit more conservative.
How do you see Iowa’s government affecting your life?
I think it's just very clear that no matter what the majority of Iowans want or what is better for the majority of Iowans, especially poor people, people of color, LGBTQ people, it's not about us. It's about what they want and the things that they want to pass.
What issues do you wish the government paid more attention to? Less attention to?
They should focus on making sure that everyone has access to the things they need to live with quality of life, whether that be health care, whether that be housing, whether that be a place to go to work or a means of making money, or just the means of not having to struggle. I think we should pay less attention to taking away basic human rights. I think that would be a step in the right direction because then it clears up a lot of agendas to do other things and get other legislation passed.
Read more about Laito Zarkpah.
What Iowans Want - Emma Bade
Photo: Caleb McCullough, Des Moines Bureau
Emma Bade
Age: 27
City or town of residence: Des Moines
Occupation: Teacher
Family: Boyfriend, parents
Years in Iowa: 27
Political affiliation: Democrat
What presidential candidate did you vote for in 2020? Joe Biden
What are the biggest challenges you face in your everyday life?
My job could be a lot easier if we had more resources, and we had different curriculums that I've had experiences with at other places. It just makes it a lot more work, a lot more challenging for the teacher end of it. You can only do so much with what you have. For me, a special education teacher, I have a giant roster, because we don't have enough special education teachers. Then that's just less for all the other students.
How do you see Iowa’s government affecting your life?
There’s hurdles to overcome that don't necessarily need to be there because of certain laws in place … Being in this state, and how right-leaning it tends to be, especially at the state level, just the different laws that are passed, and that aren't passed. Things that should be happening in the state that aren't, because of the way things pan out in the state in the Senate. And the votes just aren't there to get certain things passed, like anything to do with climate change.
What issues do you wish the government paid more attention to? Less attention to?
I really wish that they would pay more attention to equity. There is a huge difference in the education you get based off the zip code you live in in this state. And that's not fair. Every kid should have access to the same education, and it should not have anything to do with the zip code you live in. And that goes even past education in school. Think about what type of parks are in your neighborhoods, and how does that depend on where your zip code is? … I definitely wish they paid more attention to climate change because to me, that's irreversible, and that's not going to go away. So we need to do what we can and address it now.
Read more about Emma Bade.
What Iowans Want - Chris Garcia
Chris Garcia
Age: 74
City or town of residence: Woodward
Occupation: Retired
Family: Wife, children, grandchildren
Years in Iowa: 74
Political affiliation: Republican
What presidential candidate did you vote for in 2020? Donald Trump
What are the biggest challenges you face in your everyday life?
“My main concern today is what this country is going to look like for my grandchildren in 10 years, 15 years down the road. I'm really concerned about socialists, the very progressive agenda going on right now. I was a very liberal Democrat, probably the first 30 years of my life. I probably came into the Republican Party during the Reagan administration … But I guess my main concern right now is just the moral compass as far as where the country's going.”
How do you see Iowa’s government affecting your life?
“I think the governor today is doing a pretty good job with family. She's doing a good job with schools. She got through the school choice thing. And at the same time, I truly believe that she is very in tune with the public school system, keeping that intact and keeping that moving in the right direction. But there are certain areas of the state where in order to keep people from being trapped, they're going to need other options. They’re going to need choice …. And I believe that schools are meant to, number one, teach reading, writing and arithmetic. And they're there to keep a certain amount of discipline within the school. They're not there to parent. They're not there to indoctrinate. They're not there to impress on children their way of life.”
What issues do you wish the government paid more attention to? Less attention to?
I think that we need to continue to oversee the environment. I think those are important things. And especially with farming, they really have to be very vigilant on our streams and our lakes. Because the farmers tend to put a lot of chemicals on this ground. And so that's something that we really need to be careful of, is our food, how it’s raised … I don’t want to be termed as far as buying into this green agenda, but I do think that we need to look into different energy, the different ways to heat our homes, different ways to run our cars. But I think one of the main things we should look into is solar energy, and the storage of solar energy.”
Read more about Chris Garcia.
What Iowans want - Kelli Bryant
Photo: Elizabeth Pruitt
Kelli Bryant
Age: 58
City of residence: Davenport
Occupation: Assistant technician for the food service in the Davenport school district
Family: Husband, Dean, and six children between them in a blended family
Years in Iowa: Born in Dayton Ohio, raised in Iowa and lived in the state since.
Political affiliation: Democrat
What presidential candidate did you vote for in 2020? Joe Biden
What are the biggest challenges you face in your everyday life? Slowing down and connecting with others.
How do you see Iowa's government affecting your life? Legislation making it easier to carry firearms.
What issues do you wish the government paid more attention to? Less attention to? Investing more in after-school programming and activities for children and teens. Less legislation regulating LGBTQ individuals.
Read more about Kelli Bryant.
What Iowans want - Alleena Blackwell
Photo: Elizabeth Pruitt
Alleena Blackwell
Age: 20
City of residence: Davenport
Occupation: Student at Western Illinois University
Family: Lives with mom and older brother, dad lives separately
Years in Iowa: 20 years
Political affiliation: Democratic
Presidential candidate 2020: Too young to vote
What are the biggest challenges you face in your everyday life?
Blackwell is graduating from WIU in the 2023 fall semester after finishing her last semester of student teaching in Rock Island, Illinois. She'll be graduating not only as a Black female, but as a first generation for her family.
How do you see Iowa’s government affecting your life?
Blackwell is concerned that Iowa government prioritizes private schooling over public, which she feels neglects the teachers and students who truly need state funding.
While she is about to become a public school teacher in Illinois, she is concerned for the future of Iowa educators, because she works closely between states as a resident of Davenport.
What issues do you wish the government paid more attention to? Less attention to?
As a future educator, Blackwell is concerned with her government's lack of concern on gun violence in schools.
She's spoken out against the campaign by her governor to "protect the children" through book bans, instead of creating restrictions on firearms from entering schools.
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The grounds are nearly ready for the major performers and tens of thousands of daily visitors at the 2023 Country Thunder music festival.
Wisconsin’s Country Thunder takes place Thursday through Sunday, July 20-23, with over 40 different acts at the events grounds set up at 2305 Lance Drive, Twin Lakes.
“I think that our lineup this year is one of the best compared to any other festival,” said Megan Benoit, Country Thunder digital manager.
Headliners this year will include Parker McCollum, Jon Pardi, Lainey Wilson, Keith Urban, Ashley McBryde and more.
On the grounds, the Electric Thunder tent will feature the new, “Dancing With the Thunder” slate.
Benoit said there will be line dancing and partner dancing competitions that people can register for now at countrythunder.com/wi-dwtt.
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“Dancing With the Thunder” will have competitions every day of the festival and will offer lessons for people to prepare.
“They (the competition) bring quite a crowd to compete,” Benoit said. “Winners get to dance on the main stage and win prizes.”
Benoit said each year’s music festival also features additional “small changes and things that we work on.”
The main performers for Thursday will include: The Reklaws at 3:30 p.m., The Washboard Union at 5 p.m., Chase Matthew at 6:30 p.m., Parker McCollum at 8 p.m. and Cody Johnson at 10 p.m.
The performance slate for Friday will include: John Morgan at 2 p.m., Halle Kearns at 3:30 p.m., Hailey Whitters at 5 p.m., Parmalee at 6:30 p.m., Lainey Wilson at 8 p.m. and Jon Pardi at 10 p.m.
On Saturday, July 22, Frank Ray is performing at 2 p.m., Shane Profitt at 3:30 p.m., Lonestar at 6:30 p.m., Carly Pearce at 8 p.m. and Jason Aldean at 10 p.m.
The headliners for the final day of the festival on Sunday, July 23, include Mackenzie Carpenter at 2:30 p.m., Priscilla Block at 4 p.m., Bailey Zimmerman at 5:30 p.m., Ashley McBryde at 7 p.m. and Keith Urban at 9 p.m.
There are additional performers at their Lake Stage throughout various times of the day including the Zach Matthews Band, Brad Morgan, Tim Gleason, Bootjack Road and more.
This year, attendance on any given day will be limited to 30,000 tickets sold. In June, the Kenosha County Board voted unanimously to limit the daily crowd. The previous capacity had been 50,000 per day at the four-day music festival.
Capt. Eric Klinkhammer of the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department said, in the past, Country Thunder officials had always estimated their attendance to be at 30,000 people or fewer. That number did surge to an estimated 50,000 during the Saturday of the festival a year ago, putting a strain on security.
The festival opens its grounds for campers on Wednesday, July 19 at 9 a.m.
“Tickets and camping slots are still available right now,” Benoit said. “We have really good discount tickets available at Walgreens and Menards.”
Tickets are still available for single day general admission, general admission for the entire weekend, Tito’s platinum experience standing and Tito’s platinum experience online at countrythunder.com/wi-tickets.
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14-year-old killed in boat-personal watercraft crash Saturday on Manatee River, FWC says
A Bradenton teen was killed in a crash involving a boat and personal watercraft Saturday on the Manatee River, state officials say.
The 14-year-old who died, along with his 17-year-old brother also of Bradenton, were in the boat. A 45-year-old Palmetto resident was operating the personal watercraft when the crash happened, said Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission offficials in a news release.
The 17-year-old suffered injuries and was receiving medical treatment, FWC said. No other information was released.
Weekend wreck:2 youths killed Saturday in Manatee County one-vehicle crash, state police say
"Our active investigation, in collaboration with the Manatee County Sheriff's Office, is ongoing," FWC said in the news release.
"We remain committed to understanding the full sequence of events that led up to this devastating incident. We express our sincere appreciation to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office, first responders, and the medical personnel who have provided swift response and continuous assistance throughout this situation."
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2 youths killed Saturday in Manatee County one-vehicle crash, state police say
Two youths were killed Saturday in a Manatee County one-vehicle wreck, state police reported.
The pair, both males and ages 11 and 15 of Mulberry, were passengers in an SUV traveling west on State Road 62 near County Road 39 that crashed about 6:30 p.m., Florida Highway Patrol said.
The driver, a 43-year-old Winter Haven man, was driving the SUV when he lost control on wet roadway, FHP said. The vehicle left the road and hit a concrete power pole. The driver and a third passenger, a 34-year-old Mulberry woman, suffered serious injuries and were transported to HCA Florida Blake Hospital in Bradenton.
Weekend crash:Bradenton man critical after Sunday morning motorcycle crash in Manatee County, FHP says
The juveniles were pronounced deceased on scene, FHP said.
The crash remains under investigation.
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Police are investigating after a crash involving four vehicles on Saturday night in the city's Somerton neighborhood killed a 23-year-old woman and injured a child who were on the sidewalk at the time of the incident.
According to police, Kelly Ann Carter Herman, 32, of Ocala, Florida, was killed after a crash at about 8:07 p.m. on Saturday night, at the intersection of Bustleton Avenue and Rennard Street.
The incident happened, officials said, after a Mercedes Benz, driven by a 21-year-old man, was traveling south on Bustleton Avenue at a high rate of speed and collided with a Hyundai, driven by a 43-year-old man, when the driver of the Mercedes Benz disregarded a red light at that intersection.
The impact of this collision, investigators said, caused the Hyundai to slam into another vehicle, also a Mercedes-Benz, driven by a 40-year-old man, and a Nissan, that was driven by a 57-year-old woman.
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The Hyundai then continued onto the sidewalk, due to the collision, where the vehicle crashed into Carter Herman and a child who were on the sidewalk.
First responders, officials said, pronounced Carter Herman at the scene and the child was transported to a nearby hospital in extremely critical condition.
Officials said the driver believed to be responsible for the crash, the 21-year-old man who allegedly ran a light at that intersection, sustained only minor injuries.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Cannon Beach is currently closed in the area surrounding Haystack Rock after a cougar was spotted roaming on top of the beach’s iconic sea stack.
Cannon Beach visitor Khula Makhalira told KOIN 6 News that his family spotted the cougar at the beach around 6:40 a.m. while vacationing in the area. Makhalira said that the cougar was last seen walking toward the ocean side of Haystack Rock.
“[The cougar] went on the backside,” Makhalira said. “I had to warn a family with a baby, so I stopped photographing.”
The Cannon Beach Police Department announced that the beach will remain closed until further notice.
“The beach at Haystack Rock is closed due to a cougar sighting,” the Cannon Beach Police Department stated on social media at 8:24 a.m. on Sunday. “We will update the public when it reopens, until notice please avoid the area.”
KOIN 6 News has reached out to CBPD for additional information. We will update this story when more information is available.
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'World’s smelliest plant': Wheaton livestreams blooming giant corpse flower. How to watch
NORTON — The phrase "putrid stench of rotting flesh" may be more likely to conjure up images of animals than plants.
Well, think again.
Wheaton College's rare example of an amorphophallus titanium, better known as a corpse flower — a giant flower that only blooms after many years and smells like rotting flesh when it does — is expected "to do its magnificent stinky thing soon for the first time in nearly a decade," a representative for the college said in a written statement Thursday.
"All eyes are on the college’s greenhouse," campus officials said last week.
The much-anticipated and short-lived blooming is likely to happen the week of July 17 and only last a day or two, the statement said.
Described as “unspeakably stinky and unpredictable” in its blooming cycle, the corpse flower has earned the reputation of being something of "a rockstar in the plant world for its massive displays, and more notoriously, for its putrid stench of rotting flesh," the statement said.
According to the U.S. Botanic Garden, the corpse flower is unique due to its size — frequently growing up to 8 feet tall — unique smell and fleeting blooming cycle.
Why does the corpse flower stink?
“These plants often take seven to eight years to bloom and the flowers only last a few days,” says Ben Robbins, greenhouse horticulturist at Wheaton. “It's the largest flower structure in the world and smells like rotting flesh to attract pollinators.”
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Why is the corpse flower so rare and where does it come from?
Native to the Sumatra region of Indonesia, these rainforest flowers are listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, making the rare occurrence all the more exciting.
“The main reasons for the decline are logging and the conversion of the plant’s native forest habitat to oil palm plantations,” the U.S. Botanic Garden wrote. Watch the livestream of the flower bloom over the next few days here.
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How to watch the corpse flower bloom
When Wheaton says "all eyes are on the college’s greenhouse" — they're not kidding.
Robbins and his Wheaton colleagues have set up a livestream and are excited to see the corpse flower bloom in the days ahead, the statement said.
To keep an eye on this extravagantly smelly showstopper visit the livestream at https://youtube.com/live/l9aR3lnW984?feature=share.
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Central Florida will have an earlier start to storms SundayWHO says aspartame, sweetener found in soda, may cause cancerPopular steakhouse chain to open new location in Central Florida, hiring new positionsPolice: Woman arrested after motorcyclist dies in Volusia County crashNational Ice Cream Day 2023: This Central Florida place is giving away free ice cream
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PITTSBURGH — Steelers wide receiver Diontae Johnson is a polarizing figure. But no matter what you think about Johnson, there is one trait of his that continues to prove to be a top flight trait, and that is his separation ability. Johnson has commanded mass targets from his quarterbacks over the years due to his ability to separate from just about any alignment.
While the production and stardom has not always followed that one elite trait, he continues to prove that trait is there as one of the best in the league. In fact, according to one metric, Johnson could be defined as the most open receiver in the NFL in 2022. Using Next Gen Stats’ tracking data, ESPN used the GPS data to give receivers scores in different areas.
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NORTH UNION TOWNSHIP, Pa. — It was Wednesday afternoon when 36-year-old Prevail Hall was tragically killed on route 51.
Her family is devastated and wants answers from investigators.
Valerie Hall, feels like her family is being kept in the dark, not getting any information from state police about the death of her daughter-in-law Prevail Hall.
“Nobody will talk to us. And the only thing we knew to do is to let you know, so maybe you could find answers and tell us what’s going on,” Valerie said. “She was quiet. But she was willing to help people. That’s what she was doing the day of the accident.
Prevail was killed on July 12 right in front of their house, when she was hit by a speeding red car as she was riding her bike back home.
Her husband of 22 years heard the impact and ran over to see a horrific scene.
“He found her on the road. Her bicycle was about 50 yards away from her, mangled. She was mutilated,” Valerie said. “I mean, he’ll never get that image out of his mind for the rest of his life.”
Route 51 was shut down in both directions for several hours as state police investigated.
The driver of the car stopped.
Channel 11 learned he had a baby in the car.
“What happened to him? We don’t know where he went, what they did, if they took him or let him go,” Valerie said.
A next door neighbor called this a dangerous section of road, saying there’s not enough signage and vehicles travel way to fast.
“I wish we had more patrols down here,” a neighbor told Channel 11.
Because of Prevail’s death, he just put up a new security camera on his house.
“There’s been so many accidents right here, right here at this intersection. It’s constant. The cars fly down. People need information. I’ll have it now,” the neighbor said.
As the family grieves and prepare to bury Prevail, they’re still waiting and desperate to hear from investigators.
“We are burying my daughter-in-law Wednesday with no answers of what’s going on,” Valerie said.
The family has a GoFundMe page to help pay funeral expenses.
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HOUSTON — For the second year in a row, H-Town will represent the Lone Star State in a prestigious pageant!
Miss Houston USA 2023, Lluvia Alzate, was crowned Miss Texas USA during Saturday's pageant at the Hilton Houston Post Oak hotel.
Saturday's pageant was the second attempt for the Colombian after she finished as third runner-up last year to another Houstonian, and current Miss Universe, R'Bonney Gabriel.
Alzate, who also works in real estate and helps spread awareness about ALS, edged out more than 90 other competitors to take the crown. The University of Houston graduate will now head to Reno, Nevada later this year as she vies for the crown of Miss USA.
Congratulations, Lluvia!
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MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. – Brevard County firefighters took care of a house fire Sunday in Merritt Island, sharing photos on social media of the charred interior and reporting no injuries.
The fire occurred at a single-story home along Mackeral Avenue, according to Brevard County Fire Rescue.
Though entrapment was initially reported, no one was located in the home during a crew’s search of it. The occupant was not home at the time of the fire, officials said in a Facebook post.
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BLOOMINGTON — A Bloomington man has been arrested on child porn charges, police said.
On Sunday, Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Ty Carlson told The Pantagraph that Wesley Noonan was in federal custody. It was unclear exactly when he was arrested.
The police department announced Friday that Noonan was indicted on several pornography charges following an investigation by BPD. Noonan is charged 59 times with child pornography possession, a Class 2 felony.
The investigation began after Illinois State Police Drug Task Force 6 and the Drug Enforcement Investigation executed a search warrant, confiscated Noonan's phone and found child porn on it, police said.
The Pantagraph reported Saturday that a nationwide warrant for Noonan's arrest had been issued, with a bond amount of $1 million.
BPD is continuing to investigate the case. Anyone with information should contact Det. Paul Swanlund at 309-434-2373 or pswanlund@cityblm.org, or call BPD at 309-820-8888.
To remain anonymous, BPD’s Crime & intelligence Analysis Unit can be reached at 309-434-2963 or CIAU@cityblm.org. Information can also be texted to 847411 by texting the word “BPDTIPS,” and inserting a space before your tip information.
Calls to CIAU should be made from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays. A voicemail or email should be left outside of those hours.
I want to give a great big thank you to the volunteers who sponsor, plan and organize all the Towanda 4th of July activities. It is a wonderful community event that brings pleasure and happiness to many.
May the legacy of the past 55 years continue as we celebrate the birth of our country and freedom.
Best wishes for many more Towanda 4th of July celebrations.
As the voice of Illinois’ fuel and retail industry, I have seen firsthand the consequences of misguided regulation and the ripple effect these efforts have on the businesses and consumers that rely on the petroleum products that power our economy.
Petroleum products are essential to everyday life across the globe. However, the EPA is pushing regulations that impose significant compliance costs on the energy supply chain and ultimately increase costs for consumers. The latest example is the agency’s proposal to tighten the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Particulate Matter (PM) 2.5. The NAAQS PM2.5 rewrite is particularly aggravating because there are significant parts of the U.S. that are still in nonattainment of the current standards.
Our industry is committed to being a world leader in air quality standards through constant innovation and technological advancements. The collective effort by our members to be as efficient and sustainable as possible is one of the main reasons that PM2.5 levels in the United States dropped by an astounding 44% between 2000 and 2020.
Unfortunately, the federal government is neglecting the contributions the American business community has made to help the U.S. achieve a balance between environmental protection and economic growth. Piling on additional federal regulations only serves to increase costs for businesses and consumers and make us more reliant on foreign nations with lower air quality standards.
As inflation remains high and our economic outlook becomes more precarious, the last thing the government should be doing is advancing rules and policies that put further upward pressure on energy prices. We call on the EPA to reverse course on its NAAQS PM2.5 proposal.
We the people of the USA have been thoroughly, but temporarily, infected with a nasty anti-government austerist virus on our way together toward a more perfect union and our nation’s 250th birthday. We have been de facto discouraged from cooperating together proactively to ensure that our government responsively serves us all, and not just a favored few of our fellow citizens and our major corporations. And we remain far too discouraged and uncooperative to this very day.
Our current leaders have overly deregulated our major corporations and even our system of government. Because of this, we are experiencing unprecedented and growing inequality in income, wealth, opportunity, hope, and prospects. We have baked a national cake of anti-government resentment and neglect. And we have frosted and candled it with a devastating discouraged tendency to avoidably accept austerity.
We are being told falsely that we have selfishly taken more than our share – that we have overspent and overconsumed so excessively that we are shortchanging the future well-being of our children, grandchildren, and posterity.
Recent trends in nationally prescribed local and state government accounting and accountability professional standards and resultant emerging financial reporting and budgeting practices have created certain potentials for misleading inference, which are discouraging requisite inclusive civic engagement and begetting misplaced exaggerated concerns about the financial condition and viability of local and state government defined benefit pension plans and our local and state governments themselves.
We live in the richest nation ever. All we need to do to satisfactorily balance personal freedom and social cohesion is to civically engage as our founders and forebears intended. Solutions to currently unmet public needs, and accomplishments of forthcoming consensus public policy objectives, will follow in due course. We just need to publicly and persistently ask more questions and follow-up questions.
If you have tried to navigate College Avenue lately, it is a mess since it is only one lane. Imagine if it was permanently one lane. Choosing to make Vernon one lane each way, even with a turn lane, is not conducive for traffic in our large community.
Imagine one lane east in the morning by Hoose Elementary. Eastbound parents and special ed buses trying to enter the parking lot and drop off areas while westbound cars trying to turn into Hoose are backed up so no eastbound cars can pass. This is what happened when they added two bike lanes and parking on Parkside Road.
Traffic is backed up by Parkside Junior High because there is no longer any room to pass. Added to that backup is parents and students trying to drive to Normal West High School.
Survey the traffic jam this fall to realize how reducing lanes is not the answer. Any easier and cost-effective solution is just to put up a four way stop at Blair drive. Do not let them ruin one of only three east west routes in Normal and be better stewards of our tax dollars.
No one can be God! When Adam and Eve got of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, they want to be like God. God told them the eat of any tree in the Garden other then the tree in the middle of the Garden. God told them if they ate of this tree they would surely die. There was a death that happen. It was a spiritual death that cause a separation in their relationship with God.
We live in a broken world where we see lies are believed over truth, wrong happens over right and immoral trumps being moral. All we have to do is watch the news everyday to see what is happening in our culture. Let us realize we cannot be God and subject our life after God.
Also, if baking a cake for a gay couple is participating in a gay marriage, what do you say about a person who sells an assault weapon to a mass shooter is doing? I believe in religionist freedom but baking a cake for gay couple is not endorsing their lifestyle. I also believe in the Second Amendment but there needs to be common sense restrictions.
Both amendments to the Bill of Rights need to respect everyone even those we disagree with on principle. All Americans should be concerned about the rulings coming out of the Supreme Court who should rule for all Americans.
Do you know how safe C02 pipelines are? If not, ask residents of East Palestine, Ohio. Many of them are still ill or disabled due to the recent derailment of a train carrying hazardous materials.
Yes, these are different chemicals, but the results are the same, probably worse, with C02. Wolf and Navigator are two companies who want to build deep underground pipelines to carry liquid C02 through Illinois for storage in Decatur. Safety regulations will probably be completed in 2024 and they want to build the pipelines and storage units before safeguards are in place.
Their goal is to make money. C02 pipeline construction will destroy much of our precious farmland. They may go through environmental justice neighborhoods in our communities, such as Peoria. There is a proposal for a pipeline that will go under or through the Mahomet Aquifer, which supplies water to about 850,000 people, including the entire town of Normal. A leak in the pipeline could destroy our water supply for many years.
Do not let the state of Illinois become a dumping ground for hazardous materials don't want within their borders.
I want to give a great big thank you to the volunteers who sponsor, plan and organize all the Towanda 4th of July activities. It is a wonderful community event that brings pleasure and happiness to many.
May the legacy of the past 55 years continue as we celebrate the birth of our country and freedom.
Best wishes for many more Towanda 4th of July celebrations.
As the voice of Illinois’ fuel and retail industry, I have seen firsthand the consequences of misguided regulation and the ripple effect these efforts have on the businesses and consumers that rely on the petroleum products that power our economy.
Petroleum products are essential to everyday life across the globe. However, the EPA is pushing regulations that impose significant compliance costs on the energy supply chain and ultimately increase costs for consumers. The latest example is the agency’s proposal to tighten the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Particulate Matter (PM) 2.5. The NAAQS PM2.5 rewrite is particularly aggravating because there are significant parts of the U.S. that are still in nonattainment of the current standards.
Our industry is committed to being a world leader in air quality standards through constant innovation and technological advancements. The collective effort by our members to be as efficient and sustainable as possible is one of the main reasons that PM2.5 levels in the United States dropped by an astounding 44% between 2000 and 2020.
Unfortunately, the federal government is neglecting the contributions the American business community has made to help the U.S. achieve a balance between environmental protection and economic growth. Piling on additional federal regulations only serves to increase costs for businesses and consumers and make us more reliant on foreign nations with lower air quality standards.
As inflation remains high and our economic outlook becomes more precarious, the last thing the government should be doing is advancing rules and policies that put further upward pressure on energy prices. We call on the EPA to reverse course on its NAAQS PM2.5 proposal.
We the people of the USA have been thoroughly, but temporarily, infected with a nasty anti-government austerist virus on our way together toward a more perfect union and our nation’s 250th birthday. We have been de facto discouraged from cooperating together proactively to ensure that our government responsively serves us all, and not just a favored few of our fellow citizens and our major corporations. And we remain far too discouraged and uncooperative to this very day.
Our current leaders have overly deregulated our major corporations and even our system of government. Because of this, we are experiencing unprecedented and growing inequality in income, wealth, opportunity, hope, and prospects. We have baked a national cake of anti-government resentment and neglect. And we have frosted and candled it with a devastating discouraged tendency to avoidably accept austerity.
We are being told falsely that we have selfishly taken more than our share – that we have overspent and overconsumed so excessively that we are shortchanging the future well-being of our children, grandchildren, and posterity.
Recent trends in nationally prescribed local and state government accounting and accountability professional standards and resultant emerging financial reporting and budgeting practices have created certain potentials for misleading inference, which are discouraging requisite inclusive civic engagement and begetting misplaced exaggerated concerns about the financial condition and viability of local and state government defined benefit pension plans and our local and state governments themselves.
We live in the richest nation ever. All we need to do to satisfactorily balance personal freedom and social cohesion is to civically engage as our founders and forebears intended. Solutions to currently unmet public needs, and accomplishments of forthcoming consensus public policy objectives, will follow in due course. We just need to publicly and persistently ask more questions and follow-up questions.
If you have tried to navigate College Avenue lately, it is a mess since it is only one lane. Imagine if it was permanently one lane. Choosing to make Vernon one lane each way, even with a turn lane, is not conducive for traffic in our large community.
Imagine one lane east in the morning by Hoose Elementary. Eastbound parents and special ed buses trying to enter the parking lot and drop off areas while westbound cars trying to turn into Hoose are backed up so no eastbound cars can pass. This is what happened when they added two bike lanes and parking on Parkside Road.
Traffic is backed up by Parkside Junior High because there is no longer any room to pass. Added to that backup is parents and students trying to drive to Normal West High School.
Survey the traffic jam this fall to realize how reducing lanes is not the answer. Any easier and cost-effective solution is just to put up a four way stop at Blair drive. Do not let them ruin one of only three east west routes in Normal and be better stewards of our tax dollars.
No one can be God! When Adam and Eve got of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, they want to be like God. God told them the eat of any tree in the Garden other then the tree in the middle of the Garden. God told them if they ate of this tree they would surely die. There was a death that happen. It was a spiritual death that cause a separation in their relationship with God.
We live in a broken world where we see lies are believed over truth, wrong happens over right and immoral trumps being moral. All we have to do is watch the news everyday to see what is happening in our culture. Let us realize we cannot be God and subject our life after God.
Also, if baking a cake for a gay couple is participating in a gay marriage, what do you say about a person who sells an assault weapon to a mass shooter is doing? I believe in religionist freedom but baking a cake for gay couple is not endorsing their lifestyle. I also believe in the Second Amendment but there needs to be common sense restrictions.
Both amendments to the Bill of Rights need to respect everyone even those we disagree with on principle. All Americans should be concerned about the rulings coming out of the Supreme Court who should rule for all Americans.
Do you know how safe C02 pipelines are? If not, ask residents of East Palestine, Ohio. Many of them are still ill or disabled due to the recent derailment of a train carrying hazardous materials.
Yes, these are different chemicals, but the results are the same, probably worse, with C02. Wolf and Navigator are two companies who want to build deep underground pipelines to carry liquid C02 through Illinois for storage in Decatur. Safety regulations will probably be completed in 2024 and they want to build the pipelines and storage units before safeguards are in place.
Their goal is to make money. C02 pipeline construction will destroy much of our precious farmland. They may go through environmental justice neighborhoods in our communities, such as Peoria. There is a proposal for a pipeline that will go under or through the Mahomet Aquifer, which supplies water to about 850,000 people, including the entire town of Normal. A leak in the pipeline could destroy our water supply for many years.
Do not let the state of Illinois become a dumping ground for hazardous materials don't want within their borders.
Marilea White, Normal
Contact Brendan Denison at (309) 820-3238. Follow Brendan Denison on Twitter: @BrendanDenison
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STOCKTON, Calif. — Nine years after hostage Misty Holt-Singh was killed in a bank robbery, chase and shootout, the Stockton community is expected to gather Sunday to remember and honor the life of the beloved wife and mother of two.
Holt-Singh was killed after bank robber and gunman Jaime Ramos took her hostage during the robbery and police chase in 2014, ultimately using her as a human shield during a gun battle with police.
Stockton nonprofit, Victims of Violent Crimes of San Joaquin County, has planned a candlelight vigil for 7 p.m. Sunday. The vigil, expected to last until 7:30 p.m., will be held at the corner of Otto Drive and Thornton Road, the location where the police chase came to a violent end leaving Holt-Singh dead on July 16, 2014.
At the intersection, a cross stands and a memorial bench bears her name. In 2019, the city of Stockton named a softball complex at nearby McNair High School in honor of Holt-Singh.
Each year, family members host a memorial golf tournament in Holt-Singh's name. This year's tournament will be held on August 4. Proceeds from the tournament benefit Victims of Violent Crimes of San Joaquin County.
Over the past nine years, more than $300,000 has been raised at the golf tournament.
Case History
On July 16, 2014, 19-year-old Jaime Ramos, 27-year-old Alex Martinez and 30-year-old Gilbert Renteria Jr. entered a Bank of the West on Thornton Road near Hammer Lane in Stockton, armed with AK-47s and handguns.
Police said the three were members of a gang.
After robbing the bank, which has since been demolished, the three gunmen walked out with three female hostages at gunpoint and sped off in a blue Ford Explorer.
For over an hour, the gunmen terrified the community, leading police on a 63-mile-long high-speed chase in and out of Stockton and Lodi. During the chase, which went through several freeways and residential streets, at least one gunman continued to fire at officers, disabling 14 police cars.
Meanwhile, inside the Ford Explorer, one of the hostages was forced to drive until accidentally being shot in the leg by one of the gunmen and thrown out into the street.
A second hostage was hurt after jumping out of the car at 50 miles per hour. Both hostages, who were employees of the bank, survived their injuries.
The violent chase turned into an exchange of gunfire involving the three gunmen and 30 police officers who fired more than 600 rounds into the SUV after it stopped on Thornton Road and Otto Drive, less than two miles from where the robbery and chase began.
Police shot and killed Martinez and Renteria. The sole surviving gunman, Jaime Ramos, used the third hostage, Misty Holt-Singh as a human shield. Police bullets hit and killed Holt-Singh.
In 2015 and 2018, the family of Holt-Singh settled lawsuits with the Bank of the West and the city of Stockton.
Where are the suspects now
The only surviving gunman, Jaime Ramos pled guilty in 2017, avoiding a lengthy trial and possible death sentence. He accepted a plea deal and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Ramos, now 28, is housed at California State Prison Solano in Vacaville.
In 2017, Pablo Ruvalcaba, the man who drove the robbers to the bank, also pled guilty to Holt-Singh's murder. He was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
Ruvalcaba, now 30, is incarcerated at Pelican State Bay Prison in Crescent City. He will be eligible for parole in Sept. 2033.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. — The buildings at 2115 and 2135 on Central Ave in downtown Fort Myers are where the new Fort Myers Police Department headquarters could be.
People and business owners said they think this is a good idea.
“I like it; I’m down for it. They’re making it safer for us,” said Lesly Faeurent, who lives on Royal Palm Ave, right where the proposed police headquarters would go.
Laurent explained, “I honestly think it will be good; it would be really good because we’re in the city and the hood, and it’s really dangerous over here, so if the police of going to be right there, it’s best for us.”
Fort Myers council is meeting tomorrow to possibly set a public hearing for next month.
The idea is to put the FMPD headquarters in the zoned midtown urban center. It would be around 5 acres in total.
The property value is sitting around 8 million dollars.
This is not the first time council has looked to bring FMPD headquarters to midtown, previously looking at the former news-press building on MLK in 2019.
“It sounds good because the whole area is supposed to be midtown, so let’s see what happens,” said Larry Rinna, a business owner across the street.
Some business owners are also in favor of the idea.
“That’d be nice, yeah, I have no problem because, in the past, it’s been a little rough, explained Rinna.
He thinks having FMPD headquarters nearby will help with the business.
“Well yeah, because people will probably feel safe, and they’ll be walking around more,” Rinna said.
You can count on us to let you know when the council decides to hold a public hearing.
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Chris Disney's young daughter from a previous marriage begged him not to go after a ballgame.
That night, he had a dream where she was standing by his coffin, tearfully begging him not to leave.
That's when he decided he had to do something about his weight and get back into better health. The Ford electrician from Park Forest weighed 486 pounds. He had tried to lose weight over the years, through a variety of diets and other methods, but would end up losing 30 pounds and then gaining back 50 while trying every diet plan he could find.
“You felt like you were starving because you weren’t eating right when you are on these diets. It was a never-ending battle,” he said.
So he researched bariatric surgery, which he ended up getting through Community Healthcare System’s Healthy 4 Life program at Community Hospital in Munster. His wife, Stacy, followed suit. They lost a combined 330 pounds.
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"I feel healthier and happier than ever before," she said. "I feel amazing."
She also had struggled with weight loss over the years.
“I had tried Weight Watchers. I did the low-carb thing. I limited my calories. All of those things were making me miserable. If I lost 20 pounds, I would then gain 30 back,” she said.
He first underwent gastric sleeve surgery in November 2018 to ensure that he would be around for his 10-year-old daughter Grace.
“I started to think about what it would be like for her if I wasn’t here,” he said. “I figured if there was ever a good reason to change, it would be that. That made me start looking into weight-loss surgery. I checked around in the area, all the different programs. Fortunately, I found Community’s Healthy 4 Life.”
He had been suffering health issues related to his weight and had wearied of daily inconveniences, like having to use a seat-belt extender in the car.
“I was type 2 diabetic before, and I’m not now. I had severe obstructive sleep apnea. I don’t have that anymore,” he said. “I sleep so much better. I have so much more energy. And all of that together inspired me to go back to school for exercise science. It worked out as a bonus."
He earned a nutrition coach certification and is studying exercise science at Maryville University in St. Louis. He hopes to help other people who have been through bariatric surgery with diet and exercise so they lose weight and keep it off.
"It shrinks the size of your stomach but it's not magic," he said. "You still have to put in the work. You can still eat poorly and eat too frequently. I researched the surgery by watching testimonials on YouTube and it didn't work out for some people. They didn't do the work. It's not a magical cure-all."
Bariatric surgeon Paul Stanish performed the procedures and helped advise them on their weight-loss journey.
“Some people think bariatric surgery is a quick fix for weight loss. It’s not. Patients still have to put in the hard work,” he said. “Stacy and Chris are perfect examples. A combined 330-pound loss is not something that comes easily. Surgery is just a tool. You still have to put in the work. To see success stories like the Disneys’ makes what we do at Healthy 4 Life worth it.”
Chris has dropped to 250 pounds and feels better than ever.
“You still always nitpick yourself: I wish I could I do this or change a little here,” he said. “But then you look back at where you started, and you say, ‘Well, damn! OK'.”
Stacy saw his success and decided to get bariatric surgery. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit, right before she was scheduled for her operation. Elective surgeries were initially restricted, so she decided to postpone it because her husband and family be wouldn't be allowed.
“There was no way I could be in the hospital for this life-changing surgery without my husband, my mom and my people there. When I told them this was my decision, they absolutely praised me,” she recalled. “They said, ‘We are here to support you in any way we can. When you are ready, you say the word'.”
She had since lost 100 pounds and celebrated by getting a tattoo of a mountain range with the words “It’s not always a straight climb to the top.”
They said Community Hospital in Munster was supportive as they sought to shed pounds and keep them off.
“They are always a phone call or an email away,” Stacy said. “It is very much an extended family. They know you by name. You’re not just a patient.”
A team of doctors, nurses and nutritionists at Community Healthcare System guided them on their journey.
“If you have a question about your diet or some effect that you’re experiencing, everyone is right there,” Chris said. “It’s like a library. Everything you need to know is in the Healthy 4 Life office.”
They say the weight loss has been transformative, making daily life much easier.
“I still giggle when certain things happen now. Like when I used to drop something on the ground when I was around 300 pounds, I would just get another one of whatever it was. Now I can bend down and get it no problem,” Stacy said. “Life’s not a struggle. Chris can get his arms all the way around me to hug me. For me, it’s those little things that are bigger things that a lot of people take for granted.”
For more information, visit COMHS.org/services/bariatric-medicine.
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Mi Tierra closing after 22 years; La Carreta, Flako's Tacos, Wendy's, Bulldog Ale House, WhoaZone, The Love of Arts and Illinois Dermatology Institute opening
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With sharks being spotted from Cape Cod to Florida, Virginians are keeping watch for the finned creatures. Several shark incidents around the Fourth of July and beyond have kept beachgoers on alert, even though data suggest that attacks in Virginia are extremely rare.
"The number of people that are attacked or bitten by a shark per year is miniscule compared to the number of times the shark has been completely close to you and you had no idea," said Timshel Purdum, deputy director for education at the Science Museum of Virginia in Richmond.
According to the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History, Virginia has had five confirmed unprovoked shark attacks since 1837. By comparison, bordering North Carolina checks in with 78 attacks during that period, the fourth-most in the country.
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Although five shark bites were reported in New York during a recent two-day stretch, sharks were not spotted in at least two of the incidents.
"Lots of things bite," Purdum said. "The shark might get the bad rap, but there's a lot of things with teeth in the ocean."
Purdum says many viral shark videos — such as the Florida spotting on July 4 — can be faked or can be misleading because the average person might mistake a dolphin for a shark during a brief glimpse.
Earlier this month, the sighting of a 10-foot shark prompted the closure of a Long Island, New York, beach. Earlier, a group of about 50 sand sharks were spotted off the coast.
“We are now more vigilant than ever,” said George Gorman, the New York park director in Long Island. “We have drones in the sky that watch over the waters. We have lifeguards on WaveRunners that watch over the waters.”
Virginia's low shark attack total could be attributed to the Chesapeake Bay, which largely contains brackish water that is saltier than fresh water but not as salty as seawater. Species that frequent the bay include tiger sharks, bull sharks, sandbar sharks, reef sharks and the occasional hammerhead sharks.
The bay's conditions make for a less attractive environment for other species. Temperature shifts due to climate change have also been cited as possible factors in sharks moving away from areas they previously inhabited.
Sharks may appear more frequently in the portion of Virginia along the Atlantic Ocean. The shark population has been helped since overfishing in the 1980s. In 2001, then Gov. Jim Gilmore created a shark task force to increase ocean-beach safety after two deadly shark attacks in Virginia and North Carolina waters.
Still, the overall risk of being attacked remains relatively small.
"Sharks are really interesting, awesome creatures," said Jennifer Guild, communications director for the Science Museum. "If we're really embracing awareness and trying to understand them, then it's not just about this one seemingly scary part of their behavior."
Whether you live near the coast or are traveling to visit an ocean this summer, it's always important to be safe and aware of your surroundings when swimming.
Even with very few shark incidents across the commonwealth, the Science Museum does offer some shark safety recommendations for vacationers heading to Virginia Beach and elsewhere:
- Remain calm during a potential shark spotting: Splashing and screaming can generate more flashing of the body, making it more attractive to a shark that might mistake a person for a fish.
- Avoid heavy fishing areas: The bait plus the fish that are caught can release blood that attracts sharks.
- Do not wear shiny jewelry in the water: The accessories could resemble fish scales or school fish.
- Avoid swimming between dusk and dawn: Certain shark species are crepuscular, meaning they are active during dark periods.
- Stay out of the water: "I know it's not an answer, but it is their habitat right?" Purdum pointed out.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church’s 74th festival, a community staple, drew in crowds hoping to have some family fun and a heaping servings of spaghetti this weekend.
The festival ran Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Columbus Park, 22nd Avenue and 54th Street, featuring live music, plenty of Italian entrees, deserts and more.
The “anchor” to the event, according to festival board member Claudia Presta, is always the spaghetti dinner. On Friday, Presta said they served a record-breaking 858 people, shattering previous daily records by over 100 people. Meals were served up again Saturday at the parish hall.
Presta, who has worked the event since she was in the fifth grade and has been a board member for over a decade, reflected on how the event has changed, and remained the same, in that time.
“It’s gotten bigger,” Presta said. “The core traditions are still here, those have been consistent. But the sheer size of the event has grown considerably.”
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The scale of the event requires an incredible amount of work. The spaghetti meal alone required 1,000 lbs of pasta and 225 gallons of sauce, according to organizers.
It takes an army of volunteers willing to put in the work, including Presta.
“For me it’s important because I grew up here,” Presta said. “It’s important the church continues the values and traditions.”
Presta said that was one of the benefits of the festival was building relationships as people work together every year. As she made her way through the church kitchen and back rooms, she pointed out childhood friends and relatives all working hard.
That included Kris Keckeisen, her childhood friend and a volunteer with the Mt. Carmel Ladies Society, the driving force behind the spaghetti dinner. Keckeisen reflected on returning to the event after working it as a student years ago.
“It’s come full circle,” Keckeisen said. “I can see how much work there is. It takes a village.”
An important part of organizing the event, Presta said, is bringing in younger church members to help.
“A lot of the younger generation comes to help now,” Presta said. “It makes it more fun and makes sure it continues for generations to come.”
Many of the event organizers have been attending it since they were children. Festival chair Tom Rizzo said he’s been at the event since he was 10 years old.
“I watched the new church be built brick by brick,” Rizzo said. “I go back a long way.”
Like his fellow organizers, Rizzo emphasized the importance of the festival’s volunteers, saying they were “blessed” to have the support they did.
“It takes a lot of work,” Rizzo said. “That’s the part people need to understand, it takes a village.”
Festival organizer Chuck Romano has also been involved since a young age, with his father having helped build the new church. The tradition is important to him.
“It’s generational; it goes back to our fathers, their fathers, to immigrants from Italy,” Romano said. “The event makes money, but that’s not why we do this. Being here, it’s like having a second family.”
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What started as a company-wide effort to raise funds for the American Heart Association’s Southeast Wisconsin Heart and Stroke Walk two years ago took the next step last year when it expanded to the grounds of UW-Parkside.
Now in its third year, Vonco Products President Keith Smith is hoping to move the needle even further.
Vonco, based in Trevor, again is sponsoring a 5K Run/Walk on Saturday, Aug. 19, at the Wayne E. Dannehl National Cross Country Course, Petrifying Springs Road, Kenosha. All proceeds will benefit the Association’s Sept. 23 Heart and Stroke Walk in Milwaukee.
Smith has multiple reasons to keep growing the event. His grandfather died from a heart attack, and both his father and brother have had heart attacks.
“(That caused me) to really get passionate about healthy lifestyles,” he said. “Not necessarily just to avoid heart attacks, but it was more to manage my energy and what I want to accomplish in life by having the right (things) in place. I wanted to find ways and other outlets to kind of give back and join forces with other folks that have a similar message.”
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Helping the American Heart Association and it’s Heart and Stroke Walk in Milwaukee is the perfect fit.
“One of the things that I love about the Heart Association is their extreme focus for fitness and health. … I love what they promote from that standpoint, and I look to find ways to promote that within my organization as well and (with) anybody I come across.”
Last year’s event drew about 100 people and raised just shy of $3,500 for the American Heart Association – decent numbers for just the second year, but Smith wants to keep it growing.
“I’d love to see us take a stronger position in the Kenosha and Racine counties (and build this event),” Smith said. “It’s on a beautiful course. For anybody interested in running, it’s one of the nation’s best cross country courses to run a 5K, gorgeous in the shade through the running trails, a beautiful forest.
“It will be a beautiful day to get the family out and support a really good cause.”
Smith urges other area businesses to enter a team – or teams – for the Aug. 19 event.
“Get three or four people together and commit to going,” he said. “It’s early in the morning, a quick walk (or run) around, support a good cause and get your day started.
“That’s a big part of my health journey, is starting your day by investing in yourself with something healthy. A beautiful morning in August, it’s still cool. Get your walk in, and I promise that day will have a little bit of a different and more positive spin to it. You’ll just be in a better mood all day.”
The event is set up for all kinds of athletes. Serious runners can compete in the 5K, but there’s also a walk for those who want to get their daily steps in.
And it’s a chance to mingle with other businesses from the area as well.
“If you want to run in the morning and go for your PR, that’s great, I’ll be there right alongside you,” Smith said. “But I just want to see you out there walking, getting to know people. We have a great community, great people. Network a bit, get some exercise in, support a good cause and just be part of something that’s a little bit bigger than you.”
Athletes from both UW-Parkside cross country teams will assist with running the event, according to Parkside Assistant Athletic Director Jake Sutter.
Parkside is happy to partner with Vonco and the AHA on this event, Sutter said.
“Our department is very thankful for Vonco Products choosing us as their teammate in hosting (this event),” he said. “We are hoping that this year we shatter our attendance record from last year and have a number of people walking/running in support of this great cause on a nationally-ranked cross country course and making a Ranger ‘Impact’ with us.”
Check-in for the run begins at 9 a.m., followed by the rain-or-shine event at 10:30 a.m. The cost for the run is $35, while the walk is free.
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Pinpointing that moment when Ben Loseke’s hobby became a business — a family-owned company with a current valuation of about $8 million — is up for debate.
There are plenty of possibilities for when the seeds to Midwest Barrel Co. — with offices in Lincoln and Louisville, Kentucky — were planted.
It could have been a decade ago when, as a graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Loseke bought a broken power washer at a garage sale for $20, fixed it and decided he didn’t need it.
So he sold it online for $150, which spurred both his entrepreneurial side and his thrill-of-the-hunt mentality.
Up to that point, his career track was pretty straight forward. He says he planned to be a college professor.
However, his best friend from grade school and high school and college roommate — the man who has since become Midwest Barrel’s chief financial officer — always remembers that entrepreneurial side.
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“He was always coming up with his next business idea when we were rooming together,” Josh Hoefler said.
This was just a side hustle that took off and became too big to stay on the side.
It started off with dozens of auctions, garage sales and flea markets. Loseke bought everything he thought he could fix and resell. Lawnmowers, he says, were his specialty.
The 2006 Norris High School graduate just sort of happened upon the barrel business, which at that time was not really a thing. But he immediately saw two things every entrepreneur craves: supply and demand.
After buying his first batch of barrels — a modest 25 of them from a winery in Napa — he struggled to resell them.
“They were selling, but not very quickly,” he said. “And then somebody told me craft breweries were barrel-aging their beer. I had no idea that was a thing.”
It turned out to be a game-changer. He researched the subject and then loaded one of the barrels into the back of his Chevy pickup. He made the rounds through Lincoln, from brewery to brewery, asking beermakers to smell the inside of the barrel.
“They thought I was crazy,” he says.
But somehow it worked. The local breweries — places like Blue Blood and Zipline — began buying them, aging their beers in them to extract the oak and Chardonnay notes.
Loseke did that for a couple of years, slowly growing what he was reluctant to call a business.
In actuality, he didn’t know what to call it.
“It got to the point where he said, ‘This is either a hobby that’s gotten too big or a business that’s too small,’” said Jessica Loseke, Ben’s wife who now is Midwest Barrel’s CEO. “’It’s one or the other.’”
They chose the latter. They had a small business on their hands. They also had the good fortune of a perfectly timed market that placed them on the ground floor of a venture that was ready to take off.
Not long after, he fully committed to the business by buying a truckload — 270 of them in all at a cost of $25,000 — of barrels, all kinds from Ports to blushes to Cabernets and crammed them into six storage units on South Street.
“Today, it’s so surprising to me that people took me seriously,” Ben Loseke says. “They bought barrels from this random guy that was selling them out of a storage unit.”
Eventually, Midwest Barrel abandoned the storage units and moved into office space big enough to warehouse thousands of barrels.
When Jim Ballard wanted to experiment with aging his James Arthur Vineyards wines in spirits barrels, he knew who to call.
Loseke’s father, Tim, was a contract grower of grapes for the Raymond winery and the two have known each other for years.
“I buy all my barrels from him,” Ballard said. “You walk into his warehouse, this huge place, and there’s this incredible smell because there’s all these used barrels. He’s grown that business in a very short time.
“That’s a pretty good hobby.”
It’s a hobby no more, remember?
Ben Loseke is quick to give most of the credit for that to Jessica, who would eventually join the company, but not without reservation from her husband.
In 2017, Jessica had a good job in human resources. She’d just given birth to their second child and pitched the idea of working at the barrel company.
Ben Loseke wasn’t sure the company could survive so he was reluctant to have his wife give up her paycheck.
“I was like, ‘No way. It’s not a real business,’” he said. “It was way too risky for us to be doing that. She had a good job, why would she leave that?”
Eventually, she just did it. She left her job and showed up for work at Midwest Barrel.
She also hired Hoefler, who said Ben Loseke was reluctant to do so “because he didn’t want to lose his best friend” if the business failed.
“She makes all the big decisions,” Ben Loseke said. “She’s the visionary of the company and has big audacious goals for it and wants to push us to new levels.”
And in January, Midwest Barrel, with more than 1,000 American and foreign clients, made its biggest move by relocating a huge portion of the company — and the Loseke family — to Louisville, Kentucky, so they could be closer to the bourbon barrels and their distillers.
“If we would not have made that decision, it certainly would significantly have constrained our growth potential,” said Jessica Loseke, pointing to two key factors: shipping and barrel availability.
Midwest Barrel now has a significant portion of its barrels going overseas. In the past, the barrels were bought from distillers in Kentucky and shipped back to Lincoln, where they were put back onto containers and transported to the East Coast to be delivered to other continents.
Opening a facility in Louisville allowed them to save time — and shipping costs — on what was a needless trip back to Lincoln.
“Now we’re able to buy and transport them 30 miles away and get a container from a quarter of a mile away with their shipping hub,” she said. “Operationally, that was one big focus for us.”
Consider that a single barrel is nearly 3 feet high and weighs about 120 pounds. The cost to ship one is about $185. It’s more cost efficient to ship more than one on pallets, Ben Loseke said, but it’s never been inexpensive.
Another change in the industry has been the availability of barrels. With more demand has come a scarcity of the product and a reluctance for distillers to part with their used barrels, which are suddenly considered a commodity.
Being based in Kentucky is key because, “the bourbon industry is still very much a handshake type of industry where they like doing business with the same people and getting in relationships with people that they can trust,” Jessica Loseke said.
“Being closer to the source and developing relationships here in Kentucky has been really key for us.”
The warehouse in Kentucky currently has 10,000 barrels in stock, she said.
Don’t get the wrong idea. Midwest Barrel started in Lincoln and will continue to have a Lincoln presence, both Ben and Jessica Loseke say.
“Is it going to look different than what it has been? Absolutely,” Jessica Loseke said. “It’s not going to be the same.”
But when three of the original hires — Hoefler, art director Gina Gathan and Ethan Schulenberg, the director of business development — are based in Lincoln and plan on staying here, it’s fair to assume that the company will never leave its Nebraska roots.
“We will continue to have an office in Lincoln,” Ben Loseke said. “This is where we started the business. This is where our families are.”
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BLACK CANYON CITY, Ariz. — Power has been restored to nearly 2,000 homes and businesses in the Black Canyon City area.
About 1,700 customers are without power, according to the APS power outage map.
Customers are not supposed to have power restored until at least 2:45 p.m., APS said. The cause of the outage is under investigation.
The outage boundaries are from Interstate 17 to Jacie Road and from Kings Way to Trails End Ranch Road.
The outage comes on a day where the temperature at sunrise in Black Canyon City was 82 degrees with the daytime high expected to reach 112.
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VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man who they said drove from another county to have sex with a 12-year-old girl.
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According to a news release, deputies stopped 29-year-old Brandon Keith Donato Saturday night.
Deputies said Donato, a Cocoa Beach man, had traveled to see the girl twice before.
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Investigators said the girl shared videos of her and the man she thought was a 17-year-old named Brandon Smith.
The girl told detectives she had met him on Wink, a social media app for teens, and they communicated through messages.
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Analysts with the Volusia County Crime Center found Donato’s identity through social media and license plate readers from when the girl saw him.
The sheriff’s office said a detective took over the conversation and arranged a meeting with Donato in Deltona, where deputies arrested him.
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Donato is charged with lewd or lascivious battery on a child, using a computer to solicit and traveling to meet the child.
He is currently at the Volusia County Branch Jail with a bond of $350,000.
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Extension FILE PHOTO: The Norwegian Gem cruise ship is shown docked, Monday, Aug. 9, 2021, at PortMiami in Miami. Federal health officials are extending until mid-January its rules that cruise ships must follow to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks. The rules were scheduled to expire Nov. 1. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday, Oct. 25 that the extension makes only minor modifications to current rules. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File) (Wilfredo Lee/AP)
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SANFORD, Fla. — If you are a Sanford resident, you can now file a police report online.
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Through the DORS (Desk Officer Reporting System) tool, residents can now conveniently report certain crimes through a user-friendly online portal using any electronic device.
Officials said the system should not be used for emergencies, and the incidents must be within the City of Sanford.
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The following types of reports will be accepted through the new system:
- Theft
- Criminal Mischief
- Certain Financial crimes
- Harassing phone calls
- House watch requests
- Identity theft
- Missing/Lost Property
- Traffic complaints
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The Sanford Police Department said that the online system can’t be used if there are known suspects related to the crime filed.
DORS aims to help the Sanford Police Department provide a better service to residents and make filing a crime report easier for victims.
To access the online system, click here.
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THORNTON PARK, Fla. — Thornton Park is set to hold its 9th annual Putt N’ Pour Pub Crawl.
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The Putt N’ Pour Pub Crawl is part pub crawl and part mini-golf tournament, and a chance to hang with old friends and make new ones as you putt for prizes and party.
The tourney consists of nine holes of mini golf at nine different bars in the heart of the Thornton Park District.
Participants will play nine holes that will be designed and built by each host location, as well as enjoy drink specials and prizes.
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Scorecards will be stamped at each venue when golfers play the hole; contestants with all nine holes completed can submit their scorecard at the after-party to be entered to win prizes.
At the end of the pub crawl, golfers and spectators will get together at The 808 for the official after-party complete with drink specials, prizes, and a costume contest.
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Participating venues include The 808, The Abbey, Aku Aku, Burton’s, Cavo’s Bar & Kitchen, Dolce, Eola Wine Company, Graffiti Junktion, Olde Town Brokers, and The Veranda Thornton Park.
The event will be held on Saturday, July 22 from noon to 4 p.m.
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A portion of the proceeds will benefit Florida Theatrical Association.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – Sunday marked the final day of the American Jet Sport Association’s (AJSA) racing weekend in the Tri-Cities. The event saw both seasoned and beginner riders compete at Winged Deer Park.
The event brought people from all over the country to the region to compete in different levels of races. Bradley Adams with AJSA says they decided to bring the competition to Johnson City not only due to the course design potential, but because of the welcome they received from the city.
“We also look for cities who are receptive to having an event like this and are a joy to work with,” said Adams. “And Johnson City has proven to be that. The relationship is building, we’re very happy with Johnson City. We’re excited to be here and the race site is proving to be wonderful.”
Adams says having competitors from different parts of the United States builds a sense of community within the racers.
“We do have people from up north, down south, east coast, west coast,” he said. “You know, we have racers come from everywhere. The sport is not massive. And so we give people a platform to bring their jet skis, race here, provide good competition. And it’s neat to see your race family at these events.”
The AJSA isn’t the only group benefitting from the event. James Mauney, the Sports Sales Manager for Visit Johnson City, said they’ve seen a rise in tourism since the event began.
“We realized that we’ve got a lot of extra hotel nights from this event, particularly for Johnson City, so that’s the way to do it,” said Mauney. “And then we’re able to associate kind of a number with every person on what we think they might spend. And it’s turned out to be what we thought it would be, which is pretty good.”
Mauney said he hopes those from out of town visiting Johnson City for the event received a sense of support from the community.
“We just want to show them that we have an awesome space for them to have their jet skis as well as other events, and maybe it helps them bring it back and make it more of an experience and bigger for our general public to come back as well,” said Mauney.
The event held this weekend served as rounds seven and eight of the racing series. The series has a total of 13 rounds, with the next one taking place July 29-30 in Chattanooga.
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KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — A local motorcycle club and nonprofit named the Guardian Riders gathered on Sunday to surprise the family of two children who were burned in an accident involving a bonfire on July 4.
The Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office previously told News Channel 11 that the incident was deemed accidental. The sheriff’s office stated an aerosol can ended up in the fire, causing injuries to the two children.
Nitro, the Guardian Riders’ club president, said they strive to provide support to local victims of all sorts.
“It’s a labor of love to see, you know, 75 big ole tattoo bearded bikers with tears in their eyes, but half these guys cried on the way over here,” Nitro said. “But if you don’t tear up, if you don’t feel some emotion for these kids and what these little heroes are going through, then this club isn’t for you.”
According to the club’s social media, the oldest boy, Jackson, returned home from a burn unit last week. His younger brother, Christopher, is reportedly still hospitalized. A third boy reportedly witnessed the July 4 accident but was uninjured, and he was able to be a part of today’s surprise, as well.
The club took up donations during Sunday’s ride, which ended with the entire group pulling up to the kids’ home with numerous surprises. One of those surprises was a pair of masked superheroes in their flashy “Batmobile.”
“This is what Guardian Riders do, this is what we were founded to do,” Nitro said.
“We are a victims advocate club and these little guys are the heroes and, I mean, they lit up when Batman rolled in, but man the blessing’s ours.”
Club members drove up to the Kingsport residence in mass numbers, toting toys and more to gift to the kids.
The Guardian Riders said all donations raised on Sunday will go directly to the boys’ family.
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CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — The Chambersburg Police Department is currently investigating an alleged hit-and-run into a home.
According to police reports, during the overnight hours from July 14 into July 15, a vehicle struck the side of a home in the 300 block of East Washington Street.
The vehicle is believed to be red or maroon in color, and will have damage to the front passenger side with pieces of the plastic hubcap missing from the tire, police stated.
If anyone sees the vehicles or has any information regarding the incident, they are asked to contact the Chambersburg Police Department at 717-264-4131, or by submitting a tip through CRIMEWATCH.
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BETHEL PARK, Pa. — The Bethel Park Police Department is looking for a missing teen.
Amor Wilson, 15, was last seen early Saturday morning with a male companion
She is 5 feet 7 inches tall and around 150 pounds. She has short faded red hair.
Wilson was last wearing a black hoodie with black and gray pajama pants and black and white Air Jordan shoes.
Police believe Wilson may be in the Coverdale area.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Bethel Park Police Department at 412-833-2000.
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PITTSBURGH — After trailing for most of the game, the Pittsburgh Pirates tied the game up in the eighth inning but it was not enough as the San Francisco Giants struck for five runs in the 10th inning and defeated the Pirates by a final score of 8-4.
To begin extra innings Wilmer Flores led off the inning with a single into right field off of Pirates pitcher Yerry De Los Santos which advanced Casey Schmitt to third base. Joc Pederson then hit a sacrifice fly to score Schmitt from third to give San Francisco the lead.
Following the sac-fly, Michael Conforto and Patrick Bailey hit two, RBI doubles in the extra frame to extend the Giants lead to five.
After struggling to produce any offense over the course of the middle stages of the game as the Pirates collected just two hits over the course of five innings after combining for five hits over the first two innings, Pittsburgh struck back in the late stages of the game.
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NOBLE COUNTY, Ind. — Indiana Conservation Officers are investigating after they recovered the body of a 6-year-old girl.
The child was found in Bixler Lake in Kendallville Sunday afternoon.
She was last seen swimming in shallow water before relatives found her unresponsive at 1:02 p.m.
Lifesaving efforts were taken by both family members and responders, but the victim was pronounced dead a short time later.
Officials are still investigating.
Indiana Conservation Officers would like to remind the public to always wear a personal floatation device when in or near the water and always keep a watchful eye on children around water.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A woman was injured after being found suffering from a gunshot wound inside of her vehicle early Sunday morning, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies said they responded to the area of Alafaya Heights Road and South Alafaya Trail around 3:30 a.m. in reference to a shooting.
According to a news release, deputies located a 26-year-old woman inside of a vehicle who had been shot.
The woman was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries, deputies said.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an economic development Statement of Intent with the French Minister for Foreign Trade, Economic Attractiveness and Foreign Nationals Abroad Olivier Becht while in Paris on Friday.
The stop was the final on a European tour for Abbott, his wife, First Lady Cecilia Abbott, and Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson to promote economic partnerships between Texas and various European nations.
“Collaborating with our economic partners around the globe will ensure the Texas economy continues to flourish. By signing this statement of intent, it will encourage foreign business investment, promote economic development projects and increase trade opportunities between Texas and France. Forging strong economic bonds with reliable partners is more important now than ever. Texas is proud to have that strong partnership with France. Working together, we will bring more economic development opportunities to Texas from France than ever before,” Gov. Abbott said in a statement.
Abbott was joined by a Texas delegation that included the Governor’s Office of Economic Development and Tourism Executive Director Adriana Cruz and Texas Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors Vice Chairman Arun Agarwal.
France was the last stop in Abbott's economic development mission, which included trips to Germany, the United Kingdom and France. The delegation participated in a total of 20 meetings and events during the five-day trip.
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Places to find a lobster roll; Taunton employee salaries: Top stories
Before we begin the new week in earnest, we're taking a look back at the week that was, and the stories that led the news with Taunton Daily Gazette readers.
Top stories this past week included:
A New Bedford man facing charges in a Taunton crash that killed a Fall River man. State Police allege Fred Moreira, 35, of New Bedford, was drunk when he drove his Lexus on the southbound side of Route 24 and struck two motorcycles that merged onto the highway from Route 140 at approximately 2:30 a.m. on July 8. Fall River resident Tyler Moniz, 30, was fatally injured in the crash. Moreira was arraigned in Taunton District Court on Monday to answer the State Police charges of vehicular homicide, operating under the influence of alcohol, and negligence.
The Holy Ghost Society of East Taunton held its annual Portuguese festa last weekend, and we were there for the procession and the crowning moments.
These were the Top 5 stories of the past week, according to Gazette readers:
4 Taunton employees earned more than $300K. Here are the top 10 highest paid in 2022
Which municipal employees made the most in Taunton in 2022? The Gazette analyzed salary data to find out.
As in the last time the Gazette crunched the numbers, the list of top paid city employees is dominated by members of the Police and Fire departments. Of the top 100 highest paid employees, 88 came from Police and Fire.
Let's take a look at the Top 10 from 2022.
4 Taunton employees earned $300K+:Here are the top 10 highest paid in 2022
5 places in the Taunton area to find a fresh, mouthwatering lobster roll
One of the dishes that is synonymous with a New England summer is the lobster roll.
Whether you like yours warm with butter or served chilled with mayo, there are lots of options around the Taunton area where you can find one.
Summertime eats:5 places in the Taunton area to find a fresh, mouthwatering lobster roll
Taunton eyes these 9 vacant properties for redevelopment or preservation
The former Leonard School is among nine vacant properties the city is reviewing for potential redevelopment or preservation.
Eight of the nine properties are city-owned, the one exception being the vacant, privately owned former Bacon Felt Factory at 395 West Water St.
Taunton Gazette Reporter Ed Baker takes a look at the list of properties, right here.
Old buildings, new life?:Taunton eyes these 9 vacant properties for redevelopment or preservation
Weekly home sales: Spacious Taunton tenement home fully rented sells for $700K
The latest Greater Taunton real estate report featured a multi-family home in Taunton that sold for $700,000.
Built in 1985, all the units in the Columbus Avenue home are fully rented to long-term tenants. The property includes a cozy farmer’s porch, a small yard, and off-street parking.
Check out this property, as well as other recent top-sellers.
Weekly home sales:Spacious Taunton tenement home fully rented sells for $700K.
New D-R principal's 'magnetic personality' will help 'bring these two towns together'
According to D-R Superintendent of Schools William Runey, that's not all she'll be transplanting to the local school system.
"There's an energy and an aura about her," he said to explain why she was hired. "She's very personable to everybody. She's got a magnetic personality that will help bring these two towns together. Her engaging, communicative and collaborative leadership style will be a great fit for our #WeAreDR community, especially in this crucial period of transition."
New principal at D-R:New D-R principal's 'magnetic personality' will help 'bring these two towns together'
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Taunton family who lost 13-year-old to rare disorder determined to honor her memory
TAUNTON — The words “not a choice” are tattooed on Maria Santarpia's right forearm in dedication to her daughter Emily.
It’s a statement that used to be said everytime Emily complained about the amount of medication she needed to take every day.
“I would say ‘It’s not a choice,’” Maria said.
Eventually, Emily would beat her to the punch, saying it herself every time, so it became a family saying.
Maria said the tattoo is a reminder to herself that when hardships come, to do what needs to be done.
“When life gets tough, you remember that it’s ‘not a choice,’” Maria said.
Emily Mae Santarpia was 13 ½ when she died in January.
What is the illness Emily had, isodicentric 15?
At only 3 months old, Emily was diagnosed with a rare genetic condition called isodicentric 15 (IDIC(15) or Dup15q), a chromosomal abnormality where one chromosome — in this case, the 15th — has a piece broken off, forming or duplicating a new chromosome. Basically, Emily was born with 47, not 46, chromosomes.
Carrie Howell, Executive Director for the global corporate nonprofit, Dup15q Alliance, said there are around 2200 diagnosed cases of Dup15q worldwide. IDIC (15) is a type of Dup15q.
Howell said research shows some rare cases where IDIC(15) could have resulted through the passing of extra genetic material by a parent during pregnancy. Mostly, it's a random mutation, with no attributed cause or reason for IDIC(15) to occur.
"There’s absolutely nothing to prevent it or that causes it," said Howell.
“Her abnormality was a fluke that just happened,” said Maria, adding she had a normal pregnancy and childbirth of twins, including Kimberly, Emily’s sister, born 2 minutes apart, on March 18, 2009.
Kimberly was not diagnosed with IDIC(15).
Howell adds that scientists believe the prevalence rate for Dup15q could be 1 out of every 20,000 new births, or as high as 1-5,000, but not enough testing is done to narrow those estimates. She encourages parents to conduct more genetic testing, especially if a child has autism. "Parents should use their gut instinct."
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Learning to manage
Symptoms vary from person-to-person, but IDIC(15) is generally associated with physical developmental issues and learning challenges.
In Emily’s case, she was diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum by age 2. She also dealt with cognitive, speech and motor function delays. She started physical therapy at 5 months old and also had other therapy, like speech and language therapy.
“Therapy became a way of life. Her whole life was structured around therapy,” Maria said.
For most of her life, IDIC(15) was manageable. Emily could walk and was generally a very physically active kid.
“She was a tomboy,” said John Santarpia, Emily’s father.
She loved attending Edward F. Leddy Preschool and East Taunton Elementary School. Her parents say she loved playing soccer, basketball, and swimming. She even played with a youth soccer league in Fall River for four years.
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Wanting to give back
The Santarpias started Dreams for Emily in 2010. The non-profit organization advocates for IDIC(15), epilepsy management and autism awareness, and it also does fundraising to help children and families dealing with these conditions.
John explained the decision to start Dreams for Emily was based on how fortunate they felt having access to all the medical care and resources they had through Boston’s medical and research facilities and “we wanted to pay that forward to others.”
“We felt blessed that Emily could walk and speak. We knew there were kids that couldn’t and would never. We wanted to give back,” Maria said.
Dreams for Emily has done assorted fundraising events for gathering donations for IDIC(15) and autism research. They’ve collaborated on children’s charity events with other non-profits, like Helping Hands and Common Threads.
Through Dreams for Emily, they have been able to connect with families all over the world dealing with the costs of IDIC(15). Dubbed Emily’s “siblings,” the group’s efforts for these families have included providing holiday gifts, called "Emily’s holiday blessings," as well as iPads for non-verbal kids, sensory lighting, service dogs and other assistive and educational help.
Dreams for Emily worked to convince the Hannaford’s in Taunton to introduce to the store Caroline’s Cart, a shopping cart specifically meant to carry kids with autism or certain physical disabilities.
Dreams for Emily is also a big advocate for Project Lifesaver, a search and rescue program that gives public safety agencies, families and caregivers the means to track at-risk people with cognitive disorders and conditions, like Alzheimer’s, Down syndrome and autism, who are prone to wandering.
Emily's condition deteriorates
Epileptic seizures are a common symptom of IDIC(15). Emily’s parents said seizures were a rare occurrence for more than half of her life.
But at age 8, Emily was diagnosed with Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome, which produces varying types of epileptic seizures that don’t respond to medication. With her epilepsy worsening, she became homebound with her individualized education plan at East Taunton Elementary, and eventually Friedman Middle School.
Then while getting routine lab work at Boston Children’s Hospital in March 2019, a terrible bout of epilepsy occurred which resulted in her remaining in the ICU for 10 days and in the hospital for three months. This incident left Emily no longer able to walk and with irreparable lung damage.
At night she needed to be on a ventilator and placed on a monitoring system to alert when a seizure happened. Either John or Maria would sleep with her in her bedroom every night in the event a seizure took place.
Despite all the hardships, the family said Emily always stayed in high spirits.
“She was always happy. She had a great personality," Maria said.
'She fought so hard': Emily comes home
This past January Emily was taken to Boston Children’s Hospital for respiratory distress. Years of aspiration pneumonia had left her lungs heavily scarred. Maria and John said they were told there if Emily were placed in the ICU, she would probably never leave.
“We knew her life was limited,” said Maria, saying doctors didn’t give Emily a long life expectancy. “We cared more about quality of life, not quantity,” and “we wanted her home with family as much as possible,” and not stuck in the hospital.
After a few days at Boston Children’s, Emily was discharged and brought back home. She would eventually be placed on hospice care at home.
“They told us she had hours to days to live. She fought so hard,” Maria said.
Over the next couple of days the Santarpia family prepared for the inevitable. They invited extended family over to visit Emily. The family’s priest from St. Andrew the Apostle Church in Taunton visited to administer Emily her last rites.
John said even though Emily wasn’t communicative at this point, “She was aware, receptive, she understood.”
On Jan. 30, Emily died in the arms of her parents, with all of her siblings standing by her bed. The official cause was acute respiratory failure attributed to prolonged lung damage.
Remembering Emily
The family is still in mourning and not yet ready to remove any of the medical devices and handicapped tools in their home used for Emily.
“We are honestly still processing her loss. It’s still surreal,” John said.
The family is doing its best to think only about the good memories.
John said one of Emily’s favorite things to watch was "Charlie Brown" and she would recite the lines from "It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" for everyone's amusement.
“She'd say the lines before the character,” John said.
In 2018, when she was still healthy enough, Emily got to experience a week in Orlando, Florida with the whole family as part of the Make a Wish Foundation. They went to Disneyworld, Universal Studios, Epcot Center and Sea World.
“She had so much fun,” John said.
A more recent memory came when the family took Emily to Deep Pond Farm & Stables in Taunton last December. “She loved farm animals. This was the last fun thing she did,” said John, adding “if she was still alive, we would be there all the time.”
Emily's legacy
The family is continuing the mission of Dreams for Emily.
“She loved the attention she got at events,” John said.
Maria said they are thinking of setting up a memorial scholarship named after Emily, to be used by recipients with IDIC(15), autism or Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome for various therapy programs or medical needs.
When the family is ready, they will restart fundraising efforts.
Said John, “That first time it does happen, it will be therapeutic for us.”
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CANTON, Pa. — A woman is dead after an ATV crash in Bradford County.
It happened on Barnes Hill Road, in Canton Township, just before 7 p.m.
Officials say Jamie Crane was driving an ATV when she went into the other lane and hit a pole.
She died at the scene.
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