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Seeking Peace in Philly
Searching for solutions to Philadelphia's gun violence crisis
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TEMPLE, Texas — Fire crews in Temple extinguished a 2-alarm house fire that left three people displaced on July 19, according to Temple Fire and Rescue.
Temple Fire and Rescue said crews were dispatched at 7:09 p.m. to a report of a structure fire on Meadow Oaks Dr.
When crews arrived, they reportedly found smoke and flames coming from the windows of a house.
Temple Fire and Rescue said crews were able to get the fire under control within 30 minutes of operation, and quickly extinguished the flames.
Two people were home at the time of the fire, according to Temple Fire and Rescue, but both were reportedly able to escape unharmed. A third person reportedly arrived on the scene just after fire crews arrived.
Temple Fire and Rescue said all three people will be displaced from the home due to the fire.
Temple Fire and Rescue said they responded to the fire with nine units and 20 personnel. The Temple Police Department and Temple EMS were also on scene.
The fire is still reportedly under investigation. Temple Fire and Rescue are asking people to avoid the area at this time, as roads remain closed.
More information will be given as updates become available.
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Here are the numbers for the Powerball drawing for July 19, 2023
Lorenzino Estrada
Arizona Republic
The Powerball jackpot stands at an estimated $1 billion. The cash value is $516.8 million. The winning numbers were drawn on Wednesday, July 19, 2023.
Powerball winning numbers
The winning numbers for Wednesday's drawing were 7, 10, 11, 13, 24 and the Powerball is 24. The Power Play is 2.
You can watch Powerball drawings at https://www.powerball.com/watch-drawing.
When is the next Powerball drawing?
The next Powerball drawing is on Saturday, July 22. Drawings are held at 10:59 p.m. ET every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
Instant millionaires:The biggest lottery jackpot wins in Arizona
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PITTSBURGH — The Pennsylvania House is once again gridlocked.
>>> Innamorato resigns from state House of Representatives
Democrats no longer have a one-seat lead after Representative Sara Innamorato resigned her seat on Wednesday to focus on running for Allegheny County Executive.
In a statement, Innamorato said, “It has been an honor of a lifetime to serve as your Representative for the 21st Legislative District. Throughout my time as a Representative, my constituents’ stories inspired and drove my legislative priorities around creating safe and healthy communities where we can all thrive. Together, we’ve done amazing things to improve our region, and I am excited to continue serving our neighbors for years to come.”
The State House now returns to a 101-101 Democrat-to-Republican deadlock.
“There’s no true change in what will take place in terms of legislation. The Democrats still maintain control because in order to change that you actually need a majority of members in order to do so,” explained Butler County Republican State Rep. Aaron Bernstine. “The Democrats have done this in a strategic manner to ensure that Republicans will not have control of the voting schedule.”
Innamorato’s vacant House seat will be filled during a special election scheduled for September 19, the fourth special election in Allegheny County this year.
“We are not due back into Harrisburg before that, so there should be minimal disruption to our calendar for the rest of the year because her vacancy will be filled before we’re due back in Harrisburg for the next day of session at the end of September,” said State Rep. Nick Pisciottano, the Chair of the Allegheny County Democratic Delegation.
Innamorato’s resignation comes amid Pennsylvania’s ongoing budget stalemate.
But experts say it’s unlikely her stepping down will have a major impact on that impasse.
“The Republicans control the Senate, the Democrats did control the House, and so you have to have some sort of bipartisan solution to the budget anyway,” explained Chris Bonneau, a political science professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
House Democrats support the move by Innamorato saying it will allow her to dedicate her time to campaigning as the Democratic nominee for Allegheny County Executive and get her replacement in the House seated sooner rather than later.
“She’ll be able to devote her time fully to Allegheny County for the next few months, rather than having juggle the responsibilities of Harrisburg and running a campaign back here in Allegheny,” said Pisciottano.
Prior to the September 19 special election, the Allegheny County Democratic and Republican parties will each nominate a candidate.
Democrats plan to do that on July 29.
Republicans have not yet announced their plans.
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BRACKENRIDGE, Pa. — A Natrona family is holding out hope that a local mother who went missing nearly a year ago will be found.
The painful mystery of Tonya Sadecky’s disappearance still weighs heavily on her mother, Carol Richardson.
“Words can’t even explain,” Richardson said wiping away tears. “We just want answers. That’s all.”
Sadecky was dropped off by a friend on Morgan Street in Brackenridge on August 28. To this day, no one has seen or heard from the mother of two.
“We’re hoping for the best,” Richardson said. “We don’t know what to expect, where to look.”
Channel 11 News Reporter Antoinette DelBel asked, “Are you holding onto hope that Tonya is still alive?”
“Yes,” said Richardson. “Lots of prayers. Friends are giving lots of prayers.”
Prayers from family and friends who came together at Riverview Park in Tarentum Wednesday to keep Tonya’s story in the headlines.
“My whole purpose is to try to keep her name, her face and her story out there because once people forget who she is, people stop looking for her,” said Sadecky’s friend Kayla Bopp, who organized the vigil. “I know she was having a hard time, but nothing could have foreshadowed this.”
Several community searches over the last year came up empty.
Richardson is pleading for people to come forward.
“We believe somebody knows something out there,” she said through tears. “They’re just not telling.”
Sadecky’s 10-year-old daughter, Falicia and 22-year-old son, Brenden, are hoping their mom - who would have now turned 44 - is found soon. They released blue balloons into the air in honor of their mother whose favorite color is blue.
“It’s been a long 11 months, but I still have faith that my mom’s out there,” Brenden said. “I have very high hopes for this.”
Richardson said it’s not like her daughter to leave and not come home without saying anything.
“She would do anything for anybody,” she said. “She’d give them the last nickel out of her pocket. She’s beautiful and she wouldn’t leave her children.”
Allegheny County Police said their investigation is ongoing. In a statement they said, “The investigation remains open. Detectives are continuing with the investigation. There have been no updates since our previous information release. To reiterate, anyone with information is asked to call the County Police Tip Line 1-833-ALL-TIPS. Callers can remain anonymous.”
Meanwhile, Sadecky’s family members are asking for help in finding her. They have created a Facebook page for anyone who would like to leave information.
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HARFORD, Pa. — A children's pantry in Susquehanna County is restocking its shelves after it was targeted by vandals.
Folks at Summer Lunch Box cleaned for hours after their storage building in Harford Township was ransacked.
Thanks to help from the community, they're ready to go for a big distribution on Saturday.
"The outpouring of support and love has really made this, that we've gotta get this done because everybody's behind us offering help," said Paula Smith.
State police are still investigating the vandalism.
Summer Lunch Box serves about 700 kids.
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — While it wasn't the big $1 billion jackpot, someone who bought a Powerball ticket in South Lake Tahoe still has a reason to celebrate.
The ticket matched five out of five numbers, missing only the Powerball. while not a jackpot, it's still a $448,750 prize.
The lucky ticket was sold at the 7-Eleven on South Lake Boulevard.
Meanwhile, over in Los Angeles, someone beat the one in 292.2 million odds after the $1 billion jackpot grew for months.
Wednesday's prize ranks as the game's third largest prize, only behind the world record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot won last year and the $1.586 billion Powerball jackpot won in 2016. It's the seventh largest lottery win among all games.
Jackpot winners have the option to be paid out the full amount over 29 years, or choose the smaller cash option. The cash option for Wednesday's drawing is $516.8 million.
What were the winning Powerball numbers for 7/19/23?
The winning numbers were 7-10-11-13-24, Powerball 24 and Power Play 2.
What are the largest Powerball jackpots?
- $2.04 Billion – Nov. 7, 2022 – CA
- $1.586 Billion – Jan. 13, 2016 – CA, FL, TN
- $1 billion (est.) - July 19, 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
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CALIFORNIA, USA — The Temecula Valley Unified School District is getting new textbooks from the state along with the bill and a $1.5 million fine.
In a news release from Governor Gavin Newsom, he said the board's decision to reject textbooks will leave them without proper instruction materials for the new school year.
The governor said the state is entering into a contract for textbooks to provide students.
“The three political activists on the school board have yet again proven they are more interested in breaking the law than doing their jobs of educating students — so the state will do their job for them,” said Governor Newsom. “California will ensure students in Temecula begin the school year with access to materials reviewed by parents and recommended by teachers across the district. After we deliver the textbooks into the hands of students and their parents, the state will deliver the bill — along with a $1.5 million fine — to the school board for its decision to willfully violate the law, subvert the will of parents, and force children to use an out-of-print textbook from 17 years ago.”
Officials said district students are using a textbook that was published in 2006. According to a news release, the district is out of compliance with at least three separate state laws and frameworks with its current curriculum.
Despite state officials calling on the school district adopt updated curriculum, the school board voted to reject the adoption of a new social studies curriculum on July 18. The curriculum was recommended by teachers in the district and reviewed by parents. Citing the school district, Newsom's office said the 98.8% of parents, educators and community members were supportive or impartial to the curriculum.
Newsom is also working with the legislators and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to fine school districts that don't provide "adequate instructional materials" to students.
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The Atco Dragway is closing after 63 years, its management said Tuesday in a statement.
"We will not be open from this point on," the racetrack wrote on its Facebook page. "The remainder of our schedule for 2023 will be canceled."
No reason for the closure was given Tuesday.
A message left with the raceway was not immediately returned Wednesday.
The 180-acre property on Jackson Road in Waterford Township, Camden County, has held racing events since 1960, when it opened as New Jersey's first official drag racing strip.
In 2020, an Illinois-based company applied to the New Jersey Pinelands Commission to redevelop the property.
According to the application, the paved sections of the site were to be used for an automobile auction facility. The application was co-signed by Leonard Capone Jr., who was Atco Dragway’s owner.
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Recently, the speedway held the 29th Annual Pan American Nationals, making it the facility's last event, the social media statement said.
"To all of our staff, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for sticking it out with us and being the best in the business," the statement said.
The Philadelphia Inquirer contributed to this report.
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NORTHFIELD — Atlantic County officials announced Wednesday the first mosquito sample of the year to test positive for West Nile virus was found in the city.
The sample was collected from the 1200 block of Zion Road on July 12 by representatives from the Atlantic County Office of Mosquito Control. It was confirmed positive Tuesday.
County public health and mosquito control officials are conducting mosquito surveillance and implementing additional control measures. There are no reported human cases of the virus at this time, officials said.
The virus is carried by infected mosquitoes and can be transferred to birds, animals and humans, health officials said.
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The county’s public health division is encouraging residents to use bug spray when outdoors and clear their properties of standing water, which officials say is commonly known to be a mosquito breeding ground.
Gutters should also be unclogged, and damaged screen doors should be repaired to prevent mosquitoes from entering the home, health officials said.
For more information about the virus, visit atlantic-county.org/public-health or call the Division of Public Health at 609-645-5971.
For assistance in removing stagnant puddles or floodwater on properties, call the Office of Mosquito Control at 609-645-5948.
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AVALON — Two sailors were rescued from a 30-foot sailboat that ran aground Tuesday in Townsends Inlet, officials said.
The vessel became stuck in the inlet before 2:30 p.m., said Ed Dean, the borough's fire chief. The Cape May County Office of Emergency Management dispatched firefighters, rescue squads and police to the scene.
With a thunderstorm bearing down on the area, a rescue boat was launched from the docks at 30th Street and Fifth Avenue with three rescue crew members aboard. The Fire Department also launched personal watercraft from the Ninth Street beach upon the Coast Guard's request due to shallow water, Dean said.
The personal watercraft crew helped the sailboat's owner anchor the vessel and helped remove both of the vessel's occupants.
No injuries were reported.
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Sea Tow in Cape May County towed the boat from the site. The sailboat occupants were also transferred to Sea Tow, which made its way to Cape May upon the owner's request.
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ATLANTIC CITY — Bally’s Atlantic City donated 500 hot dogs and buns to the Boys & Girls Club of Atlantic City on Wednesday in honor of National Hot Dog Day.
“Having the gift of food, however simple it may seem, is always appreciated,” said Pam Green, director of hospitality initiatives at the Boys & Girls Club.
Green, who is from Atlantic City, said Bally’s officials contacted the club last year and said they wanted to donate.
“This whole community reaches out every once in a while. ... We have a great relationship with the whole restaurant industry in Atlantic City,” Green said.
Green said the club plans to grill the dogs during an upcoming lake day field trip.
“The kids are always happy to eat hot dogs,” Green said.
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Officials and staff from Bally’s delivered the food to the teen center at 317 N. Pennsylvania Ave.
The five Atlantic City high school students who left for a free trip to South Africa last month said they expected it to change their lives, and this week they showed that it did.
“We want the children to have a great summer and enjoy lunch on us,” said Michael Monty, general manager at Bally’s, who also credited Dietz & Watson and Sysco for providing the dogs.
Bally’s also gave out free hot dogs to hotel guests for National Hot Dog Day.
The Boys & Girls Club has about 80 to 90 kids enrolled in its summer camp program, Green said. Some teens are enrolled in the workforce track, which connects them to employers in Atlantic City and prepares them for careers.
Green said she has worked in the restaurant industry in Atlantic City for years, and her current position was created to further the club’s workforce initiative and help teens get the proper training and connections in the hospitality field.
“We have a lot of dynamic relationships in Atlantic City,” Green said.
The club will soon open Club Cafe, a cafe run by 18-to-24-year-olds who are receiving hospitality training. A soft opening is scheduled for Aug. 4.
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ATLANTIC CITY — Three 14-year-olds were arrested late last week in a string of car burglaries at a casino parking garage, police said Wednesday.
Detectives were investigating the burglary and vandalizing of three Kia vehicles parked last Thursday at Bally's Atlantic City.
The teenagers, all of whom are city residents, were seen walking near Connecticut and Wabash avenues Friday and were stopped by the detectives, police said in a news release.
The detectives identified two of the teenagers as being involved in the burglaries, police said.
One was found with a USB cable, which is commonly associated with attempts to steal Kia and Hyundai models. Another suspect was found with a screwdriver often used to turn a vehicle's ignition and break its steering column, police said.
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The third teenager was caught carrying a credit card stolen from one of the burglarized vehicles, police said.
Two of the teenagers were charged with burglary, criminal mischief and possession of burglar's tools. The teenager with the stolen credit card was charged with receiving stolen property.
The teenagers were issued summonses to appear in court.
Police advise Kia and Hyundai owners to visit them for no-cost steering wheel locks to thwart car theft attempts. Those cars continue to be commonly targeted by thieves, particularly younger offenders, police said.
Certain Kia and Hyundai models manufactured between 2011 and 2022 do not have engine immobilizers that let the vehicle know that something other than a key has been inserted into the ignition. And a recent TikTok trend called the Kia Challenge, in which people hot-wire and steal Hyundais and Kias, has put 8.3 million vehicle owners at risk, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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A 30-year-old Millville man died after suffering a medical episode while being held at a State Police station earlier this month, state officials said.
Daniel King died July 9 following his arrest July 8, the New Jersey Attorney General's Office said Wednesday in a news release.
An investigation into King's death remains ongoing.
The Attorney General's Office investigates any death during an encounter with a law enforcement officer acting in the officer’s official capacity or while the decedent is in custody. The agency announced a probe in King's death Friday.
The agency said King suffered a medical episode when he was at the State Police station in Bridgeton.
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Troopers at the station performed medical rescue efforts until King was brought to Inspira Medical Center Vineland, where he was declared dead at 11:37 p.m. July 9.
According to preliminary reports, first responders were called to the station about 8 p.m.
King was arrested July 8 after he assaulted a trooper.
State Police responded to Fordville Road in Fairfield Township after King called authorities requesting an escort to retrieve property at his home. During his interaction with troopers, King became confrontational and assaulted a trooper, the Attorney General's Office said. He allegedly continued to assault the trooper until two civilians intervened and assisted in the arrest of King.
King was charged with aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer.
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Year-to-date toll revenue on the Atlantic City Expressway is up 6.2% compared to the same period in 2022, South Jersey Transportation Authority Executive Director Stephen Dougherty said at Wednesday's board meeting.
But passengers and parking revenue at Atlantic City International Airport are both down for the first six months of 2023, compared to the same period last year.
It was the SJTA board's reorganization meeting, and the first meeting for new board members former Assemblyman John Amodeo and former Camden County Freeholder Barbara Holcomb.
Holcomb is a former manager of capital programs, overseeing transportation and capital grant programs for the Delaware River Port Authority/PATCO.
The two replaced longtime board members James "Sonny" McCullough, the former mayor of Egg Harbor Township — where the airport is located — who worked at the airport for many years, and attorney Jeffrey April, of Ocean City.
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McCullough said Wednesday his days on the board were numbered after he voted against a 37% toll increase in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020.
The increase included allowing the SJTA to raise tolls every year, based on cost-of-living increases.
"I got calls from very influential people in the state to vote for the toll increase," McCullough said Wednesday. "They told me it was not in my best interest to do so."
McCullough also said the airport remains important to him, and he will help it in any way he can.
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Year-to-date toll revenue is $55.6 million, up $3.2 million from the same time last year, Dougherty said.
Toll revenue for the month of June totaled $12.1 million, up 3% from last June.
The revenue increase for June is likely attributable to the annual toll increase of 3% rather than increased traffic.
At Atlantic City International Airport, 446,000 passengers used the airport year-to-date, down 5.6% compared to the same period last year, Dougherty said.
In June, 73,000 passengers used the airport, a decrease of 14% compared to last June.
Airport parking revenue of over $2.4 million for the first half of the year is down 10.6% compared to the first half of 2022.
June’s parking revenue at the airport came in at $261,000, down 19% compared to June 2022.
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Tyler Road in Woodbine and Dennis Township will undergo roadway resurfacing beginning Friday, Cape May County said Wednesday. The work will extend from Route 47 to Washington Avenue.
The project involves the milling and paving of the lanes and shoulder areas. Local traffic will be maintained during construction, and residents will have access to their properties, the county said in a news release. Emergency service vehicle access will also be maintained.
However, during active periods of construction, only northbound through traffic will be maintained. Southbound through traffic will be detoured.
Work on Friday is anticipated to begin at the northern end of Tyler Road and proceed south toward Route 47. Normal working hours are expected to be 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. At the end of each workday, two-way traffic will be restored along Tyler.
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The work is expected to last about four weeks, the county said. During construction activities, a 2-inch drop-off may exist between the shoulder and travel lanes. Motorists are advised to proceed with caution.
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HABERSHAM COUNTY, Ga. — A Hall County deputy is grieving the loss of his children and wife after a fiery fatal crash over the weekend, the sheriff's office said.
According to reporting from the Associated Press, troopers say Avonlea Holtzclaw of Dahlonega was trying to cross U.S. 23 in a Ford Explorer Sunday afternoon when a driver going southbound hit her. The wreck happened near Alto in Habersham County.
The impact of both vehicles sparked a fire. All occupants in both vehicles died at the crash site.
Avonlea, the 29-year-old wife of Hall County Deputy Patrick Neil Holtzclaw, was riding with their two young children, the sheriff's office said. The children were ages 6 and 3.
Mitchell Boggs, a 58-year-old Marietta man who was driving a Chevrolet Corvette southbound, also died, as did an unnamed passenger, according to reporting from the Associated Press.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp shared his condolences for the crash victims adding that he's sending his support to the Holtzclaw family.
Sheriff Gerald Couch has pledged to support his deputy through this difficult time.
“What can you say when someone loses his entire family? There are no words that can adequately express the heartbreak the Holtzclaw family is experiencing right now, but clearly, our entire agency is devastated for them,” Couch said.
As people reach out for help, Couch asks that people respect the deputy's grief and "give him time to grieve privately." Those looking to support the Holtzclaw family can keep an eye out for a memorial fund that is currently being organized, according to the sheriff's office.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Time is running out to get your Powerball tickets. Wednesday's drawing is an estimated $1 billion.
13News spoke with people in south Indianapolis who are hoping to win it all.
At Dinner Bell Market on South Shelby Street, they like to acknowledge scratch-off winners when you first come in. They hope to add a billion-dollar winner to their wall next.
"Going to be the winner, right here," said Rhonda Erisman.
Erisman bought four tickets at Dinner Bell and hopes to get a new home if she wins.
"You invest a lot and you move to Hawaii," she said, laughing. "I think that's the best thing to do."
It's now it's the seventh-highest lottery jackpot ever, according to Powerball. The estimated cash value of the prize is nearly $517 million.
As anticipation builds across the Hoosier State, Erisman is feeling hopeful she or someone else will hit it here in Indianapolis.
"I always buy them here at Dinner Bell," she said. "They've hit here. The lottery has been here a couple of times and we have a good time doing that, so I kind of just feel faithful to buy 'em here."
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INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis pastor was saved by a preteen boy as he was swept away by floodwaters caused by a major water main break on the east side of Indianapolis Wednesday.
Rev. George Shepard missed his doctor's appointment Wednesday morning. When he turned on to 25th Street about 7:00 a.m., Shepard said his car suddenly started floating down the street. Shepard and his car wound up in the deepest part of a pond created by a water main break.
"The water just picked up my car and brought it down,” said Shepard. “I had no control over it. It took me right to the middle of the intersection and it just floated."
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Shepard was stranded in water up to his window in the middle of the intersection at 25th and Rural streets. Fortunately, help was nearby for the 72-year-old pastor, from a preteen boy. Aldo Ramirez Villa went out to the car and helped Shepard wade in the water to higher ground and safety.
"I was terrified,” said Shepard. “Because when you don't have control of a vehicle, it's terrifying. But I was able to, with this young man, it if wasn't for him, I don't know what would have happened. I really don't. But he saved my life."
Villa provided 13News with phone videos of the rescue. But the boy left the scene without taking any credit that he was the person who rescued Shepard.
"He actually helped me out of the automobile,” said Shepard. “I slipped and fell and almost drowned in the water. But to his grace, he helped me out and I appreciate that."
Shepard and his wife came back to the intersection hours later to check on their half-submerged car. Only then did the story of Villa’s heroics become clear.
"I'm grateful that I'm alive,” said Shepard, standing just 20 yards from his car in the flooded street. “That's material stuff. I'm just grateful that I'm OK. That's going to be replaced in time. But I'm just grateful that I'm able to continue this day."
13News tried to reconnect Shepard with Villa Wednesday afternoon, but was not successful.
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SAN ANTONIO — Authorities say a driver of a tanker truck was arrested and a dozen migrants, including a pregnant woman, were recovering after a short pursuit on I-35 southwest of San Antonio Wednesday night.
It was an active scene around 11 p.m. in the northbound lanes of the highway near Fischer Street. Multiple emergency crews responded to I-35 southwest of San Antonio on Wednesday night after 12 migrants were discovered in a tanker truck, including a pregnant woman.
According to the Bexar County Sherriff's Office, a Von Ormy deputy attempted to pull the truck over because the plates came back stolen. Authorities said the driver led the deputy on a brief chase before he was stopped, found with a weapon and taken into custody.
The semi-truck pulled over on the shoulder of the highway was hauling a tank designed to carry liquid. First responders were checking on people and giving them water.A KENS 5 reporter at the scene saw at least 11 people receiving aid on the side of the highway a few yards from the truck.
Ten males and two females were all in good health and were not seriously injured, a Bexar County Sheriff's Office spokesperson said at the scene. One person was taken to the hospital. Authorities said one of the women was pregnant. They said the people in the truck came from Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras.
Northbound traffic was down to just the left lane as authorities blocked off the right lane next to the truck.
The San Antonio Fire Department, Somerset Police and the Bexar County Sheriff's Office all responded to the scene. BCSO had dogs at the scene searching the truck.
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ARKANSAS, USA — On Aug. 1 three new gun laws will go into effect. Arkansas lawmakers passed Act 777 which aims to clarify that a license is not required to carry a concealed handgun in the state.
However, several people testified before a subcommittee at the Arkansas Legislative Council about their concerns on concealed handgun training, and suggested a committee to clarify where and under what conditions a person can carry.
“One of several major concerns we have surrounding the concealed handgun training in Arkansas centers around varying qualification of instructors, and zero accountability,” said the President of Gun Owners of America Garry Epperson.
Epperson said the lack of consistency and clarification in the state can create problems of who and who cannot carry a concealed handgun.
“This discrepancy in qualifications can have a significant impact on the quality of training received on the concealed carry applicants” said Epperson. “This can leave individuals vulnerable to receive inadequate or insufficient training, which in turn may compromise their ability to responsibly and safely carry a concealed handgun.”
Others who testified said the state needs to make sure firearm instructors are providing accurate information on Arkansas gun laws.
Audrey Zachary, an instructor at Zachary Handgun Training recommended creating a committee to clarify where and under what conditions gun owners can carry.
“A group of instructors, a group of state police officials, and a couple of you guys come together and say, 'Okay, lets evaluate what we have. Let's blend this stuff together and make a program that is suitable for everyone so you can carry on your constitutional rights if you choose,'” said Zachary.
Sebastian County Sheriff Hobe Runion says responsible gun owners need clarification, and quickly.
“Our citizens deserve to have something that is clear and concise that they can understand” said Runion. “I do think it needs to be that you need to start from scratch”
Epperson hoped by bringing this to state officials’ attention, the next steps will be taken.
“We are interested in bringing the issues before y'all and letting the state and these good instructors fix the system," said Epperson.
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PINE BLUFF, Ark. — Disagreements between Jefferson County Judge Gerald Robinson and the quorum court continue to stack up.
Now, a lawsuit stands in the middle of deciding an ongoing issue.
For months, no legislation has passed because of disagreements on the rules of procedure. These rules will ultimately decide how the quorum meetings will be run, but nothing can be accomplished since they haven't agreed on those.
Until now.
The Jefferson County Quorum Court met for their monthly meeting in June.
When there was disagreement on how the meeting should proceed, Robinson ended it.
The live stream was then stopped, but Justice Lloyd Franklin said the meeting did not.
Franklin said the quorum court continued with business and passed a rules of procedure allowing them to pass ordinances and resolutions for the first time this year.
However, in response, Robinson filed a lawsuit, saying the quorum court violated Arkansas law.
"In this case, I don't feel like the lawsuit the county judge filed has merit," Franklin said. "I think it's a total waste of the taxpayer's dollars."
The lawsuit says the rules of procedure was passed improperly, and it's invalid because the county judge did not approve it.
We contacted Robinson for questions, but he did not respond.
Robinson said in this month's quorum court meeting that he wants clarity.
"There were no rules in place at that particular time," Robinson said in the meeting. "That's why the lawsuit was filed... to get clarity on that."
According to Franklin, the quorum court is seeking an attorney to represent them in this lawsuit.
Franklin said the quorum court will continue business as usual until this lawsuit is ruled on.
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An EMT was stabbed multiple times by an emotionally disturbed man she was trying to aid inside an ambulance in Manhattan late Wednesday, police say.
The attack happened on the Upper West Side around 9 p.m., a short distance from Mt. Sinai Hospital. Police sources say the ambulance was parked near West 59th Street and 9th Avenue when the man made his move.
Law enforcement sources said the woman was stabbed once in the stomach and twice in her left leg. First responders rushed to her help and transported the EMT to another trauma center.
Police and witnesses describe the man, 48, as emotionally disturbed. He was swiftly taken into police custody.
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The IATSE union reportedly called for a strike authorization vote WEdnesday, giving its members two days to cast a deciding vote after negotiations failed to produce a contract agreement.
That means that IATSE workers under the pink contract could be on strike starting Friday morning if they authorize a strike and no agreement is reached.
The Hollywood Reporter says the pink contract being negotiated covers about 1,500 stagehands, wardrobe personnel, and hair and makeup artists. The union members work across 45 productions currently on Broadway and on tour.
The union's previous contact reportedly ended on July 2, and its members have been working under those terms in the weeks since.
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In order to strike, the union needs to meet a 75% "yes" vote on the authorization. Only then can the union's president call a strike, THR said.
“We need to show strength and unity to ensure we win the wages, benefits and rights that all members at IATSE have earned and deserve,” IATSE International President Matthew D. Loeb told the outlet.
The contract negotiations reportedly center around health care, increases wages and housing for touring crews.
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If IATSE strikes, the union would be on the picket lines alongside the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA, which have been on strike since May 2 and July 14, respectively.
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What to Know
- NYC has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf of roughly 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten by police during racial injustice demonstrations that swept through the city during the summer of 2020
- With certain exceptions, people arrested or subjected to force by NYPD officers at those events will each be eligible for $9,950 in compensation, according to attorneys for the plaintiffs
- The agreement, one of several stemming from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, allows the city to avoid a trial that could be both expensive and politically fraught
New York City has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf of roughly 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten by police during racial injustice demonstrations that swept through the city during the summer of 2020.
If approved by a judge, the settlement, which was filed in Manhattan federal court Wednesday, would be among the most expensive pay-outs ever awarded in a lawsuit over mass arrests, experts said.
The lawsuit focused on 18 of the many protests that erupted in New York City in the week following the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis. With certain exceptions, people arrested or subjected to force by NYPD officers at those events will each be eligible for $9,950 in compensation, according to attorneys for the plaintiffs.
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The agreement, one of several stemming from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, allows the city to avoid a trial that could be both expensive and politically fraught.
It comes as many other cities across the U.S. are negotiating their own settlements with protesters who spilled into the streets to decry racist police brutality after Floyd's death, a period of unrest that saw 10,000 people arrested in the span of a few days.
Attorneys with the National Lawyers Guild, which represented the plaintiffs in New York, accused NYPD leaders of depriving protesters of their 1st Amendment rights through a “coordinated” campaign of indiscriminate brutality and unlawful arrests.
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Through more than two years of litigation, attorneys for the city maintained that police were responding to a chaotic and unprecedented situation, pointing to some unruly protests in which police vehicles were set on fire and officers pelted with rocks and plastic bottles.
A spokesperson for the NYPD deferred questions to the city's Law Department, which did not respond to a request for comment.
During some of the 2020 protest marches, officers deployed a crowd control tactic known as kettling against peaceful protesters, corralling them in tight spaces and attacking them with batons and pepper spray before making mass arrests.
Adama Sow, one of the named plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said their group of marchers were trapped by police without warning. Sow and the other arrestees were placed in zip ties until their hands turned purple, then held in a sweltering correctional bus for several hours.
“It was so disorganized, but so intentional,” Sow said. “They seemed set on traumatizing everyone.”
The city invoked qualified immunity, which protects police officers from lawsuits stemming from lawful work performed in the line of duty, and defended the decision to arrest medics and legal observers as within the rights of the department.
While attorneys for the plaintiffs cited past crackdowns on large demonstrations, including during the 2004 Republican National Convention, as evidence of longstanding “systemic violations” by the NYPD, attorneys for the city said there was no systematic effort to deprive people of their right to protest.
“There is no history — or present or future — of unconstitutional policing,” Georgia Pestana, an attorney for the city, wrote in a memo. “There is no frequent deprivation of constitutional rights.”
The lawsuit named former Mayor Bill de Blasio and retired NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea as well as other police leaders as defendants. Under the settlement agreement, neither the city nor the NYPD is required to admit any wrongdoing.
Protesters who were arrested on certain charges — including trespassing, property destruction, assaulting an officer, arson or weapons possession — will be excluded from the settlement. Those who were seen on video blocking police from making arrests may also be ineligible.
Unlike some other lawsuits related to the 2020 protests, the class action was not meant to force the NYPD to change its practices. There are several other lawsuits aimed at injunctive relief that are ongoing, including one brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James that calls for a federal monitor to oversee the NYPD’s policing of protests.
Another class action settlement announced earlier this year would award $21,500 to those arrested by police during one demonstration in the Bronx, a pay-out that could total around $10 million including legal fees.
Separately, more than 600 people have brought individual claims against New York City related to police action during the 2020 protests, according to the city’s comptroller, Brad Lander. Roughly half of them have resulted in settlements and resolutions, costing the city nearly $12 million to date.
Wylie Stecklow, an attorney for the protesters in the class action lawsuit, said the growing cost to taxpayers should serve as a “red flag” for city leaders about the NYPD’s inability to correct its “decades old problem with constitutionally compliant protest policing.”
“While the arc of the moral universe is indeed long, sometimes it needs reform to bend towards justice,” he said.
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Marijuana can legally be sold at festivals and other events in New York under a measure approved by state regulators Wednesday, after farmers complained that there are too few dispensaries to sell what they harvest.
The initiative approved by the Cannabis Control Board will allow three or more growers to partner with retailers for consumer sales outside of dispensaries at adult-oriented, locally sanctioned events.
The partnerships can also include a processor, who will be able to sell products like edibles and vape cartridges.
Municipal approval will be required.
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Pot farmers around New York have said they entered this growing season still stockpiling marijuana from last year because the state has been opening stores too slowly. Twenty licensed retailers are currently open statewide, and more than 40 more are in development, according to regulators.
“We certainly heard from our cultivators the urgency of a program like this to expand their retail sell-through opportunities,” said John Kagia, a top state marijuana policy official.
Officials said the measure also will give consumers legal access to marijuana in areas that have no dispensaries.
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The initiative is among a series of moves by regulators to shore up the state's nascent recreational pot market. They've also begun cracking down on unlicensed operations that are competing with aboveboard shops, especially in New York City.
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A flight grounded hundreds of Hawaii-bound passengers at a New York City airport for nearly 33 hours before finally taking off on Wednesday.
The Hawaiian Airlines flight departing from JFK Airport missed its 10 a.m. takeoff on Tuesday after the crew "reported an odor during a pre-departure cabin check."
The passengers heading to Honolulu sat through one delay, then a second delay -- starting what would eventually stretch into a day-long wait to get on board their plane.
Frustrated passengers claimed the airline would not return their luggage or exchange tickets for other flights. Instead, passengers were stranded at the airport for more than a day, and said they were only given a $12 food voucher.
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"Every time they delay it, they don’t give us a real reason for the delay," Joe Rao, Jr., one of the passengers, told News 4. "We learned that there was a malfunction of some kind, a mechanical issue of some kind, that needed to be remedied and they said that the part needed to be flown in from Atlanta, Georgia."
The part was delivered and the fix was made, but the plane still did not have the green light.
"Then the pilot didn't wanna clear the flight because he said it smelled of fumes," Rao said.
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There were more hours without communication from the airline before the passengers were advised to take the next 10 a.m. flight departing Wednesday morning. The problem? There were already passengers assigned to that flight.
A spokesperson for the airline the long delays were compounded by the maintenance issue and staffing problems. The flight's crew exceeded their duty hours and had to break before the flight could take off.
"The safety of our guests and employees is our highest priority. We deeply apologize for the inconvenience and we're working to get our guests safely to their destination," the statement concluded.
The flight scheduled to depart Tuesday at 10 a.m. eventually left JFK Airport on Wednesday just before 7 p.m.
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The wife of a New York architect charged with the killings of three women whose remains were found on a Long Island beach more than a decade ago filed for divorce Wednesday, her lawyer said.
Attorney Robert Macedonio said a summons and complaint had been filed on behalf of Asa Ellerup in Suffolk County Supreme Court. He declined further comment.
Authorities have previously said Ellerup was out of state at the time of the killings and isn't considered a suspect.
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Rex Heuermann, 59, was charged Friday with three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of Melissa Barthelemy, 24; Megan Waterman, 22; and Amber Lynn Costello 27.
The women were believed to be sex workers who advertised online, police have said. Their remains were discovered in December 2010 in Gilgo Beach on Long Island’s South Shore.
Heuermann, of Massapequa Park, is also suspected in the disappearance and death of a fourth woman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, whose remains were also found near Gilgo Beach. That investigation remains ongoing, according to a bail application.
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BAKER TO PLAY AT MSUM
Legacy High and Bismarck State College basketball player Jaiden Baker will continue her career at MSU-Moorhead.
Baker, a 5-7 guard, missed last season due to a knee injury. She averaged 12.2 points, 5.8 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game in her freshman season for the Mystics.
The Dragons went 14-13 last season and advanced to the NSIC tournament.
PBR TEAM SERIES SET TO EXPAND
PBR plans to expand its new team series by two teams for the 2024 season.
The bidding process for a new teams starts at $20 million. According to the PBR, 30 prospective partners have expressed interest in ownership.
In its inaugural season, nearly 200,000 people attended team events.
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WHATCOM COUNTY, Wash. — A Whatcom County Sheriff's Deputy has been charged with five criminal counts in court, including rape and fired from the department after two women came forward accusing him of sexual assault.
The deputy, identified in court documents as 23-year-old Austin Case, was fresh out of the academy and in the middle of his 15-month probationary period.
According to court documents, the first woman came forward alleging she met Case on Snapchat and at one point confessed to Case she had been arrested for DUI and was on probation. Case allegedly used that information against her – when he learned she had been at a bar (in violation of her probation) he ordered her to his house under threat of arrest.
The woman told investigators she “felt trapped” and felt compelled to sleep with him for fear that if not “he could call the cops on her and that she would go to jail.”
A second woman who met Case on Instagram says he forced his way into her home after the two met for dinner, made unwanted advances and then lifted his shirt to reveal a gun in his waistband. That woman was able to get away.
“In this state, like most states, it’s ‘forced sexual contact’ and there’s a whole range of actions that call fall under sexual assault,” said Mary Ellen Stone, CEO of the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center.
Stone says reports of abuse to her organization have increased 22% over the past five years. She points to the power dynamic in this situation calling the allegations a serious violation of public trust.
“It’s obviously a very difficult thing and it takes an enormous amount of courage, and I want to commend the victim in this case who’s willing to speak out. It takes a lot of courage to come forward and to say something because the stakes are so high,” Stone continued.
Case was booked into the Whatcom County jail on July 12 and released two days later on a quarter-million dollar bond. The investigation was handled by the Skagit Island Multi-Agency Response Team (SMART), in an attempt to avoid a conflict of interest – the SMART team is a group that typically responds to officer-involved shootings.
Investigators believe there may be more victims. If you have information, you’re asked to contact police.
For resources about sexual assault you can contact the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center's 24-hour Resource Line which is available for free and confidential help or information 7 days a week at 1.888.998.6423 (1.888.99.VOICE), or to visit them online, click here.
If you or someone you know has been a victim of sexual assault, you can call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673. Additional resources are available on the Washington State Department of Health's website.
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Police family representative Caleb Kidd delivers the ceremonial first pitch ahead of the annual Rager-Stiverson (Fire/Police) Memorial Softball Game on Wednesday at Fort Wayne Turners. The game was established in 1974 to honor the namesakes of first responders who died in the line of duty in Fort Wayne.
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TWIN FALLS — Shirley Agnes Hollinger Kaercher Wasko began her 102.5-year earthly adventure on July 24, 1920, in Paul, Idaho.
Interment will be held 2:00 pm Friday, July 21, 2023 at Sunset Memorial Park in Twin Falls.
A memorial service has been scheduled for Saturday, July 22, 2023, at 10:00 a.m., at the Buhl Methodist Church. Memories and condolences may be shared with the family on Shirley’s memorial webpage at Farmerfuneralchapel.com.
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April 23, 1927—July 11, 2023
JEROME — Mary Ruth (Stewart) Tews passed away July 11, 2023. Mary was born April 23, 1927 to George and Ella Stewart on Rock Creek, Hailey, Idaho.
She married William Tews in 1945. They lived and ranched on Rock Creek Hailey for many years before moving to a farm in north Shoshone. While living on the farm one of her great loves was to train and ride horses. William and Mary retired to an acreage south of Jerome in 1977.
Mary is preceded in death by her husband, William, her son, Henry Tews, her parents, and five siblings. She is survived by son, Clarence Tews of Jerome; daughters: Mo Tranmer (Arlis) of Scottsdale, AZ, and Ruth Griffith (Jack) of Culdesac, ID; 20 grandchildren; great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandson; a brother, Bob Stewart of Payette; sister, Katy Cox of Boise; and many nieces and nephews. She loved family events when the clan would gather at her home for feasts and fun.
Mary was renowned for her flower gardens, dinosaur models, oil paintings, and cooking skills. Her home was filled with her creative projects.
A spring Celebration of Life is planned and will be announced by the family later.
In lieu of flowers, enjoy a garden and visit Mary’s garden in the future.
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July 19, 1942—July 16, 2023
HANSEN — William “Bill” Johnson passed away Sunday, July 16, 2023 surrounded by his loved ones.
Bill was born on July 19, 1942, in Twin Falls, Idaho to Howard and Alma Johnson. In the winter of 1949, the family moved to Eden, Idaho where Bill grew up and went to school. He graduated from Valley High School and then went on to Idaho State College.
In 1965, Bill received his draft notice from the Army and fulfilled his service. He was stationed in Okinawa, Japan for two years during the Vietnam War. Bill returned home in 1967 and worked various jobs until he took over the family farm. Additionally, he spent 30 years working the campaigns during the winter at the Amalgamated Sugar Factory.
Bill met Linda Conner and married June 1, 1969. They had three girls: Kimberly (Phillip) Rice, Kathi (Mike) Huttanus, and Kristi (Steve) Klauser. Later in life, he spent 23 years with his companion, Ginger Butler, traveling to NASCAR races, Hawaii, the Oregon Coast, and enjoying many other adventures together.
Bill was preceded in death by his parents, Howard and Alma Johnson. He is survived by his sister, Karen (Jerry)Dieball, companion, Ginger Butler, daughters: Kim Rice, Kristi Klauser, and Kathi Johnson Huttanus, grandsons: Brian Martin, Keifer Klauser, Hayden Klauser, and Remington Martin, and great-grandsons: Klayton John Klauser and Layne William Klauser.
Please join us at Rosenau Funeral Home Saturday, July 22, 2023 from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm for a Celebration of Life along with Military Honors at 2:30 pm. Join us for a cup of coffee or punch with the family and share stories and memories.
In lieu of flowers please donate to your favorite Veterans fund or charity.
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NAMPA, Idaho — A fire broke out in Nampa Wednesday evening near the intersection of Lindenwood Drive and Locust Lane. Officials with the Nampa Fire Department said that a house, as well as an RV camper, caught on fire.
The fire was first reported at around 9 p.m. Officials said that while the fire was still burning, as of 10:15 p.m., fire crews were able to get it "under control" in about 15 minutes.
The cause of the fire is under investigation. There were no reported injuries.
This is a developing story. KTVB will provide more information as it becomes available.
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Former Sun-News linotype operator celebrates 100th birthday in Las Cruces
When Jessie Winters moved to Las Cruces with her family in the 1960s, she would set aside her nomadic life and establish a home for the rest of her 100 years.
Winters celebrated 10 decades on June 27 with friends and family at the Calvary Baptist Church.
A life of traveling to get to Las Cruces
Winters was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. She grew up during the Great Depression, dropping out of school after the eighth grade to get a job and help support her family. She was only 16 but lied saying she was 19 so she could get the job.
The job was working as a typist for a government office in downtown Pittsburgh. Winters’ daughter, Teresa Womelsdorf, said her mother did not know how to type at the time but learned by doing. Winters continued with this work ethic all the way to Las Cruces.
After leaving her typist job, Winters worked as a waitress at a soda fountain.
“When the manager quit she became the manager,” Womelsdorf said in a message. “Which she loved because she said she could boss people around.”
Winters was introduced to the man who would become her husband, Robert Winters, when she was 19. They married six months later.
Womelsdorf described her father as a free spirit and the couple moved often. Robert Winters was a linotype operator, in charge of the typesetting machine used to print newspapers and magazines until around the 1970s and 1980s. He would find operating jobs wherever he and his wife found themselves.
“He would quit a job, go home, tell Mom, they would pack up, get out the map and move to the next city,” Womelsdorf said in a message.
By the 1960s, the couple had two children, Womelsdorf and a son, Ken Winters. Jessie Winters said her husband saw an ad for a job in New Mexico and traveled to Artesia, but did not quite find what they were looking for. Soon after, the family traveled west to Las Cruces.
“We went down to Las Cruces for an interview,” Winters said. “And he was there forever. I says, ‘take a look kids, it looks like this is where we’re going to live.’ I’ve been here ever since.”
The children were young and it was time to settle down.
A second linotype operator position became available soon after the family moved and Winters applied for it. She recalled that she did not have any knowledge of the work, but interviewed anyway. After she got the job, her husband taught her how to operate the machine. The two worked side by side at the Sun-News throughout the 1960s.
“She said that they got 30 minutes for lunch. She would buy my dad a hamburger at the burger joint around the corner, and then she would gobble up a sandwich in 15 minutes,” Womelsdorf said in a message. “She would then go shopping for the last 15 minutes of her break. She would go to Woolworths where they sold 3 yards of fabric for $1. They had to wear dresses to work so she would make her dresses to have one for every day of the week.
"The linotype machines broke down often and my dad taught her how to fix them. She would climb up on the machine and fix it but her dress would get dirty. So she always wanted to have five clean dresses to make it through the week.”
Winters described the years working at the newspaper as the “good times.”
Life after the Sun-News
Jessie and Robert Winters parted ways after 27 years of marriage and both were eventually put out of work when the printing business evolved away from linotype machines.
Winters went on to earn her GED in 1971 – she was in her 50s – and continued her education at Liberty Bible Institute in Lynchburg, Virginia, now Liberty University. According to Womelsdorf, Winters completed courses via correspondence and graduated in 1991 at the age of 68.
She became quite involved in the church and volunteered with the children during Sunday service at Calvary Baptist Church. Her job was rocking the babies each week, which she loved to do.
Winters has five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren now.
“I never left here. This is my home,” Winters said.
Womelsdorf traveled back home to Las Cruces in June to celebrate her mother’s birthday at the church. Many longtime friends also joined in the celebration, congratulating and reminiscing with Winters.
When asked how she felt about turning 100, Winters said, “I couldn’t believe it….The Lord promised me a long life and he’s given it to me.”
And how she would like to be remembered?
"Just the way I am," she said.
Others are reading:
- Sun-News historical photo captures 1976 Hillsboro cabin move
- A Taste of India restaurant opens its doors to Las Cruces customers
- Las Cruces teen crowned Miss New Mexico 2023, strives to be 'pillar of inclusivity'
Leah Romero is the trending reporter at the Las Cruces Sun-News and can be reached at 575-418-3442, LRomero@lcsun-news.com or @rromero_leah on Twitter.
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Junction City on Stage 2 water emergency, issues mandatory water usage guidelines
Junction City officials have upgraded a water emergency to Stage 2, including a mandatory reduction of water usage by 30%.
Watering or irrigating lawns, landscaping and gardens is restricted to weekdays between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m., with odd number addresses on odd days and even addresses on even days.
The length of the restrictions, which were implemented Tuesday, depends on compliance, said Public Works Director Gary Kaping.
"If people comply and do what we want them to do, it could be two or three weeks," Kaping said Wednesday. "If they don't comply, it could be all summer. It just depends on them complying with what we're requesting. If they continue like they're using today, it's very possible that we could go to a Level 3, which would mean no outside water use at all."
Noncompliance will result in a written warning on the first violation, with a $300 fine for each subsequent violation.
While the tanks currently hold enough water to fit everyday needs, there is not enough in case of a fire.
"With our tanks that low it makes us pretty nervous if we were to have a big fire," Kaping said.
The mandatory reduction comes two weeks after Junction City announced a Level 1 alert with voluntary water usage restrictions after a power outage at a well and high water usage.
"Level 1 was effective for three or four days, and then people went back to doing what they were doing," Kaping said. "We were starting to catch up and then they went back to using at 1.4 million gallons a day, when a town our size should be using about 750,000 to 850,000 gallons a day."
"Our tanks are lower now than when we went to a Level 1," Kaping said, due to the heavy water usage.
Kaping said the water tanks are currently measuring at 24.13 feet, and under normal circumstances should be at 34 feet.
"Every foot of water we lose in our tanks is about 90,000 gallons, and we're 10 feet lower than we want to be, so it's about 900,000 gallons of water that we do not have in reserve," Kaping said.
These are the other Junction City restrictions to cut down on household water usage.
- Reduce the frequency that you water the lawn.
- Liming any watering of lawns, landscaping and gardens to no more than 15 minutes per zone or area.
- No city water used to wash sidewalks, walkways, streets, driveways, parking lots or other hard surface areas.
- No use of city-supplied water allowed to clean, fill, or maintain levels in decorative fountains.
- No use of city-supplied water to wash vehicles.
- Hydrant and water main flushing for emergency use only.
- Restaurants required to post draught notices and offer drinking water only upon request.
- Major water users must reduce lawn or landscaping watering to no more than 50 consumption units per day. A "major water user" is a city water costumer who generally averages a minimum of at least 100 consumption units per day during the summer months for outdoor landscaping or lawn watering.
"Grass is meant to die and come back," Kaping said.
Charles Gearing is a breaking news reporter for the Eugene Register-Guard. He may be reached at cgearing@gannett.com.
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Oregon climber who fell hundreds of feet near North Sister summit presumed dead
The Lane County Sheriff's Office said a climber who fell Monday near the summit of 10,085-foot North Sister is presumed dead after two days of search and rescue efforts.
"It has moved to a recovery operation at this point," said Tom Speldrich of the Lane County Sheriff's Office.
A woman called at 12:18 p.m. Monday and said her partner had fallen 300 to 500 feet and she could not see him, the sheriff's office said.
Speldrich said the man was communicating at the time of the call, but when rescue teams arrived at 3:14 p.m. he was no longer responding.
Speldrich said once the sheriff's office received the call, a Search and Rescue coordinator and a mountain rescue volunteer went to the Eugene Airport and flew to the area via Life Flight.
The Oregon National Guard joined the search in another helicopter. The Deschutes County Sheriff's Office Mountain Rescue and others also assisted.
The search continued Tuesday with help from the Civil Air Patrol and volunteer ground teams from Corvallis and Eugene Mountain Rescues. Responders used a small camera drone to search the steep, rocky area where the victim is believed to have fallen, but no clues were located.
The recovery operation will be based off of photo evidence from Tuesday's aerial search, Speldrich said.
"So the hope there was to be able to find a sign or a picture so that they can see where he's at, because they still don't know exactly where he is," Speldrich said. "While on a horizontal plane, he may only be 50 yards from a ledge he came off of, on a vertical plane, that could be several hundred feet."
Charles Gearing is a breaking news reporter with the Eugene Register-Guard. He can be reached at cgearing@gannett.com or by phone at 708-262-7626.
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Montana bats in crisis as white-nose syndrome fungus detected in central Montana
Wildlife biologists with the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) have recently detected the presence of the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome (WNS) at Lick Creek Cave in the Little Belt Mountains of Cascade County. It is the first confirmed detection of WNS in Cascade County and has the potential for devastating effects on Montana bats.
“We did not see the fungus associated with white-nose syndrome on the bats in Lick Creek Cave,” said Shannon Hilty, a non-game wildlife biologist, “but we did find the fungus inside the cave, and once we detect it, we typically find bats infected with the disease the following year.”
White-nose syndrome is a disease that causes a powdery white fungus to grow on the skin of hibernating bats. The fungus, Pseudogymnoascus destructans, attacks bare skin on the face and forearms of bats. The irritation arouses bats from winter hibernation to groom the affected areas, causing the mammals to exhaust the stored fat reserves they need to survive. Symptoms worsen over time, wearing holes in the bats’ wings.
“It would be like a really bad case of athlete’s foot,” said Dan Bachen, senior zoologist with the Montana Natural Heritage Program. WNS does not directly affect humans, pets, livestock or other wildlife.
Spread of fungus that causes WNS across the US
Since the fungus that causes WNS first appeared in New York state in 2006, the disease has spread rapidly west, killing an estimated 6.7 million bats in 40 U.S. states and eight Canadian provinces.
White-nose syndrome was first detected in Montana in 2020 at Azure Cave in the Little Rocky Mountains northeast of Lewistown. A survey two years later found that 98-percent of that cave’s bats had either died or moved to a different location. FWP has found the fungus that causes WNS in four of Montana’s 15 bat species.
Hilty said the emergence of WNS at Lick Creek Cave was “only a matter of time.”
“We’ve been slowly watching the spread of WNS since 2006/2007,” Hilty said. “I was by no means surprised to learn that Lick Creek Cave was positive, since it does get used by bats, but I was still really bummed out about the confirmation. Some populations of bats in the east have seen 90-100% declines due to WNS. When you study and love bats, and you understand how important they are to ecosystems and the economy, that’s a pretty disappointing fact to come to terms with.”
To view a map showing the progression of white-nose syndrome in Montana, check out www.whitenosesyndrome.org/where-is-wns.
Discovery of the fungus in Montana's Lick Creek Cave
The presence of the fungus in Lick Creek Cave is especially devastating because Lick Creek is one of only eight in Montana supplying refuge to more than 50 roosting animals. Bats also roost at bridges, cliff crevasses, buildings and in bat houses, but these are primarily summer roosts, not places where they hibernate. In some small respect this low concentration of hibernating bats may offer an advantage to controlling the spread of the disease.
“In eastern North America many bat species hibernate together in large numbers of thousands to tens of thousands, so you can imagine how bat-to-bat transmission would happen quickly,” Hilty explained. "However, in Montana and the Rocky Mountain west, our bats do not appear to be hibernating in caves in these large numbers, which begs the question, where the heck are they?”
“We assume they’re using features such as buildings, talus slopes, and cliffs, but we are working to get a better understanding of this,” she continued. “This could be good news — perhaps the fungus doesn’t survive and spread the same way it does in eastern North America in some of these nontraditional hibernacula either due to differences in the environment or in bat behavior.”
“We don’t yet have a good understanding of how bat populations will be affected by WNS in Montana,” said Kristina Smucker, nongame wildlife bureau chief for FWP. “So, in addition to our disease surveillance efforts we are also placing acoustic detectors to record bat calls and monitoring bats at summer roost sites.”
How destruction of bat colonies affects the ecosystem
The destruction of bat colonies in North America is not simply a concern for wildlife biologists, conservationists and people who just enjoy seeing bats. Bats are an important component of the ecosystem and economy of the state and are also a part of the unique biological diversity of Montana.
“A little brown bat can eat 1,200 mosquitoes in an hour,” Smucker noted. “Bats are tremendously important for keeping insect populations in check — they help protect crops and timber from flying insect pests, so we are very concerned about our bat populations and the impacts of this disease as we watch it spread across Montana.”
Not all species of bat are equally susceptible to white-nose syndrome. Hilty said that six of Montana’s bat species are of special concern.
“Based on what researchers have observed in other states, we think that Montana’s Little Brown Myotis and Northern Long-eared Bats might see some of the biggest population declines,” she said. “However, several other Montana species are susceptible to the disease: big brown bat, fringed myotis, long-legged bat, western long-eared bat, and Yuma myotis. In other states, several species that occur in Montana have been observed with the fungus but without diagnostic symptoms of WNS: eastern red bat, silver-haired bat, Townsend’s big-eared bat, and western small-footed myotis.”
Treating white-nose syndrome
Options for treating white-nose syndrome are limited and largely experimental. Disease ecologists and wildlife research biologists are investigating the possibility of placing ultraviolet light near roosting entrances, applying anti-fungicide on the floors and walls of caves infected with WNS, and perhaps dusting bats with a vaccine in a way so that their grooming would effectively dose them. Hilty said FWP is exploring these options at Lick Creek Cave.
“One of the big roadblocks we’ve had in the west is trying to determine what we would treat,” she explained. “The majority of Montana’s bats are not hibernating in caves and mines, so it wouldn’t be as easy as treating these features alone. However, it’s possible that we could treat select hibernacula, such as Lick Creek Cave, and administer vaccines in early spring when bats start showing up at some of these other features like bat boxes and buildings.”
For the immediate time at hand, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has closed public access to Lick Creek Cave.
"We are closing access to Lick Creek Cave in alignment with state guidance for controlling white-nose syndrome," said District Ranger Helen Smith. "We will also be looking at closing neighboring caves to help mitigate the collapse of additional bat colonies.”
Questions on the cave closure can be directed to the Belt Creek-White Sulphur Springs Ranger district offices in Neihart, 406-236-5100, or White Sulphur Springs 406-547-3361.
What can the public do?
Cavers, climbers and recreationists that visit areas with roosting bats should remove dirt and mud from shoes, gear and clothing before leaving a site; bag these items to take home; and clean items promptly. People that visit multiple areas where bats might reside should follow decontamination protocols to help stop the spread of WNS: www.whitenosesyndrome.org/static-page/decontamination-information.
Anyone who sees a dead or sick bat, or group of bats, or finds bats in unexpected places, should not handle them, but rather call a local FWP office for further guidance.
“Like other wildlife, bats may get sick or die for a variety of reasons,” said Emily Almberg, wildlife disease ecologist for Montana FWP. “We are particularly interested in investigating clusters of dead bats or bats that are found dead during the winter or early spring, as that may indicate WNS being the cause.”
People can report these discoveries to the FWP Wildlife Health Lab in Bozeman at 406-577-7882, or they can contact a biologist at their nearest FWP office.
For more information on white-nose syndrome, visit www.whitenosesyndrome.org/. For more information on Montana’s bats visit fieldguide.mt.gov.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif — The future of an off-leash dog park in Sacramento continues to divide a neighborhood.
On Wednesday, neighbors were invited by the city to vote on various concept plans for proposed dog parks that could replace the one now located at the Sierra 2 Green in Curtis Park.
Some dog owners want the park back the way it was, as a mixed-use space with soccer fields that is also available to dogs and children. Others worry it's too crowded, and the dogs roam free too close to where children play.
People like Angela Lopes say the place gave them a sense of community.
"When you’re older, and your disabled, and you’re low income, you don’t have a lot of options for community," said Lopes.
Lopes and her dog Lula now find themselves in the middle of a months-long fight over the future of the park.
The debate moved to a new phase this summer, with the city holding a vote on eight different concept plans.
"It was frustrating for me, because I didn't see any of the options I wanted there," said Lopes.
Kirsten Smith is also frustrated. She and a group of neighbors formed a group called "Common Ground."
"We have people in the neighborhood that say, 'I don’t even care what happens. I just want everybody to stop fighting,'" Smith said, adding she believes mixed-use is the answer.
Smith and Lopes would like to see a return to the policy in which dogs are allowed off-leash during certain hours.
"We believe it can work. It worked for decades; it can work again," Smith said.
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SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif — A dog was killed by a Sacramento County deputy Wednesday night.
According to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to the 5900 block of Jeanine Drive in Sacramento for a family disturbance around 9:30 p.m.
A spokesperson for the sheriff's office said a large dog charged at a deputy when the caller opened the door and that the dog was shot one time. Officials said the deputy opened fire due to fearing for his safety.
The dog ultimately died.
No other people were hurt during the incident.
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TURLOCK, Calif — Someone who bought a SuperLotto ticket in Turlock just got $25,000 richer.
With all the hype surrounding the Powerball draw and its $1 billion jackpot, the SuperLotto yielded some of its own winners Wednesday night.
The ticket didn't land the mega number, but it did match 5 numbers. It makes the ticket worth $25,167.
The ticket was sold at Raley's on Geer Road.
Winning numbers for the draw were: 5-10-20-22-32-1
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WOODLAND, Calif. — The Woodland Public Library got some help from former President Barack Obama to help promote reading and visiting the library.
In a social media video, the staff of the library can be seen sharing information about what adventures and activities can be unlocked by using a Woodland Public Library card.
For example, with your library card, you can check out a "California State Park Pass" and an "Explore Pack.'
"And of course, you've got to borrow a book," former President Obama said in the video.
“The Obama Foundation reached out to us wanting to support libraries throughout the country and asked us if we wanted to be involved, as they have enjoyed our prior TikTok content,” says Children’s Librarian Sara Vickers in a press release posted on the city of Woodland's website. “We were on board for a collaboration!”
Librarian Sara Day believes that “it’s truly an honor to be asked. Woodland Public Library is a special place and it’s amazing that we are getting recognized for it.”
The partnership was made possible with the help of "The Obama Foundation" which also partnered with libraries in Illinois, Texas and Maryland to "emphasize the importance of public libraries and everyone’s freedom to read."
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WOODLAND, Calif. — Several Woodland families were forced to pick up what was left after a weekend structure fire destroyed their homes.
It happened near College Street and Lincoln Avenue Saturday afternoon.
Maria Vargas, her boyfriend Osbaldo Garcia and their friend and roommate Luis Rocha, lost the rental they had been staying in for the past year.
“We literally came home to nothing,” said Vargas.
The scars are not hard to find, but the emotional distress for the families impacted is difficult to sum up.
“Just have no words sometimes,” said Garcia.
“We have never gone through this. This is our first time and, and I hope that it's our last time going through this,” said Vargas.
On Saturday, Woodland Fire Department and many other agencies tried to contain the devastating structure fire. While they managed to do so, the fire destroyed around five homes.
Vargas says they received the call while spending time at Lake Tahoe.
“When he (Garcia) said our house is on fire. We were like, What? No, you guys are joking with us. That is impossible,” said Vargas.
Now they and other families are trying to figure out their next steps. They started raising funds through GoFundMe to get by.
“At this point, we are homeless,” said Garcia.
Through the tough times, the trio are staying positive and are grateful it was not worse.
“It's just horrible to think that we could have been in there. We are thankful that we weren't. We're thankful that we were out,” said Vargas.
Fire officials have not announced what caused the fire.
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SEQUIM, Wash. — Investigators are still working to figure out what caused a home in Sequim to explode on Tuesday night, killing one man and damaging several neighboring houses.
The house on the 100 block of June Place was totally destroyed.
Clallam County deputies say the scope of the explosion was massive. Fire crews reported getting nearly 100 911 calls related to the incident.
Jesse Furbee was a neighbor of the man who was killed. He said the force of the explosion hit his home hard.
"All of a sudden just felt like getting hit by a freight train," Furbee said.
The first thing Furbee did was make sure his kids were ok. Then he ran outside to try and help.
"Pretty much the whole thing was in flames in about 45 seconds, the entire house, property was just engulfed in flames," Furbee said.
When Clallam County firefighters reached the home, they saw flames shooting 40 feet into the air from propane tanks. Pieces of the home were thrown 100 feet in all directions.
"It looked like it was snowing, the aftermath of everything, I could see a sheet of plywood that was flying through the air that landed on a neighboring house," Furbee said.
Multiple homes near the explosion were damaged. The windows on Furbee's barn were broken and the foundation was knocked off.
"All of the pictures, clocks, everything on the walls fell down, just shook it," Furbee said.
The man who lived in the home was found dead in the aftermath of the explosion.
The sheriff's office said the explosion appeared to have originated from the garage, but the cause is still unknown. Deputies called the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for help. Federal investigators ruled the explosion accidental and say there's no foul play suspected.
The family of the man who was killed blocked off the road to the home on Wednesday to stop people from driving by. The man has not been officially identified. Family and neighbors say he was a good man.
"It's really sad, it really is, because he's such a nice guy," Furbee said.
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City View defendants to claim statute of limitations on charges has expired
Four City View ISD defendants accused of failing to report suspected sexual abuse of students appeared in court Wednesday, setting the stage for a claim that the statute of limitation in the charges against them has expired.
Former City View ISD Superintendent Anthony Bushong, former high school principals Daryl Frazier and Raymond Weathersbee, and former Athletic Director Rudy Hawkins made perfunctory appearances in Wichita County Court At-Law No. 2.
Attorney James Rasmussen, who represents Hawkins, said the next step in the legal process will be a hearing for the defendants before county court at-law Judge Greg King to determine whether the cases against the four and three other City View administrators should move forward.
“We contend the statute of limitations on the charges has expired,” Rasmussen said.
He said if King agrees, that should be the end of the cases against the seven current or former administrators.
The District Attorney’s Office contends the charges represent continuing offenses and qualify to be pursued.
The charges against all the defendants are Class A misdemeanors, punishable by up to a year in county jail and a $4,000 fine. The charges claim the administrators failed to notify authorities about allegations of sexual abuse of students as required by law.
At question are allegations that surfaced in June 2022 when basketball coach Bobby Morris was named coach of the year in a televised event.
Some former female students took to social media and television to accuse Morris of sexually abusing students. Morris took his own life a few days later.
The administrators were aware of complaints against Morris that went back to 2014 but did not tell authorities, according to allegations in court documents.
The other defendants, former Superintendent Stephan Harris, Assistant Superintendent Carrie Allen and counselor Cindy Leaverton, have court appearances scheduled for later in the summer.
All the defendants are free on bail.
In April, a former City View student sued the district in federal court for "a conspiracy of silence" about Morris' alleged sexual misconduct, contending CVISD officials looked the other way while he preyed on students for years.
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Summer's juiciest fruit takes center stage
Cecil Witherspoon
Wichita Falls Times Record News
Wichita Falls Farmers Market is serving up another slice of summer with its annual Watermelon Festival. The event will take place 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at 807 Austin St.
The Farmers Market is giving out over 200 free Watermelon Festival shirts, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Wichita County will also be on hand from 9 a.m. to noon, or until supplies run out, to serve free watermelon slices.
There will be a face painting station, and Crashworks STEAM will be on site to explode watermelons for children's entertainment.
Food and beverage trucks that are scheduled to appear include B POPs, Old Dog Street Eats and Catering, Billionaire Cuisine, Mythic Roasters, Frosty Licks, Kona Ice and Tacos y Tortas el Pelon.
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New WFISD high schools pass halfway point on construction
Wichita Falls ISD's two new high schools are more than halfway complete, according to Dr. Donny Lee, WFISD superintendent.
Wichita Falls Memorial High School and Wichita Falls Legacy High School are slated to receive students for the 2024-2025 school year and are on pace to be built on schedule.
At Legacy High School, lighting and tile installation are ongoing. Additionally, crews are working to pour the new parking lots, but most of the work being done is in the interior of the building.
Lee said he estimates the schools are roughly 55% to 60% finished, and the process of building the schools has stayed on track despite a handful of weather delays.
“When we backwards planned, we thought about, 'When would these buildings open?' Memorial was scheduled to open in March, Legacy’s scheduled to open April, early May, and they’re still on schedule to do that even with a little bit of rain and snow and ice that we’ve had. So on schedule, on pace, on budget,” Lee said.
The substantial completion dates, which are the days planned for construction to be completed and for the district to have access, are Feb. 19 for Memorial and May 22 for Legacy.
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Students will arrive for school in August, but there will be multiple open house events prior to the start of the school year for students, parents and community members to take in the new facilities.
Another milestone at Memorial High School, which is slightly ahead of Legacy, was the completion of the school’s storm shelter. Some classrooms have even had marker boards put in, signaling the completion or near completion of some areas.
The work at Memorial has also advanced more on the exterior with the building’s columns and brick veneer progressing.
One recent hurdle for WFISD has been working with the Texas Department of Transportation to ensure the layout of roads and traffic lights around the new schools are adequate to handle the number of students, faculty and staff the schools will hold.
Lee said TXDOT is just one of several organizations the district is working with, including the city of Wichita Falls, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, and gas and electric companies.
"This is a multifaceted collaboration of people all working together for a common goal,” he said.
Despite the number of entities involved, progress has stayed on track with projected goals.
David Potter, the contract-phase administration architect and president of DP4 Consult, told the school board July 11 that construction crews working on the project, “have yet to ask for days that extend the contractual date they’ve gotten, so we’re pleased about that.”
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Lee added that there have been few issues to slow construction, allowing the school district to keep the project on pace.
“From the construction point, we haven’t had serious challenges in relation to anything other than weather’s slowed down a little bit. The materials have come. We haven’t run into any issues with those things as well," he said.
As for manpower on the ground, there have been 250 people at each site, Lee said.
"So right now, I hate to say it out loud, we haven’t run across significant challenges out there at this point. Things are going really, really well,” he said.
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SCRANTON, Pa. — At just 40 years old, State Representative Joanna McClinton believes she is living an answered prayer, a prayer from her namesake, her grandmother.
"Joanna McClinton, who was a domestic worker, did not complete school, that this is likely an answer to prayers that she prayed because while it wasn't on my goal list, on my agenda, I recognize it means so much for women in the past whose shoulders I stand upon, and those women who are coming in the future," McClinton said.
The Democrat from southwest Philadelphia made history in February when she became the first woman to be elected speaker of the Pennsylvania House.
"So it's been almost five months, and it's been quite breathtaking. It's humbling, it's an honor. However, I recognize that for the time that I have it, I have a lot of hard work to do to make sure that there can be so many women that will follow," she said.
McClinton says there are joys to being the speaker, and there are challenges.
Her goal is to be fair to all of her colleagues.
"When we talk about changing the laws on Pennsylvania's books, everyone has to be heard. Everyone needs to be able to amend a bill or improve it. They have to be able to speak on behalf of our constituents. They are 203 of us, and all of us have the bosses back at home," she added.
McClinton was first elected to the state house in 2015.
The graduate of LaSalle University and Villanova Law School enjoys traveling around the commonwealth.
She recently visited the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine and the Maternal and Family Health Services in Scranton to discuss resources for pregnant women and new moms.
"I use it as a learning experience to make sure everything we do in the chamber is not just a benefit for my own constituents, but for folks all across PA.," she explained.
McClinton is aware that while her election as speaker of the house is significant; it's what she does in the role that matters most.
"It means nothing to me if we cannot deliver to Pennsylvanians, and as now the speaker of the PA House, it's my priority, every day that I go to work, to make a difference in the lives of Pennsylvanians. To make sure that our policies that we pass will improve and enhance people's lives and better fund our public schools, and address needs that we are able to address for the moment that we are here," she said.
Speaker McClinton says she looks forward to returning to northeast Pennsylvania.
She wants her legacy to be that she served gracefully and that her leadership was respected on both sides of the aisle.
To see our full interview, head to WNEP's YouTube page.
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A federal grand jury in Richmond on Wednesday issued a seven-count indictment against a North Chesterfield County couple who are accused of forcing a man to work at their gas station and home.
Harmanpreet Singh, 30, and Kulbir Kaur, 42, are charged with forced labor, conspiracy to commit forced labor, alien harboring for financial gain, document servitude, conspiracy to commit bankruptcy fraud and fraudulent transfers in contemplation of bankruptcy.
The Department of Justice in a statement said they made the victim “provide labor and services at Singh’s store, including working as the cashier, preparing food, cleaning and managing store records.”
Prosecutors said they took his immigration documents and used physical abuse and threats. They also made him live in poor conditions and work long hours for minimum page, according to the statement, which did not include details about how the couple knew the person or his age.
“The indictment further alleges that the defendants harbored the victim after his visa expired for financial gain and committed bankruptcy-related fraud offenses,” the statement said.
The charge of forced labor carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, up to five years of supervised release, a fine of up to $250,000 and mandatory restitution.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office Civil Rights Division’s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit is prosecuting the case.
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Update: Firefighters report Antlers Fire near Lakehead stopped at 1.6 acres
Update at 6:35 p.m.
Firefighters reported to emergency dispatchers that the Antler's Fire was stopped and crews had a hose lay and hand line completely around the fire. The total acreage of the fire was 1.6 acres, crews at the fire reported.
Update at 6:10 p.m.
The California Highway Patrol reported on its traffic incident page that firefighters had the blaze "almost contained." One lane of northbound I-5 remained closed as trucks for fire crews lined the roadway to work on the blaze along the side of the freeway.
There was no acreage estimate on the size of the fire, however.
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Firefighters were working a blaze that broke out Wednesday after afternoon along Interstate 5 just south of the Antler's Bridge near Lakehead, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A Pacific Gas and Electric Company fire alert camera shows the fire racing up the hill from the northbound lanes of I-5 just south of the Antler's Bridge.
A California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection dispatcher said at about 5:20 p.m. that the fire was reportedly spreading rapidly.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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'Up in Smoke': How Lewes' iconic Auditorium ended long run of movies, vaudeville and more
“Thieves last week,” the Smyrna Times reported on June 3, 1908,” broke open the new corner stone of the town hall at Lewes which was laid about a week ago, hoping to get a $20 gold piece which was said to be in it.”
Apparently, the gold piece had not yet been placed in the cornerstone, and the thieves left empty handed. A couple of days later on June 5, the Lewes Boys’ Brass Band played, as men, women and children, including babies in strollers, crowded into Savannah Road to get a better look at the formal laying of the cornerstone of the Lewes “Town Hall.”
The press of people was so great that some spectators climbed out of second-story windows onto porch roofs to catch a glimpse of the ceremony.
Despite its name, the two-story masonry building, located at 334 Savannah Road, was not a government building. Financed by local residents, the Town Hall became known as the “Auditorium” and hosted vaudeville shows, locally produced plays and movies
Early movie houses, like the Auditorium, did not need much equipment other than the installation of darkening shades, a few dozen chairs, a screen and a projector.
The first movies were short, and they depicted simple street scenes, passing trains and almost anything that moved. In addition, the Auditorium had removable chairs so that they could be taken up, and the room could be used as a dance hall.
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Through the years, the vaudeville acts faded away and the Auditorium acquired permanent seats; but unlike modern movie houses that are open seven days a week, the Auditorium in the 1920s only showed films on Saturdays, Mondays and Tuesdays.
In the Roaring ’20s, the silent movies were not really “silent.” Although there was no dialogue or other sound coming from the film, movie houses hired musicians to play during the movies.
According to Betty Grunder, writing in the November 2008 issue of the Journal of the Lewes Historical Society, “Piano accompaniment for the films during some of those years was provided by Betty Littleton, daughter of Hiram and Emma Littleton of Lewes, who was paid 75 cents per week.”
By the 1920s, silent movies had matured into films that were about two hours long, with serious and complex themes. At that time, most big budget silent movies were premiered in a single theater in New York and ran for weeks, with hits remaining for months. After the initial first run, the films were dispersed to other theaters for a second run.
Born in 1899, Marjorie Virden, who later became a noted local newspaper columnist, frequently attended the movies during the 1920s, and her diary, now in the archives of the Lewes Historical Society, provides a glimpse into the silent films shown at the Auditorium.
On Saturday, Jan. 6, 1923, Virden curtly noted, “Dot (a friend of Marjorie’s) came down in the evening and we went to the movies. Good movie, ‘Pink Gods.’ " Normally, Virden’s brief comments were positive; but on Tuesday, Feb. 13, she noted, “Dot and I went to movies. Earle Williams and Rudolph Valentino — not much good.”
In 1929, after the introduction of sound, the Auditorium began to show “talking pictures.” The movie theater thrived for the next two decades, but after World War II and the advent of television, the Auditorium, like many small-town movie theaters, went into a slow decline. By the 1970s, the Lewes theater started showing X-rated adult films and art films.
The end came in the first week of July 1980, when a fire destroyed the building. Appropriately, the last movie shown at the Auditorium was Cheech and Chong’s “Up in Smoke.”
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Principal sources
Smyrna Times, June 3, 1908.
Betty Grunder, “Up In Smoke,” Journal of the Lewes Historical Society, Vol. 11, November 2008, pp. 51-55.
Judith Atkins Roberts, “Marjorie Virden: A Lewes Lady,” Journal of the Lewes Historical Society, Vol. VII, pp. 21-23.
Journal of Marjorie F. Virden, 1923, Lewes Historical Society Archives
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Montgomery County is tied with Hamilton County at second in Ohio for the highest prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease, and Clark County is among the top 10 counties, according to new data released at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference this week.
In what the Alzheimer’s Association calls the first county-level estimates of the prevalence of people with Alzheimer’s dementia, researchers found the highest prevalence of Alzheimer’s in the east and southeastern regions of the U.S.
“These new estimates add more granular data to our understanding of Alzheimer’s prevalence across the country,” said Kumar B. Rajan, one of the researchers of the study and a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Rush Medical College.
Montgomery County was tied with Hamilton County for the second-highest with 12.5% prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in residents 65 and older. The Alzheimer’s Association also estimated Montgomery County to have approximately 12,300 residents with Alzheimer’s disease among those 65 and older, out of a population of 98,800 people who are 65 and older.
Clark County was among the top 10 counties with a prevalence of 11.1% with an estimated 3,000 people out of 27,000 people 65 and older with Alzheimer’s disease, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. For Ohio in general, the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease was 11.3% with an estimated 236,200 people out of 2,087,600 people aged 65 and older with Alzheimer’s disease.
Rajan and other researchers used cognitive data from the Chicago Health and Aging Project and population estimates from the National Center for Health Statistics to estimate the prevalence of Alzheimer’s in adults 65 years and older in all U.S. counties. The data was published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association.
“This information, in addition to raising awareness of the Alzheimer’s crisis in specific communities, may help public health programs better allocate funding, staffing and other resources for caring for people with Alzheimer’s and all other dementia,” said Rajan.
The counties with more prevalence are more populous than others, but they are also home to more Black and Hispanic Americans, who face a greater risk of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia in general.
“Population is certainly one of the reasons for it, but we also know that there are disparities that exist,” said Camren Harris, the Alzheimer’s Association’s Ohio research champion and public policy manager.
Age is a primary risk factor for Alzheimer’s, but older Black Americans are about twice as likely to have Alzheimer’s or other dementias as older white Americans, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. Older Hispanic Americans also are about one and one-half times as likely to have Alzheimer’s or other dementias as older whites Americans.
Other research has shown the impacts of racism on the brain, Harris said, discussing findings released last year that showed exposure to interpersonal and institutional racism was associated with lower memory scores.
“It looked at racism on the brain and how experiences of racism and experiences of prejudice and things of that can certainly have a negative effect on one’s cognitive ability, and it can lead to cognitive decline,” Harris said.
Other factors found in metropolitan hubs can also impact the brain, such as strenuous jobs.
“We know that there are some things like lifestyle factors as well as environmental factors that contribute to that as well,” Harris said. “So when we look at Montgomery County for example, at some point where you have people who may have worked in certain fields or industries that contribute to poor health and more stress and strain on the body, that certainly has an effect as well.”
Credit: JIM NOELKER
Credit: JIM NOELKER
What affects the heart also affects the brain, Harris said. If your heart is under stress and strain, it is going to put stress on your brain functions, as well.
This all points to why research is needed, Harris said, to help address all the areas of complexity that can impact brain health and cognitive decline, as there may not be one answer for everyone suffering from Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia.
“It’s not necessarily going to be a one-size-fits-all approach, so what can we do, what can we learn, to ensure that when we do get to that day when we do find a cure that the cure is equitable and fair across the board,” Harris said.
The importance of data around prevalence also shows the need to have the infrastructure ready to support the aging population.
“Ohio is an aging state, which is not a bad thing; however, we just need to ensure that we have the proper Alzheimer’s and dementia infrastructure in place,” Harris said. “Data suggests that right now 220,000 Ohioans age 65 and older are living with Alzheimer’s, and in just two years continuing at the rate that it has, our data suggests that by 2025 there will be 250,000 Ohioans age 65 and older living with dementia.”
Early diagnosis is also key to living with Alzheimer’s disease, said one community educator, Scott Griswold, who held a recent seminar on understanding Alzheimer’s at the Wilmington-Stroop Branch of the Dayton Metro Library this week.
“The best thing that you can do is to talk to your doctor or health care professional and get a diagnosis because that medication...has helped me immensely,” said Griswold, who received his Alzheimer’s diagnosis in 2018.
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M@C Discount opens a location in Gastonia
Gastonia’s new M@C Discount location is open, and it’s, “in the business of second chances,” according to co-founder Kellen Campbell.
M@C Discount is a resale business that is reminiscent of eBay.
Shoppers start online, where they can find hundreds of products listed for $1 each.
M@C Discount buys returned items by the truckload from retailers like Amazon, Walmart, and others. They open the items up for bidding on their website, starting everything at $1, and the customers do the rest.
While customers can purchase items from a different location, and have it shipped to a warehouse near them, M@C Discounts doesn’t ship items to buyer’s homes.
Customers must come to a warehouse location and pick the item up.
For Gastonia shoppers, this means they can drive to 1335 Isley Drive in Gastonia for their items rather than traveling to one of M@C’s Rock Hill, Spartanburg or Greenville locations.
Buyers can also inspect an item prior to bidding, and having a location right at home will enable interested customers here in Gastonia to inspect the items they want to buy.
M@C Discount began in western Pennsylvania a little over five years ago. Campbell and other co-founder Shawn Allen had been working together in reverse logistics for a company called Genco.
In their role, they were working closely with merchandise that had been returned or was otherwise no longer wanted by big companies.
Eventually they realized no one else was doing anything with liquidation items in the area, according to Campbell.
The pair then made a business plan that led to the opening of seven locations in Pennsylvania.
The business then moved into eastern Ohio, and then came all the way down to Spartanburg.
With the opening of their Gastonia location, M@C Discount currently has 16 warehouse locations, and is expected to up to 19 by the end of next month.
In addition to giving new life to the products they sell, M@C Discount gives new life to old industrial buildings and deserted mall shops like Sears that wouldn’t get any use otherwise, Campbell said.
The company also works to employ people who might need a second chance at life.
“Some people start working with our company and start making better choices, and grow from there. It’s been inspiring to see,” Campbell said.
M@C Discount’s Gastonia location is open Monday-Friday, from noon to 6 p.m. Items for sale can be found at their website www.mac.bid.
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TUPELO — North Mississippi Health Services leadership say they have completed the process of laying off employees that began last week and have now begun reassigning other workers to new positions.
The information comes from an email update sent Wednesday to NMHS employees on behalf of Shane Spees, NMHS president and CEO.
"As of this morning, leadership has completed the difficult conversations with our teammates who are directly impacted by the changes announced within the July 12 'NMHS Redesign' communications," Spees wrote. "While some of those teammates are currently working on reassignment options, other teammates have exited the organization."
In a video shared on North Mississippi Health Service's Facebook page on Wednesday afternoon, Spees explained the system is undergoing a "redesign" process in light of what he referred to as financial challenges.
"Some of the changes we've made as part of this redesign have negatively affected our teammates. Some have been asked to work reduced hours and others have seen their positions eliminated," Spees said in the video.
According to Spees, 220 individuals were affected by the changes announced last week but "the few nurses and other clinicians in that number have been offered reassignment to other positions," he said.
"In spite of these reductions, we are still hiring clinical staff, including nurses, to ensure we are fully staffed and ready to care for our communities today and into the future," he added.
The initial email to staff last week indicated NMHS — a system comprised of the North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, six community hospitals and dozens of clinics — has suffered financial losses of $17.6 million so far this year. Compared to pre-pandemic data, payment per patient is up 12.31% from three years ago while cost per patient is up 21.26%.
"We are making every effort to offer reassignment opportunities to all that meet the job requirements, have an interest in remaining at NMHS and are selected by the hiring manager," Spees wrote in the latest email.
The reassignment process is currently underway and should be completed by July 26, after which NMHS is expected to provide another update.
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TUPELO - First-time parents face a lot of challenges when they arrive home with a new baby cradled in their arms, but few compare to the fear and frustration of the unknown.
Local author Rickquel Rose knows this as well as anyone, and her new children’s book, “Tiny Hungry Troll,” tackles this subject with humor and whimsy.
“Tiny Hungry Troll” tells the colorfully illustrated story of a pair of new troll parents who have their hands full with a hungry baby. A very … very hungry baby. And when their green-skinned, fang-toothed little one’s tummy rumbles, she does some incredible things.
Despite the fantastical premise, the story Rose tells is — believe it or not — autobiographical. When she came home with her newborn, she learned how monstrous something so tiny can be.
At its core, the book is Rose’s story of learning to raise a child, and the challenges that come with becoming a new parent.
“I was always tired, (my husband) was always tired, and the baby was screaming,” she said of her family. “So, I transformed that into trolls because sometimes we’d get so upset and so bogged down with emotions that we turn into people we don’t recognize.”
Published in December, “Tiny Hungry Troll” is Rose’s first book. Last week, she dropped by Reed’s Gumtree Bookstore in downtown Tupelo to read the book to an ecstatic group of young book lovers. While Rose has done signings at local libraries, this was her first time to share her book in a commercial setting.
It was great feeling, she said, reading her book to a large group of its intended audience.
“I can’t describe it,” she said. “It was very nice.”
Besides writing, Rose — whose real name is Shanna Ford —teaches second grade students at Shannon Primary School. She now raises two with her husband and writes on the side.
Rose hopes her personal story will inspire local kids to dream big.
“I’m hoping to be an inspiration to them,” she said. “You know that even though you live in a small town, you can do big things.”
As for her book, she hopes the tale of the “Tiny Hungry Troll” will impart a bit of wisdom to both kids and parents alike.
Being a new parent can be frightening, and that’s OK. It’s how you handle that fear that matters, and each day will get easier.
Learning how to anticipate her child’s needs, Rose said, and being patient helped her learn how to balance everything.
“For parents just starting out, I would tell them they (kids) don’t come with instructions,” she said. “But really, take your time to learn the child and be patient with yourself. Be patient and forgiving. Be honest with your feelings. Take it one day at a time… give yourself some grace.”
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Tricia Fulton, CFO of Sarasota's Helios Technologies, hands over reins after 26 years
SARASOTA — Sarasota-based Helios Technologies, Inc., a global motion control and electronics manufacturer and technology company, has announced the successor to longtime Chief Finacial Officer Tricia Fulton this week.
The global technology company − formerly Sun Hydraulics Corporation − announced that Fulton will be succeeded by Sean Bagan, the company's vice president of finance and CFO of a Helios Technologies subsidiary company, Polaris.
Fulton began her work at the company in March 1997 and has worked at Helios for over 26 years. She has served as the global company's head financial executive since 2006. A graduate of Hillsdale College and the General Management Program at the Harvard Business School, Fulton led Helios Technologies through its most recent brand mergers and company overhaul beginning in 2018. She was named CFO of the Year by the Tampa Bay Business Journal in 2016.
“On behalf of the board and the entire company, I want to congratulate Tricia on her retirement and express our sincere gratitude for her significant contributions to our success,” said President and Chief Executive Officer Josef Matosevic. “Before I joined Helios, Tricia navigated the company back from a challenging time in 2020. Her knowledge and expertise of our businesses combined with her steadfast leadership and contributions have been invaluable to Helios. We wish her all the best in her next chapter of life.”
Helois develops and manufactures products including customized electronic control systems, hydraulic cartridge valves, and other motion controls for products and machinery — such as tractors, off-road vehicles, personal watercraft vehicles, wave pools, and more — in over 90 countries worldwide. Its three Sarasota facilities and its satellite offices currently employ more than 2,300 workers globally.
The company's reported spring quarterly revenue earnings totaled approximately $213 million in late March.
Bagan will succeed Fulton as CFO and become a member of Helios Technolgies' executive leadership team on Aug. 9.
Bagan joins Helios after spending 23 years at Polaris Inc., a global leader in power sports and off-road innovation. He brings more than 20 years of international business, and strategic financial operations to Helios, according to a news release. Bagan's responsibilities scaled with Polaris over the decades in operational finance, international sales, product segments, acquisitions and corporate finance and treasury. In addition to financial management positions, his roles have included general management and operational oversight for U.S. and related global businesses.
"He has a proven track record of building, growing, and transforming businesses, both in the U.S. and internationally, into highly productive and profitable operations. These are exciting times at Helios, and we expect Sean’s experience to bring further depth and dimension to our team as we execute on our strategy to drive accelerated growth while delivering best-in-class margins.”
According to the company's news release, Fulton will continue on at Helios as an advisor for a year.
In May, Helios announced it had signed an agreement to acquire i3 Product Development, a custom engineering services firm, with over 55 engineers with expertise in electronics, mechanical, industrial, embedded and software engineering. The company said its solutions "are used across many sectors, including medical, off-highway, recreational and commercial marine, power sports, health and wellness, agriculture, consumer goods, industrial, sports and fitness."
"Additionally, they specialize in working to transform customer’s ideas into industrial design solutions through rapid prototyping and creating 3D models in-house. A Top Workplace award winner for multiple years in the state of Wisconsin, i3 has locations in both Sun Prairie and Middleton," the announcement stated.
In January, Helios agreed to acquire Schultes Precision Manufacturing, Inc., a specialist in manufacturing precision machined components and assemblies for customers requiring very tight tolerances, superior quality, and exceptional value-added manufacturing processes. The Buffalo Grove-Illinois business serves the hydraulic, aerospace, communication, food services, medical device and dental industries, according to an announcement of the acquisition.
And last September it acquired the assets of Daman Products Company, “Daman”. The Mishawaka, Indiana business was termed a "leader in complex manifold design and manufacturing for precision hydraulic manifolds and related fluid conveyance products" for industrial and mobile markets including applications in the oil and gas, railroad, construction, agriculture, forestry, mining, material handling, machine tool, robotics, and entertainment industries.
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Sarasota County Commissioner Rainford talks infrastructure, housing and his 2024 plans
New Sarasota County Commissioner Neil Rainford said he has filed to run for his current seat in the 2024 election.
Rainford, 36, was appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis to fill the County Commission seat left vacant by the passing of commissioner Nancy Detert earlier this year. Rainford’s term ends in November 2024, so he needs to run in next year’s election to retain the role.
Gregory Wood, who, like Rainford is a Republican, is the only other candidate who has filed for the District 3 seat so far.
The Herald-Tribune interviewed Rainford recently about his new role, which he has held since June 13. Rainford said infrastructure, the workforce and housing are some of the issues important to him.
“I’m obviously the youngest on the County Commission,” Rainford said, “so I think I can have a representative voice for not only District 3, but a whole generation – the next generation that hopefully we’re going to keep here in Sarasota.”
Some of Rainford’s responses are summarized below.
Why he wanted to become a county commissioner
Rainford was among a pool of applicants who applied for the appointment. He said his parents’ generation wanted to leave things better than they found them, and he wants to do the same for his 22-year-old stepson and his generation.
He said that people often may complain about something but aren’t “willing to participate in the process.”
“I thought this was a great opportunity as a stakeholder to be involved and to create the vision and the future that I think is best,” he said.
More about Rainford:DeSantis appoints GOP leader to District 3 Sarasota County Commission seat
The Sarasota has ranked highly in a number of national ratings, and Rainford wants to keep up the area’s success.
Rainford, who was born in New York City and grew up in Arlington, Massachusetts, studied urban and regional planning at Florida State University. He said his interest in that field “aligns really well” with the County Commission. He has served on the county’s Planning Commission and Charter Review Board.
Rainford is senior project executive at Sarasota-based Mullet's Aluminum Products Inc., an architectural aluminum manufacturer.
What he hopes to accomplish
Rainford said Sarasota County has “some significant challenges” that need to be addressed over the next several years, including infrastructure issues. Sarasota County is planning to receive a $201.5 million grant from the federal government to help with the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Ian and preparation for future storms. He said this will allow Sarasota County to accelerate some of its infrastructure projects.
“Because we got to make sure that we’re building the infrastructure today that is sustainable for the growth that we experience tomorrow,” he said, adding that he wants to bring everything up to the “high standard” set in Sarasota.
Housing is another issue that’s important to Rainford. He said Sarasota has gotten “very expensive” and it’s difficult for his generation to live here.
“And we got to make sure that our children and grandchildren have the same opportunity to stay here, because it may look different than it did when I got out of college,” Rainford said. He bought a home in Sarasota in the early 2010’s and paid $1,600 a month for his mortgage payment, he said.
He praised the Sarasota County Commission’s half-dwelling unit policy, which allows developers to build apartments at twice the normal density when they build units that are 750 square feet or less.
“That may be how the next generation starts their first opportunity in Sarasota as they build their family and grow here in Sarasota,” he said of half-dwelling units.
On the topic of the workforce, he said he wants to ensure that the next generation is provided with opportunities to develop and train in different industries and that more seasoned workers are able to retrain.
His approach to development decisions
Rainford said he would follow “the guiding document” of the Sarasota 2050 Plan, which allows for communities to be master planned but also sets aside green space for protection and conservation. He said he would listen to all the stakeholders involved in a development decision. He also called himself “a huge property rights guy.”
“I would never go against anybody’s property rights, but I think it’s really important that every decision we make has to be part of that larger vision for the future of Sarasota,” he said, referring to his hope to allow people to stay here and not be priced out.
Rainford said the county commissioners represent nearly half a million residents, so they have to look out for the interests of all of those people.
This month, he and three other commissioners voted in favor of an apartment complex project in Englewood. (Chairman Ron Cutsinger dissented in the vote.) The complex will have a mix of two-bedroom units and one-bedroom, half-dwelling units. Many nearby residents spoke in opposition to the project at the commission meeting and expressed concerns about density and traffic.
“Several people in the room maybe didn’t agree with the vote,” Rainford said, estimating he spoke with “probably 200 stakeholders in the last month that said workforce housing is the most important thing that they need. That includes our sheriff, that includes our contractors, that includes our manufacturers, that includes our hospital workers.”
The 2024 election
Rainford currently resides in northeastern Sarasota County, which is outside of District 3, an area that includes Venice and parts of North Port. Appointed commissioners can live outside of their district, but elected commissioners cannot. He said he is going to move into the district and has a home under contract for purchase there.
Rainford raised $120,000 in his first week on the campaign trail, according to a news release. The names of those who donated to him this month will appear on the Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections website in August.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Editor's note: The video above first aired on KARE 11 in May 2023.
Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review his conviction for second-degree murder in the killing of George Floyd, now that the Minnesota Supreme Court has declined to hear the case, his attorney said Wednesday.
The state’s highest court without comment denied Chauvin’s petition in a one-page order dated Tuesday, letting Chauvin’s conviction and 22 1/2-year sentence stand. Chauvin faces long odds at the U.S. Supreme Court, which hears only about 100 to 150 appeals of the more than 7,000 cases it is asked to review every year.
Floyd, who was Black, died on May 25, 2020, after Chauvin, who is white, pressed a knee on his neck for 9 1/2 minutes on the street outside a convenience store where Floyd tried to pass a counterfeit $20 bill. A bystander video captured Floyd’s fading cries of “I can’t breathe.” Floyd’s death touched off protests worldwide, some of which turned violent, and forced a national reckoning with police brutality and racism that is still playing out.
Chauvin's attorney, William Mohrmann, told The Associated Press that they were “obviously disappointed” in the decision. He said the most significant issue on which they appealed was whether holding the proceedings in Minneapolis in 2021 deprived Chauvin of his right to a fair trial due to pretrial publicity and concerns for violence in the event of an acquittal. He said they will now raise that issue with the U.S. Supreme Court.
“This criminal trial generated the most amount of pretrial publicity in history,” Morhmann said. “More concerning are the riots which occurred after George Floyd’s death (and) led the jurors to all express concerns for their safety in the event they acquitted Mr. Chauvin — safety concerns which were fully evidenced by surrounding the courthouse in barbed wire and National Guard troops during the trial and deploying the National Guard throughout Minneapolis prior to jury deliberations.”
Mohrmann asked the Minnesota Supreme Court in May to hear the case after the Minnesota Court of Appeals in April rejected his arguments that he had been denied a fair trial. The Minnesota attorney general’s office, in a response last month, asked the Supreme Court to let that ruling stand instead.
“Petitioner received a fair trial, and received the benefit of a fulsome appellate review,” prosecutors wrote at the time. “It is time to bring this case to a close.”
The attorney general's office did not immediately reply to a request for comment Wednesday.
Morhman asked the Court of Appeals and the Minnesota Supreme Court to throw out the ex-officer’s conviction for a long list of reasons, including the decision by Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill not to move the trial out of Minneapolis despite the massive pretrial publicity, and the potential prejudicial effects of unprecedented courthouse security.
After his conviction on the state charge, Chauvin pleaded guilty to a separate federal civil rights charge and was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison, which he is serving in Arizona concurrent with his state sentence. Three other former officers who assisted Chauvin are serving shorter state and-or federal sentences for their roles in the case.
Only Tou Thao, who held back the concerned crowd, still faces sentencing in state court. That's scheduled for Aug. 7. Thao rejected a plea agreement and, instead of going to trial, let Cahill decide the case based on written filings by each side and evidence presented in previous trials.
Cahill convicted Thao in May of aiding and abetting manslaughter. Minnesota guidelines recommend four years on the manslaughter count, which Thao would serve concurrently with his 3 1/2-year federal sentence.
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What to know before heading to the Delaware beaches this weekend
Ready to settle into a hot, sunny weekend on the Delaware beaches?We can't carry your beach chair for you, but we can give you all the information you need so there are no surprises.
Each week, Delaware Online/The News Journal provides this weekend guide to the Delaware beaches. When it comes to Lewes, Rehoboth Beach, Dewey Beach, Bethany Beach and Fenwick Island, we're the go-to source for information on beach closures, weather, events and more.
Here's what you need to know this fourth weekend of July.
More:Ready to beach? Here are 5 new spots for nightlife & bites at Delaware beaches this summer
Weather and other variables
After a month's worth of weekend storm threats that never materialized, the rain finally managed to take away a beach day last Sunday.
That will not be the case this weekend, the National Weather Service predicts. Both Saturday and Sunday are expected to be ideal days for sand and surf - hot and sunny, without a chance of rain.
Remember, state parks will close when they reach capacity. On days like those expected this weekend, places like Cape Henlopen State Park will fill up and people will be turned away. If you have your heart set on a particular beach, get there early.
In the mood for some ocean swimming, or maybe you prefer low-tide beachcombing? Check the water temperatures and tides at tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov.
More:How legislation will prevent restaurants from ever being built in Cape Henlopen State Park
How to get there
Has that sign on Rehoboth Avenue that says "You're at the beach ... relax and slow down," ever caused you to unclench your hands from the steering wheel, stop scanning for a parking space and actually relax? Me neither.
However, there are numerous ways to get to the beach that relieve you of the least relaxing part of the trip. Here are a few to try.
More:Which Delaware beach best suits your personality? Take our quiz
- DART: The DART Beach Bus offers service up and down Coastal Highway, from Lewes all the way to Ocean City, Maryland. The buses are frequent, quick, efficient and cheap ($4 a day with kids riding for free). An extra perk: The air conditioning is already at full blast when you get on board.
- Jolly Trolley: The Jolly Trolley runs between Dewey and Rehoboth and is $4 per ride. It makes stops twice an hour from 3 to 11 p.m. daily in the summer. It's great for bar-hopping.
- Lewes Line: The Lewes Line, in its second season, runs 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. all summer. Only $1 per ride, it makes stops at 12 locations throughout town, as far west as the Village of Five Points.
- Bethany Beach Trolley: The Bethany Beach Trolley is free to ride and runs 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily in the summertime. It travels all over downtown Bethany Beach and as far west as Turtle Walk, off Route 26. It makes 17 stops.
If you must drive yourself, check out our parking guide first.
What to do
If you're not exhausted by the beach in the day, there's plenty to do around here at night.
In Rehoboth Beach, Clear Space Theatre Company's summer repertoire is underway. This weekend, get tickets for the award-winning "Kinky Boots," Christopher Decker's "Just the Tip: A Gay Cabaret" or the Saturday morning children's theatre production of "The Wizard of Oz."
More:Rehoboth, Dewey & beyond: Local's look at all you need to know about Delaware's beaches
The Milton Theatre's production of "Rent" continues this weekend, with shows at 2 and 8 p.m. on Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday.
Magician Dave Cox will perform at Dickens Parlour Theatre in Ocean View Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 7 p.m. On Friday and Saturday, there's also "The Comedy Tonight Show" at 9 p.m.
Freeman Arts Pavilion in Selbyville has quite a lineup this weekend. On Friday night, there's "The Beat Goes On," a Cher tribute show. On Saturday night, *NSYNC's Chris Kirkpatrick, O-Town, BBMak and Ryan Cabrera make up the Pop 2000 Tour, and on Sunday night, there's swing kings Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.
There are also free concerts put on by the beach towns in the summer. Check your town's website for days and times.
If you're up for a bit of a drive to western Kent County, the Delaware State Fair is also open this weekend in Harrington.
More:Heavenly dinner rolls, free oysters. Delaware beach restaurants gone but not forgotten.
Things to know
Beach replenishment: The replenishment of Delaware's ocean beaches began in April and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project is now in its final days. Work in Rehoboth, Dewey and Fenwick Island beaches is complete, while work in Bethany and South Bethany is expected to finish up this week. There may still be periodic beach closures until that time.
Surf-fishing:Delaware made big changes to its surf-fishing system this year. If you hope to drive on to the Delaware beaches to surf-fish on a weekend or holiday this year, you need not only a permit (available at most state park offices), but a reservation.
The online system (located at www.destateparks.com/SurfTagSales) opens at 11 a.m. Tuesday for Saturday reservations and 11 a.m. Wednesday for Sunday reservations. It's peak summer, so many of the drive-on beaches will sell out quickly, especially at Cape Henlopen State Park. Make your reservation as soon as possible to avoid missing out on your first-choice beach.
Curfews:Dewey and Bethany beaches had major issues with large groups of teens earlier this month, so they're enforcing curfews. In Bethany Beach, the curfew is 11 p.m. for anyone under the age of 18. It's the same in Dewey, except on Fridays and Saturdays, when the curfew begins at midnight.
Shannon Marvel McNaught reports on Sussex County and beyond. Reach her at smcnaught@gannett.com or on Twitter @MarvelMcNaught
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A Delaware company had a big role in the Manhattan Project. Is it a part of 'Oppenheimer'?
"Oppenheimer, a movie written and directed by Christopher Nolan, is the story of American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his part in the development of the atomic bomb that abruptly ended World War II.
The thriller comes out Friday, and it remains to be seen what, if any, role the Wilmington-based DuPont Co. and its employees play in the film that ties together physics, engineering and chemistry.
DuPont was a significant part of the "Manhattan Project" the code name given to the top-secret project which produced the atomic bomb.
"The $2 billion project employed over 125,000 people across America, most of whom had no idea what they were working on," according to an exhibit at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.
But the Delaware company, which produced enough enriched Uranium 235 to make the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima and enough plutonium for the Nagaski bomb, was not involved in the decision to drop bombs on the Japanese cities.
DuPont's Atomic Energy Division documents and records on atomic weapons and nuclear energy stored at Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington offer greater insight into the top-secret nature of the project conducted during World War II and the company's involvement.
The museum has had exhibitions over the years about DuPont and the Manhattan Project.
Three years ago, when the museum was closed to visitors due to the pandemic, historian Lucas Clawson on YouTube discussed DuPont's role in the Manhattan Project and the development of the first operational nuclear reactors.
During the hour-long video, which showcases rare documents, footage and photographs from Hagley’s collection, Clawson describes the top-secret project to develop a weapon and how it served as a major catalyst in the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States.
Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves (played in the movie by Matt Damon) was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer in charge of the construction of the Pentagon.
He became the military head of the Manhattan Project by then-President Franklin Roosevelt after German-born physicist Albert Einstein wrote to the president in 1939 telling him to research atomic weapons because if dictator Adolf Hilter developed one first, the Nazis might win the war and wipe out civilization.
(Ironically, Einstein was denied security clearance by the Army to work on the project and no other scientists or engineers could consult with him. Due to his politically left leanings, Einstein was considered a security risk, according to the American Museum of Natural History.)
With the green light lit, the race for atomic power was on. While recruiting scientists and companies for the Manhattan Project, Groves sought out trustworthy people, according to Clawson. The military leader was well-acquainted with the DuPont Co., a known explosives company that was transitioning into a respected chemical engineering company that had in recent years invented nylon.
In November 1942, Groves came to Wilmington and met with DuPont Co. president Walter Samuel Carpenter, Jr. and briefed him on the Manhattan Project. He wanted the company to build and operate plutonium production reactors and other facilities, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
The company's executive committee and board, which included Carpenter, the first member who was not from the du Pont family, were reluctant and had several concerns about their involvement.
According to Clawson, one of the biggest factors was they were not convinced about its safety, a tenant of DuPont since the company was founded as a manufacturer of gunpowder on the banks of the Brandywine in 1802.
Carpenter has said he realized the results of this incredibly dangerous new science of splitting the atom and plutonium could be catastrophic.
Still, Carpenter said he felt DuPont, an American company, had to be involved as a patriotic contribution.
On Dec. 21, 1942, DuPont agreed to take on the Manhattan Project, according to Hagley, but with some conditions. The cost would be $1 because the company didn't want to look like it was profiting from the war.
DuPont was still smarting after it had been criticized as "a merchant of death" after producing 40 percent of smokeless gunpowder used by the Allies during World War I. DuPont said any profits would be returned to the government.
DuPont also wanted to ensure it would have no liability if something went wrong and wanted out of the project by the end of the war.
"One of the amazing aspects of the thing was that nobody in Wilmington here seemed to know what was going on out there," Carpenter said in a 1965 interview for the “Voices of the Manhattan Project” a joint project by theAtomic Heritage Foundation and the Los Alamos Historical Society,
"It had to be kept very secret, and of course, it was kept very secret," Carpenter said.
Walter Carpenter State Park, a part of the White Clay Creek Preserve near Newark, is named after the DuPont Co. president and chairman who died in 1976.
DuPont chemical engineer Crawford Greenewalt soon was sent by Carpenter to investigate the project. In Chicago on Dec. 2, 1942, he witnessed Italian physicist Enrico Fermi’s first chain reaction. His engineering notebooks, with the words "secret' stamped in red on the pages, are a part of Hagley Museum and Library's archives.
Greenewalt, married to Margaretta Lammot du Pont, the daughter of DuPont Co. president Irénée du Pont. served as the DuPont Co. president from 1948 to 1962. He retired as board chairman in 1967 and died at age 91 in 1993.
Greenewalt's brother-in-law was Irénée du Pont Jr. who owned Granogue, the stunning 505-acre private estate near Centreville, Delaware. The estate was acquired by Longwood Gardens in February about a month after du Pont's death at age 103.
During World War II, Greenewalt became the liaison between the physicists at the Chicago Met Lab and DuPont's engineers at Wilmington, according to Atomic Heritage Foundation. His role was helping translate scientists’ theoretical ideas into workable blueprints for the production of plutonium on a massive scale at a reactor that was built in Hanford, Washington.
With the Army's help, DuPont Co. set up a temporary central construction camp accommodating up to 51,000 people and built permanent housing for a community, with schools, churches, and grocery stores, of up to 17,500 people also in Washington.
Greenewalt chose DuPont's chief engineer Grenville M. "Slim" Read to head up the design of the facilities that also included a reactor at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. At its Deepwater, New Jersey, plant, DuPont operated one of the three parallel production lines set up for processing uranium ore into metal.
When the first test atomic fission bomb exploded at a remote air base in Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1950, Groves called Read in Delaware, according to News Journal archives.
Afraid that his call might be bugged by spies, Groves said just two words: "It worked."
"You lucky SOB. You hit the jackpot on DuPont's nickel," Read said.
Contact Patricia Talorico at ptalorico@delawareonline.com and follow her on Twitter @pattytalorico.
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This Wilmington child was lead poisoned. How it could have been prevented
- James Gibbs first learned about New Castle County's "No Lead" program in late-2020 when his partner was still pregnant with Gibbs' now 2-year-old son.
- But when program leaders reached out to the North Spruce Street landlord, Steve Eastburn, to get him to agree to the voluntary, free program, Eastburn declined.
- Two years later, Gibbs' son tested positive for elevated blood lead levels.
It was completely preventable.
James Gibbs’ partner was still pregnant when outreach workers for New Castle County’s “No Lead” program came to the lifelong Wilmington resident’s home on North Spruce Street in 2020 warning about the hazards of lead exposure.
Gibbs would later discover in a home lead-risk assessment by the Delaware Division of Public Health that the hazardous material was everywhere.
The baseboards? Lead-based paint.
Around the windows and doors? Also lead.
“There is lead throughout the house including the carpet,” Gibbs told Delaware Online/The News Journal during an interview at his home on Wilmington’s East Side.
The row home at 848 N. Spruce St. is one of many 100-plus-year-old houses that is almost guaranteed to have lead-based paint. The community is among the targeted zip codes for New Castle County's Lead Program, which offers property owners up to $20,000 in free lead remediation services, but only if tenants and property owners agree.
Gibbs’ landlord, Steven Eastburn, declined.
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At the time, Eastburn said Gibbs owed back rent and he had no indication that the home had any lead hazards. The property owner added he didn’t want to start a remediation project if Gibbs would have to be evicted because of the alleged back rent.
“If there had been some indication that there was a child that had an elevated level…I just didn’t have any indication of that,” Eastburn told a Delaware Online/The News Journal reporter on July 10. “There’s never been any other indication that there’s any problem or issue in that house.”
To complicate matters further, the landlord said he was never contacted by the state nor received the lead risk assessment report until a reporter contacted him about the issue.
Jen Brestel, communications manager for the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services, said she was "not aware of whether the homeowner received a copy" of the assessment at the time public health officials forwarded the report to New Castle County.
The state was working with the county since the North Spruce Street property qualified for the lead removal program, Brestel said.
"For expediency purposes, DPH Office of Healthy Environments conducted the lead risk assessment in New Castle County’s place," she wrote in an email.
That explanation, however, doesn't match Gibbs' experience.
Gibbs recalls receiving a letter from the county on Oct. 18, 2021, about five months after his son was born, informing him the home was not eligible for the lead program because the "required documentation" hadn't been submitted.
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By Oct. 26, 2022, the baby’s blood lead levels were double that of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 3.5 micrograms per deciliter (mg/dL) minimum for elevated blood lead levels in children, Gibbs' son's lab results show. Two months later, they rose to 9.3 mg/dL.
The father said the doctor assured him he'd be hearing from the state within weeks. When that wasn't the case, Gibbs said the doctor resubmitted the elevated blood levels to the state.
“I’m really bitter because of what happened to my son. It was preventable,” said Gibbs, whose now-2-year-old son appears to be showing signs of autism and hyperactivity. “All (the landlord) had to do was say OK.”
But Eastburn didn’t agree to participate in New Castle County’s program, which left 848 N. Spruce St. inhabitants exposed to lead − a hazardous material that can lead to developmental and behavioral issues; damaged brain and nervous systems; and hearing and speech delays in young children even at low exposure levels. Babies in uteuro are also at risk if the mother is exposed to lead while pregnant since it can pass through to the fetus.
The toddler’s elevated blood lead levels were discovered during one of several routine wellness exams infants receive during their first years of life. The results are then forwarded by the pediatrician to the state’s public health division, and if a child has blood lead levels of 7 mg/dL or above, the family receives case management.
The diagnosis has put Gibbs at odds with his landlord, made him fearful of what more his son and other children are being exposed to at the North Spruce Street home, and forced him to scramble to access additional services for his son − all while searching for a new place to live.
“It should be put into law that before (landlords) rent a house, they should show (Licenses and Inspections) that a house built before 1978 is lead-free,” Gibbs said. “Until then, they are going to keep getting away with this.”
How are lead hazards removed from homes?
After receiving the home risk assessment – which Eastburn said he didn’t obtain until July 7 after reaching out to the state health department – the property owner said he is moving forward with remediation through New Castle County’s "No Lead" program.
The free, voluntary remediation program is available to renters, landlords and property owners with homes in the targeted zip codes; homes built before 1978; and homes where a child under the age of 6 and/or a pregnant woman lives. To move forward with remediation, all parties − from the tenants to the property owner − must agree.
Franchon Dickinson, project director and program manager of the county’s lead program, said there is no state law that requires people to participate.
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“We work with the tenant and landlord to get documents signed and approved,” she said, adding they relocate tenants to temporary housing during the remediation at no cost to the landlord or renters. Remediation takes up to two weeks, and afterward, crews check to ensure there are no lead hazards before moving tenants back in.
“Typically," she said, "we don’t have problems with landlords because they’re usually excited to get this free work on their house.”
Eastburn said he had no qualms with the county program at the time, but he didn’t want to start a project given the tenant’s situation.
“If he ends up having to be out of the property in 60 days, I don’t want to enter into a partnership with the county and tenant,” he said.
Dickinson confirmed county officials spoke with Eastburn, who indicated he wasn’t going to participate because of “rent issues.”
“We typically have no problems with the landlord allowing us to do this work, but in this particular case, there is something outstanding that is outside our purview,” she said. “We cannot use our program to leverage anything for the tenant.”
There are currently no laws that force a property owner to remediate lead hazards in a home, but a bill passed this year aims to create a system to ensure prompt screening of homes for the hazardous material and allocates funding for remediation.
Senate Bill 9 tasks the state's Division of Public Health with identifying lead exposure sites any time a child returns a blood lead level of 3.5 micrograms per deciliter or above (unless the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention set a different maximum level) and notifying the property owner of those exposure points.
The bill also creates a public fund to help property owners remediate lead-based paint hazards in homes where children have elevated blood lead levels and outlines requirements for remediation and notification to impacted residents. It prohibits landlords from increasing rent for three years following lead remediation if public funds are used.
The bill was recently signed by Delaware Gov. John Carney, but state funding efforts have yet to be announced.
New Castle County’s program has received millions of dollars in federal funding.
In 2019, the county was awarded $3.3 million for its No Lead Program and $2 million for The Healthy Homes Production Grant Program from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Dickinson said this will allow the county to address lead and other home hazards in over 260 homes.
The Healthy Homes program also identifies and remediates home hazards like radon, carbon monoxide, lead, dampness and mold, leaking roofs, excess heat and/or cold, falls in the bathroom, electrical hazards, structural collapse, light issues, pests and food safety, or unsafe windows and doors. Funding from this program is available for all New Castle County zip codes.
What happens when a child is lead poisoned?
Years of lead-based paint dust has settled into the matted brown carpet at 848 N. Spruce St. where Gibbs has lived for nearly six years. If he doesn’t shampoo the carpet weekly, Gibbs said he can take a tissue to his nose and wipe away black dust from his nostrils.
The home lead risk assessment performed in February at the North Spruce Street rental − prompted after Gibbs’ son returned elevated blood lead levels − found high levels of lead in the home’s baseboards, door jams and casings, and window jams, interior casings and sills. Lead-paint dust also collected on the kitchen floor, but the highest levels were concentrated on window sills in the living room and front bedroom, the assessment found.
Gibbs’ shared the home risk assessment with Delaware Online/The News Journal. The Division of Public Health declined to provide the assessment due to “privacy concerns,” though the assessment includes no identifying health information and could be redacted.
The assessment for Gibbs' home advises lead remediation be performed by a certified lead abatement contractor because of the specific process and handling of lead-paint removal. Occupants should also routinely and thoroughly clean the home, wiping window sills and other child-accessible surfaces with "tri-sodium phosphate detergent or Spic-n-Span" to reduce exposure.
The 64-year-old Wilmington resident said he has asked his landlord for supplies to address the flaking and peeling paint, but the requests are ignored. In the dining room, a gaping hole in the ceiling remains a reminder of a bathroom leak from three years ago. And within the last year, another hole in the living room ceiling has formed from intruding rainwater.
“If I had somewhere else to go, I would have,” Gibbs said. “He’s just going to rent to someone else.”
About three months after his son returned elevated blood lead levels, the Division of Public Health reached out to Gibbs with information on how to reduce exposure to lead-based paint.
Kurt Olinger, administrator of the Office of Healthy Environments at the Division of Public Health, which includes the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention and Healthy Homes programs, said officials try to connect with families shortly after receiving notice of the elevated levels, but staffing issues, as well as gaps in the information submitted by doctors to the database, can make outreach challenging.
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For instance, on rare occasions information mailed to a family is returned because of inaccurate addresses, he said.
Any time a child returns levels above 3.5 mg/dL, information and resources are mailed to the family on how to remove or reduce lead sources in the home and what the risks of exposure are, Olinger said.
“It has contact information for our case managers. (Outreach) also includes making sure they are contacting their doctor for follow-up testing,” he said. “We also provide information for developmental intervention.”
Case managers reach out once a child’s blood lead level gets to 7 μg/dL or above, Olinger said.
On a weekly basis, public health officials review a database where medical professionals and labs input lead test results and identify children with elevated blood lead levels for case management.
Delaware typically has about 100 to 120 families receiving case management for a child with elevated blood lead levels, Olinger said.
“Most cases seem to resolve in under a year. We rarely have anything going on longer than a year,” he said. “We will follow through with them until they fall off and get below 7 μg/dL.”
What is required for blood lead testing?
The long-fought passage of House Bill 222 in 2021 requires all physicians and healthcare providers to screen children for lead exposure at 12 months and again at 24 months of age.
The bill was passed in hopes of simplifying the requirements and eliminating confusion to increase compliance for testing, which the legislation acknowledged was “low.”
The bill defines screening as a “capillary blood test” − most commonly a finger prick sample; clarifies insurance coverage; and directs the Division of Public Health to report on elevated blood lead levels to the General Assembly annually, according to the bill.
Prior to its passage, children were only required to get tested once by the age of 1. A second test was at the discretion of medical professionals and based on a child’s lead exposure risk.
Lead-Free Delaware advocate Amy Roe said testing at 2 years old is more effective at detecting lead poisoning “due to an increase in hand-to-mouth behaviors while children are more mobile in the home, and therefore the ingestion of lead dust is greater at 2 years of age than at 1 year of age.”
Delaware lawmakers since at least 2018 have tried to pass legislation requiring routine childhood lead testing, but some medical professionals oppose the measure and have continued to do so, causing the bill’s regulations to languish.
The regulations have been opened up for public comment four times since May 2022, with the latest solicitation for comment ending in June. They still haven’t been finalized.
Gibbs’ son was just over a year old when he was first tested for lead exposure, a screening that is required for every child enrolling in public schools and akin to the vaccinations needed when starting kindergarten.
The venous blood draw was difficult for the baby, Gibbs said. His son screamed during the draw, Gibbs said, adding that because his son was so small, it was hard to find a vein.
A finger prick, or capillary, test is used first to screen for lead levels, said Dr. Mary Beth Wroblewski, the pediatric residency program director at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, FL. If the levels are high, then a venous blood draw is done as a diagnostic test, she said.
"Most screening tests available cannot detect levels lower than 3 mg/dL and the screening test may return false positive results — higher levels than what is shown on the venous test," Wroblewski said. "This is the reason that any amount of detected lead found on a finger prick/capillary test needs to be confirmed with a blood draw."
The finger prick test is "tolerated well by most children," she said and is simple to do in a doctor's office without having to get blood drawn from a vein.
When explaining the need for the test, the Florida doctor said medical professionals remind parents that "lead screening is a universal recommendation from the American Academy of Pediatrics at age 1 and 2 years, so it is part of the standard well-child visits at these ages."
Delaware medical professionals and state health officials have resisted the national academy's recommendations on childhood lead poisoning and prevention.
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Nemours Children's Hospital, which has worked closely with state officials on Delaware's lead poisoning prevention efforts, did not respond to requests for comment regarding what blood lead testing is like for children in the First State.
Children who enter kindergarten or go to a childcare facility in Delaware are required to submit proof of lead screening, but school nurses − who are tasked with confirming the documentation in elementary schools − say less than half the students enrolled each year had the paperwork.
Delaware’s 2022 Childhood Blood Lead Surveillance report − an annual report required since the passage of House Bill 222 − indicates the state’s Division of Public Health received 8,627 blood lead test results for children ages 0-72 months but does not note how those numbers compare to the total number of children in Delaware.
The final language of the bill states about 23% of Delaware's children are screened for lead levels each year.
The U.S. Census Bureau estimates Delaware had about 53,975 children under the age of 5 in 2022. Using those figures to compare the total tests received in 2022, only 16% of the state’s children were checked for lead poisoning last year.
The Johns Hopkins doctor said the most common reason a child may not be screened for lead is because normal wellness appointments are missed. Other barriers to testing include a doctor's office not having the finger stick test available or there isn't a lab to do the venous test, Wroblewski said.
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Why this Delaware family is teaming up with Dewey Beer to fundraise for son's rare disease
- Tuberous sclerosis complex is a genetic disorder that has a wide spectrum of effects on one's functioning, which can include seizures, cognitive delays and sometimes autism.
- Around 50,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with the disorder, which has no cure.
- On Sunday, Dewey Beer is hosting Pours 4 Parker B from 1 to 4 p.m., a fundraiser in which all money raised will support the TSC Alliance, a nonprofit group based in Montgomery County.
Ryan Beebe distinctly remembers receiving a call from his wife, Andrea, during her 35-week pregnancy checkup with their second child.
“She called me and I could tell she was upset,” Beebe recalls. Their soon-to-be son, Parker, had tumor growth around his heart after the doctors had noticed an arrhythmia.
Parker was later diagnosed with tuberous sclerosis complex, or TSC, a disorder that causes tumors to grow around organs. In the four-plus years since his birth, the community has rallied around him to raise awareness and fundraise for the rare disease.
His father, now the manager of annual giving and partnerships at the TSC Alliance, is spearheading a fundraiser this Sunday at the Dewey Beer Co.'s Harbeson location.
On Sunday, Dewey Beer is hosting Pours 4 Parker B from 1 to 4 p.m., a fundraiser in which all money raised will support the TSC Alliance, a nonprofit group based in Montgomery County, Maryland, that aims to raise awareness and fund research for the disease.
Parker's father has run other events including hot sauce fundraisers on Facebook during the pandemic and an event at Bin 66 in Rehoboth last summer − all efforts that amount to over $180,000 in direct donations to the TSC Alliance.
Sunday's event is free to attend and will have raffle items (one being a one-week condo stay in Lewes), a DJ spinning vinyl records and beer from the host company. Plus, all tips collected at Dewey Beer's Harbeson site up until the end of the month go straight to the TSC Alliance.
"I'm super excited getting to have all of the people come in and getting to honor Parker," Dewey Beer's Krissy McCluskey said.
Raffle tickets can be purchased online at this link. It is not required to be at the event in person to win the items, as they can be shipped anywhere in the U.S.
Tuberous sclerosis complex and its effects
TSC is a genetic disorder that has a wide spectrum of effects on one's functioning. In some, it goes undetected. In others, the condition comes with seizures, cognitive delays and sometimes autism.
Around 50,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with the disorder. While there is no current cure, early detection and intervention are most important to prevent further developmental delays.
The most critical thing for parents of newborn children with the disease is to look out for epileptic seizures − even if they're not the most obvious.
“They can be missed or misinterpreted,” said Steve Roberds, a chief scientific officer at the TSC Alliance, who noted that seizures are often subtle in those with TSC.
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He also provided insight into why the condition is considered a "linchpin disease" for other conditions such as autism, epilepsy and cancer.
Epilepsy affects about 85% of people with TSC, Roberds said, while autism affects anywhere from 25% to 40% of people with the condition.
By doing research into why people with TSC often have epilepsy, autism and tumor growth, the group can also make headway in understanding those associated diseases.
“There’s something about [TSC] that’s leading to a higher prevalence of epilepsy, autism, tumor growth," Roberds said. "And if we can figure out what is causing that in TSC, we’re hopeful that would also allow us to understand something about how epilepsy, autism, and tumors might develop in people who don’t have TSC.”
That wide spectrum of how the condition renders itself is a large reason why the nonprofit, which celebrates its 50th anniversary next year, is pushing so hard for awareness and research.
Beebe said that nearly all friends and family, along with himself, didn't know what TSC was until they learned Parker had it.
The Beebe family's journey so far
When Parker was diagnosed with TSC before childbirth, Ryan and Andrea Beebe began to research the disease, realizing that it could affect Parker "very minimally" or it could "take over his life."
“Not knowing where he would fall in that was the scariest part," Ryan Beebe said.
Since TSC isn't always the easiest to detect from the jump, some parents go months or years without realizing their child has the disease. His father is thankful that he and his wife learned before birth.
Around five months, Parker began to have "infantile spasms." Because his parents knew to look for those spasms due to the previous diagnosis, they could report them as seizures to the doctors and make sure their son was safe.
Making sure others have the same awareness of these spasms as the Beebes did is one of the focuses of the nonprofit, said Roberds.
“What we really want is for people to understand the high potential for developing seizures so that they can be on the lookout,” Roberds said.
For Parker, TSC has had significant impacts both physically and cognitively, including an autism diagnosis at 3-and-a-half years. Beebe said that his son speaks only a couple dozen words consistently.
A new medical talking device that the family got earlier this year has helped his communication tenfold, whether it's signaling what food he wants, which family member he wants to call or a movie he wants to watch.
“He does have behavioral issues, so sometimes he just wants to be by himself," Beebe said. However, he said his son is a "super-loving kid."
“He will give hugs to everybody. Loves hugs, kisses, loves playing in the water, being outside, playing with his older brother (Tyler).”
And for the Beebe family from Clayton, it's affected not just Parker's life. His father made a bold jump from his job in banking − which he had for 12 years − to joining the TSC Alliance team.
"Do I want to get into something more meaningful?" he remembers asking himself.
In 2020 and 2021, Facebook Live fundraisers called "Gettin' Saucy with Parker B" each raised over $70,000 for the TSC Alliance.
And in April 2022, Beebe officially switched positions, motivated by the previous fundraisers he held for the nonprofit that connected him with the staff. The change gives him the chance to advocate for his son daily.
“I have not felt like I’ve worked," Beebe said. "It really just feels like my job is advocating for Parker. I have not regretted the decision at all.”
Sunday will be another one of those days − advocating for his son and fundraising for the disease that affects him and countless others in the rare disease community.
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More about Dewey Beer
Dewey Beer opened its Harbeson location − just south of Milton − in May 2021 as a production facility and home base for brewing. Its other location is right in Dewey Beach, about a half-hour away.
Last year, the company opened Pizza Machine right next to its Harbeson location, giving customers an easy one-two punch for beer and food at the brewery.
Throughout the first two years in Harbeson, McCluskey said that the company has focused on becoming "community-oriented."
The craft brewery has partnered with a handful of other nonprofits and foundations around the area, such as What Is Your Voice, a domestic violence service in Lewes, and the Surfrider Foundation.
This August, Dewey Beer will partner with the Brandywine Valley SPCA. McCluskey said that Dewey Beer takes good care of its employees so that tips can be donated to outside groups.
"We're to have fun (along with) helping to build the community," McCluskey said.
Contact Konner Metz at kmetz@gannett.com and follow him on Twitter @konner_metz.
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SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — The Seminole County Sheriff’s Office said a woman was attacked by a person while walking on the Wekiva Trail earlier this week.
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Deputies said she was approached from behind and grabbed by the attacker.
The woman told deputies she walks the trail multiple times a week and has always felt safe.
She was only able to describe her attacker as a male who is 16 to 20 years old.
Deputies said the attacker had shoulder-length curly black hair and was wearing a white T-shirt and black basketball shorts.
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According to a report, the attacker had his pants down when he grabbed her, but the woman pushed him away.
He ultimately got away on some kind of bike, the woman told deputies.
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Law enforcement officers from multiple departments canvassed the area but couldn’t find the suspect.
Anyone with information on this incident is asked to call the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office at 407-665-6650.
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Ralph Hodge speaks as a representative of Richmonders Involved to Strengthen our Communities during the City of Richmond Affordable Housing Trust Fund meeting.
City administrators, government officials and community members battled it out Wednesday morning in the normally near-empty gallery room at Main Street Station. The cause: the possible end of the city-appointed Affordable Housing Trust Fund Board.
The board, which has been in effect since 2004, is tasked with providing and overseeing local financial resources in order to address affordable housing needs in Richmond.
But with more funding comes more oversight, which city administrators are hoping to achieve. To do so, City Hall wants to eliminate the board and establish a commission that would allow for more money and more partners.
Those in opposition argue that administrators are overstepping their bounds, which could lead to an imbalance of power, loss of control of funds and elimination of public input.
“So, now we are at a crossroad,” said Councilwoman Ellen Robertson, sixth district representative and supervisory board chair. “We’ve got a dedicated source of revenue in the budget to be balanced over the next five years set aside to the Affordable Housing Trust Fun that has limited power.”
A big crowd on hand for contentious hearing
As the trust fund board sat down for its quarterly meeting, chairs were carried in by workers in order to accommodate a large number of people, including members of the local faith-based organization Richmonders Involved to Strengthen Communities.
RISC board member Ralph Hodge, who spoke during the public comment period, said the organization is vehemently against the dissolution of the board as well as the trust fund.
“So we come here today to make sure we fight to maintain the point of trust and try to maintain your supervisory role over those public dollars in place to maintain people at the lowest income levels,” Hodge said. “We think that (dissolution) will be devastating to the community, especially the community oversight that this has appointed like this, if you’re not careful, it is likely to become a slush fund.”
“We’ve been working with various different models. We haven’t solidified the scope of work yet, but we’re close,” Ebert said. “(LISC) has agreed on principle, to use their resources as well as to reach out to both the private sector and the non-profit community foundations to see if they can bring in additional funding to leverage our $10 million.”
Decision made to
draft ordinance
For Robertson, who has sat on the board since its creation, the decision to dissolve it is a slippery slope that boils down to the delegations of power between the city council and City Hall.
Word on the street is that the mayor’s administration is trying to end the affordable housing trust fund. That’s funny, they want to end now after Council put in 10 million. What is the agenda here folks. @CBS6@8NEWS@NBC12@RTDNEWS how can they sunset a city ordinance?
Ultimately, as the board was created by a council ordinance, the power to appoint members and allocate funds sits with the board. While the administration is responsible for the funding and can make recommendations, it cannot decide where these funds go.
In order for the board as well as the trust fund to dissolve, a city council vote would be required.
“If the administration is moving forward with their plan and who they have partnered with, and what they’re priorities are and so forth, they are ignoring the fact that those funds are in this trust fund and they do not have the authority to make those kinds of decisions,” Robertson said.
While Robertson said she does not want to lose out on any outside dollars to help alleviate the problem, it is crucial that, regardless of the decision made, there is a balance between the city administration and the city council moving forward.
City Director of Housing and Community Development Sherrill Hampton said the goal would be to sunset the board and the trust and fold it into the proposed housing commission. As a result, the current board would serve on the commission and would help oversee policy.
Robertson said this option could prove to be more time consuming, less efficient and could lead to one district receiving more funds over the other.
Currently, the board is able to vote to allocate the funds directly, since the board serves as an extension of council. The proposed housing commission would rest in the hands of City Hall, which does not have to power to allocate the funds it distributes.
The historic Black neighborhood, which served as the center of Black commerce and entertainment, has taken several hits throughout the years as racist political actions resulted in the destruction of numerous homes and community separation with the construction of a highway, now a portion of I-95.
So while it would take over receiving requests, it could only make recommendations as to where the funds would go, which would send all potential projects before City Council.
This would result in longer meetings with more discussions that could lead to projects being built later rather than sooner — a fact that ultimately led to the creation of the supervisory board years prior. Additionally, councilmembers may show favoritism for development projects in their district, Robertson said.
Likewise, some RISC members fear that if the fund and the board absolved, there is no guarantee that the administration would fold them into the commission or maintain the same protections that are currently in place.
With numerous questions lingering, the board voted Wednesday to draft a resolution to create a task force that would determine next steps and which options will work best for the city. They are set to present a recommendation to city council in the upcoming months.
Until then, the board will continue to oversee funds and move forward with ongoing projects.
There are more million-dollar homes in the U.S. than ever before. But can Americans afford them?
There are more million-dollar homes in the U.S. than ever before. But can Americans afford them?
A Growing Number of Million-Dollar Homes
Where Are the Most Million-Dollar Homes?
Who Can Afford a Million-Dollar Home?
Discrepancies Between the Proportion of Million-Dollar Homes and High-Earning Households
Expect the Share of Million-Dollar Homes to Continue Growing
Ellen F. Robertson, board chair and city council member, speaks during the City of Richmond Affordable Housing Trust Fund meeting at Richmond Main Street Station in Richmond on Wednesday. The city is considering dissolving the Affordable Housing Trust Fund Board in favor of a city-run commission.
Sherrill Hampton, City of Richmond Housing and Community Development director, attends a the City of Richmond Affordable Housing Trust Fund meeting at Richmond Main Street Station in Richmond on Wednesday.
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Oppenheimer's greatest influence on Oak Ridge can't be seen today. Here's why
Some of J. Robert Oppenheimer's influence on Oak Ridge is visible today and some is invisible.
One of the most famous images of Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who oversaw the production of the first atomic bomb during the secret Manhattan Project, was taken in 1946 at the Guest House in Oak Ridge, now an assisted living facility called the Alexander Guest House.
In the photo, Oppenheimer looks relaxed, with a cigarette held loosely in his hand and a winsome look on his face. The bombs he developed had unleashed the seismic final crack of World War II, but his battle against the U.S. government to contain nuclear warheads had not yet begun.
D. Ray Smith, historian for the city of Oak Ridge, printed the photo out and placed it on the same mantel that appears behind Oppenheimer in the photo.
It was taken during one of several visits Oppenheimer made to what was then called the Y-12 Electromagnetic Separation Plant and other facilities, though Smith said the exact number of visits is unknown.
"Oppenheimer knew very much about what was going on in Oak Ridge," Smith said. "He needed the uranium that was being produced here."
Oak Ridge was built in 1942 to support the Manhattan Project by creating the enriched uranium that would fuel Little Boy, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima and the first nuclear weapon ever used in warfare. The uranium isotope, uranium-235, is a fissile material, meaning it could sustain a nuclear chain reaction within the bomb.
Eighty years later, as movie fans await the highly anticipated release of Christopher Nolan's sprawling biopic "Oppenheimer" on July 21, interest in Oak Ridge's connection to the scientist has increased as well.
Oppenheimer's connection to Oak Ridge is mostly indirect, since he oversaw the production of the bombs at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
According to Smith, Oppenheimer is respected by Oak Ridgers for his influence in keeping the secret town as part of the atomic bomb effort. However, he said the single largest influence Oppenheimer had on Oak Ridge is rarely mentioned.
That's because the S-50 thermal diffusion plant that he encouraged the government to build along the Clinch River was deactivated in 1946 and torn down only a few years later.
One day before the film's worldwide release, the city of Oak Ridge will host a special screening of "Oppenheimer" on July 20. Tickets have already sold out as locals flock to see "the story of the man behind the Manhattan Project, the most important thing to ever happen in the history of the world," according to the Explore Oak Ridge website.
What was Oppenheimer's biggest influence on Oak Ridge?
The Manhattan Project was remarkable not only for its scientific breakthroughs and its secrecy, but also its speed.
In 1938, German chemists discovered that it was possible to split a heavy atom in a process called nuclear fission. A year later, a letter written by physicist Leo Szilard and signed by Albert Einstein warned President Franklin Roosevelt of the potential threat of a powerful new kind of bomb.
World War II broke out only a month later, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939. The Manhattan Project began in earnest after the U.S. entered the war following the Pearl Harbor attack.
As Niels Bohr, the physicist who developed the modern understanding of the atom, said of the U.S.'s ambitious project, "It couldn’t be done without turning the whole country into a factory.”
Indeed, three sites, one at Los Alamos, one in Hanford, Washington, and one in Oak Ridge, were turned into factories for enriched uranium production and nuclear weapons.
"Oak Ridge was in a race to build an atomic bomb before Nazi Germany. It's that simple. They did whatever they could do to accelerate that timeline," said David Keim, director of communications at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The area was selected for the project in 1942 because of its access to TVA's electrical power from Norris Dam and its status as a rural farming community. The U.S. government bought 60,000 acres, moved residents off the land, and broke ground on the Y-12 complex and the X-10 Graphite Reactor in February 1943. The X-10 site is where ORNL now sits.
The concern for speed meant that military leaders and scientists, like Oppenheimer, who was tapped to lead Los Alamos in 1942, and the Manhattan Project's director, Major General Leslie Groves, were willing to try any method to produce enriched uranium quickly.
The known methods were implemented at Y-12, the X-10 reactor, which ceased operations in 1963 and K-25 plant, of which the main plant has been demolished and the K-25 History Center now tells its story.
By early 1944, Oppenheimer had heard of a new method of enriching uranium the Navy was testing, called liquid thermal diffusion. According to Smith, Oppenheimer pushed Groves to build a plant in Oak Ridge that could serve as a critical first step in the enrichment process before the uranium went to K-25 and Y-12.
Because a large steam plant already powered K-25 along the Clinch River, it was an ideal spot for the new S-50 plant. But it needed to be built fast – 90 days fast.
Ultimately, the S-50 plant was built in just 69 days, according to the National Park Service, highlighting the project's rapid pace. It also reflected Oppenheimer's belief that Oak Ridge was central to the success of the project.
The S-50 plant proved to be costly and less efficient than K-25, and it ceased production in 1946. The plant was demolished in the late 1940s and the NPS says that "access to the original location is difficult and visitation is not advised."
Apart from the S-50 plant, Oppenheimer's influence also was felt because of the presence of his brother Frank, who he sent to Oak Ridge to oversee operations at Y-12 in 1944 and 1945.
Legacy of Manhattan Project lives on at ORNL and Y-12
Today, the Y-12 National Security Complex and Oak Ridge National Laboratory operate separately. Y-12 is a manufacturing facility managed by Consolidated Nuclear Security for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.
ORNL is a research laboratory managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy. Its research has led to breakthroughs in medicine, advanced materials and climate science.
Though ORNL was established as part of the Manhattan Project, the lab does not work in weapons development. The legacy of innovation has stayed with ORNL, where many of the nation's first nuclear scientists were trained, according to Keim.
"It was the dawn of the atomic age, so someone had to train the scientists and engineers that were trying to figure out how to use this new knowledge for good," Keim said. "We continue to do work in nuclear energy, in fission, as well as fusion."
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Coal ash could be reused anywhere. Here's how government does - and doesn't - regulate it
Reused coal ash could be anywhere: an East Tennessee playground, ballfields in Ohio, a golf club in Virginia, a church in North Carolina, even all over a town in Indiana.
Coal ash is the concentrated waste left over after burning coal. It can be composed of heavy metals such as arsenic, mercury, lead and cadmium, as well as elements that emit radiation.
For more than a century in the United States, coal was burned to generate electricity, creating millions of tons of coal ash before the first regulations overseeing the disposal of this waste were established in 2015 by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Each element and particle of coal ash can pose its own varied health risks, a problem that is still being studied today. Every batch of coal ash is different, so it’s difficult to pin down exact health impacts.The EPA's 2015 regulations were created to reduce risks to human health and the environment.
So how does a playground built atop coal ash, like the one in Claxton, Tennessee, exist?
Answer: Those federal regulations have holes in them.
- The regulations created specific restrictions on disposal of coal ash, like in a landfill, but those same restrictions do not apply when coal ash is reused - for example, when leveling land where ash could be mixed with soil, according to the EPA.
- The EPA guidelines for coal ash reuse don’t apply to sites that had coal ash reused prior to October 2015.
- For current reuses of coal ash, creators and buyers of coal ash do not have to notify the public or the EPA of where the coal ash has been reused as fill, the EPA said.
- This leaves states to regulate and track the reuse of this waste.
And while some states have created regulations to oversee the process, the rules can vary from state to state.
These inconsistencies can have multiple impacts:
- We don’t know the location of all the coal ash that has been or is currently being reused as fill, because the EPA does not track it.
- Without knowing where the ash is - notably at legacy fill sites - the EPA and state environmental agencies might not know if ash is being released into the environment and potentially posing a risk to human health, said Lisa Hallowell, a senior attorney at the Environmental Integrity Project.
- Just because a site where coal ash was used as fill is safe today doesn’t mean it will be safe 10, 20 or 30 years from now. And without monitoring requirements for legacy and current sites, there’s no way to know for sure, said Lisa Evans, senior counsel specializing in hazardous waste law at Earthjustice.
Reused coal ash can be anywhere, and we don’t know where it all is, or exactly what dangers it can pose to human health.
How can coal ash be reused?
Coal ash can be reused in two different forms: unencapsulated and encapsulated.
Encapsulated means the ash is not loose but in a solid form such as in concrete.
“I think that in terms of regulations, I think it should be able to use it for cement and concrete where it's encapsulated. I think that's a safe designation for it,” said Laura Ruhl, a former assistant professor of environmental geochemistry and hydrology at University of Arkansas, Little Rock.
Today, the majority of TVA’s coal ash is reused in encapsulated forms; this includes 82% of the coal ash products produced in 2022, recycled in products such as wallboard, cement and a replacement for portland cement in concrete, TVA spokesperson Scott Brooks told Knox News in a statement. TVA was the first utility in the country to extract gypsum from a landfill to use in wallboard in 2020.
“Every ton of coal ash that is recycled is a ton that does not have to be placed in a landfill to manage,” Brooks said.
TVA coal ash has been reused in some of the buildings at the University of Tennessee, the Volkswagen Assembly Plant in Chattanooga and at the following airports: Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson, Memphis International and McGhee Tyson in Knoxville.
But TVA’s coal ash also has been used in unencapsulated forms with ash applied to the ground, mixed with dirt to form a fill material. That was the case at the Claxton playground in 2000.
“So I think using it as a fill is not a good way to use it. It needs to be encapsulated as is my opinion,” Ruhl said.
She said that reusing coal ash as fill needs to be tested, specifically in cases where bottom ash is used. She would not recommend reusing fly ash as fill.
When ash is applied to the ground, water can infiltrate it. And if the ash is buried deep enough, it can contaminate groundwater, Ruhl said. There also can be risks if the land is dug up because the ash could be exposed to the surface, become windblown and come into contact with people.
This is the exact concern experts have about the Claxton playground.
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“For EPA to pretend that the use of ash as fill is anything other than a way of disposing the ash … is to ignore the reality of all of the instances where we've seen coal ash used as fill contaminate groundwater and air,” Evans said. “This isn't something new. People have been using coal ash as fill for ... many decades”
Hallowell pointed out that the EPA has evaluated the safety of using coal ash in different ways, such as using fly ash in portland cement in concrete. Those tests, however, do not necessarily apply to cases like the Claxton playground where coal ash was used in an unencapsulated form, Hallowell said.
“There has never been an evaluation that says, for example, is it safe to put bottom ash X quantities in the soil, subsoil of a playground where children play; they [EPA] have never actually gone ahead and evaluated that,” Hallowell said.
How does the EPA regulate the ‘beneficial use’ of coal ash?
“Well, it doesn't cover much,” Evans said when asked about EPA’s guidelines for "beneficial use" of coal ash.
The 2015 coal ash rule created restrictions on disposal sites including location, design, groundwater monitoring, operating criteria, recordkeeping and corrective actions in the event contamination is found, according to the EPA.
Those restrictions, however, do not apply to the beneficial reuse of coal ash, the EPA told Knox News.
“But unfortunately, that very same coal ash, if it's placed in a way that it can meet this pretty broad definition of beneficial use, is completely exempted from the rules,” Hallowell said.
“And a lot of it is falling under this so-called beneficial reuse category, where it's escaping these regulations that were very late in coming compared to how long coal ash has been dumped and placed places for many decades,” Hallowell said.
The EPA defines what it considers to be the reuse of coal ash:
- The coal ash must have a “functional benefit.”
- The coal ash must be substituting for the application of a “virgin material.”
- The coal ash must be up to “product specifications and/or design standards.”
- If the coal ash is unencapsulated and put on land in the quantity of 12,400 tons or more “in a non-roadway application,” the user must provide testing results, upon request, that show that the ash is not posing any more risk to human health or the environment than if the ash were not used, or that any contamination would be below regulatory levels.
This is the closest the EPA gets to putting restrictions on coal ash reuse.
“And there's also still no requirements that there's any public notice that would have to be associated with this type of … a project,” Hallowell said. “And the only scenario in which records are required to be given is when you're in this kind of forced criteria box where you're placing more than 12,400 tons of coal ash on the land in the non-roadway application.”
There are a number of other gaps in the broad definition of beneficial use that Knox News confirmed with the EPA:
- The EPA does not require users to notify it or the public when ash is being reused, so the federal agency doesn’t have a list of those sites.
- The agency does not put specific restrictions on locations where the ash can or cannot be reused.
- The federal agency does not require any ongoing monitoring at all reuse sites, except for the cases when documentation is requested for sites that use 12,400 tons or more of coal ash in non-roadway applications.
“One huge problem is that when you put ash on the ground, and it's not in a licensed landfill, there will be no monitoring of the impact. And in fact, it's likely that a few years down the road, people won't even know the coal ash has been placed there,” Evans said.
This places the responsibility on individual states.
“We do not maintain a list because documentation is not required to be submitted to EPA. You may want to check with the state,” the EPA told Knox News. “State environmental agencies regulate the beneficial use of industrial non-hazardous secondary materials, including coal ash, and may maintain lists of sites where the use of coal ash as fill was approved by the state.”
EPA does not regulate coal ash reuse sites that predate October 2015. Here’s why that’s a problem
Sites where coal ash was reused as fill before October 2015, when the EPA’s coal ash rule went into effect, do not need to meet even the few guidelines EPA now has for beneficial use, according to the EPA.
“Only applications to be started after Oct. 19, 2015, need to determine if they comply with the criteria contained in the final rule distinguishing between beneficial use and disposal,” the EPA says on its webpage about coal ash reuse.
This is why the playground in Claxton, Tennessee, has continued to exist without any federal requirements for ongoing monitoring or guidelines or methods to ensure continued safety for the children playing there.
“So an application like the one that you're looking at, [the playground,] it's been there for 20 years,” Hallowell said. “There's no ongoing [federal] requirement that they monitor the soil so that they know if there's a problem.”
But at least the Claxton community knows the playground sits on top of coal ash fill.
“So there's a lot more sites presumably out there that we don't have any information on or if we know about the site, there may not have ever been any sampling of ground, surface water or air,” Hallowell said. “So we just don't know how polluted or how much of a problem they are, because nobody has been required to do the testing.”
There are no federal requirements for these legacy reuse sites yet, though Evans said the EPA could have an opportunity here to include these sites in its existing regulations. This could include requiring monitoring, putting in zoning restrictions on the property or tying the ash to the deed so future owners know what’s there.
“EPA continues to consider the best approaches to managing CCR (coal ash) to protect human health and the environment,” the EPA told Knox News when asked if it would consider revising the existing regulations.
Until then, these legacy reuse sites are left to the states to handle in their own way - if they choose.
The EPA has proposed an expansion to its coal ash rule this year to include more sites with coal ash. As of June, Knox News did not know whether the proposed rule could expand to include reuse sites like the Claxton playground.
When asked about the proposed rule, the EPA said it “would apply only to CCR (coal ash) placed on the land at utility facilities.” In the case of the Claxton playground, the property is owned by TVA, a utility, and is adjacent to the Bull Run Fossil Plant’s property.
However, the EPA told Knox News, “With the facts we have, it appears that the CCR (coal ash) at this site would not be regulated.”
Nevertheless, Evans said it might be possible the proposed rule could apply as it is currently written. The rule has not been finalized, so ultimately it could more explicitly address sites like this playground.
What is Tennessee’s policy on reusing coal ash?
From 1991 to Dec. 30, 2019, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation allowed coal ash to be reused in “engineered structures, including highway overpasses, levees, runways, foundation backfill, and other similar uses as approved by TDEC,” the department told Knox News in emailed answers.
This was allowed under TDEC’s permit by rule program, which had specific requirements for sites where coal ash was reused, including:
- At least 24 inches of compacted soil needed to be placed on top of coal ash fill areas in such a way to “promote drainage and erosion.”
- There needed to be “at least a three-foot low permeability soil geological buffer” between the fill and groundwater, to prevent the ash from potentially leaking into the groundwater.
- A note needed to be made on the property’s deed that coal ash was there.
“A structural fill coal ash project implies mostly coal ash as the fill medium. A project that was proposed outside of these parameters could only be approved through a beneficial use petition if required,” TDEC said in an email to Knox News.
“I think that it's very unusual for states to track the use of ash,” Evans said. “There are just a couple of states that are doing that, but that's the exception to the rule. Most states don't regulate the use of ash.”
Tennessee’s permit by rule program for coal ash reuse ended in 2019 after it was determined it did not match the criteria of the federal coal ash rule created in 2015, TDEC told Knox News.
While the state program ended, TDEC can still approve coal ash to be used as fill, “No specific coal ash fill projects have been approved by TDEC since the repeal of the permit by rule regulation in 2019,” TDEC told Knox News.
“Any modern coal ash fill proposal would have to demonstrate to the department’s satisfaction that such use is not detrimental to public health, safety, or the environment under a beneficial use of solid waste petition. Federal rules exist that govern how coal ash from power utilities can be used,” TDEC told Knox News.
An example of a site that was under TDEC’s former permit by rule program includes what is now known as Aspire Park, a property located in Clinton, Tennessee, a few minutes away from the Claxton playground.
That property, owned by local businessman Joe Hollingsworth Jr., was used in 1992 as a demonstration site where more than one million cubic yards of coal fly ash were trucked to the site to level the land over 42 acres, according to a Knox News article from 2009. The ash came from the same coal-fire plant where the Claxton playground is located, TVA’s Bull Run Fossil Plant.
TDEC still retains a list of sites from its former permit by rule program, but that program had its own gaps:
- TDEC doesn’t have a record of the Claxton Playground, which was built in 2000, under its permit by rule records.
- The former permit by rule program only began in 1991. This means there could have been sites prior to 1991 and/or between 1991 and 2019 that used coal ash as fill of which TDEC was not aware.
Unlike some other states’ environmental departments, TDEC has not directly addressed the possibility of legacy sites created prior to its 1991 program.
“So some people might get lucky and live near a site where there are certain protections in place. But there's lots of people out there … [who] really have no idea what is there in their community,” Hallowell said.
TDEC does not have a specific policy or program that addresses coal ash fill legacy sites, much like the federal government. While the state wouldn't address hypotheticals, in a statement it assured citizens that "TDEC takes public health and environmental protection very seriously and may investigate a matter should credible information show a threat to the environment and that TDEC has the authority to do so.”
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DON'T FORGET YOUR SUNSCREEN: This Friday night, head down to the High Point Museum and Historical Park for the latest Arts Council Splash Summer Concert Series. Local blues band The Zinc Kings will be performing from 6 to 7:30 p.m., just before a rainy weekend. Feel free to bring chairs, blankets and food. For more information, call 336-889-2787.
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GREENSBORO — It's a grim milestone no one wanted to reach. The city's number of homicides in 2023 now stands at 41 — the total for all of 2022.
And for two more families, there's a loss that can't be replaced.
Kristopher Wilson, 38, and Victor Banks, 37, died after a shooting at 11:45 p.m. Tuesday in the 4000 block of McIntosh Street, police said. Another man wounded in the shooting remained in critical condition Wednesday afternoon.
"We've lost so many people," said Irish Spencer, who founded Families Against Senseless Killings in 2016 after her son, Tre, was shot and killed in Greensboro while trying to diffuse an altercation.
With too many fatal confrontations taking place, Spencer wants to ask: "Was it something so horrible that they deserve to die?"
Spencer was among a group of community representatives who, along with city officials, attended Police Chief John Thompson's "call to action" earlier this month at police headquarters to talk about the increase in homicides.
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"I would like to see people take back their neighborhoods," Spencer said. "I'd like to see us have more frequent discussions about putting programs in place. I'm tired of the red tape to get things done — and I'm more tired of the yellow tape that goes up around a crime scene."
Spencer said there's an urgent need for neighborhood leaders to step up and bring back neighborhood watch programs.
"Sometimes we forget the old way is the good way," she said. "Not everyone carries a gun, but everyone carries feelings. We need to have courageous conversations."
Spencer said the community needs to keep the momentum going in an effort to save the lives of people who are being taken too soon. She wants to talk with leaders who can quickly make "yes or no" decisions that can help residents reduce violence in their neighborhoods.
"I need a decision-makers meeting," she said, "and I would be glad to lead it."
City Councilman Hugh Holston also attended the police chief's call to action and is eager to see the community get involved.
"I fully support Chief Thompson for having a call to action and for being transparent enough to say we can't do this alone," Holston said. "It's not something we're going to police our way out of."
Holston said residents need to help drive the changes they want to see.
"We've got to get reengaged," Holston said Wednesday. "We don't know our neighbors anymore."
Holston said the city is looking at how to actively support local organizations that have "boots on the ground" in neighborhoods experiencing violence. He also expects the city will look at economic development efforts, how to better leverage technology to deter crime and how to reach young people earlier about ways to resolve conflicts without weapons.
"We're looking at everything," Holston said. "It's not going to be easy getting out of this. We have to find ways to invest in each other. We've got to connect and get back to basics."
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The Greensboro City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to block the expansion of a used-car dealership in the Benbow Park Community.
Akan Davis, owner of Kings Automotive, made the request to rezone an empty lot on the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. and South Benbow Road. A dozen residents of the Benbow Park community came to the meeting and roundly opposed the rezoning, citing fears that it would negatively affect the appearance of the neighborhood and potentially create environmental hazards from fuel leaks.
“This isn’t to say we’re not for his business, however, this is not the right place,” said Sharon Graber, a 20-year resident of the Benbow Park neighborhood. “Because we’re a Black community we’re supposed to take any kind of business... to allow this to happen would be a smack in the face to the hard work that is currently taking place to clean the neighborhood up.”
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Davis started Kings Automotive in April after leaving a franchise dealership in High Point. He currently operates his dealership from a temporary office in the Benbow Business Center in an effort to serve customers in his hometown community of South Greensboro.
Although Davis said he plans to give away three to five cars a year through a personal charity, the council remained firm that the empty lot wasn’t “the right fit.”
“As you’re growing and expanding, that goes farther into the neighborhood,” said Councilwoman Tammi Thurm. “With that vision, it doesn’t belong there. You need to find a lot where you can grow incrementally.”
Davis’ plan for the future included an eventual purchase of a vacant home near the parking lot he currently uses for a temporary location. He also mentioned that he hopes to eventually buy a Hyundai franchise, which he would merge with his own business.
Sidney Evans, the president of the Benbow Park Community Association, said that the empty corner lot should host a building with a better long-term effect.
“We want to put something there that’ll be beneficial to the community 20, 30, 50 years out,” Evans said.
Evans and Councilwoman Sharon Hightower, who represents the Benbow Park community said that they feared Kings Automotive might become an eyesore to the community like some other used-car dealerships across the city.
Davis told the News & Record that he resented comparisons with other used-car dealerships.
“I’m not going to do business that way,” said Davis. “When you look at my facility, you’re going to know I’m serious about what I do.”
Evans told the News & Record that he had been in contact with Jeremy Simpson, a Greensboro businessman and executive director of the housing development organization Housing Tree. Simpson didn’t confirm whether or not he would purchase the lot but said that it has “potential”.
“I don’t think a used car dealership is great for the community, although I understand what he’s trying to accomplish,” said Simpson. “A mixed-use building on the lot could work well. Retail on the bottom floor with apartments on top.”
Councilwoman Sharon Hightower, who represents the Benbow Park community, said that a coffee shop might fit the empty corner lot.
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GREENSBORO — Haley Hackett was seizing the opportunity to help out her Northwest Guilford girls’ basketball team by attending the clinic at the North Carolina Coaches Association this week, but she was stopped at the door by a policy prohibiting children, which left her fuming.
Hackett arrived at the Greensboro Coliseum on Monday with her 4-month-old daughter, Maret. She said she was on her way to get her association membership identification when a staff member with Show Pros, the coliseum’s security contractor, stopped her at the door because she had her child with her, which is a violation of association policy. Hackett wasn’t familiar with the policy and was directed to an unidentified NCCA executive director, who she said was adamant about following the rule.
After she walked away, Hackett said another association officer brought over a brochure that stated the policy. She told the official that the policy should specifically indicate infants if it applied.
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“This is what floored me,” Hackett said. “One of the executives, he was the first one I talked to and he said, ‘Well, you can leave him right here with me and you can go in and get your ID card,’ like I was going to leave my baby with a stranger.
“To his credit, he offered a solution, but the fact that he would even suggest that I would leave my baby with a stranger amongst thousands of people while I go wait in a two-hour line and then go wait in another two-hour line is absurd.”
In a statement, the association said: “The NCCA Board of Directors policy of ‘No children allowed at the clinic’ has been in effect for at least 15 years and has been publicized in registration materials. Clinic attendance is not required as there are other options available. The board will discuss the policy at its next meeting.”
Andrew Brown, director of public relations and communications for the coliseum, noted that Show Pros “was merely enforcing the N.C. Coaches Association’s ‘no children’ policy for their event.”
Hackett, who’s coached at Northwest since 2019 and had been an assistant at Northern Guilford beginning in 2012, said she didn’t know about the policy prohibiting children, but also said that she wasn’t actively looking for it because this was the first time in her 10 years of attending the clinic that she was a mother. Also, Hackett said she has never received a brochure like the one she was shown by the official.
The association says on its website that no children are allowed at the clinic session areas, the exhibition hall or the registration area at the request of the coliseum, although it’s not clear when the restrictions were posted.
While the North Carolina Coaches Association’s statement says that attending the clinic is not required, its website states: “Members and associates are required to attend the annual Coaching Clinic for a minimum of one day. Membership cards are only made at the clinic.”
Former West Forsyth coach Brittany Cox Hudson said coaches from NCHSAA-member schools who don’t receive coaching identification and attend the association’s rules session cannot coach in any competition for their schools without having attended. Additionally, those coaches would be barred from participating in North Carolina Coaches Association functions that include voting on postseason awards.
Hudson said that not getting a North Carolina Coaches Association membership ID and attending the rules session on-site is frowned upon, although getting an alternative ID can be applied in extenuating circumstances. The state champion coach recalled missing the session one year due to her honeymoon, but remembered having to talk to four or five different people for her case to be approved.
The men’s and women’s basketball clinics began at 9:50 a.m. Monday and continued until 12:30 p.m. After a lunch break, the keynote session featuring retired college coaches Mike Krzyzewski and Roy Williams began at 2 p.m. and the rules session was at 4 p.m.
Hackett is in a process for a one-time appeal, but said she is concerned about the future, even though she said the association assured her that appeals are usually approved.
Also a teacher at Northwest, Hackett was pregnant during the 2022-23 season, gave birth on March 16 and spent time on maternity leave. Being a teacher and coach at the school, Hackett was not allowed to work as a coach during her leave period, a regulation that would not affect community coaches or coaches who are non-faculty members. During summer basketball, Hackett would wear a harness that held her baby during team activities.
After Hackett posted what transpired on social media, other coaches responded either with surprise that she was not permitted or with accounts of their own experiences trying to balance parenthood with attending the clinic.
Hudson said she didn’t know about the policy, either, but has watched Bishop McGuinness girls basketball coach Brian Robinson’s daughter in the past.
North Forsyth girls basketball coach LaShonda Griffin said that she has brought her children and had them sit in the lobby until her time at the clinics was over.
Hackett believes that the association’s requirements regarding children demonstrate a lack of understanding for coaches who are not compensated for attendance and feels the policies are too rigid for an organization not presenting options for accommodations or leniency. The association does not offer spaces for childcare or areas for breastfeeding or pumping.
Hackett said that she views this as not just a woman’s issue but a parental one as well.
Currently, the officers and directors of the North Carolina Coaches Association are all men. Accomplished East Bladen coach Patty Evers is a past member of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association board of directors and reached out to Hackett and Hudson. Evers is slated to join the association’s board. The situation raises ideas about representation possibly being necessary for NCCA officials.
While the NCCA didn’t elaborate on the reason for its policy, the common defense has been that the rules are in place to maintain professionalism and avoid disruption during the events.
Hackett mentioned that being kept out prevented her from experiencing the rules session in-person. It was of particular importance this year with the five-foul rule and the elimination of one-and-one free throws for 2023-24. Teams will reach the bonus when an opponent commits five fouls in a quarter rather than the former rule of seven per half.
“My team was disadvantaged,” said Hackett, adding that the message is stronger than wins and losses on the court or missing a clinic. “My big point is that I want you to leave the program being stronger females. I want you to learn how to be advocates for yourself and a lot of the time that means being OK with people labeling you for having an opinion. You’re bossy. You’re abrasive. All these things.
“That’s the reality of it and I want my girls to see a mom who is also able to be a coach.”
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SAN ANTONIO — Authorities say a driver of a tanker truck was arrested and a dozen migrants, including a pregnant woman, were recovering after a short pursuit on I-35 southwest of San Antonio Wednesday night.
It was an active scene around 11 p.m. in the northbound lanes of the highway near Fischer Street. Multiple emergency crews responded to I-35 southwest of San Antonio on Wednesday night after 12 migrants were discovered in a tanker truck, including a pregnant woman.
According to the Bexar County Sherriff's Office, a Von Ormy deputy attempted to pull the truck over because the plates came back stolen. Authorities said the driver led the deputy on a brief chase before he was stopped, found with a weapon and taken into custody. They believe the truck was coming from Laredo.
The semi-truck pulled over on the shoulder of the highway was hauling a tank designed to carry liquid. First responders were checking on people and giving them water. A KENS 5 reporter at the scene saw at least 11 people receiving aid on the side of the highway a few yards from the truck.
Ten males and two females were all in good health and were not seriously injured, a Bexar County Sheriff's Office spokesperson said at the scene. One person was taken to the hospital. Authorities said one of the women was pregnant. They said the people in the truck came from Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras.
Northbound traffic was down to just the left lane as authorities blocked off the right lane next to the truck.
The San Antonio Fire Department, Somerset Police and the Bexar County Sheriff's Office all responded to the scene. BCSO had dogs at the scene searching the truck.
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Over the years, KENS 5 has worked to transform local news. Our cameras have been the lens bringing history into local viewers' homes. We're proud of our legacy as we serve San Antonians today.
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ODESSA, Texas — Cathy Carlson, a former Odessa High School Alum and tennis star, will be inducted in the 2023 Tech Hall of Fame this fall.
Carlson playing career started in Odessa. She remembered training with her brother and dad from a young age at local courts.
"He would get my brother and myself up before he went to work and he would take us out to Odessa College," Carlson said. "At the time, you put quarters in the lights, and he would just drill us. Both of us were players. My brother played in college as well."
Carlson later suited up for the Bronchos tennis team and used the opportunity to get competitive reps and learn from other great players that came before her.
"It was a really good experience playing at Odessa High just because I had people to practice with," Carlson said. "I had the coach feeding me balls. It definitely helped me on my way. I had some good partners. Good practice in the tournaments were really good. It was a really good opportunity. There were people ahead of me that had been really good players, like Susie Smith. Liz Alvarado was another one that was right ahead of me, and she was a really good player. Things like that helped. Just knowing that there had been other good players in the past."
The Odessa native would continue her career at Texas Tech. This was the best school to offer her a scholarship and was the reason she ended up in Lubbock.
During her time at Tech, Carlson cemented her legacy in the record books. Today, she is still regarded as the winningest player in Lady Raider women's tennis program history with 224 overall career victories (111 singles and 113 doubles win).
Carlson also helped the team to a 65-27 record during her career continuing to climb out the statistics leader board.
The OHS alum is tied for second all-time in line three singles wins with 14 in 1988 and third at line two doubles victories with 18 in 1987. Additionally, Carlson appears in the top-10 in a handful of other leaderboards, including career singles and doubles winning percentage, single-season singles and double wins, single-season singles and doubles winning percentage, single-season dual singles and doubles winning percentage and single-season dual doubles victories.
"I actually had no idea that I had done anything out of the ordinary there at Tech," Carlson said. "I just kind of did my part on the team and none of the records would be there if not for the other teammates and for my doubles partner. Just, you know, a lot of things fell into place, where I played in the lineup. If I'd played higher, I wouldn't have this record. I played anywhere from three to five in singles and then played line two doubles. Again, I wasn't the best on the team. I wasn't the worst. I was just kind of in the middle. Just steady and consistent."
Carlson will be back at Texas Tech, for the first time since her playing days, during the Hall of Fame Class of 2023 events.
The Hall of Fame Class will be formally inducted at 6 p.m. on September 29th during a ceremony at Overton Hotel and Conference Center. The entire class will also be recognized at Jones AT&T Stadium when Texas Tech hosted Houston on September 30th.
Carlson still plays tennis recreationally in leagues in her area today.
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SAN ANTONIO — Authorities say a driver of a tanker truck was arrested and a dozen migrants, including a pregnant woman, were recovering after a short pursuit on I-35 southwest of San Antonio Wednesday night.
It was an active scene around 11 p.m. in the northbound lanes of the highway near Fischer Street. Multiple emergency crews responded to I-35 southwest of San Antonio on Wednesday night after 12 migrants were discovered in a tanker truck, including a pregnant woman.
According to the Bexar County Sherriff's Office, a Von Ormy deputy attempted to pull the truck over because the plates came back stolen. Authorities said the driver led the deputy on a brief chase before he was stopped, found with a weapon and taken into custody. They believe the truck was coming from Laredo.
The semi-truck pulled over on the shoulder of the highway was hauling a tank designed to carry liquid. First responders were checking on people and giving them water. A KENS 5 reporter at the scene saw at least 11 people receiving aid on the side of the highway a few yards from the truck.
Ten males and two females were all in good health and were not seriously injured, a Bexar County Sheriff's Office spokesperson said at the scene. One person was taken to the hospital. Authorities said one of the women was pregnant. They said the people in the truck came from Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras.
Northbound traffic was down to just the left lane as authorities blocked off the right lane next to the truck.
The San Antonio Fire Department, Somerset Police and the Bexar County Sheriff's Office all responded to the scene. BCSO had dogs at the scene searching the truck.
This is a developing story. Follow KENS5.com for the latest updates.
Learn more about KENS 5:
Since going on the air in 1950, KENS 5 has strived to be the best, most trusted news and entertainment source for generations of San Antonians.
KENS 5 has brought numerous firsts to South Texas television, including being the first local station with a helicopter, the first with its own Doppler radar and the first to air a local morning news program.
Over the years, KENS 5 has worked to transform local news. Our cameras have been the lens bringing history into local viewers' homes. We're proud of our legacy as we serve San Antonians today.
Today, KENS 5 continues to set the standard in local broadcasting and is recognized by its peers for excellence and innovation. The KENS 5 News team focuses on stories that really matter to our community.
You can find KENS 5 in more places than ever before, including KENS5.com, the KENS 5 app, the KENS 5 YouTube channel, KENS 5's Roku and Fire TV apps, and across social media on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and more!
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BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – A pub crawl for homeless veterans returns to the Space Coast for the second year in a row on Saturday, July 22.
National Veterans Homeless Support is co-hosting the event, which will take crawlers through five different bars in downtown Cocoa Beach while raising money to support America’s homeless veterans.
Tickets are $15 if purchased in advance and $20 the day of. Each ticket is good for a free drink at each of the five participating bars from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. during the event.
Participants are also encouraged to bring socks, underwear, toothpaste, sun lotion and other necessities as a donation.
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Pub crawl participants will also have the opportunity to win gift certificates and vouchers for other bars in the area.
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BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – If you love arts and crafts, animals and mimosas, Arts & Paws with a Sip is the place to be on Saturday, July 22.
Tails at the Barkery, a pet treat bakery based in Cocoa Village, has partnered with Furever Home Animal Rescue, Inc. to raise money for neglected animals.
For $20, participants will be guided through a pet-themed craft project while they are served mimosas and snacks.
Proceeds from the fundraiser will be used to help Furever Home Animal Rescue relocate homeless animals into loving homes, as well as to educate the Cocoa Village community about responsible pet ownership.
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Florida has its fair share of deadly crashes, reporting over 86,000 throughout Central Florida alone in 2022.
However, some roadways in the Sunshine State are more dangerous than others, according to moneygeek.com.
In a report, Moneygeek provides the 10 deadliest stretches of roads across Florida.
Keep scrolling to find out which ones made the list.
1. US-19 (Pasco County)
At the top of this list is US-19 — specifically, the stretch from San Marco Drive to Denton Avenue in Pasco County.
- Fatalities: 28
- Crashes per Mile: 5.7
- Distance: 4.9 miles
2. US-41 (Bradenton)
Next up on the list is US-41, ranging from 30th Avenue East to Pearl Avenue in Bradenton.
- Fatalities: 20
- Crashes per Mile: 4.3
- Distance: 4.4 miles
3. I-95 (Boynton Beach)
The third roadway to place is I-95 at No. 3. This placement includes the stretch between Hypoluxo Road and Woolbright Road near Boynton Beach.
- Fatalities: 18
- Crashes per Mile: 4.3
- Distance: 4 miles
4. I-95 (Fort Lauderdale)
While I-95 makes the list again at No. 4, it’s a little bit farther south this time. This segment of I-95 goes from Exit 27 to Exit 32 near Fort Lauderdale.
- Fatalities: 17
- Crashes per Mile: 3.4
- Distance: 5 miles
5. US-19 (St. Petersburg)
Claiming a second spot on this list, this portion of US-19 extends from Queensboro Avenue to 54th Avenue in St. Petersburg.
- Fatalities: 17
- Crashes per Mile: 3.6
- Distance: 4.7 miles
6. I-95 (Miami)
Taking up a third spot on this list, Interstate 95′s stretch from Exit 4 to Exit 9 in Miami ranks at No. 6.
- Fatalities: 19
- Crashes per Mile: 3.2
- Distance: 4.7
7. US-441 (Miami)
Heading through the outskirts of Miami is the No. 7 placement, which encompasses Northwest 181st Street to Polk Street along US-441.
- Fatalities: 18
- Crashes per Mile: 3
- Distance: 4.9 miles
8. US-19 (Port Richey)
US-19 in Port Richey takes the No. 8 spot from Exit 20 to Exit 16.
- Fatalities: 15
- Crashes per Mile: 3.4
- Distance: 4.4 miles
9. I-95 (Hollywood)
I-95 makes its final appearance at No. 9, this time ranging from Exit 20 to Exit 16 near Hollywood.
- Fatalities: 15
- Crashes per Mile: 3.4
- Distance: 4.4 miles
10. US-90 (Jacksonville)
The final roadway on this list includes the stretch of Meadowbrook Boulevard to Parental Home Road along US-90 in Jacksonville.
- Fatalities: 15
- Crashes per Mile: 3.3
- Distance: 4.5 miles
According to Moneygeek, Miami-Dade County saw the greatest number of deadly crashes, which made up one-third of all fatal crashes in Florida between 2018 and 2020. Of those, most happened along US-1 and involved either speeding or drunken driving.
Additionally, the following factors contributed to the number of fatal crashes in Florida during that same timeframe, Moneygeek said.
- Drunken driving was involved in 21.2% of fatal crashes.
- Speeding was a factor in 8.9% of fatal crashes.
- Distracted driving contributed to 8.1% of fatal crashes.
- December had more fatal crashes than any other month, with 9.5% of Florida’s fatal crashes.
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What is broadband? And why is everyone talking about it?
According to the Federal Communications Commission, it’s an internet connection with a minimum of 25 megabits per second download and three megabits per second upload speeds.
That probably begs more questions than answers.
Essentially broadband is a good, high-speed internet connection. An internet connection that you can work or learn from home without disruptions or service lags, apply for jobs online and download and fill out important financial and government forms. More than one device can run web-based computer programs efficiently and Zoom meetings and email work without worry. And it won’t break the bank.
As for why everyone is talking about it, the landmark federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act provides $65 billion for broadband internet. The law includes $42.45 billion for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program (BEAD). The money goes to states and territories to provide reliable and affordable high-speed internet connections. Pennsylvania received $1.16 billion.
Officials from the Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority (PBDA) are visiting communities throughout the state to discuss the funding and hear from residents about internet issues they experience.
The word broadband is broadly defined as any high-speed internet that is always on. It doesn’t interfere with home phone lines, like dial-up. No one needs to hang up a phone call to connect.
To broaden that FCC definition: if your internet speed is 15 megabits (mbps) per second one to two devices can check email and search Google at a time; only one device is able to stream music, according to the PBDA. It takes one hour to download a 5 gigabyte movie. A typical DVD holds about 4.7 gigabytes of data. So that’s a two hour-ish movie with deleted scenes, a blooper reel and some other extras.
If you have 300 mbps, you can stream movies, tv shows, Youtube videos and game in high definition on multiple devices. That 5 gigabyte movie takes 2 to 5 minutes to download.
Connecting through fiber-optic cable is the fastest option and it’s what the federal government hopes to expand with the funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
"COVID was the ultimate stress test for internet access across the country," said Julia Brinjac, PBDA digital equity program manager. "I think it's no coincidence that this bill passed in 2021."
Fiber connections use light instead of an electric current to transmit data. It's expensive because of the infrastructure needed. The cables can run underground, above ground and under the ocean. There’s a lot of digging involved.
The PBDA said using a cable modem to get online is the next fastest, followed by DSL. That comes over telephone lines but doesn’t disrupt telephone services, like dial-up. Satellite is another way of getting online. However, within the act, Congress determined satellite is not reliable. It will not be considered as a means to provide internet to unserved and underserved areas — two more terms the FCC used a lot during discussions about broadband.
If you live in an unserved location, that means there is no access to wireless internet service at speeds that meet FCC threshold. Underserved areas are locations where internet services meet or exceed that FCC definition but are lacking more power.
WVIA’s IT department suggests using speedtest.net to test your internet speed.
Pennsylvania’s Department of Community and Economic Development’s website has a statewide Broadband Service Availability map.
According to the map, the western half of Susquehanna County is mostly unserved, while Southeast Susquehanna is served. The entirety of Bradford, the neighboring county, is mostly unserved.
If you zoom in real close, you can pinpoint exact locations. My house in Scranton and the entire block it's on is served by DSL provided by Xfinity.
Making internet affordable is a requirement of the federal funding. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was at the Pittston Memorial Library on July 12 to discuss Pennsylvania’s broadband plan.
“I think, what folks can expect are reasonable rates ... kind of based on statewide standards," he said. "There'll be competition in the marketplace between the various internet service providers, which would also hopefully, bring down those costs."
The PBDA is in the process of creating a five-year comprehensive plan for the federal funding. They have to submit that plan by Aug. 12. The state also has to come up with a digital equity plan, which is due by the end of October. Part of that planning is holding Internet for All meetings across the state to hear from community members about their internet experiences.
During a meeting at the Lackawanna County 911 Center on July 11, Sheri Collins, asked the audience: "if your internet was an animal, what animal would it be? And why.”
The responses varied from a dead sloth and a rabbit but with a big dollar sign to a tortious.
"It will finish the race but it’s pretty slow,” the audience member said.
Collins, a consultant with the PBDA, pointed out that everyone's access to internet is different.
"And that's what we've experienced across Pennsylvania," she said.
While in Luzerne County, Shapiro highlighted some of the issues people face when trying to get online.
"When parents need to drive their kids to the library in the next town over just to gain access to the internet or local workers can't go out and apply for a job that's posted online or doctor's offices don't have the modern tools they need to communicate with patients or consult with other specialists to be able to give a good health care outcome for someone. That is just evidence of how we are held back not as a county but as an entire Commonwealth," he said.
Once Pennsylvania’s plan is approved by the federal government, crews could then start laying cables, putting up towers and making the state’s new broadband infrastructure a reality, the governor said.
Shapiro said there are 276,000 Pennsylvania households, businesses and other establishments that do not have access to broadband, adding another 52,000 establishments have unreliable access.
"If you are one of those hundreds of 1,000s, of Pennsylvanians who lack internet access, you will begin to see activity in communities across Pennsylvania later this year, and then really ramping up early next year," Shapiro said.
The PBDA also received an additional $200 million, said Brandon Carson, director of the authority. That funding will be awarded to local governments, businesses and nonprofits that are working to expand internet service, he said.
Who lays down the lines will be dependent on a community’s workforce, said Shapiro, adding they’re already training workers across the Commonwealth.
"We want to make sure that where the need is greatest, we're identifying that and driving those resources out," he said. "But once we have that plan approved by the federal government, we can sort of post up to the neighbors and let them know okay, kind of here's relatively speaking where you are in the queue.”
Affordability, again, is a huge component to increasing broadband access. It’s one of the criteria of the federal funding.
"Internet service providers and others that apply for these funds to deploy services will need to disclose what their pricing plans will look like, various tiers of pricing plans, and that will be used to help determine how those investments are ... prioritized for various areas," Carson said.
The governor said the impact of no or slow connections holds the entire state back.
"It really is important to state the obvious that broadband connectivity or lack thereof, it's not an urban issue or a rural issue, it really is a Pennsylvania issue," Shapiro said.
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BRISTOL, Va. (WJHL) – Bristol, Virginia Police (BVPD) are actively searching for a man considered to be armed and dangerous.
According to police, Devin Evans remains at large after escaping law enforcement custody in Russell County.
On Wednesday, officers received information regarding a stolen vehicle out of Russell County, which was located at Carriage Hills Apartments on Lee Highway in Bristol by BVPD.
The vehicle was reported to have been stolen by Devin Evans and his sister, Ashley Evans.
A police report states Ashley Evans was seen entering the apartment in the complex with a man. Following this development, BVPD SWAT obtained and executed a search warrant which resulted in finding 30-year-old Ashley Evans of Lebanon, Virginia, and 33-year-old Logan Hillman of Bristol, Virginia.
Ashley Evans was arrested and charged with motor vehicle theft while Hillman was arrested on an outstanding warrant out of Washington County, Virginia.
The search did not result in police locating Devin Evans.
Again, he is to be considered armed and dangerous. Police urge people with any knowledge of his whereabouts to call 911.
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Snake River at Jackson 2,142 cfs
Snake River at Palisades 13,307 cfs
Snake River at Heise 14,061 cfs
Snake River at Blackfoot 1,941 cfs
Snake River at American Falls 13,854 cfs
Snake River at Milner 1,503 cfs
Little Wood River near Carey 170 cfs
Jackson Lake is 91% full.
Palisades Reservoir is 88% full.
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Upper Snake River system is at 77% of capacity.
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PHOENIX — Doctors warn that record-breaking temperatures could be impacting mental health as the extreme heat shows no signs of letting up.
Feelings of anxiousness and irritability are symptoms of Summer Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), a type of depression triggered by the changing of seasons.
Dr. Andrew Carroll told 12News the mood disorder isn't as obvious as other heat-related illnesses.
“Seasonal Affective Disorder can be more insidious. It’s a slow onset. It’s not as easy to recognize,” Carroll said.
Carroll said he sees patients who experience different feelings as the weather becomes hot or cold. It often presents as sadness in the winter but can have the opposite effect in the summer.
He said people experiencing SAD in the summer may have a short fuse, leading to irregular behavior.
“There’s always the risk that they might be suicidal or even homicidal," Carroll said.
Not every case is the same, but Carroll said sunlight is often a trigger for the disorder.
“With these long days, we have shorter nights and people just aren’t getting enough sleep,” Carroll said.
Carroll said he recommends blackout curtains to help people sleep through the early sunrise or late sunsets.
Anyone experiencing symptoms of a mood disorder is encouraged to speak with their doctor.
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Suicide Lifeline
Anyone experiencing thoughts of suicide can reach out for help by calling 1-800-273-8255.
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a national network of local crisis centers that provides free and confidential support to people experiencing suicidal ideation or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in the U.S. The service aims to improve crisis services and advance suicide prevention by empowering individuals, advancing professional best practices, and building awareness.
Arizona's Suicide/Crisis Hotlines by County:
1-800-631-1314 and 602-222-9444 (Maricopa County)
1-800-796-6762 or 520-622-6000 (Pima Country)
1-866-495-6735 (Graham, Greenlee, Cochise, and Santa Cruz Counties)
1-800-259-3449 (Gila River and Ak-Chin Indian Communities)
1-866-495-6735 (Yuma, La Paz, Pinal, and Gila Countries)
1-877-756-4090 (Mohave, Coconino, Apache, Navajo, and Yavapai Counties)
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Improv ComedyThe Order of Thespians will perform improv at the Twin Falls Public Library, performing hilarious scenes and games based on audience suggestions. There will be two shows: An all-ages show at 2 p.m., and a show for patrons aged 16 and up at 7 p.m.
All that GlittersDrag star Amelia Blayke will present “All That Glitters,” a showcase of entertainment featuring performers around the Magic Valley, at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Orpheum Theatre in Twin Falls. Standard seating is $17.50.
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Stand Up to Suicide“Stand Up to Suicide,” set Friday in Twin Falls, will be a time to laugh and learn.
Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. at the Roper Auditorium, and sponsors including the Walker Center and St. Luke’s will offer materials and advice dealing with suicide prevention and mental health.
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Food trucks will have food for sale.
Stand-up comedian Steve Soelberg will perform his family-friendly routine at 7 p.m.
“Trust me, Steve will have you laughing,” said Lori Stewart, president of Magic Valley Suicide Awareness of Prevention, which is organizing the event, “and supporting suicide prevention is the icing on the cake.”
Soelberg, who grew up in Seattle but now lives in Utah, has performed worldwide and can be heard on Spotify, Sirrius XM, has a comedy special on Amazon prime, as well as two specials on Dry Bar Comedy.
Tickets are $15, with proceeds going to Magic Valley Suicide Awareness and Prevention.
Art & Soul awards ceremonyThe Art & Soul of the Magic Valley awards ceremony is at 7 p.m. Friday at the bandshell in Twin Falls City Park. A Welcome Reception from 5 to 7 p.m. in the wine and beer garden (ID is required!). Visit the more than 20 artist booths, and then be the first to discover the winners of the 13th annual Art & Soul of the Magic Valley. More than $45,000 in prize money will be awarded to 92 winners.
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Ice Cream FundayIce Cream Funday, sponsored by the Twin Falls Rotary Club, takes place Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Twin Falls City Park. Participants can sample and judge the best of more than 20 ice cream flavors created by various organizations. Cost is $10 for adults and $5 for children 11 and under.
Wildflower bombsElementary school-aged children are invited to make wildflower bombs with us! The Master Gardeners at 10 a.m. Friday on the Twin Falls Public Library lawn. Master Gardeners will also talk about gardening, pollinators, and more.
Botanical garden tourA guided tour of Orton Botanical Garden, from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday at 867 Filer Ave. W. in Twin Falls, will highlight plants in bloom and native Idaho species. Also, guest’s questions about how to successfully incorporate drought-tolerant plants in your home landscaping will be answered. Free of charge.
For more information, call 208-734-7959 or visit ortonbotanicalgarden.com.
Volunteer and club fairGather on the Twin Falls Public Library lawn from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday to discover ways to give back to the community.
Are you looking for opportunities to give back to your community? Want to pick up a new hobby or find a club to expand your social circle? Drop by the library to discover organizations and clubs searching for new members. Already part of a group? Set up a table at our fair and find new members! Register your organization at tinyurl.com/TFPLVolunteerFair.
Saturday Movie MatineeThe Twin Falls Public Library hosts a free family movie matinee at 3 p.m. each Saturday. Grab a calendar from the Twin Falls Public Library, or give the library a call at 208-7733-2964, ext. 2, to find out what’s playing.
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Hagerman Farmers Market
The July Farmers Markets & Fair takes place Sundays 10-2 at 1071 East 2900 South, in Hagerman. Live music, wine tasting, food from The Butcher Shop, a great variety of vendors, impromptu car and motorcycle shows
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Twin Falls TonightA free community concert takes place Wednesday from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Twin Falls Downtown Commons. Live Music by Guilty Pleasure. Food and drink available from local restaurants and food trucks.
Limited Edition Book ClubThe Twin Falls Public Library is hosting its three-part discussion series from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays, featuring stories of ordinary people who rise to extraordinary circumstances. This month, the discussion will be from David Benioff’s “City of Thieves.” Pick up your copy from the reference desk.
THURSDAY, JULY 27
Twin Falls Municipal Band concertThe band will perform a Christmas in July concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Twin Falls City Park bandshell. There will be two singalongs and a selection of Christmas hits.
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Providence got hundreds of noise complaints on its 311 line in 2022. Here's what it heard
Will Mayor Smiley's focus on quality-of-life issues boost enforcement of the Providence's noise ordinance?
- Nearly 500 noise complaints were logged in the City Services system last year.
- Businesses and loud homeowners caused the vast majority of complaints.
- When it comes to enforcement, will Mayor Smiley's quality-of-life focus put a damper on noise?
Loud nightclubs, crack-of-dawn garbage pickups, raucous neighbors and roaring motorcycles are just some of the reasons Providence locals dial 3-1-1, the city services number dedicated to fielding an array of quality-of-life grievances that has become a hotline for noise complaints.
In 2022, 311 recorded nearly 500 noise complaints in the city, the vast majority due to noisy homes or businesses. And that's likely just scratching the surface, as the count does not include complaints made to police. Through a public-records request, The Providence Journal was able to obtain a sampling of complaints in each of the city's 15 wards to see what really keeps locals up at night.
The answer? Everything.
City Services director: Residents want to know 'someone is listening'
On a late October night, a downtown resident submitted a complaint to 311's online system, recounting having lived in the area for only two months before the noise became overwhelming.
"Almost every night my wife and I get so frustrated by the level of noise we hear from music coming from cars, and mostly from dirt bikes, ATVs and motorcycles that pass through," the resident wrote. "It doesn't seem as if the city enforces this at all, which is very frustrating."
City Services, which opened under the Elorza administration in 2015, five years after the federal government created the 311 number, has two full-time constituent representatives to handle complaints. To keep operations moving, it relies on help from about five other staff members in different departments. For City Services Director Norelys Consuguera, the job is about making sure residents feel heard.
"For us, every call, email, mobile inquiry [that] comes in is a priority for us, regardless of what the issue is – noise, trash, potholes," Consuguera said. "It makes no difference. We prioritize it. What I think helps residents [is knowing] that someone is listening. And I think that is the concern where people move into a city, or they have this misconception about what government officials are supposed to do – just legislate and pass laws without hearing the input of residents. So I think the fact that 311 ... exists is an ear."
Determining hotspots for noise with 311 data was not immediately possible, as The Journal is still waiting on records of the totality of the complaints. At present, The Journal has only been given documentation of 10 complaints per ward, along with broad data on the total number of complaints in the last year.
More:Noisy neighborhoods can be hazardous to Rhode Islanders' health. How it's being addressed.
As for enforcement, 'nobody has any sense of what the procedure is'
Among the noises that grate on residents are leaf blowers, music from neighbors, shouting and street sweeping. While City Services records complaints and sends letters to alleged offenders, the office tells residents to call police for any serious action.
Yet John Wilner, head of the Providence Noise Project, a group that advocates for a quieter city, is convinced that "really nothing happens to anyone" when police address noise ordinance violations.
"Will they just warn the guys to turn it down? Nobody has any sense of what the procedure is," Wilner said.
The Journal has asked to know how many noise complaints result in fines and awaits a reply from the city.
Mayor Brett Smiley has vowed to focus his tenure on quality-of-life concerns, having pushed for funding for decibel readers for police, but Wilner said he remains skeptical that much will change.
"As a result of the city not enforcing the noise ordinance, people just don’t call and complain anymore," Wilner said. "We call it the Providence shrug."
More:Providence mayor's way to crack down on loud noise in the city: Give police decibel readers
Board of Licenses can take action, but options are sometimes limited
Aside from police enforcement, the city's Board of Licenses also has a role to play when it comes to noise violations from businesses such as restaurants and nightclubs.
It's the job of the Police Department's licensing unit to follow up with businesses accused of breaking noise laws. Then, owners might appear before the board, which has the option of issuing penalties if the violations can be proven with evidence – similar to the way a court would operate.
"Even if the issue does not meet the threshold of a violation, we routinely bring licensees in if there are sustained complaints and try to get them to change how they operate," said Board of Licenses Chairman Dylan Conley. "But in the absence of an actual violation, we cannot force a licensee to change their behavior."
Conley, accustomed to listening to community grievances about noise, called them "highly predictable," tending to occur less in the winter when windows are closed or during hot periods in the summer when air conditioners are blowing. Conley said complaints add up when temperatures are mild and windows are open, and those complaints may concern businesses that are lucrative and draw large crowds.
When businesses cross the line, the board engages in a due-process procedure that may lead to a hearing, though Conley said the "vast majority of the time" the city and the business in question strike a settlement and violations are put into a record that could eventually result in severe sanctions.
But Conley still faces the ire of locals who feel he and the board aren't tough enough with noisy bars and clubs.
"We do everything we can to make licensees change their operations, even in the absence of any real legal leverage to do so," Conley said. "But for many folks, they want sanctions and closures and forced hour changes or forced structural changes because the noise is bothering them in their home. This is not the era of the good ol' boys from the bad ol' days where people in power could close a business because the business made the wrong people upset."
Smiley wants to revamp the city's 311 system. What would that involve?
Noise still represents only a small fraction of complaints to 311, perhaps due to a lack of awareness of the system as an option for registering grievances. Of the 118,425 complaints made to City Services since it began logging issues seven years ago, just over 3% were noise-related.
"I would say the most challenging [thing] for the short time that I've been here is making sure that everybody knows that we're here," Conseguera said, adding that it's important to encourage residents to make use of 311's phone app "to really understand that there is a city department that is here as their advocate."
Early in his term as mayor, Smiley committed to revamping the 311 system, although the city still needs to put out a request for proposals to find a bidder to handle the work of updating it.
"We want 311 to be an accessible and easy-to-use source of information for all of our residents," said Smiley's spokesman, Josh Estrella. "In addition to updates that will make the system more efficient and effective, we want to include features that we have seen be very successful in other cities. For example, we want to be able to provide more information about specific issues when residents are entering their concerns in the system, like knowing more about pothole repairs and trash pickup schedules. This proactive content will help make information more accessible for our community."
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The city wants to clear a tent encampment. Advocates say that's the deceptively easy route
Proximity to the highway was cited by the mayor's office as one of its 'grave concerns' about site safety
PROVIDENCE − Danny Griffiths walks down a dirt path and motions to a squat tent on a strip of state property between Charles Street and Route 146, across from the Walmart on Silver Spring Street.
Griffiths hasn't had a stable place to live for years, losing his housing to a confluence of addiction, lost jobs and family issues.
Now Griffiths, and the many people living in makeshift shelters next to the West River, face one more stressor: the prospect of being evicted from a wooded space that is out of sight, and mind, in a largely commercial area, protected from prying eyes by a wall of vegetation.
Advocates say the city wants the state to break up the encampments
Rhode Island Homeless Advocacy Project Director Eric Hirsch said Mayor Brett Smiley's administration is trying to pressure the state, which owns the land, to evict everyone. Providence police officers were parked across the street during a protest that Hirsch planned on Tuesday afternoon.
"We're here to make sure it doesn't happen until the city finds us adequate shelter or housing for these people," Hirsch said.
An estimated 348 people are living outside in Rhode Island at any given time as of the last count at the end of June, he said.
As of June 30, the state had 1,087 shelter beds – 622 for individuals, 290 for families and 175 in motels, Hirsch said.
Nursing home to family shelter:Recently closed Charlesgate nursing home will become a homeless shelter for up to 57 families
City lists safety concerns as reason for state eviction
In an email, Smiley's press secretary, Josh Estrella, wrote that the city has concerns about the site and has been lobbying the state to evict the camp's residents.
"Conversations have been had with providers about better case counseling at this location to best support folks into housing who may be there knowing that this site has to be vacated," Estrella wrote.
Estrella wrote that city officials are "concerned with the safety" of the people living on the land, including "proximity to the highway," recent flooding and the potential for fires.
Hirsch said counseling doesn't matter when there aren't enough shelter beds for people and many that do exist are too chaotic. Some of the worries over the "safety" of the site don't appear to be grounded in the reality of the space itself, he said.
"I don't think they've been there, and I don't think they know what they're about," Hirsch said. "I don't think they've visited the site or talked to people there. It's not that hard for them to get in the car, drive down there and talk to people."
While Griffiths talked, drinking from a metal water bottle, another encampment resident raked trash and brush from the path.
"It's dog-eat-dog," he said. "It's survival."
Trying to live in the encampment is hard work. Trash piles up near the entrance because no one will provide receptacles. The only clean drinking water nearby is from a Wendy's restaurant across the street where it is for sale, he said.
If he is forced out, Griffiths said, he will probably stay with many of the people in the encampment and find a new place to live outdoors.
What has Providence done to help unsheltered people?
Estrella wrote that the city's work on the issue includes creating a housing resource coordinator position, spending $263,000 last month to extend the use of current shelter beds and spending $3.4 million over the last year on shelter beds, in addition to $250,000 toward Amos House, the organization that ran the Cranston Street Armory shelter and is overseeing the shelter established in the former Charlesgate Nursing Home. Most of the money is given to the state to spend.
"The city is not doing anything," Hirsch said. "The city is avoiding responsibility."
By the numbers:Report finds 15% increase in RIers experiencing homelessness. Here are the numbers.
State Housing Secretary Stefan Pryor has been trying to fully utilize his office to get people shelter beds and housing, but it is the cities and towns in the state, like Providence, that are not cooperating, Hirsch said.
Hirsch said when he met with the mayor's office in April, staff members expressed interest in finding spaces for pallet shelters, but the thought never generated action. Pallet shelters are especially attractive because they offer people a space where they can lock the door.
"Two people per unit rather than 100 people," Hirsch said. "That makes a big difference."
Doing the best to get by
For Mikki Adams, who is pregnant, living in the camp is especially hard: she is surrounded by people she says are using illicit drugs while she has been clean and sober for eight years. She lives with her boyfriend in one of the larger tents, a space cooled by an air conditioner powered by a generator that also powers a refrigerator to keep food. A trench helps keep out the water when it rains.
Dead by 53:The high health cost of being homeless
Adams is trying to find some kind of housing come September so she can get joint custody of her 5-year-old daughter and avoid having the state take away the child she will soon bear because she doesn't have a stable place to live.
She says people in the city see her, see the encampment, and assume the people in it want to live in squalor.
"They're convinced we're no good," she said.
Really, she said, they all just need a little help, a little kindness. Some water, portable toilets and a trash bin that gets emptied once in a while. Although, she said, an apartment would always be better.
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ROANOKE, Va. – Happy Thursday! Grab your morning coffee and check out the Morning Sprint to find out what’s trending.
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- One lucky person is now millions of dollars richer
- Roanoke City Sheriff’s Office celebrates National Hot Dog Day by sharing with the community
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Legoland Florida's Flying School, the last remaining Cypress Gardens coaster, will close
The Ledger
Legoland Florida Resort is phasing out one of the last remaining rides from the Cypress Gardens era.
Flying School, an inverted roller coaster, will offer its final rides on Aug. 16, National Roller Coaster Day, the attraction said in a news release. The ride will be removed to allow for “future awesomeness,” the news release said.
The steel coaster is original to Cypress Gardens, one of the original Florida attractions. The park closed in the late 2000s, giving way to Legoland Florida.
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The minimum height to ride Flying School is 44 inches. Guests under 52 inches must be accompanied by a rider at least that tall.
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Polk woman, deported in 2018, helps Rep. Darren Soto promote Protect Patriot Spouses Act
U.S. Rep. Darren Soto, D-Kissimmee, has reintroduced the Protect Patriot Spouses Act, which would protect spouses of military members from deportation.
Alejandra Juarez, a Davenport-area resident, and her teenage daughter, Estela, joined Soto on Tuesday for a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol. Juarez, the wife of a retired Marine, was deported in 2018 but has since been allowed to return to the United States temporarily under humanitarian parole.
Rep. María Elvira Salazar, R-Coral Gables, and Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-California, joined Soto at the news conference. They are co-sponsors of the legislation.
Soto described a pledge he made to the Juarez family after accompanying Alejandra to the airport as she prepared to leave for Mexico in 2018.
“Under the Biden Administration, we were thrilled to see Alejandra receive humanitarian parole and return to Central Florida to be with her family,” Soto said. “However, this is only a temporary fix and has left the Juarez family in a state of limbo. With the Protect Patriot Spouses Act, we will create a permanent solution for Alejandra and other military families in similar situations.”
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The Protect Patriot Spouses Act would render military spouses eligible for adjustment to permanent resident status by amending the Immigration and Nationality Act to remove the inadmissibility standard because of an unlawful entry into the United States by the migrant spouse, Soto’s office said in a news release. It would also allow eligible veteran spouses who have already been removed or voluntarily departed the United States to apply for an immigrant visa from abroad and then become authorized to return to the country while their application is pending.
The measure was included as a provision in the Veteran Service Recognition Act, which passed in the House of Representatives in December. It has not been voted upon in the Senate.
"Deportations are cruel and inhumane and they tear families apart," Alejandra Juarez said. "Military families sacrifice so much to serve this country. No service member should have to worry about his or her spouse facing deportation."
Estela, 14, also spoke at the news conference. Last year, Macmillian published “Until Someone Listens,” a picture book based on her writings about her mother’s plight.
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VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office is looking to hire more crossing guards before the new school year starts.
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The agency is holding job fairs on Thursday and Friday to beef up its staff.
Crossing guards work an average of 10 hours per week and qualify for paid time off, as well as health and retirement benefits.
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Thursday’s hiring event will happen from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Ormond Beach Library, located at:
- 30 South Beach Street, Ormond Beach, FL 32174
Don't forget our School Crossing Guard Job Fair is tomorrow (Thursday) in Ormond Beach and then Friday in Port Orange. It's a great part-time job during the school year. We just need the right people! See you there! pic.twitter.com/q4uCKhV1xw
— Volusia Sheriff (@VolusiaSheriff) July 19, 2023
Friday’s job fair will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Port Orange Library, located at:
- 1005 City Center Circle, Port Orange, FL 32129
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ORLANDO, Fla. — (AP) — A federal judge said Wednesday that his order blocking a Florida law targeting drag shows doesn’t just apply to the restaurant that brought the lawsuit challenging it but to other venues in the state, reiterating that the legislation championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis is likely unconstitutional.
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A state agency that would enforce the law had asked U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell to put on hold his preliminary injunction stopping the law from being enforced until a trial is held to determine its constitutionality while the state of Florida appeals the injunction.
Attorneys for Florida told the judge that the preliminary injunction should only apply to the Orlando restaurant that sued seeking to get the law ruled unconstitutional and not “nonparties” to the complaint.
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The judge rejected that argument, saying any harm to the state of Florida is minimal if the preliminary injunction remains in place, and that all Floridians are potentially parties since free speech is at stake.
“Plaintiff is not the only party suffering injury as a result of the passage of the Act; it has a chilling effect on all members of society who fall within its reach,” Presnell wrote in his order.
The complaint was brought by the owner of a Hamburger Mary’s restaurant and bar in Orlando, which regularly hosts drag shows, including family-friendly performances on Sundays that children were invited to attend. The restaurant owner said the law was overbroad, was written vaguely and violated First Amendment rights by chilling speech.
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The new law punished venues for allowing children into “adult live performances.” Though it did not mention drag shows specifically, the sponsor of the legislation said it was aimed at those performances. Venues that violated the law faced fines and the possibility of their liquor licenses being suspended or revoked. Individuals could be charged with a misdemeanor crime.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Parts of Central Florida will be under a heat advisory Thursday as temperatures stay hot.
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Marion and Flagler counties are under a heat advisory today.
Heat index temperatures may peak 105-110 degrees before the onset of rain.
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Storms may begin popping up in the early afternoon near the coast.
Our area will have a higher rain chance mid-to-late afternoon, at the end of the work day.
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The heaviest storms could bring 1 to 3 inches of rain in some areas.
Lightning will also be a risk in addition to possible flooding.
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Storms will push west before they taper off in the early evening.
We will be slightly dryer Friday, but our temperatures will remain just as hot.
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Why Bankrate ranked Indianapolis among top places for young professionals, postgraduates
Indy may be the next New York City, according to Bankrate research into the top U.S. cities for postgraduate and young professionals.
Bankrate placed Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson at No. 6 on its list of the top U.S. cities to launch a career. Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, Texas, landed the first place spot, while traditionally popular postgraduate locations like New York City and Los Angeles ranked 49 and 50 respectively. Overall, half of the top-ranked cities are in the south, indicating a shift in what young job-seekers prioritize.
The study analyzed the 50 most populous metro areas across the U.S. in three broad categories: affordability, employment opportunities and quality of life. Affordability was given an overall weight of 20%; quality of life was given an overall weight of 25%; and employment opportunities had the greatest impact on overall ranking with a weight of 55%.
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Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson ranked second in affordability, 22nd in employment opportunities and 23rd in quality of life.
Bankrate measured affordability using income and rent data from the Census Bureau’s 2021 estimate of median income for adults ages 25 to 44 and May 2023 data from Rent.com respectively. Researchers also included a 30% budget allocation and factored in each metro’s Cost of Living Index according to the Council for Community and Economic Research from Q2 2022.
Employment opportunity was measured through the unemployment rate in each city, the percentage change of employed area residents and local wages from March 2022 to March 2023. Researchers also factored in GDP per capita and the percentage of remote workers in a metro area, according to 2021 census data.
Quality of life took into account access to healthcare, food and community services, such as libraries and places of worship, using Sharecare’s Community Well-Being Index for 2020 to 2021. The category also considered average commute time, the number of arts, entertainment and recreation establishments per capita and the five-year percentage change of adults ages 25 to 34, using 2021 Census data.
Rankings may reflect a shift in workplace trends post-pandemic
The shift away from traditionally attractive cities like New York City, San Francisco and L.A. may reflect new priorities for young job-seekers. In particular, COVID-19 normalized flexible, remote and hybrid work, career coach Raquel Cid said, according to the study. The rise of cities like Austin, Texas, was partly due to a stronger work-life balance, with Austin ranking first for quality of life.
Additionally, a 2023 Bankrate Job Seekers survey of 2,417 adults found that 37% of Gen Z and 34% of millennial respondents who are employed or looking for work would be willing to relocate for a job in the next year. By comparison, only 17% of Gen X and 8% of baby boomer respondents are willing to do the same.
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The same survey found that higher pay, flexible working hours and the ability to work remotely were the three most important job qualities to job seekers. Thirty percent of those surveyed said higher pay is the most important job quality, while 13% and 12% said that flexible hours and the option to work remotely respectively were the most important.
Of those surveyed, a significantly higher percentage of Gen Z and millennials had gotten a new job in the 12 months prior to the survey than Gen X and baby boomers. The same difference was reflected in those most likely to quit their job in the last 12 months. Overall, 56 percent of those surveyed planned to look for a new job in the next 12 months.
These are the 10 best U.S. cities to launch a career, according to Bankrate:
- Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, Texas
- Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Washington
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- Raleigh-Cary, North Carolina
- Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, Tennessee
- Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, Indiana
- Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas
- Kansas City, Missouri/Kansas
- Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, Georgia
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, California
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Channel 9 meteorologists are monitoring two systems that are moving through the Atlantic Ocean.
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Tropical Storm Don should lose its tropical characteristics in a few days while moving northeast.
A tropical wave moving west from Africa has a 20% chance of formation over the next week.
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The wave will not likely strengthen over the next few days due to lots of dry air in the vicinity.
Channel 9 will continue to monitor the systems and will provide updates on Eyewitness News.
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What to know about Delta Sigma Theta, the sorority hosting Kamala Harris in Indy Thursday
Downtown Indy is seeing an inordinate amount of visitors decked out in red and white this week. And it has nothing to do with that school in Bloomington.
That’s because Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. is hosting its national conference at the Indiana Convention Center.
The meeting of the historically Black service-based organization started July 18 and runs through July 23. It’s expected to draw more than 20,000 attendees in person and virtually to discuss initiatives, train members and elect officers. Vice President Kamala Harris will be keynote speaker for the group’s Social Action Luncheon on Thursday.
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A portion of the convention is centered on spreading awareness about the non-partisan group’s current legislative priorities and impact on issues such as combating voter rights and suppression laws. Other activities include a business pitch competition, step show and various community service projects across the city.
Here’s more on the sorority:
When was Delta Sigma Theta founded?
Delta Sigma Theta was founded in 1913 at Howard University, birthplace of four other historically Black sororities and fraternities that make up the “Divine Nine.”
What are the Divine Nine?
Delta Sigma Theta was one of the chartering organizations of the National Pan-Hellenic Council, which also includes Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority and Iota Phi Theta Fraternity.
About Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
It’s among the largest predominantly Black women’s organizations in the country. Delta Sigma Theta has initiated more than 350,000 members and has over 1,000 chartered chapters worldwide. The organization’s major programs promote economic development, educational development, international awareness and involvement, physical and mental health, and political awareness and involvement.
The sorority’s colors are crimson and cream, but red and white are commonly used.
Who are some famous Delta Sigma Theta members?
Notable members include U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development – and former sorority national president – Marcia Fudge; poet Nikki Giovanni and journalist Abby Phillip.
Vice President Harris is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, another Divine Nine sorority.
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For 7 years, Kelvin Brasher has been cooking up made-to-order meals at Papa Bears Chicken
For the past seven years, chef and owner Kelvin Brasher has been serving made-to-order meals at all hours of the day at Papa Bears Chicken on 46th Street, just west of Keystone Avenue.
Kelvin Brasher calls himself a "one-man show," and he means it.
For almost a decade, Brasher has owned and operated Papa Bears Chicken, located on 46th Street just west Keystone Avenue, 100% solo.
"Seven years straight, up all night, every day. Sixteen- or eighteen-hour days on Fridays and Saturdays. Dish washer, security, cashier, cook, everything around the board," Brasher said.
Back in 2014, Brasher's wife, Tanya, was running a women's boutique out of the space next door.
She came home from work one day and handed Kelvin a set of keys. She had begun leasing the next-door space which would become Papa Bears Chicken.
"We would just cook at home and the stuff would be so good, she was like, 'people would buy this,'" Brasher remembered. "She said, 'we're putting a restaurant on the other side,' and I said, 'cool.'"
Brasher started a walk-up barbecue operation in the parking lot, and within a couple years, had fully furnished the inside with the needed kitchen equipment to begin carryout business.
While there were only a few businesses open along his stretch of 46th Street at that time, Brasher says the industry as a whole was competitive and he had to find ways to set himself part.
"The restaurant game was so congested at the time I came in, so I came out with the two-piece for 99 cents," Brasher said, a chicken deal he still offers on Tuesdays.
Papa Bears is popular for its fried chicken or seafood meals served with Lowry's-seasoned fries, but Brasher also serves lamb, cheeseburgers, pizza, stir-fry and other appetizers and entrees.
Sometimes he'll cook up whatever he's in the mood for that day and serve it until it's gone.
"I prepare everybody's meal just like it's mine, like I'm going to eat it, and it has to be piping hot," Brasher said. "And it's consistency, you'll never come in here and see anybody preparing your food but me."
"This is what I like to do, I just like seeing the customer happy, seeing the customers bite into the food, and their expressions."
He also prides himself on staying open late – 10 p.m. on weekdays and 3 or 4 a.m. on weekends – something he says is less common since the COVID-19 pandemic. He fulfills many late-night orders through third-party delivery apps on weekends.
Brasher says consistency, hard work and customer engagement all keep people coming back. Just recently, Brasher says he served customers from McCordsville and Muncie.
"I don't care if there's 15 people in here at once, everybody's getting treated the same, everybody's food's going to be piping hot, and we going to get you in and out the door, there's no hour wait," he said.
"I get up every day, come here and serve the community. It's a hard grind, but you're only going to get out of it what you put into it."
Brasher holds a day-long food giveaway at least once a year, sometimes on holidays, in an effort to give back to the surrounding neighborhood.
"You've got to give to receive, that's just how I was raised."
Brasher talks to Indy restaurant owners who have been in business 30 or 40 years. He asks them how they've done it, what it takes to last, and tries to emulate it so that he can pass his business down to his two daughters.
"I want something to keep my name going," he said. "I'm just trying to be a staple in the area."
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PITTSBURGH — Two people have been arrested in the carjacking of an Uber driver in Homewood North.
Just after 2 a.m. Thursday, officers responded to reports of a carjacking at Kedron Street and Sterrett Street, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety.
They spoke with a male Uber driver who said he picked up two males and drove them to their destination, where they forced him out of his vehicle at gunpoint and drove off. The driver was not hurt.
Police pursued the stolen vehicle into Penn Hills. The vehicle eventually went up onto a curb and crashed into a light pole. The driver and passenger allegedly bailed and were both quickly apprehended by K9 units.
One of the K9s also located a discarded bb gun.
Both males, one juvenile and one adult, were arrested and face multiple charges.
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PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh police are investigating after three vehicles and an apartment were damaged by an out-of-control vehicle in the city’s Lincoln-Lemington neighborhood around 2:30 a.m. Thursday.
The initial investigation shows that a GMC traveling down Apple Street sideswiped a car and continued down the street, where it hit another vehicle, spun it around a telephone pole, and into the porch of an apartment building, damaging the bricks and taking out a gas meter, according to a Pittsburgh Public Safety report.
The GMC then continued on, ramming into a truck. The driver got out and fled on foot, according to the report.
Police are investigating.
The Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire also responded to the scene.
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Police are on the scene of a credit union in Kennedy Township where someone attempted to steal an ATM.
Officers were called to the Clearview Federal Credit Union on McKees Rocks Road early this morning. Channel 11 was told a white van was used to try to steal the ATM, which was seen on its side in the parking lot.
A man walking in the area told us he saw two people trying to take the ATM, then he saw them run away.
Officials said the van appears to belong to a Stowe Township church. They are trying to get in touch with that church, they said.
It doesn’t appear as though anyone has been taken into custody. The van was towed from the scene.
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