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FORT WORTH, Texas — After efforts to preserve the Berry Theatre failed, crews demolished the historic building Saturday in Fort Worth.
The theater opened at the corner of Hemphill Street and Berry Street in 1940. It was among the first local facilities to show Spanish-language movies, according to film history aggregator Cinema Treasures.
People who live in the area continued to use the building as a landmark, even after it closed.
"People would meet up there," said Carlos Posada, who lives nearby. "It's sad to see that go."
Posada is among the few who stopped to watch the building's destruction. Drivers slowed as they passed by, rubbernecking as workers used heavy machinery to knock over walls.
"I'm watching Fort Worth history disappear," said Rene Gomez, who believes he took one of the last professional photos of the building.
In 2021, Mercy Clinic of Fort Worth accepted the building as a donation. Architects soon deemed the structure unstable for occupancy, Mercy Clinic executive director Aly Layman said in a statement.
Clinic administrators considered incorporating the rotting building into their expansion plans, but ultimately determined the work required to stabilize the structure would be too expensive.
"Built in the 1930s, the building has not been taken care of and is too costly to renovate," Layman wrote. "Even potential federal grants for historic preservation would not bring this cost down enough to not pull funding from the Mercy Clinic mission."
The nonprofit provides free medical, dental and spiritual care to people who do not have insurance.
After meeting with community leaders and residents, clinic administrators determined the facility could not be saved.
Crews will soon clear the rubble and begin construction on a new facility with 10 patient care rooms and six dental chairs. The annex will compliment Mercy Clinic's existing facilities across the street.
"A new clinic facility will show this community many more decades of mercy," Layman said.
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NACOGDOCHES, Texas — An East Texas toddler is in critical condition following a reported accidental shooting.
According to the Nacogdoches Police Department, on Saturday, around 11:20 a.m., officers were called to a house in the 800 block of Texas Oak St. on reports of a shooting.
When first responders arrived on scene, they learned a 2-year-old found a handgun inside the residence and shot themselves in the head. The child was taken to a local hospital before being flown to a Houston medical center.
The investigation is ongoing and CBS19 will update this article as more information becomes available.
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SAN ANTONIO — Construction on the St. Mary's strip has been ongoing for years. The construction is part of the voter approved 2017 bond project.
Councilwoman Sukh Kaur says Saturday's construction will be the last full day of construction as contractors lay the final asphalt at the intersection of St. Mary's and Ashby.
Business owner Darryl Starr of Kraft Professional Dry Cleaning says the nearly 3 years of construction in the area has cut into his business.
"The roads were closed for so long that people that were use to making their way downtown, on their way to work in the mornings and dropping off their dry cleaning were finding other routes to downtown, Therefore we were no longer convenient." Says Starr
Councilwoman Kaur says they want to bring back some support for small businesses in the community as well as improve the quality of life for residents. She also adds there has been some trust lost with the neighborhood and the small businesses on the strip and she wants to repair that.
Starr says he hopes the next time the city begins a construction project they can plan it better. Kaur says the city will now reflect and take a deep dive on how they can improve the process.
"What happened? Why this took so long, and what can we as a city learn from this situation." Says Kaur
The project is expected to be completed in early August.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Coastal Bend Women of Sports Panel was held in honor of women in sports.
The Corpus Christi Hooks and Orthopedic Center of Corpus Christi organized the special event. It was free to attend at Brewster's Street Icehouse Downtown where any one was able to stop by, meet some remarkable people, and ask questions.
Coaches from local colleges were on the panel as well as those who've gone on to play in the USA Women's National Baseball Team.
3NEWS spoke with Sara Goodrum, she is the Director of Player Development for the Houston Astros.
She explained, "it was really interesting for me to get to know some of these people's stories and the hard work and perseverance they have. It's really special."
Our very own Leslie Adami co-hosted the event and said the conversations with the panelists and audience were all uplifting and insightful.
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Tony Bennett’s relationship with Atlantic City stretched back 70 years as he performed in the casinos into the 2010s, when he gave his final America’s Favorite Playground performance at age 90 on May 14, 2017, at Caesars Atlantic City.
In the post-World War II era, Bennett, along with his fellow Italian-American, New York-area crooner Frank Sinatra, was one of the few entertainers who performed at Atlantic City’s famed Steel Pier, the now-defunct 500 Club and in the casinos.
During the 1950s, when Bennett, who died Friday at 96, had his first success with No. 1 pop hits such as “Because of You,” “Cold, Cold Heart” and “Rags to Riches,” he appeared at Steel Pier and the 500 Club and at the Bolero in Wildwood.
Steve Gietka, director of entertainment for Ocean Casino Resort, said his father often told the story of meeting his favorite singer at the Latin Casino in Baltimore and getting his autograph.
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Gietka’s earliest experience with Bennett was mixing sound for one of his shows in the early 1980s in Washington, D.C. At the end of his performance, Bennett threw down his microphone to show the audience he could project all the way to the back of the theater, Gietka said.
“I thought he was just disappointed with the sound. Later backstage, we had a laugh. He was the consummate singer’s singer,” Gietka said. “The mold is now broken. RIP to Mr. Tony Bennett.”
A little more than one year after the first Atlantic City casino opened — Resorts International on May 26, 1978 — Bennett made his local casino debut inside the Superstar Theater with shows on July 23 to 28, 1979.
In those days, Bennett would come to the resort twice a year, and engagements would last for a whole weekend because a venue like the Superstar Theater only held a little more than 1,100 people.
Besides regular live performances, Bennett was involved with notable events in Atlantic City.
He starred in a special headline show with Bill Cosby in January 1982 to celebrate former New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean’s inauguration and to raise money for the New Jersey Symphony, the New Jersey Ballet Company and the New Jersey Opera Co.
Bennett rang in the new year from 1984 to 1985 with a 27-piece string orchestra at the now-defunct Atlantis Casino Hotel. As 1992 turned into 1993, he rang in the new year at TropWorld, now known as the Tropicana.
Bennett performed at least two songs on Merv Griffin’s nationally televised New Year’s Eve special in 1992 and returned for encore performances in 1993 and 1995.
Bassist Andy Lalasis, 69, of Smithville in Galloway Township, remembers accompanying Bennett on acoustic bass as part of an orchestra once during the 1980s at Resorts. He recalls being in a tuxedo while the men and women in the audiences wore suits and dresses because people used to dress up to visit casinos back then.
“I saw him many times live,” Lalasis said. “Recently, I saw him. He dropped the microphone (on purpose) and sang without the microphone. He was still great.”
Lalasis spent 11 years as a member of Merv Griffin’s Coconut Ballroom Orchestra and would play during Griffin’s televised New Year’s Eve specials, so he also got to experience Bennett’s singing without playing behind him.
About 10 years ago at the old Benjamin Franklin Hotel in Philadelphia, Lalasis was hired to play one song with author and pianist Mitch Albom. Bennett was going on stage as a guest. Lalasis remembers being backstage with Albom, Bennett and sportscaster Bob Costas. They did not talk about music or sports. They discussed art, he said. Bennett also had success as a painter.
Bennett performed in many Atlantic City casinos that no longer exist, such as in 1983 at the Copa Room at the Sands Atlantic City, in 1984 at the Atlantis Casino Hotel and in 1986 and 1987 at the Trump Plaza on the Boardwalk.
Bennett also performed in most of the Atlantic City casinos that are still standing.
The singer entertained at: Harrah’s Casino Hotel during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s; Trump Taj Mahal, where the the Hard Rock now operates, during the 1990s; and Trump Castle, now known as the Golden Nugget, during the 1990s.
Bennett spent the 1990s and 2000s performing in the Circus Maximus Theater at Caesars Atlantic City.
Brigantine-based, Grammy Award-winning producer Joseph Donofrio saw Bennett perform live in concert during the 1990s at Caesars.
“He had so much poise. When he sang, his interpretation of songs was like he was talking to you,” Donofrio said. “At the end of the song, you knew more than at the beginning.”
Donofrio recalled recording in the studio of Bennett’s son, Dae Bennett, and Bennett was recording there as well. They both went out for refreshments. That’s when they met. Donofrio had his picture taken with him.
“He was a nice man. ... It was embarrassing. He looked younger than I did,” said Donofrio, 79.
Donofrio said he saw Bennett in the recording studio around the time the legend was recording his “Duets II” studio album. He remembers Bennett’s bassist and drummer both having the last name of Washington, but one was Black and the other was white.
“He surrounded himself with the very best jazz players,” Donofrio said.
Donofrio is friends with jazz pianist Monty Alexander, who was good friends with Bennett and didn’t live far from him.
“I wish I knew him better,” Donofrio said.
Bennett also appeared during the 2000s at Bally’s Atlantic City.
During the 2010s, Bennett made his last casino appearance at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa. His first appearance was in 2012, followed by performances in 2013, in 2014 with his daughter Antonia Bennett and in 2016. He sang with Lady Gaga on their “Cheek to Cheek” tour on July 24, 2015, in the Event Center at the Borgata.
At age 90, Bennett did something he had never done previously. He performed for one night only in December 2016 at Pfleeger Concert Hall at Rowan University in Glassboro, Gloucester County.
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SAN ANTONIO — The singer of a South Texas Tejano band, Jesse Farias, was found guilty of indecency with a child by contact and sentenced to six years in prison, according to the Bexar County District Attorney.
Jesse Farias, lead singer with La Tropa F Tejano band, was arrested back in 2021. Court records show the crime happened in February of 2021, and Farias was not arrested until October. His bond at the time was set at $440,000, which was made the same day.
The DA says the victim took the stand and her testimony played a crucial role in securing the convection.
“Sex crimes against children are unacceptable in any situation, but they are particularly reprehensible when committed by a close family member who violates the trust bestowed upon them,” said Bexar County Criminal District Attorney Joe Gonzales. “In this case, the complainant testified that she considered the defendant like a second father to her.”
The jury was selected Thursday in his trial in the 379th District Court. The week long trial ended this evening on Saturday sentencing Farias to six years in prison, according to the DA.
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BRADFORD COUNTY, Pa. — One person is dead after a crash in Bradford County.
Troopers say the driver of a car traveling on North Rome Road in Sheshequin Township crossed into the oncoming lane and hit another vehicle head-on.
The driver in that car was killed and the passenger was seriously injured.
The driver who police say crossed over the yellow lines is facing charges of driving under the influence in Bradford County.
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DUPONT, Pa. — A crash in Luzerne County has knocked out power and closed a main street.
Photos from Avoca Fire Department show the crash that took place on Main Street in Dupont around 9 p.m. Saturday night after a vehicle plowed into a utility pole and damaged a nearby building.
First responders are asking people to avoid the area as Main Street is closed between Route 315 and the Heidelberg Bridge.
According to PPL Electric, 11 homes and businesses are without power in the area.
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CITRUS HEIGHTS, Calif. — A Citrus Heights apartment fire left three adults, two kids and at least one dog displaced but uninjured, according to the Sacramento Metro Fire Department.
The fire happened just after 3 p.m. and the children were evacuated from the building on Antelope Road by Citrus Heights Police Department officers. The fire spread to two units and the attic, according to a press release.
No injuries were reported and the cause of the fire is now under investigation.
No additional information is available at this time.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The entire region is grappling with extreme heat over yet another weekend, but it's not spoiling many people's plans.
Many people said they tried to avoid the heat at all costs — getting their outdoor time out in the early morning instead of waiting until the hottest time of the day.
"We got out here like 10:30 or 11 a.m.," said Ariana Williams, who attended the Midtown Farmer’s Market. "Definitely staying outside staying away from outdoors between like, three o'clock, four o'clock like those mid-hours the afternoon.”
The Sacramento Zoo was another popular destination for people to enjoy their Saturday.
Adelaide Fuglaar and her mother Kaelyn had their zoo day all planned out, even with the gates planned to close early because of the heat.
"It is hot. You know, the misters in there definitely help,” said Kaelyn Fuglaar. “We came earlier, so we could not be in the middle of the heat while we were here.”
Other people around Sacramento enjoyed a morning of golf, softball and volleyball.
Jared Hazell and his friend got in a few games during the late morning before the triple digits hit.
“This is where I learned to play," said Hazell. “[Volleyball is] good exercise and good friendship and just time outside."
Hazell is a part of a Sacramento Volleyball Facebook group. Just like their game, they're flexible to the changing conditions.
“We drink lots of water and stay here in the shade and take lots of breaks," said Hazell. “You just got to know your body. Listen to your body. Thankfully everyone here is pretty young."
Speaking of young, little Adelaide knows exactly why she loves the heat because she gets an opportunity to ask for a frozen treat.
“Enjoy the heat because there's ice cream and stuff,” she suggested.
As the state grapples with the warmth, officials have launched a new program to provide tips and tools for folks to have on hand. Learn more about the new Heat Ready California Campaign HERE.
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ODESSA, Texas — According to the City of Odessa Facebook page, Odessa Fire Rescue and Odessa Police responded to an accident at 42nd and Grandview Friday evening.
When they got there, they found a vehicle rolled over.
One person was transported to the hospital with minor injuries.
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ODESSA, Texas — The Woodson Boys and Girls Club hosted a children literacy event on Saturday.
The free community event was held on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Woodson Boys & Girls Club in Odessa.
The Woodson Boys & Girls Club Literacy Event was an event for families and children of all ages.
They provided 700 meals to attendees as well as the opportunity to participate in various activities, including a backpack giveaway, free children's books, free food, free haircuts and much more.
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TEMPE, Ariz. — A Best Buy store in Tempe was damaged after a bus collided with it Saturday afternoon, according to the Tempe Police Department.
Police said the incident happened at the Tempe Marketplace, near Rio Salado Parkway and McClinton Drive, just before 3 p.m.
The driver of the bus had a medical emergency, according to police. The individual has been taken to the hospital for a "non-life-threatening medical evaluation."
Police said the passengers on the bus suffered minor injuries; none were taken to the hospital.
The building has "significant property damage" following the crash, police said.
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TEMPE, Ariz. — A deadly crash has closed the northbound lanes of Loop 101 near University Drive in Tempe, according to the Department of Public Safety.
DPS said the crash happened Saturday evening and involved multiple vehicles including a motorcycle.
According to the Arizona Department of Transportation, the closure is due to a crash at milepost 53.
Drivers should seek an alternate route and expect delays, according to ADOT.
There is no estimated time to reopen the northbound lanes.
ADOT said the southbound lanes are unaffected.
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PITTSBURGH — Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh is gathering school supplies to be given to local families.
The organization is accepting supplies that can be used by students in elementary, middle and high school students.
The supplies will be given out during an event held on Aug. 1.
Anyone who would like to donate is asked to drop their supplies off at 5989 Centre Avenue Suite 1, Pittsburgh, PA 15206.
The organization also has an Amazon wishlist set up. Click here to view the wishlist.
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PITTSBURGH — A huge project has been announced that is intended to revitalize the Bedford Dwellings neighborhood and surrounding areas in the Hill District.
The project will be funded by a $50 million federal grant. Last year, the city approved an additional $31 million if the federal grant came through.
The money will be used to help create more affordable housing in the neighborhoods and make easier connections to services and public transportation.
Senators Bob Casey, John Fetterman and Congresswoman Summer Lee announced the project on Friday.
Lee applauded the project and emphasized that she feels it is a step in the right direction.
“I am thrilled to announce $50 million to revitalize Bedford Dwellings in the Hill District, thanks to a Choice Neighborhood Implementation Grant our district just received from HUD. This is a meaningful step towards righting past wrongs of racist urban development decisions, chronic disinvestment, and harmful policies. This was the product of years of hard work and coordination between community groups, the City of Pittsburgh, development partners, local organizations, philanthropy and Allegheny County to put a winning proposal together. I am thankful to Secretary Fudge and her team at HUD for this award, and look forward to continuing to work with our local leaders and federal partners as we begin the process of rehabbing affordable housing at Bedford Dwellings as well as developing the surrounding area to create a neighborhood that rights the past wrongs of chronic disinvestment in the Hill District, and centers our Black, marginalized, and low-income neighbors,” Lee said.
Senator Casey is hoping the addition of affordable housing will create a safer community.
“Housing is more than just a roof over your head; it’s the place where safety, well-being, and community start. As the foundation of a neighborhood, housing determines whether businesses can thrive, the potential of future economic development, and the sense of community residents that feel,” said Senator Casey. “Community leaders in the Hill District have been working tirelessly for years to reimagine Bedford Dwellings into a neighborhood anchor where residents can live, work, and play in a vibrant and safe environment and with this funding, they can make that vision a reality.”
Senator Fetterman echoed Casey’s beliefs and said affordable hosing is a right that all people should have.
“Housing is a human right, and this massive investment will help create more affordable housing in Pittsburgh and improve the conditions of this complex and neighborhood,” Senator Fetterman said. “As a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, which covers housing issues, I’ll always fight to make sure every Pennsylvanian has access to safe and affordable housing.”
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PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Police were out in full force Saturday night patrolling the busy strip along East Carson Street.
“I definitely have seen a little bit more cops even during the day,” said James Shin who lives on the South Side.
People on the city’s South Side will now see more boots on the ground four nights a week. It comes after a deadly shooting on East Carson Street overnight on Sunday, July 9.
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The ongoing violence has forced Carson City Saloon, a popular bar on the street, to temporarily shut its doors.
“Definitely, I think it can get rowdy,” said 23-year-old Gabrielle Lynn, who lives in South Side Slopes.
Many said they don’t feel safe.
“I don’t go out that much at night because South Side is a little bit dangerous,” Shin said.
The police department is hoping to change that. A special team of seven officers will be working Thursday through Sunday from 6 p.m. to 4 a.m. They’ll be keeping a close eye on any violence that might break out.
Chris Bonfili, who is the owner and chef at Bonfire Food & Drink, one of the hot spots on East Carson, believes other added security measures, including more lighting, have helped curb crime. He’s hopeful the increased patrols will help people feel safer.
“I think that it should make people more safe or feel more safe, and that’s what we want obviously,” Bonfili said. “We’re in a business of hospitality and wanting people to come through the door, so I think whatever we need to do as a city to make people feel more comfortable in this area, I’m all for it.”
Others, however, believe more police isn’t the answer.
“I don’t necessarily think that’s going to solve anything because a lot of times, police are more reactive than proactive,” Lynn said. “What I will say that helps is those huge lights. I think that just makes everyone more aware of each other.”
Tania Vas, 24, said she used to go out to the bars along East Carson when she was in college and didn’t feel safe, but doesn’t believe a bigger police presence to combat crime will help.
“I think people find them quite daunting and quite scary because it hasn’t felt like they’ve historically just been there for the people or built on principles that support treating people with different backgrounds ethically,” Vas said.
The new safety measure kicked off on Thursday, July 20, and will continue for the foreseeable future.
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PITTSBURGH — Picklesburgh is officially underway!
“Picklesburgh, Pittsburgh, it’s all great,” Brandon Wharton said.
PHOTOS: Thousands celebrate Picklesburgh 2023 in Downtown Pittsburgh
The event began on Friday after a night of severe weather but the sun has been shining ever since. Thousands are taking advantage of the nice weather and spent Saturday packed onto the Boulevard of the Allies.
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🥒(the closest thing to a pickle emoji) one of my absolute favorite parts of a Pittsburgh summer.
— Jenna Harner (@JennaHarner11) July 22, 2023
highly recommend the pierogis, Mancini’s PGH roll (pickles, Isaly’s chipped chopped ham, melty cheese), pickle grilled cheese and the jalapeño pickle margarita #Picklesburgh pic.twitter.com/YyihuVc1Sf
Each day features live music, merchandise and contests. A pickle juice drinking contest was held on Saturday.
“I love to try the food and the pickle beer. It’s so much fun. The atmosphere is great, there are so many people here. It’s so fun to celebrate a food that we all love,” Madolyn Boynzon, a self-proclaimed pickle enthusiast, said.
Turner’s Iced Tea announced a new pickled flavor drink, making the beloved festival feel just a little more Pittsburgh.
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The event wraps up on Sunday.
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Family and friends of the man authorities say died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound while being transported to the Kenosha County Jail held a vigil in his honor Saturday evening.
Those at the vigil held outside the Kenosha County Courthouse identified the man as 36-year-old Jacob Albright of Somers.
Thursday incident
At about 3:46 p.m. on Thursday, officers arrested a man for weapons related offenses, according to a Pleasant Prairie Police Department statement. The man was being transported to the Kenosha County Jail for criminal charges by two Pleasant Prairie Police officers.
Authorities have not identified the man as Albright.
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While driving the squad on Sheridan Road near the entrance of the Kenosha County Jail at 54th Street, officers reportedly heard a gunshot from the backseat prisoner portion of the squad.
Preliminary information indicates the man in custody suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound from a concealed weapon not located in the initial search by officers. Life-saving measures were attempted, however the man in custody was pronounced dead at the scene.
It remains unknown as to how the weapon went undetected following the man’s arrest.
As required by Wisconsin law, the incident is being investigated by the Racine County Sheriff's Department, an outside law enforcement agency.
Lt. Michael J. Luell, public information officer for the Racine County Sheriff’s Department, said the members of the department’s Criminal Investigations Bureau are in the process of conducting a thorough investigation.
“Once completed, these investigations are normally reviewed by the District Attorney’s Office to determine if any criminal laws were violated,” Luell said.
Candlelight vigil
Family and friends of Albright demanded answers from local law enforcement agencies and demanded that any body camera footage of the incident be released immediately.
Dozens attended the Saturday evening vigil holding candles and sharing stories of Albright. The vigil was organized by the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression.
Nicole Melander, one of Albright's sisters, said the family is devastated.
"We haven't heard anything that I'm aware of since they came to inform us of his death the night of the incident about 1 o'clock in the morning," Melander said.
"We kind of heard about it on social media and were trying to get confirmation and going nuts. We called Kenosha County, called Pleasant Prairie, called Racine and even his dad couldn't get confirmation. ... They finally went to his dad's house at 1 o'clock in the morning and told him. Nine hours later."
Melander said her brother was "super, super funny" and "would do anything goofy to get a laugh."
Melander said Albright is more than just his lowest moments or mistakes.
"My brother was not an angel," Melander said. "What difference does it make what he had in his system or what was in his background? What he had in his system has nothing to do with how he ended up in the back of your police car with a loaded weapon. But for their failure to do their job effectively my brother would still be alive."
Candy Langdon, one of Albright's cousins, expressed similar sentiments.
"We're frustrated. We're angry. We're confused," Langdon said. "How can this happen? If he was picked up on a weapon's violation and was in a T-shirt and shorts how do they miss that?"
Both Melander and Langdon said Albright was transported to a medical examiner in Milwaukee and no one in the family has seen the body.
"I hope and pray there is an honest investigation but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't scared," Langdon said.
Langdon said although her cousin made some "horrible choices" in his life he was "not just some criminal."
"He's also suffered from mental health and we have not been able to get him help over the years. We've tried multiple times and because of having state insurance we would get roadblocks constantly. Unfortunately, his mental health was a huge part of this," Langdon said.
Angela Durham, another of Albright's sisters, drove into town from out of state after learning of her brother's death.
"My brother loved to make people laugh and he had a huge heart," Durham said. "This has brought our family together."
Omar Flores, of the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression, also spoke at the vigil. Flores encouraged all in attendance to continue "fighting for Jake."
"Gatherings like this. Standing up for one another like this, standing up for your loved ones like this, this is what works," Flores said. "This is what gets transparency. This is what gets answers. ... The police departments need to release the footage around this now."
Mugshots: Kenosha County criminal complaints from July 13-14
Onwar D. Albright
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Onwar D. Albright, 30, of Kenosha, faces chares of contempt of court (disobey order), disorderly conduct, stalking resulting in bodily harm, second degree sexual assault/use of force, criminal damage to property, and second degree recklessly endangering safety.
Billie James Chomicki III
Billie James Chomicki III, 30, of Pleasant Prairie, faces charges of possession with intent to deliver cocaine (between 1-5 grams), and bail jumping.
Rebecca A. Farrar
Rebecca A. Farrar, 43, of New Auburn, faces charges of harboring or aiding a felon, and resisting or obstructing an officer.
Amir Chakafrancis Furlow
Amir Chakafrancis Furlow, 34, of Kenosha, faces charges of probation and parole, vehicle operator flee or elude an officer, possession with intent to deliver narcotic, possession with intent to deliver heroin (less than 3 grams), possession with intent to deliver designer drugs (between 3-10 grams), and resisting or obstructing an officer.
Sam Tomas Jimenez
Sam Tomas Jimenez, 34, of Kenosha, faces charges of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence (4th offense), and bail jumping.
Terence Quintell Majors
Terence Quintell Majors, 37, of Kenosha, faces charges of probation and parole.
Dionia O. Scott Jr.
Dionia O. Scott Jr., 28, of Racine, faces charges of probation and parole, possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of THC (2nd+), and resisting or obstructing an officer.
Jonathan Allen Stinnette Jr.
Jonathan Allen Stinnette Jr., 18, of Winthrop, Illinois, faces charges of probation and parole.
Tymant Robert Travis
Tymant Robert Travis, 22, of Wisconsin, faces charges of battery or threat to judge/prosecutor/officer (aggravated assault).
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After making a passionate defense of the 1-cent sales tax, Casper city councilors unanimously passed an ordinance that would be the first step in extending the tax indefinitely.
Tuesday night, during the ordinance’s first reading, councilors heard both opposition and support for the proposal.
The 1-cent sales tax adds another penny to Wyoming’s 4% sales tax; said penny stays in the county, however.
The ordinance passed its first reading through the city council unanimously.
The proposed ordinance calls for the tax to be extended indefinitely – not made permanent, councilors noted at the beginning of the discussion. The city doesn’t have the ability to say “yea” or “nay” to extending the tax by itself. It’s a county-level tax.
However, state statute provides a path for counties and the communities within them to collectively decide to approve the optional 1-cent sales tax, sometimes also known as 5th cent, indefinitely.
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The City of Casper is just triggering the first of multiple steps for this process. Should Casper’s ordinance pass, a similar resolution would go before the board of county commissioners, and a majority of the other municipalities would have to pass similar proposals, too.
The county clerk would then have to certify to the county treasurer at least 90 days before the 2026 election season that Natrona County has met the requirements to axe the tax from the ballot, the Star-Tribune reported previously.
Only then would it be off the ballots, instead of on a four-year cycle.
But while it was still the first round, it sparked highly emotional discussion from both sides.
There was one who offered testimony in support of the tax. Pat Sweeney, a former state representative and local business owner who lives in Casper, expressed concern that smaller communities, such as Midwest, Evansville and Edgerton, would suffer without the tax to the point that they might not survive.
“Without the 5th cent, they will absolutely dry up and blow away, no ifs, ands or buts in my mind – particularly, Edgerton,” Sweeney said.
Some of the municipalities surrounding the city of Casper use 1-cent sales tax money operationally – that means they use it for things like paying their staff members.
The city uses it for things like road repairs and police cars and firetrucks. Places like Edgerton might not necessarily have the wiggle room to do that, councilors said.
There were three speakers who spoke against an indefinite extension, noting concerns over taxes and the infringement on community members’ right to vote.
Ross Schriftman, who moved here from Pennsylvania and has a business in Casper, said that he paid very high taxes there, and one of the draws of Wyoming was its extremely low taxes.
“I would encourage you,” he said, addressing the councilors, “to consider not passing this, letting the voters continue to ask you questions and justify the spending, rather than going down a path that takes some of the ability of us, the citizens, to participate.”
One of the other two speakers has a business in Evansville; the third did not state where she lived.
Councilors sat pretty firmly in support of extending the tax and voted unanimously in support of it. Nearly all of them spoke in favor of it. Their perspectives mostly centered on what the tax money does for the community and how many people – almost 70%, the Star-Tribune reported in November – voted for the tax last year.
Councilor Amber Pollock responded to remarks that an indefinite extension would start a snowball effect that would increase taxes and fees in other ways. She noted that the state’s taxes are very low compared to the rest of the country’s.
“The reality is, if we make this extended, we haven’t shifted the tax burden at all, right?” Pollock, who represents Ward I, said. “The tax burden is still identical to what the tax burden is right now. But what it allows us to do is plan further ahead.”
It’s the “fiscally responsible” thing to do, she said.
In addition, Mayor Bruce Knell said, the money is allocated based on a survey that has a “menu” of different avenues down which the money can be sent. Community members can share their thoughts on how the money should be used.
Star-Tribune staff writer Mary Steurer contributed to this report.
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FORT WORTH, Texas — After efforts to preserve the Berry Theatre failed, crews demolished the historic building Saturday in Fort Worth.
The theater opened at the corner of Hemphill Street and Berry Street in 1940. It was among the first local facilities to show Spanish-language movies, according to film history aggregator Cinema Treasures.
People who live in the area continued to use the building as a landmark, even after it closed.
"People would meet up there," said Carlos Posada, who lives nearby. "It's sad to see that go."
Posada is among the few who stopped to watch the building's destruction. Drivers slowed as they passed by, rubbernecking as workers used heavy machinery to knock over walls.
"I'm watching Fort Worth history disappear," said Rene Gomez, who believes he took one of the last professional photos of the building.
In 2021, Mercy Clinic of Fort Worth accepted the building as a donation. Architects soon deemed the structure unstable for occupancy, Mercy Clinic executive director Aly Layman said in a statement.
Clinic administrators considered incorporating the rotting building into their expansion plans, but ultimately determined the work required to stabilize the structure would be too expensive.
"Built in the 1930s, the building has not been taken care of and is too costly to renovate," Layman wrote. "Even potential federal grants for historic preservation would not bring this cost down enough to not pull funding from the Mercy Clinic mission."
The nonprofit provides free medical, dental and spiritual care to people who do not have insurance.
After meeting with community leaders and residents, clinic administrators determined the facility could not be saved.
Crews will soon clear the rubble and begin construction on a new facility with 10 patient care rooms and six dental chairs. The annex will compliment Mercy Clinic's existing facilities across the street.
"A new clinic facility will show this community many more decades of mercy," Layman said.
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UTICA, N.Y. On the night of September 12, 2022, Utica Police responded to a house on Neilson Street, after David Litts called 911, reporting he was armed, suicidal and had been harming his wife.
When the officers arrived, they told Litts, who was upset and yelling that he had multiple firearms and a grenade, to come outside with his hands up.
Litts came out with a knife in his hand, and ultimately raised it, advancing toward two officers.
They retreated, repeating their commands to drop the knife. Litts ignored them and continued to advance until he was just a few feet from the officers. They shot and killed him.
Under New York State's justification law, one may use deadly physical force to defend against the imminent use of deadly physical force.
Police will not be charged. But that doesn't mean there were no consequences to what they were forced to do that day.
Utica Police released body-worn camera video of the incident, and in it, one of the officers, clearly shaken, could be heard moaning, 'Oh my God' and apparently crying in a police cruiser immediately after the incident.
The AG's report also recommended that Utica Police officers receive annual training on the proper protocol and use cases of 'less than lethal' measures, including shotguns and rubber bullets.
"We do it recurring and actually, it's already been scheduled for this fall's firearms training," says Police Chief Mark Williams.
Asked if he felt in that moment and in that situation, his officers did what they had to do and did the right thing, Chief Williams replied, "Absolutely. When you've got somebody using deadly physical force against you, you don't use less than lethal. Unfortunately, deadly physical force has to be matched with deadly physical force to potentially preserve your life or someone else's."
The two officers involved in the shooting still work at the Utica Police Department.
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PARK CITY, Kan. (KSNW) — The American Sprint Car Series made a stop at the 81 Speedway for a race. The tour is midway through the season, with 22 races left on the schedule.
Drivers competed for Saturday’s nights prize of four thousand dollars.
Bryan Hulbert has been announcing sprint car races since 2006. He has called races for the American Sprint Car Series for over a decade.
“You never know what’s going to happen, there is no script, there’s nothing to follow, it’s fast, things change at a moment’s notice, and you can see some of the wildest, most spectacular finishes and drama unfold right in front of you,” said Hulbert.
He believes the track in Park City rivals some of the top tier sprint car racing tracks in the country.
“This is by far one of the premier dirt tracks in the country. And there’s two here in the state of Kansas that I would put up against anybody, and this one is at the top of the list,” said Hulbert.
Race day play-by-play broadcasts are streamed on RacinDirt.com.
“You see it even on the local level like this, where you’ll have people tuning in from all over the country and even Europe just to watch the sprint cars and see what’s going on,” said Hulbert.
The American Sprint Car Series Tour will make one more stop at 81 Speedway on September 23rd.
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DALLAS — Hackers likely accessed city of Dallas employees' benefits information as a result of the ransomware attack that occurred in early May, WFAA has learned.
WFAA obtained a copy of an email sent to city employees from Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax, which stated "some benefits-related information maintained by the City's Human Resources department was accessed by the unauthorized third party responsible for this ransomware incident."
Broadnax did not say in the email how many employees were affected. He also said the City is offering free credit monitoring for employees.
A group called Royal launched a malware attack in early May, which set back operations for about a month.
In late June, Dallas City Council approved a near $4 million deal to ramp up cybersecurity systems already in place. The funding specifically provides the city with a "threat and anomaly detection" system for the Information and Technology Services Department over the span of three years.
"We understand the concern this incident may cause, and please know we are working to provide the necessary resources and support for our employees," Broadnax said in the email.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The 24th annual Make Promises Happen Surf Camp for our Friends with Disabilities happened in Port Aransas on Saturday.
About 45 people participated and most came from out of state. Everyone who participated had a mental or physical disability.
The event was hosted by the Texas Coastal Bend Surfrider Foundation.
Foundation co-chair Cliff Schlabach said the surf camp is their most attended event, but not everyone believed it could happen at first.
"I was told 20, 24 years ago that this couldn't happen, and we didn't take that for an answer," Schlabach said.
Surfers rode waves in Port Aransas from 3-5 p.m. on Saturday. It is the first of two days for the surf camp.
Texas Coastal Bend Surfrider Foundation donated $1,000 to Make Promises Happen, which brought 30 people from Oklahoma to Port Aransas to participate. Schlabach said 15 more local surfers were there.
"Every single year, whenever these folks show up, they can do it. There is nothing that they can't do with a little help from the volunteers," he said.
Schlabach started the event with his wife in 1998 and said 50-60 volunteers were there to help. Their job was to help direct the surfers as they rode waves into a row of people waiting for them. If anyone fell off, that made sure there was someone there to pick them up.
Chris Kemp surfed and helped find volunteers for the event on social media.
"I went surfing out there, I love it," Kemp said.
All surfers wore a life jacket and Schlabach said they did not go further than waist deep in the water.
Schlabach said he has always been involved with the event, and it makes him happy seeing how much people enjoy it. He said many people there have done it before and look forward to it every year.
"The participants here, they love it," Schlabach said. "They will do it until you will fall over, you're so tired, and they still want to do it some more. So, yeah they're all surfers."
For the 25th anniversary next year, Schlabach said they plan to have a surf competition, trophies, barbecue and a party on the beach.
The event will continue again on Sunday from 3-5 p.m.
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NEW CANEY, Texas — A group of friends spent a year working on a special gift for a man they’ve known since high school who was diagnosed with ALS several years ago. It was his dream to have his prized ride restored.
A lineup of classic cars parked at the Valley Ranch Town Center on Saturday in New Caney. However, there was one in particular people showed up to see.
In front of a crowd of several dozen people, Richard Watson and Brett McMath revealed a newly restored ‘73 Ford Mustang Mach 1 for Craig Reagan, his wife Nancy Reagan and their kids.
The classic Mustang has belonged to Craig Reagan since he was 17 years old. It’s been sitting in his garage for more than 20 years.
In 2016, Reagan was diagnosed with ALS, a progressive disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
A year ago, a group of Reagan's friends, including Watson and McMath, who all graduated from New Caney High School more than 35 years ago began working on Reagan’s ‘73 Mustang.
“We're car guys. We all drove classic cars, well, then they weren't so classic,” McMarth said.
The idea came to Richard Watson after a high school reunion they had last year.
“I thought, man, I have a shop, I can do this. It'll be nice. It should be done," Watson said.
Watson got a group of friends together and they all decided to do that as a gesture for him and to raise awareness for ALS and raise money to help Reagan’s family. They got together a few times a week for a year at Watson’s shop Rusty Nuts Garage.
“Craig is such a special guy,” McMath said.
“I just want him to be happy. None of us know how long we have on this earth and I just hope he's happy with it,” Watson said.
They left the car as good as new.
“It's like a new car to him just with all the memories,” Nancy Reagan said.
She said her husband Reagan was told he’d only live about 20 months past his diagnosis, but now he’s at month 85 surrounded and loved by many.
“It touches our heart and our family that we've had so much support and, you know, the continued friendships,” Nancy Reagan said.
“Words can’t express the happiness that I feel,” Craig Reagan said.
On Sunday, his friends will drive up Reagan’s ‘73 Mustang to College Station where he now lives.
When asked if he will allow his kids to drive his newly restored ride, Reagan said no and laughed.
He created a website to share his story and raise awareness about ALS and research and treatment.
His friends also created a Gofundme account for Reagan to help pay for his care.
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KATY, Texas — The City of Katy is asking residents to reduce the amount of water they're using citing high water demand from "extreme heat conditions."
The city has four stages to its water conservation contingency plan ranging from mild to severe. Currently, the city is at stage 2, or moderate. That means the City of Katy is aiming to reduce water usage by about 10% compared to its historical average usage.
To limit the amount of water used, the city is asking residents to follow a three-day-per-week watering schedule.
Residents with addresses ending in an even number are asked to limit their landscaping water usage to Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Residents with addresses ending in an odd number are asked to limit their landscaping water usage to Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.
Commercial buildings, Home Owners Associations and green spaces are limited to Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays for landscaping water usage.
For more information on what the city is doing to conserve water, click here.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Meeting the needs of clients with special abilities can be challenging for some businesses, but with the skill set of the barbers and stylists at Courtesy Barber Studio, they live up to the shop's name.
3NEWS met with one of the studio's stylists, Bella Styles. For her, creating experiences that make people feel good is just as important as making them look good.
"Especially in this industry, I want everyone to feel beautiful," she said.
Styles is a cosmetologist at Courtesy Barber Studio. She explained, "It shouldn't be 'are you able to do this,' or 'are you able to sit still', ok then you're able to feel beautiful."
For Styles, catering her craft for people with sensory sensitive needs is a basic necessity.
What isn't basic is the reaction she gets from parents who are often turned away for their child's service.
"Their face is just like 'ah', and their shoulders drop," she said.
It is a sigh of relief for parents of autistic children.
"I wouldn't say it's a challenge. It's just like cutting anyone's hair. Every kid is different," Styles said.
Jazmin Rivera is the co-owner of Courtesy Barber Studio.
"They're always leaving with a smile on their face."
Rivera said all of her stylists and barbers can accommodate sensory friendly services.
"Take the time to treat each other with that respect and that kindness. It's the biggest thing for us, for our team," she said.
"The music, we can turn it down," Styles said. "We cannot use our dryers, so they're not overwhelmed. It's just little things here and there that we've all picked up," Styles said.
At Courtesy Barber Studio, not a person, nor hair is out of place.
Styles added, "Especially in my chair, I want them to feel comfortable, I want them to feel invited. Not just accepted but invited."
Visit Courtesy Barber Studio at 4040 I-69 Access Road.
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NEW CANEY, Texas — A group of friends spent a year working on a special gift for a man they’ve known since high school who was diagnosed with ALS several years ago. It was his dream to have his prized ride restored.
A lineup of classic cars parked at the Valley Ranch Town Center on Saturday in New Caney. However, there was one in particular people showed up to see.
In front of a crowd of several dozen people, Richard Watson and Brett McMath revealed a newly restored ‘73 Ford Mustang Mach 1 for Craig Reagan, his wife Nancy Reagan and their kids.
The classic Mustang has belonged to Craig Reagan since he was 17 years old. It’s been sitting in his garage for more than 20 years.
In 2016, Reagan was diagnosed with ALS, a progressive disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
A year ago, a group of Reagan's friends, including Watson and McMath, who all graduated from New Caney High School more than 35 years ago began working on Reagan’s ‘73 Mustang.
“We're car guys. We all drove classic cars, well, then they weren't so classic,” McMarth said.
The idea came to Richard Watson after a high school reunion they had last year.
“I thought, man, I have a shop, I can do this. It'll be nice. It should be done," Watson said.
Watson got a group of friends together and they all decided to do that as a gesture for him and to raise awareness for ALS and raise money to help Reagan’s family. They got together a few times a week for a year at Watson’s shop Rusty Nuts Garage.
“Craig is such a special guy,” McMath said.
“I just want him to be happy. None of us know how long we have on this earth and I just hope he's happy with it,” Watson said.
They left the car as good as new.
“It's like a new car to him just with all the memories,” Nancy Reagan said.
She said her husband Reagan was told he’d only live about 20 months past his diagnosis, but now he’s at month 85 surrounded and loved by many.
“It touches our heart and our family that we've had so much support and, you know, the continued friendships,” Nancy Reagan said.
“Words can’t express the happiness that I feel,” Craig Reagan said.
On Sunday, his friends will drive up Reagan’s ‘73 Mustang to College Station where he now lives.
When asked if he will allow his kids to drive his newly restored ride, Reagan said no and laughed.
He created a website to share his story and raise awareness about ALS and research and treatment.
His friends also created a Gofundme account for Reagan to help pay for his care.
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Another domino has fallen in Carrollton’s juvenile fentanyl overdose saga.
It’s news that came from the Justice Department this week, announcing the arrest of 18-year-old Julio Gonzales, Jr. and 19-year-old Adrian Martinez-Leon, roommates who investigators said were a top source of supply in a case that’s led to at least 14 overdoses among middle and high school students in Carrollton-Farmer’s Branch ISD.
It’s a move celebrated by advocates, though many say it’s just one step in the war on the synthetic opioid.
“I think it’s great, but the problem’s not solved,” said Tina Crawford.
It’s a mission Crawford joined after her husband, Brent Crawford, died in 2021.
“He was one of a kind. He had the heart of a giant and a smile bigger than Texas. He was the kind of guy who would go feed the homeless, help the little old lady across the street, helped a bride down the aisle. He would do anything for anybody,” she said.
Crawford said her husband and business partner at their Southlake wedding venue was a recovering heroin addict.
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She said the 31-year-old had only recently relapsed when overdosed after unknowingly taking a fatal dose of fentanyl.
“That’s when I realized I had to fight to spread awareness so that others can be educated,” said Crawford.
“This event is, on a broad scale, how can we educate people to what is really going on in the DFW area,” she said.
The free event aims to draw hundreds of parents, spouses, siblings and more to hear from DEA officials, fentanyl addicts and those who’ve lost loved ones.
“The number one thing how we can fight this is by not being afraid to say fentanyl or heroin. And to get rid of the mindset of my spouse wouldn’t do that, my child would never do that,” said Crawford.
It’s a conversation Crawford said will stretch from addiction to recovery and the resources available. Because while arrests and seizures matter, she said she believes education is key.
“I’m never going to get my husband back. He’s never going to come back. And my friends, they’re never going to get their children back. Ok? Those precious parents in Carrollton aren’t going to get their children back, but we fight, we do interviews like this, we do awareness events because we don’t want you to have to sit in a funeral home planning your loved one’s funeral,” she said.
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PORT RICHEY, Fla. — Have you seen Emma Weyde?
Pasco County deputies say they are searching for the missing 15-year-old girl who was last seen Saturday afternoon in the Port Richey area.
At around 1 p.m., Weyde was seen in the Hunt Club Lane area wearing ripped blue jeans and a black hoodie with white trim, the Pasco Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook post.
The teen is described by authorities as 5-foot-2, weighs about 120 pounds and has blonde hair with blue eyes.
Anyone with information on Weyde's whereabouts is asked to contact the Pasco Sheriff's Non-emergency Line at 727-847-8102, option 7. People can also report tips online.
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Local band Aurora is s filling a niche playing everyone’s favorite songs from classic artists like Pat Benetar to Taylor Swift.
The pop-culture cover band members love to play music that people can sing along with and get down on the dance floor.
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Local band Aurora is s filling a niche playing everyone’s favorite songs from classic artists like Pat Benetar to Taylor Swift.
The pop-culture cover band members love to play music that people can sing along with and get down on the dance floor.
Aurora formed in the late fall of 2017 and is made up of local Coos Bay, Oregon musicians that have been playing in the bay area for years.
Max Jones, who plays lead/rhythm guitar, got together with fellow musician Christina Cardoza, the Lead Vocalist, to form the band. Along the way they found bass player Kevin Mason, who has been playing music since he was a child, and drummer Gary Lebrum, whom they describe as the heartbeat of the band.
The talented musicians come together to replicate some of their favorite songs and inspire the crowd to get out on the dance floor.
“My mission when I started this was to form a band that you can dance to literally every song,” said Max Jones.
The musicians pick their favorite songs for their set list, and are constantly updating and revamping their music. The local community was into it right from the start, Jones said.
“The nice thing about doing covers is that people already know the music,” he said.
“When we’ve got thousands of people screaming the lyrics to “Hit me with your best shot,” right back at us – that’s huge,” Jones said. “Playing music and having a good time is what it's supposed to be about.”
Jones said he came to Coos Bay in the early 2000s, and decided to stay when he met his wife Lisa, who now does sound for the band.
Jones said when he formed his latest band, he knew he was on to something special. But when Aurora was gearing up for their busiest year ever, the pandemic hit.
“It was crazy time for everybody,” Jones said. “We just really got this thing humming like a machine and then this threw a wrench in the whole thing.”
Instead of letting the pandemic derail the band, they used it to their advantage.
“We didn't waste the time. We learned a lot of new songs. We changed up a lot of things. We worked on our light show,” Jones said.
Now the band is busy performing both local shows, traveling along the Coast, to Portland, and even out-of-state. They have a loyal following of family, friends and fans.
“We always try to support the community as much as we can. We love it when we can play here. It is really nice to have regulars and have some really cool people that show up. It's an awesome deal,” Jones said.
Aurora plays at the Coney Station during Coos Bay’s First Friday Wine Walks.
They play a free show at the Front Street Food Trucks on Friday, July 21, as well as a free concert hosted by the City of North Bend on Friday, July 28 from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. inside the North Bend event tent at 2040 Union Avenue.
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Sgt. Adam Slater’s beloved K9 dog, Odin, is not only immortalized among the memories of those within the community that he’s touched, but his memory also lives on inside the pages of a new powerful autobiographical book.
Sgt. Slater of the Coos County Sheriff’s Office recently lost his patrol tracking canine, Odin, on March 17 of this year. His wife, Lisa Slater, took to paper to document Odin’s life through his very eyes. “K9 Odin” gives a unique look into the life and mind of an active K9 dog.
Mrs. Slater discovered her love for writing at a younger age, finding it easier to get her words out and to be heard when she pens them on paper. She has been publishing for six years, however, her most recent book was a first for her.
Previously, her stories were all fiction, consisting of a variety of themes like suspense romance, mystery thriller and military. Not wanting her writing to be stuck to one genre alone, she likes to branch out and try new areas of writing. Mrs. Slater was inspired by the community’s love of her husband’s working K9.
“People loved Odin, not just from this area. [People] world wide ended up loving him,” said Mrs. Slater. “He has a seriously awesome story to tell.”
She ultimately decided that the story was best told from Odin’s point of view after having spent some time debating the subject.
“It came to me that he had a perspective that was never shared,” she said.
Odin’s amazing story starts before he even came to be Sgt. Slater’s K9. Odin was approximately 3-years-old when he was sent to a shelter to be euthanized. He had previously been a working PTSD service dog. After some unwanted rough-housing by teenagers, Odin snapped at one of them and was sent away to the Virginia Beach Animal Care and Adoption Center.
“In Virginia, the dog will be put down if it’s bit somebody,” said Sgt. Slater.
As luck would have it, his potential was seen. Through a series of contacts, Odin was saved, eventually making his way to Sgt. Slater. It turned out that Odin was born to be a tracker, having helped directly capture 105 people.
“That’s the most direct criminal apprehensions that I’ve ever heard of,” said Sgt. Slater.
Mrs. Slater’s book takes you through all 105 of Odin’s captures, showing what it was like for him, his thoughts and feelings. This unique perspective gives you a glimpse into the life of a working K9, something not well known. It’s easy to overlook just how hard these dogs work alongside their human partners.
“He didn’t have prototypical captures. I mean, pretty much everybody he caught wanted to fight,” said Sgt. Slater.
Odin had a hard and dangerous job, putting himself in harm’s way when criminals would attack. However, no matter the circumstances, he did not back down and took his job very seriously. Odin protected and looked after his community just as his community looked after him. People from all over stepped up to help pay medical bills when Odin was ill.
“Their support was overwhelming. We needed the community’s backing for us to keep him alive bill-wise and they did,” Mrs. Slater says, remembering back to the time when Odin contracted a life-threatening bacterial infection.
The sheriff’s office did not have the additional funding to cover his treatment. The community stepped up, going above and beyond what was needed. Odin was given yet another chance at life and another chance to return the support by continuing to capture criminals. He gave his all to the job for as long as he physically could.
After working with Sgt. Slater for over six years, Odin’s age finally caught up with him and the hard decision was made to place him into retirement.
“You can see him diminishing even in his story as they go along. … He had a hard career, really hard career,” says Mrs. Slater.
Odin was able to spend a little over a year living out his final days in retirement on the couple’s farm, hiking through the woods with the family and following along while they rode horseback. Once Odin retired, Lisa set about writing his story. The goal was to finish it before his passing. Sadly, that did not work out.
“We didn’t want him to pass before the release. Literally he didn’t make it by three months,” said Sgt. Slater.
“We were going to do little paw prints. We were going to hand out prints to all the kids,” added Mrs. Slater.
Mrs. Slater spent a little under a year meticulously writing “K9 Odin,” going through each case with her husband to make sure everything was accurate and accounted for.
“[Writing] it was super easy because I knew the story. I didn’t have to invent it … but emotionally? Very emotional. I cried a lot while writing his story. … I loved him dearly,” said Lisa.
Through Mrs. Slater’s carefully chosen words, she was finally able to give Odin a voice and a chance to be heard by all.
Lisa Slater’s book, K9 Odin, as well as her other works, may be found on her website: SlaterLife.com. To follow along with the Coos County Sheriff’s Office K9 Unit go to their Facebook page: facebook.com/CCSOPaws.
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Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Coos Bay District officials are limiting where campfires are allowed on BLM-managed lands in southwest Oregon as the weather warms and fire danger increases across the forest.
Starting on July 22, 2023, at 12:01 a.m., campfires are only allowed at Loon Lake, Smith River Falls, and Edson Creek Campgrounds. Visitors can use portable cooking stoves that use liquified or bottled fuels. Otherwise, campfires or any other type of open fire, including the use of charcoal briquettes, is prohibited.
“Conditions are warm and dry, and we are seeing an increase in wildfire activity on the south coast. By following these restrictions, visitors can help us prevent human caused fires on our public lands,” said Steve Lydick, Coos Bay District Manager.
In addition to campfires, the following activities are restricted:
- Smoking is only allowed while in vehicles on improved roads, in boats on the water, or at designated areas.
- Operating a motor vehicle and parking off road (including motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles)is only allowed on improved roads and trail systems free of flammable vegetation. Motorcycle riding on the Blue Ridge Trail System is only allowed on the improved roads.
- Using fireworks, exploding targets or tracer ammunition is prohibited.
- Chainsaw use is allowed between 8 p.m. and 10 a.m. Each saw being used must have one shovel and one fire extinguisher of at least 8-ounce capacity.
Visitors to BLM-managed lands are also required to carry with them tools to ensure small fires can be put out quickly. These tools include a shovel, axe, and at least one gallon of water or a 2.5-pound fire extinguisher.
Violation of these restrictions can result in a fine up to $100,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year.
The BLM manages approximately 245 million acres of public land located primarily in 12 Western states, including Alaska. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. The agency’s mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of America’s public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.
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While Oregon hospitals saw modest improvement in their operating margins and revenue in the first quarter of 2023, they continue to be financially stressed by rising expenses and a decline in hospital visits.
A new report by Apprise Health Insights (attached) shows that more than two-thirds of Oregon’s hospitals lost money in the first quarter of 2023. Faced with strong financial headwinds, some hospitals were forced to tap into their reserves to continue providing services to their communities.
Though hospitals’ median operating margin increased by one-half of a percentage point to -2.2%, the first quarter of 2023 marks the fifth consecutive quarter of negative overall operating margins. Oregon hospitals have lost a total of $414 million from operations since the first quarter of 2022.
Operating expenses went up by $255 million in the first quarter, a 6% increase, reflecting rising wages and prices for supplies and services. At the same time, patient volumes were down across the state, suggesting that bed capacity and workforce shortages continue to limit patients’ access to care.
“Patients are feeling the impact of workforce shortages as we see reduced access to care throughout Oregon,” said Becky Hultberg, president and CEO of the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems. “That’s why it’s so important to begin the hard work of rebuilding our health care workforce.”
First quarter 2023 total hospital visits dropped by 2.3% when compared to the previous quarter and are down 7.2% when compared to the first quarter of 2022. Emergency Department visits saw a substantial drop from the fourth quarter of 2022 to the first quarter of 2023 at -7.2%.
The Apprise report also shows the average length of stay (ALOS) was flat but remains high at 5.64 days. ALOS has risen 20-25% compared to levels of 4.5-4.7 days seen in the years prior to the pandemic. High ALOS is another byproduct of the staffing shortage, as patients are unable to be discharged to a post-acute care facility to continue their recoveries. Due to fixed reimbursements for many patients, the broken care continuum is also a strain on revenue and hospital margins.
“As I have often said, a local hospital with an open front door and a closed back door does not work even with the best efforts of our teams,” Hultberg said. “We are grateful to the lawmakers who supported our package of workforce investments this legislative session, but there are no easy and quick fixes to this generational challenge.”
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February 7, 1949 – July 12, 2023
Christena Malinda "Linda" (Leach) Irish, born on February 7, 1949, passed away on July 12, 2023, after a brief battle with cancer, surrounded by her family.
Linda was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She had two children, Damon Olsen and Jarrod Olsen, with her first husband, Dwain Olsen. She later married Alva Irish.
Linda cherished her family, especially her grandchildren. She had a passion for the outdoors, painting and drawing, bingo, and playing card games. She was known as Chris at Prestige Property Management for which she was the Property Manager for 18 years. She loved to work with owners, tenants and various vendors throughout the years.
Linda was preceded in death by her parents, Wes and Pauline Leach; her brother, Ron Leach; and her husband, Alva Irish. She is survived by her brother, David (Susan) Leach; her sons, Damon (Kristen) Olsen and Jarrod Olsen; grandchildren, Brandon, Casey, Marissa, and Anthony; great grandchildren; and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins.
A Celebration of Life will be held on July 29, 2023 at 11:00 am at the Bay Area Church of the Nazarene in North Bend, followed by a reception.
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Oregon has expanded free health insurance that mirrors Medicaid to all residents who qualify, regardless of their immigration status.
The move took effect July 1. It marks an expansion of a Medicaid-type program for immigrants last year for residents who don’t qualify for the Oregon Health Plan because of their immigration status. The program, Healthier Oregon, covered those 19-24 and 55 and older who met low-income and other qualifications and was funded by a $100 million allocation by the Legislature in 2021.
The expansion this month to all immigrants who qualify follows a two-year allocation of $460 million for the program in the recently ended legislative session. The Oregon Health Authority said that 40,000 immigrants who had received state-funded emergency health coverage were switched to the program on July 1.
An authority spokeswoman, Amy Bacher, said the agency estimates that 55,000 people will be covered through the program.
“When it comes to health, we’re all connected,” Dave Baden, interim director of Oregon Health Authority, said in a statement. “Expanded health coverage through the full implementation of Healthier Oregon will keep more people and families healthy, which will reduce health costs and risks for every community.”
Baden said the expansion sets a new standard for other states. It comes amid a debate this spring in some states, including Connecticut, Minnesota and Nevada, about expanding Medicaid to undocumented immigrants, Politico reported. Similar efforts in New York and Maryland failed, however, with Democrats balking about the price tag.
Medicaid is funded largely through the federal government, which pays about two-thirds, with the rest provided by the state. Healthier Oregon receives some federal funding for emergency and pregnancy-related services but the state pays for most of the benefits.
“We don’t get any help from the federal government because the folks who are on it don’t have papers,” Rep. Rob Nosse, D-Portland, told the Capital Chronicle.
Nosse was among the Democrats in the Legislature who backed the expansion of Healthier Oregon. It’s part of the state’s goal to ensure all Oregonians have health care coverage.
During the pandemic, nearly 1.5 million Oregonians, or one in three residents, were on Medicaid, which offers free dental, mental and physical health care. That expansion ended in April. The state is now going through a redetermination process and informing those who no longer qualify that they will lose coverage in 60 days.
State officials have informed about 25,000 people they will lose coverage, according to a statement released by the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of Human Services on June 20. It estimated in that release that seven in 10 people will retain their benefits under the Oregon Health Plan, the state’s version of Medicaid.
To qualify for the program, most residents can earn up to 138% of the federal poverty level, or about $20,000 a year for an individual or about $41,500 for a family of four. Oregon also has opened up benefits to those earning up to 200% of the federal poverty level to reduce the so-called churn population who fall off and on Medicaid, depending on their income. That means that individuals earning up to about $29,000 a year or a family of four earning up to $60,000 a year will receive the free coverage. The state estimated that would add about 25,000 more people to the Medicaid program.
Oregon Capital Chronicle is part of States Newsroom, a network of news bureaus supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Oregon Capital Chronicle maintains editorial independence.
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Demand for electricity in the Northwest is expected to grow at its fastest pace in decades due to increasing industrial use, followed by the electrification of transportation, homes and businesses.
Demand for electricity in the region is projected to rise about 2.5% annually, and by nearly 25% within the next decade, according to an annual report on expected electricity demand. The report, Northwest Regional Forecast of Power Loads and Resources, is released each year by an industry trade group called the Pacific Northwest Utilities Conference Committee. For more than 70 years, the group has aggregated and analyzed annual demand projections from utilities in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana to paint a larger picture of future demand for electricity throughout the region.
The largest driver of demand during the next five to 10 years will be industry, the report finds, including data centers and semiconductor manufacturing.
The latest projections the trade group collected from the region’s utilities surprised Crystal Ball, the group’s executive director. Last year’s forecast showed demand for electricity in the region would grow a little less than 1% per year during the next decade.
Now, just a year later, it appears the region’s utilities are preparing for growth that is more than twice that.
“This rate of projected growth we haven’t seen in decades. It’s quite remarkable,” Ball said.
She said the utilities will need to identify and invest in more energy sources to meet demand. Currently, Oregon gets most of its electricity from hydropower, followed closely by natural gas and then other renewables such as solar and wind.
“There are resources in our region that have been retired, that will be retired, fossil fuels will need to be replaced with cleaner resources, with more wind and solar. We’re going to have this steep step up in demand, and it’s not enough to just replace what’s retired, we need new resources to meet projected demand,” she said.
While many utilities are planning to expand the amount of energy they source from sun and wind to meet electricity demand, energy storage and transmission remain central challenges, according to the report.
Aaron Orlowski, a spokesperson for the Eugene Water and Electric Board, which participates in the annual forecast, said the utility is looking at both diversifying its energy sources and trying to reduce demand during peak periods. The board – which is the largest consumer-owned utility in Oregon – predicts about 2% growth in electricity demand annually starting in 2030, largely due to an increase in electric cars.
About 75% of the utility’s customers currently heat their homes with electricity from renewable energy, primarily hydropower, Orlowski said.
“If half of the people currently using natural gas in our area switch to electric, then that demand rises a lot quicker and we need more sources,” he said.
Diversification of energy sources for the utility includes investing in more solar and wind as well as power generated from the burning of biomass, such as wood and animal products, and small modular nuclear reactors. The latter is likely a bit further off. Only one design, by the nuclear power company NuScale based in Tigard, has been approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Beyond diversification, Orlowski said part of the utility’s future planning involves trying to change consumer habits and reward reduced consumption.
The utility’s customers could reduce demand and stress on the grid caused by electric vehicle charging by 40% if they charged their vehicles overnight after 10 p.m. when electricity used for other activities – such as air conditioning and lights – is much lower. He said the utility is also looking at the impact of improving energy efficiency in buildings as a way to curb demand that exceeds energy available.
“Making homes and businesses more efficient is the best first choice. If we don’t need to use the energy, that’s all the better,” he said.
Oregon Capital Chronicle is part of States Newsroom, a network of news bureaus supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Oregon Capital Chronicle maintains editorial independence. Contact Editor Lynne Terry for questions: info@oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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As I mentioned last week, every year, about this time, I conduct a one on one conversation with each of the 21 members of the Chamber Board. The purpose is to get their sense of where the organization is at and where it’s headed. I shared some of those insights with you on three of the five subject areas already. Here are the last two.
Improvements & Opportunities
• We need consistency in our activities
• Chamber has changed this year with new fresh ideas. So many initiatives and goals to educate and interact with members and the community, makes me very excited.
• Sharing of goals and projects, that take time, are important for success
• There is new vision with a push to digital with video proposed and more interactive connections. That’s important as people doing business here don’t always live here.
• We have done a lot of changes lately
• Need to understand how to get more folks more engaged.
• We offer lots of good ideas floating around for positive change
• Like the new ideas like the business education proposal, uniting the SBDC, BBSi , Cardinal and more to focus on value to our business members, their needs and operational help.
• We need to do something during the summer when the WBC is not running
• Maybe we could have a simple Happy Hour gathering, say monthly or quarterly, just for the sake of building relationships.
• The Chamber needs to do more outreach. Maybe we could delegate or automate that role.
• We should visit the entire membership at least two times per year.
• The chamber has a solid public image
• Happy with my Chamber involvement, as it gets my brain working.
• We have been busy with the challenges coming out of COVID.
• As we emerge from that COVID time we are looking for a working balance and realize we can’t do everything.
• Even though the COVID times were stressful ones, we worked together to make it through successfully.
• You will never understand the worth of the chamber unless you are involved.
• I like that we didn’t fold during the COVID pandemic. We kept it going and now we are rebuilding.
• Enjoyed getting involved in the community, through the Chamber
• This is my home, and the Chamber is working hard to fix the issues and problems impacting it.
• We all need to stay more connected.
• The Chamber experience has been really good for me personally and professionally.
• During COVID we all came together, with ideas and energy, to ensure we survived, (Community, Business & Chamber).
• Appreciate all the chamber does for the community and business
• During COVID, the Chamber had everyone’s back by providing information and help.
• Everything done benefits businesses in the area.
So Chamber member, lots of great things going on that you can be part of today. Give us a call and we’ll line you up.
Remember our business is helping your business. And like us on Facebook.
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MINIDOKA COUNTY, Idaho — A 41-year-old Kimberly man was killed in a head-on collision on State Highway 25 in Minidoka County Saturday afternoon, according to Idaho State Police. A 68-year-old Heyburn man also was hospitalized as a result of the crash.
Police said the man from Kimberly was traveling westbound in a cargo truck when he crossed over the center line of the highway. The truck collided with an eastbound hay hauler, driven by the Heyburn man.
The 41-year-old died at the scene of the crash, which occurred at milepost 43 on Highway 25. The Heyburn man was taken to an area hospital by air ambulance, ISP's news release said.
The collision occurred around 2:15 p.m. Saturday, west of Paul. Highway 25 was blocked for roughly five hours following the crash.
Idaho State Police said the crash remains under investigation.
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SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. — The family of longtime Coeur d’Alene School District physical education teacher, Clark Campbell, sat with our reporter Kyle Simchuk to share the memories and the impact Clark left behind in the community after he died Monday while mountain biking.
Clark started teaching physical education in the Coeur d'Alene school district in 1990 —you can measure his career in years— but you can't begin to measure the impact he had on the hundreds of students who knew him as Mr. Campbell.
"It's just who he is. He genuinely wanted to do something that made him happy every day" Clark's wife Sherry Campbell, said. "Very physically active, which is why this is such a shock because the guy was in great shape."
Clark went mountain biking on Monday afternoon at his favorite spot up Iller Creek, a short distance from his home in Spokane Valley.
His family knew something was wrong when he didn't return, or pick up his phone.
"We thought he crashed, or I did when I headed up there but it turned out he just had a massive heart attack," Sherry said.
Clark's friends and family hiked and dirt biked up the trail and found his body at his favorite lookout spot — a place he would often pray, and call his wife, letting her know he would be home soon.
"My dad didn't show any trauma that he had a crash, he went where he was meant to go. How can you be upset when you have a view like that and you're doing something you love?" Clark's daughter Kaleigh said.
The CDA Schools shared on a Facebook post that Clark was 'An avid outdoorsman and cyclist, and he had a passion for staying active and passed that energy and knowledge along to the kids he taught.
"He brought a level of enthusiasm and commitment to seeing his students challenge themselves, grow, and succeed, which earned him the respect and affection of students, staff, and administrators alike. Clark was recognized by the Coeur d’Alene School District Board of Trustees as Teacher of the Month in February 2019," CDA Schools wrote in the post. He will be missed by so many inside our district and out.
A funeral is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Monday, July 31 at Redeemer Lutheran Church, in Spokane Valley.
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NAMPA, Idaho — Nampa Police are warning to be on the watch for a recent scam call scheme making rounds.
A scammer claiming to be a Nampa Police officer has been calling people, and saying they have missed court.
Nampa PD isn't the only department that's warned of a similar scam. Earlier this year, Caldwell Police warned the public to be aware of a similar scheme targeting residents through misleading phone calls.
"The scam calls are not really uncommon. We've seen them for years and years," Nampa Police Sgt. Clint Wilber said.
Police have seen scam calls ranging from lottery and romance scams, to fake bail bondsmen and police officers.
"Playing off of that anxiety that somebody may have if they think that they missed a court date, or maybe they got a ticket, or maybe they had a fine that they weren't aware of," Wilber said.
In many scams, the fake officer on the phone will tell the caller to pay a fine over the phone through a credit card or by going to the store and getting a gift card or Green Dot card. Scam callers often target the elderly.
"Whenever the police do call you, they will not ask you to pay a fine over the phone, they will not ask you to go to a store and buy a payment card," Wilber said. "They won't ask you to do any of those things"
Those scammers are after one thing: money.
"These scammers are playing off of our trust," Wilber said. "You have trust in an authority figure, or trust in a loved one, or trust in a romance scam, something like that - and they're playing off of your vulnerability. It's never a bad idea to be skeptical, and at least call and verify before you follow through with the next steps."
While police may call you for a number of reasons - including for investigations, sharing information, or reaching out on behalf of another agency - calls will never be about transferring cash.
"Really what it comes down to is that if it's not something that you would expect a professional entity to do - we're never going to cold call you and ask you to pay anything, pay any fines - that's not how the system works," Wilber said. "That's not how the system works with really any facet of the government, you don't pay things over the phone like that."
If you ever question whether or not you're talking to an actual officer, find out what agency they say they belong to, and then search for and call the dispatch of that agency.
"Find out if that person is actually trying to reach out to you," Wilber said. "We don't take offense to that, it happens fairly often."
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DUNMORE, Pa. — You might remember Joe Snedeker saying goodbye to his old washing machine a few weeks ago.
Dunmore Appliance has been asking folks to fill it up with donations for St. Joseph's Center since then.
Saturday night was the last chance for folks to donate.
Police escorted the old washing machine from Dunmore Appliance to Dunmore Corners, where the Bucktown Music Fest is taking place.
The washer was wheeled around all night long, and all the proceeds will support children and adults with disabilities at St. Joseph's Center.
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PHOENIX — A woman in Tempe is devastated after she says there was a problem with the service dog she won.
A few months ago, Sydney Abel was preparing to graduate from ASU with four degrees, becoming one of the youngest people to be accepted into its PhD program.
She also was looking forward to a service dog she had won about a year ago. However, that excitement quickly faded.
Cell phone video shows one of Sydney Abel's happiest moments.
"I was sobbing because I knew my life, my independence was going to get better," she said.
Abel had just won a service dog from Golden Healer Service Dogs. The contest was part of the Love Loud Festival, a nationwide charity event.
"So it was amazing to know that finally there was going to be a step in the right direction with my health," she said.
Several years ago, Abel was diagnosed with a cardiac and autonomic nerve disorder that causes her to pass out multiple times a day. So winning a service dog, which an cost anywhere from $25,000-$50,000, was going to be life-changing.
"They can do fainting response so when I pass out they make sure I don't hit my head," she said. "They can alert a family member or someone in public if I passed out and not waking up, They can retrieve water bottles and medication."
However, soon, she says there were red flags.
"After the festival an ex-employee of Golden Healer reached out to me," she said. "And she let me know that Mike Carlson, the guy who is the founder of Golden Healer Service Dogs, that both of his trainers had just quit because of unethical practices at the business."
Abel says she then spoke with Carlson who assured her the dog would be properly trained.
"It was such a big thing in my life I couldn't just throw it away," she said.
However, when she went to pick up the dog a few weeks ago, Abel says nothing about it seemed right.
"He was completely unfocused, could not walk on a leash," she said. "This dog doesn't respond to verbal commands and he can't sit, he can't stay and can't lay down. I know a service dog trainer who's trained service dogs for seven years and I called her up, I was literally crying because this was my chance, my opportunity to get a service dog. I asked was there any shot that I could train this dog, and she did a virtual assessment and she said absolutely not."
Golden Healer Service Dogs sent a statement to 12News about the situation:
"In response to the recent news of Sydney Abel’s experience with our service dog program, Golden Healer Service Dogs wishes to address the situation and clarify our side of the story. Sydney Abel, the contest winner, sought a service dog to assist with her medical conditions, including POTS, which caused her to experience frequent fainting spells. As part of our program, she was offered the opportunity to receive one of our service dogs, specially trained to aid individuals with various disabilities. After winning the contest in May of last year, Ms. Abel expressed her excitement and appreciation for the lifechanging opportunity. We understood the importance of providing her with a well-trained service dog, and that remained our primary goal throughout the process. However, it is essential to provide a comprehensive perspective on the events that unfolded. Shortly after announcing Sydney as the winner, a former, terminated, employee contacted Sydney with false allegations, which raised concerns about the ethics within our organization. Although the allegations made were false, Golden Healer Service Dogs takes all feedback seriously and constantly strives to maintain the highest standards of professionalism. Once our founder and CEO, Mike Carlson, was made aware of the allegations, he immediately addressed the situation. Steps were taken to ensure that the well-being of both our dogs and clients remained a top priority. In March of 2023, we informed Ms. Abel that her service dog, Hero, would soon be ready for placement and scheduled their week-long training and graduation for July 2023. Ms. Abel came to Salt Lake City on July 10 to start her week-long training with Hero. It is crucial to note that Hero had undergone rigorous training to become a service dog, and every effort was made to ensure his readiness for his new role. Throughout the process, we maintained open communication with Ms. Abel, and in addition provided her with the opportunity to receive a week-long training session to acquaint herself with Hero and learn how to work with him effectively. The first day of training seemed to be going very well and Ms. Abel seemed happy, smiling and kept expressing how well-behaved Hero was. However, an hour after she left training and took Hero back to her hotel, her husband called Mr. Carlson and asked him to pick up the dog. When Mr. Carlson arrived, Ms. Abel’s husband met him outside the hotel with Hero and seemed very upset. He said they didn’t think Hero was the right fit and Ms. Abel did not want to continue with the rest of training week. She chose to end the training after only spending a short four hours on the first day, expressing doubts about Hero's suitability as a service dog. We understand that a successful service dog partnership relies on compatibility and trust between the handler and the dog. Recognizing Ms. Abel's concerns, we met with her the next morning and encouraged her to spend the week with Hero before making her final decision. We also offered her the opportunity if she was willing, to wait for another service dog. We explained we have younger dogs in our program that could be considered for her and specifically trained to suit her needs. Ms. Abel declined these options and decided to part ways with Hero and our organization. Although we may not agree, we respect her decision, and we hold no ill will toward her for choosing what she believed was best for her well-being. Regarding the training process for service dogs, it is essential to understand that training a service dog is a time-consuming and intricate process. Our dogs undergo an extensive two-year training program from the time they are newborn puppies, to ensure they are proficient in assisting individuals with disabilities effectively. We deeply empathize with Ms. Abel's desire for independence and the challenges she faces due to her medical condition. Our mission has always been to provide well-trained service dogs to those in need, and we continue to work diligently to uphold our commitment to our clients. At Golden Healer Service Dogs, we value transparency and accountability. We appreciate Ms. Abel's courage in sharing her experience, as it highlights the significance of researching reputable service dog programs to ensure a successful and fulfilling partnership. Our team remains dedicated to providing exceptional service dogs and will continue to evolve and improve our processes to meet the needs of our clients. For individuals seeking service dogs, we encourage thorough research and open communication with service dog organizations to foster successful matches and positive outcomes."
"Finally something good was happening with my disability and it was just torn away in that moment," she said.
Abel says walking away wasn't easy, but feels it was the right thing. She's now doing what she can to try and look ahead.
"It's just really sad because this was such a good thing, and it was such a thing that would change my life. Service dogs aren't easy to get so it's hard to look forward and see how I'm going to get that level of independence," she said.
Abel has since set up a GoFundMe to try and raise funds herself to get a service dog from a well-known service company in Florida. If you'd like to help, you can go here.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — With former players back in town for The Basketball Tournament, Wichita State’s NIL collective, Armchair Strategies, took advantage.
The collective hosted an event to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of Wichita State’s historic Final Four run.
Fred VanVleet, Ron Baker, Cleanthony Early, Tekele Cotton, and others were in attendance. The former Shockers engaged in panel discussions to reflect and relive some moments from the unforgettable 2012-2013 season. Players also signed autographs and caught up with long-time fans.
During the panel portion, players shared funny stories and reflected on what made the Final Four team so special.
For VanVleet, it was the people around him that made it all worth it.
“When we played, that attitude comes from the work we put in and the people that we are,” explained VanVleet. “It’s a special group of people, it’s been ten years already so it’s going to stand the test of time. That Final Four banner will hang up there for a long time.”
“It’s a trip down memory lane,” said Early. “It’s not even that far but it’s still like ten years. I’ve been a professional for ten years and that seems a little crazy to me.”
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland Police Bureau (PPB) call the number of deadly crashes this week, and even this month — shocking. Washington County Sheriff's Office (WCSO) deputies said they're on pace to have more fatal crashes this year than they've had in over a decade.
And they believe many of these wrecks, some caused by street racing, others by drivers allegedly under the influence, were entirely preventable.
Although agencies like PPB are focusing their efforts on enforcement through the reinstated traffic division, officers are still seeing far too many driving recklessly on the roads.
In Portland, police reported 42 traffic related deaths this year, and 11 of those from just this month.
"It feels like the streets of Portland have been really dangerous," said PPB Sgt. Kevin Allen. "I think that there is no question that the amount of incredible, horrific crashes we've seen over the course of this month has been shocking. It's been shocking to those of use that do the work, but especially for the folks from the traffic division."
Thursday night along Powell Boulevard, three people died after a car crash. Hours later, on Southwest Barbur Boulevard, one person died and two people were badly injured in a wreck.
"That was very clearly related to impairment and that driver not only went to jail for DUII, but also for manslaughter in the first degree, very, very serious charge," said Allen about the Southwest Barbur Boulevard crash.
Allen said PPB has been busy with the traffic patrol division, a team of 12 officers working from 5 p.m. to 3 a.m., seven days a week, to address dangerous driving. It was reinstated in May, after a more than a two year hiatus.
"We know that is sorely needed, and if we needed any more reminders, it's the the devastation that we've seen this month in Portland."
He acknowledged that they have a small team, but long term, the Bureau wants to build it up to about two or three dozen officers.
"I mean, we know that we can only do so much," Allen said. "But when you're faced with just the the grim reality of of these terrible crashes... you always wonder, what if?"
Over in Washington County, deputies report 15 fatal crashes this year.
"Throughout the whole year in Washington County, we've seen a huge uptick in fatal crashes countywide," said Sgt. Josh Wilson with the Traffic Safety Unit. "I think that by the end of this year if we stay on the pace that we're at, we are looking at probably close to 40 fatal crashes."
Three of the deadly crashes happened this month, including one Friday morning, on Northwest Susbauer Road.
"There's not really a shoulder out there," said Wilson. "The bicycle and truck were sharing the roadway, and it appears that the driver did not move over far enough."
Deputies said 76-year-old Constantino Guzman-Rojas was riding his bike to work around 5:30 in the morning when he was hit by a semi truck. He died at the scene, only 30 feet from the New Leaf Greenhouse driveway. According to his colleagues, Guzman-Rojas biked to work there nearly everyday for 25 years.
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EASTLAND COUNTY, Texas — UPDATE (4:30 p.m. July 22): The Comanche County Sheriff's Office said Deputy David Bosecker's body is being transported to Davis Morris Funeral Home in Brownwood Saturday afternoon.
ORIGINAL STORY (9:21 a.m. July 22): An Eastland County Sheriff's Office deputy was shot and killed while responding to a domestic disturbance Friday night.
According to Eastland County News, at approximately 9 p.m. Friday, deputies responded to a domestic fight in progress at a home on Hwy. 183, between Cisco and Rising Star.
Deputy David Bosecker was the first on scene and was immediately shot at by the suspect. Bosecker was hit and fatally wounded.
Other deputies were able to arrest the suspect before anyone else was injured. The suspect, Cody Douglas Pritchard, was taken to Stephens County Jail and charged with capital murder of a peace officer.
The Texas Rangers are leading the investigation.
Bosecker served in law enforcement for more than 21 years and was a master peace officer. He began his law enforcement career in Wise County as a deputy then transitioning to the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. He was also a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game warden and a Comanche Police Department office.
He was an Eastland County deputy, as of 2021, and also worked part-time for the Cisco Police Department as a marine enforcement officer.
Multiple law enforcement agencies and organizations shared condolences on social media Saturday.
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MIDLAND, Texas — Today was the second day of the Arts Council of Midland's "Celebration of the Arts" at the Bush Convention Center in Midland.
The celebration hosts local artists, entertainers, performers, non-profit organizations and family-friendly art activities.
Executive Director of the Arts Council Danny Holeva says that it's important to have art related events like this in the community because of the benefits of art and how much we're surrounded by it.
“We are all exposed to many things every hour that are visual," Holeva said. "Whether it's with our phones, computers, or such; there was an artist that was apart of that process. Art's really important to people because it feeds your soul, it broadens your mind.”
Even if someone says they’re not that interested in art, Holeva says that in his experience, art still finds a way to draw them in.
“I think art is important to the visitors that are here," Holeva added. "But there may be some people that are with friends or family and they would say, ‘Oh I’m not that interested in art’. But it kind of pulls you in when you see the work, the person who made it."
If you missed the event yesterday or today, the celebration will still be going on Sunday from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Bush Convention Center.
To learn more about the event, click here.
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SAN ANTONIO — The singer of a South Texas Tejano band, Jesse Farias, was found guilty of indecency with a child by contact and sentenced to six years in prison, according to the Bexar County District Attorney.
Jesse Farias, lead singer with La Tropa F Tejano band, was arrested back in 2021. Court records show the crime happened in February of 2021, and Farias was not arrested until October. His bond at the time was set at $440,000, which was made the same day.
The DA says the victim took the stand and her testimony played a crucial role in securing the convection.
“Sex crimes against children are unacceptable in any situation, but they are particularly reprehensible when committed by a close family member who violates the trust bestowed upon them,” said Bexar County Criminal District Attorney Joe Gonzales. “In this case, the complainant testified that she considered the defendant like a second father to her.”
The jury was selected Thursday in his trial in the 379th District Court. The week long trial ended this evening on Saturday sentencing Farias to six years in prison, according to the DA.
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Sarasota Babe Ruth 14s lose final game of Southeast Regional, finish tourney with 1-3 mark
SARASOTA - A Southeast Regional that began with so much promise for the Sarasota Babe Ruth 14 All-Stars ended in disappointing fashion on Saturday in an eight-inning 7-6 loss to Greenville at Denver Trapp Field in Lawrenceburg, Tenn.
Sarasota finished the four-game tourney with a 1-3 record. His team having been eliminated in a 3-0 loss to Tallahassee on Friday, Gennett mixed and matched his lineup against Greenville, which was similarly bounced on Friday in a 4-3 loss to host Lawrenceburg.
Sarasota fell behind Greenville 6-0 before rallying to tie the game 6-all in the top of the seventh on a triple by catcher Nelson Dominguez, followed by a sacrifice fly by center fielder JD James. But Greenville won it in the bottom of the eighth on an unearned run off Sarasota pitcher Olivia Lockhart, who hurled the final 2 ⅔ innings. Six Sarasota errors allowed six unearned Greenville runs to score.
Sarasota managed just four hits in the game, but took advantage of nine Greenville walks by four pitchers, two wild pitches, and a hit batter to score its six runs.
Afterward, Gennett was asked if he was disappointed with finishing the regional with a 1-3 mark.
“No, I wouldn’t say disappointed,” he said, “I would say I wanted (his team) to play to their best abilities. Some guys did, and some guys didn’t. I basically told them after the game, ‘Hey, whatever you do in life, care about it. Take pride in it, unless you want to work in McDonald’s for the rest of your life. You’re going to have to learn how to grow up and focus and do the things necessary to have success.”’
The Sarasota Babe Ruth All-Stars 13s and 15s begin play next week. Sarasota 13 is in the three-team National League with Melrose Florida and Waxhaw North Carolina in the host city of Clemmons, N.C. Sarasota will play Melrose at 10 a.m. on Thursday, followed by a 4 p.m. game against Waxhaw. Whichever NL team is in first after its two games will play again on Saturday at 10 a.m. in one semifinal game in a single-elimination playoff, with the title game set for Saturday at 4 p.m.
The 15s begin play on Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. against Greensville Virginia in the host city of Greenville, N.C. Head coach Mike Marquez’s team then has games on Thursday at 10 a.m. versus Roanoke Rapids North Carolina, Friday at 10 a.m. against host Greenville, and Saturday at 10 a.m. against Arlington Virginia. Only the team in first place at the end of the four-day tournament advances to the Babe Ruth World Series.
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Stark County roundup: News from around the Canton region
ZooMobile at library Monday
ALLIANCE − The Akron ZooMobile will visit the Rodman Public Library at 6 p.m. Monday. Children will get to meet three animal ambassadors during the 45-minute presentation. The program is free to attend, but registration is required at rodmanlibrary.evanced.info/signup.
Free concerts in Canal Fulton
CANAL FULTON − Meat Loaf tribute band Paradise will perform from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday at the St. Helena Amphitheater, 125 Tuscarawas St. NW. Parking at the St. Helena Heritage Park lot is $10. Each paid car will receive a raffle ticket for prizes drawn throughout the concert. Additional raffle tickets will be sold at the event for $2, 10 for $10 or 20 for $18. The City of Canal Fulton will also be conducting a 50/50 raffle.
Three bands will perform at a Country Music Festival at the St. Helena Amphitheater from 3 to 10 p.m. Saturday. The Mark Leach Trio will open from 3 to 5 p.m., Karissa Ella will play from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and Buck Naked Band will perform from 8 to 10 p.m.
For either concert, bring a lawn chair for seating. Admission is free. There will be food trucks and a beverage area. Coolers are not permitted. Smoking/vaping may be done only in the designated area; those who refuse to follow this rule will be asked to leave. Friendly dogs are permitted if leashed.
Movies, comedy in downtown Canton
CANTON − The Summer Kids Movie Series continues Monday at the Canton Palace Theatre, 605 Market Ave. N, with a showing of "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” at 1 p.m. Doors and box office open at noon. Admission is $2. A sensory-friendly showing of the movie is at 6:30 p.m.
The Centennial Plaza Movie Series continues Wednesday with a free showing of “Pinocchio” at 7 p.m. at Centennial Plaza, 330 Court Ave. NW. The movie will be shown rain or shine; in case of severe weather, the showing will be canceled.
The Palace Theatre will present “Good Like Medicine 2,” written by playwright Edie Bowman, at 7:30 p.m. Friday. The show features skits, commercials, stand-up comedy and live music from recording artist Melanie Robinson. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. Admission is $30, plus fees. All seats are reserved. For tickets, visit https://tinyurl.com/4npmjdf7.
Run on the runways
GREEN − The sixth annual CAK 5K on the Runway will be Aug. 6 at the Akron-Canton Airport for runners and walkers of all ages. The race will take place on the actual runways at the airport.
After the race, participants can enjoy MAPS Air Museum for free, a group yoga session, and for those 21 and older, a post-race beer garden. All proceeds of the race will be donated to Adaptive Sports Ohio and MAPS Air Museum, according to a news release.
There will also be a virtual option to participate for those who are not able to attend in-person. Upon registration, participants will be able to choose between three shirt options representing one of the teams playing in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game or a new Akron-Canton Airport colorway. Find race details and register at https://www.runtoyouracing.com/cak5k.
Sanford & Son tribute show is Saturday
JACKSON TWP. − Stardust Dinner Theatre will present a Sanford & Son tribute dinner show live on stage at La Pizzaria, 3656 Dressler Road NW, on Saturday. The show will visit three of the most famous episodes. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Meal will be bread, salad with house dressing, Parmesan crusted chicken, penne pasta in marinara, roasted potatoes and dessert. There will be a cash bar. Reservations for the dinner and show are required by visiting https://tinyurl.com/muuftac8 or by calling the box office at 330-327-2087 or 330-575-7431. Dinner and show, $42.50; VIP seating, $52.50.
Catfish with Cops event is Saturday
LEXINGTON TWP. − Stark Parks will host the annual Catfish with Cops shoreline fishing event from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday at Walborn Reservoir, 11324 Price St. NE. Registration is $5 per person, cash only, and begins at 5 p.m. Fishing starts at 6 p.m. All catfish must be checked in by 11 p.m. to be counted for prizes. For more information, visit Starkparks.com/derbies/.
Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn tribute show Saturday
MASSILLON − Lions Lincoln Theatre, 156 Lincoln Way E, will present Twitty & Lynn: A Salute to Conway & Loretta from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Tayla Lynn and Tre Twitty will honor their grandparents in an evening of music and storytelling in their tribute show.
Ticket prices are VIP $49; Main Floor $39; Balcony $29; Wheelchair/Companion $29. For tickets, call 330-481-9105 or visit tinyurl.com/t5rec84t. Any remaining tickets will be sold at the box office beginning at 6:30 p.m. on the day of the show.
Music and food trucks Thursday
NORTH CANTON − The North Canton Public Library Summer Series continues with Erin Nicole Neal & The Chill Factors performing an eclectic mix of blues, rock, pop, soul, jazz and funk from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday on the City Hall portico, 145 N. Main St. Food trucks will be The Teacher’s Pet and Kona Ice.
Canton Concert Band to perform Wednesday
NORTH CANTON – The Canton Concert Band will perform a free concert from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at Price Park. In case of rain, the concert will be at Community Christian Church, 210 N. Main St.
The Canton Concert Band consists of a core of 35 paid professional musicians, each a member of the Canton Local 111 branch of the American Federation of Musicians. The Canton Concert Band is supplemented by a group of community musicians who play on a volunteer basis.
Music at Exploration Gateway
PERRY TWP. − Stark Parks’ Summer Serenades in the Park series continues at 6:30 p.m. Saturday with MusiCall of the Wild Small Orchestra on the Exploration Gateway back patio, Sippo Lake Park-North, 5712 12th St. NW.
The concert will intertwine live wildlife along with the performance. Concessions will also be available for purchase. In the event of inclement weather, the concert will be moved inside the Exploration Gateway, but spacing is limited to first-come, first-served.
Research your family history
PIKE TWP. − The Sandy Valley Branch of the Stark County District Library, 9745 Cleveland Ave. SE, will offer Beginning Genealogy from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Learn how to get started searching, gathering and organizing your family history. For more information, call 330-866-3366, email sandyvalley@starklibrary.org or visit https://tinyurl.com/4w7423xc.
Blood drives this week
The American Red Cross will hold blood drives from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday at the Stark Main Library, 715 Market Ave. N, Canton, and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Massillon Recreation Center, 505 Erie St. N, Massillon.
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Plain Township pays $402K for land for green space, fire training, amphitheater parking
Plain Township buys 4+ acres
- Plain Township trustees approved paying more than $400,000 for four acres of property on the north side of Easton Street NE.
- The new Plain Township Park will be open to the public and serve as a site for amphitheater parking and training for firefighters and paramedics.
PLAIN TWP. − The new amphitheater hosts its first concert Aug. 10, and the township has a newly acquired 4.18-acre park that will serve as a grass parking lot for about 230 vehicles for venue events.
The township purchased the former privately-run Ruff Run Dog Park at 2825 Easton Street NE for $402,109. The sale closed on May 31.
It will serve as an amphitheater parking space and also green space open to the public that township officials are calling Plain Township Park as well as a fire department training site. The vacant property is to the west of the township's fire training facility and northeast of Oakwood Square.
Parks Director Rob Steinberg hopes the township can open the new park to the public in early August contingent on when work to add gates to the perimeter fence is completed.
Steinberg said the township has no immediate plans to install other amenities. But the park has a “perfect sled riding hill" residents could seek out during the winter.
Southway Fence is scheduled to install a pedestrian gate on the property's southwest corner, so visitors can walk to the amphitheater on the west side of Oakwood Square and two gates for vehicles to enter and exit on the eastern side.
Related:Plain Township trustees select contractor to build Oakwood amphitheater
Ruff Run dog park sale
Half of the cost of buying the property came from the township's administration fund and the other half from the Fire Department funds.
Owners Tammy L. McKee North and her husband, William, former Plain Township residents who now live in Orlando, Florida, closed Ruff Run in May.
They had acquired the property from Dr. Sandra Beichler. Tammy North said Beichler operated a dog park on the property where North said she brought her dog. The Norths bought the land and created their own dog park company.
Tammy North said Thursday she and her husband had put the 4.18 acres on the market about five years ago. They had reached a stage in their life when they were liquidating some assets. The township and others had made prior offers but prospective buyers weren't willing to buy the entire property or the offers were too low until the township's $400,000 offer.
Tammy North said she will deeply miss her dog park regulars.
“I’ve had many customers calling crying upset," she said. "It was for sale for so long I don't think people thought it was ever going to sell."
Trustees' plans for new park
During the township trustees' meeting on June 13, resident John Marulli, a longtime member of the private dog park, wanted to know the status of the property.
"Moving forward it's no longer a dog park," said Trustee Scott Haws. "It's going to be utilized as open green space and parking for events with the amphitheater. ... It'll be open green space use for the public as a whole."
Haws estimated that the amphitheater would host 20 to 30 events per year.
Marulli seemed disappointed. He asked, "so there will be no dog park at all?"
Haws said, "The only dog park there is is the one that's over at Veterans Park that's been there. The township's not going to operate a secondary dog park nor a private dog park. We bought it for a set of different uses."
Background of the dog park acquisition
Township Administrator Lisa Campbell said trustees have sought to buy the property in past years but no deal could be struck. She said she noticed around early April that the property was still available.
Since the property adjoined the fire training facility and yard waste collection site, it could also allow the township to widen the fire training facility's driveway and the township could hold fire and paramedic training exercises.
Haws said the purchase was financed with township funds set aside over the years for capital acquisition in the township's administration and fire funds. Campbell said a state grant cover the roughly $500,000 cost of the township's acquisition of 17 acres of land known as Monarch Meadows from Compassion Church to add to Veterans Park on Schneider Street NE. That freed up some money to buy Plain Township Park.
The amphitheater's inaugural concert Aug. 10 will feature Brass Transit in a show called the "Musical Legacy of Chicago." The trustees on May 9 approved a contract to pay the performers $15,000.
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Hold onto your stomach: Hall of Fame Village debuts drop ride Spike It
- Spike It is so named because of its similarity to the touchdown celebration where players throw the ball at the ground.
- It hoists a maximum of six riders in the air and drops before going up and down, reaching a height of 40 feet before it's all over.
- Each ride at the plaza costs $7 per ride, and various package deals are available at hofvillage.com.
CANTON − There are three modes of intensity for the new Spike It ride at the Hall of Fame Village. There's calm, then medium, and the most intense ― chaos.
It hoists a maximum of six riders in the air and drops before going up and down and up again, reaching a height of 40 feet before it's all over. Depending on your level of comfort with the stomach-drop sensation, it'll elicit shrieks or giggles or ― as was the case for me ― both by the end of the ride.
Spike It is so named because of its similarity to the touchdown celebration where players throw the ball at the ground, said spokeswoman Madison Zurakowski. The Village added goalposts to the top of the amusement ride, which emits an air horn and other sound effects during a roughly minute-long ride.
"Just trying to keep that football theme alive there," Zurakowski said.
You must be at least 36 inches tall and no more than 300 pounds to ride Spike It, which debuted Thursday. It's just north of the Red Zone Ferris wheel and, every so often, riders whiz by overhead on the Forward Pass zip line.
The three rides are part of the first phase of the Play Action Plaza. The Village's second phase of development includes a water park and on-campus hotel, which are scheduled to be completed in 2024.
Zurakowski said the Village is planning its third phase, and more rides and attractions at the Play Action Plaza are "definitely part of the plan."
Child and parent-approved
Tiernan and Elowyn O'Reilly, siblings from Durham, North Carolina, said they rode Spike It at least 10 times by Thursday afternoon.
"It was the best ride of my life," Tiernan, 11, exclaimed after exiting the ride.
He said it was his favorite out of all three rides but would recommend any of them.
"This is a really fun place," Elowyn O'Reilly, 10, agreed.
Their father Todd O'Reilly said they'd already spent about four hours at the Village by the time the monthly Third Down Thursdays summer event was starting. They come to Canton each year to visit a relative, and Todd said he's impressed by all the changes around the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
"This is amazing," he said. "It's way more kid-friendly now."
Zurakowski said being more "family-friendly" was the goal with Third Down Thursdays in the Play Action Plaza replacing Thirsty Thursdays at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium.
Play Action Plaza hours
Each ride at the plaza costs $7, and various package deals are available at hofvillage.com. They also function in temperatures as low as 35 degrees Fahrenheit.
"They are open year-round," Zurakowski said, weather permitting.
The Play Action Plaza is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Hours on Fridays and Saturdays are 1 a.m. to 10 p.m.
It's closed Wednesdays.
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Meet Megan Stangelo: She brings the Hall of Fame Festival Balloon Classic to life
Many people who have lived in Stark County for at least a year or two have seen the hot air balloons when the pilots come into the area for the Balloon Classic.
The event takes place during the Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Week. This year, the balloons are scheduled to fly over Stark County from July 28 through July 30. The majestic balloons lift from the grounds surrounding the campuses of Kent State University Stark and Stark State College.
It is a huge event and is always well attended, which means the event planner has been busy all year preparing for the balloons, their pilots and the crowds. Megan Stangelo, event manager at the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce, is that event planner.
She graduated from Marlington High School and now lives in Canton with her 17-year-old miniature dachshund named Annie. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Bowling Green State University and worked in events throughout college. Stangelo then got a job right out of college at an event venue.
She worked in the Toledo area for 10 years in events before moving to Tampa, Florida, in 2015 where she worked at a convention and conference center for five years.
"I moved back to Ohio in 2020 to take a job at The DoubleTree Hilton Canton Downtown before making a jump to the chamber,” Stangelo said. “Events have always been my passion and background; beginning with weddings and naturally transitioning to corporate events, although I still do a few weddings on the side.”
This is the 37th year of the Balloon Classic and Stangelo’s third year managing the favored event.
“I wanted to be involved because I love the whole idea surrounding this event. It is family-friendly, free and a unique event to Northeast Ohio. I have enjoyed getting to know the balloon pilots, families and of course my wonderful committee,” she said.
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Have you ever flown in a hot air balloon?
I flew in a hot air balloon for the first time last year.
It was the last flight of the weekend. The pilot and crew who took me up were absolutely amazing. I am not a fan of heights, but they made me feel so comfortable. We flew that Sunday morning, and it was so peaceful.
I would do it again in a heartbeat!
How many balloons does the event typically have at the event?
On average, we have 50 to 60 balloons attend our event each year.
We have a lot of local pilots, including those from Hartville, Sebring, and a handful from right here in Canton! We also have pilots who travel here for the weekend from Michigan, North Carolina, Iowa and Pennsylvania. The pilot who travels the farthest is from Texas.
What is the economic impact of the event each year?
It is estimated that there is $40 million dollar economic impact on Stark County through the Enshrinement Festival activities.
What is the hardest part for you when managing such a large-scale event?
As you can imagine, there are so many working parts to an event this size.
The biggest challenge is making sure all the parts work together seamlessly, from setup and load in to parking and traffic flow. We have the most amazing committee and community partners that ensure the success of the event.
Another challenge is of course the weather (we wish we could plan that!); having a plan in place in case of inclement weather; plus making guest safety the No. 1 priority that weekend.
What is the best part or the most fun for you when managing the event?
The best part of managing this event is getting to see all those smiling faces! There is nothing more rewarding than sitting in the crowd on Saturday night during the fireworks and being able to enjoy the last moments of the event with everyone.
I would also say the best part of this event is working with my committee and our community partners. I would like to personally thank my entire Balloon Classic committee, our balloon pilots and crew, Kent State University at Stark, Stark State College and Jackson Township for their continued support of this unique event. Without these people, this event would not be possible.
Editor's note: Five questions with ... is a Sunday feature that showcases a member of the Stark County community. If you'd like to recommend someone to participate, send an email to newsroom@cantonrep.com.
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Kyle Smith leads Stark County Amateur Men's Golf Championship entering final round Sunday
UNIONTOWN — Kyle Smith shot 65 Saturday at Ohio Prestwick Country Club to take a two-shot lead after the opening round of the 89th Stark County Amateur Men's Golf Championship.
Kyle Buzaki sits second at 67. Brandon Jatich, Gunnar McCollins, Caden Scarbrough and Michael Simpson each shot 71.
The 50-over-over leader is Dave Oates at 68, two shots up on Bart Williams. Oates is a seven-time winner of the overall Stark County Amateur title
Tom Laubacher and Doug Lockwood share the 60-and-over lead at 71.
Jeff Luken shot 75 to lead 70-and-over by one shot over Rick Merrow.
Tee times for the final round begin at 8 this morning.
Stark County Amateur scores:Saturday's full first-round results from Prestwick
More Stark County golf:Hannah Higgins repeats as Schorsten Memorial winner on Tuesday at Raintree Golf Club
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A Hampton woman was arrested Thursday evening after allegedly hitting a man with her car after an argument.
According to court records, 23-year-old Miranda Joe Tramel has been charged with willful injury causing bodily injury and assault while displaying a dangerous weapon. She faces up to seven years in jail if convicted on both counts.
The charges stem from an incident around 6:49 p.m. in the alley located in the 700 block of Second Avenue Northwest in Hampton. The man informed the dispatcher that Tramel had hit him with what turned out to be a 2014 Nissan Versa, pinning him between her vehicle and a 1972 Ford truck.
When officers arrived they allegedly found the victim sitting up on the ground with visible swelling to his left leg and superficial scratches.
The affidavit states Tramel told police she was arguing with the victim. Tramel said the alleged victim was upset and asked her to hit him with the car. She said she got in the car and hit the victim with it where he was standing.
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Tramel was also charged with driving while license revoked and reckless driving.
No court date has been set as of Friday afternoon.
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When Mason City native Isabel Blakewell first heard opera, she "didn't quite get it at first."
She's always carried a passion for music, inspired in part by her grandmother, Cindy Mostrom. She decided she wanted to major in music with an emphasis on opera thanks to her music instructor at North Iowa Area Community College.
“Someday when you hear about this girl in the ‘Opera News’ … you can say you heard her here first,” said Jayson Ryner, NIACC vocal music instructor/director, when introducing Blakewell's performance of "Ave Maria" at NIACC's winter concert in 2019.
"With (Ryner) helping and encouraging me, everything seemed to click. It was like I was seeing new colors for the first time. And this new possibility became the thing I knew I needed to pursue from then on."
Blakewell graduated from NIACC with her associates degree and chose to continue her education at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Under the instruction of Rachel Inselman, Blakewell, a soprano, performed in operatic roles such as Buttercup in Gilbert and Sullivan's "H.M.S. Pinafore," Nicklausse in highlights of Offenbach's "Les contes d' Hoffmann," and Princess Orlofsky in Act II of Strauss' "Die Fledermaus."
She was also a soloist with the UMD University Singers and the UMD Wind Ensemble, was featured in the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra Chorus and in the chorus of Cavalleria Rusticana with the Lyric Opera of the North.
In competition, Blakewell placed as a semi-finalist in the 2022 Minnesota NATS voice competition and was winner at the 2023 North Central Regional NATS voice competition, in addition to advancing to the second round in the 2022 National Classical Singer Music Competition.
"I also received the honor of singing the "Star Spangled Banner" at my own graduation where I received my Bachelors in Vocal Performance," Blakewell said.
A few months before graduating, Inselman gave Blakewell an application for an opera academy in Italy.
"At first, I thought it was way beyond me and never thought to apply. Then I thought to myself, ‘What do I have to lose?’ and sent in the application anyways."
After a few weeks of not hearing anything, she figured she wasn’t accepted.
"That was until I woke up to an email one morning with the title ‘Congratulations on your acceptance to Saluzzo Opera Academy 2023.'"
It took a beat to understand fully what was happening.
"When I did understand, I started crying and FaceTimed my mom right away," she said.
Described on its website as being "Nestled in the foothills of the Italian Alps between Milan and Nice," the Saluzzo Opera Academy operates out of a 14th century monastery. Blakewell will live and study in Saluzzo for the month of August, and will perform selections and study title role in the "Suor Angelica," a 1918 opera by Giacomo Puccini.
"I'm really excited to sing this really beautiful aria, called 'Senza Mamma'. I won't spoil it, but it's high drama," said Blakewell.
Opera afficionados are few and far between in the Midwest, and those who study and perform it are even more rare, but Blakewell's found a tight-knit community performing in Duluth, and has made connections in other cultural centers like Kansas City and the nearby Wichita Opera.
Blakewell was recently accepted into the Master of Music program at Wichita State University, and upon her return from Italy will continue her studies in the graduate program in Kansas with a graduate staff assistantship position, assisting with the productions of operas at the college. After graduation, she plans to pursue a full-time career as an opera artist; wherever she can find a stage on which to perform.
"I would love to just travel all over the world, all of the time."
She will be in Italy from July 31 to Aug. 7. "I am so excited to spend a month getting to work with amazing directors and coaches in the birthplace of opera," Blakewell said.
Alexander Schmidt is an Education/General Assignment Reporter for the Globe Gazette. You can reach him at alexander.schmidt@globegazette.com or at 641-421-0527.
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Effective immediately, Third Street Northeast is closed between Massachusetts and Carolina avenues to replace a section of street. The closure will last approximately one week.
Local residents will be able to access their driveways during this time from one direction.
Please use an alternate route during this road closure.
Questions? Contact the Street Division at (641) 421-3675.
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This year's North Iowa Fair runs through Sunday, and board president Paul Gagnon took the time during the opening ceremony Wednesday to thank and honor the Nesbit family for their contributions to the success of the Open Class Exhibits.
For the last 11 or so years, mother Cheryl and sisters Amy and Heidi have managed the open-class exhibits in the Olsen Building at the North Iowa Fair.
Cheryl Nesbit's memories of the fair date back to her childhood.
"Mom used to fry up chicken for us in the morning. She'd pack it up and fill a jar with coffee for her and dad. She'd wrap it up in a towel to keep it hot. We'd spend the whole day at the fair," she reminisced. "Lunch would come around and we'd eat what she brought, no fridge or anything."
She joined 4-H when she turned 10, and after she aged out of the program became a leader for the group for another 21 years. Eventually she volunteered to manage the open class exhibits.
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She's entered plenty of her own work over the years, even winning Grand Champion for a handmade quilt last year. It's her favorite class because she's an accomplished quilter.
"The girls didn't get volunteered so much as they got volun-told," said Cheryl Nesbit with grin. It's a joke she's made before, but both Heidi and Amy are good-natured about it because they enjoy the work.
Heidi works as a CNA in Mason City at Good Shepherd Inc. in the alzheimer's and dementia unit. Her soft, sweet demeanor hides a fierce intelligence and hardworking attitude.
Amy is a special education teacher at Pinecrest Center, a school for young people with emotional and behavioral challenges. She's also a foster mom to an eight year old.
Together, they're something of an unstoppable force. There are seven departments each with subdivided classes that fit just about any project. Each contestant fills out an entry form with each of their entries, and the Nesbits then get to work.
This year, the family managed 77 exhibitors throughout all classes.
"Oh, if you can make it by hand, we have a class for you. If we don't, we'll make one," Cheryl says. There were two new classes this year, an ugly lamp and tablescaping contests.
The Nesbits were pleased to accept the honor from Gagnon, as they have retired from the management of the open classes. Mostly. The ladies stepped away a couple of years ago, but were called back when the exhibits were going unattended. They have happily passed the baton to new volunteers, but are still available to help out when necessary.
"I think I'd like to see the sea lions," said Cheryl. "I usually don't get to see much of the fair."
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Dorothy "Dot" Kruggel Gerdes, 102, died Wednesday, July 19, 2023, at the Concord Care Center, Garner, Iowa. Ward Van Slyke Colonial Chapel 310 First Ave. North, Clear Lake, Iowa 50428, 641-357-2193. www.colonichapels.com
Verlynn J. Hutchinson, 92 died Friday, July 21, 2023, at the Methodist Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa. Funeral arrangements are entrusted with Ward Van Slyke Colonial Chapel 310 First Ave. North, Clear Lake, Iowa 50428. www.colonialchapels.com
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Dennis Gene Stinehart
January 28, 1943 - July 18, 2023
MASON CITY - Dennis Gene Stinehart, 80, of Mason City, Iowa, passed away Tuesday, July 18, 2023 at MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center.
Per Dennis's wishes his body will be cremated and no services will be held.
Dennis was born on January 28, 1943, in Mason City, Iowa, the son of Alfred and Opal (Martinson) Stinehart. He was a graduate of Mason City High School and also the Iowa State University with a degree in Landscape Architecture. On September 16, 1967, Dennis married Jennifer Thompson, and from this loving union two daughters were born. He practiced landscaping architecture in Michigan and Nebraska until returning to Mason City to work with his father at Berry Machine. He was able to successfully retire in 2015.
Dennis loved the Lord, his family, classic cars, animals, gardening, politics, bike riding, and woodworking.
Those left to cherish memories of Dennis are his wife of 55 years, Jennifer Stinehart; children, Heather Stinehart of Mason City, and Holly (Brad) Gerber of Cedar Falls; grandchildren, Brandon Albuquerque, Hannah, Oscar, and Charlotte Gerber; as well as aunts, uncles and many cousins.
Dennis is preceded in death by both his parents, a twin brother in infancy, Donald; and parents in-law, Cecil and Elizabeth Thompson.
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Jewel Anne Porter
July 17, 1933 - July 14, 2023
Jewel Anne Porter, the daughter of Lester and Mildred Hendrickson, passed away at 2:42 PM on July 14, 2023.
Jewel was born July 17, 1933, in Grinnell, Iowa. She grew up on her parent's farm and attended a one-room schoolhouse with her older siblings, Lorna and Wayne, before leaving to attend Iowa State University. Once there, she studied child development, received her Master's Degree, and fueled a lifelong support of all things Cyclone. She worked as a kindergarten teacher and then as a docent at the MacNider Art Museum. Jewel married the love of her life, Dr. Samuel David Porter (deceased 2019), in 1956. They settled in Mason City, where Jewel was an active community member for over four decades and built an amazing group of lifelong friends. With her husband, she lovingly and selflessly raised their four children, Minda (Ben) Breed, Samuel (Julie) Porter, Kent (Virginia) Porter, and Daniel (Laura) Porter, as well as later loved their nine grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren (all surviving). She was immensely proud of her kids and their growing families.She spent the last decade of her life at Edgewater, a care facility in West Des Moines, living close to old friends, with great care and frequent visits from family. Jewel lived a life surrounded by love and kindness and, in a final act of giving, brought her entire family to town for her 90th birthday just before her passing. The intent to celebrate her birthday turned into celebrating her beautiful life and reunion with her husband. This also allowed her family to support her through her final moments and each other in this time of grief.
A private Celebration of Life was held on July 15, 2023. In lieu of flowers, to support one of Jewel's most beloved causes, donations may be made to the MacNider Art Museum at 303 2nd St SE Mason City, IA 50401. Jewel will be remembered for her shining spirit. We are all the better for having had her in our lives and luckier to be loved by such a generous and devoted jewel. There indeed could not be a more fitting name. Like Sam before her, Jewel's commitment to donate her body to Creighton University School of Medicine to further the training of future physicians and science has been honored by her family.Online condolences may be expressed at www.HamiltonsFuneralHome.com.
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Robert "Bob" Sidney Halford
July 8, 1929 - July 20, 2023
CLEAR LAKE - Robert "Bob" Sidney Halford 94, died Thursday, July 20, 2023, at his home surrounded by his family.
A funeral service will be held at 10:30 Tuesday, July 25, 2023, at the First Congregational Church, 920 Buddy Holly Place, Clear Lake, with Reverend Harlan Seri officiating. The Clear Lake VFW Honor Guard of Post 4868 will conduct a flag presentation at the church. Inurnment will be held at a later date in Memorial Park Cemetery, Mason City.
Visitation will be held from 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m., Monday July 24, 2023, at Ward Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 310 1st Ave. North, Clear Lake. Visitation will continue one hour prior to the service at the church on Tuesday.
Memorials in his honor may be directed to First Congregational Church of Clear Lake and the Humane Society of North Iowa www.hsni.org.
Robert Sidney Halford was born July 8, 1929, the son of Sidney and Christine (Edmundson) Halford in Ventura, Iowa. Bob graduated from Ventura High School. He continued his education attending Iowa State University, graduating with a General Engineering Degree in 1951. He married the love of his life, Carol Lee Garvin on October 16, 1954. They were blessed with four children, Nancy, Robby, Chris and Todd.
Before his professional career, he was proud to serve his country as a First Lieutenant in the United States Army, during the Korean War. He was an Honor Graduate of the Engineering Officer Candidate School, Fort Belvoir, Virginia and was honorably discharged in 1954.
So many people knew Bob Halford as the face of Clear Lake Telephone Company where he worked for 43 years and was their General Manager from 1980 until his retirement in 1996. He was past president of Iowa Telephone Association, a founder of Iowa Network Services (INS) and past president of OPASTCO National Telephone Association as well.
Giving back to the community is core to who Bob Halford was, and his love for Clear Lake is witnessed in so many ways. He was a long-time member of First Congregational Church. He also gave his time & guidance to the Clear Lake Noon Lions, the Clear Lake Community School Board of Education, was President of the Clear Lake Chamber Board, and was a member and past President of the Economic Development Corporation. Bob along with other investors was a previous owner of The Surf Ballroom from 1970-1994 and continued to support and enjoy The Surf Ballroom his entire life. In recognition of his tremendous contributions to Clear Lake, Bob was named Grand Marshall of the Clear Lake 4th of July parade in 2000.
Bob enjoyed life to its fullest. He especially enjoyed people, learning about them, listening to them and making new friends. Listing all of his interests & joys is impossible, but a few of them include: golfing at the Veterans Memorial Golf Course, playing cards and games anywhere, any time; watching the Iowa Hawkeyes teams, especially football & wrestling; eating at The Ritz, Northwestern Steakhouse, The Muskie and the Half Moon; watching all the activity on the lake from his beautiful home & deck; travelling to Boca Grande, Florida, and most of all – being with his family and friends and his beloved schnauzers.
Survivors include his wife Carol Lee Halford; children Nancy (Cindy Hesley) Halford, Chris Halford, Todd (Susie) Halford; grandchildren Collin Peterson (Kasey), Nicky Halford, Johnny Halford; great grandchildren Graham, Bennett and Crew Peterson; nieces & nephews Victoria Murphy (Dennis), Felicia, Richard (Angela), James (Talia); and sister-in-law Monica Sosaya Halford.Bob is preceded in death by his parents, Sidney and Christine, his son Robert "Robby", his brother Richard "Dick" and his niece Raquel.
Arrangements entrusted by Ward Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 310 1st Ave. North Clear Lake, Iowa 50428.
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Many North Iowa aquatic centers are closed until further notice due to certification problems.
According to a statement from Manly Mayor Tim O'Keefe, the pools were notified that the persons providing training for many North Iowa lifeguards did not follow proper guidelines. The American Red Cross will be working with nearly 300 lifeguards who have been affected.
According to a release from Mason City City Hall, the lifeguards were notified by the headquarters of the American Red Cross on Thursday. The majority of the certifications for staff at the Mason City Family Aquatic Center were obtained by an instructor at the Mason City YMCA.
Mason City Family Aquatic Center anticipates reopening Tuesday, July 25.
The goal is to reopen the pools as soon as possible. The Clear Lake Aquatic Center remains open, and the Forest City Aquatic Center was closed until at least 3 p.m. Friday due to unrelated issues. The Lake Mills Aquatic Center and the Sheffield and Garner pools remain open.
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The following North Iowa pools have been confirmed to be closed until further notice:
- Mason City.
- Nora Springs.
- Manly.
- Hampton.
- Rockwell.
This story will be updated as more information becomes available.
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Tickets for the First Presbyterian Church's High Tea celebrating the congregation’s 150th anniversary go on sale July 30. The tea is set for 2 p.m. Sept 9.
Prices are $30 each or $225 for a table of eight. Call 701-255-3910 or 701-223-6091 for reservations until Sept. 5.
The church is at 214 E. Thayer Ave. in Bismarck.
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Sisk with Agency MABU
Hope Sisk has been hired as client services manager by Agency MABU.
Sisk brings experience in communications with a focus in broadcast journalism. She most recently served as morning news anchor and assistant news director at KFYR-TV in Bismarck and earned a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
Attorney rejoins Fredrikson
Kerrie L. Farrell has rejoined Fredrikson & Byron's oil and gas and energy and natural resources groups.
Farrell has experience drafting drilling title opinions, division order title opinions and acquisition title opinions by determining surface, mineral, and leasehold ownership on fee, state and federal lands.
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Association adds education assistant
Casidie Fladeland has been hired as an education assistant by the North Dakota Long Term Care Association. Fladeland has 10 plus years of experience focusing on expert administrative support.
She previously worked for FMI Inc. for nine years as the safety coordinator and office assistant.
Insurance Reserve Fund hire
The North Dakota Insurance Reserve Fund has hired Victoria Volk as a claims adjuster.
Volk brings nearly two years of insurance industry experience including claims handling and sales.
She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Mary and is a certified Notary Public from the National Notary Association.
Safety Council adds staff
Mary Hoffman, Gena Trom and Kaylene Kilzer have been hired by the North Dakota Safety Council.
Hoffman has been hired as as program director. She previously spent more than 10 years at Community HealthCare Association of the Dakotas working on operations, training, technical assistance and work plan development.
Trom has been hired as the digital marketing coordinator and brings over four years of marketing experience from the nonprofit and banking industries to NDSC.
Kilzer joins NDSC as the office coordinator at the company's Bismarck location.
Association names executive director
The North Dakota Ethanol Producers Association Board of Directors has named Laura Lacher as its executive director.
Lacher is an account executive with Clearwater Communications, a Bismarck association management firm providing services for NDEPA since 2012.
She has nine years of professional experience. Previously, Lacher was a marketing analyst at a local credit union and a customer services associate at Bismarck Parks and Recreation District and Newman Signs in Jamestown. She holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a focus in marketing from Valley City State University.
Secretary of State appointed co-chair
North Dakota Secretary of State Michael Howe has been appointed co-chair of the National Association of Secretaries of State’s Standing Committee on Business Services. Howe will lead the committee with Delaware Secretary of State, Jeffrey Bullock through July 2024.
Former secretary of state honored
Al Jaeger has earned an achievement award from the Notary Public Administrators Section of the National Association of Secretaries of State.
Jaeger served as North Dakota Secretary of State from 1993-2022.
State executive recognized
Michael Gregg has been recognized as a 2023 Top 100 CISOs by CISOs Connect, a community of cyber peers and subject matter experts led by CISOs in North America.
Gregg is North Dakota's chief information security officer.
Area farmer reelected
Jennifer Meyer has been reelected to the North Dakota Soybean Council representing District 12.
Meyer and her husband of Wilton produce grain crops including soybeans and run a cow/calf operation. Meyer is president of the North Dakota Cooperative Director’s Association, vice president for Farmers Union Oil of Wilton, Burleigh County Farmers Union director and active with the North Dakota Farmers Union. She has a degree in criminal justice.
Financial adviser included
Joel Bird, adviser with Ameriprise Financial in Bismarck, have been named to the list of “Advisors to Watch Over $1Bil” published by AdvisorHub. The list recognizes financial advisers who have demonstrated high levels of innovation, professionalism and success.
Monthly awards
North Dakota Farmers Union Insurance, based in Jamestown, announced professionals who exceeded in their positions for the month of May.
David Beck, Bismarck, was a top producer of life insurance and health insurance sales.
Dave Berger, Mandan, was the top producer of auto insurance sales.
Jake Carlson, Bismarck, was a top producer of annuity sales.
Jed Geer, Bismarck, was a top producer of FUIC commercial lines sales.
Philip Halvorson, Mandan, was a top producer of health insurance sales.
Beck Hruby, Bismarck, was a top producer of FUIC commercial sales.
Robert Johnson, Mandan, was a top producer of health insurance sales.
Troy Renwick, Mandan, was a top producer of life insurance sales.
Jamie Ressler, Bismarck, was a top producer of FUIC commercial lines sales.
Courtney Schauer, Mandan, was a top producer of annuity sales.
Lewis Schock, Mandan, was a top producer of health insurance sales.
Dylan Schmit, Mandan, was a top producer of supplemental insurance sales.
Ryan Schnell, Bismarck, was a top producer of annuity sales.
Clark Twardoski, Bismarck, was a top producer of FUIC commercial lines sales.
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Roadwork that was to begin Monday on East Bismarck Expressway from East Main Avenue to Miriam Drive has now been moved to July 31 or later.
Outside lanes for northbound and southbound traffic will be closed for the first phase of the project, according to the state Department of Transportation.
Work will consist of grinding, repairs to concrete pavement, curbs and gutters, and improvements to ramps. The project is expected to take 50 days to complete. Motorists are asked to slow down and use caution throughout the work zone once work begins.
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LEGION BASEBALL
CLASS A WEST REGION TOURNAMENT
At Mandan Memorial Ballpark
Wednesday, July 19
Play-in games
No. 8 Williston Oilers 14, No. 9 Minot Metros 8
No. 10 Beulah Cyclones 2, No. 7 Jamestown Blues 1
Thursday, July 20
No. 1 Bismarck Senators 5, No. 8 Williston Oilers 3
No. 5 Mandan A’s 8, No. 4 Bismarck Capitals 7
No. 2 Dickinson Volunteers 12, No. 10 Beulah Cyclones 9
No. 3 Bismarck Reps 10, No. 6 Watford City Walleye 0, 5 innings
Friday, July 21
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No. 4 Bismarck Capitals 10, No. 8 Williston Oilers 0, 6 innings
No. 6 Watford City Walleye 7, No. 10 Beulah 0, forfeit
No. 1 Bismarck Senators 10, No. 5 Mandan A's 2
No. 2 Dickinson Volunteers 6, No. 3 Bismarck Reps 2
Saturday, July 22
No. 4 Bismarck Capitals 12, No. 3 Bismarck Reps 4 (state qualifier)
No. 6 Watford City Walleye 12, No. 5 Mandan A's 5 (state qualifier)
No. 2 Dickinson Volunteers 6, No. 1 Bismarck Senators 5 (championship)
Note: Top four teams advance to state tournament in Kindred.
CLASS AA STATE TOURNAMENT
July 24-29 at Dickinson
All Times Central
Monday, July 24
Game 1: No. 7 Fargo Post 400 vs. No. 10 Grand Forks, 7 p.m.
Game 2: No. 8 Dickinson vs. No. 9 Williston, 10 p.m.
Tuesday, July 25
Game 3: No. 4 Bismarck vs. No. 5 Jamestown, 1 p.m.
Game 4: No. 3 West Fargo vs. No. 6 Mandan, 4 p.m.
Game 5: No. 1 Fargo Post 2 vs. Winner Game 2, 7 p.m.
Game 6: No. 2 Minot vs. Winner Game 1, 9 p.m.
Wednesday, July 26
Game 7: Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 3, 1 p.m. (loser out)
Game 8: Loser Game 2 vs. Loser Game 4, 4 p.m. (loser out)
Game 9: Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 5, 7 p.m.
Game 10: Winner Game 4 vs. Winner Game 6, 10 p.m.
Thursday, July 27
Game 11: Winner Game 7 vs. Loser Game 5, 1 p.m. (loser out)
Game 12: Winner Game 8 vs. Lose Game 6, 4 p.m. (loser out)
Game 13: Winner Game 11 vs. Loser Game 10, 7 p.m. (loser out)
Game 14: Winner Game 12 vs. Loser Game 9, 10 p.m. (loser out)
Friday, July 28
Game 15: Winner Game 9 vs. Winner Game 10, 2 p.m. (winner’s bracket final)
Game 16: Winner Game 13 vs. Winner Game 14, 5 p.m. (loser out)
Game 17: Winner Game 16 vs. Loser Game 15 (loser out)
Saturday, July 29
Game 18: Winner Game 125 vs. Winner Game 17, 2 p.m. (championship)
Game 19: Second championship game (if necessary), 5 p.m.
NORTHWOODS LEAGUE
ST. CLOUD 4, BISMARCK 3
Bismarck;003;000;000;--;3;7;1
St. Cloud;400;000;00x;--;4;5;1
AJ Kostic, Jaxon Mayer (6), Chris Jackson (8), Mason Olson (9) and Bradlee Preap; Cade Lommel, Chris Brown (4), Andrew Morones (8) and Davis Cop. W— Brown (1-1). L— Kostic (0-1). Sv – Olson.
Highlights: Bismarck – Nick Oakley 1-for-5; Ryker Billingsley 1-for-4, R, RBI; Block Kleszcz R; Jack Herring 1-for-5; Garret Hill 1-for-4, 2 RBIs; Dillon Goetz 1-for-3; Preap 1-for-4; Luke Hammond 1-for-3, double, R; Kostic 5.1 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 1 ER, 5 BB, 3 Ks; Meyer 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K. SC – John Nett R; Jackson Hauge 1-for-4, double, R; Jose Gonzalez RBI; Oscar Serratos Jr. 2-for-4, R RBI; Kevin Butler 1-for-1; Matt Goetzmann R, RBI; Sawyer Smith 1-for-3, double, RBI; Lommel 3 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 BB, 1 K; Brown 4 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 Ks.
Attendance: 1,195
Time of game: 2:45
Records: Bismarck 5-14 second half, 21-32 overall; St. Cloud 10-7 second half, 31-20 overall.
STANDINGS
Second half
Great Lakes East
Team;W-L;Pct.;GB
Kalamazoo;13-5;.722;--
Rockford;12-9;.571;2.5
x-Traverse City;11-9;.550;3
Battle Creek;11-10;.524;3.5
Kenosha;8-13;.381;6.5
Kokomo;7-14;.333;7.5
Great Lakes West
Team;W-L;Pct.;GB
Madison;11-8;.579;--
Fond du Lac;10-10;.500;1.5
x-Green Bay;9-10;.474;2
Wausau;9-10;.474;2
Wisconsin Rapids;9-10;.474;2
Lakeshore;8-11;.421;3
Great Plains East
Team;W-L;Pct.;GB
La Crosse;14-3;.824;--
Waterloo;13-5;.722;1.5
Duluth;12-7;.632;3
Rochester;9-9;.500;5.5
x-Eau Claire;7-12;.368;8
Thunder Bay;5-14;.263;10
Great Plains West
Team;W-L;Pct.;GB
x-Willmar;12-5;.706;--
St. Cloud;10-7;.588;2
Mankato;11-8;.579;2
Minot;7-12;.368;6
Bismarck;5-14;.263;8
Minnesota;2-11;.154;8
x--Won first half
Saturday, July 22
St. Cloud 4, Bismarck 3
Traverse City 7, Kalamazoo 2
Green Bay 4, Battle Creek 3
Kokomo 12, Wausau 8, 10 innings
Wisconsin Rapids 6, Fond du Lac 1
Duluth 19, Minot 14
Mankato 16, Minnesota 2
Madison 4, Lakeshore 3
Kenosha 3, Rockford 2
La Crosse 9, Eau Claire 6
Willmar 12, Thunder Bay 2
Sunday, July 23
Bismarck at St. Cloud, 4:05 p.m.
Traverse City at Kalamazoo
Battle Creek at Green Bay
Fond du Lac at Wisconsin Rapids
Kokomo at Wausau
Lakeshore at Madison, DH
Rockford at Kenosha
Eau Claire at La Crosse
Minnesota at Mankato
Thunder Bay at Willmar
Duluth at Minot
Monday, July 24
Duluth at Bismarck, 6:35 p.m.
La Crosse at Thunder Bay
Minot at Eau Claire
Rochester at Waterloo
St. Cloud at Willmar
Tuesday, July 25
Great Lakes All-Star Game at Traverse City
Wednesday, July 26
Duluth at Bismarck, 6:35 p.m.
La Crosse at Thunder Bay
Waterloo at Rochester
Minnesota at Mankato
Minot at Eau Claire
Willmar at St. Cloud
Thursday, July 27
Rochester at Bismarck, 6:35 p.m.
Rockford at Kalamazoo
Kokomo at Battle Creek
Minot at Eau Claire
Willmar at St. Cloud
Mankato at La Crosse
Thunder Bay at Duluth
Madison at Green Bay
Traverse City at Kenosha
Wisconsin Rapids at Wausau
Fond du Lac at Lakeshore
Minnesota at Waterloo
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LARKS FALL TO MINOT
Gavin Schmitt threw eight shutout innings to help Minot post a 7-0 Northwoods League victory over the Bismarck Larks on Friday night at Municipal Ballpark.
Schmitt scattered six hits, walking none and striking out eight.
He combined with Gavin Halu on a six-hit shutout.
Nic Pepe had two hits, including a double, and Ryan Recio had two doubles for Minot.
The Larks had six hits – all singles – and five Bismarck pitchers combined to issue 13 walks.
Bismarck opens a series at St. Cloud on Saturday.
KELLER RECORDS ACE AT O’LEARY
Stacy Keller recorded a hole in one on Friday at Tom O’Leary Golf Course.
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Keller aced the 109-yard hole No. 8 using a pitching wedge. Witnesses were Tad Fink, Darren Johnson and Scott Osadchuk.
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The third time is the charm. It’s hard to beat a team three times in a season.
There are plenty of aphorisms about teams playing each other for the third time in a given season, and the Mandan A’s were the ones who took advantage of the turn of fate the sayings promise.
Down to their final two outs in Thursday evening’s fourth quarterfinal of the West Division Class A Legion tournament at their home Memorial Ballpark, Mandan rallied for three runs against the Bismarck Capitals’ bullpen to pull off an improbable comeback, 8-7.
“We’ve preached all season to play seven full innings,” Mandan head coach Rob Bird Horse said. “Don’t get too hard on yourself early, it’s a long game, and that was the preaching point today. We got down early, played the whole seven innings, and got the outs we needed for things to work out our way.”
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Going against an old foe in Trace King, who had frustrated the A’s in their two counter games in the regular season, Mandan was in a tough spot.
Their hopes of staying in the winner’s bracket faded even further when their first two pitchers, Marcus Bird Horse and Kingsley Briscoe, managed just eight outs while giving up eight hits, three walks and six runs.
“I tip my hat to (Trace King), he held us at bay for both of his last two starts against us,” Bird Horse said. “We had to have a short memory. The guys stuck with the grind and trusted the process.”
“Trace is a great pitcher, we struggled getting on him,” Mandan winning pitcher Doug Sheldon said. “We found a way to get him out of the game and get on the new pitchers.”
With Bird Horse only getting six outs and having to relieve Briscoe in the bottom of the third, it seemed unlikely that Sheldon would manage to end up with the win.
Thanks to 4 1/3 innings of three-hit, one-run ball, where he walked not a one, Sheldon kept the A’s alive with a shot at finally solving the Capitals’ ace in King.
“We had a plan with our pitchers right away, and that went right out the door,” Bird Horse said. “Hats off to him for taking the ball, pounding the zone and giving us a chance and it worked out in the end.”
“I didn’t help my team much at the plate, so I did my best to help my team in other ways,” Sheldon said. “They made great plays behind me, and I figured if I couldn’t get it done at the plate, I’d do it out in the field.”
It took until their final few batters in the fifth inning, but the A’s did manage to solve King enough.
Trailing 7-1 at that point and playing much of the inning with two outs, the A’s unloaded the stuffed basepaths with a wild pitch from King, a single by Bird Horse, and a two-run double by Jack Tooke that featured a scary moment of two Bismarck Capitals’ outfielders colliding while trying to make a play on Tooke’s knock.
Both returned to their feet, but the A’s had made it a ballgame at 7-5. All they felt they needed was one more good set of at bats.
“We were talking about (Trace King)’s pitch count as the game progressed, and as it was climbing in that fifth inning, we were telling the guys to see pitches, swinging at pitches you want to drive and put in play,” Bird Horse said. “A lot of our guys are young, but I think they grew up a little with this game, they believed in themselves.”
Those at bats came in the top of the seventh with the team down to their final three outs if they hoped to avoid the loser-out games.
After Briscoe was hit for the second time in the game, this time by reliever Evan Fuchs, Jensen Schulz and a fortuitous out-less sac bunt loaded the bases right back up.
Tooke was unable to get the job done, as he flew out to left, but Carson Ressler made it a one-run game with a bases-loaded walk that brought in pinch runner Kaleb Ulberg.
That walk was the final batter of the night for Fuchs, who was yanked for Quinn Carlson to try and get the Capitals out of the fire.
“It’s hard to make an adjustment (against a fresh pitcher),” Mandan leadoff hitter Cameron Beaver said. “You have to sit on a fastball or striking early, because if you wait too long, off-speed stuff can be hard to hit.”
He started that attempt against the hitless-through-four-at-bats Beaver.
Beaver entered that fifth and final at-bat of the night having struck out twice, flown out and grounded out. He was due.
“I fought in my head over asking him to lay down a squeeze bunt,” Bird Horse said. “I thought it was his (fifth) at bat, he’d make an adjustment and look at what happened. That’s the beautiful thing about baseball.”
The double he lashed to left field scored Schulz and Bird Horse, giving the A’s a one-run lead and runners at second and third with one out.
“The whole time I was trying to get on base and get a hit for my team,” Beaver said. “That was a good spot for me to be in, the atmosphere was great with runners on base. That felt great, I knew that we’d be getting those runs in to tie the game or go ahead. That was a good moment.”
The one-run lead would be all they’d get, as Carlson buckled down and induced a strikeout of Sheldon and a popout of Ty Weiler.
Sheldon’s hopes at preserving the win ran into immediate trouble, as Eliot Huntington blasted a leadoff double to the left-center gap.
Thanks to a pair of nice catches on the run by his right fielder, and a flyout to center, Mandan completed their improbable comeback and secured a date with the Senators in the semifinals this afternoon.
“I could feel the energy throughout the whole game, it was a fun one for sure,” Sheldon said. “I went out there, threw the ball over the plate and my defense made plays behind me to help me relax a little.”
While the top of Mandan’s order had a slow night, the Capitals’ top hitters were on fire.
King (2-for-4 with a double), Evan Hummel (walk, two runs scored), Hayden Ritter (3-for-4, triple, two runs scored), Huntington (2-for-4, double, run scored, RBI) and Avrey Emery (2-for-3, walk, run scored, two RBIs) accounted for nine of Bismarck’s 11 hits, six of their seven runs, and three of their four extra-base hits.
“The Capitals throughout the season have been a team that puts the ball in play, putting the pressure on defenses and making them get outs,” Bird Horse said. “With our guys, we were telling our guys to keep the ball at knee level, avoiding belt-high strikes, just working ahead and getting us outs when we needed them.”
Mandan played the Senators tough in the regular season, but it’s a time in the season where the teams playing in the late afternoon and evening tomorrow are all 1-0 now.
“We had two one-run ballgames during the regular season, so we played good baseball against each other,” Bird Horse said. “Should be some good baseball in the semifinals tomorrow.”
BISMARCK SENATORS 5, WILLISTON OILERS 3
The Bismarck Senators kicked off the double elimination portion of the tournament Thursday with a 5-3 win over the eighth-seeded Williston Oilers.
After Ben LaDuke was tagged for all three Williston runs across two-plus innings of work, Logan Lawrence came on in relief and stifled the Oilers, allowing just three hits and two walks in five scoreless innings of work.
The Senators got the extra-base hits needed to mount their comeback down 3-0. Individual runs in the third and fourth brought Bismarck closer, and a two-run double by Andrew Jablonski in the fifth gave the top-seeded Sens the lead for good.
Andrew Llewellyn went the distance for Williston, allowing 11 hits and a walk while striking out four.
While having a tough day on the mound, LaDuke helped plenty at the plate to make up for it, going 1-for-2 with a triple, a walk, a run scored and an RBI on the triple.
Jablonski had a pair of doubles, drove in the game-winning runs and scored twice himself. Traiden Kalfell was 2-for-3 with another triple and an RBI. Hayden Emter was 2-for-3 with a stolen base and the Senators’ first run of the day.
BISMARCK REPS 10, WATFORD CITY WALLEYE 0, 5 INN.
After a closely-played first game of the day, the third-seeded Bismarck Reps ensured game two was no such contest.
Jumping all over Watford City, the Reps, thanks to an error in the bottom of the fifth with the winning run at third and two outs, completed a 10-0 run-rule win over the Walleye.
The Walleye managed just five baserunners against Bismarck’s Charlie Vig, who tossed five innings of two-hit ball to earn the win.
Offensively, Bismarck counted good performances from up and down its lineup, with Aiden Johnson (2-for-2, walk, stolen base, run, two RBIs), Isaac Lewis (3-for-4, two stolen bases, two runs) and Andrew Brubakken (2-for-3, double, two stolen bases, run, two RBIs) leading the charge.
DICKINSON VOLUNTEERS 12, BEULAH CYCLONES 9
In a long and walk-filled slugfest, the second-seeded Dickinson Volunteers edged past the tenth-seeded Beulah Cyclones, 12-9.
Combining for 22 walks, 16 hits and eight errors, neither team acquitted itself particularly well on the mound, but the Volunteers still managed to edge out the upset-minded Cyclones.
Andrew Soine of Beulah had the rare distinction of reaching base four times without a hit (three walks, one hit by pitch) and scoring on all four of those occasions.
Ronan Klindworth (2-for-4, hit by pitch, stolen base, run) and Braylen Schirado (2-for-4, walk, two RBIs) also did well for the Cyclones.
For Dickinson, Nick Sobolik was 2-for-4 with a double, walk, two stolen bases and three runs scored, and Christian Tibor was 2-for-4 with a triple and two runs scored.
UP NEXT
In the tournament semifinals, the Bismarck Senators and Mandan A’s meet at 4 p.m., followed by Dickinson and the Representatives at 6:30 p.m.
Watford City catches a lucky break in the loser-out round, as Beulah, perhaps not expecting to make it to Saturday, is forfeiting their matchup due to a lack of players, sending the Walleye into the state qualifier game on Saturday and sending the Cyclones home.
In what is now the only loser-out game, the Capitals take on Williston at 1:30 p.m.
WEST DIVISION TOURNAMENT
At Mandan Memorial Ballpark
Mandan A’s 8, Bismarck Capitals 7
Mandan 001 040 3 — 8 9 0
Capitals 105 100 0 — 7 11 2Marcus Bird Horse, Kingsley Briscoe (3), Doug Sheldon (3) and Jensen Schulz; Trace King, Evan Fuchs (6), Quinn Carlson (7) and Logan Herman. W — Sheldon. L — Fuchs.
Highlights: Mandan — Cameron Beaver 1-for-5, game-winning two-run double; Ty Weiler 2-for-5, 2B, R; Tristan Ulmer 2-for-4, R; Briscoe 1-for-2, 2 HBP, R, RBI; Jack Tooke 1-for-3, 2B, BB, 2 RBIs; Bird Horse 2 IP, 4 H, 1 R (1 ER), 0 BB, 0 K; Briscoe 0.2 IP, 4 H, 5 R (4 ER), 3 BB, 0 K; Sheldon 4.1 IP, 3 H, 1 R (1 ER), 0 BB, 1 K. Bismarck — King 2-for-4, 2B; Hayden Ritter 3-for-4, 3B, 2 R; Eliot Huntington 2-for-4, 2B, R, RBI; Avrey Emery 2-for-3, BB, R, 2 RBIs; Grady Swanson 1-for-4, R, 2 RBIs; Herman 1-for-3, 2B, RBI; King 5 IP, 8 H, 5 R (4 ER), 2 BB, 8 K, 1 HBP; Fuchs 1.1 IP, 0 H, 3 R (3 ER), 3 BB, 0 K, 1 HBP; Carlson 0.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K.
Bismarck Senators 5, Williston Oilers 3
Williston 201 000 0 — 3 8 0
Bismarck 001 130 x — 5 11 3
Andrew Llewellyn and Hunter Haugen; Ben LaDuke, Logan Lawrence (3) and Tyler Kleinjan. W — Lawrence. L — Llewellyn.
Highlights: Williston — Bode Ekblad 1-for-3, BB; Eden Mortenson 2-for-2, BB, R; Justin Irgens 1-for-3, RBI; Owen Kok 2-for-3, SB, 2 RBIs; Haugen 1-for-3; Trystan Swint 1-for-3; Llewellyn 6 IP, 11 H, 5 R (5 ER), 1 BB, 4 K. Bismarck — LaDuke 1-for-2, 3B, BB, R, RBI; Tyler Kleinjan 1-for-3; Andrew Jablonski 2-for-3, 2 2B, 2 R, 2 RBIs; Traiden Kalfell 2-for-3, 3B, RBI; Harrison Reichert 2-for-3, 2B; Jason Juma 1-for-3, RBI; Hayden Emter 2-for-3, SB, R; LaDuke 2 IP, 5 H, 3 R (2 ER), 0 BB, 0 K; Lawrence 5 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 3 K, 1 WP.
Bismarck Reps 10, Watford City Walleye 0, 5 innings
Watford City 000 00 — 0 2 1
Representatives 233 11 — 10 11 0
Colton Hufnagel, Jordan Doty (2), Paco Baldenegro (4), Josh Chavez (4) and Baldenegro; Charlie Vig and Cash Weisenberger. W — Vig. L — Hufnagel.
Highlights: Watford City — Carson Voll BB; Neil Dahl 1-for-2; Doty BB; Jason Hogue 1-for-1, HBP. Bismarck — Tanner Groseclose BB, R; Isaac Lewis 3-for-4, 2 SB, 2 R; Vig 1-for-3, BB, SB, R; Aiden Johnson 2-for-2, BB, SB, R, 2 RBIs; Cooper Miller 1-for-1, 2 HBP, SB, R, RBI; Tate Schaner 1-for-2, HBP, 2 R, RBI; Gavin Brice 1-for-3, 2B, R, RBI; Andrew Brubakken 2-for-3, 2B, 2 SB, R, 2 RBIs; Vig 5 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 6 K, 1 HBP.
Dickinson 12, Beulah 9
Beulah 010 143 0 — 9 8 3
Dickinson 162 210 x — 12 8 5
Tanner Brewster, Gus Strommen (2) and Lucas Weidner; Easton Hugelen, Sam Lewton (5), Trenton Anderson (5) and Christian Tibor. W — Hugelen. L — Brewster.
Highlights: Beulah — Jack Skalsky 1-for-3, 2 BB, 2 RBIs; Braylen Schirado 2-for-4, BB, 2 RBIs; Ronan Klindworth 2-for-4, HBP, SB, R; Avery Cole HBP, 2 R; Andrew Soine 3 BB, HBP, 4 R; Brewster 3 BB. Dickinson — Easton Hugelen 3 BB, Sac fly, RBI; Drew Gabel SB, 2 R; Nick Sobolik 2-for-4, 2B, BB, 2 SB, 3 R; Jake Balliet 3 BB, Sac fly, R, RBI; Kevin Olsson 1-for-2, 2 BB, SB, R; Tyler Danbom 2-for-3, 2B, BB, RBI; Tibor 2-for-4, 3B, 2 R.
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In their two regular-season matchups this year, the Bismarck Senators, the top-seeded team in this year’s Class A Legion tournament, had played the Mandan A’s, the fifth-seeded team, to a one-run win and one-run loss.
There was no such close action after the first few innings at Memorial Ballpark Friday.
Keyed by crooked numbers in four of their six innings, the Senators blew out the A’s 10-2 and punched their ticket to the state tournament and today’s championship matchup with Dickinson.
"The boys came out today, we were loose," Senators head coach Troy Olson said. "We kept having better at bats as the game went on, and I liked our pitching with Tony (Burkel), who came in after a rough second. When we got those couple of runs, it was the Tony Burkel show."
As has been their formula for success all season long, the Senators played and stuck to the small-ball formula.
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Going from station to station, stealing bases and utilizing sac bunts, the top seed took advantage of a pair of Mandan errors, including an obstruction call in a rundown that drew the ire of Mandan fans in attendance, to build a 3-0 lead after the first.
"We want to get guys on base, and if you have a situation where there are two outs and there are no runners on, there's no pressure on the defense," Olson said. "That same situation with the bases loaded, all of a sudden, you feel a little more pressure and have to make a play.
"We've practiced that all year, we expect them to execute the small-ball game, because we practice it more than any team in the state, and with that comes the expectation of executing it."
Staying patient in their next at bat, Mandan forced Senators starter Jason Juma out of the game after just an inning and a third of work, in which he was tagged for both of Mandan’s runs without surrendering a hit.
On came reliever Burkel with the bases loaded and one out.
"I wasn't expecting to come in that early, but that was fun," Burkel said. "I had to stay focused in every at bat, worked on getting the ball over the plate, and had confidence in my defense. I like being relied on like that."
While he allowed an RBI bunt single to the first hitter he faced, Carson Ressler, he induced a groundball double play off the bat of Mandan leadoff hitter Cameron Beaver, whose struggles at the plate in the tournament -- not withstanding his game-winning RBI double against the Bismarck Capitals in the seventh inning on Thursday -- continued in an 0-for-4 day.
"To leave that inning with a one-run lead, that was big at that point in the game," Olson said.
"With that kind of short lead, that was a big play," Burkel said. "We just had to get out of that inning and stay focused and getting the bats going again."
The double play was emblematic of Mandan's biggest issue on the day: cashing in with runners on base.
Including the two left on after the double play in the second, Mandan stranded 10 runners, twice leaving the bases loaded.
"Obviously we'd like to not have the bases loaded all the time, but we made big plays on defense that left those runners stranded," Olson said. "They had a ton of runners left on, and I give our guys props for making those plays in pressure situations."
Escaping the second without surrendering the lead was all the Senators needed from Burkel, though obviously his five-and-a-third innings of three-hit ball didn’t hurt.
"We fortunately got Tony in at the right time to strand some runners and minimize the damage," Olson said. "From then on, it was him being competitive and he was the leader we needed on the mound today. He did a great job."
"We've had some issues with walking people recently," Burkel said. "Our focus today was throwing strikes and getting hitters out. Even if Mandan put the bat on the ball, my defense was behind me and I had confidence in them."
After their offense was stifled in the second and third innings, Bismarck gave Burkel much-needed insurance runs in their final three at bats.
Keyed by big days from Ben LaDuke (2-for-3, double, two walks, stolen base, three runs scored, one RBI), Andrew Jablonski (2-for-4, stolen base, one run scored, 4 RBIs), Traiden Kalfell (two walks, one hit by pitch, Sac fly, run scored, one RBI) and Jared Frank (2-for-3, walk, one run scored, one RBI), Bismarck’s offense knocked Weiler out after the fourth and then went to work on Mandan’s bullpen.
"We like to ask them for some runs, but those crooked numbers were nice to give Tony some breathing room on the mound," Olson said. "Jared Frank puts pressure on defenses, talk about pressure, when he puts the ball on the ground, it's tough to get him out."
Kalfell and Jablonski drove in the runs in the fourth with an RBI groundout and a sac fly, respectively.
In the fifth, Jablonski was at it again, driving a two-run single to right after a pair of sac bunts put Frank and LaDuke in scoring position.
LaDuke's RBI double in the sixth was the final big blow of the game for the Senators' offense.
"We had a lot of clutch at bats with two outs, and some of those were also two-strike at bats," Olson said. "One inning we had a groundout that scored a run with two strikes and then Kalfell had a sac fly, and those were our only two runs that inning."
Plating a pair of runs each in the fourth and fifth and then taking advantage of another Mandan error -- they had four total in the game -- to put up a three-spot in the sixth.
"We came to the park ready to play," Burkel said. "On the offensive side, we just focused on getting the bat on the ball. We've played for one run at a time all season, and for the rest of it, we just try to hit the ball hard."
The win ensures a trip to state for the Senators, and gives the team a chance to live up to their West Division tournament seed against the Dickinson Volunteers.
"It's nice for the boys, as the 1 seed, there comes some pressure, but we ground out a win yesterday, and I liked how the boys showed up to the park today," Olson said. "They were having fun, we had a good day today as far as being mentally focused and being into the game, and that was something I'd like to see continue in tourney time."
"Both teams are really good, we're looking forward to playing them," Burkel said. "We'll come to the field ready to play."
Dickinson Volunteers 5, Bismarck Reps 2
The Bismarck Reps had an opportunity to make Saturday's final game an all-Bismarck affair, but mistakes on both offense and defense cost them that opportunity in a 5-2 loss to Dickinson.
Dickinson scored all of their runs with two outs on the board, and even more crucially, their three insurance runs in the fourth were all unearned due to a fielding error on the first play of the inning.
Kevin Olsson twirled a dandy on the mound for Dickinson, going the distance and getting some crucial outs from his defense when the Reps got sloppy.
All told, the Reps had a runner caught stealing second when he left late on the pitch, a runner tagged out at second trying to stretch a single into a double, and a runner picked off of third when he was too slow to get back to the bag to help crush a major scoring opportunity.
Max Vig knocked an RBI single in the third for one of Bismarck's runs and Tate Schaner clocked a sac fly to center for the other run in the fourth.
Cooper Miller took a tough-luck loss, as he was charged for all five Dickinson runs, though only two were earned.
Miller and Schaner did, however, combine for 11 strikeouts of Dickinson hitters, as they closed out at-bats with authority throughout the game.
Bismarck Capitals 10, Williston Oilers 0 (6)
The Bismarck Capitals shook off a tough quarterfinal loss in style in the lone loser-out game Friday afternoon, beating Williston 10-0 in run-rule fashion after six innings.
Connor Grabow threw a six-hitter shutout for the Capitals, striking out two and walking none while dicing through Williston’s lineup.
Offensively, the Capitals put up their 10 runs thanks to 12 hits, five walks, a hit batter and an error.
Leading the surge was Eliot Huntington (1-for-2, double, two walks, two stolen bases, three runs scored, one RBI), Avrey Emery (3-for-3, walk, RBI), Grady Swanson (3-for-4, triple, run scored, RBI) and Logan Herman (2-for-4, triple, run scored, two RBIs).
The Bismarck Capitals put up four spots in both the second and fourth innings, then tallied single runs in the third and sixth to end the game early.
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The West Division tournament concludes today with a trio of games.
The early games feature state qualifying matchups between the Watford City Walleye and the Mandan A's at 11 a.m. and an all-Bismarck matchup between the Capitals and Reps at 1:30 p.m.
With their spots at state already locked in, the Bismarck Senators and Dickinson Volunteers battle at 4 p.m. for the top seed and championship honors.
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In sports, it’s not hard to know when it’s the end.
Either the clock runs out; the last out is made; the last forehand winner ends the fifth set; the eight-second horn blows or you get stomped into the dirt; the checkered flag flies; you putt in on 18; or throw that last ball in the 10th frame.
In sports writing, it’s a little different. How do you know when to give up something you vainly think you’re still good at, and hope others do, too? Especially when you still love doing it, and love being a small part of the games you have long been too old to play. It’s that last part that makes me feel more like 45 than 60 (when I’m watching).
I can’t play the games I used to – baseball, football, basketball, tennis, softball and so on. Now my rebuilt shoulders and surgically repaired knees and hands limit me to more static pursuits like golf (I’m bad) and bowling (I’m worse).
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Covering sports played by younger people got me back in the game. I was part of it again: behind the chutes with the cowboys at the rodeo; In a hundred press boxes with new and old cohorts calling the games on radio and covering for their respective papers; being on the field with the athletes and coaches themselves to get a couple quotes and reminisce about years gone by.
Now I believe my clock has ticked down to zero. And this game has as much to do with doing the right thing for the right person as it does doing the right thing for me. It’s time to give my nights and weekends to my wife, Robin. Ask any sports writer, broadcaster or coach who has been married a long time, they will tell you it takes a special person to put up with that. For four decades, Robin has put up with a lot, without complaint.
For 42 years, starting back at The Dickinson Press in 1981, weekends have not really been mine, not even after leaving the newsroom full-time 22 years ago. As a full-time part-timer for the Tribune, the Associated Press and at some time writing for every daily newspaper (or now website) in the state and beyond, I still spent almost as many nights or weekends writing gamers or features as I did for those first 20.
If I didn’t love that work and the great coaches, fans, other sports writers and broadcasters and tournament workers I got to see on a regular basis, I would have given it up a long time ago.
Newspapering was different when I started. There were no computers, no cell phones, no email, no text messaging, no internet, no covering games from home. You drove to Bowman, called in a story that a stringer (none of those anymore) took by dictation and you drove home. Folks smoked like stacks in the newsroom, went to bars together after work and tournaments. Old timers schooled newbies. Newsrooms were packed with reporters and readers were plentiful.
Today, you can find all the details you need immediately online, call a person from anywhere for a quote or to verify details and file a story from an outhouse if you want.
For several years, I covered all WCHA hockey on Fridays and Saturdays from my home. Same with NDSU, UND, SDSU and USD football. I even covered five simultaneous state high school basketball tournaments in North and South Dakota for the AP from my home on three computers and two TVs.
All the while, Robin sat home or took weekend trips with her twin sister, Debbie. They even celebrated one of our milestone anniversaries by taking my son on a trip to Scotland while I stayed home to work. Thank God she’s been around all this time to cover my butt.
Looking back, I ask myself what kind of person would marry a sports writer or broadcaster after already seeing what kind of life they live? Robin knew what she was getting into because 42 years ago she, too, worked at the Dickinson Press and saw the hours I kept. But she still asked me to marry her (true story), and 38 years ago – on state Class B basketball championship night – we got hitched. I and most of the men in my wedding party stood at the bar at the German Hungarian Club in Dickinson watching Linton in the title game rather than doing the other things you do at a wedding.
After the first argument about that, things settled into a groove; Robin being home most nights, including weekends; me at the game or the office. Robin didn’t and still doesn’t care for sports in general, but we’ll go to games together if I’m not covering just to have a date night. She pretends to like going.
Now I feel like one of the last of a dying breed. When I learned recently that Wayne Nelson in Grand Forks had retired, I pondered if I am now the longest-serving active sports writer in the state. I would take pride in that. But if I were, it wouldn’t be for long. I asked longtime sports writer Greg DeVillers if he ever regretted retiring or thought about writing part time. Never, he said.
With his words echoing in my head like a ticked-off parent screaming at a ref, l heard the final horn sound. So, to everyone I’ve ever worked with or for, I thank you for making the last nearly half-century immensely enjoyable and I look forward to seeing you at games and tournaments as a “civilian.”
Robin, time to pack up the Harley and ride off into the sunset … at least as far as Rolling Hills Truck Stop for dinner. I don’t have anywhere else to be. From now on, I’m yours.
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CAPE MAY — A new water treatment plant may provide millions of gallons of water a day to thirsty residents, visitors and Coast Guard recruits, if the city can find the money.
On Tuesday, David Samuel, managing partner with the firm Consulting and Municipal Engineers, presented a hopeful assessment of the prospect of gaining millions of dollars’ worth of federal grants to fund a new desalination plant, in an update to City Council.
But it will take time.
“The reality is it’s a process to follow. So we’re in that process,” said consultant Michael Zumpino at the same meeting.
Mayor Zack Mullock said this week it could be about two years before water starts flowing from a new plant. For more than a year, city officials have said the current plant did not have enough capacity to meet the area’s water needs under state guidelines, and would need to be replaced or dramatically upgraded.
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“So where are we going to get the money, Mike?” Mullock asked Zumpino.
The city turned to the consultants to help guide it toward the eventual replacement of a water desalination plant, and to help seek out enough grant money to make it feasible.
The current plant was state-of-the-art when it was completed more than two decades ago as an answer to saltwater intrusion into the municipal wells on which Cape May and the surrounding communities depend.
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One of New Jersey’s first beach resorts, the community has been drawing water from wells for generations, digging new wells as salt water began to be drawn in from the old ones.
That strategy was not going to work forever, and in the 1990s, the city tried a radical new approach, constructing a plant that uses reverse osmosis to filter the salt from the water, allowing the city’s water utility to continue to draw from wells that would otherwise be too salty to drink.
At that time, the city looked to federal grants to help cover the cost of the water treatment plant. The city hopes federal grants will come through again.
The first trickles of that money have already started to flow, potentially priming the pump for millions more. A $30,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture helped fund an assessment of conditions at the plant, and Samuel told council members that $600,000 has been approved through congressionally directed spending, which will fund the next phase of engineering.
Cape May requested those funds last year, and while there are still details to be worked out, Samuel expects them to be in place by the end of the year.
According to Samuel’s presentation, that grant may draw more grants, in the range of $25 million to $32 million, enough to fund a significant portion of the construction of a new water plant. But to apply for those levels of funding, the city will need to complete more detailed plans for the plant.
He spoke enthusiastically about the meetings that have taken place so far with state and federal officials about the need for the project, and communications with Sens. Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, both D-N.J., and U.S. Rep Jeff Van Drew, R-2nd.
Detailed plans await the $600,000, but the preliminary proposal calls for the construction of a new building with a more modern water treatment system, one Samuel said would operate more efficiently.
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The new plant will include offices for staff, he said, and upgraded safety measures. In the current plant, some of the electrical systems are built close to water systems that are now less than watertight. The city should not have staff members standing in water, or potentially being sprayed with water, while operating electrical systems, Samuel said.
“That is an absolute no-no,” he said.
A new system could supply more than 3 million gallons of treated water a day, a capacity that could be increased with plans for an additional system that could remove iron from the water, allowing the use of another well with a high iron content.
If the city can’t get enough money to do everything, the plans are set so that the work can be accomplished in phases, to limit how much the city will bond for at one time.
“You’ve asked us to make sure that it’s a modernized plant that will simplify the operations and will last as long as it possibly can, and that’s what we’re trying to achieve,” Samuel said.
Zumpino said the water capacity is needed not only for tourism and residents but also for the Coast Guard Training Center, the only site for basic training for the service in the country. Federal plans are to increase the capacity for the number of recruits at the center.
Zumpino said he has met with officials with the Coast Guard and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers about the need for the project and potential funding. He said the consultants had a consistent message:
“This isn’t just a preferred option, a whim, something that we’d like to do,” he said. “This was critical to the continued sustainability of providing potable water to military and to communities for tourism and the quality of life.”
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Council member Shaine Meier spoke in favor of the water project but said he would want to make every effort to preserve the current building, or at least save the façade. The current water works are housed in a building on Canning House Lane that dates to the 1920s.
With the importance Cape May places on historic preservation, Meier said, the city should try to lead by example.
The water continues to flow in Cape May. City officials say while the plant is operating over capacity, the city’s water utility meets the need even on crowded summer weekends. The state Department of Environmental Protection mandates that communities be able to supply more than 100% of peak demand even if the most productive well goes down.
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How Time Flies is a daily feature looking back at Pantagraph archives to revisit what was happening in our community and region.
100 years ago
July 23, 1923: Logan County Sheriff Albright has adopted a new rule in regard to the illicit liquor traffic and arrest of those accused of violating the laws. He said he believes in equality of the sexes, especially when it comes to commission of crime, and hereafter will hold the wife in a bootlegging household legally guilty as the husband. He said that when bootlegging occurs daily in a home, the wife must be guilty of connivance or at least guilty knowledge and covert encouragement of the act.
75 years ago
July 23, 1948: From the moment pianist Hazel Scott swept onto the stage in a strapless white gown splashed with silver to her final bow, she completely captivated the audience at Illinois State University's Capen Auditorium. Her two groups of classic Bach, Liszt and Chopin numbers sent the audience into spasms of applause early in the program; but it was when she cut loose on Fats Waller, boogie woogie and a Dizzy Gillespie "bop" bingo that the crowd went wild.
50 years ago
July 23, 1973: Rowe Construction Co. President Charles Murray said construction may begin within three weeks on a $1.8 million project that will include construction of four interchange ramps at the intersection of U.S. 66 and U.S. 51 on the southern edge of Bloomington. The project also calls for 1.35 miles of paving on U.S. 51, from near Highland Park to the Interstate 74 overpass.
25 years ago
July 23, 1998: A Walk of Honor is being created for the entrance of a new building at Epiphany Catholic Grade School in Normal. Up to 2,000 bricks will be sold for $50 and can be engraved with the buyer's name. The money raised — which could reach up to $100,000 — will be used for items such as desks, chairs and bleachers for the new building at 1002 E. College Ave. Construction started in February.
101 years ago: See vintage Pantagraph ads from 1922
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W.H. Roland
Pease's Candy
Thor 32 Electric Washing Machine
The Kaiser's Story of the War
Ike Livingston & Sons
Gossard Corsets
Cat'n Fiddle
'Stolen Moments'
Case Model X
The Johnson Transfer & Fuel Co.
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Franklin Motor Car Co.
'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'
Calumet Baking Powder
Mayer Livingston & Co. Newsmarket
'The Emperor Jones'
'California Fig Syrup'
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PITTSBURGH — It is another nice start to the day with temperatures in the upper 50s across most areas. Today will be a little warmer than yesterday, but humidity will remain low. A few showers could pop up this afternoon but again mainly well north of Pittsburgh and closer to I-80.
You’ll notice a touch more humidity as we head into Monday and Tuesday, but it won’t be overwhelming. Still, the warmer trend will continue with highs pushing into the upper 80s Tuesday. Low rain chances continue but most of the time it will not be raining this week.
By Wednesday, temperatures will soar into the low 90s with heat indices possibly even higher. The high heat looks to continue through the end of the week. Check back as Severe Weather Team 11 keeps you posted on when the worst of the heat will get here.
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The director of the Idaho Department of Water Resources has found that senior Snake River water users will not be injured by junior groundwater pumping at the mid-season point of the 2023 irrigation season, and thus, no curtailment of junior water users will need to occur, officials say.
IDWR officials, however, could find injury later this season.
The decision comes after implementing changes to the current methodology order and reevaluating current water supply conditions in the Upper Snake River Basin.
IDWR Director Gary Spackman issued two decisions April 21 regarding the longstanding Surface Water Coalition delivery call: The first decision amended the method used to calculate injury, known as methodology order, to Snake River senior surface water users.
The second decision applied the updated methodology information for hydrologic and climate conditions for this year, and determined that a 75,200 acre-foot shortfall would occur to the senior priority surface water users’ water supplies in the 2023 irrigation season.
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Approximately 900 groundwater rights junior to December 30, 1953, not protected by an approved mitigation plan, could be subject to curtailment as this irrigation season develops, Spackman said. Because of the changes to the methodology used by IDWR to calculate impacts, he put his decisions on hold until hearings were held June 6 to 10 to get feedback from the affected users.
Following the June hearings, Spackman on Wednesday issued three decisions. The first, the Sixth Final Methodology order, implemented changes to the methods used to calculate impacts, based on evidence provided at the hearing.
The second decision applied the revised methodology to the mid-season hydrologic and climate conditions. The As-Applied order found there was no injury to any of the seven members of the Surface Water Coalition. He found there would be no water demand shortfall for any of them, based on the mid-summer water supplies and crop demand.
He also issued a third decision responding to many of the legal arguments raised by junior groundwater users at the June 6 hearing. All three decisions are appealable to the courts.
Following the water users’ conjunctive administration delivery call, filed in 2008, IDWR calculates the injury to senior water users each year based on the latest water supply information available.
The Methodology Order is the court-approved process IDWR uses to evaluate water supply conditions, aquifer conditions and irrigation demand. From that calculation, IDWR determines the impacts, or injury, to senior surface water users by junior groundwater users pumping from the ESPA.
The department must periodically update the methodology used to account for long-term changes in climate, hydrologic conditions, and farming practices.
“The Department must periodically update the numerous factors involved in our Methodology Order calculations to ensure it adequately protects the senior water users,” Mat Weaver, IDWR deputy director, said in a department release.
Under Idaho water law, surface water users with senior water rights have priority over water users with junior rights on the Snake River and ESPA.
The rule of law is “first in time, first in right.” On the Snake River, IDWR manages both surface and groundwater resources together as one whole — “conjunctively” — in calculating impacts each year.
Despite the director’s latest finding, junior water users should continue to participate in and implement groundwater mitigation plans related to the ESPA surface water delivery call, officials say. That’s because IDWR continues to apply the methodology to evaluate the injury to senior surface water users for the duration of the irrigation season.
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WATERLOO — Altered Reality Book Club meets Thursday 5:30-6:30 p.m. at SingleSpeed Brewing Co., 325 Commercial St.
The club, created by the Waterloo Public Library, will be discussing "Children of Blood and Bone" by Tomi Adeyemi. It meets monthly to focus on sci-fi, fantasy and any type of speculative fiction books.
To participate, email Sarah at ssellers@waterloopubliclibrary.org. Once registered, more meeting details will be sent. A limited number of copies of each month's selected titles will be available for checkout. Digital copies may also be downloaded from Hoopla.com.
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CEDAR FALLS — It’s a good sign when a new eatery already has regulars just a week after opening.
That’s been the case for Dorian Larson, Mike Keller and Cody Tucker, who opened Le Petit Patisserie and Café at the former Carter House Market & Café location at 119 Main St., which closed after about a year in business. Before that, it’d been Farm Shed.
“My neighbor from across the street has been here several times, and I live in Waverly,” said Tucker.
Eagle View Partners, a company of developer Mark Kittrell, owns the Black Hawk Hotel and the attached 1,700-square-foot space now housing the new breakfast and brunch spot.
It’s the second establishment Larson, Keller and Tucker own. The other is Montage, a fine dining restaurant also in downtown Cedar Falls at 222 Main St.
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“It’s been very well received,” said Larson. “A lady told me today that she had been hoping for a place like this. There just aren’t many options like this.”
A recent Main Street survey asked what type of eating or drinking establishment would draw a person downtown more often. Breakfast/brunch restaurant was the top choice at 53.6% and bakery was second at 45.9%.
Chocolate and almond croissants are the favorite dessert in the early going. The brie and prosciutto sandwich and smash burger also are popular. The menu includes sandwiches, salads, soups and weekend brunch options in addition to baked goods like scones, macaroons, madeleines, breads, and cakes – 99% of which are made in house.
Drinks include coffee, juice, milk, lemonade and soda with alcohol options like Bloody Mary’s and mimosas coming soon.
The team reimagined the space, next to Uncle Harry’s Five and Dime Tavern. It includes a kitchen, bakery and eating area with comfortable booth and table seating for up to 40 people. Wi-Fi and electrical outlets are available for those who want to get some work done.
The aroma draws you in and children can stand on their seats and peek into the bakery to see how the goodies are made.
Larson, Keller and Tucker met while working at Montage and worked their way up to management before taking over the business two years ago from former owners Jim and Jodi Landau.
They each got into the food business in their teens, whether as a dishwasher, busser, or behind the counter at a bakery. Now they’ve turned their experiences into an entrepreneurial venture.
“You love seeing people’s immediate reactions to the food and service you provide, and seeing that immediate response is definitely a huge bump in self-confidence,” Keller said.
Their dream project was a patisserie with trained chefs who utilize French-inspired cooking and baking techniques but put their own spin on the food they produce.
Austin Carlson, who has held management positions at both Montage and Cedar Falls Brown Bottle, is chef de cuisine. Vicky Dunn, who has sold naturally fermented artisanal bread and pastries at Cedar Valley farmers markets and taught bread-making at Three Pines Farm, is head pastry chef. Jennifer Kane, the other pastry chef, worked at Carter House and served as the pastry chef for Verve.
“A strong emphasis has to be placed on the crew we have,” said Larson. “Vicky, Jennifer and Austin have been dedicated the last month to get this up and rolling. They’ve had to put in so many hours. We’re extremely lucky to have this group.”
Orders can be placed at the counter or online at lepetitcf.com. Catering is not a “guaranteed” option, but people are encouraged to inquire to see what’s possible. No delivery is available.
The establishment is open from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
“We were presented with an opportunity you just don’t waste and immediately jumped on it,” said Larson. “Cedar Falls is one of the coolest cities in Iowa, easily, to have such a strong Main Street and have everyone so involved in it. There’s always something going on and bustling. There’s a lot of pride in it, and it’s hard not to want to keep growing with it.”
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CEDAR RAPIDS — The following Northeast Iowa residents earned a degree or diploma in the 2023 Kirkwood Community College Commencement May 13. They are listed by city.
Cedar Falls: Austin Geerts, Associate of Arts and Associate of Science; Emily Headington, Associate of Arts; Ben Merz, Associate of Applied Science.
Fairbank: Emma Silva, Associate of Applied Science.
Garwin: Tory Novotny, Associate of Applied Science.
Gilbertville: Cael Frost, Associate of Arts.
Grundy Center: Marissa Kanagy, Diploma; Kennedy Lufkin, Associate of Arts.
Hawkeye: Kelton Loomis, Diploma.
Hudson: Jared King, Associate of Applied Science.
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Independence: Carson Frye, Associate of Applied Science; Alexis Gunningham, Associate of Applied Science; Claudia Henningsen, Associate of Applied Science; Brittney Klever, Associate of Applied Science; Haylee Rathbun, Associate of Applied Science.
Jesup: Creed Rolison, Associate of Applied Science; Kalista Schutte, Associate of Science; Collin Trumbauer, Associate of Applied Science.
La Porte City: Anthony Kiler, Associate of Arts; Nick North, Associate of Applied Science; George Steil, Associate of Applied Science.
Oelwein: Lydia Hamilton, Associate of Applied Science; Camren Palmer, Associate of Applied Science.
Ossian: Carson Brincks, Associate of Applied Science.
Quasqueton: Casey Callahan, Associate of Applied Science.
Raymond: Riley Denton, Associate of Applied Science.
Reinbeck: Rachel Boesen, Associate of Arts.
Sumner: Lindsey Bunce, Associate of Applied Science.
Tama: Elizabeth Cervantes, Associate of Applied Science; Anna Glendy, Associate of Applied Science
Traer: Takoa Kopriva, Associate of Science.
Waterloo: Isabelle Stoffer, Associate of Arts.
West Union: Zach Ihde, Associate of Applied Science.
Winthrop: Mayce Boggess, Associate of Applied Science; Carmella Coleman, Associate of Applied Science; Vaughn Coleman, Associate of Arts; Chris Fuller, Associate of Applied Science; Kaitlyn Kortenkamp, Associate of Applied Science.
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WATERLOO — Waterloo Community Schools has hired Sue Alborn-Yilek as interim associate superintendent for the 2023-24 school year.
Her professional background includes an emphasis in e-learning, K-12 education, literacy, educational technology and instructional design. She has a doctorate in educational leadership and policy studies from Iowa State University and has been an educator for four decades.
She retired in 2019 after four years as a University of Northern Iowa assistant professor, according to her LinkedIn page. She coordinated the Principal Preparation Program during her time at UNI in Cedar Falls. Since 2017, she has also worked as a self-employed executive leadership consultant.
Previously, Alborn-Yilek held director of human resources positions for the Bettendorf Community School District from 2010 to 2015 and the North Scott Community School District in Eldridge from 2010 to 2013. From 2005 to 2010, she was director for the Education Office of Special Programs at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.
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Waterloo Schools underwent a hiring process in the spring for the position of associate superintendent before deciding to bring in Alborn-Yilek on an interim basis.
“She has been in education for 43 years and has coached countless principals and districts during her illustrious career,” Superintendent Jared Smith said in a news release. “She is uniquely qualified to contribute to our forward momentum as a district – in support of our staff, students, and district goals. She is retired and will be working with us part time, though will be fully invested in her commitment to her contributions this year to Waterloo Schools.”
The position had been held by Stephanie Mohorne since 2018. At this point, the board has not taken action related to her leaving the district. Officials did not respond to questions regarding this matter.
According to a news release from Liberty Elementary School District in Buckeye, Arizona, Mohorne was named the assistant superintendent of support services there in June.
In the Waterloo Schools’ release, Smith called Alborn-Yilek “the perfect candidate for our unique situation as we align this year and hire for the permanent position in the spring. Dr. Alborn-Yilek will be especially helpful to our district this year in providing guidance and support as we continue to align our systems, strengthen teacher leadership initiatives, and further develop a new/updated strategic plan.”
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CEDAR FALLS — An opening exists on the Cedar Falls Utilities board of trustees.
It gives the mayor the chance to make at least one more important appointment recommendation in the last year of his second and final term.
Leslie Prideaux, University of Northern Iowa assistant vice president of alumni relations, resigned June 30 because of relocation plans, CFU spokeswoman Mollie Strouse confirmed. The UNI Alumni Association announced on Facebook that she’s taken a job at her alma mater, the University of Iowa.
Prideaux was the shortest tenured member of the board, having been appointed to a six-year term in 2021 following stints on the Planning & Zoning Commission and Visitors & Tourism Board.
She was not present at the July trustees meeting when DGR Engineering presented its feasibility study results for a future reciprocating engine electric generating plant estimated to cost upwards of $64 million.
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Board members set policies and utility rates, approve project planning and contracts, engage in long-term resource and strategic planning and hire the CFU general manager to run day-to-day operations.
However, decisions pertaining to the proposed plant could be among the more important ones made by the board in the months and years to come.
The five-member board meets at 2 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month at the utility’s headquarters, 1 Utility Parkway. Trustees are paid $2,400 annually ($50 per month for each of the water, electric, gas and communication utilities) for their service.
Mayor Rob Green has installed an extensive vetting process for all candidates who apply for the various city boards and commissions. He makes the official recommendation, though, and it must pass a vote of the City Council.
The process has been a recent topic of council conversation, as has elected and appointed officials’ pay. Both could see changes in the not-too-distant future.
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JESUP — Wind turbines are proposed in Buchanan County to generate renewable energy.
There’s a lot that has been discussed and still has to happen if Next Era Energy Resources, the self-proclaimed largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and the sun, is to get the go-ahead for the “Jubilee Wind Project.”
The Buchannan County Board of Supervisors scheduled an informational meeting for 6 p.m. Monday at the St. Athanasius gym, 635 Stevens St. in Jesup. Company officials are expected to be present.
According to Zoning Administrator Chad Beatty, the company’s proposal has seen significant public interest since coming to the table last year. Dozens of turbines are currently being proposed for the southwest corner of the county around Brandon, Rowley and Jesup, and up along Interstate Highway 380.
“The Jubilee Wind project is more than wind turbines – it represents a significant capital investment in Iowa. Once operational, it will create good-paying jobs and provide millions in additional revenue for landowners and the local community,” states the company’s pitch online.
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A county moratorium is in place on wind projects. Beatty said the supervisors and the Buchanan County Planning & Zoning Commission are looking at the comprehensive plan for future land use and growth, and what they would like to see allowed on farm land.
“We hope to come to a decision on our vision for taking land out of production,” said Beatty.
He has seen some support, but a lot of opposition in the county from those who “put farmers first” and have a strong stance on private land rights as well as solar and wind projects. They often have feelings on “how land will no longer be the same once disturbed,” he noted.
Among the topics of discussion are the corn suitability rating of land where these turbines would be allowed. These regulations will be outlined in an ordinance for these projects, as will others pertaining to setbacks and decommissioning, to name a few.
“Is there a benefit to taking the fertile land out of production?” Beatty asked. “I think that’s the big question we have to answer.”
The wind project discussions continue while the Iowa Utilities Board considers Navigator CO2 Ventures’ proposed carbon dioxide pipeline, another controversial infrastructure project with implications in Buchanan County.
Stories about Waterloo's efforts to create a fiber network, broadband utility
The city of Waterloo has been moving towards the creation of a fiber network to provide municipal telecommunications services, including broadband internet, to its citizens. Here's a collection of stories about the city's efforts.
WATERLOO — The city of Waterloo is taking the next step in its march toward high speed internet for all residents as the Waterloo Fiber websit…
Waterloo Fiber Internet announced Eric Lage as the general manager of telecommunications for the utility.
The City Council awarded a bid of $77.9 million to ITG Communications for the fiber-to-the-premise and backbone network project.
Southern Waterloo will be the first to have a fiber backbone implemented beginning in the fall.
WATERLOO — More money is coming to Waterloo for its plan to build a municipal broadband network.
The city will move forward and use $20 million in general obligation bonds for a fiber network.
Polls will be open 7 a.m.-8 p.m. so Waterloo voters can weigh in on a public measure to issue the general obligation bonds for a proposed broadband system.
Residents in Waterloo will head to the ballot box on Sept. 13 to vote on how the city should fund part of the city’s fiber network project.
Voters in Waterloo can head to the polls Sept. 13 to weigh in on whether the city should borrow $20 million to develop a municipal communications utility.
WATERLOO — Waterloo is one step closer to establishing a citywide broadband service.
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WATERLOO – The Salvation Army of Waterloo/Cedar Falls continues to experience a higher-than-normal amount of requests for hygiene products.
Items most needed are soap, shampoo, toothbrushes and toothpaste, razors, deodorant, hairbrushes and combs, and feminine hygiene products. All items should be unused. Travel-sized items are preferred but full-size items are also accepted.
Donations can be dropped off at The Salvation Army of Waterloo/Cedar Falls at 89 Franklin St. in Waterloo during regular business hours which are 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to noon on Fridays.
Photos: Those we've lost in 2023
Tina Turner
Tina Turner , the unstoppable singer and stage performer who teamed with husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live shows in the 1960s and '70s and survived her horrifying marriage to triumph in middle age with the chart-topping "What's Love Got to Do With It," died May 24, 2023, at 83. Few stars traveled so far — she was born Anna Mae Bullock in a segregated Tennessee hospital and spent her latter years on a 260,000 square foot estate on Lake Zurich — and overcame so much. Her trademarks included a growling contralto that might smolder or explode, her bold smile and strong cheekbones, her palette of wigs and the muscular, quick-stepping legs she did not shy from showing off. She sold more than 150 million records worldwide, won 12 Grammys, was voted along with Ike into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 (and on her own in 2021 ) and was honored at the Kennedy Center in 2005. Her life became the basis for a film, a Broadway musical and an HBO documentary in 2021 that she called her public farewell.
AP file, 2009
Raquel Welch
Raquel Welch , whose emergence from the sea in a skimpy, furry bikini in the film “One Million Years B.C.” would propel her to international sex symbol status throughout the 1960s and '70s, died Feb. 15, 2023. She was 82. Welch’s breakthrough came in 1966's campy prehistoric flick “One Million Years B.C.,” despite having a grand total of three lines. Clad in a brown doeskin bikini, she successfully evaded pterodactyls but not the notice of the public.
AP file, 1982
Jim Brown
Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown , the unstoppable running back who retired at the peak of his brilliant career to become an actor as well as a prominent civil rights advocate during the 1960s, died May 18, 2023. He was 87. One of the greatest players in football history and one of the game’s first superstars, Brown was chosen the NFL’s Most Valuable Player in 1965 and shattered the league’s record books in a short career spanning 1957-65. Brown led the Cleveland Browns to their last NFL title in 1964 before retiring in his prime after the ’65 season to become an actor. He appeared in more than 30 films, including “Any Given Sunday” and “The Dirty Dozen.” When he finished playing, Brown became a prominent leader in the Black power movement during the civil rights struggles of the 1960s.
AP file, 1965
Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte , the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist, humanitarian and conscience of the world, died April 25, 2023. He was 96. With his glowing, handsome face and silky-husky voice, Belafonte was one of the first Black performers to gain a wide following on film and to sell a million records as a singer; many still know him for his signature hit “Banana Boat Song (Day-O),” and its call of “Day-O! Daaaaay-O.” But he forged a greater legacy once he scaled back his performing career in the 1960s and lived out his hero Paul Robeson’s decree that artists are “gatekeepers of truth.”
AP file, 2011
Lisa Marie Presley
Lisa Marie Presley , the only child of Elvis Presley and a singer-songwriter dedicated to her father’s legacy, died Jan. 12, 2023. She was 54. Presley shared her father's brooding charisma — the hooded eyes, the insolent smile, the low, sultry voice — and followed him professionally, releasing her own rock albums in the 2000s.
AP file, 2012
David Crosby
David Crosby , the brash rock musician who evolved from a baby-faced harmony singer with the Byrds to a mustachioed hippie superstar and an ongoing troubadour in Crosby, Stills, Nash & (sometimes) Young, died Jan. 18, 2023, at age 81. While he only wrote a handful of widely known songs, the witty and ever opinionated Crosby was on the front lines of the cultural revolution of the ’60s and ’70s — whether triumphing with Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young on stage at Woodstock, testifying on behalf of a hirsute generation in his anthem “Almost Cut My Hair” or mourning the assassination of Robert Kennedy in “Long Time Gone.”
AP file, 2017
Lance Reddick
Lance Reddick , a character actor who specialized in intense, icy and possibly sinister authority figures on TV and film, including “The Wire,” "Fringe” and the "John Wick” franchise, died March 17, 2023. He was 60. Reddick was often put in a suit or a crisp uniform during his career, playing tall, taciturn and elegant men of distinction. He was best known for his role as straight-laced Lt. Cedric Daniels on the hit HBO series “The Wire,” where his character was agonizingly trapped in the messy politics of the Baltimore police department.
AP file, 2013
Richard Belzer
Richard Belzer , the longtime stand-up comedian who became one of TV's most indelible detectives as John Munch in "Homicide: Life on the Street" and “Law & Order: SVU,” died Feb. 19, 2023. He was 78. For more than two decades and across 10 series — even including appearances on “30 Rock” and “Arrested Development” — Belzer played the wise-cracking, acerbic homicide detective prone to conspiracy theories. Belzer first played Munch on a 1993 episode of “Homicide” and last played him in 2016 on “Law & Order: SVU.”
AP file, 2013
Cindy Williams
Cindy Williams , who was among the most recognizable stars in America in the 1970s and 1980s for her role as Shirley opposite Penny Marshall's Laverne on the beloved sitcom "Laverne & Shirley," died Jan. 25, 2023. She was 75. Williams played the straitlaced Shirley Feeney to Marshall's more libertine Laverne DeFazio on the show about a pair of blue-collar roommates who toiled on the assembly line of a Milwaukee brewery in the 1950s and 1960s.
AP file, 2012
Alan Arkin
Alan Arkin , the wry character actor who demonstrated his versatility in everything from farcical comedy to chilling drama as he received four Academy Award nominations and won an Oscar in 2007 for "Little Miss Sunshine," has died. He was 89. A member of Chicago's famed Second City comedy troupe, Arkin was an immediate success in movies with the Cold War spoof "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming" and peaked late in life with his win as best supporting actor for the surprise 2006 hit "Little Miss Sunshine.”
AP file, 2011
Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot , the folk singer-songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind" and "Sundown” and for songs that told tales of Canadian identity, died May 1, 2023. He was 84. One of the most renowned voices to emerge from Toronto’s Yorkville folk club scene in the 1960s, Lightfoot recorded 20 studio albums and penned hundreds of songs, including “Carefree Highway," “Early Morning Rain” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."
AP file, 2012
Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck , a guitar virtuoso who pushed the boundaries of blues, jazz and rock ‘n’ roll, influencing generations of shredders along the way and becoming known as the guitar player’s guitar player, died Jan. 10, 2023. He was 78. Beck was among the rock-guitarist pantheon from the late ’60s that included Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix. Beck won eight Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice — once with the Yardbirds in 1992 and again as a solo artist in 2009.
AP file, 2010
Bobby Caldwell
Bobby Caldwell , a soulful R&B singer and songwriter who had a major hit in 1978 with “What You Won't Do for Love” and a voice and musical style adored by generations of his fellow artists, died March 14, 2023. He was 71. The smooth soul jam “What You Won't Do for Love” went to No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 6 on what was then called the Hot Selling Soul Singles chart. It became a long-term standard and career-defining hit for Caldwell, who also wrote the song.
AP file, 2013
Gary Rossington
Gary Rossington , Lynyrd Skynyrd’s last surviving original member who also helped to found the group, died March 5, 2023, at age 71. According to Rolling Stone, it was during a fateful Little League game, Ronnie Van Zant hit a line drive into the shoulder blades of opposing player Bob Burns and met his future bandmates. Rossington, Burns, Van Zant, and guitarist Allen Collins gathered that afternoon at Burns’ Jacksonville home to jam the Rolling Stone’s “Time Is on My Side.”
AP file, 2017
Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter , an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music, died March 2, 2023. He was 89.
AP file, 2013
Jerry Springer
Jerry Springer , the onetime mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional families willing to bare all on weekday afternoons including brawls, obscenities and blurred images of nudity, died April 27, 2023, at age 79. At its peak, “The Jerry Springer Show” was a ratings powerhouse and a U.S. cultural pariah, synonymous with lurid drama. Known for chair-throwing and bleep-filled arguments, the daytime talk show was a favorite American guilty pleasure over its 27-year run, at one point topping Oprah Winfrey’s show.
AP file, 2010
Jacklyn Zeman
Jacklyn Zeman , who became one of the most recognizable actors on daytime television during 45 years of playing nurse Bobbie Spencer on ABC’s “General Hospital,” died May 10, 2023. She was 70. Zeman joined “General Hospital” in 1977 as Barbara Jean, who went by Bobbie, and was the feisty younger sister of Anthony Geary’s Luke Spencer.
AP file, 2016
John Beasley
John Beasley , the veteran character actor who played a kindly school bus driver on the TV drama “Everwood” and appeared in dozens of films dating back to the 1980s, died May 30, 2023. He was 79. Beasley played an assistant coach in the 1993 football film “Rudy” and a retired preacher in 1997's “The Apostle,” co-starring and directed by Robert Duvall.
AP file, 2017
Michael Lerner
Michael Lerner , the Brooklyn-born character actor who played a myriad of imposing figures in his 60 years in the business, including monologuing movie mogul Jack Lipnick in “Barton Fink,” the crooked club owner Bugsy Calhoun in “Harlem Nights” and an angry publishing executive in “Elf” died April 8, 2023. He was 81.
AP file, 2012
Tom Sizemore
Tom Sizemore , the “Saving Private Ryan” actor whose bright 1990s star burned out under the weight of his own domestic violence and drug convictions, died March3, 2023, at age 61. Sizemore became a star with acclaimed appearances in “Natural Born Killers” and the cult-classic crime thriller “Heat.”
AP file, 2013
Charles Kimbrough
Charles Kimbrough , a Tony- and Emmy-nominated actor who played a straight-laced news anchor opposite Candice Bergen on “Murphy Brown,” died Jan. 11, 2023. He was 86. Kimbrough played newsman Jim Dial across the 10 seasons of CBS hit sitcom “Murphy Brown" between 1988 and 1998, earning an Emmy nomination in 1990 for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series. He reprised the role for three episodes in the 2018 reboot.
AP file, 2008
Julian Sands
Actor Julian Sands , who starred in several Oscar-nominated films in the late 1980s and '90s including “A Room With a View” and “Leaving Las Vegas,” was found dead on a Southern California mountain in June 2023, five months after he disappeared while hiking. He was 65. Sands, who was born, raised and began acting in England, worked constantly in film and television, amassing more than 150 credits in a 40-year career. During a 10-year span from 1985 to 1995, he played major roles in a series of acclaimed films.
AP file, 2019
Cynthia Weil
Cynthia Weil , a Grammy-winning lyricist of notable range and endurance who enjoyed a decades-long partnership with husband Barry Mann and helped write "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," "On Broadway," "Walking in the Rain" and dozens of other hits, died June 1, 2023, at age 82.
AP file, 2010
Sheldon Harnick
Tony- and Grammy Award-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick , who with composer Jerry Bock made up the premier musical-theater songwriting duos of the 1950s and 1960s with shows such as "Fiddler on the Roof," "Fiorello!" and "The Apple Tree," died June 23, 2023. He was 99.
AP file, 2016
Barrett Strong
Barrett Strong , one of Motown’s founding artists and most gifted songwriters who sang lead on the company’s breakthrough single “Money (That’s What I Want)” and later collaborated with Norman Whitfield on such classics as “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” “War” and “Papa Was a Rollin' Stone,” died Jan. 29, 2023. He was 81.
AP file, 2004
Willis Reed
Willis Reed , who dramatically emerged from the locker room minutes before Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals to spark the New York Knicks to their first championship and create one of sports’ most enduring examples of playing through pain, died March 21, 2023. He was 80.
AP file, 1970
Tim McCarver
Tim McCarver , the All-Star catcher and Hall of Fame broadcaster who during 60 years in baseball won two World Series titles with the St. Louis Cardinals and had a long run as one of the country's most recognized, incisive and talkative television commentators, died Feb. 16, 2023. He was 81.
AP file, 2003
Billy Packer
Billy Packer (left), an Emmy award-winning college basketball broadcaster who covered 34 Final Fours for NBC and CBS, died Jan. 26, 2023. He was 82. Packer’s broadcasting career coincided with the growth of college basketball. He worked as analyst or color commentator on every Final Four from 1975 to 2008. He received a Sports Emmy for Outstanding Sports Personality, Studio and Sports Analyst in 1993.
AP file, 2006
The Iron Sheik
The Iron Sheik , a former pro wrestler who relished playing a burly, bombastic villain in 1980s battles with some of the sport's biggest stars and later became a popular Twitter personality, died June 7, 2023. He was 81. During his pro wrestling career, he donned curled boots and used the “Camel Clutch” as his finishing move during individual and tag team clashes in which he played the role of an anti-American heel for the WWF, which later became the WWE.
AP file, 2009
Treat Williams
Actor Treat Williams , whose nearly 50-year career included starring roles in the TV series “Everwood” and the movie “Hair,” died June 12, 2023, after a motorcycle crash in Vermont. He was 71. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his role as hippie leader George Berger in the 1979 movie version of the hit musical “Hair.”
AP file, 2018
Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg , the history-making whistleblower who by leaking the Pentagon Papers revealed longtime government doubts and deceit about the Vietnam War and inspired acts of retaliation by President Richard Nixon that helped lead to his resignation, died June 16, 2023. He was 92.
AP file, 1973
Pat Robertson
Pat Robertson , a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition, died June 8, 2023. He was 93. For more than a half-century, Robertson was a familiar presence in American living rooms, known for his “700 Club” television show, and in later years, his televised pronouncements of God’s judgment, blaming natural disasters on everything from homosexuality to the teaching of evolution.
AP file, 2015
Robert Blake
Robert Blake , the Emmy award-winning performer who went from acclaim for his acting to notoriety when he was tried and acquitted in the killing of his wife, died March 9, 2023, at age 89. Blake, star of the 1970s TV show, "Baretta," never recovered from the long ordeal which began with the shooting death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, outside a Studio City restaurant on May 4, 2001. The story of their strange marriage, the child it produced and its violent end was a Hollywood tragedy played out in court. Blake portrayed real-life murderer Perry Smith in the movie of Truman Capote's true crime best seller "In Cold Blood."
AP file, 1977
Ted Kaczynski
Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski , the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died June 10, 2023. He was 81. Branded the “Unabomber” by the FBI, Kaczynski died by suicide at the federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina.
AP file, 1996
Lloyd Morrisett
Lloyd Morrisett , the co-creator of the beloved children's education TV series “Sesame Street,” which uses empathy and fuzzy monsters like Abby Cadabby, Elmo and Cookie Monster to charm and teach generations around the world, died Jan. 15, 2023. He was 93.
AP file, 2019
Chaim Topol
Chaim Topol , a leading Israeli actor who charmed generations of theatergoers and movie-watchers with his portrayal of Tevye, the long-suffering and charismatic milkman in “Fiddler on the Roof,” died March 8, 2023, at age 87. A recipient of two Golden Globe awards and nominee for both an Academy Award and a Tony Award, Topol long has ranked among Israel’s most decorated actors.
AP file, 2015
Len Goodman
Len Goodman , a long-serving judge on “Dancing with the Stars” and “Strictly Come Dancing" who helped revive interest in ballroom dancing on both sides of the Atlantic, died April 22, 2023. He was 78.
AP file, 2007
Burt Bacharach
Burt Bacharach , the singularly gifted and popular composer who delighted millions with the quirky arrangements and unforgettable melodies of "Walk on By," "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" and dozens of other hits, died Feb. 8, 2023. The Grammy, Oscar and Tony-winning composer was 94. Over the past 70 years, only Lennon-McCartney, Carole King and a handful of others rivaled his genius for instantly catchy songs that remained performed, played and hummed long after they were written. He had a run of top 10 hits from the 1950s into the 21st century, and his music was heard everywhere from movie soundtracks and radios to home stereo systems and iPods, whether “Alfie” and “I Say a Little Prayer” or “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” and “This Guy’s in Love with You.”
AP file, 1979
Stella Stevens
Stella Stevens , a prominent leading lady in 1960s and 70s comedies perhaps best known for playing the object of Jerry Lewis’s affection in “The Nutty Professor,” died Feb. 17, 2023. She was 84. She was a prolific actor in television and film up through the 1990s, officially retiring in 2010.
AP file, 1968
Barry Humphries
Tony Award-winning comedian Barry Humphries , internationally renowned for his garish stage persona Dame Edna Everage, a condescending and imperfectly-veiled snob whose evolving character has delighted audiences over seven decades, died April 22, 2023. He was 89.
AP file, 2013
Annie Wersching
Actor Annie Wersching , best known for playing FBI agent Renee Walker in the series “24" and providing the voice for Tess in the video game “The Last of Us,” died Jan. 29, 2023. She was 45. Her first credit was in “Star Trek: Enterprise,” and she would go on to have recurring roles in the seventh and eighth seasons of “24,” “Bosch," “The Vampire Diaries,” Marvel's “Runaways,” “The Rookie" and, most recently, the second season of “Star Trek: Picard” as the Borg Queen.
AP file, 2010
Dave Hollis
Dave Hollis , who left his post as a Disney executive to help his wife run a successful lifestyle empire, died Feb. 12, 2023. He was 47. Hollis worked for Disney for 17 years and had been head of distribution for the company for seven years when he left in 2018 to join his wife's venture. The parents of four moved from Los Angeles to the Austin area, collaborated on livestreams, podcasts and organized life-affirming conferences. In their podcast, “Rise Together,” they focused on marriage.
AP file, 2015
Christine King Farris
Christine King Farris , the last living sibling of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died June 29, 2023. She was 95. For decades after her brother's assassination in 1968, Farris worked along with his widow, Coretta Scott King, to preserve and promote his legacy. But unlike her high-profile sister-in-law, Farris' activism — and grief — was often behind the scenes.
AP file, 2015
David Jude Jolicoeur
David Jude Jolicoeur , known widely as Trugoy the Dove and one of the founding members of the Long Island hip-hop trio De La Soul, died Feb. 12, 2023. He was 54. De La Soul’s debut studio album “3 Feet High and Rising,” produced by Prince Paul, was released in 1989 by Tommy Boy Records and praised for being a more light-hearted and positive counterpart to more charged rap offerings. De La Soul signaled the beginning of alternative hip-hop.
AP file, 2015
Robbie Knievel
Robbie Knievel , an American stunt performer who set records with daredevil motorcycle jumps following the tire tracks of his thrill-seeking father — including at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in 1989 and a Grand Canyon chasm a decade later — died Jan. 13, 2023. He was 60.
AP file, 2000
Gina Lollobrigida
Italian film legend Gina Lollobrigida , who achieved international stardom during the 1950s and was dubbed “the most beautiful woman in the world” after the title of one of her movies, died Jan. 16, 2023. She was 95. Besides “The World’s Most Beautiful Woman” in 1955, career highlights included Golden Globe-winner “Come September,” with Rock Hudson; “Trapeze;” “Beat the Devil,” a 1953 John Huston film starring Humphrey Bogart and Jennifer Jones; and “Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell.”
AP file, 1950s
Lynette Hardaway ("Diamond")
Lynette Hardaway , an ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump and one half of the conservative political commentary duo Diamond and Silk, died Jan. 9, 2023. She was 51. Hardaway (pictured at left), known by the moniker “Diamond,” carved out a unique role as a Black woman who loudly backed Trump and right-wing policies.
AP file, 2018
Adam Rich
Adam Rich , the child actor with a pageboy mop-top who charmed TV audiences as “America’s little brother” on “Eight is Enough,” died Jan. 7, 2023. He was 54. Rich had a limited acting career after starring at age 8 as Nicholas Bradford, the youngest of eight children, on the ABC hit dramedy that ran from from 1977 to 1981.
AP file, 2002
Bobby Hull
Hall of Fame forward Bobby Hull , who helped the Chicago Blackhawks win the 1961 Stanley Cup Final, has died. Hull was 84. The two-time MVP was one of the most prolific scorers in NHL history, leading the league in goals seven times. Nicknamed “The Golden Jet” for his speed and blond hair, he posted 13 consecutive seasons with 30 goals or more from 1959-72.
AP file, 2019
Charles White
Charles White , the Southern California tailback who won the Heisman Trophy in 1979, died Jan. 11, 2023. He was 64. A two-time All-American and Los Angeles native, White won a national title in 1978 before claiming the Heisman in the following season, when he captained the Trojans and led the nation in yards rushing.
AP file, 1979
Jerry Richardson
Jerry Richardson , the Carolina Panthers founder and for years one of the NFL’s most influential owners until a scandal forced him to sell the team, died March 1, 2023. He was 86.
AP file, 2013
Sister André
Lucile Randon, a French nun known as Sister André and believed to be the world's oldest person, died Jan. 17, 2023, at age 118. She was born in the town of Ales, southern France, on Feb. 11, 1904. She was also one of the world’s oldest survivors of COVID-19.
AP file, 2022
Tatjana Patitz
Tatjana Patitz , one of an elite group of famed supermodels who graced magazine covers in the 1980s and ’90s and appeared in George Michael's “Freedom! '90” music video, died at age 56.
AP file, 2006
Russell Banks
Russell Banks , an award-winning fiction writer who rooted such novels as “Affliction” and “The Sweet Hereafter” in the wintry, rural communities of his native Northeast and imagined the dreams and downfalls of everyone from modern blue-collar workers to the radical abolitionist John Brown in “Cloudsplitter," died Jan. 7, 2023. He was 82.
AP file, 2004
Cardinal George Pell
Cardinal George Pell , a onetime financial adviser to Pope Francis who spent 404 days in solitary confinement in his native Australia on child sex abuse charges before his convictions were overturned, died Jan. 10, 2023. He was 81.
AP file, 2018
Ken Block
Ken Block , a motorsports icon known for his stunt driving and for co-founding the action sports apparel brand DC Shoes, died Jan. 2, 2023, in a snowmobiling accident near his home in Utah. Block rose to fame as a rally car driver and in 2005 was awarded Rally America's Rookie of the Year honors.
AP file, 2013
Walter Cunningham
Walter Cunningham , the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA's Apollo program, died Jan. 3, 2023. He was 90. Cunningham was one of three astronauts aboard the 1968 Apollo 7 mission, an 11-day spaceflight that beamed live television broadcasts as they orbited Earth, paving the way for the moon landing less than a year later.
AP file, 2014
Anton Walkes
Professional soccer player Anton Walkes died Jan. 18, 2023, from injuries he sustained in a boat crash off the coast of Miami. He was 25. Walkes began his career with English Premier League club Tottenham and also played for Portsmouth before signing with Atlanta United in MLS. He joined Charlotte for the club’s debut MLS season in 2022.
AP file, 2017
Pat Schroeder
Former U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder , a pioneer for women’s and family rights in Congress, died March 13, 2023. She was 82. Schroeder took on the powerful elite with her rapier wit and antics for 24 years, shaking up stodgy government institutions by forcing them to acknowledge that women had a role in government. She was elected to Congress in Colorado in 1972 and won easy reelection 11 times from her safe district in Denver.
AP file, 1999
Seymour Stein
Seymour Stein , the brash, prescient and highly successful founder of Sire Records who helped launched the careers of Madonna, Talking Heads and many others, died April 2, 2023, at age 80. Stein helped found the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation and was himself inducted into the Rock Hall in 2005.
AP file, 2005
Klaus Teuber
Klaus Teuber , creator of the hugely popular Catan board game in which players compete to build settlements on a fictional island, died April 1, 2023. He was 70. The board game, originally called The Settlers of Catan when introduced in 1995 and based on a set of hexagonal tiles, has sold tens of millions of copies and is available in more than 40 languages.
AP file, 1995
Ginnie Newhart
Ginnie Newhart , who was married to comedy legend Bob Newhart for six decades and inspired the classic ending of his “Newhart” series, died April 23, 2023. She was 82.
AP file, 1985
Vida Blue
Vida Blue , a hard-throwing left-hander who became one of baseball’s biggest draws in the early 1970s and helped lead the brash A’s to three straight World Series titles before his career was derailed by drug problems, died May 6, 2023. He was 73.
AP file, 1976
Martin Amis
British novelist Martin Amis , who brought a rock ‘n’ roll sensibility to his stories and lifestyle, died May 20, 2023. He was 73. Amis was a leading voice among a generation of writers that included his good friend, the late Christopher Hitchens, Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie. Among his best-known works were “Money,” a satire about consumerism in London, “The Information” and “London Fields,” along with his 2000 memoir, “Experience."
AP file, 2012
Doyle Brunson
Doyle Brunson , one of the most influential poker players of all time and a two-time world champion, died May 14, 2023. He was 89. Brunson, called the Godfather of Poker and also known as “Texas Dolly,” won 10 World Series of Poker tournaments — second only to Phil Hellmuth's 16. He also captured world championships in 1976 and 1977 and was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1988.
AP file, 2011
Hodding Carter III
Hodding Carter III , a Mississippi journalist and civil rights activist who as U.S. State Department spokesman informed Americans about the Iran hostage crisis and later won awards for his televised documentaries, died May 11, 2023. He was 88.
AP file, 2003
Ray Stevenson
Ray Stevenson , who played the villainous British governor in “RRR,” an Asgardian warrior in the “Thor” films, and a member of the 13th Legion in HBO’s “Rome,” died May 21, 2023. He was 58. He made his film debut in Paul Greengrass’s 1998 film “The Theory of Flight.” In 2004, he appeared in Antoine Fuqua’s “King Arthur” as a knight of the round table and several years later played the lead in the pre-Disney Marvel adaptation “Punisher: War Zone." Though “Punisher” was not the best-reviewed film, he'd get another taste of Marvel in the first three "Thor” films, in which he played Volstagg. Other prominent film roles included the “Divergent” trilogy, “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” and “The Transporter: Refueled.”
AP file, 2017
Astrud Gilberto
Astrud Gilberto , the Brazilian singer, songwriter and entertainer whose off-hand, English-language cameo on “The Girl from Ipanema” made her a worldwide voice of bossa nova, died June 5, 2023, at age 83.
AP file, 1981
Tori Bowie
U.S. Olympic champion sprinter Tori Bowie died May 2, 2023, from complications of childbirth, according to an autopsy report. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Bowie won silver in the 100 and bronze in the 200. She then ran the anchor leg on a 4x100 team with Tianna Bartoletta, Allyson Felix and English Gardner to take gold.
AP file, 2017
Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi , the boastful billionaire media mogul who was Italy's longest-serving premier despite scandals over his sex-fueled parties and allegations of corruption, died June 12, 2023. He was 86. A onetime cruise ship crooner, Berlusconi used his television networks and immense wealth to launch his long political career, inspiring both loyalty and loathing.
AP file, 2021
John Goodenough
John Goodenough , who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work developing the lithium-ion battery that transformed technology with rechargeable power for devices ranging from cellphones, computers, and pacemakers to electric cars, died June 25, 2023, at age 100.
AP file, 2019
Coco Lee
Coco Lee , a Hong Kong-born singer and songwriter who had a highly successful career in Asia, has died by suicide July 5, 2023. She was 48. She was the first Chinese singer to break into the American market, and her English song “Do You Want My Love” charted at #4 on Billboard's Hot Dance Breakouts chart in December 1999.
If you or someone you know exhibits warning signs of suicide, call 1-800-273-TALK, text 741741 or visit suicidepreventionlifeline.org .
AP file, 2005
Jane Birkin
Actor and singer Jane Birkin , who made France her home and charmed the country with her English grace, natural style and social activism, died July 16, 2023, at age 76. The London-born star and fashion icon was known for her musical and romantic relationship with French singer Serge Gainsbourg. Their songs notably included the steamy “Je t’aime moi non plus" ("I Love You, Me Neither"). Birkin's ethereal, British-accented singing voice interlaced with his gruff baritone in the 1969 duet that helped make her famous and was forbidden in Italy after being denounced in the Vatican newspaper.
AP file, 2021
Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett , the eminent and timeless stylist whose devotion to classic American songs and knack for creating new standards such as "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" graced a decadeslong career that brought him admirers from Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga, died July 21, 2023. He was 96, just two weeks short of his birthday. The last of the great saloon singers of the mid-20th century, Bennett often said his lifelong ambition was to create "a hit catalog rather than hit records." He released more than 70 albums, bringing him 19 competitive Grammys — all but two after he reached his 60s — and enjoyed deep and lasting affection from fans and fellow artists.
AP file, 2006
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WAVERLY — Waverly Health Center is hosting four events between now and July 31. For more detailed information on all events at WHC, visit WaverlyHealthCenter.org/events.
Parkinson’s Singing Group is 10 to 11 a.m. Monday and July 31. Open to anyone interested in joining, the group meets every Monday in Tendrils Rooftop Garden. Parking is in the red lot; use Tendrils Event Center entrance and take the elevator to the fourth floor.
The Advance Care Planning Clinic is 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday. There is no cost. Clinics are held by appointment only. Call (319) 352-4951 to register. Bring a valid ID.
The Prenatal Class is 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 29. This prenatal class has been designed to help expectant mothers and support persons prepare for the birth of their child, including labor and delivery. Space is limited. Call the birthing center at (319) 352-4953 to register. Fee is $35.
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Police Hall of Fame expansion plan moving forward, despite DeSantis veto of state funding
Officials at the American Police Hall of Fame & Museum in Titusville had navigated through the legislative process to get Florida House and Senate support for state funding to help expand their complex and add a new law enforcement training component.
When the Florida budget for 2023-24 was unanimously approved by both the House and Senate in May, it included $2.5 million for those projects.
But what they likely did not expect came in mid-June, when Gov. Ron DeSantis released his list of line-item budget vetoes. The two Police Hall of Fame projects were among the projects vetoed. The governor's budget veto list does not indicate reasons for the vetoes, and officials of the Titusville complex say they are unaware of the reason their project did not stay in the budget.
DeSantis has consistently expressed strong support for law enforcement, and he has been to the Police Hall of Fame twice for news conferences to promote his law-enforcement-related agenda.
Officials of the Police Hall of Fame say they plan to move forward with their projects, despite the funding setback.
In commenting on the veto, Sara Brady, director of public relations for U.S. Law Enforcement Foundation and the American Police Hall of Fame, said: “We understand that speed bumps occur, and impact fundraising, but it’s unfortunate when they do. For more than half a century, the United States Law Enforcement Foundation has been a leading advocate for the profession of law enforcement, including funding and managing critical benevolent programs of compassion for fallen and disabled officers and their surviving families.”
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Police Hall of Fame President Barry Shepherd declined to comment on the issue.
Of the $2.5 million target for the Titusville facility, $2.25 million was for the Florida State Tribute at the U.S. Law Enforcement Eternal Flame Park and Visitor Experience, whose centerpiece would be a 120-foot-tall "eternal flame" monument that would honor law enforcement. The project ― with an estimated total cost of $55 million ― also would include a welcome center, a convention center, a training building, a cafe and a "walk of honor."
The governor also vetoed $250,000 targeted for the Florida Law Enforcement Education Initiative, to provide law enforcement officers with training in such "soft skills" as stress management and financial literacy.
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The appropriation request was sponsored by Sen. Tom Wright, R-New Smyrna Beach, and Rep. Tyler Sirois, R-Merritt Island.
Sirois said the Police Hall of Fame allocation remains a priority for him.
"I definitely plan to work on the American Police Hall of Fame next year," Sirois said. "That project has significant potential for north Brevard."
These were two of the four vetoes of Sirois-sponsored items in the budget ― all co-sponsored by Wright ― although both legislators also sponsored a number of other budget requests that made it intact through the veto process.
Sirois noted that he and other members of the Brevard County delegation to the Florida Legislature "did have some projects vetoed, and I will be meeting with stakeholders over the summer to decide if we want to try again in the next budget."
Dave Berman is business editor at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Berman at dberman@floridatoday.com, on Twitter at @bydaveberman and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/dave.berman.54
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Police are investigating after a man was killed as he exited a corner store just a block away from his home in Philadelphia's Strawberry Mansion neighborhood on Saturday night.
According to police, officers responded to a report of a shooting at the intersection of 26th and York Streets at about 9:46 p.m., where they found a 24-year-old man who had been shot once in the torso.
Officials said the man, who police have not yet provided identifying information on, died shortly after he was taken to a nearby hospital.
However, law enforcement officials said that investigators were able to obtain surveillance video of the incident that reportedly shows the victim exiting a store at that intersection after purchasing a beverage.
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As he stepped out of the store, police said, the video shows that the victim was ambushed by a gunman dressed in all black who fired three shots.
The gunman, police said, can be seen in surveillance video, attempting to fire a fourth time, but the gun seemed to jam and he ran off before police responded to the scene.
The victim, police said, was just a block from his home when he was shot.
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Investigators said they found three spent shell casings at the scene, consistent with how the incident unfolded on the video that police have reviewed.
No arrest has been made and no motive has been detailed by police, but, officials said, an investigation is ongoing.
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Police are investigating after a shooting early Sunday saw two people wounded when a man on a dirt bike shot at them in North Philadelphia.
According to police, officers responded at about 12:30 a.m. after a shooting near the intersection of W. Somerset and N. 22nd streets to find a man, who had been shot in the leg, and a woman who was shot in the back.
Officials said the two injured victims were transported to a nearby hospital, however their conditions were not immediately available.
Law enforcement officials believe they were both shot once by an individual who was riding a dirt bike.
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Q: Our will creates a trust for our grandchildren. We tried to set up a bank account but the bank said they needed a trust agreement, not a will. Can’t a will set up a trust? Why won’t the bank accept the will as the trust agreement?
A: Yes, trusts can be created in wills. The problem is, depending on your perspective, that you are still alive.
Trusts created in wills are known as testamentary trusts. Testamentary trusts are actually fairly common. If you have young children, or had them when you executed your will, chances are that you have a testamentary trust in your will.
When a person has minor children, it’s fairly common to provide that any inheritance that they receive be held in trust for their benefit until they are 18 or 20 or 25. The age is flexible and depends on the circumstances and the parents’ comfort level with the child. A minor’s trust created in a will is a testamentary trust and is a way for parents to put a responsible adult between a child or young adult and a pile of money.
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Although minor’s trusts are one of the most common testamentary trusts, they certainly aren’t the only ones. A lot of different trusts can be created in a will: supplemental needs trusts, residence trusts, good old spendthrift trusts and yes, even trusts for grandchildren.
So, if a trust can be established in will, why won’t the bank let you set up a trust account? The answer, again, is you’re alive.
Until you die, your will is really just a bunch of sheets of paper with a set of instructions written on them. It’s an important piece of paper, but still just paper.
Once you die, the will becomes effective. Some would argue, myself included, that until the will is actually presented for probate, its terms cannot be fully enforced. That’s not entirely true as an un-probated will can still be referred to in a small estate affidavit to effectuate a transfer, but it’s mostly true. I’ve also had insurance companies name a well identified testamentary trust beneficiary on a life insurance policy before death. They are probably thinking that the policy can’t be paid until death when the will becomes effectual.
For whatever reason, testamentary trusts tend to give banks fits. A lot of them can’t understand how you can have a trust without a trust agreement. However, in this case, I think the bank is probably right.
If you are committed to giving money to your grandchildren now and can’t use a testamentary trust, try using the Indiana Uniform Gift to Minors Act (IUTMA). IUTMA isn’t quite as flexible as a trust, but it can be useful when you are trying to gift money to a minor while you are alive.
Christopher W. Yugo is an attorney in Crown Point. Chris’ Estate Planning Article appears online every Sunday at www.nwi.com. Address questions to Chris in care of The Times, 601 W. 45th Ave., Munster, IN 46321 or to Chrisyugolaw@gmail.com. Chris’ information is meant to be general in nature. Specific legal, tax, or insurance questions should be referred to your attorney, accountant, or estate-planning specialist.
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Indiana hopes to make a good first impression on travelers headed south on Interstate 65 with a striking rest stop featuring wind turbines, public art and life-sized bison.
The state is investing $34.7 million in a dramatic overhaul of the Kankakee Welcome Center by DeMotte on I-65, the first rest stop on the major highway between Chicagoland and Indianapolis.
The new Kankakee Welcome Center evokes wind farms, the Indiana Dunes and Lake Michigan.
The eastern rest stop for northbound travelers on I-65 is a standard restroom to stop. But the western rest stop for southbound travelers is being rebuilt into a massive building that almost looks like something the starchitect Frank Gehry would design — curving metal evokes the Indiana Dunes, the deep blue glass represents Lake Michigan and angular panels are designed to resemble wind turbine blades rotating above to represent the wind farms to the south.
Five-foot-tall letters spell out Indiana, with a cursive addendum to the sign saying "welcomes you."
The Indiana Capital Chronicle asked if it was "the fanciest rest stop Indiana's ever had."
"We hope that the new Kankakee Welcome Center will be a destination for motorists both near and far, offering more to the travelling public than the previous facility," Indiana Department of Transportation Northwest Public Relations Director Cassy Bajek said. "Inspired by the wind generation industry, the dunes and Lake Michigan, the new welcome center will give travelers the opportunity to stretch their legs along a walking trail, enjoy the dog park or children’s play area with their families, and learn more about both the Hoosier state and the region they are traveling through."
The new Kankakee Welcome Center, which had $34.7 million poured into it, is shown.
It's the flagship project in a new statewide program meant to upgrade welcome centers by state lines to put Indiana's best foot forward. They each will have a local theme with the Terre Haute Welcome Center off Interstate 70 for instance having an Indianapolis 500 theme because of the Hulman family's presence there. It will display four race cars donated by the Hulmans.
The Evansville Welcome Center will be themed around suspension bridges while the Black River Welcome Center in Posey County will focus on Abraham Lincoln and have a log cabin exterior, in addition to recreation opportunities like a playground and a dog park.
Calumet City- and Munster-based Hasse Construction has been building the new Kankakee Welcome Center near the Kankakee River at mile marker 231 on I-65 southbound, which replaces a 50-year-old facility in Jasper County.
A full-sized windmill blade is on display at the new $34.7 million Kankakee Welcome Center.
"The whole thing's new. The other was basically a bathroom while this one has more amenities like a dog park, fitness shelters, playgrounds, the pond, a 1-mile walking path. It will have interactive displays inside," Superintendent Chad Corley said.
It will feature public art and exhibits about buffalo, sandhill cranes, monarch butterflies wind generation.
"They will have some windmills, one old style with grass reeds that used to get them to blow. It's going to look like one of the ones from Holland. It's going to be a 20-foot-tall miniature version with a hologram lid so when you walk through it and look up it will be like you're looking up 160 feet at a real one. Then they will have the base of a new-style one like they have down south here to show the progression from the infancy to today's technology," he said. "They will have native animals native to the area: sandhill cranes, monarch butterflies and years ago bison used to roam here quite a bit. It's going to be steel cut into the shape of bison and mounted to the floor. It will be life-sized."
It's meant to provide visitors with photo ops, similiar to the giant Indiana Welcomes You sign that frames the building in the back.
Fair Oaks Farms also will put in exhibits about its agritourism farm just down south.
"All the rest areas are now locally themed based," he said. "Fair Oaks is a big thing here. The wind mills are a big thing here, which is why this building is based off windmills and the beach."
Architect Jay Smith with Fosse & Associates in Evansville designed the building. The southbound rest area will gain 94 more semitrailer parking spaces for a total of 150, while the northbound rest area will add 19 more truck spaces for a total of 75. Southbound car parking spots grew from 40 to 90.
The added capacity is needed.
"This is one of the most heavily traveled sections of interstate in the country," Corley said. "Basically you're taking all the traffic from around the lake and funneling it to I-65. Once you get to Indy they head of the Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia and Texas. On the I-465 loop, they split off in all directions and take off from there."
It's also doubling the bathroom capacity with two different men's rooms and two different women's rooms.
The state will overhaul more rest stops throughout the $275 program, which runs through 2032. The Pigeon Creek Welcome Center on southbound I-69 near mile marker 345 by Angola was the first to be replaced as a proof of concept to bring the governor onboard.
"They want to draw people in. They want people who see these buildings to go back to where they came from and say, 'dude, you've got to go here,'" he said. "They were decrepit. They were 45, 50 years old before. They were just falling down."
The facility in Steuben County was the first to be replaced. The $4.4 million, 7,500 square feet facility opened to the public in October 2020 and also includes electronic tourism displays that highlight the recreational and agricultural resources of the region.
“Welcome Centers many times provide our visitors with a first impression of Indiana and are our opportunity to put our best foot forward. These stunning new welcome centers will do just that," Indiana Destination Development Corporation Secretary and Chief Executive Officer Elaine Bedel said in a press release. "The interactive displays highlighting the State’s history, culture, and quality of life are a great addition for showcasing Indiana.”
The Kankakee Welcome Center will feature museum-quality sandhill cranes hanging from the ceiling and a Don Quixote figurine on a horse tilting at windmills. It will have an Indiana State Police substation where officers can come in and do paperwork. A terrazzo floor will feature the Indiana State Seal.
"When this is all clean and everything's in it, you will be amazed," he said. "You will be shocked."
They hope is to be done by September and have a grand opening celebration with the governor in October.
The sprawling site includes adult fitness equipment, a kids playground, two picnic shelters and a pond filled with native plants that will be stocked for catch-and-release fishing. The mile-long walking path includes a 400-foot-long wooden boardwalk spanning the water. It's flanked with seven miniature wind turbine blades covered in murals depicting local flora and fauna that jut up out of a water.
The Kankakee Welcome Center has a full-sized 219-foot-long wind turbine blade that was donated by the local wind farm. Koda Witsken with Hue Murals in Indianapolis won a commission to paint it.
The end with be capped with glass so that people can look inside but can't crawl inside.
About 150 workers have been working on the project for the last two years.
"This is the largest single-award contract that Hasse Construction ever received," he said. "Normally Hasse does anywhere from $50 to $75 million a year. This project alone is $34 million."
Corley has built many hospitals and medical offices across Northwest Indiana over the course of his career. He's planning to retire soon and is proud that the Kankakee Welcome Center will be one of his final projects.
"This is the crown jewel of my career," he said.
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Forget about all those gourmet flavors for a moment and celebrate Vanilla Ice Cream Day on July 23. It may not be as exciting as a dish of Triple Mocha Salted Caramel, but when you’re looking for a good, old-fashioned scoop of comfort, you turn to your old friend, vanilla ice cream.
The St. Therese Catholic Church festival wraps up today on the festival grounds outside the church, 2020 91st St. The festival is open noon to 8 p.m. today, and the Beatles tribute band The Britins plays tonight. Highlights include a car show today on the festival grounds. There are children’s activities, raffles and plenty of that “healthy” festival food offerings. The festival continues Sunday.
Play ball! The Kenosha Kingfish return to Simmons Field this afternoon, for a 1:35 p.m. game against the Rockford Rivets. It’s Youth Sports Night with free admission for young athletes wearing team apparel. For tickets and more information, go to Kingfishbaseball.com, call 262-653-0900, or go to the ticket office at Simmons Field, 7817 Sheridan Road.
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The Jerry Smith Farm, 7150 18th St., is hosting Chalk Fest from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. Artists signed up in advance to claim an 8-by-8-foot square to create the chalk art. There will also be live music, food, a beer garden and booths offering crafts and other items. Admission is free. The chalk art People’s Choice Judging ends at 3:30 p.m. today. For more details, go to jerrysmithfarm.com/events/
Studio Moonfall, 5031 Seventh Ave., is hosting Kenosha Book Festival: Chapter Four from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., with visiting authors, food trucks, raffles and used books on sale for $1. For the latest updates on all this stuff, go to KenoshaBookFestival.com and check Studio Moonfall’s social media.
The Kenosha Public Museum, 5500 First Ave., is hosting the Transparent Watercolor Society’s annual exhibit, showcasing paintings from the top transparent watercolor artists in the country. From 1 to 2 p.m. on July 23, visitors can tour the exhibit with artist Lenox Wallace. Wallace will walk visitors through the gallery and talk about special techniques and special aspects of the paintings. Admission is free. The museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. www.KenoshaPublicMuseum.org.
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When Frank Germinaro talked about his long history with the Kenosha Pops Concert Band, he called the group “a great and sometimes weird collection of musicians — and I fit right in with the weird ones! They are all my friends.”
This week, that “weird collection of musicians” will pay tribute to their late conductor, who died in January, with a special concert. He also served in a number of roles in the Kenosha and Racine communities as an educator, musician and volunteer.
When Germinaro took to the podium Aug. 4, 2021, for the final time as a Kenosha Pops conductor, it marked the end of a relationship stretching over several decades.
Germinaro’s history with the city’s official band goes all the back to 1968 when he started as a clarinet and percussion player. Later, he was assistant conductor for several years under the late John Bunic.
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When Germinaro succeeded Bunic as the band’s musical director in 1993, he tapped Craig Gall to be his assistant conductor.
That twosome continued until 2003, when Germinaro retired from the Pops.
For the first time.
Fifteen years later, “they dusted me off,” Germinaro joked, and he returned to the podium in 2018 as assistant conductor.
His start with the band was rather modest.
“I was asked by a fellow musician because they needed help in the percussion and clarinet section,” he said. “I was a music major at the time (at UW-Parkside) and played accordion in my own band.
“Playing in the Pops Band was very different than playing in a small group,” he added. “You had to play all the notes that were there in the music — and no improvising.”
Gall remembers Germinaro as “a consummate entertainer. His lighthearted approach on the podium brought joy to the musicians under his baton, as well as our audiences.”
The two worked together for three decades and spent time together away from the band shell, too.
Gall recalls the pair’s fishing trips with Emil Pacetti and the “many martinis” (and some broken glasses) involved during their concert planning sessions.
At the end of each Pops season, Gall and Germinaro performed accordion-baritone duets featuring “our ‘patented parodies,’” Gall said. Writing the song lyrics featured “hours of laughter. Most of all, I will miss the laughs. Oh my gosh, the laughs!”
“To borrow from Irving Berlin,” Gall added, “’The song has ended, but the melody lingers on.’”
‘Irreplaceable treasure’
Greg Berg — who Germinaro brought to the Pops as the band’s master of ceremonies — said one of the things he “loved most about Frank was that he was this down-to-earth, fun-loving, humble guy, but also a crackerjack musician with a true understanding about what great music and great music-making is. He was a wonderfully rare combination of qualities that made him truly one-of-a-kind.”
On stage, Berg recalls he would be introducing “a piece that Frank was about to conduct, and there would almost always then be a fairly significant pause as Frank would quietly talk to the band — and almost inevitably the band would eventually erupt in laughter,” he said. “It took me a while to realize that Frank was doing three things in those little asides: Summoning the band’s focus on the matter at hand, loosening them up to enjoy the experience, and forming a bond with the group that said ‘we’re in this together.’ It made me envious of the men and women who got to play under him.”
The current director Gall, he noted, “also engages in those same sorts of exchanges with the band during our concerts.”
During the summer of 2020, when the Kenosha Pops Band summer season was canceled, “Frank and Craig did a couple of livestreamed performances from Frank’s house, reminiscent of the lighthearted duets which they often performed on the final concert of each season,” Berg recalled. “I have more happy memories of the Kenosha Pops Band through the years than my brain can possibly contain, but among the very sweetest memories of all are those duets — often featuring brilliant original lyrics penned for that particular occasion.”
Germinaro was, he said, “an irreplaceable treasure.”
Band members reminisce
As the Kenosha Pops Band gets ready to perform its Tribute to Frank Germinaro concert on Wednesday, we asked band members to share their favorite memories of their longtime conductor:
Brittany Teschler (bass clarinet): “I remember being brought to a Pops concert when I was a little girl. It was at the Kemper Center, and it was so much fun. At the time, Frank was the director and he was so energetic, full of life, and full of love for everything from his family to the music that he was making with his friends. My dad went to Bradford with Frank’s brother and because of that (and because Kenosha is the smallest big town ever) I had met and known of Frank since I was very little. Every time I would walk into a Pops rehearsal since I joined when I was a student at Carthage and Frank was there, I received a big welcome from him like I was family. That’s how Frank made you feel, and it was always amazing. He will be sorely missed by all who knew him.
Nancy Quist (trumpet): “I would get to Pops rehearsals, and Frank would be sitting in front by the boxes of music. He was always smiling and had something to say when I would go get my folder. It was a great way to start rehearsals. Being around Frank was always a positive experience. He made us feel special.”
Chip Millholland (clarinet): “Frank and I had this in common: We both play(ed) accordion. Something I’m quite proud to admit.”
Cara Russo (percussion): “He always had a smile when filling in as a percussionist. His personality radiated and made songs that much more fun to play. Frank only wanted to do bass drum, nothing else, but loved it. They were about the same height. I miss having him both at the podium and in my section. His laugh was contagious; not a rehearsal went by that he wasn’t cheerful.”
Shelly Nelson (clarinet): “I enjoyed playing clarinet with Frank. He would always have some interesting tidbit about the music or the composer. Frank was a Parkside alumnus, and I would see him at meetings on campus. Frank appreciated teachers and always found a way to make me smile! He was also a great volunteer for the band.”
Tom Frost (trombone): “I really enjoy playing with this group and look forward to the start of the new season every year. We have some really good players in this band, and we’ve also been fortunate to have great directors like Frank during my time in the band. I don’t ever remember not having a good time performing or even practicing with this group, and a lot of that has to do with Frank’s good humor and now Craig’s, too.”
Paula Braun (flute): She has a long history with the Pops Band, having joined in 1971, just a few years after Germinaro and “just after graduating from Tremper High School.” She recalls the band playing in several locations — including Lincoln Park, Washington Park (in “the bowl”) and Simmons Island — before settling in at the Sesquicentennial Band Shell in 1988. Mostly what she recalls of Germinaro and the rest of the Pops Band is “the laughs, the fun and the joy of making music together.”
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WGTD (91.1 FM) is owned and operated as a public service of Gateway Technical College and is an affiliate of Wisconsin Public Radio.
For an updated schedule, go online to wgtd.org. WGTD 91.1-FM’s “Morning Show” airs 8:10 to 9 a.m. weekdays.
Guests this week include:
Monday, July 24: Diane Davers Simmons, author of “My Mother Next Door: A Hilarious and Heartfelt Journey of Maternal Abandonment and Rediscovery.”
Tuesday, July 25: Carolyn Friesch, executive director of The United Way of Kenosha County.
Wednesday, July 26: J. Frank Taraborelli, author of “Jackie: Public, Private and Secret,” a much-anticipated new biography of Jacquline Kennedy Onassis.
Thursday, July 27: Richard Vague, author of “The Paradox of Debt: a new path to Prosperity without Crisis.”
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Friday, July 28: Ryan Kane, athletic director at Carthage College, talks about the phenomenon of hazing on athletic teams, in response to the controversy at Northwestern University. Also, Tim Brown, author of “The Tao of the Backup Quarterback: Playing Baseball for the Love of the Game.”
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