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INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana's near-total abortion ban is expected to take effect in about 10 days on Aug. 1. This comes after the state supreme court struck down an injunction against the ban ruling the law does not violate Indiana's constitution.
That's why a group of pro-choice supporters marched outside of the Indiana Statehouse on Saturday. With the near-total ban on abortion approaching, they want to let lawmakers know they are not discouraged.
"Abortion should be decided between a woman, her faith, and her family. They should be able to make a decision whenever they want and wherever they want without government interference," said Noah Thomas.
It's an interference that some women like Savannah Heart never thought they would see in their lifetime.
"I thought we would always have rights to bodily autonomy. I thought we would always have access to decide what we wanted for our future. I thought we would always have the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness," said Heart.
Thomas said that sentiment is exactly why he was there.
"I can't just stand here while women's rights are taken away fundamentally from them," said Thomas.
He said he marched for all the powerful women in his life that taught him to use his voice.
"We are hoping to use our voices not only to educate voters but to inform them that 2024 will be a pivotal year, not only nationally but for Indiana as well. What direction do we want Indiana to go in? Do we want to keep going backward for another 50 years? Or do we want to be up in today's society?"
They know change won't happen overnight, but as they prepare to march into the unknown next month, they said they're ready to turn up the heat.
"It's unacceptable. We need to stand up and show our lawmakers and continue showing them that this is not what we want. We are unhappy and we are going to keep coming out and fighting because they'll never win," said Thomas.
13News reached out to the Indiana and Indianapolis Right to Life for a statement about this but haven't heard back yet.
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Registration opens for Boys & Girls Clubs of Sarasota and DeSoto Counties afterschool program
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Sarasota and DeSoto Counties is now accepting applications for the 2023-24 Great Futures Academy School-Year Program that will launch on Aug. 10 at club locations, school sites, and designated 21st Century Community Learning Centers across Sarasota and DeSoto counties.
The program session provides students ages 6-12 with a safe place to access youth development activities after the school day. The Great Futures Academy program features educational, recreational, and developmental activities with youth development professionals that empower children to excel in school, become leaders, adopt healthy habits, and plan for success after high school. Daily snacks are served at no additional cost. The online application is available at bgcsdc.org
BGCSDC is also offering a full slate of teen programs for youth ages 13-18, including entrepreneurial training, leadership development, financial literacy, civic engagement, planning for college, and workforce development. Middle and high school students are invited to apply at theclubsdc.org
Busing is available to the clubs from select school locations.
Club locations include:
· Gene Matthews Boys & Girls Club, 6851 S. Biscayne Drive, in North Port.
· Lee Wetherington Boys & Girls Club, 3100 Fruitville Road, in Sarasota.
· Louis and Gloria Flanzer Boys & Girls Club, 18 School Ave., in Arcadia.
· Newtown Estates Park Boys & Girls Club, 2800 Newtown Blvd., in Sarasota.
· Robert and Joan Lee Boys & Girls Club, 920 Gulf Coast Blvd., in Venice.
· Roy McBean Boys & Girls Club, 1790 21st St., in Sarasota.
School sites include Gocio Elementary (3450 Gocio Road, Sarasota). School-based 21st Century Learning Centers include Alta Vista Elementary (1050 S. Euclid Ave., Sarasota); Booker Middle (2250 Myrtle St., Sarasota); Booker Elementary (2350 Dr. Martin Luther King Way, Sarasota); Tuttle Elementary (2863 Eighth St., Sarasota).
The 21st Learning Centers will launch on Aug. 14. To register, contact the individual school sites at bgcsdc.org/21st-century-community-learning-centers.
Submitted by Erin Guzzo
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From modest start, SDRP evolves into complex research, conservation and education program
Growing up in landlocked Illinois, marine biology and oceanography may not have been Dr. Randall Wells’ first career choice. But with an annual family vacation to Florida each year, young Wells quickly developed an affinity for marine studies.
“In the middle of high school, my family was able to move to Sarasota … not far from where I live now. I went to Riverview High School for my junior and senior years. I was able to take classes in marine biology and oceanography and get to know the Mote Marine Laboratory,” Wells said.
Through a professional connection his father had, Wells secured a summer internship with Dr. Blair Irvine, who helped Wells found the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program. Irvine, though retired, continues to manage the website and serve as president of the nonprofit Dolphin Biology Research Institute.
The SDRP provides an opportunity for scientists to study marine mammal interactions in a natural laboratory setting that, for many of these animals, only exists in Sarasota Bay.
“We’re getting to learn a lot about how the human population in Sarasota influences animals, and we are really able to be stewards for marine mammals in general because there are very few places that have the knowledge that we have here in Sarasota,” said research assistant Kylee DiMaggio.
Since the SDRP began in 1989, it has evolved from its modest beginnings to a complex research, conservation and education program.
The program has employed 480 interns, hosted more than 200 international colleagues and students who have attempted to replicate the natural laboratory concept in their own ecosystems, mentored 98 graduate students who have performed their capstone research in partnership, and welcomed more than 1,000 citizen scientists visiting to learn about dolphin conservation.
“It’s great for us to know how the animals act in the wild so that we can make suggestions for how they are managed in care facilities to make sure that animals [there] have the best and most natural life possible,” said DiMaggio.
This story is courtesy of the Community News Collaborative, made possible by a grant from Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation. You can reach Catherine Hicks at chicks@cncfl.org.
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SunCoast Blood Centers blood drive at Mote Aquarium highlights need for summer donors
SunCoast Blood Centers collected 42 pints of blood during a six-hour drive on July 13 co-hosted in partnership with Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium. Each pint of blood can save up to three lives, and all the blood collected goes to Southwest Florida hospitals and patients.
The event at Mote Aquarium also served to spread the word about the vital need for donors amid the area’s summer donation slowdown and ongoing blood shortage.
“I’m happy to donate blood if it means that it’s helping other members of our community,” said George Cieszka, who made the trip specifically to donate. “I have O negative blood, so I know that it can really make a difference.”
Tourists and other visitors to Mote Aquarium were also drawn to the event after seeing the blood drive bus. Mote staff and volunteers also donated on breaks and in between their shifts.
The donation process takes about 30 minutes, and most donors contribute one pint of blood (though some are eligible to give two pints). Donors also received vouchers for more than $100 in goods and services that were provided to SunCoast Blood Centers by local businesses. Business supporters included Gecko’s Hospitality, Sonny’s BBQ, Station 400, Miller’s Ale House, Sarasota Bay Explorers, Skincare Couture, ND Print By Design, and Ama La Vita Ristorante.
Sarasota County and surrounding areas are currently experiencing a blood shortage as donations typically slow in summer months. During the blood drive, SunCoast Blood Centers staff were able to educate participants about the impact each donation makes on local and regional health care facilities, as well as how people can stay involved throughout the year.
Partners of SunCoast Blood Centers include Sarasota Memorial Healthcare System, Moffitt Cancer Center, Doctors Hospital, Lakewood Ranch Medical Center, Manatee Memorial Hospital, Florida Cancer Specialists, HCA Fawcett Memorial Hospital, Englewood Community Hospital, Desoto Memorial Hospital, PAM Health Sarasota, Post Acute Medical and Encompass Health.
For information about donating blood, visit suncoastblood.org.
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Sarasota Bay dolphin research team discovering secrets of our underwater neighbors
Sarasota Bay regularly attracts its share of visitors in the form of weekend boaters, fishing enthusiasts and sightseers.
But it’s also a multigenerational sanctuary for bottlenose dolphins, many of which exhibit humanlike tendencies that form the basis of scientific study by the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program, the longest continuously running examination of a dolphin population in the United States.
More than just animals to fleetingly admire from a causeway or pleasure boat, dolphins have gotten to know the researchers (and vice versa) over the decades. Together, they are each learning what makes the other tick.
“They’re not just anonymous gray bodies out there,’’ said Dr. Randall Wells, who founded the project in 1989 and serves as the senior scientist and project manager. “They are individuals who have been here far longer than most of the people have been, who have a social structure that is complex, a communication structure. They breathe the same air, they swim in the same water, eat the same fish as we do.”
Maddie, known scientifically as F213, is a 16-year-old female identifiable by her distinctly rigid and torn dorsal fin. She is part of “a lifelong and well-known female lineage in Sarasota Bay,” and is regularly observed on photo surveys by the team, which they do periodically aboard boats in the bay. The species typically live 30 to 50 years.
SDRP operates from Mote Marine Laboratory and is managed by the Chicago Zoological Society. Researchers estimate there are roughly 170 year-round dolphin residents of Sarasota Bay.
Maddie is known to regularly frequent an area near New College of Florida, where the team can count on seeing her with relative consistency. Listening through a passive listening station under the water, researchers have learned to recognize her voice as well as her appearance, keeping tabs on her even when they’re not on the water.
F165 is a 24-year-old female dolphin identifiable by two notches high on her dorsal fin. She is the one of the longest running subjects of the SDRP’s research, first observed in 1999 with her mother, FB75. She recently gave birth to the first calf of 2023, her fourth.
“You learn their patterns, you learn the kinds of dramas they’ve gone through in their lives, what kind of threats they face, how they get through those situations, what’s happened with their calves over time, and so you get a good sense of what they need in order to be able to survive and thrive,” Wells said.
It’s that sense of underwater ancestry that keeps researcher Kylee DiMaggio coming back.
“I love being on the water,’’ DiMaggio said. “I love tracking our new births. All that good stuff. A lot of the research that I'm interested in has to do with calving. So when I see a new baby, I get really excited."
Though the research team does not engage or positively reinforce their presence in the interests of research integrity, they have also observed behaviors that indicate a passively friendly relationship between the researchers and the dolphins.
“We’re trying to study the animals as they’re making their living, so we observe them on a monthly basis and from a distance, [using] an approach that allows us to stay nearby to collect the data we need,” Wells said. “Sometimes they’ll come over and check us out. They sometimes will leave their calf with us while they go off and have coffee, or whatever the moms do … So we believe there is a certain level of recognition, that they can distinguish between vessels based on the sounds they make.”
The number one threat to dolphins that the team observes daily is debris left behind by recreational fishing. Dolphins are food-motivated and intelligent, so they will replicate behaviors that result in them receiving a fish – even if it is dangerous to their safety.
The team has recorded about 1,600 interactions with dolphins and has seen about a 2% increase in dolphin population. Researchers say updates to how runoff and sewage water is treated, in effect since the 1990s, have been beneficial to the ecosystem in general, with more to come as Sarasota County pursues new and different strategies to further improve bay waters with more advanced treatment methods and upland efforts to control runoff.
“About a quarter of identifiable deaths in the area are from human sources, and 19% to 20% of that is fishing gear,” Wells said, adding anglers can make a big difference by avoiding braided fishing line that can cut into dolphins’ flesh and by using fish hooks that corrode over time in salt water.
F165’s mother died in 2006 as a result of ingesting a fishing lure.
“I’m not advocating not fishing, just be careful about when fishing is occurring and under what circumstances, making sure the other creatures of the bay are staying safe while you’re enjoying the bay as well,” Wells said.
It’s that sense of Sarasota Bay as a community that attracts newcomers and retains longtime residents, that makes the region special ... for a variety of reasons.
“There are just very few places in the world where you can track animals for five or six generations because a lot of the marine mammal populations are migratory,’’ DiMaggio said. “So being able to know who the dolphins are [and] track their lives is really unique to Sarasota."
This story is courtesy of the Community News Collaborative, made possible by a grant from Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation. You can reach Catherine Hicks at chicks@cncfl.org.
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VIN'S PEOPLE: Braden River High's Technology Student Association excels at national event
A bow to Braden River High’s Technology Student Association, which shined at the recent 2023 National TSA Conference in Louisville, claiming 10 trophies and seven Top 10 finishes.
Numerous Pirates placed in multiple categories.
Their three firsts included Biotechnology Design with Sriya Boggavarapu, Joyce Chen, Sheena Kurakula, Kyler Wade, Lauren Wade; Dragster Design: Austin Bankuty; Promotional Design: Joyce Chen.
Their four seconds were Digital Video Production with Jackson Hodge, Sheena Kurakula; Manufacturing Prototype: Cullum Wilford, Austin Bankuty, Kyler Wade; Transportation Modeling: Austin Bankuty; Chapter Team: Abbi Geiger, Noah Muncie, Jaxson Pate, Kyra Wright, Cullum Wilford (captain), Sheena Kurakula.
Their three thirds were Board Game Design with Ayva Culp, Sriya Boggavarapu, Joyce Chen, Kyra Wright; Engineering Design: Sriya Boggavarapu, Avya Culp, Abbi Geiger, Kyler Wade, Kyra Wright; Fashion Design and Technology: Gael Maldonado, Lauren Wade.
Top 10s in Future Technology & Engineering Teacher with Sheena Kurakula, Sriya Boggavarapu; Geospatial Technology: Joyce Chen, Sheena Kurakula; Photographic Technology: Sheena Kurakula; Video Game Design: Ayva Culp, Noah Muncie; Webmaster: Edoardo Ronchini, Sophia Nowicki, Jackson Hodge, Noah Muncie; Virtual Reality Visualization: Jackson Hodge, Sophia Nowicki, Jaxson Pate.
· Well done to Southeast High’s Jada Price and Zakilya Hope, both Universal Cheerleaders Association All-Americas.
· Big ups to Colton Vincent. The Palmetto High alum, redshirt senior catcher at Florida State, signed as a free agent with the San Diego Padres. He’s begun workouts with the rookies at the team's spring training complex in Peoria, Arizona. Parents Mike and Kathy are over the moon.
· That wily ol’ stork is en route for the first time in January to Megan and Blake Keller. It’s a boy.
· The inimitable Dan Schaffer is 68 years young.
· Congrats to Paige Eddens, a Recreation Coordinator III in the Manatee County Recreation Department and July Manatee County Employee of the Month.
· Twins Carra and Holden Scarbrough are 23. (Wonder if parents Sharon and Brad feel old?)
· A bow to Teresa Farrell, Employee of the Quarter at the Manatee County Tax Collector’s Office and invaluable member of the Field Services and Collections team.
· That’s 11 years of wedded bliss for Chrissy and Scooter Fagan.
· And 22 for Monica and John DeLesline.
· On Saturday Pam and Bob Carroll celebrated their 51st anniversary in Chicago’s historic Wrigley Field watching the Cubs and Cardinals.
· Speaking of baseball, Pirates historian Jim Trdinich is one year shy of the Big 6-0!
Vin’s People runs Sundays. Email Vin Mannix at vinspeople@gmail.com. Or call 941-962-5944. Twitter: @vinmannix.
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SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio Police say a man may have shot himself accidentally in a neighborhood on the west side early Sunday morning.
Officers received a call just after 12:30 a.m. in the 100 block of Amires Place.
When officers arrived, they found the man had been shot in the leg. Witnesses told officers the shooter was still somewhere nearby, but the story eventually changed and officers were told he shot himself.
He was taken to the hospital in good condition. Investigators are still trying to piece together what happened.
This is a developing story and further details will be added as they are received.
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Police search for person of interest in Daytona Beach shootingPregnant woman, unborn child killed in apparent double murder-suicide, sheriff says5 areas where Brightline’s arrival here will be a ‘game changer’Eye on the Tropics: Don becomes the first hurricane of the seasonYears-long investigation uncovers multi-state drug trafficking operation based in Central Florida
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SAN ANTONIO — A neighborhood dispute may have led to a shooting early Sunday morning on the north side.
San Antonio police said around 2:15 a.m., a man riding his bike went to a home off the 100 block of Greenhill Pass. The homeowner reportedly told the man to leave multiple times, but the alleged intruder ignored those demands.
That's when police say the homeowner grabbed a shotgun and shot the other man once.
The homeowner was taken into questioning. There is no word yet if he will face charges. There is also no word on the condition of the man who was shot.
The police sergeant on the scene said the two neighbors had been having problems.
This is a developing story and further details will be added as they are received.
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Over the years, KENS 5 has worked to transform local news. Our cameras have been the lens bringing history into local viewers' homes. We're proud of our legacy as we serve San Antonians today.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Don was a short-lived hurricane.
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It has weakened to tropical storm strength and will continue to deteriorate over the next 48 hours.
Read: Eye on the Tropics: Don becomes the first hurricane of the season
We continue to monitor a tropical wave (Invest 95-L) which is approximately 1,000 miles east of the Windward Islands.
Currently, there is limited thunderstorm activity associated with this low, and it has only a marginal chance of developing further.
Read: I-Drive Throwdown: Truck show arrives in Orlando this weekend
Strong upper-level winds will limit its strengthening potential, but it could still become a tropical depression early this week.
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SAN ANTONIO — Police are searching for a driver accused of a hit-and-run accident that sent one man to the hospital.
The accident happened around 11:23 p.m. Saturday night at the intersection of New Laredo Highway and West Gerald Ave.
An officer says the driver of a silver SUV hit the man while he was trying to cross the street. Police say the driver did not stop to help.
Police launched their helicopter to try to find the SUV, but the driver got away.
There is no word on the victim's condition.
This is a developing story and further details will be added as they are received.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Three people are injured after a shooting Saturday night, the Daytona Beach Police Department said.
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Investigators said a fight broke out just before midnight at 11:48 p.m. near 611 Seabreeze Boulevard.
Police said a woman fired several shots during the fight and hit three people.
Read: Man shot and killed in Orlando Saturday, police say
The victims are expected to be alright.
While no arrests have been made, police are searching for a person of interest with tattoos and posted pictures to Facebook to ask for help identifying her.
** HELP ID ** Do you know who this is? Recognize the tattoos? The Daytona Beach Police Department is looking to...
Posted by Daytona Beach Police Department on Sunday, July 23, 2023
If you have any information about the incident, contact Detective Brian Lewandowski at (386) 671-5211 or lewandowskibrian@dbpd.us and reference case number DB230010524.
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I think I get more questions about benefits for spouses than I do about any other kind of Social Security benefit. And even though I’m using the gender-neutral term “spouses,” these questions almost always come from women wondering what benefits they might be due on their husband’s — or ex-husband’s — Social Security record. Or they come from men asking about the benefits their wives or ex-wives might be due on their record. Women tend to qualify for benefits on a husband’s record because, most times their own Social Security benefit is less than their husband’s benefit.
Of course, there are some family situations where the wife makes more money than the husband, and she ends up with a higher Social Security benefit. So, her husband might be due spousal benefits on her record. Still, statistics show that 95% of spousal benefits go to women, so I’m addressing them today.
Oh, and before I go on, I must cover this issue. Every time I write a column about benefits that wives and widows might be due from Social Security, I get letters from single women who have never been married asking me why I never write columns explaining what they are due from the system. I always have to explain if they are working and paying into Social Security, then they are potentially due the same kind of retirement or disability benefit that any other taxpayer might be due. So now, back to questions about benefits for wives and widows.
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Q: My husband is 67 and starting to receive his Social Security benefits. I am 62. Other than a few years after high school when I had some part-time jobs, I have spent my entire adult life as a wife or homemaker, so I have no Social Security of my own. A neighbor told me that after my husband dies, I will never be able to get widow’s benefits because I don’t have my own Social Security account. Is this true?
A: It’s absolutely false. As I always tell my readers, never listen to friends or neighbors offering Social Security advice. It’s almost always wrong.
In fact, not only will you be due widow’s benefits when your husband dies, but you are also due dependent wife’s benefits on his record right now. So, call Social Security at 800-772-1213 and file a spousal claim right away.
Q: I am turning 62. My husband is 68 and getting Social Security. Can I claim reduced spousal benefits now on his record and then at age 67 switch to full benefits on my own record?
A: No, you can’t do that. You must file for your own benefits first. After you do that, they will look at your husband’s record to see if you can get any extra spousal benefits from him.
Q: My wife took her own Social Security at 62. I am about to reach my full retirement age and plan to start my own Social Security. My wife is now 67. Her own benefit is very small, much less than mine will be. How can I figure out if my wife is due any spousal benefits on my record?
A: The formula is pretty simple. They will take your wife’s full retirement age rate (even though she took benefits at 62) and subtract that from one-half of your FRA rate. Any difference will be added to her reduced retirement benefit rate.
Q: I am waiting until age 70 to claim my Social Security. I am doing that to get the bonus added to my retirement rate for delaying starting my benefits until 70. But I was also doing that so that my wife will get my augmented benefits after I die. (Her own benefit is about a thousand dollars less than mine.) So, imagine my shock when a Social Security rep recently told me that after I die, my wife’s widow’s benefit will be based on my full retirement age rate, not my age 70 rate. Is this right?
A: No, it’s not right. And for some reason (lack of training?), SSA reps frequently get this wrong. While you are alive, any spousal benefits she might be due are based on your full retirement age benefit. But after you die, her widow’s benefits are based on your augmented age 70 rate, including the bonus you got for waiting that long to claim your benefits.
Q: I am 63 and have been a wife and homemaker all my life. So, I get a small percentage of my husband’s Social Security. But I’ve always wondered this: Why don’t women in my position get Social Security credits for the work we did as homemakers and child-care providers?
A: As I explained in a column not too long ago, this is a topic that has been debated for years. But the issue always comes down to this: Where would the money or earnings come from to put on your Social Security record? The only viable solution policy planners have ever come up with is a concept known as “earnings sharing.”
In a nutshell, that means a working husband and stay-at-home mom would split the earnings the husband makes. For example, if Husband Henry makes $100,000 per year, $50,000 would go on his Social Security record, and $50,000 would go on Wife Wilma’s Social Security record. Now, that might make Wife Wilma happy that she’s being “paid” for Social Security purposes with earnings and credits going on her account. But just ask Husband Henry how thrilled he is that he only gets Social Security credit for half the money he makes — and eventually ends up with a much smaller Social Security benefit.
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ALIQUIPPA, Pa. — A young girl was able to raise $1,223 for the Beaver County Humane Society.
Maci held a lemonade and bracelet stand at the Enon Valley Community Days.
The humane society said she raised $305 last year and wanted to quadruple this year’s donation. She surpassed that goal.
She also collected donations of dog beds and blankets.
“Thank you for thinking of the animals! You did absolutely amazing!” the humane society said in a Facebook Post.
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DINWIDDIE, Va. — A group of ministers and former theological students is hoping to use a historic Dinwiddie County farm as a way to reimagine the way religious leaders are taught in central Virginia. It starts by turning Sophia Farms into a self-sustaining entity that can cover 100% of the costs of a seminary to be located with the farm.
Once that school is up and running, the students will provide the labor to run the farm and pay the bills for the school. They can then graduate with a three-year master’s degree, becoming a minister without having paid a dime in tuition payments or having student loan debt, which Sophia Farms leaders say is a significant issue in training more religious leaders.
Leaders behind the Sophia – separately incorporated Sophia Farms, and Sophia Theological Seminary – want the school to be a place for a paradigm shift in religious thinking.
The small-scale intensive farming operation is currently about 20 acres. It bears summer crops, such as eggplant, cucumbers and tomatoes, plus winter vegetables, such as cauliflower, collards and kale.
It’s currently farmed by a core group of trustees and committee members. When the seminary opens, plans are for Sophia to have 36 students plus staff members working the dirt.
“Our aspiration is not to be huge; our aspiration is to have an impact,” said Melissa Jackson, a member of Sophia Farms’ steering committee.
Currently in a startup phase, the farm between Interstate 85 and Boydton Plank Road in Dinwiddie is just about four plots of rotated farmland. As the farm grows, Sophia leaders want to build other amenities, such as walking trails and three student housing buildings.
Sophia Farms is operating under a community-supported agriculture – or CSA – model in which the customers essentially subscribe to “shares” of the farm’s produce. Each customer gets a share, or multiple shares, each week when Sophia harvests its fields. Most of the shares are currently purchased by people in the Richmond area.
The bulk of the revenue is currently earned with typical farm crops, but could move into other products.
The most notable individual products now are a pair of “Sophia’s Pantry” branded hot sauces made with cayenne and serrano peppers farmed at the property. One is an old family recipe that one of the founders called “use wisely” because they couldn’t agree on how hot the sauce is. Some of the members say it has enough kick to make their eyes water; others don’t think it’s too spicy.
The second hot sauce is a combination of honey and peppers formed in conjunction with Virginia FoodWorks, a nonprofit cannery in Farmville. The sweet mixture also comes with a kick of spice.
Sophia staff members say they could branch into new products or markets for sale as the farm scales.
“If I had to guess what the future is, I would say it’s a cobbled link together of several different things that all are meaningful for us, but also taste good,” Jackson said. “The hot sauce tastes good. We’re not dabbling; it’s a proper hot sauce.”
The farm and its CSA model are designed as a way to combat a significant economic downfall that has been plaguing theological education over the past decade.
Sophia Farms is the brainchild of Mark E. Biddle, a former professor of the Old Testament at Baptist Theological Seminary in Richmond. Most members of the current steering committee and board of trustees were once his students. He says he taught about 1,200 current ministers across central Virginia over his 26 years there.
That ministry closed in 2019, citing financial reasons.
Biddle said those reasons are a lopsided cost structure for ministers upon graduation. Religious schools and institutions have long relied heavily on donations to provide education and services. Biddle said that support from donations is starting to wane. That results in seminaries charging increased tuition, which is difficult for ministers to pay off.
“It’s just hard to go into $100,000 of debt, and then go into the ministry at a little small church out in the countryside and try to support your family,” Biddle said.
The Association of Theological Schools accredits Christian schools of all denominations. It found that the average theological student spent $53,800 per year on their education and that almost 60% graduated with student loans averaging $44,500.
According to ATS studies, 38% of graduates had to take an extra job within the first five years after graduation, 33% looked for a higher-paying job and 19% postponed health care to help make ends meet financially.
“A lot of really sharp, talented, wonderful former ministers who are former students of mine have left the ministry after three to five years simply because they can’t pay off their student debt. It’s a killer for the church,” Biddle said.
The closure of Baptist Theological Seminary in Richmond gave Biddle the opportunity to take theological education in a different direction. First, he had to work out the cost and revenues.
Board chair Neil Zahradka, an ordained minister with experience working with the Department of Environmental Quality, crunched numbers in a spreadsheet. They were confident based on the results that the available farmland, plus incoming labor, is enough to support a theological school.
A former student of Biddle’s just happened to have the perfect piece of land.
Kathy Shereda purchased the farm, now called Sophia Farms, in 1987. She and her husband farmed the land for pumpkins, Indian corn, gourds and flowers before she eventually went to the seminary.
“I knew I couldn’t sustain the farm physically; I kind of wanted to sell, but I didn’t want to lose the property,” Shereda said.
The farm itself is the last parcel of a property that belonged to the family of Winfield Scott. Scott grew up there and eventually practiced law in Petersburg before joining the military and fighting in the Mexican-American War. He later was a Civil War general for the Union, as part of President Abraham Lincoln’s staff. The current 92 acres are all that remain from the historic 5,000-acre property.
“They called and said they were looking for a farm that was 100 acres, with about 20 acres open with some farmhouses, barns and water access. I said, ‘You just described my property.’”
She sold the farm to Sophia but will continue living there and working the fields with her decades of knowledge about the land.
“This means I still have my hands in the soil on the property that I love so much,” Shereda said. “A piece of property like this, you don’t own it, you borrow it. And now it can continue a legacy, a living legacy.”
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Neighborhood Resource Fair to offer a chance to get issues resolved
A new, free community event on Aug. 12 will provide local residents with resources to help their neighborhoods, plus a chance to meet candidates, enjoy family fun and win door prizes.
The Knoxville Office of Neighborhood Empowerment's inaugural Neighborhood Resource Fair will be 8 a.m.-noon Aug. 12 at the Jacob Building in Chilhowee Park, 401 Lakeside St.
Admission is free, but preregistration is requested at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/663646232747.
The Neighborhood Resource Fair will reproduce the popular “exhibition hall” component of the long-running Neighborhood Conference, which was a free, community-wide event produced by the Office of Neighborhood Empowerment for several years between 2013 and 2022, according to a news release.
More than 80 governmental agencies and departments, nonprofit organizations and community groups will be there to provide information about their programs.
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Neighborhoods Coordinator Debbie Sharp described the new event as "like a tradeshow for residents who want to explore ways of strengthening their neighborhoods."
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“It’s a great opportunity to speak directly to city staff, [Knox] County staff and program directors to bring in resources to your neighborhood and/or get issues resolved,” Sharp said in the press release. “It’s also a chance to engage with other neighbors and have a one-on-one conversation with someone who may have achieved a goal in their neighborhood that you want to achieve in yours."
- The Muse Knoxville and Zoo Knoxville will offer demonstrations and family-friendly activities.
- The Candidates’ Corner will host candidates for city mayor, city council at-large seats and municipal judge.
- Each attendee will receive two food tickets to use at the Jacob Building concession stand during the event.
- Names for door prizes will be drawn hourly during the resource fair. Attendees who register before Aug. 8 will increase their chances of winning a prize, according to the release.
For more information about the Office of Neighborhood Empowerment, visit KnoxvilleTN.gov/Neighborhoods.
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GREENSBORO — Police are reporting that a water main break has closed the intersection of East Florida Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive this morning.
The intersection will remain closed for an extended period of time, according to a news release from the Greensboro Police Department.
Drivers are encouraged to find alternate routes of travel.
Updates will be provided as more information becomes available.
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“Warm, ain’t it?”
That’s about as far as my father would go in acknowledging the temperature on a July afternoon in the desert. His profane prolixity knew no limit, save this. He did not utter the “H” word. He wouldn’t call a day “hot.”
I don’t know why. Chalk it up to just one of many quirks of Alvis Henry Carpenter that I carry forward on his behalf, like the gap in my teeth and how I gesture with my hands when I speak.
Hot as it has been of late (There, I’ve said it.), my thoughts turn to recollections of high school summers I spent as a lifeguard at the city pool during the summers of 1969–1971.
My former junior-high science teacher, Mr. Sullivan, managed the pool. The lifeguard staff was comprised of high school classmates. Where else can you jump in the water when it gets hot at work?
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There were small motel pools in town, but only the city pool was open to everyone. The pool opened at noon, seven days a week. My mother would go home for lunch and gather up my sister and brother and drop them off to spend the afternoon at the pool.
Every day was packed with kids. There was a baby pool, a wading pool and a 25-meter pool with a sloping bottom that ranged in depth from 4 feet at the shallow end to 15 feet at the deep end.
The “Deep End” was delineated by a string of buoys on a rope across the pool where the bottom sloped precipitously downward. There were two diving boards, the low dive (1-meter) and the high dive (3-meters).
To be eligible to use the diving boards and play in the deep end, everyone had to pass a swimming proficiency test that consisted of swimming across the pool and back near the string of buoys.
While my teenage sister devoted her time to hanging out with her girlfriends on their towels on the deck, working on their tans, my brother, who was 6 years old, was determined to pass the test that would permit him to swim in the deep end.
Daily he pleaded his case to me whenever I occupied the tall chair that overlooked the deep end. Finally, I agreed to let him attempt the test. I still laugh and I cry whenever I recall his 6-year-old self making the attempt.
He struggled mightily to make it across the pool and back. I think of those lines in the poem by Stevie Smith, “I was much further out than you thought/and not waving but drowning.” Yet, he made it. He climbed out of the pool, shivering, with his arms across his chest, looking up at me for the verdict.
“You did it,” I said. He grinned the biggest grin I’ve ever seen and shuffled away, barely under the “Don’t run!” pool-deck speed limit, to join the queue at the low dive. And there he spent the rest of his hot summer afternoons.
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100 years ago
1923: Rotarians were given a rich treat at Tuesday’s meeting in splendid addresses by Congressman Carl Hayden of Arizona and Dr. Frederick I. Monsen of Pasadena, California, author, lecturer, explorer. Monsen’s address, while extemporaneous, abounded in humor and was deeply instructive. Monsen knew former President Madero of Mexico — knew him before he began the revolution that ended in his being chosen president. But it was of Pancho Villa that he spoke mostly. He had been guided by Villa and some of his Indians into the wilds on an archeological exploring trip long before Villa became famous. He had been fearfully warned not to trust himself in the man’s power. He found him an obedient, considerate and honest servant. He said Villa was a wonderful leader, a remarkable strategist. He would have been president of Mexico but that he felt his own lack of education and that it debarred him from being successful as president. He cited the admiration General Scott had for Villa, and also that of Frederick Funston, afterward general, but who, when he voiced his appreciation of Villa’s worth, was a member of Monsen’s party, the doctor having picked him up in California as Funston, then unknown and practically penniless, was walking across the continent.
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Monsen pointed the moral of his talk -- that no matter how great one’s natural capabilities, they could never come to full fruition and usefulness unless accompanied by education. The applause lasted so long that Monson was obliged to rise and bow his acknowledgements.
75 years ago
1948: One or more showings of the film used in Oregon public schools for sex education purposes at the junior high school level will be sponsored by the Flagstaff Lions Club through courtesy of the Orpheum theatre, Aug. 5. Invitations to view the film will be sent to the city’s Parent-Teacher Associations, service clubs, the Business and Professional Women’s Club, various church groups, veterans groups, and schoolteachers and officials. In addition, other adults who are interested are invited to see the film. The film was shown here yesterday for members of the Lions Club and evoked favorable comment, leading to the plan for sponsoring a showing to a larger group. Entitled “Human Growth,” the picture is designed to explaining human growth and reproduction to children from the sixth through the ninth grades. It is being shown to an adult audience as a means of determining feeling toward introducing some sort of sex education in the local schools.
50 years ago
1973: Some minor food supply shortages have appeared in Flagstaff in recent days, but no acute shortages have been noted in any areas. Shortages were reported Monday in salad and vegetable oils, mayonnaise, and canned fruits and vegetables, Ray Keating, manager of Food Town Supermarket, said today. These are normal for the end of the packing year. Once the new crop of vegetables is picked and packed, any shortages should become minimal, Keating said. Shortages of chicken and related products may become apparent in the next several weeks, said a spokesman for several large markets in Phoenix.
Northern Arizona is a sprawling land area. Thus time is the key factor in reaching victims of many types of accidents. To speed services of medical teams to the scene, the Department of Public Safety is stationing a jet-powered helicopter in Flagstaff. Its crews will assist at scenes of highway accidents, searches and for other law enforcement operations. Two crews will be here for three days each week, giving Flagstaff and the surrounding area coverage for six days, 24 hours a day. “Our main advantage is we don’t have to follow the highway,” says pilot Dan Jones, who learned to fly a helicopter in the Marine Corps. The helicopter, a Bell-Ranger, has room for two injured persons and two crew members.
25 years ago
1998: One of Flagstaff’s most scenic valleys and a popular corridor for mountain bikers headed for the San Francisco Peaks is possibly about to be closed forever to public access. The former Lockett Trust land, which had been pegged for preservation two years ago as part of the defeated Peaks Parkway ballot issue, has been divided into 18 large parcels, with seven of those divided again. In all, more than a hundred houses could fill the valley after all the subdividing is finished. “We got the chance to have the city buy the land and use it for recreationalists, but we blew it,” said Dan Overton while biking Friday across a meadow located in what is now referred to as Tract 17. Jeffrey Ryan, who was pedaling alongside Overton, agreed. “As I understand it, this place is being zoned for 2-acre lots and larger, and most people in Flagstaff can’t afford that. This place was perfect for a city park, and I think there are several other places that could have been developed before this area was touched.”
Rollin W. Wheeler, Flagstaff’s first charter government mayor and a longtime public school educator and community volunteer, died Saturday in Sedona. Wheeler began one of the most successful political careers in Flagstaff history in 1952 when he was first elected to city council. He was part of the council that in 1958 presented the city charter to voters for approval. In 1960, he became the first successful candidate for mayor under terms of that charter. As mayor, Wheeler, who had no vote in Council except in a tie, was well-known for running crisp, orderly meetings in which he carefully summed up the major points in an issue for his colleagues before discussion began and then saw to it that all points of view got a succinct hearing. He never hesitated to take a stand on an issue, despite not having a vote, and when his vote was needed, it was cast without hesitation or apology. During his term as mayor, Wheeler presided over a seriously troubled time in the summer of 1967 when race issues threatened to erupt in town. It was his attitude of iron calm and patience that largely was instrumental in preventing property damage and bloodshed.
Susan Johnson has lived in Flagstaff for over 30 years and loves to delve into her adopted hometown’s past. She has written two books for the History Press, Haunted Flagstaff and Flagstaff’s Walkup Family Murders, and, with her son Nick, manages Freaky Foot Tours. You’ll find her hiking the trails with her corgi, Shimmer.
All events were taken from issues of the Arizona Daily Sun and its predecessors, the Coconino Weekly Sun and the Coconino Sun.
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On Aug. 12, the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Flagstaff (BBBSF) Dave McKay Memorial Half Marathon and 5K Walk/Run, Flagstaff’s oldest continuous race, returns for the 46th time. This year, we’ll be honoring the memory of longtime board volunteer Gene Munger, who passed away at 88 on March 26.
Like a dozen others on our half-marathon committee over the years, Gene (2013) and wife Molly (2007) were honored as Flagstaff Citizens of the Year for their service to the community.
In Gene’s case, he was also a runner and novelist who served as a mentor to many of us younger board members, usually teaching us a lesson by telling stories that left us in stitches.
I could also always count on Gene for a laugh on my birthday. On my 52nd, he posted on my Facebook wall, “I presume you’ll be running Rim-to-Rim on your birthday. Easy does it; at 35, you’re just rounding into shape.”
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For my 54th, he wrote, “Neil, reaching your 18th birthday must be exciting for you. Enjoy it to the fullest.”
In June 2012, when I was writing a column about “Why I Run” (published June 17), Gene shared with me his own history.
“I started running slowly in 1977. My first ‘real race’ was a 10K and I was totally freaked out with the challenge; I was sure I couldn’t do it. I did, experienced my first runner’s high, and then I really got into 10Ks, halfs and full marathons. Finally my darn knees wore out, my orthopedic doctor advised, ‘You’re running entirely too much; if you don’t slow down, you’re going to be a cripple for the rest of your life.’ I followed his advice, began to walk, then walked a couple of marathons, and even today, I walk every other day about 2–2.5 miles.”
In 2011, he emailed me, “Neil, with your enthusiasm and support for the ‘running game’ here in northern Arizona, I salute you. As such, you are now placed in the Eugene M. Munger Hall of Fame. I regret there’ll be no formal ceremony, however, if you drop by the house, the wine will be chillin’ in your honor.”
While Gene is no longer physically with us, his wife, Molly, will serve as our race starter to celebrate his memory and dedication to supporting our half-marathon and the hundreds of children and mentors who benefit from its fundraising.
Thanks to sponsorship from Kinney Construction Services, all half-marathon and 5K participants will also get a highly coveted long-sleeved Sweatvac race shirt, while Kid’s Dash finishers will get a special medal. This year, all half-marathon participants will treasure their well-earned, handcrafted medallions artfully created by local runner Rod Horn.
All registered participants are invited to our free Fratelli Pizza party packet pickup on Aug. 11 at Grand Canyon Adventures (400 S. Malpais Lane, Flagstaff) from 5 to 7:30 p.m. We hope to see many of you there, so register at RunSignUp today!
In addition to volunteering as the BBBSF Half Marathon race director, Neil Weintraub is also a big brother to his little brother Zach. Dozens of children eagerly await a Big, so if you have a few hours a week to volunteer, call (928) 774-0649 or visit flagstaffbigs.org to learn more.
Do you have a summer running story to share? Send it to coordinating editor Julie Hammonds (runner@juliehammonds.com) to be featured in this column.
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Being alternative is who the creator of Imagine Threads Cesar Rodriguez has been as far back as he can remember. He grew up as a Volcom and Vans fanatic, alternative rock fan and a sports fan.
However, he wasn't always able to show off his alternative fandoms, because he could not afford most streetwear as a kid, and instead donned a more simplistic wardrobe with non-name brands.
With a shaky upbringing, living in rough neighborhoods in Phoenix that saw drug abuse and gang violence, Rodriguez said he relied a lot on his family, community and sports in Guadalupe to help keep him happy and safe.
Ultimately, despite adversity throughout his early life, Rodriguez says he tries to stand tall for what he supported: empowering others, alternativeness, and sports, which separated him from the negative parts of life. That drive to inspire others helped him launch his clothing brand Imagine Threads.
"I want to just display to others in the world I grew up in that that life isn’t our fate, or what we are worth — we can literally design our own life," Rodriguez said.
A young visionary
Rodriguez, a Guadalupe native, grew up as a minority in what he described as a "tight-knit" community. The oldest out of five siblings, he had to mature fast, often playing the role of "parent". His grandparents were the leaders of his family, which contributed to his work ethic, Rodriguez said.
As the first person in his family to graduate college, Rodriguez used the barriers he had to overcome growing up as motivation, a skill that he would highlight through his brand.
"I wanted to show even though we're in this specific landscape, there's not anything that's holding us back from where we want to be," Rodriguez said. "So, the brand itself is kind of a statue of being able to build to that level and continuing to grow."
Rodriguez's early career dreams were focused around banking, but once he enrolled in fashion, business and retail courses at Northern Arizona University, he found his passion, which led to the creation of his brand.
Rodriguez's clothing brand began in October 2018 and he describes it to customers as alternative and grungy, but the Guadalupe native hopes his designs give more.
"I try to be able to utilize my own thoughts and my own inspiration behind Imagine Threads (to make it) be OK to just be yourself and OK to be different," he continued. "(I) utilize it in a role that plays a significant part of being more positive for others, than it just being 'oh, I'm just a streetwear brand, or I am a designer.'"
Giving back
Rodriguez doesn't stop at being a designer — he wants to give back.
"Where I come from, you find throughout your life that a lot of people need help, but don't ask for it. ...There's always something more you can do," Rodriguez said.
"I'm going to schools, I'm talking to students, I'm doing water drives (in the downtown Phoenix area)," Rodriguez added. "Just because I'm a brand and I'm selling clothes, that's just not all I am, I want to be involved (in the community).
Rodriguez's friend of 15 years, Pedro Rodriguez, noted that Cesar goes to the schools and water drives because "he understands where those communities are coming from and the difficulties of growing up in that environment."
Rodriguez says he was taken back to his own childhood when a boy recognized him and his brand from being out in the community.
"That's truly inspiring because he remembers me. So for me, I would have done the same, I would have been that kid that would remember somebody that inspired me," Rodriguez said. "I know the type of people that do need help."
Symbols through cloth
Throughout his time at Imagine Threads, Rodriguez aims to design clothing that delivers hidden messages about social constructs. One in particular of his designs that illustrates this is called "hypnotized", a picture of two people facing each other and feeding information, said Rodriguez.
He describes the intent as trying to show how people sometimes make life decisions based off of other people and what we know about their experiences.
"The hypnotize design plays into that part, people facing one another, which in a certain aspect is like, 'okay, this person is good for me or this person is bad for me, or maybe I should not listen to this person,'" he described.
As part of his clothing gallery, Rodriguez has designed Dia dos Muertos (Day of the Dead) style clothing. Rodriguez noted that this style of clothing gives off the aesthetic of "death and love" and that he wants to inspire people and make people feel something different through their interpretation of the design, Rodriguez said.
"Clothing is part of the story of who you are," Rodriguez said. "Pictures throughout time depict different time periods of our lives. Clothing usually gives a sense of where we were at mentally, physically, socially and spiritually."
Rodriguez's work can be found at First Fridays on Roosevelt Street in Downtown Phoenix, as well as the new retail shop 'Feral' on 16th Street and McDowell, and 'Trill Hip Hop Shops' on 16th Street and Indian School. Rodriguez also said that he has people come into his customized shop on 40th Street and Roeser where he shows people his work in progress. His gallery can also be found online on his Imagine Threads website.
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New hotel-to-housing project underway in Page
PAGE — Construction for another hotel-to-housing conversion project will soon break ground in Arizona, aimed at helping those experiencing homelessness and creating affordable housing.
The Pinyon Pointe Apartments project in Page is spearheaded by Housing for Hope, an affiliate of Catholic Charities Community Services, which recently received a $150,000 grant from the Arizona Housing Fund to help cover construction costs.
The bulk of the funding for the project came from the Arizona Department of Housing, which allocated $6.05 million for the purchase of the existing 39-room hotel.
Once complete, Pinyon Pointe will include 20 apartments, a mix of one- and two-bedroom units and studio apartments, and an on-site Catholic Charities staff member to provide ongoing case management. Residents will also be connected with other local resources to assist with housing stability, including medical and mental health treatment, substance abuse counseling, partnerships with food banks and more.
Located at 75 S. Seventh Ave. in Page, the project's demolition and construction are expected to start later this month, with the goal of completing the project entirely by this December.
“There’s a huge need for more housing options in Page in general and particularly affordable housing for individuals and families who are at risk of homelessness,” said Steve Capobres, Catholic Charities vice president of business development and Housing for Hope executive director, in a news release announcing the funding.
Help on the way:A New Leaf to build a $30M affordable housing complex for seniors in Mesa
Nearly 30% of Page residents are living in poverty — more than double the statewide poverty rate, according to the latest census data.
The Pinyon Pointe Apartments project is just the latest iteration of the hotel-to-housing strategy as one way to address the affordable housing crisis across the state.
Earlier this year, Flagstaff Shelter Services announced that it will transform a former Motel 6 into 103 units of transitional housing scheduled to open by the end of the year. And in May, the Mesa City Council voted to buy a 72-room hotel for $7.4 million for a local transitional housing program.
Reach the reporter at LLatch@gannett.com.
The Republic’s coverage of northern Arizona is funded, in part, with a grant from Report for America. To support regional Arizona news coverage like this, make a tax-deductible donation at supportjournalism.azcentral.com.
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KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) – The Sunset Concert Series, a part of Fun Fest, brought a large number of guests to the festival.
On Thursday, Danny Gokey and Ellie Holcomb performed. On Friday, Boys II Men and Johnnyswim performed. On Saturday, Clay Walker, Chris Lane and Brittney Spencer closed out the series.
The last full day of Fun Fest was filled with many events including multiple food vendors selling a variety of eats for “The Taste”.
“We have everything from ice cream to pizza to crab cakes, “Angela Price, Fun Fest Store Manager said.
The Van Huss family drove four hours to get to Fun Fest from Gallatin in Middle Tennessee.
“This is actually my hometown,” Drew Van Huss said. “This is where I grew up. So, we always just try to come back during this time to see family and just to experience fun fest and things like that.”
Drew Van Huss said he wants his kids to experience Fun Fest like he did growing up.
“My favorite part is ice cream and the balloons,” said Owen Van Huss, Drew’s son.
Molly Van Huss, Drew’s daughter, also agreed with ice cream and balloons being her favorite part of Fun Fest.
The Van Huss family along with Fun Fest organizers believe the event is great for the community.
“I think it’s just a great time to get in touch with your neighbors,” Drew Van Huss said. “And even if you’re not from here, it’s just an incredibly friendly community and it’s just a fun thing to be a part of.”
“There’s a lot of people who this is their 42nd Fun Fest and anything in between,” Price said. “So, the community has just wrapped their arms around this festival and has made it what it is today and we just love it.”
Although the main part of Fun Fest is over, there is one last concert at Allandale Mansion on Sunday. The Kruger Brothers will be playing along with the Symphony of the Mountains Orchestra. You can find more information here.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Tennesee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) and the Johnson City Police Department are asking the public for help in locating 81-year-old Kendred Young.
A release from the JCPD said Young is a white male that’s 5’10” and 185 pounds. He has gray hair and brown eyes.
Young was last seen on Saturday in the area of East Oakland Avenue in Johnson City, the release states. He was wearing a solid blue button-up shirt and blue jeans with tennis shoes. The release said he may be traveling in a 2007 white Ford F250 with Tennessee tag number 882BHRR.
Young has a medical condition that could impair his ability to return home safely on his own, according to the release.
If anyone has information regarding Young’s whereabouts, contact the JCPD at 423-434-2509 or the TBI at 1-800-TBI-FIND.
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY — An investigation is underway in Montgomery County following an officer-involved shooting that occurred on Saturday.
At 10:35am officers responded to a business in the 12200 block of Veirs Mill Road for reports of a stabbing.
When they arrived police located a woman who had been stabbed.
One minute later, police received another call for two women who had been stabbed in the 4100 block of Colie Drive.
Officers then found the two women and a man suffering from stab wounds.
After obtaining a description of the suspect, police began canvassing the area.
One officer found a man that fit the description armed with a knife in the 4300 block of Harvard Street.
According to body cam footage, the officer commanded the suspect to drop the knife, but he did not comply and then advanced towards the officer with the knife.
The officer then fired at the suspect multiple times.
Officers called for EMS and performed CPR, but the suspect was pronounced dead on scene.
A knife was recovered from the scene, no officers were injured.
Three of the stabbing victims were taken to area hospitals. The fourth victim was treated on scene and released.
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BATH, Maine — In a city known for building big steel ships, a small wooden one is getting attention. The Virginia is a little over 50 feet in length and looks like no other vessel seen in New England waters.
There’s a reason for that.
Virginia is a replica of a ship built in 1607, along the shore of the Kennebec River, by the Popham Colony, an attempt to establish the first English settlement in New England. The Virginia was the first English ship built in North America. The volunteer project to create a modern version of that vessel is named “Maine’s First Ship.”
From idea to research to launch, building the new Virginia took about 20 years and a tremendous amount of work. She was launched into the Kennebec in June of 2022, but it has taken another year to make her rigged and ready to sail.
“I think people thought the transition would be about 24 hours, put the boat in the water, and then we begin,” Kirstie Truluck, executive director of Maine’s First Ship, said. “I think we learned the transition is a multi-year process. “
That said, the vessel that now floats at dockside in Bath has already made two trips to other ports and is actively training the all-volunteer crew members. She sails to Pemaquid Harbor for a historic Pemaquid event and sailed to Boothbay Harbor in June to be part of Windjammer Days.
Looking dramatically different from any of the traditional schooners in that event, Truluck says Virginia got a lot of attention.
Truluck said, “I was actually surprised during the parade of sail, and had people all around me oohing and aahing, saying, 'What is that ship?' Because, all those beautiful schooners with their white sails in the fog, and here comes Virginia with tanbark (brown) sails through the fog, and people were going crazy for her. Children said, 'Oh, it’s a pirate ship!'”
Virginia isn’t meant to emulate a pirate ship, of course. She actually was built to both celebrate those brave, early Maine settlers and to teach 21st-century children and adults about those parts of Maine’s past.
“[The goal] was always to put students on board and teach them the history, this place-based history, and also to teach them about sailing ships in this city of ships,” Truluck explained.
That part of the mission — about making Bath as the City of Ships — has already begun. The Virginia and her displays on land are already drawing visitors to Bath’s waterfront.
“Our visitor numbers are as strong now that she is in the water than when we were building, maybe even stronger,” said Jeremy Blakelock, president of the board of Maine’s First Ship and one of the volunteer coordinators of the building work.
“This is a very nice attraction. It brings people in the door, gets them exposed to the history and the stories, not just the Popham Colony, but shipbuilding on the Kennebec," Blakelock said.
Truluck says part of their mission is to be “ambassadors for the city of Bath.”
For the moment, however, the visitors can only watch from the dock. Virginia is still awaiting Coast Guard certification, so no passengers can be on board. The vessel can sail only with the volunteer crew. Truluck said it will likely be 2024 before they can fully begin plans to carry student and adult passengers.
In the meantime, there is more training to be done, more work on historic exhibits, and, of course, fundraising. Even all volunteer groups require funding, especially when they have a ship and a waterfront building to care for.
For those volunteers who do get to sail, however, there have already been glimpses of the lessons Virginia will be able to teach.
Blakelock, who was on the crew for the sail past outer islands from Boothbay Harbor, said when they shut off the engine (required by regulation) and just sailed, it was a great experience.
“When we were sailing, it was surrounded by fog, couldn’t see land, couldn’t see any other boats, and really couldn’t hear any modern things. It was really evocative of what they would have been experiencing, those people from England," Blakelock said.
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YARMOUTH, Maine — The Yarmouth Clam Festival is a tradition that has brought families and the community together for more than 50 years.
This year's event officially kicks off Friday.
The festival got its start back in 1965 as a way to help bring business to the town. At the time, Barbara Fox was a 30-year-old mother of four and owned the Yarmouth Country Store. She was also Barbara Merrill, then.
"They were just starting to promote business and I was pretty anxious to have the business be good," Fox said.
Fox joined the charge of people working to get the festival off the ground. She would be in charge of the Miss Clam Contest. Fox said it was a portion of the event that really caught the public's attention.
"We got most of our publicity free when we put Miss Clam in a picture that was in a bathing suit leaning against a tree somewhere," Fox said. "It went quite viral or whatever they called it back in the 60s and, consequently, it just grew."
This year, Fox and others will be honored for their contribution to the festival as one of the parade grand marshals.
Watch the full story above to learn more about the history of the Yarmouth Clam Festival.
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MAINE, USA — People across the country and here in Maine face severe difficulties affording housing due to the higher cost of living, rising interest rates, and housing shortages.
In the wake of the housing crisis, Senators Angus King (I-Maine) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) introduced the Access to Credit for our Rural Economy (ACRE) Act of 2023 that would give borrowers in rural towns across the U.S. access to low-interest loans when purchasing a home or farm.
Senator Angus King said, “It has simply gotten way too hard to find reasonably priced homes in our small towns.”
The legislation would make home and farm ownership more affordable for approximately 311-thousand people living in about 390 rural towns in Maine, according to 2020 Census data.
"There’s no one easy solution to our housing affordability problems, but this bipartisan effort would be an important step forward. I appreciate Senator Moran’s partnership and hope we can get this bill passed for rural communities like those in Maine and Kansas,” Senator King added.
The ACRE Act would work by giving small community banks access and flexibility to provide affordable low-interest loans and mortgages to their rural community borrowers.
“High inflation and rising interest rates are putting a strain on farmers and rural homeowners in Kansas and across the country,” said Sen. Moran.
“The ACRE Act will help Maine people and farmers in rural communities, and we’re grateful for Senator King's support.”, said Jim Roche President of the Maine Bankers Association.
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LONG BEACH, Calif. — A Texas man faces up to life in federal prison after he allegedly kidnapped a girl at gunpoint and sexually assaulted her prior to his arrest in California, officials with the U.S. Attorney's Office announced.
The suspect, 61-year-old Steven Robert Sablan of Cleburne, Texas, was arrested last week in Long Beach on charges of kidnapping and transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, according to officials. He was indicted on Thursday, July 20.
Sablan allegedly approached the 13-year-old victim who was walking down a street July 6 in San Antonio and forced her into his vehicle at gunpoint, according to court documents.
Court documents stated that the 61-year-old began driving and told the girl he could take her on a cruise ship to see her friend in Australia. He allegedly sexually assaulted her multiple times while driving from Texas to California, according to court documents.
That same day, on July 6, Sablan was reported missing by his roommate and was entered in the missing persons database, the Cleburne Police Department confirmed.
On July 9, Sablan parked his vehicle in Long Beach and went into a laundromat to wash clothes while the victim stayed in the car, court documents stated. During this time, officials said the victim wrote "help me" on a piece of paper to get someone's attention.
A witness saw the girl and called police, who arrived to find Sablan outside of the vehicle and the victim who mouthed "help" from inside the car, according to court documents.
Sablan was arrested, and authorities searched the vehicle and found a black BB gun, the "help me" sign and a pair of handcuffs, according to court documents. Following his arrest, Sablan was removed from the missing persons database by Long Beach PD.
Officials said law enforcement discovered the victim was reported missing out of San Antonio.
An affidavit said Sablan was convicted of robbery with a deadly weapon in 1979, robbery with a deadly weapon and burglary in 1985 and possession of a controlled substance in 2016, the Associated Press reported.
Sablan could be sentenced to the maximum of life in federal prison if he's convicted of both charges, according to officials.
The FBI and police departments in Long Beach and Cleburne investigated the case.
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PORTLAND, Maine — Six people were rescued by Portland fire crews in two separate water-related incidents on Thursday.
The first incident took place off East End Beach, while the other was in the Presumpscot River on the Westbrook town line, the Portland Fire Department said in a news release.
Shortly before 10:45 a.m., fire crews responded to an alarm for two swimmers "in trouble" about 100 yards off East End Beach, the department said.
"Responding in Marine 3, the Marine Division crew was able to quickly locate one person stranded on a small island," the release said. "Rescue efforts were redirected to two additional swimmers in the water clutching mooring equipment."
Fire crews provided floatation devices to the two swimmers when a fourth person was found to be in distress, too, according to the release.
"The crew repositioned to the fourth swimmer to provide and secure a personal floatation device," the release stated. "Once the safety of all four had been ensured by their donning of personal flotation devices, individuals in distress were then retrieved by the Marine Division crew with Marine 3 and all were returned safely to shore."
During this first incident, no injuries were reported.
The second incident happened shortly before 4:45 p.m. when fire crews responded to a report of two children "stranded" in the Presumpscot River in the area of Forest Avenue near the Westbrook town line, the department said in the release.
Fire crews arrived at the scene within minutes and locate and establish contact with the children.
"The children were found to be cold, scared, and reporting they were unable to swim," the release said. "They were clinging to the structure of the bridge and a submerged log approximately 50 feet from shore, the strong current and high water levels causing them to submerge intermittently."
Fire crews conducted an initial rapid attempt to assist in self-rescue with a life ring and rope, but after recognizing the urgency of the incident, as well as the condition of the two children, three fire department members "aggressively entered the river with the life ring and personal flotation devices for the children," the department said.
The fire crew members were able to reach the children, secure them with floatation devices, and safely remove them from the river with the help of additional fire crew members and Westbrook fire crews, the release said.
"The two children were evaluated on scene by medical staff but were not transported," the release stated. "Crews remained on scene with the children until they were successfully reunited with loved ones."
No injuries were reported in the second incident.
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BIDDEFORD, Maine — Biddeford lifeguards confirmed Friday that a possible shark sighting reported at a beach in Biddeford Thursday afternoon was a great white shark.
Biddeford Recreation Department Director Carl Walsh told NEWS CENTER Maine a lifeguard at Middle Beach spotted the shark fin in the water around 1 p.m. Thursday.
The red flag was raised and beachgoers were ordered out of the water, Walsh said.
The lifeguard that spotted the shark, Ella Leonard, said they normally spot a few sharks every year when the water temperature warms up.
"With a shark sighting it is nerve-wracking, but it's just a sighting and it's not an attack. We just have to wash it away and focus on the main thing that is people are safe," Leonard said.
Walsh added the shark fin was not seen again, and people were allowed back in the water an hour later, which is standard procedure.
According to Walsh, the department has seen a noticeable increase in these kinds of sightings over the past five or six years, but it still only amounts to one or two sightings a year.
The department plans on notifying the state of the sighting.
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PORTLAND, Maine — As we find ourselves halfway through the summer, spanning from Memorial Day to Labor Day, a chilling reality sets in for teenage drivers and their families.
This period is ominously dubbed the 100 Deadliest Days on the roads for young motorists.
Unfortunately, the statistics have so far upheld this grim moniker. With an alarming increase in accidents and fatalities involving teenage drivers, there is a pressing need for awareness and safety measures.
Anna Goodman, a young learner attending AAA's driver's education course, shared her initial nerves as she took the first steps towards driving independently.
"I was really nervous. I felt like I didn't know what was going to happen or what to expect since I've never done it before," Goodman confided.
The fear of the unknown is a common sentiment among new drivers, but it's essential to provide them with proper training and guidance to navigate the roads safely.
The Maine Department of Transportation reports that nearly half of the state's 56 vehicle fatalities this year have occurred within the span of just 50 days, emphasizing the severity of the 100 Deadliest Days.
"The number of teenage drivers aged 16 to 19 involved in car crashes has exceeded 400, with an additional 253 passengers affected by these accidents," Tom Baren, a traffic education specialist with AAA, said. "Shockingly, having one to two people in the vehicle increases the likelihood of a crash by 44 percent."
While the numbers are concerning, there is a glimmer of hope. In comparison to the same period last year, the number of fatalities during the halfway mark of the 100 Deadliest Days this year is comparatively lower.
At this time last year, there were already 93 deaths on the road, whereas this year, the count stands at 67.
While any fatality is tragic, the slight improvement indicates that efforts to promote road safety are having some impact.
Although the current focus is on the 100 Deadliest Days, it's crucial to understand the broader context of teenage driving fatalities throughout the entire year.
Tom Baren notes that around 2,000 teenagers die in accidents annually across the United States, and out of those, a staggering 660 fatalities occur between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
Parents of new drivers are naturally anxious about their children's safety when they first venture out on their own.
Anna's mother, Jody, expressed her concerns.
"It's obviously very nerve-wracking the first few times they pull out of the driveway on their own," Jody said.
Parents play a vital role in instilling responsible driving habits and providing ongoing support and guidance to their teens.
With 50 days remaining in the 100 Deadliest Days this summer, experts suggest utilizing technology to monitor teenage drivers and promote responsible behavior on the roads.
There are various apps available that allow parents to track their child's driving habits, including speed and location. These tools can provide valuable insights into their driving behavior and help identify areas for improvement.
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SMITH COUNTY, Texas — Not all heroes wear capes. Some are covered in fur.
That's the case with Ivy at the Smith County Animal Shelter.
According to Saving Animals from Euthanasia in Texas volunteer Pearl Wittholt, Ivy is a hero dog that has donated blood to save other pups. She's now in the Smith County Animal Shelter and in danger of being euthanized.
Ivy is an 18-month-old terrier mix who was brought to the shelter on June 2.
"She is a universal blood donor as well as an adorable, very adoptable dog," Wittholt said.
Wittholt reached out CBS19 to bring attention to Ivy after we helped save Stanford -- another hero dog -- back in March.
"The last time you advertised a hero dog for us, he was saved," Wittholt said.
To meet Ivy, visit the Smith County Animal Shelter, located at 322 E. Ferguson St. in Tyler, Monday Friday from 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
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Eye on the Tropics: Don becomes the first hurricane of the season5 areas where Brightline’s arrival here will be a ‘game changer’Police search for person of interest in Daytona Beach shootingPregnant woman, unborn child killed in apparent double murder-suicide, sheriff saysYears-long investigation uncovers multi-state drug trafficking operation based in Central Florida
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Scattered showers and storms will start earlier today.
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Meteorologist Kassandra Crimi said this would help keep our temperatures down a bit.
Daytime highs will hit the upper 80s and low 90s.
Read: Eye on the Tropics: Don weakens to a tropical storm
Heat index values will peak near 100 to 102 degrees.
Most of Central Florida is NOT in a heat advisory today, except for Southern Brevard County.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — The Florida Highway Patrol is looking for the public’s support, and vote, for the best-looking cruiser in the nation.
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On Monday, the American Association of Troopers’ annual “Best Looking Cruiser” contest kicked off and runs through July 31.
Competitors from across the country submitted pictures that represent their state and vie for the chance to be named best-looking cruiser.
Along with bragging rights, the winner is presented with the Best Looking Cruiser Award and will be featured on the cover of “America’s Best Looking Trooper Cruisers 2024″ wall calendar.
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Proceeds benefit the AAST Foundation, which provides educational scholarships to dependents of member troopers.
This year’s submission, photographed by retired FHP Lieutenant Jeff Frost at Gatorland in Orlando, features a 2019 Dodge Charger in FHP’s traditional colors of black and tan.
“Entering ‘America’s Best Looking Cruiser Contest’ is an opportunity for FHP and the community we protect to stand proudly behind our public safety mission and Florida’s reputation as a law-and-order state,” said FLHSMV Executive Director Dave Kerner. “The FHP Black and Tan, as it’s known, is widely recognized as a symbol of our core values: Courtesy, Service Protection. When people see a Florida State Trooper, they know that they are there for protection and can expect professional and competent service. A vote for FHP is a vote for Florida.”
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This year, to include our junior troopers, FHP is hosting coloring contests within each troop. To participate you can print out the coloring page available on our Vote FHP then scan and e-mail the page to your local PAO or drop it off at your local Troop.
Share your coloring page on social media with the hashtag #VoteFHP for a chance to be featured on our statewide social media accounts.
“The iconic Florida Highway Patrol black & tan is recognized nationwide,” said Florida Highway Patrol Colonel Gary Howze II. “Show your support for your Troopers by voting for Florida in the 2023 ‘American’s Best Looking Cruiser Contest’ hosted by the American Association of State Troopers.”
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For information about the competition, the coloring contest and to place your vote, CLICK HERE.
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LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — The Lancaster County Coroner's Office was dispatched to the intersection of Old Philadelphia Pike and Greenfield Road in East Lampeter Township at 6:59 p.m. on July 22 to investigate a reported fatal crash.
Upon arrival, a coroner discovered the victim, 22-year-old Cristian Murillo of West Grove, deceased. It was determined that the crash involved a motorcycle, operated by Murillo, and a pickup truck.
The East Lampeter Township Police Department is currently investigating the accident.
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YORK, Pa. — The 2023 York State Fair is in full swing, as thousands of people packed the park for opening weekend.
“It seems like nothing has changed; it has remained so vibrant," said Elikana Njeli, who was at the York Fairgrounds with his two sons.
“You’ve got the food, you’ve got the animals, what more could you need," said Maura Schmidt, who traveled from Virginia to visit the York State Fair.
Clear skies and milder temperatures greeted guests as they entered the fairgrounds on Saturday afternoon. Fairgoers said the weather is a welcome relief from the heat and humidity seen throughout South Central PA in recent weeks.
“It’s a perfect day for the York Fair," said Hannah Downey. "It’s sunny but breezy, and not too hot, it’s perfect.”
Last year, only 353,077 people attended the 10-day event. That was a 34 percent drop from 2021.
Vendors and fairground officials said the extreme heat was to blame.
“It was terrible last year because it was too hot," said Rose Wuchter, who runs a food stand during the York State Fair. "A lot of old people wouldn’t come out during the daytime.”
“The first weekend, we, unfortunately, got hit with a pretty decent heatwave," said Montgomery Stambaugh, a spokesperson with the York State Fair.
Stambaugh said the milder weather should encourage more people to come to the fairgrounds and help get attendance close to what it was a few years ago.
“We’re aiming for somewhere around 400 to 500 thousand," said Stambaugh. "We were at 350 last year, so anything above that is always a good thing.”
You can learn more about the York State Fair here.
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Attendees are settling in at the CenterPoint Energy Dayton Air Show at the Dayton International Airport for another day of air displays.
The air show’s second day will feature acts like parachuting from the U.S. Army Golden Knights, skydiving and helicopter performances the Red Bull team, the introductory flight of the Wright “B” Flyer White Bird, several aircraft ground displays and more.
Headlining the air show will be the U.S Air Force Thunderbirds, which include six F-16 Fighting Falcons.
Gates opened at 9 a.m. Sunday, where air show goers poured in to set up chairs. Others were setting up camera equipment to capture planes of multiple generations shooting across the sky.
Scott and Wendy Kiser, both of Englewood, had their tripod set up shortly after gates opened.
The Kisers said they’ve been attending the Dayton Air Show for years. The couple both share an appreciation for “all things that fly” — whether it be the U.S Air Force Thunderbirds or ruby-throated hummingbirds.
“The pandemic kept us away for a few years, but we’re back and very excited,” Scott Kiser said.
Crowds appeared robust. Show producers do not release attendance figures until Monday following the weekend’s performances.
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Phoenix's heat response draws criticism from advocates. City asks how to improve
As Phoenix swelters through a heat wave that breaks records every passing day, community advocates and residents say the city's emergency response efforts are falling short. The city heat director says his team is toiling to meet the moment, but he also acknowledges more needs to be done.
"If there had been a crime spree that resulted in 425 deaths that concentrated on a certain population ... imagine the scale of mobilization we would have to investigate what was happening. We're just not there yet on our heat preparedness," Dave Hondula told a group of reporters in mid-July.
Hondula, appointed as the first Phoenix heat director in 2021, was referencing the number of heat-associated deaths in 2022. It is that metric that his office is trying most ardently to lower.
Under Hondula's direction, the city released a plan in April that outlined 31 tactics to respond to summer heat, including guidance for first responders, opening heat relief centers at city facilities such as libraries and tents in high-need areas like downtown. The plan calls for volunteer programs to hand out water, particularly to the unsheltered and to hikers who brave mountains in immense summer heat.
Another volunteer program is supposed to conduct wellness calls for people who live alone, such as elderly retirees. Failing air conditioning units can be catastrophic for health outcomes, if not outright deadly, and volunteers are supposed to connect those in need with emergency utility assistance.
But advocates passionate about the environment and protecting Phoenix's unhoused population point to what they see as obvious flaws, including:
- Heat relief centers close in the afternoon when the temperature is often at its peak,
- Tents that provide water but no way to cool people off,
- Some parts of Phoenix lack facilities and support.
Some residents have pointed out city practices that seem antithetical to heat safety guidance, such as removing shaded bus stops mid-summer and not immediately replacing them or citing homeowners for failing to maintain their lawns.
"It’s pretty dang counterproductive to tell folks to be mindful of heat safety and also threaten to fine them for not doing yard work," one resident wrote on Twitter.
City spokesperson Brenda Yanez said bus stop shelters are sometimes removed and replaced if they've been damaged by a car accident, for example, but that the city did not otherwise plan to remove shaded stops. She added that "73% of our 4,000 bus stops (are) shaded and we continue to install more."
Teleia Galaviz, spokesperson for the Phoenix Neighborhood Services Department, said the city continues front yard code enforcement during the summer, but "we take hardships into account and provide additional time when needed."
"Code enforcement is intended to be used to foster partnership with residents to support the overall health, safety, and welfare of the city, and to protect neighborhoods against hazardous, blighting, and deteriorating influences or conditions," Galaviz said.
An Arizona Republic review of the city's summer heat response plan found one of the programs has not even gotten off the ground.
A "mobile water unit" designed to transport a tank of refrigerated water to community events and areas in need was supposed to be operational but has not been deployed.
This summer, volunteers have been plentiful, and Hondula said he's confident it's made a serious impact.
The Arizona Republic asked the city about the program's status in mid-June, including where it would go, how the locations were chosen and when its service would begin.
Water Services Department Spokesperson Jimena Garrison said "as soon as possible" and that "we do not have a specific deployment plan at this time." The goal, however, would be to service "vulnerable" populations, she said.
A month later, the city had no updates. When asked about whether any progress had been made, the spokesperson said, "It's still being built. We will deploy it as soon as we can."
The tank is supposed to be able to fill 4,400 water bottles at a time — an asset that could aid the city in its stated effort to reduce plastic water bottle use and fill the city's 10,000 aluminum reusable bottles it is handing out. It could also assist in areas where regional heat relief centers are lacking, such as Laveen and parts of Phoenix west of Interstate 17.
Hondula said his team has modified their vehicle to pull the water trailer and is still hopeful it will come online soon.
When confronted with criticism over the city's general heat response, Hondula said he hadn't heard much of the concerns and encouraged residents and organizations to reach out directly.
"We're not hard to find," he said. He added that his team was not created "to maintain the status quo" and welcomed information and ideas from the community. "We can do better," he stressed, but he also pointed out that his team was working "physically hard" day in and day out to make a tangible difference.
"If people want to engage with us and have constructive dialogue about how we can improve city programs, that's why we're here. ... We know all the good ideas are not held just on our little team," Hondula said.
Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, in a statement to The Republic, said the summer heat has proven the need for the heat office and showed how important it is that the office’s work continue.
“Phoenix is stepping up to confront the existential challenge of extreme heat, including by establishing the first-of-its-kind Office of Heat Response and Mitigation. The last few weeks alone have proven that our efforts are not only direly needed, but that it is paramount to keep our momentum going. This year, in partnership with community organizations and volunteers, we have expanded our reach to keep residents safe in extreme temperatures. Although the City is not the public health authority for our region, we continue to lead in an area where additional assistance from all levels of government could multiply our impact. I will continue to push for additional solutions and hope more partners will join our movement to address the effects of climate change,” Gallego said.
Megan Kepler, a Phoenix resident, volunteers a few days a week with Feed Phoenix, handing out food and heat relief supplies to people experiencing homelessness. She spends up to $500 a month, she said, on supplies like water bottles and ice.
She tries to use the regional heat relief network website during street outreach hours, but she said it's inadequate because many facilities are closed certain days or in the later afternoon hours when relief is most necessary. Some locations, like libraries, aren't welcoming to unhoused people who appear dirty or have bags with them, Kepler said.
The heat relief network is a regional collaboration managed by the Maricopa Association of Governments, and Phoenix provides more than 60 facilities to the effort — more than any other Valley city, as Phoenix officials are often quick to point out.
Hondula has acknowledged the limited hours of facilities in recent interviews, saying "there are very few places in the heat relief network that have extended availability" and that it was a result of staffing capabilities. But, he said, municipalities and partner organizations were looking into what could be done and noted a few centers were beginning to extend hours.
The hours that facilities are open, traditionally 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. with exceptions, are when 911 call data shows the need is highest, Hondula said. He added that there are always tradeoffs to weigh, but the city tries to make data-informed, strategic decisions to have the most positive effect.
Hondula encouraged people to check out the Brian Garcia Welcome Center on the Human Services Campus downtown.
Kepler said city officials frequently default to the Human Services Campus, creating a situation that clusters people in need in one area. She pointed to the downtown encampment known as The Zone, where she also conducts outreach, and said many unhoused people don't want to go near there.
With pushback to cool pavement, more focus placed on shade
Other Phoenix residents question the city's long-term heat mitigation strategies.
The city boasted in June about deploying 100 miles of cool pavement. The light-gray colored material absorbs less heat than traditional asphalt, resulting in cooler surface temperature that is, when deployed at scale, supposed to help reduce air temperatures.
But an unintended consequence of the pavement is that it reflects the heat upward and becomes absorbed by those who stand atop it. That makes it uncomfortable for the individual even while it potentially stands to benefit the broader environment at large. A study from Arizona State University said cool pavement, on average, raises a person's body temperature by 5.5 degrees Fahrenheit.
Hondula has acknowledged this reality in recent weeks and tried to emphasize other benefits, such as cool pavement's ability to protect roadways from cracking or experiencing other consequences from heat. He also points out that the increase in body temperature specifically happens when the individual is standing in the middle of the cool paved street, not the adjacent sidewalk.
He said he believed it could still be beneficial in combating the urban heat island effect and reducing electricity bills if deployed at scale. But moments before, the heat director said cool pavement would not be a good heat mitigator in high pedestrian areas or underneath playgrounds for example — raising questions about how realistic the prospect of ubiquitous cool pavement is in Phoenix.
Asked about it a second time, Hondula said there were "thousands of square feet of dark asphalt in the city where there are not concerns about pedestrians" that it could be deployed.
In this summer's media blitz, Hondula has increasingly focused instead on the importance of shade and how it can drastically improve the quality of life for everyday Arizonans even as the air temperature remains high and for long periods.
The heat director has highlighted Phoenix's unprecedented investments in shade installation and urban forestry initiatives, largely funded through federal initiatives and with guidance from the City Council.
The city in May approved a budget with $8.4 million in federal grants that will go toward installing shade. Last month, Phoenix became a finalist in a national $1 million public art challenge by proposing "to commission 12 artists to create shading and cooling installations in response to global warming."
"We've evolved into understanding that the real goal is to have more people who are more comfortable more often in the Phoenix of the future, and that may or may not be manifested in (air temperature)," Hondula said. "If we had much, much more shade coverage in the city, we could have people moving throughout 115-degree days in a much safer and more comfortable way."
But Hondula's comments feel obvious to community advocates who've pushed for more shade for years.
Stacey Champion, a Phoenix resident, said the importance of shade and need for more of it is nothing new. The city should have more seriously prioritized it long ago, even before Hondula arrived in 2021. She said she believes the city pushed cool pavement to garner positive press.
"This was more of a headline ploy for the City of Phoenix to say we lowered the temperature X degrees," Champion said. "Versus focusing on thermal comfort in a city and state where many people are hospitalized and die from heat. People should be at the core of every decision the city makes."
Sam Stone, ex-chief of staff to former Councilmember Sal DiCiccio, points to the city's Tree and Shade Masterplan from 2010. The 62-page plan set a goal to shade a quarter of the city with trees by 2030.
The city has in recent months signaled a pivot away from that plan, saying that they instead want to focus on tree equity, meaning planting trees according to where they're needed most, as opposed to hitting a percentage goal.
"The goal needs to be more nuanced," the heat office's urban tree program manager Lora Martens told The Republic in May. “Certain areas need more tree coverage, so I’m not sure a blanket 25 percent is the right goal to have.”
More:In low-income Phoenix neighborhoods, the lack of shade trees is a question of equity
Hondula, on an episode of The Daily podcast from The New York Times released July 20, said the city "over the past decade has struggled to make progress" planting trees.
He attributed some of it "arguably" to not having a heat office that helps different city departments coordinate. But the main reason, he said, was "site identification." He gave the example of how the Phoenix Streets Department has limited spots along roadways to actually plant trees.
The city's website makes it unclear how far along they are in the goal. As of July 20, the website shows a "Shade Green 2030 Dashboard," but it hyperlinks to a document that lists accomplishments from 2010 and 2011 only. The "City of Phoenix Tree Inventory" hyperlinks to a 404 error webpage.
The way Stone sees it, the city is trying to hide the fact that it's failing on its shade goal from 2010. And since planting trees and deploying cool pavement are tasks that other departments carry out, Stone said he doesn't believe the heat office is worth the money.
"They keep adding layers of bureaucracy to this thing ... We already had departments doing these activities. All of these things were already happening, and now, we've added people to oversee them, which costs money ... and that just reduces the amount they can do," Stone said.
Champion, Kepler and Stone all expressed a feeling that the city was mired in bureaucracy and at least sometimes placed its own public image over the needs of the people.
"I think it's performative in a lot of ways," Kepler said.
Real-time information about city programs' efficacy in short supply
Beyond anecdotes and qualitative observation, it is difficult to know how and whether Phoenix's emergency response programs are adequately responding to the summer's heat challenges thus far.
Heat-related fatality figures from Maricopa County are seen as the gold standard to measuring the city efforts' success by.
So far, the county has seen 18-heat related deaths and is investigating 69 more, down from 29 confirmed deaths and 193 under investigation at this time last year.
But those numbers lag significantly, Hondula has said, making them unreliable methods to determine which or whether real-time adjustments to city programs should be made.
Instead, Hondula's team focuses on mapping 911 heat calls to know how to adjust response efforts. Sometimes the team's plan for where to deploy volunteers and resources changes by the day, depending on what the data shows, he said.
He added that some high-need places last year are not high-need this year, and that the heat team has had to be nimble and constantly adapt.
The city had seen some indication in mid-July that fewer heat-related calls for service were coming in than last year, Hondula said. But still, he said, it's too early to know what role the city's efforts played in that.
For the most visible form of outreach, volunteer programs, the city aimed to enlist 40 volunteers in the "We're Cool" program and 20 in the "Cool Callers," program.
Hondula said the city had well exceeded 40 volunteers for the We're Cool program — so much so that shifts are frequently full. The heat team adds as many shifts as there are staff to manage it, Hondula said, and he thinks openings will free up in August. The heat office also has only one vehicle, he pointed out.
A city spokesperson said the program had so far assisted about 3,700 people through 929 staff and volunteer hours this summer. More than 11,000 items have been distributed, the spokesperson said.
The Cool Callers program, Hondula said, was struggling to draw enrollments. So while volunteers are ready, they don't actually have many people to call.
The heat office is supposed to compile a "weekly status report" focused on "highlights of heat response programs and service implementations, recommendations for program modifications (where warranted) and summaries of available weather and health data," according to the summer heat plan.
The plan does not set a date for when they are supposed to commence. This year, they began in July.
"Our days are very full here. We've tried to prioritize getting the volunteer programs up and running ... doing the impactful, forward-facing work," Hondula said. He added that there was not high demand for the weekly reports in May and June.
The Republic requested the weekly reports in June for between April and mid-June — prior to knowing they did not exist. The city sent different weekly status reports the heat office compiles.
Hondula said it was done in error.
The reports sent to The Republic focused mostly on media engagements, creating regional and national partnerships, summaries of trips to learn about how other cities are mitigating heat, and panels that the city participated in related to heat and climate change. They did not include information about preparation for summer programming.
Hondula said those are the weekly highlights provided to the mayor and City Council on a year-round basis to keep city leadership informed on the office's whereabouts. They stop over the summer when Council is on recess.
The City Council last met July 3 and won't meet again until Aug. 28.
Reporter Taylor Seely covers Phoenix City Hall for The Arizona Republic. Reach her at tseely@arizonarepublic.com, by phone at 480-476-6116 or on Twitter @taylorseely95.
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Bloomington-Normal
Galleries, museums
Angel Ambrose Fine Art Studio; 101 W. Monroe St. Suite 201, Bloomington; Open First Fridays 5-8 p.m. and by appointment; 309-825-4655; angelambrose.com.
David Davis Mansion; 1000 Monroe Drive, Bloomington; open for tours, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday; by donation; daviddavismansion.org; 309-828-1084.
Eaton Studio Gallery; 411 N. Center St., Bloomington; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays; 5-8 p.m. First Fridays, or by appointment or ring bell; eatonstudiogallery.com; 309-828-1575.
The Hangar Art Co.; 105 W. Jefferson St., Bloomington; 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday; hangart.com; 309-319-8672.
Illinois Art Station; 101 E. Vernon Ave., Normal; Gallery open 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays; illinoisartstation.org; 309-386-1019.
Inside Out: Accessible Art Gallery & Cooperative; 200 W. Monroe St., Bloomington; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday-Friday; 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday; by appointment Sunday-Tuesday; and 10 a.m.-8 p.m. first Friday; insideoutartcoop.org; 309-838-2160.
Jan Brandt Gallery; Normandy Village, 1100 Beach St., Building 8, Normal; by appointment; janbrandtgallery.com; 309-287-4700.
Joann Goetzinger Studio and Gallery; 313 N. Main St. Suite A, Bloomington; open 5-8 p.m. first Fridays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays, also by appointment; 309-826-1193.
Lois Jett Historic Costume Collection; Turner Hall 126E—ISU Campus, Normal; noon-2 p.m. Tuesday, 2-4 p.m. Wednesday, and 10 a.m.-noon Thursday through Dec. 9; also open 1-4 p.m. Nov. 6; 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday by appointment.
Main Gallery 404; 404 N. Main St., Bloomington; 12-5 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays; By chance or appointment at 309-590-6779.
McLean County Arts Center; 601 N. East St., Bloomington; open; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday, noon-4 p.m. Saturday; mcac.org; 309-829-0011.
McLean County Museum of History; 200 N. Main St., Bloomington; 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday; closed Sundays, until further notice; reservations at education@mchistory.org or 309-827-0428; mchistory.org; 309-827-0428.
Merwin and Wakeley Galleries; Illinois Wesleyan University; Bloomington; open; noon-4 p.m. Monday through Friday; 7-9 p.m. Tuesday; 1-4 p.m. Saturday through Sunday; iwu.edu/art/galleries; 309-556-3391.
Prairie Aviation Museum; 2929 E. Empire St., Bloomington; open 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; prairieaviationmuseum.org; 309-663-7632.
University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal; open 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 9:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday, noon-4 p.m. Saturday, Sunday; 309-438-5487; galleries.illinoisstate.edu/about/visit/.
Central Illinois
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, 212 N. Sixth St., Springfield; adults $15, seniors $12, under 5 free; presidentlincoln.illinois.gov; 217-558-8844.
Art Center at Greater Livingston County Arts Council; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday; noon-4 p.m. Sunday; 209 W. Madison St., Pontiac; pcartcenter.com; 815-419-2472.
Contemporary Art Center of Peoria; Riverfront Arts Center, 305 S.W. Water St., Peoria; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; peoriacac.org; 309-674-6822.
Dickson Mounds Museum; 10956 N. Dickson Mounds Road, Lewistown; open, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; free; illinoisstatemuseum.org; 309-547-3721.
Illinois State Museum; 502 S. Spring St., Springfield; open, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; Monday-Friday, free; illinoisstatemuseum.org; 217-782-7386.
Lincoln Heritage Museum; Lincoln Center at Lincoln College, 300 Keokuk St., Lincoln; 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday; 1-4 p.m. Saturday, closed Sundays and Mondays; $4-7; museum.lincolncollege.edu; 217-735-7399.
Peoria Art Guild; 203 Harrison St., Peoria; open; 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday-Friday or by appointment; peoriaartguild.org; 309-637-2787.
Peoria Riverfront Museum; downtown riverfront Peoria; open 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday and Friday; 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday; 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday; and closed Sunday; adults $11, seniors, students $10, ages 3-17 $9; peoriariverfrontmuseum.org; 309-686-7000.
Simpkins Military Museum; 605 E. Cole St., Heyworth; Open 1-5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday or by appointment; Free admission (donations accepted); Private tours, call first; 309-319-3413; simpkinsmuseum@gmail.com.
Time Gallery; 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday; 9 a.m.-noon Saturday; Closed Sunday; Clock Tower Place Building, 201 Clock Tower Drive, East Peoria; 309-467-2331.
U of I Krannert Art Museum; 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign; open; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; Thursdays until 8 p.m. when classes are in session; closed Sunday and Monday; kam.illinois.edu; 217-333-1861.
Exhibits
"Marks by Modern Masters: Selections from the Heintzman Collection"; through summer 2023; "Heart"; Experience Gallery; through fall 2023; "Body Worlds RX"; Experience Gallery; through fall 2023; Peoria Riverfront Museum.
"Growng Up X"; second floor gallery; through Sept. 4; Illinois State Museum.
"Pattern and Process"; through Dec. 22; West Gallery and Light Court; "The Ink Wash of Shozo Sato"; through Dec. 22; Main Level, Contemporary Gallery; Krannert Art Museum.
"Here I have Lived: Home in Illinois"; through Jan. 21, 2024; Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.
"Edward and Gale McCullough"; Brandt Gallery; "Judy Steffens"; Armstrong Gallery; both through July 29; McLean County Arts Center.
"MAP Exhibition"; July 2023; Peoria Art Guild.
"Flowers for Ukraine"; Preston Jackson Gallery; "Vera Scekic: Synethic Being"; Gallery 3R; both through Aug. 11; Contemporary Art Center of Peoria.
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Albert Einstein said, “The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.” He referred to it as one of the greatest “miracles” known to man.
Compound interest is interest added to the principal of your investment so that from that moment on, the added interest also earns interest. This addition of interest to the principal is called compounding, and the outcome can be very powerful.
Through the power of compounding, a small amount of money can grow over time into a substantial sum. Compounding and time are an investor’s best friend. The younger you start investing, the more you will benefit from compound interest.
Here is an example: Susan starts investing when she is 25 years old, putting $2,400 a year in her retirement plan earning an average annual return of 9%. Her friend Mary starts investing in the same plan but waits until she is 45 years old to begin. Mary doubles her contribution and puts in $4,800 per year. By the time they reach 65 years old they have both contributed $96,000. Who ends up with more money at age 65?
Susan, who started at age 25, is the winner. She ends up with $810,917. Mary, who waited until she was 45 years old, ends up with only $245,568. The reason for such a large difference is the extra 20 years of compound interest.
It is easy to say, “I will start saving for retirement once my kids are gone” or “I am so young, why would I contribute to my retirement plan when I have so many bills to pay?” The answer is compound interest. Start early and make the most powerful force in the Universe work for you.
This is intended for informational purposes only. You should not assume that any discussion or information contained in this document serves as the receipt of, or as a substitute for, personalized investment advice from Savant.
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Man in custody after allegedly touching girls in Muskegon wave pool
Myesha Johnson
The Detroit News
A 39-year-old man is in custody after inappropriately touching girls in a wave pool at a Muskegon water park, according to a tweet from Michigan State Police.
The incident occurred Saturday afternoon at the WildWater Adventure Waterpark, which is part of Michigan's Adventure amusement park.
The investigation is ongoing and troopers are asking that any additional victims contact Muskegon Central Dispatch at 800-328-0911.
The park's code of conduct says "sexual misconduct or lewd behavior including inappropriate interaction with park guests or associates" is not permitted.
mjohnson@detroitnews.com
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McClintick Construction LLC issued permit July 12, for $65,000 commercial bathroom remodel and office demo at 200 S. Towanda Ave.
Expert Builders of Central IL issued permit July 12, for $345,000 new single-family detached residence at 1249 Silver Oak Circle.
Knapp Builders Inc. issued permit July 13, for $136,358 residential screened porch and deck addition at 1117 Travertine Road.
Resa Construction issued permit July 18, for $80,000 commercial remodel of Tropical Café at 312 S. Veterans Parkway B.
DL Decker issued permit July 18, for $294,000 commercial main floor remodel-duckpin at 1304 Cross Creek Drive.
McLean County
San Juan Pools issued permit July 13, for $150,000 inground pool accessory to single-family dwelling at 19908 Murray Hill Road, Bloomington.
John Holt Builders LLC issued permit July 18, for $255,000 master bedroom and covered porch addition to single-family residence at 22164 East 1500 North Road, Normal.
Aviar Builders LLC issued permit July 19, for $250,000 single-family residence duplex at 786 Kristin Drive, Normal.
Aviar Builders LLC issued permit July 19, for $250,000 single-family residence duplex at 778 Kristin Drive, Normal.
Aviar Builders LLC issued permit July 19, for $300,000 single-family residence at 671 Celebration Drive, Normal.
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Motorcycle crashes leave one dead, two in critical condition
Three separate motorcycle crashes left one driver dead and two drivers in critical condition Saturday.
According to a release from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, Roland A. Laura III, 39, of Monroe crashed into a ditch on Plank Road in London Township around 3:30 p.m. Saturday.
Laura was taken to Trinity Health Hospital in Ypsilanti, where he was pronounceddead.
Police said Laura was not wearing a helmet and speed and alcohol were factors leading to the crash.
The crash remains under investigation by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Traffic Services Division. Anyone with information is asked to call (734) 240-7541.
Around 8:35 p.m. Saturday, according to a tweet from Michigan State Police Second District, a 50-year-old motorcyclist from Detroit rear-ended a vehicle leaving the cyclist with serious injuries.
A car was parked on a right shoulder and pulled out into traffic going northbound on the Lodge Freeway near I-94. The motorcyclist was unable to stop and rear ended the car, and then went airborne.
State police are looking for the vehicle involved in the crash and ask witnesses and the driver of the car to call (734) 287-5000.
Around 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning, a 36-year-old motorcyclist from Dearborn Heights was found unresponsive on the Lodge Freeway near Wyoming Avenue and was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
Lt. Mike Shaw, Michigan State Police Second District public information officer, asked drivers to slow down in a tweet.
“We know that excessive speed is causing a lot of of the preventable crashes we are seeing in Metro Detroit. If you operate a motorcycle at excessive speed and crash the outcome can be far worse as you are without protection. Please slow down!”
mjohnson@detroitnews.com
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Police in Delaware are investigating after an early morning crash on Sunday in Bethel left one man dead.
According to police, the incident occurred at about 2:16 a.m., after the driver of a 2017 white Ford Fiesta, traveling eastbound on Shell Bridge Road, west of South Shell Bridge Road, failed to navigate an S-curve due to, what officials said was, "an apparent high rate of speed."
Officials said the driver of the vehicle, a 27-year-old man from Seaford, Delaware, "lost control and impacted with a raised embankment, which caused it to vault airborne." After it hit the ground, officials said, the Ford rolled several times before coming to a stop against the guardrail.
During this incident, the driver was ejected from the rolling vehicle, and police said, he was transported to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced.
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Officials have declined to provide identifying information on the driver until the man's family can be notified.
An investigation into the crash, police said, is ongoing.
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KANE COUNTY, Utah — An Ohio man was killed in a cliff-jumping incident at Lake Powell on Thursday, according to the Kane County Sheriff’s Office.
Just before noon, the Glen Canyon Communications Center received a 911 call reporting a possible cliff-jumping fatality approximately a quarter mile south of Buoy 89 within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
The sheriff's office said witnesses reported seeing a person cliff-jump from approximately 50 feet who then failed to resurface. On Friday, the Utah Department of Public Safety Dive Team used a side scan sonar to locate the victim and divers recovered his body, KCSO said.
The victim has been identified as Cory Ryan Ehrnschwender, a 36-year-old from Cincinnati.
Buoy 89 is located in Kane County, Utah about 89 miles from the Glen Canyon Dam.
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Seaford man dead after car goes airborne, rolls and hits guardrail Sunday morning
A 27-year-old Seaford man died in a single-vehicle crash in Bethel early Sunday morning, according to Delaware State Police.
The incident closed the roadway for almost three hours while the scene was investigated.
Police determined that on July 23 at around 2:16 a.m., the Seaford man was driving a 2017 white Ford Fiesta eastbound on Shell Bridge Road west of South Shell Bridge Road. He successfully navigated the vehicle through an S-curve in the road at a high-speed rate but lost control coming out of it. Police said the Ford left the roadway, hit an embankment and went airborne. When the car hit the ground it rolled several times before stopping against the guardrail on the southeast corner of the intersection of Shell Bridge and South Shell Bridge roads.
Authorities said the driver was ejected from the rolling vehicle. He was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. His name is being withheld by police until next-of-kin notifications have been made.
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This incident remains under investigation by the Delaware State Police Troop 7 Collision Reconstruction Unit. Troopers are asking any witnesses to contact Master Corporal K. Argo by calling 302-703-3264.
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HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — Multiple agencies are investigating a small plane crash that left a pilot dead in west Harris County.
Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said the plane crashed near West Houston Airport and Groschke Road just before 12 a.m. Sunday.
Details are currently limited, but according to Gonzalez, the plane appeared to hit a power line, which caused significant damage and power outages in the area. The pilot was pronounced dead at the scene. A DPS trooper told KHOU 11 that the pilot was 49-year-old Sherod Coleman and that his family has been notified.
Meanwhile, CenterPoint Energy shows customers are still without power in the Bear Creek area by Highway 6 and Clay Road. Officials did not say when they expect power to be restored to the area.
Texas DPS officials declined to speak to KHOU 11 on camera about the plane crash but said they expect to give an update later as they lead the investigation. The FAA is also investigating.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Temperatures are showing no signs of letting up anytime soon in Central Texas.
Because of the high temperatures, utility bills have been high and are continuing to skyrocket as people crank up the air conditioning.
But the air conditioner isn't the only factor behind the rising costs.
Some people may not believe it, but washing machines and dryers are some of the biggest energy wasters in a home.
Energy expert Cyndi Bray says about 10% of an energy bill goes to doing laundry, which is an astronomical number, and Bray has some tips for people to consider the next time they do their laundry.
The first is in the washing machine. Most of the energy that goes to using the washing machine goes to heating the water.
"So I want you to turn the temperature of the water down to cold. Don't worry that your clothes don't come out very clean because a lot of the detergent on the market these days is actually formulated to work best in cold water," said Bray.
Bray said all of your clothes and sheets will last longer if you use cold water instead of hot, and less energy will be used by about 50 cents per load.
The second tip is in the dryer and it's also temperature related.
Instead of running the load on the high heat setting, turn it down to low. Even if you have to run the dryer for a longer period of time, plenty of energy will be saved if it isn't running on the high setting. Fabric also tends to last longer if its dried on a low heat setting.
"If you can air dry your clothes or even if you have an indoor clothes rack to air, dry your clothes, that will save you a whole lot of energy. Plus, you won't be putting the heat out into your house, when you're trying to use your air conditioning," said Bray.
The last tip applies to when you're doing your sheets and your bedding. Sometimes the bed sheets can twist and tangle and they fall up.
"So when that happens in the washing machine, they don't come out very clean. A lot of times people will actually run the whole load again because it doesn't come out clean or it sends it off balance. Then in the dryer, they'll often ball up one sheet will wrap around everything else in the load and nothing inside dries," said Bray.
Bray is the inventor of the detangling tool Wad-Free, which was featured on the ABC show "Shark Tank" in 2021.
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Two primary races for Tucson City Council are intensifying as outside groups pour money into campaigns, and other election-related expenses emerge from unknown origins in defiance of state law.
The incumbents in each race have largely outraised their opponents, according to the latest campaign finance reports. However, several candidates have yet to file the reports indicating their campaign contributions and expenses that were due July 17, which can result in nominal penalty fees for each late day but shrouds the legal right of voters to view candidates’ campaign expenses.
Only the races in wards 1 and 2 are contested, with two Democrats vying for the City Council seats in each race. Ward 1 Council Member Lane Santa Cruz is running against challenger Miguel Ortega as Ward 2 Council Member Paul Cunningham faces political newcomer Lisa Nutt.
Ballots for the primary election were mailed out on July 5 and voters have until Tuesday, July 25, to return them by mail. Voters can drop off their ballots at a voting location until 7 p.m. on Election Day, Aug. 1.
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Ward 1
The race between two Democratic candidates to get to the November general election has been lined with tension as both sides criticize each other for campaign contributions and a lack of transparency.
Santa Cruz appears to have outraised Ortega nearly four times over. However, Ortega had yet to turn in his latest campaign finance report, missing the deadline by four days as of Friday. His campaign manager Billy Peard said the candidate has raised $16,691, compared to the $58,951 in total contributions listed in Santa Cruz’s campaign finance report documenting contributions up to June 30.
Santa Cruz received an extra $55,421 in public matching funds from the city, boosting her total campaign receipts to $114,372. The incumbent reports spending $51,146, while Peard said Ortega has spent $8,995.
A mailer of a clandestine origin sent to Ward 1 residents has fueled discord in the race. The mailer, which said it was paid for by the “Arizona Prosperity Initiative PAC,” criticized Santa Cruz for voting against “police funding in 2020” and “spending your taxpayer dollars on vacations.”
Neither the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office nor the Tucson City Clerk’s Office have any record of the PAC. Failing to register political action committees that spend money in local elections is a violation of city code and state law that can result in referral to the attorney general if reasonable cause is found, according to the Secretary of State’s Office.
A nonprofit by the same name registered with the Arizona Corporation Commission in April. The registry says the group’s statutory agent is Tim La Sota, a Phoenix-based attorney who represented unsuccessful GOP candidate for governor Kari Lake in her election challenge lawsuits. La Sota did not return the Star’s request for comment.
The claim Santa Cruz spent taxpayer money on vacations stems from a December trip the council member and other constituents took to Philadelphia to attend a conference organized by Mijente, a national nonprofit supporting Lantinx and minority rights.
Santa Cruz’s budget, first requested by Ward 1 resident Scott Egan — a prominent figure in local political circles who criticized the council member’s spending in his newsletters — shows more than $15,000 in airfare, hotel stays and fees associated with the conference.
The funds came from a $50,000 grant Mijente awarded the Ward 1 office for “base-building projects for accelerating racial equity,” according to Mijente’s notice of the grant sent in a Sept. 22 letter. The city confirmed the line items on the budget were paid for by the grant and not taxpayer money.
Santa Cruz said they’ve worked with Mijente for several years. The Mijente AZ PAC spent more than $40,000 on mailers and staff time in support of Santa Cruz’s campaign, according to finance reports, while several employees of the nonprofit also made independent contributions.
The Working Families Party PAC spent $21,124 to support the incumbent’s campaign through mailers and phone banking. The Rural Arizona Action organization paid for $2,200 worth of Facebook ads for Santa Cruz.
Both Ortega and Egan say they have nothing to do with the mailer criticizing Santa Cruz and have no idea who funded it.
Ortega condemned Santa Cruz for her receipt of thousands from out-of-state donors and called their acceptance of $750 in independent donations from Tucson Electric Power employees “problematic” after Santa Cruz supported Proposition 412, a TEP-backed ballot initiative that would have increased electric bills.
The challenger said he’s not worried about his opponent out-raising him. However, “it does concern me in that the incumbent can get so much money from sources from outside our local community … who are driving the political destiny of our local elections,” Ortega said.
Santa Cruz points to the lack of transparency Ortega’s late campaign filing poses and is also concerned about the “dark money” behind the furtive mailer opposing the council member’s campaign. Santa Cruz has also said said the majority of their campaign’s receipts do represent local support.
“The reasons why people are able to see where the money’s coming from, it’s because it’s out there on my end. But there is no way of tracking down who’s actually behind who put out that mailer,” Santa Cruz said.
Victoria Lem, the only Republican on the ballot for the general election in Ward 1, reports receiving $70 and spending nothing as of April 29. She has not filed her latest campaign finance report.
Ward 2
Realty-related companies have spent thousands advertising for Nutt, a political newcomer and realtor.
The Arizona Multihousing Association, a trade association for the apartment industry, paid Summit Consulting Group more than $52,000 to create Nutt’s candidacy website, make digital ads and send out mailers and texts in support of the candidate, according to independent expenditure notifications the group filed with the city clerk’s office.
The public affairs firm Summit Consulting has a GOP-packed client list, featuring names including former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Congresswoman Debbie Lesko and former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer.
“The choice in Ward 2 comes down to who offers more support when it comes to solving the housing supply crisis. As an experienced Realtor, Lisa Nutt understands the depth of the crisis and its solutions,” Arizona Multihousing Association President and CEO Courtney Gilstrap LeVinus said in an emailed statement.
Regarding the seemingly partisan nature of the firm the group used to campaign for Nutt, the group’s spokesperson David Leibowitz said: “The AMA has worked with Summit for the past 10 years on a number of local races. Unlike the Tucson election, most of those races were nonpartisan.”
A separate notice from the National Association of Realtors Fund showed the group spent more than $35,000 for direct mail, texts and digital ads in support of Nutt’s campaign.
Nutt has raised $15,520 as of June 30, according to the latest campaign finance report, and reports spending $10,800. The candidate’s campaign received $3,000 in direct contributions from political action committees, with the Southern Arizona Homebuilders Association PAC Candidates Fund, Realtors of Arizona PAC and Smart TD PAC contributing $1,000 each.
Cunningham, the incumbent seeking a fourth term as a City Council member, criticized Nutt for taking money from “out-of-town, right-wing special interest groups” and changing her voter registration before running for office.
Nutt changed her voter registration from independent to Democrat on Feb. 6, according to the Pima County Recorder’s Office. She filed her notice of intention to run for the City Council seat on Feb. 13, city clerk’s records show.
“Purity tests in politics are a waste of time and hypocritical on anyone’s side. We can take the politics out of policy in order to formulate solutions that benefit our communities,” Nutt said in response to her voter registration change. “If my opponent wants to have a discussion on integrity, that’s a conversation I welcome.”
Cunningham has raised $40,550 in campaign contributions as of the latest campaign finance report listing receipts up to June 30, while spending $32,098. Several employees of real estate developers HSL Properties and Diamond Ventures contributed $500 donations to Cunningham’s campaign.
Ernie Shack, a Republican who will face the winner of the primary election in November, has raised $1,112 and spent $972, according to his latest finance report. Libertarian Pendleton Spicer reports raising $185 and spending $14.
Ward 4
Both candidates in the City Council race for Ward 4 — Democratic incumbent Nikki Lee and Republican challenger Ross Kaplowitch — will advance to the Nov. 7 general election without challengers within their party primaries.
Lee’s campaign reports raising $19,683 as of June 30, severely outraising the $1,242 Kaplowitch reported up to the same date. The Republican challenger said he’s received several relatively low-dollar donations from fundraising events.
Lee reports spending $15,148 while Kaplowitch reports spending $832.
Mayor
Four candidates are vying to become Tucson’s mayor in the general election.
Democratic Mayor Regina Romero is seeking a second term and has raised $96,368 as of June 30, according to her latest campaign finance report. Living United for Change in Arizona spent $53,096 canvassing for the incumbent. The mayor reports spending $51,744 of her campaign contributions.
Ed Ackerley, an independent candidate, reports raising $16,860 as of June 30. His campaign finance report shows $6,705 in outstanding debts and obligations to his own advertising firm, Ackerley Advertising. He’s spent $12,298 on his campaign, according to the report.
Republican Janet Wittenbraker has raised $13,187 and spent $6,242 as of June 30, her campaign’s latest finance report says. Arthur Kerschen, a libertarian, hasn’t raised any funds.
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With most people now seeing COVID in the rear-view mirror, tourism in Arizona is starting to coming back.
But now the state agency charged with promoting it may have a new hurdle: The daily national news reports about how hot it is here.
New figures from a study commissioned by the Arizona Office of Tourism find that overnight visitors spent $28.1 billion last year. That's up about $4.5 billion from the year before.
Even discounting rampant inflation, the study produced by Dean Runyan Associates says that means a $1.3 billion increase in real dollars, about a 5% increase.
But the state continues to struggle to get travel back to pre-pandemic levels. The report says when inflation is factored in, the true quality of goods and services purchased by travelers still lags 2019 levels by about 6.3%.
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Inflation also is reflected in the data about the total tax revenues generated from tourism. The nearly $4 billion generated in 2022 is just 7.2% above what it was three years earlier, far less than the 8.0% inflation between just 2021 and 2022.
And while the report says tourism directly generated 179,000 jobs last year, that still is below the number of people working in the industry three years earlier.
Still, Lisa Urias, Office of Tourism director, thinks all that deficit will be erased this year.
That's guaranteed partly, she said, by the fact that Arizona hosted the Super Bowl. Add that to typical years, said Urias, and the state should be back on track.
But now, her agency is having to deal with publicity about the extreme heat wave, which could affect the desire of people to come here.
The national media is paying particular attention to the records being set, not only on individual daily highs and the number of days in a row the thermometer tops 110, but also the number of nights the mercury does not drop below 90.
"It is disturbing,'' Urias said.
But Urias, who was at a conference last week where climate change was a focus, said it's important to remember it's not just Arizona that's affected.
"Europe is on fire, too, right now,'' she said. "It's crazy. But it's something we're all going to have to adjust to and figure out how to manage.''
In-state getaways to Flagstaff, cooler areas
Even with all the national attention to the triple-digit numbers, though, she said she doesn't believe it will cause long-term damage to the message that Arizona is a desirable destination.
Her office is focusing its message on the fact the state is more than just the Phoenix area that's been making the news. There's Flagstaff and the rest of northern Arizona, for example.
"We do a lot of campaigns to help promote those regions as well,'' Urias said.
She said the state also provides direct grant dollars to local communities to do their own advertising. "They know their markets,'' she said. "They know who's coming to Arizona,'' as well as those already living here "who might be looking to get away" on an in-state trip.
"People get away from the heat, say, for a couple of weeks or a week and spend money,'' Urias said. "That counts, too.''
On the other side of the equation, Urias said her office doesn't waste its money on trying to convince those from the rest of the country that they should visit the desert in the summer.
"We don't push real hard in Phoenix in the summer,'' she said. "People will just say, 'Oh, no, you can't go to Phoenix in the summer.' ''
But spending to promote Arizona does not dry up entirely in the summer, said Josh Coddington, the office's public information officer.
"We also want to at least stay in touch with them, or at least have a presence, because the summer's going to end and people are going to travel,'' he said. "We want to stay in people's minds because if they don't see our Arizona ad when they're searching for a vacation they might see somebody else's."
Promoting international tourism
The new report shows that spending by international tourists in particular took a big hit during the pandemic, plummeting in 2020 to just 10% of pre-COVID figures. And while there has been some recovery, it still amounts to just 9% of total spending.
Of those who came, Mexico and Canada were the largest share of foreign visitors, followed by the United Kingdom, France and Germany.
One of the biggest losses was in visitors from China, Urias said, blaming that in particular on the pandemic. But she remains optimistic they will come back.
"We're all maintaining our presence and trying to make sure that we are open here, that we welcome them,'' Urias said. "But it's definitely a lag.''
COVID may not be the threat it once was. But the current frosty political relations between the United States and China have replaced it in some ways. Urias said she's hoping to steer clear of that.
"Tourism tries really had to kind of stay out of the fray,'' she said. Still, Urias said, it's often difficult to keep the issues separate. "I don't think it precludes Chinese visitors from coming to the U.S.,'' she said. "At least, we hope it doesn't.''
Preparations are being made, however, to deal with such issues.
"We definitely do look at other emerging markets for us in Asia and elsewhere,'' Urias said. "We've been exploring Indian markets and Korea, Japan.''
The state has also been active in recruiting visitors from Australia.
Most visitors from the U.S.
But the biggest share of tourism dollars comes from a domestic audience.
About 30% are from Arizonans themselves, looking for vacations close to home, with the balance coming from visitors from the other 49 states.
Among those, Californians made up the largest share of tourists by far, followed by Texans, then New Yorkers, Floridians and Colorado residents.
Urias said the state has been proactive in promoting Arizona in certain target markets, including Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Dallas.
Where they spent their money
As for where the money went, the report finds the largest share — about $6.1 billion — went to hotels, motels and short-term rentals. But spending on eating out was not far behind at slightly less than $6 billion.
The tourists weren't always headed to restaurants; another $1.2 billion was spent at grocery stores.
Local transportation such as car rentals and gas added another $4.4 billion, with $2.7 billion spent on entertainment and recreation. Retail sales — souvenirs and more — added $3.1 billion.
That generated tax dollars. The report figures visitors dropped $2.4 billion into state and local coffers in 2022.
Howard Fischer is a veteran journalist who has been reporting since 1970 and covering state politics and the Legislature since 1982. Follow him on Twitter at @azcapmedia or email azcapmedia@gmail.com.
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Plane bound for EAA AirVenture Oshkosh crashes in Fond du Lac County
The pilot suffered a suspected injury to his shoulder and was treated at the scene while the co-pilot was not hurt.
WAUPUN – A plane from Texas bound for EAA AirVenture Oshkosh crashed in a marshy area near State 49 and Hemp Road in the township of Waupun shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday.
A 76-year-old pilot and his 71-year-old co-pilot were the only two onboard the plane when it made an emergency landing in a wetland area.
The pilot suffered a possible injury to his shoulder and was treated on scene while the co-pilot was uninjured, a news release from Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office said.
The plane, a single-engine ERCO Ercoupe, received damage to a wing. According to the pilot, the plane had left an airport in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, about two hours before the crash and was about 10 minutes away from its destination when the engine suddenly lost power.
Both men are from Texas and were flying from Texas to Oshkosh for EAA AirVenture, which runs July 24-30 at Wittman Regional Airport.
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Rescue crews had difficulty locating the plane because of the large marsh area where it had crashed and then they had trouble accessing it once it was located, the sheriff's office said. The Alto Fire Department, Brandon Fire Department and Waupun Fire Department all used UTVs to try locate the plane. Once the plane was found, crews rescued the two men from the wetland area. The Fond du Lac Police Department also assisted with a drone operator and a drone.
The sheriff’s office said the crash is under investigation.
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WINTER PARK, Fla. — A museum in the heart of Winter Park is set to unveil the plans for its new season.
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The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art will open its 2023-2024 season on Oct. 17 with new exhibitions and events for the community.
One of the season’s highlights will be the exhibition Fascinating Clutter: American Taste during the Reign of Victoria, which immerses in America’s cultural and artistic styles in the mid to late 19th century.
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The museum also unveiled its free events calendar for the new season. Here are some highlights for this year:
- Visitors will get free admission to the museum every Friday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. beginning November 2023 through April 2024.
- Thanksgiving Weekend Celebration: Free admission during this holiday on Nov. 24, 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Nov. 25, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and Nov 26, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
- Holiday Friday Nights: Live music from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on six consecutive Friday nights, Nov. 24 through Dec. 29.
- Christmas in the Park: The museum will showcase the 45th annual exhibition of century-old Tiffany windows in conjunction with the City of Winter Park. Visitors can also attend a free outdoor concert by the Bach Festival Society Choir and Brass Ensemble on Nov. 30 from 6:15 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in downtown Winter Park.
- Christmas Eve Celebration: Free admission on Dec. 24, from 1:00 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Click here for more information on the museum’s exhibitions and season calendar.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — This month, explore underwater conservation and learn more about sharks at the SEA LIFE Orlando Aquarium.
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The aquarium will start its annual Summer of Sharks event just in time for Shark Week on Sunday, July 23.
Visitors will learn about some rare species of sharks, including the Zebra, Epaulette, Bonnethead, White Spotted Bamboo, and Coral Catshark.
And SEA LIFE Orlando wants guests to understand that not all apex predators look like they do in the movies.
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Visitors can upgrade their tickets for a deep-dive experience, allowing them to swim with sharks and manta rays through virtual reality.
Guests can go on a behind-the-scenes look at what experts are doing to help sea life and how communities can do their part by keeping beaches safe for aquatic animals.
Each visitor who participates in the session will receive a real shark tooth.
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The event will end on Aug. 27.
Tickets can be purchased at SEA LIFE Orlando or by clicking here.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Orlando Health will now provide more services to patients in Puerto Rico.
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Through a partnership, Orlando Health will expand its services to four hospitals and a free-standing emergency department on the Island.
In 2022, Orlando Health and Doctors’ Center Hospitals worked together to create Doctors’ Center Hospital Orlando Health – Dorado.
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The partnership has now expanded to these hospitals:
- Doctors’ Center Hospital Orlando Health – San Juan
- Doctors’ Center Hospital Orlando Health – Bayamón
- Doctors’ Center Hospital Orlando Health – Manatí
- Doctors’ Center Hospital Orlando Health – San Fernando de la Carolina
- Doctors’ Center Hospital Orlando Health – Arecibo, an ambulatory diagnostic and treatment center.
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David Strong, Orlando Health’s president & CEO, said they are excited about this partnership.
“We are grateful for this opportunity as we work together to elevate patient care, increase healthcare access on the island and create an easier transition of care for patients between Puerto Rico and Central Florida,” he said.
Dr. Carlos Blanco, Chairman of Doctors’ Center Hospital, said the partnership will be an excellent opportunity to expand medical care.
“It will provide the opportunity to bring to the Island new health professionals, including Puerto Rican physicians interested in returning to the Island, which will solidify the local health system,” he said. “In the end, it represents more and better services to our patients.”
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The collaboration will improve not only patient care but also the education and training of hospital staff through clinical programs.
One of the highlights of the partnership was the launch of Orlando Health’s robotic surgery center in Puerto Rico.
Hospital officials hope to continue sharing medical knowledge to improve the quality of health services in the community.
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INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD homicide detectives are investigating after a body was found in a retention pond on Indianapolis' west side Sunday morning.
Around 10:30 a.m., first responders were called to the 1500 block of Hillcot Lane, near West Morris Street and Bridgeport Road, for a report of a body spotted in a pond.
Officers working with the Indianapolis Fire Department located a body in the water.
The person's identity has not been released.
Homicide detectives were responding to the scene late Sunday morning, and an IMPD spokesperson described the incident as a death investigation at this time.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Temperatures are showing no signs of letting up anytime soon in Central Texas.
Because of the high temperatures, utility bills have been high and are continuing to skyrocket as people crank up the air conditioning.
But the air conditioner isn't the only factor behind the rising costs.
Some people may not believe it, but washing machines and dryers are some of the biggest energy wasters in a home.
Energy expert Cyndi Bray says about 10% of an energy bill goes to doing laundry, which is an astronomical number, and Bray has some tips for people to consider the next time they do their laundry.
The first is in the washing machine. Most of the energy that goes to using the washing machine goes to heating the water.
"So I want you to turn the temperature of the water down to cold. Don't worry that your clothes don't come out very clean because a lot of the detergent on the market these days is actually formulated to work best in cold water," said Bray.
Bray said all of your clothes and sheets will last longer if you use cold water instead of hot, and less energy will be used by about 50 cents per load.
The second tip is in the dryer and it's also temperature related.
Instead of running the load on the high heat setting, turn it down to low. Even if you have to run the dryer for a longer period of time, plenty of energy will be saved if it isn't running on the high setting. Fabric also tends to last longer if its dried on a low heat setting.
"If you can air dry your clothes or even if you have an indoor clothes rack to air, dry your clothes, that will save you a whole lot of energy. Plus, you won't be putting the heat out into your house, when you're trying to use your air conditioning," said Bray.
The last tip applies to when you're doing your sheets and your bedding. Sometimes the bed sheets can twist and tangle and they fall up.
"So when that happens in the washing machine, they don't come out very clean. A lot of times people will actually run the whole load again because it doesn't come out clean or it sends it off balance. Then in the dryer, they'll often ball up one sheet will wrap around everything else in the load and nothing inside dries," said Bray.
Bray is the inventor of the detangling tool Wad-Free, which was featured on the ABC show "Shark Tank" in 2021.
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PITTSBURGH — An inmate at the Allegheny County Jail died after being found unresponsive Sunday morning.
Around 7 a.m., correctional staff found the 59-year-old man unresponsive, according to information provided by the jail. Staff members performed lifesaving measures until paramedics arrived. The man was pronounced dead around 7:20 a.m.
He was incarcerated on Jan. 11 after being brought in on retail theft, theft by unlawful taking, evading arrest and disorderly conduct, according to a release. On April 28, the jail said the man was committed by the courts to Torrance State Hospital. He has been housed in the jail’s mental health unit, where there are currently 31 inmates awaiting transfer to Torrance.
“All deaths are a tragedy. We take each one very seriously and are continuing to work with our partners to increase surveillance and take other measures to address preventable deaths,” Warden Orlando Harper said in a release. “Through our contracts with the NCCHC, we have received recommendations on steps we can take to reduce suicides and prevent deaths, where possible. We have made those improvements, resulting in better outcomes. This is our first death in our housing units since September 2022 because of the hard work that we’ve been doing to get people out of the facility.”
The jail administration will conduct a review. Allegheny County Police are investigating and the Medical Examiner will determine the cause and manner of death.
In May, an inmate died during intake. Opiates, including fentanyl, cocaine and other drugs, were found in his system during a screen.
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A Canonsburg man who was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly shooting and killing a bald eagle is the father of Colts’ safety Rodney Thomas II, according to the New York Post.
The eagle was found dead along Water Dam Road in Mount Pleasant Township in May. It was shot with an air rifle.
Rodney Thomas, 50, is charged with violating the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.
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“The bald eagle is our national bird and is widely known as being symbolic of our independence as a country,” said Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh. “A symbolic species such as the bald eagle deserves our protection. My office, along with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Pennsylvania Game Commission, and the Mt. Pleasant Police Department worked diligently coordinating with each other to identify and charge the individual responsible and bring him to justice.”
If convicted, Thomas is facing up to a year in prison, a fine of up to $5,000, or both.
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WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. (AP) — Search teams in Pennsylvania were focusing on one underwater area Sunday as they try to find a 9-month-old boy swept away in a flash flood, hours after authorities confirmed that the body of his 2-year-old sister was recovered from the Delaware River.
Upper Makefield Township police said in a Facebook post Sunday that although 2-year-old Matilda Sheils had been “brought home to her loving family” after her body was recovered Friday, officials are “devastated that we have not yet been able to reunite Conrad with his sister and family.”
Hundreds of people including search and rescue teams, marine units and police and fire personnel have scoured the area with the aid of “K-9s, sonar, drones, boats, divers, heavy equipment, GPS mapping and air units,” police said, adding that they were now at the point that “our search will be dependent upon the conditions of the river.”
Authorities have centered their efforts on an area near where the creek that flooded enters the Delaware River, and plan to use divers there when possible and also put K-9 units on islands in the river as water levels recede. Agencies to the south will also be checking their sections along the river, police said.
“We have no words to describe how we are feeling except truly heartbroken. But, the pain we feel is nowhere near what these families have been through,” the police statement said, vowing to the missing boy “we will never stop until we can bring you home.”
The girl’s body was found early Friday evening in the river near a Philadelphia wastewater treatment plant about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from where she was carried away, authorities said Friday night. The Philadelphia medical examiner on Saturday completed an investigation and “ruled that Matilda Sheils’ cause of death was drowning and the manner is accidental,” a spokesperson for the office said.
The family from Charleston, South Carolina, was visiting relatives and friends in the area and were on their way to a barbecue on the evening of July 15 when their vehicle was hit by a “wall of water” from Houghs Creek, according to Upper Makefield Fire Chief Tim Brewer.
The children’s father, Jim Sheils, grabbed the the couple’s 4-year-old son, while their mother, 32-year-old Katie Seley, and a grandmother grabbed the other children, Brewer said. Sheils and the older boy made it to safety, but Seley and the grandmother were swept away along with the younger children. The grandmother survived but the mother perished.
Four other people drowned in the suburb about 35 miles (60 kilometers) north of Philadelphia, according to the Bucks County Coroner’s office: Enzo Depiero, 78, and Linda Depiero, 74, of Newtown; Yuko Love, 64, of Newtown; and Susan Barnhart, 53, of Titusville, New Jersey.
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One of the most common planning activities my team works through with clients is advising them as they sell, buy and move homes. Lifestyles change, the cycle of life marches on and housing needs and desires evolve. What can be a daunting process for a family that may have lived in the same home for decades, is something we deal with quite often, and I think it’s helpful to walk through some common trends and best practices I’ve observed.
I often hear of this process as “downsizing,” but in my experience rarely is this a completely accurate term. There is a class of home builders who have understood what buyers at various stages of life are looking for in their 50s, 60s and even 70s in a home and have done a very good job at producing attractive home products for these markets. Homes with open floor plans, single floor living, lots of common space for hosting and small guest bedrooms with a large master suite are the most common trend I see, but each family is unique, and I’ve seen clients move to everything from condos to farms. One trend that is very consistent, however, is the new home rarely costs less than the existing home being sold, which is both “OK” and where the primary stress and planning challenges arise. So, let’s go over a few tips.
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The real estate market in “upgrade” homes in Northwest Indiana, as well as many attractive retirement locations around the country, continues to be very tight. Homes in this segment of the market are often not listed for very long, and sellers are entertaining multiple offers soon after listing. So, one best practice is to have your ducks in a row before the shopping starts. For cash offers, realtors will often require a verification of deposit letter from a bank or investment firm certifying the buyer has the funds to close. These letters have to be “official” and take a few days to request and obtain, so having one in hand instead of scrambling at offer time can make an offer more nimble and reduce stress. The same applies to financed purchases, with many realtors requesting pre-approval letters from a bank or mortgage company for submission with an offer. These letters take even longer to obtain, up to a week or two, so starting this process early is definitely smart in a competitive market.
After the offer, but during the due diligence period before closing, it’s very important to make sure all the costs of the new home are understood. The primary surprise I see in this regard is with Home Owners Association (HOA) dues. Many developments offer lawn maintenance, snow removal and other amenities. The prospect of no longer cutting grass, shoveling snow, or taking care of a pool can be super attractive, but these services of course come with a cost. In addition, some neighborhoods require road and common area maintenance as well as other community-based features. It’s easy enough to determine current dues as this information will be available from the realtor and in the listing, where the surprise often comes in is with due increases and special assessments which may be on the horizon. While it won’t always be possible to anticipate these potential cost changes, it’s a good idea to request a copy of the HOA’s financials, and the minutes from the last year or so of HOA meetings. There is much to learn by reviewing these documents, and the HOA is usually able to provide them on request.
Then we actually have to pay for the glorious new abode. In my experience, families in this age range will often have considerable home equity in their existing home, sometimes being paid off, and will need to “transfer” this equity into the new home. Rarely does the timing of selling the existing home and closing on the new home work perfectly, so some sort of bridge financing is required. This financing may take a couple different forms, such as Home Equity Loans, or Home Equity Lines of Credit (HELOC) or a specifically designed bridge loan product. These loan products will require underwriting of credit, assets and income as well as some level of appraisal. This all takes some time. So once again, starting early on this process can reduce stress at offer and closing time.
Finally, the question of should retirement capital be used for a home upgrade comes up quite often. Unlike some radio and TV financial gurus who would say this should never happen, I work in “real world” financial planning and sometimes the answer is “sometimes.” The best approach is to holistically analyze the family’s retirement accumulation and income needs in the context of the new home, and then decide if using either a retirement plan distribution or 401(k) loan makes sense considering taxes and planning needs. This also takes a bit of time and effort, so, you guessed it, start early.
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CROWN POINT — A Lake County judge has ruled against the Indiana attorney general's office on two of its three arguments for seeking repayment of nearly $700,000 in extra retirement pay provided to two former School Town of Munster superintendents.
Lake Circuit Judge Marissa McDermott said the attorney general failed to show the superintendents deviated from the plain reading of their contracts or acted unlawfully in relation to the genesis of the contract language, and she granted summary judgment to the superintendents on each of those claims.
The attorney general's final allegation that Superintendents William Pfister and Richard Sopko were paid without the school board's knowledge, in a manner constituting recompensable misconduct, remains pending.
A status hearing on that part of the case is scheduled for Jan. 25, according to court records.
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The payments at issue are supplemental retirement funds paid by the Munster school district to annuity accounts controlled by each of the superintendents, in addition to their regular pay, Indiana Public Retirement System benefits and other perks.
Beginning in 2003, Pfister had a contract provision allowing for annually compounding annuity contributions beginning at 4% of salary, and growing by 4% each year — so the school district paid 8% of Pfister's salary to the annuity in Year 2, 12% in Year 3, 16% in Year 4, and so on through 2012.
The contract for Sopko, who served as assistant superintendent from 1998 to 2012, provided for a 3% annually compounding annuity contribution beginning in 2003. The annuity provision was not included in Sopko's contract during his 2012 to 2014 tenure as Munster superintendent, records show.
The attorney general claimed such high payments on behalf of the superintendents were illegal because the plain meaning of the contracts suggest the "plus each year" 4% (or 3%) supplemental annuity payment merely meant a 4% payment in each year of the three-year contracts, which actually were renewed on a yearly basis, not an annually increasing annuity contribution.
McDermott said the attorney general's argument failed on this point because the meaning of the contract is anything but plain as the State Board of Accounts, which conducted the retroactive audit of the school district, and even the attorney general's office at times, acknowledged the contract is unclear when it comes to cumulative percentage versus yearly percentage.
"On its face, the provision is subject to more than one interpretation," McDermott said. "Further, there is undisputed designated evidence that supports the (superintendents') reading of ambiguous contractual language. Therefore, this court believes the (superintendents) are correct — there was no 'plain reading' from which the (superintendents) could 'deviate.'"
McDermott also was unpersuaded by the attorney general's assertion that the superintendents unlawfully forced the annuity language into their contracts, since she said the record clearly shows the contracts were a product of negotiation and bargaining between the superintendents and the school board.
"There is nothing unlawful about 'requesting' or even 'insisting' upon the inclusion or amendment of a term within a freely negotiated contract. However, to the extent that the state would argue otherwise, the testimony of various participants in the process, including both Pfister and prior school board members, confirms that the process was a collaborative give-and-take," McDermott said.
The attorney general's attempt to recover an estimated $359,728.94 from Pfister and $311,198.75 from Sopko was filed in May 2017, according to court records.
McDermott initially ruled in 2018, and the Indiana Court of Appeals agreed in 2019, that the state waited too long to try to recover the funds — especially since six State Board of Accounts audits identified no issues with the superintendents' contracts while they were actually leading the Munster school district.
However, the Indiana Supreme Court in 2020 directed McDermott to reconsider her previous ruling in light of its decision in Robertson v. State, authorizing the attorney general to seek repayment of public funds based on a retroactive State Board of Accounts audit covering an extended time frame.
That high court directive set off a lengthy period of discovery and other court filings, eventually leading to McDermott's grant of partial summary judgment in favor of the superintendents.
The attorney general must now decide whether to seek review of McDermott's decision at the Indiana Court of Appeals.
Records show Sopko died Oct. 7, 2022. The attorney general is, nevertheless, continuing to pursue repayment from Donna Sopko, the former superintendent's widow and personal representative of his estate, according to court records.
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Hundreds of families flocked to see Elmo and early learning exhibits at Lakeshore Public Media’s recent Learn with Lakeshore event.
The Merrillville-based Public Broadcasting Station and National Public Radio affiliate hosted the educational festivities at Bellaboo’s Play and Discovery Center, a Lake County Parks and Recreation Department-run children's amusement center in Lake Station.
More than 500 people took part in the hands-on, interactive early learning and childhood development experiences at Bellaboo's. Lakeshore Public Media provided informational resources to parents.
People had a chance to see Elmo, check out Bellaboo's attractions and see PNC Bank's Mobile Learning Adventure, a nationally touring educational exhibit for children and caregivers that encourages kids to imagine their future careers.
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Local nonprofits like United Way NWI, Big Shoulders Fund, Tobacco Free Lake County, Prevent Child Abuse Lake County, NWI Community Action, Art Barn School of Art, Gabriel’s Horn, Healthy Families Porter County, Health Network, Opportunity Enterprises and the Legacy Foundation on subjects like childhood education, food security and financial literacy.
Lakeshore Public Media also supplied kids with reusable water bottles, Frisbees, draw-string bags, color changing pencils, notepads, bookmarks and summer activity books. They hoped to encourage families to explore and do at-home learning.
“Our mission to enrich the lives within the communities we serve extends beyond our programming. So when we have the opportunity to step outside of the studio, our mission steps with us,” said Russel Brodhacker, the communications and community engagement coordinator for Lakeshore Public Media. “It added fuel to my tank, so to speak, to see families visit the booths and look at each other like ‘wow, this really helps,’ and that’s what it’s all about. From our programming to our events, we work to inform, engage, and excite those we reach in earnest and palpable ways.”
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Metra has completed the renovation of its historic south suburban Blue Island Vermont St. Station.
The commuter rail system did a $3.7 million rehabilitation of the historic masonry building dating back to 1868.
Metra's historic south suburban Blue Island Vermont St. Station underwent a $3.7 million rehabilitation.
Rail officials assembled Blue Island Mayor Fred Bilotto and other dignitaries today in Blue Island to dedicate the station after the year-long project.
“Events like these highlight the important role that our partners play in helping maintain Metra’s state of good repair and making our rail system one that is customer friendly, accessible, and safe,” said Metra Executive Director and CEO Jim Derwinski. “And in the case of this project, we were also able preserve an important part of Blue Island’s history.”
The project encompassed interior renovation, a new roof, new gutters and downspouts, reconstructed chimneys, rehabilitated wooden eave supports and the replacement of bricks and masonry straining. The work also included asbestos and lead-based paint abatement, new landscaping, ADA compliance, wayfinding signs and improvements to sidewalks, crosswalks and the site.
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“On behalf of the city of Blue Island, we are grateful to Metra and their collaborating partners for making this important investment in our city,” Bilotto said. “I specifically want to commend the Metra staff, who have been excellent partners to work with through this process. This renovation is consistent with our mission to modernize Blue Island while maintaining its historic appeal.”
The Federal Transit Administration, Metra and a Regional Transit Authority Innovation, Coordination and Enhancement grant funded the project.
“The renovation of the Blue Island Station is a just one example of how Metra – through both capital investments like this one and operational improvements – is offering more and more residents of this community and the region great reasons to pick transit over driving,” said RTA Chairman Kirk Dillard.
The Blue Island Station is served by 74 trains on weekdays and 33 trains on weekends. It's about 16.4 millions from the LaSalle Street Station downtown.
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Purdue Extension-Lake County will lead farm tours of Faith Farms and Bob's Backyard in Gary last this month.
The Crown Point-based educational extension will take anyone interested to see Faith Farms at 656 Carolina Street in Gary and Bob's Backyard at 7631 Locust Avenue in the lakefront Miller neighborhood of Gary.
Lake County Master Gardener Freida Graves of Faith Farms and Robert Wahl, the Bob of Bob's Backyard, will lead the in-person tours or their respective urban farms. The tour of Faith Farms will start at at 10 a.m. on July 31 while the tour of Bob's Backyard will take place at 11:30 a.m.
"Faith Farms hosts youth programming, a CSA, has small livestock, vegetables and fruits, high tunnels, and a mobile pantry. They recently acquired a hydroponic growing shipping container, and are working on a farmer co-op food hub, pollinator park, and flash-freeze produce preservation service," Purdue Extension-Lake County said in a press release. "Bob grows vegetables and flowers, has innovative growing systems at backyard market scale. He has several vertical, indoor, and rooftop growing systems, makes his own potting mix, and participates in and co-organizes area farmers' markets. Some of the proceeds from his markets go toward local charities."
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The event is free and open to the public.
Anyone interested can register at https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6upMZaIxZIznCRw.
For more information, call Rebecca Koetz at (219) 755-3240.
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The Wheeler Post Office in rural Porter County has closed temporarily for building repairs.
The U.S. Postal Service temporarily shuttered the post office in the older, two-story brick building at 305 Railroad Ave in Wheeler, an unincorporated town in Porter County just east of the Lake County line. It currently has no information on when the post office serving the largely rural town of 440 residents on IN-130 between Hobart and Valparaiso will be reopened.
The USPS is referring affected customers to get retail and P.O. Box mail services at the nearby Hobart Post Office about 4.6 miles away.
The Hobart Police Office is open from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday.
The U.S. Post Office has done a few mass closings in recent years, shuttering 40 post offices nationwide in February and another 50 post offices in January.
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RANDALLSTOWN, Md. — A homicide investigation is underway in Randallstown.
On Saturday night, at 9:20pm, officers were called to the 8600 block of Lucerne Road for reports of shooting.
When they arrived, police located a man outside of a home suffering from a gunshot wound.
The victim, identified as 49-year-old Shawn Stewart, was taken to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Anyone with information regarding this incident should contact police at 410-307-2020.
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Screeching tires. A flash of movement in the rearview mirror. A four-hour drive from Lincoln to Wichita, Kansas, cut to a sudden halt.
In the span of 10 seconds, Lincoln native Josh Hicks’ day flipped upside down.
Hicks was in just the right place at just the right time July 11 when a Ford van carrying five people veered off an Interstate-235 highway ramp just outside of Wichita and rolled into an adjacent lake, balancing precariously on its roof.
He’d been on the way to the Kansas city for a softball tournament with his daughter when he saw the van tumble off the ramp.
“It was almost like a movie or 'The Dukes of Hazzard,'” Hicks said. “All of a sudden it hits the edge of the roadway and it’s bouncing down this hill.”
In the next few seconds that followed, Hicks acted without hesitation, throwing his daughter’s Subaru Impreza in reverse and rushing over to help as she called 911.
Help would arrive sooner than they ever could’ve expected.
Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Deputy Clinton Harris was conducting a traffic stop near the same ramp when he spotted Hicks getting out of his car. He called off the stop and was soon on the scene as well.
“I would say probably within 20 to 30 seconds of the van leaving the road, (Harris) and I were both on our way down to that vehicle,” Hicks said.
As they arrived, they found that four passengers had escaped the watery wreck, all young men in their 20s. One of them was unconscious on the shore while an older man was still stuck inside.
“I remember going around (to) the front of the van and I remember that instant of like, ‘What do I do?’” Hicks said. “It was literally a second, but it felt like I was standing there forever just twiddling my thumbs.”
Finding the man inside the vehicle was the toughest challenge. As Harris shattered windows using a special tool that he’d thankfully been carrying, Hicks shouted back to the passengers to figure out where the fifth man might be inside the van, which was submerged in shoulder-high water.
A second deputy, Nathan Kingery, arrived on the scene soon after and attended to the unresponsive passenger — who is now recovering, Hicks said — on the shore as the long-armed Hicks finally grasped hope inside the van.
“It feels like I’m pulling up another sweatshirt because I pulled up a couple already, (then) up pops his head,” he said.
It took both deputies and the Nebraskan, an HVAC technician somewhat accustomed to heavy lifts, to get the man out of the van and onto the shore, where Harris and Kingery alternated performing CPR until paramedics arrived.
The whole incident transpired in about six minutes, according to Harris and Hicks.
That much time without oxygen can lead to severe brain damage, but just over a week after the ordeal, the man is on track to a near-full recovery.
Harris said that fact is very fortunate, because help often arrives too late to make a difference in those situations.
“This is a unique experience for Josh, but also for most law enforcement,” Harris said. “Friends of mine that have worked for the sheriff’s office for over a decade have never been around anything with this outcome.”
Asked if he felt like what he’d helped accomplish was heroic, Hicks was indifferent. He was equally dismissive of any “Nebraska Nice” cliches about why he acted the way he did, attributing it to just being a “decent human being.”
“I had no idea who was in that van. Don’t care. Don’t know if they’re hurt, we’re just gonna go down there and check it out, make sure if anybody needs our help, we’re there,” he said. “There was no, ‘I’m gonna go out and be a hero and save some lives today.’”
While Hicks downplayed his role, Harris said he deserves credit for preventing a much more dangerous rescue.
“Josh was needed 100%; there was no way I was going to do that by myself,” Harris said. “If I had to do this myself, I probably out of pride would’ve tried to force myself through the window, I probably would’ve fallen into the vehicle.”
Considering the end result, and the complex series of events that aligned to put each man in the right place at the right time, it was hard for Harris or Hicks to not speculate about a higher power at work.
"It was the perfect outcome for the worst situation you can ever think of," Hicks said.
Since the rescue, the victim’s family has been in touch with both Harris and Hicks, providing updates on his recovery and even insisting that the two attend a barbeque with them. Both men have visited with them at the hospital as well.
“We’re family now,” Hicks said. “This is one of those events that brings (people) together.”
Josh Hicks with his wife, Lisa. The Lincoln man played a pivotal role in rescuing a man from a van that tumbled off a highway into a lake near Wichita, Kansas earlier this month.
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On Friday, March 3, 1979, The Pantagraph ran a 150-word article on Page A3 announcing the opening of Bloomington's first gay discotheque.
It reported William Peden, a hairstylist from Paxton, Illinois, who spent time in the Florida disco scene, purchased My Place, a country music bar at 426 N. Main St. (Wilson Cycle Sales & Service today). He spent around $130,000 to transform the space into a proper disco with enough seating for 300 people.
On April 1, 1979, two weeks after opening, Peden found his car vandalized and the door to the bar shattered by a hammer. A few days later, vandals ripped off a support beam of the overhang at the back of the building — which would have collapsed had it not been for a few utility wires that managed to hold it in place. Two weeks later, another two windows and a lock were damaged.
Unfortunately, these weren't isolated incidents, nor were they merely a cold welcome to the community that faded with time. My Place continued to be the target of desecrators throughout its four-year tenure downtown.
However, thrown eggs were the least of the bar's worries. Frequent fines from the city and liquor license suspensions proved more of a deterrent, and the bar closed in 1982.
The building was sold at auction in 1983 to Earline Smith, who intended to operate a "low-key bar with a respectable clientele" called Different Faces in the space. Smith, too, ran into bureaucratic red tape and was denied a liquor license because a church moved to within 100 feet of the building, and state law prohibits taverns from operating within that proximity to churches.
After an arduous back and forth with the city over several months, Smith sued in U.S. District Court, alleging the license denial was due to her skin color. That story could be an entire article of its own.
Meanwhile, Peden drafted plans for another gay bar and pursued other business ventures. He applied twice more for liquor licenses but was denied both times, after which he packed up and left town in 1986.
After My Place closed, another gay bar took its place: Twylla's Place. Partners in business and life, Dan Cochran and Mark Mears (no relation to one of the authors of this article), initially tried to open Tywlla's at 722 W. Chestnut St., but the liquor commission blocked those plans, and the pair pivoted.
In November 1983, they got approval from the commission to open a smorgasbord-style restaurant at 523 N. Main St. (Killarney's Irish Pub today). Cochran reportedly spent $70,000 to remodel the building and restore the vinyl bar to its original shade of pink.
There is little record or review of the food at Twylla's, but on Valentine's Day 1984, an ad ran in The Pantagraph stating it was "the only gay bar in town." In the days following, seven charges were brought alleging Cochran violated city liquor ordinances.
Allegations raised by a former bartender related to a New Year's Eve party at the bar before Tywlla's liquor license went into effect resulted in charges against Cochran, including selling liquor he bought at a retail store, selling to minors, selling after closing hours, selling without a state license, selling with an invalid city license and recording liquor sales as food sales.
The Pantagraph reported extensively on the trial that ensued. It took over 10 nonconsecutive hours, three meetings, and 10 witnesses testifying to complete. The Bloomington Liquor Commission imposed a nine-day closure of the bar, set to start on April 5, 1984, and subjected Cochran to a 90-day audit of the business.
The Pantagraph reported the conditional audit was imposed on Twylla's "by city councilmen out of concern that he was only interested in running a bar."
On April 10, 1984, the Pantagraph ran a headline on Page A3: "Gay bar owner closes business, leaves town."
The article reported Cochran had officially lost his liquor license just one day after the city was due to begin the audit of his financial records. Cochran and Mears left town with no forwarding address, and phones at the bar and their home were disconnected.
A decade would pass before Bloomington saw another queer space open downtown.
Cochran and Mears quietly returned to the area in the late 1980s and began purchasing, renovating, and selling several buildings in Bloomington. Their real estate repertoire included but was not limited to the Burr House Bed and Breakfast at 210 E. Chestnut St.; a four-story building across Washington Street from the McLean County Museum of History that houses Windy City Wieners and Poblano Burritos today; and 113-115 N. Center St., where they envisioned opening a silk flower shop and tanning salon. The pair also discussed buying the Livingston building, also on Washington Street, but the sale fell through.
In 1995, Cochran and Mears bought and opened their third and final gay bar in Bloomington, Bourbon Street, at 612 N. Main St. (Euphoria today). Bourbon Street was to be a "classy, well-decorated, mature dance club," complete with a neon lavender sign hung from the building's façade.
The two put ample sweat equity into the bar, restoring the original maple floors, adding new carpet and wallpaper and replacing the windows. After opening in July 1995, the bar hosted drag shows and live music.
Unfortunately, like Twylla's Place and a few of the duo's other ventures, the business closed its doors after only a few months, in March 1996.
Local drag queen Lauren Alexander worked at Bourbon Street as a bartender and performed there on the weekends. This is also where she met her drag daughter, Sharon ShareAlike.
Sharon is now one of the most widely recognizable Central Illinois drag queens, holding numerous pageant titles, including Illinois Entertainer of the Year and Miss Gay Illinois US of A. Sharon performs every weekend, often three nights a week, all over the state, but is most at home at The Bistro.
The Bistro was Cochran and Mears' second business venture into gay nightlife and is still at 316 N. Main St. After just three months, they sold the building and the business to Jan Lancaster.
Lancaster, affectionately known as Momma, has owned and operated the self-proclaimed "alternative bar" ever since. Momma has transformed The Bistro to create and foster a safe environment to serve and advocate for the LGBTQ+ community over the years.
It hasn't always been sunshine and rainbows, though. Like the early vandalism seen at My Place, The Bistro has also received hate over the years.
The bar has been picketed and received death threats, but Momma and the loyal clientele know The Bistro is more than just a bar; it is a safe, affirming, and joyful place for the queer community of Bloomington-Normal.
In the early days, The Bistro served meals on Thanksgiving and Christmas for those estranged from their families. The bar hosted AIDS fundraisers in the 1990s and served as the hub for organizing to adopt the municipal human rights ordinances that would protect LGBTQ+ folks in both Bloomington and Normal.
Many AIDS fundraisers in the 1990s featured drag, one of the most impactful expressions of queer joy. Lauren Alexander performed at many of them alongside Jackie Bennett as an iconic comedy duo, The Glamour Dolls. Their campy routines were always perfectly timed on a single cassette tape, complete with their McGuire Sisters performance tracks and just enough filler music to tide the audience over during their quick changes.
The crowds went wild for the Glamour Dolls, and during the AIDS crisis, the dolls stepped up to host benefit shows for the McLean County AIDS Task Force.
The Task Force was a grassroots group organized to educate the public on HIV/AIDS, provide emotional support and financial assistance to those who tested positive and serve as a resource to the community.
At the height of the crisis in the 1990s, the AIDS Task Force had a brick-and-mortar location across the street from The Bistro at 313 N. Main St., which they rented from local artists Harold Boyd and Rhea Edge.
In the 1990s, Main Street in downtown Bloomington also was home to Once Upon a Time Alternative Books & Gifts and the Connections Community Center. Store owners Tana and Ruth banded with Jan to rent out the storefront adjacent to the Task Force (JoAnn Goetzinger's Studio and Gallery now) for the Community Center. That money came from their own pockets.
The proceeds from the benefit shows were directly donated to the McLean County AIDS Task Force clients.
Alexander remembers that during this difficult time for many, "the shows at The Bistro provided an escape to distract people from real life. This was our opportunity to make someone laugh a bit.
"Remembering the smiling faces in the audience was justification that we were doing a good thing. As the late Joan Rivers once said, 'If I can make a shut-in sit up, it was all worth it.' This is exactly how I see drag, and I have enjoyed doing it over the years."
ShareAlike says Alexander took her under her wing, teaching her to command a stage and an audience. She's passed this knowledge and wisdom down to countless queens and has 10 ShareAlike offspring performing alongside her locally and in cities across the country.
DME Drag Shows and Bookings now formally represent Sharon and the ShareAlikes. For more information, please visit sharonsharealike.com.
Sharon will be hosting this year's Pride Fest on Saturday, July 29, 2023, alongside her legendary children and the Glamour Dolls — performing together again for the first time in over 20 years. Pride Fest is a free, family-friendly event organized by The Bistro, celebrating love and community with food, music, performances and various vendors.
Less than 50 years ago, vandalism, homophobia, and bureaucratic maneuvers made it nearly impossible to operate safe LGBTQ+ spaces. Today, the city isn't shutting down gay businesses but shutting down the streets for a day to celebrate the vibrancy of the local queer community.
The museum staff will have a booth on Jefferson Street to do community collecting for its LGBTQ+ collection and have activities for all ages to express their pride. To learn more, visit mchistory.org.
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LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. — It's a cookout for a cause in one part of Lackawanna County.
The folks at VFW Post 5207 near Daleville are serving up food this weekend—all to raise money for Go Joe 26.
Hamburgers, hot dogs, sausages and more are hitting the grill. Potato salad and baked beans are also on the menu.
Not feeling hungry? This year's Go Joe merchandise is for sale, too.
You can support the VFW's fundraiser at the corner of Routes 307 and 502 in Covington Township until 4 p.m. Sunday.
How can I donate?
CLICK HERE to donate to Go Joe 26.
CLICK HERE to donate to St. Joseph's Center.
CLICK HERE to order a Go Joe 26 Shirt or Cap.
If you'd like to be a corporate sponsor, contact Bill Schultz at bill.schultz@wnep.com.
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DICKENSON COUNTY, Va. (WJHL) — A deer trapped in a sunken sewer tank was rescued on Saturday thanks to a team effort from sheriff’s deputies and community members.
According to a social media post by the Dickenson County Sheriff’s Office, the deer was found on Rakes Ridge Road near the Haysi community.
The post by the sheriff’s department said the county’s dispatch received a call about an animal in distress, and upon arrival, officers found the stuck deer in a “sunken sewer tank”.
Working with area neighbors, deputies Garrett and Kendrick were able to rescue the deer.
The sheriff’s office thanked the two officers and neighbors for working together to save the animal’s life.
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EPIPHANY, S.D. — A Canova man has been identified by authorities as the victim of a fatal ATV crash that occurred last Friday in Hanson County.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol named 57-year-old John Zens, of Canova, as the man who died last week.
The crash occurred shortly before 7:30 a.m. Friday, July 14, when authorities in Hanson County were called to the intersection of 244th Street and 429th Avenue, roughly one mile east of Epiphany, for a report of a single-vehicle crash.
Preliminary crash information released by the South Dakota Highway Patrol indicates that a Zens was driving a 2018 Yamaha YFM700FWAD four-wheeler eastbound on 244th Street, a gravel road, when the ATV gradually entered the south ditch before coming to rest in a cornfield.
Troopers say that Zens "came off the ATV before it went into the ditch," though authorities are still investigating how or why. He was not wearing a helmet at the time.
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Zens was airlifted to a Sioux Falls hospital with life-threatening injuries. He died four days later on Tuesday, July 18.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol continues to investigate the crash.
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SAN ANTONIO — An event Sunday night will help raise awareness of pediatric cancers and give young cancer patients a chance to shine.
The event is Fashion 4 Smiles and was started by local San Antonio model and 13-year-old Zaria. The event will give local children diagnosed with cancer and their siblings a chance to hit the runway and be part of a fashion show. The show is designed to help boost confidence in the kids and for the families to take part in a fun, glamorous show. Fashion designers featured at the event include Knoid Wear, Lady Lyrias Fashion, Laylas loft couture, Stylez & Designz by Miranda and LANELL designs Layla Dionne Luxury couture.
Fashion 4 Smiles takes place Sunday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at 203 S Main Street in Cibolo.
Tickets are $40 in advance, but the price goes up at the door.
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SAN ANTONIO — Two men suspected of stealing clothing from a North Star Mall store shot out a glass window to escape police, officials said.
The incident happened Saturday night around 8:25 p.m.
Officers were called out for a robbery and found the suspects trying to escape a second-floor door which was locked. One of the two men pulled out a gun and shot one round, shattering the glass. They both took off in possibly a silver vehicle.
Police said the suspects left the gun used to shoot out the door behind.
No one was injured and police are still investigating.
This is a developing story and further details will be added as they are received.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — Hudson Ireland is "everyone's favorite child."
But maybe her dad is a little biased.
Cody Ireland said his two-and-a-half year old is bubbly, energetic and loves being around other people.
For the past few weeks, Hudson has been fighting for her life at Helen DeVos Children's Hospital. She has been diagnosed with post transplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD), a type of cancer, and battling a slew of other infections and diseases.
"It's just really like wreaking havoc throughout her body," said Cody.
Hudson's health challenges began when she was little. She was sick often, and was diagnosed at 9-months-old with congenital nephrotic syndrome, an incredibly rare kidney disease.
She had to travel to Helen DeVos once a week from their home in Holland for infusions. Months later, she had both her kidneys removed. She spent every night on dialysis. Eventually she needed a kidney transplant.
Thankfully, her dad was a match.
"We went through surgery side-by-side," said Cody, "And she got my left kidney."
After the transplant in February, Cody said his daughter's personality began to shine.
"Like the month or two months after transplant, we really got to see Hudson be like Hudson," said Cody, "She was definitely making up for the two years of lost time that she had with all the kidney stuff. I quickly found out how old I am, trying to keep up with her and her energy."
Sadly, that energy was short lived. Come summer, she became very sick while camping with her family. She was airlifted to Helen DeVos and diagnosed with PTLD.
"Seeing what, who she really is," said Cody, "I think that makes this part of our journey a little bit harder because we got that little glimpse of her."
The real fight began. She was put on chemo therapy and doctors also found a virus in her lungs, intestines and blood. They also diagnosed her with a rare immune system disease and a fungal infection.
"They best way to describe it is we're just trying to survive," said Cody about how he and his wife are dealing with it all.
Then, she needed surgery.
"This past Friday was probably the hardest night of our lives," said Cody, "Having to sign papers and say your goodbyes to your child while they go through surgery that nobody's really giving them a chance to make... I don't even know that there's a feeling or a word that you that you can relate to that feeling. It's like surreal. It's, like, this can't be happening."
She made it through surgery. However, her fight continues.
Many friends, family and community members who have heard Hudson's story have sent cards, bible verses, pictures and more to fill her room. A meal train was organized, and money donated to help the family.
Despite what feels like bad news again and again, Cody and his wife remain hopeful.
"Everything that life's thrown at her so far, she refuses to give up," said Cody, "This little two-and-a-half year old has gone through more in life than the majority of the world goes through in their entire lifetime. So, there's always hope."
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SEATTLE — On a weekend when so many fans find themselves in the same spot, some people were not expecting it. Taylor Swift is taking the stage at Lumen Field, performing in front of a sold-out crowd and Mariners are hosting the Toronto Blue Jays next door.
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"We didn't know my mom bought the tickets a while ago. We didn't know,” said one Blue Jays fan.
Seattle's SODO neighborhood was packed with fans and excitement. But getting to the events was not easy.
"It was a mess. We came here yesterday through the border. It took us four and a half hours to get here,” said one fan from Vancouver B.C.
Kurtis and Lisa Arndt decided to take the light rail to the game.
"The train is right there. And they come every ten minutes. Miss one wait for the next one you are good to go," said Kurtis Arndt.
They did it to avoid pricey parking.
"I looked it up yesterday—$ 107. I could buy a lot of stuff for $107,” he said.
Not far from the ballpark, for some, it was a Taylor takeover. Fans started lining up in the morning to buy merchandise.
With concert gear for sale steps away from baseball jerseys, it is a weekend already proving to be memorable.
"I have lived out here for 18 years and I have not seen this many events with the Bite, Taylor, the Mariners, the Capitol Hill Block party. It is all going on this weekend,” said a pedicab operator.
Sunday will be another busy day with a Mariners game in the afternoon and a sold-old Taylor Swift concert at night.
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SEATTLE — Taylor Swift fans from all over the country came to Seattle for the ‘Eras Tour’ as complete strangers are now lifelong friends.
It’s a lot of work to bring 24 strangers together, but not for Swifties, or Sarah Andrews.
“We tried to get tickets and like everybody else we really couldn't,” said Andrews, a Swift fan from Coeur D’Alene.
For three months post surgery, Andrews was stuck in bed and what got her through was watching TikToks of Taylor Swift concerts and she knew she had to get to one.
“I saw TikTok, and it said, can you imagine trusting 24 Strangers enough to buy a suite at a stadium? And it kind of panned on all these people that looked happy and I thought, yeah, I think I could do that,” Andrews said.
Andrews called Lumen Field about a suite. There was one available for $40,000. Andrews said her husband gave her the green light and pulled the money out of savings knowing she’d get it back in 24 hours.
She then got to work to find other Swifties on Facebook.
“It was about midnight, when I saw this random post in a Swiftie Facebook group and I said, if anybody is looking for tickets, would you be interested in the suite? and I thought, this is fake. this is so fake.
Turned out, it wasn’t and Katie Lorton is one of 24 strangers that took a leap of faith.
“I felt like this is it. This is the one time I'm gonna get to see her, so let's just go for it,” Lorton said.
“This friendship that we've created where a lot of my friends aren't Swifties the way I am. So it's been nice to geek out and just be able to be excited about something just thoroughly excited,” said Lorton.
Meghan and Hannah Habel saw the same post. They also took the chance.
“Everyone is so nice and it's so fun to bond over something that's really important,” Habel said.
The twin sisters have been to several Swift concerts together, and with them now living in different states, the Eras Tour is bringing strangers and sisters together.
“When we saw Red together it was right before we each separated for the first time to go to college so it was kind of a really meaningful experience for both of us,” Habel said.
Complete strangers now meeting in Seattle Saturday for the first time.
“None of these people knew each other this morning and they were having drinks together and staying together, it's cool to see life long friendships being made,” Andrews said.
The group is prepping to see Taylor Sunday with friendship bracelets and repping their favorite era, but Andrews said it’s much bigger than that.
“There isn't one person that can't relate to something she has to say in her song, or something that she embodies. I feel like this is the first thing in a really long time that has really brought a ton of people together,” Andrews said.
Andrews also said what started out as a way to get through surgery recovery now became life changing.
“I do think the group will continue way past the concert. I do think we are hopefully friends for life,” Andrews said.
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DULUTH — The Duluth Art Institute is looking for new exhibit space after county officials recommended the board reject a proposal by the nonprofit to renew its space in the St. Louis County Depot.
“The Selection Team recommends rejecting the DAI proposal and ending DAI’s tenancy in The Depot based on the nature of the space does not align with the needs of the organization, which has caused issues related to their tenancy, insufficient proposed rental rate ($3.61/sq.ft/year), and the need for flex space to be used during capital improvement projects and for temporary rotating exhibits during other times,” said a request for board action from Mary Tennis, executive director of the Depot.
The recommendation is currently on the consent agenda for the St. Louis County Board of Commissioners committee-of-the-whole meeting scheduled for Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. in Proctor City Hall.
If approved Tuesday, the DAI will need to vacate at the end of the year the space it has held at the Depot since the old train depot became a cultural and arts center in 1975.
“It is regrettable that the County fails to see value in the inclusion of the Duluth Art Institute in the offerings at the Depot, especially given our 116-year history as the region’s premier visual arts organization,” DAI Executive Director Christina Woods said in a news release Friday. “Nonetheless, this is an exciting opportunity, especially given our existing programs and community involvement at our own Lincoln Park Building, which is used at capacity.”
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The county had made the minimum 2024 lease rate of $4.97 per square foot known to Depot tenants for almost a year, county spokesperson Dana Kazel said in a statement to the News Tribune.
“This decision should not come as a surprise to DAI,” Kazel said.
According to the request for board action, the county determined the minimum leasing rates for the Depot should be $4.97 per square foot for nonprofit organizations and $8.16 per square foot for for-profit organizations.
“The required minimum rates were established by the Selection Team upon review of the operating costs of The Depot and with the goal of making The Depot financially sustainable,” the resolution said. “Even at the required minimum rental rates, St. Louis County taxpayers will be providing significant subsidies to the recommended organizations.”
In 2022, the county began requiring prospective tenants submit requests for proposals to lease space the following year and beyond. The county cited a state statute that requires a competitive bidding process for leases of government-owned property anticipated to be more than $15,000 per year. The county said it also wanted to offer other organizations the chance to join the Depot.
The DAI has been pushing back on the new process ever since.
Asked why DAI submitted a proposal below the new minimum required rate, Robin Washington, DAI board president and former executive editor of the News Tribune, pointed to language in the statute that exempts leases from the RFP process if the lease is below $15,000.
“Our lease amount prior to the current year fell squarely below that threshold,” Washington said.
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He said DAI had been paying $1.20 per square foot “for many years” until the bidding process began last year. Its 2023 lease increased to $3.50.
“For 2024, the county has stated the required rate is $4.97. Since last year’s rate was reached by negotiation, it would make no business sense to have committed to it before engaging in negotiation,” Washington said. “We also clearly stated in our offer to them that we are open to negotiation. We still are.”
In its rejecting the organization’s proposal, the county also cited a need to maintain the ability for occupants to enter and exit through the current DAI space.
“In addition to not meeting the required minimum rental rate, DAI’s use and expectations relative to traffic and work within the requested space do not align with the required ingress/egress nature of the requested space,” Kazel said. “The space DAI has been occupying and proposed to continue using includes a balcony, stairwell and elevator, which cannot be locked or closed to ensure people can walk through and access emergency routes.”
In response, Washington said DAI’s proposed use of the space remained the same as it had been for almost a half-century.
“If the county has plans to change the infrastructure, it is incumbent upon them to tell us of the designated reconfigured space and use, just as it would be the responsibility of a landlord to alert a tenant of an intended change of a bathroom to a kitchen,” Washington said. “In effect, the county is stating that the spaces they have offered to us — presumably in good faith — are no longer suitable for galleries.”
The county selection team only rejected the DAI proposal. It requested the board give permission to negotiate and enter a lease with five organizations and the space they currently lease: the Depot Foundation, Lake Superior Railroad Museum, Minnesota Ballet, Duluth Superior Symphony Association and St. Louis County Historical Society.
The DAI will need to leave its current Depot space by the end of 2023, and said it “has already opened conversations with numerous venues in the Twin Ports.”
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No other organization submitted a proposal for the DAI’s Depot space. Kazel said the county will look for new tenants when DAI leaves at the end of the year.
“We understand the departure of DAI from The Depot will be a disappointment to some visitors,” Kazel said. “At the same time, we recognize the concerns associated with the safety and protection of the artwork displayed by the DAI and its private exhibitors. These concerns included potential construction impacts to artwork as renovations at The Depot take place, and potential damage to artwork from visitors walking through these spaces.”
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State police seize short-barreled rifle, double-edged daggers, brass knuckles during traffic stop
Two males were arrested after Michigan State Police found a short-barreled rifle, 12 double-edged daggers and brass knuckles during a traffic stop Saturday.
According to a tweet, troopers stopped a vehicle around 1:30 a.m. Saturday because it was drifting onto the shoulder of M-53 in Washington Township and the car did not have insurance.
A 24-year-old male from Romeo was driving the car and had several warrants for his arrest. Police said they searched the vehicle and found the short-barreled rifle that belonged to the passenger, an 18-year-old male from Lapeer, and the other weapons.
The 24-year-old was turned over to Imlay City Police on his warrants and the 18-year-old was lodged at the Macomb County Jail.
“Troopers are continuing to look for, locate and seize illegal weapons during traffic stops.” Lt. Mike Shaw, Michigan State Police Second District's public information officer, said in the tweet. “By continuing to take these illegal guns off the street we are helping build a Michigan where everyone feels safe and secure.”
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Police are investigating after an officer was reportedly injured while trying to disperse a crowd of more than 500 people who had gathered in North Philadelphia, early Sunday, officials said.
According to police, the officer -- who officials have not provided identifying information on -- had responded to the 1300 block of N. Broad Street, as about 1:46 a.m. on Sunday, where hundreds of people were allegedly gathered along with their vehicles.
While working to disperse the crowds, law enforcement officials said, the officer was struck by a vehicle, "causing a break on his ankle."
Officials said the vehicle that struck the officer fled the scene, while he was transported to a nearby hospital where he was treated.
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According to police a "couple of officers sustained injuries" during the incident, but they were all treated and released.
However, this was not the only incident in which police officers worked to disperse crowds overnight, officials said.
Crowds gathered throughout the evening
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According to police, on Saturday night, at 8 p.m. officers dispersed a crowd at the 5700 block of Tacony Street in Northeast Philadelphia.
Then, a little under an hour later, at 8:50 p.m., police officials said officers responded to the Philadelphia Mills Mall where they worked to disperse another crowd.
And again, at 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, police officers worked to disperse another crowd at the intersection of Byberry Road and Roosevelt Boulevard in Northeast Philadelphia.
There were no injuries reported in these other incidents, officials said.
The police officers' union's reaction
In response to these injuries, Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 President John McNesby shared a statement telling Philadelphia's elected officials that the city's curfew "is not working."
"Another violent weekend in Philadelphia and not one word from our elected leaders to address this illegal behavior or lend support for our rank and file police officers. Early this morning, more than 500 people gathered along Broad Street in North Philadelphia and blocked the roadway. Two Philadelphia police officers were injured while dispersing the crowd. One officer suffered a hand injury while a second may have suffered a broken leg. Apparently, the city curfew is not working and time for elected officials to call out this disruptive and illegal behavior," McNesby claimed in a statement. "Rank and file officers are working tirelessly to stay ahead of this crime epidemic without the support of elected leaders. Enough is enough."
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Search teams in Pennsylvania were focusing on one underwater area Sunday as they try to find a 9-month-old boy swept away in a flash flood, hours after authorities confirmed that the body of his 2-year-old sister was recovered from the Delaware River.
Upper Makefield Township police said in a Facebook post Sunday that although 2-year-old Matilda Sheils had been “brought home to her loving family” after her body was recovered Friday, officials are “devastated that we have not yet been able to reunite Conrad with his sister and family."
Hundreds of people including search and rescue teams, marine units and police and fire personnel have scoured the area with the aid of "K-9s, sonar, drones, boats, divers, heavy equipment, GPS mapping and air units," police said, adding that they were now at the point that “our search will be dependent upon the conditions of the river.”
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Authorities have centered their efforts on an area near where the creek that flooded enters the Delaware River, and plan to use divers there when possible and also put K-9 units on islands in the river as water levels recede. Agencies to the south will also be checking their sections along the river, police said.
“We have no words to describe how we are feeling except truly heartbroken. But, the pain we feel is nowhere near what these families have been through,” the police statement said, vowing to the missing boy “we will never stop until we can bring you home."
The girl's body was found early Friday evening in the river near a Philadelphia wastewater treatment plant about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from where she was carried away, authorities said Friday night. The Philadelphia medical examiner on Saturday completed an investigation and “ruled that Matilda Sheils’ cause of death was drowning and the manner is accidental,” a spokesperson for the office said.
The family from Charleston, South Carolina, was visiting relatives and friends in the area and were on their way to a barbecue on the evening of July 15 when their vehicle was hit by a “wall of water” from Houghs Creek, according to Upper Makefield Fire Chief Tim Brewer.
The children’s father, Jim Sheils, grabbed the the couple’s 4-year-old son, while their mother, 32-year-old Katie Seley, and a grandmother grabbed the other children, Brewer said. Sheils and the older boy made it to safety, but Seley and the grandmother were swept away along with the younger children. The grandmother survived but the mother perished.
Four other people drowned in the suburb about 35 miles (60 kilometers) north of Philadelphia, according to the Bucks County Coroner’s office: Enzo Depiero, 78, and Linda Depiero, 74, of Newtown; Yuko Love, 64, of Newtown; and Susan Barnhart, 53, of Titusville, New Jersey.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — A man was killed in a shooting Sunday morning, the Orlando Police Department said.
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Deputies responded to a shooting call around 9:49 am at 6699 South Semoran Blvd., near the Lee Vista Promenade Shopping Plaza.
According to a news release, when officers arrived, they found a man with gunshot wounds and began life-saving measures.
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The man was taken to Advent Health East Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Deputies said that, based on the initial investigation, an argument led to the man’s death.
Channel 9 will provide updates on this investigation as it becomes available.
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How Saline County Home Health catches people slipping through the cracks of ordinary care
When Mandy Cranmer arrived at her patient's home Friday morning, she was greeted with a jubilant dance.
Jimmy Lee Newman, 65, met her outside and let out a contagious laugh. Newman has been a home health patient with the county for a few years now, and those who know him understand that he doesn't hold back on warm welcomes.
"You look good," Cranmer managed to say through a chuckle.
"Oh, real good," Newman said.
Before the two began to talk health, they talked like old friends.
Sitting at the kitchen table, he shared about his day ahead, plans for his bicycle, and that he was probably going to stay inside today because the high hovered around 100 degrees.
Cranmer grabbed Newman's desk pad calendar that shows his blood pressure readings and asked if he had any new girlfriends. Jimmy jokes that Cranmer helps keep him in line, but he keeps her in line, too.
Newman is one of around 80 patients Saline County's Home Health Agency serves. But to Cranmer and the rest of the staff, he is a friendly face they can't seem to get enough of.
For more than half a century, the county's home health agency has provided care that helps keep senior citizens where they are most comfortable and familiar — their own homes.
“I don’t think you’ll find a bunch of people that care as much about their patients as the ones who work here at home health,” said Jason Tiller, director of the Saline County Health Department.
County Home Health meets patients where they are
The county's home health agency provides skilled nursing, physical, occupational and speech therapy, home health aides and homemaking services, as well as medical social work.
While the last census number of around 80 patients provides a snapshot of how many people are being cared for, Tiller said it doesn't exactly tell the full story. In 2022, those served amounted to more than 5,800 visits from home health staff to patients and their families.
That volume of visits takes a lot more staff time than what others might see on the surface, Tiller said. But those hours contribute to the agency's overarching philosophy and principle.
Instead of transferring people to a retirement community or nursing home prematurely, the agency is able to prioritize what kind of care will meet patient needs where they are now.
“The overall goal is to help the person get better and stay functional so they can stay in their home where they are not only most comfortable and familiar with, but also where, generally, it shows they have the best outcome,” Tiller said.
Christi Ponton is the Home Health Administrator for Saline County. Earlier this month, she was notified that Home Health was nominated for the 2023 Best of Salina Community Choice Awards for their impact on the community.
“It means a lot because sometimes we are the forgotten agency in the community,” Ponton said. A lot of times, we are serving the most vulnerable residents with the most need.”
The agency does what it can to help connect patients with resources who might have been turned away from other local home health agencies. Private companies providing the same services as the county agency have a limited number of people they can take on with Medicaid.
Ponton and her team provide medical social work services to meet the needs of people who might lack the right insurance or have limited access. Medicaid waiver programs and other resources have helped county residents who might otherwise not be able to afford home health.
Because of this work, Ponton's agency serves a diverse group of patients, from those who simply need their home vacuumed, to people who need daily wound care.
“The patients that do fall through the cracks, we become more like their friends, their family – the person they go to when they’re suffering,” Ponton said.
In other counties, residents have limited access to care
Across the state, there are just 19 counties that still have a home health agency. There are 105 counties and 100 health departments in Kansas.
Tiller said many small health departments didn’t drop home health services because they weren’t needed, but more due to the increasing level of administrative burden and regulation on one or two-man teams.
Since 1966, Saline County has kept its home health agency operational. It's the oldest local agency of its kind and has outlasted some private entities that have come and gone.
Recently, members of the County Commission had questions about home health's negative cash flow. Ahead of this budgeting season, Tiller wrote about the generational impact the agency has had.
"The ones that are being 'subsidized' are the ones who can't afford the private care who would end up in a nursing home costing a lot more money," Tiller wrote in the presentation.
Tiller explained that while the agency strives for a break-even point, the taxpayers subsidize a service that will continue to be needed for years to come. The county's population continues to grow older and more people over 65 are in poverty.
“I think what drives us and drives (Ponton) and her staff is ‘patients before profits,’” Tiller said. “While they try to be as fiscally responsible as possible… patient care always takes priority.”
Building a lasting relationship
Ponton said putting patients over profit means providing care from all angles: physical, emotional and mental health. In caregiving, she said, a familiar face can make all the difference.
For Newman, this is especially true.
Newman said Cranmer helps him feel safe and not worried when things aren't feeling right. He knows he can call her with any problem that might come up.
"I'm keeping her for good," Newman said with a smile. "She's my good friend."
Displayed throughout Newman's Salina apartment are pictures and memorial folders of relatives and friends. Pictures are important to him because he likes to hold onto memories.
Each year, Newman and Cranmer create a calendar with the memories he gathers through photographs. It's something they both enjoy doing together.
Newman has to keep tabs on his blood sugar and keep a schedule for medicines. Part of Cranmer's job is helping him remember the routine and sending his vitals to his doctor every two to four weeks. It can be hard for Newman to remember what the medical numbers mean, so Cranmer writes smiley faces and sad faces next to them.
This particular Friday, Newman got a smiley face.
"Yippee, I'm doing good," Newman said.
Newman retired in December from Braum's Ice Cream and Dairy Store. These days he spends his time riding his bike across town and chatting with his favorite people at the local bike shop and, of course, the health department.
If you've ever heard an unsolicited honk from a passerby on Ohio Street, it was probably a hello to Newman. It's kind of a tradition between his friends.
When Cranmer left his apartment that morning, Newman stood in the doorway for an extended goodbye, then waved as the car horn honked.
Kendrick Calfee has been a reporter with the Salina Journal since 2022, primarily covering government and education. You can reach him at kcalfee@gannett.com or on Twitter @calfee_kc.
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I’ve written about this countless times over the years, but the scammers don’t stop, so I won’t stop bringing it up. In my computer and IT services business, we still regularly get calls from customers that have let a remote scammer onto their computer. Sometimes they even pay the scammer before realizing it was a scam or they pay even though it doesn’t feel right but they just want to stop being hounded.
So, here I share even more tips to help ensure you don’t fall victim:
Never trust unsolicited phone calls saying your computer has issues: Even if they say they’re from Microsoft, Windows, Apple or another popular corporation, a legit company will never call you unsolicited saying your computer, Internet or an online account has issues. I’ve heard countless customers of ours get these scam attempts.
If you get a call out of the blue like this, I suggest just hanging up. Some legit companies (like Google or Apple) will send email and/or phone alerts on security concerns, so those could be true but they never call you or tell you to call a number. If in doubt, go to their website directly to check the status of your account or message/call them from contact info you get directly from their website. If you still are in doubt, contact a local computer pro for advice.
Never call someone if your computer says to: Similar to unsolicited phone calls, a legit company never pops up on your computer screen saying to call them, plays an alert message through the speakers or emails you saying to call them. These are also popular scam attempts we see often. In many cases you may find it hard to get the alert message off the screen or to stop the audio alert. If you need help, contact a local computer pro for advice.
Don’t click on Search Engine ADs: Most search engines display ADs that look like results. Sometimes this is helpful, allowing you to discover new products and services. But remember scammers can also try to trick you by posting seemingly legit ADs that lead to phishing sites. For example, even if the AD says it’s Walmart and looks normal, it could be a scammer that posted the AD. So, instead of getting Walmart when you click on the AD, you are taken to a site that looks like Walmart or maybe a scam popup comes up saying your computer is infected.
I don’t suggest clicking the ADs; stick to the real organic search results. Most search sites display several ADs on the top and bottom of each result page, and some spread ADs throughout the list. Some ADs are more identifiable as others but typically you’ll see the word Sponsored or AD next to each of those paid results or a section labeled ADs with a collection of them.
Upgrade if you have an older PC: If you have an older computer running Windows XP, Vista, 7, or 8, you’re more vulnerable to viruses and malware. I suggest using Windows 10 or 11. Contact a local computer pro to help you understand your options on upgrading your current PC or getting a new one and having everything transferred over.
Get extra malware protection: You should already have an anti-virus that’s protecting your computer, but many of those don’t stop other junk like scams, adware or PUPs (potentially unwanted programs). Malwarebytes (www.malwarebytes.com) is my favorite scanner for finding or stopping this other junk that might not be classified as a virus but still cause issues. They have a free edition you can use to manually run scans and you can optionally buy it to actively protect you all the time. Plus, they have a browser extension that’s free to use that can help block bad websites.
Enable two-factor authentication: Most sensitive websites and accounts like email, banks and online stores allow you to enable two-factor authentication. This would require an extra step to login to your account after entering the password such as entering a one-time code sent to via email, text message or phone call. You can usually make this happen with every login or just logins from new/other computers. I suggest at least the latter on your important accounts. That way if your passwords are ever captured by a scammer or virus, the two-factor authentication can stop them from logging in even though they might have your correct password.
Get a yearly professional checkup and cleanup: Even if you don’t seem to have issues, I strongly recommend getting a full computer checkup each year at home, and for businesses I suggest even more often. A computer tech can check many security, safety and reliability aspects.
Eric Geier is the owner of On Spot Techs, a computer repair and IT services company offering on-site service at homes and businesses in the Dayton and Springfield areas and also a storefront at 4732 S Dixie Dr in Moraine. For more information, visit www.onspottechs.com or call 937-315-0286.
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AUBURNDALE, Fla. — Dozens of volunteers set out Sunday morning to find a 38-year-old woman who was last seen nearly two months ago.
Auburndale Police investigating the case say Tonya Whipp went missing sometime between May 28 and June 1. Since then, no one has been able to contact her.
Whipp is described as being approximately 5’7” with light brown hair.
Whipp was originally reported missing back on June 29 to the Auburndale Police Department. Officers received a call from Whipp's sister who asked them to do a wellness check. Police were unsuccessful in finding the 38-year-old.
10 Tampa Bay asked the family if Tonya was dating anyone. They said she had a boyfriend they didn't know well.
We also asked if the family was suspicious about the boyfriend to which they said, "We’re not at liberty to say, but our goal is to find our sister."
In efforts to locate Tonya, family and friends have taken search efforts into their own hands. Two community searches have taken place. Leading those searches is a nonprofit group called, "We Are the Essentials."
"Very grateful, we have a lot of friends and family here. A lot of people we’ve never met," Tonya's sister, Donna Martin said.
The co-founder of the group has been organizing searches in Auburndale around where she lived to find Whipp but says it's been tough.
"The terrain out here is unforgiving. There are more lakes in this area than I’ve ever seen. Right now it’s 90-something degrees," the Co-Founder of We Are the Essentials, Nico Tusconi explained.
Auburndale Police released new information regarding the man Whipp was living with. Police confirmed Whipp was living with a man named Russell Carroll.
Police confirmed Caroll was the same man who was recently released from prison for the attempted murder/stabbing of his 16-year-old girlfriend in 2003.
At this point, Tony Whipp is the only person of interest in the case. When 10 Tampa Bay asked investigators what Carroll has said about Whipp’s disappearance, they responded, "We are not releasing that information at this point in the investigation."
They are asking for any information from the community. You can contact the Auburndale Police Department or Heartland Crime Stoppers 1-800-226-TIPS.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Multnomah County Senior Deputy District Attorney Nathan Vasquez is looking to unseat District Attorney Mike Schmidt — hoping to bring his 20 years of experience prosecuting what he calls “complex” cases to the table.
Vasquez has run the Neighborhood Unit in the DA’s office and has prosecuted some high-profile murder cases and leaders of the Proud Boys – including prominent member Tiny Toese.
“First and foremost, for the last few years, what we’ve seen is that our community has become unrecognizable and unsafe, and it’s compelled me to take on this role because what we need is a professional prosecutor and not a politician running that office,” Vasquez said of his decision to run.
“If you look just purely at [District Attorney Mike Schmidt’s record] he’s never tried a serious case. He’s never handled a homicide, he’s never done even really a complex, or even really not a complex, assault case. So, when we talk about him doing felony work, it is very limited and what we need is someone that has over 20 years of experience handling very complex cases day in, day out and doing that really with focusing on the victims of the case and on the community,” Vasquez said.
If elected as district attorney, Vasquez says he would advocate for the state legislature to make changes to Measure 110 — a voter-approved measure that decriminalized drugs in favor of addiction treatment.
“Right now, what we’re seeing is just unchecked addiction and it is causing really just a huge and terrible burden, not only on the city, but on the addicts themselves. We’re seeing people dying every day so, what we have isn’t working and it needs to change,” Vasquez said.
He added, “I’m certainly not advocating to go on some sort of war on drugs or something of that nature, but we shouldn’t be abandoning our community, we shouldn’t be abandoning those individuals on the streets, and we should be looking for ways in which we can get them connected with services because currently, that’s just not happening.”
Vasquez says while more addiction treatment resources are on the way, he argues that there is no incentive or opportunity for people to seek treatment.
“As the elected DA, and really in Multnomah County, you have an opportunity as one of the top law enforcement officials in the state to advocate for that change just like the elected DA Mike Schmidt advocated for Measure 110 in a way which had no clear plan. What we can do, when I’m elected as DA, is put together that plan, advocate for that through the state legislature and really push to have meaningful change where we are helping the community,” Vasquez said.
He furthered, “it’s a bully pulpit with experience and with expertise that comes from actually having worked and served in this arena for the past two decades.”
When it comes to prosecuting cases involving gun related crimes, Vazquez says the county is falling short.
“What we’re seeing right now is year after year increases in the homicides we’ve seen that has been very alarming because it’s disproportionately impacting our communities of color and they’re falling, unfortunately, victim to this at a disproportionate rate. It is something that really needs to be a greater emphasis and a greater effort to combat this.”
He also wants to see the DA’s office tackle Oregon’s public defender crisis and says Senate Bill 337 — which passed the Senate and the House — is a step in the right direction but argues that more could be done by the Multnomah County DA’s Office.
“The public defender crisis is one part of an overall kind of scheme of issues that are really grinding the system to a halt. When we talk about what the legislature did, yes, it was a step in the right direction. I do want to see our public defender, our counterparts, paid appropriately and want them to be funded so that we can get cases through, absolutely,” Vasquez said.
He continued, “certainly, there is not enough being done. There are many cases where we see people failing to appear and right now, we are not charging crimes that can be associated with that because when those individuals don’t appear and that system doesn’t go forward to our courts, what happens is we don’t get justice as a community. Our victims don’t get justice. There’s more that this office can be doing to combat that, and we should be coming up with policies specifically to combat the failure to appear of individuals when they’re charged with crimes.”
Last week, as authorities confirmed Jesse Calhoun as a person of interest in the deaths of four women in Oregon, he says Calhoun’s commuted sentence — under former Gov. Kate Brown — should have been considered more carefully.
Calhoun’s original projected release date was in June 2022. However, in 2021, then-governor Kate Brown signed a commutation order providing clemency to certain prisoners who met the criteria. Calhoun was one of those prisoners and was released on July 22, 2021.
Had this clemency not been granted, Calhoun would have been released no matter what in July 2022. The 4 women were killed between February and May 2023.
“I am absolutely horrified for the victims, their families, and all those who have experienced these losses,” Brown said in a statement.
“It is so terribly tragic and horrible that these families have to go through this and that those victims lost their lives and that is really, as the DA, that is where we should always start is focusing on the victims and the lives lost,” Vasquez said. “In that particular case, there were somewhat concerning things about the commutations that occurred and the commutations that weren’t carefully looked at.”
On June 6, the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office arrested Calhoun at Milwaukie Bay Park. Deputies took Calhoun into custody while serving a warrant issued for his arrest out of Multnomah County for parole violation.
On July 3, Governor Kotek revoked Calhoun’s commuted sentence at the request of the Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt. Records obtained by KOIN 6 News show that Schmidt recommended the reversal on June 30, 24 days after he was booked into the Multnomah County Jail.
“I am writing regarding Jesse Lee Calhoun’s commutation on Multnomah County Cases 18-CR-61662 and 19-CR-27836 signed by former Governor Kate Brown on June 23, 2021,” Schmidt’s letter reads. “Since his release from custody pursuant to this commutation, Mr. Calhoun has been involved in criminal activity currently under investigation by Oregon law enforcement. In light of this, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office and Multnomah County Department of Community Justice recommends Mr. Calhoun’s commutation be revoked. It is our position that his release does not serve the interest of the State of Oregon, and that he should be returned to the Department of Corrections to serve the remainder of his sentence.”
KOIN 6 News also obtained a letter from DA Schmidt asking Kotek to revoke Jesse Calhoun’s clemency from a 2019 conviction. Schmidt made this request on Friday, June 30 and Kotek signed the order the following Monday.
With investigations ongoing, Vasquez lauds his office’s work on the case and their collaboration with other counties to bring justice.
“What I can say is that the men and the women that work in the Multnomah County DA’s Office, are working extremely hard on this and they are collaborating with the other counties that are involved, and they are really trying to push towards bringing forth justice and getting this case to grand jury,” Vasquez said.
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LODI, Calif. — One man was killed and another man was hurt after gunshots rang out early Sunday morning at a downtown Lodi nightclub, police officials say.
Officers rushed to the El Dorado Club on Sacramento Street around 1:15 a.m. Sunday after reports came in stating that people had been shot.
At the scene, officers said they found two men in their 20s who were shot. One of the men was shot multiple times and taken to a hospital in stable but critical condition.
The second man died at the scene. Officials have not released information on a shooter or motive.
Investigators are asking witnesses and people with information to call them at 209-269-4798 or Lodi Area Crime Stoppers at 209-369-2746.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A man was hurt after a shooting at an apartment complex Sunday morning, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office said.
The shooting happened around 1:07 a.m. Sunday in the 8600 block of Fair Oaks Boulevard. Once deputies got to the scene, they found a man who had two gunshot wounds.
First responders applied a tourniquet on the man until medics got to the scene and took him to a hospital. Authorities have not released the man's condition or said whether they have identified the shooter.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A semi-truck that overturned on westbound Highway 50 in Sacramento caused delays Sunday morning. According to Caltrans, the truck carrying cows overturned on the northbound I-5 onramp from westbound Highway 50.
The onramp has been closed while crews clean up the scene. It's unclear when the ramp will reopen.
Photos from the scene show cattle rounded up behind a gate near the overturned big rig. Firefighters and paramedics were on scene, although it is unclear whether anyone was injured.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — At least one person was injured in a shooting early Sunday, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office said.
Deputies say they were called to a gas station at Florin Road and Power Inn Road around 1:49 a.m. Sunday because of a man who was lying on the ground after being shot.
Officials have not released the condition of the victim or any other details surrounding the shooting.
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DENTON, Texas — Read this story and more North Texas business news from our partners at the Dallas Business Journal
CPG Development plans to bring a new $43 million multifamily project to the northern portion of Denton.
The forthcoming development, located at the southeast corner of Bonnie Brae and Elm Street, would total 307 units. The project should kick off early next year and wrap up by 2026, according to a filing with the state.
The developer has billed the project as Class A+. The development, dubbed The Mark at Denton, would feature 12 buildings and resident amenities, including stone countertops, stainless appliances, a large fitness center, a game room, lounge room and a large dog park.
The development will include different unit types, including townhome, 3-story walkup and 4-story elevator-serviced. The project will also come with a resort-style pool.
“We’d like to continue the strong trend of raising the bar for residential developments in the City of Denton,” said a CPG Development spokesperson in an email statement. “We intend to accomplish this through excellence in design, construction and operation.”
The firm will pursue a HUD-insured loan for the project. However, CPG is still early in the application process, the spokesperson said.
Denton has seen a spate of multifamily development recently. Last month, the Business Journal reported that Greystar Real Estate Partners plans to bring a $51 million project to the southeast portion of the city.
The forthcoming project, called Birchway Denton Phase 3, would bring roughly 336 units. Located at 1710 Northstar Road, the development will break ground toward the end of the year, according to a filing with the state.
Last year, a project under the name Birchway Denton Phase 2A got underway near the site of the new project. Located near South Mayhill Road and Spencer Road, the project featured almost 400 units.
According to a filing, Birchway Denton Phase 2A will deliver in 2024. The project will also have detached garages along the property, a clubhouse and common areas, including a 6-acre detention pond area.
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WAXAHACHIE, Texas — A jailer accused of bringing contraband into the Ellis County jail has been arrested and fired, officials said.
Quadtavius Ramone Donalson, 24, of Waxahachie was arrested in the case Friday, according to a news release from the Ellis County Sheriff's Office.
The release said investigators this month were notified that "prohibited substances" were being smuggled into the Wayne McCollum Detention Center in Waxahachie. The suspect was identified as Donalson.
When investigators conducted surveillance on Donalson at work on Friday, they saw "activity consistent with contraband smuggling in the detention center," the release said.
Investigators questioned Donalson, who "confessed to the illegal activity," the release said. He faces a charge of prohibited substance/item in a correction facility, a third-degree felony.
Donalson was stripped of his uniform and arrested, a moment that was filmed by the sheriff's office and posted to the department's Facebook page.
The video showed Sheriff Brad Norman cutting Donalson's uniform off of him. The Facebook post said:
"The Ellis County Sheriff’s Office has awesome employees that go above and beyond the call of duty. That being said, when one chooses to commit crimes and betray the public trust, they will be dealt with accordingly."
By Sunday morning, the Facebook post was beginning to draw dozens of comments of negative backlash, though the video had its supporters, too.
Last year, a similar video drew widespread attention when Collin County Sheriff Jim Skinner fired a jailer who allegedly brought a cell phone and charger into an inmate's cell. The video, which was captured on a surveillance camera at the jail, showed Skinner reprimanding and firing the deputy and then making him take off his uniform, saying he didn't deserve to wear it.
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DALLAS — Fifty years ago Monday, a Dallas police officer handcuffed 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez and his brother, David, and placed them in a patrol car.
The officer, Darrell Cain, was questioning the brothers about a petty theft at a gas station in Dallas' Little Mexico neighborhood. As he interrogated Santos and David, Cain held his gun to Santos' head and played a game of Russian roulette. But when he pulled the trigger, the gun went off and killed Santos.
Santos' death on July 24, 1973, sparked outrage in Dallas' Latino community, but it took decades for the Dallas Police Department to apologize, and Cain never did.
He received a sentence of five years for murder, and served around half of that time.
Now, WFAA is marking the 50th anniversary of Santos' death with "Justicia Para Santos: A La Vida Special," a special 30-minute program, which you can watch in the video player above and also on WFAA on Monday at 7 p.m.
The special will highlight how the case happened; the initial protests, backlash and reaction; the ways in which Santos' death was felt as far away as Seattle; and how the tragedy has stuck with the community all these years later.
The special is hosted by WFAA anchor Cynthia Izaguirre, with stories from Rebecca Lopez, Jobin Panicker and Adriana De Alba. It also includes the reading of a special poem for Rodriguez from Joaquín Zihuatanejo, the Dallas poet laureate.
WFAA will also host a documentary, "Santos Vive," on the WFAA+ streaming app, beginning Monday through Aug. 31.
"Santos Vive," which initially premiered in 2018, will also be aired on Public Broadcasting Stations (PBS) across Texas, including KERA-TV in Dallas on Monday. Later this year, all 10 PBS stations in Texas will air the documentary during Hispanic Heritage Month in September.
“For all of us who have worked so diligently to bring this tragic story to light after almost 50 years in the darkness, we are extremely honored to know that Santos’ story will be available to every single person in Texas, a state that is 40% Latino,” Byron C. Hunter, writer and producer of “Santos Vive," said in a press release. “We urge everyone to watch this film, regardless of race, and truly get to know Santos’ story.”
More coverage from WFAA of the death of Santos Rodriguez:
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It can be hard to get a liquor license in Idaho. But it can be even harder for convicted felons.
The Idaho Press asked the Idaho State Police how many liquor licenses were offered in the past five years in Canyon County and Ada County to those with a felony. Zero liquor licenses were given to Ada County applicants with felony convictions. The story was similar in Canyon County.
“If we were to have offered a license to anyone in Canyon County, they would have to go through our background check process through our Bureau of Criminal Identification and be fingerprinted and would’ve been denied the license due to the felony,” the Idaho State Police said.
This response seemed to indicate a felony would make anyone ineligible.
However, Idaho State Police Communications Director Aaron Snell said that in practice, convicted felons are given liquor licenses by the Idaho State Police, as long as the conviction happened more than five years before the license was applied for.
Although there is that time frame, the license application itself asks if the applicant or anyone who is a member or partner has “ever been convicted of any felony.”
Snell said the question is worded that way because technically it has to be five years after the completion of all legal issues, including any probation, fees or fines. It is simply a yes-or-no question. Those who answer yes are instructed to attach an explanation.
There have been legislative efforts recently to remove some barriers for felons. A reform act passed a few years ago focused on occupational licensing because many people could be denied an occupational license because of a crime or vague language about committing an act of “moral turpitude.” The Legislature changed that in 2020, when the governor signed S.B. 1351.
The new law, known as the occupational licensing reform act, said that a licensing authority couldn’t deny a license on the basis of a prior conviction that is unrelated to the occupation or license or on the basis of “moral turpitude” or “moral character.”
It’s unclear how many people the liquor license issue affects — the Idaho State Police said in response to a records request that they don’t track how many people with felony convictions apply for a liquor license. It’s also possible that people with such convictions refrain from applying if they know they are not yet eligible. In addition, anyone with an alcohol-related misdemeanor in the last year (not counting DUIs) also can’t get a liquor license.
EX-PRISONERS ALSO FACE HOUSING, TRANSPORTATION BARRIERS
Because many prisoners work in kitchens, restaurants can be a prime opportunity for jobs upon release. But not being able to get a liquor license is a barrier to those who want to take the next step to bar or restaurant ownership.
In 2017, some Idaho prisoners took a cooking class behind bars.
“I’ve seen a lot of confidence, a lot of growth, a lot of life skills go into cooking,” one prison official told Channel 2 (KBOI) around six years ago.
“It’s meant a lot,” one person in the cooking class said.
Currently, the Idaho Department of Correction doesn’t offer classes but does hire residents to work in facility kitchens. No experience is required and the department of correction trains people who work in the kitchens.
“We’re also in the process of opening a new housing unit at South Idaho Correctional Institution where residents will be expected to plan and prepare their own meals to help get ready for the transition of the controlled environment of a prison back to the community,” an IDOC spokesperson said.
And this is just one issue Idahoans face when leaving prison.
“We know that 95% of folks that are incarcerated will be released at some point,” said Ruby Mendez, campaign strategist with the American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho. “What we’ve heard is three things really, which is employment, housing and transportation.”
Often, former prisoners have to check an application’s box saying they were formerly convicted. This can take them out of consideration for a job. They can also be underemployed, working a job they are overqualified for.
Also people usually need transportation to have a job. In the Treasure Valley’s car-dominant society, this can be a challenge. Public transportation is not very accessible in more-rural areas.
Owning a car is also expensive and car loans are discretionary.
There may be some momentum when it comes to these types of reform, in addition to the occupational licensing reform act, although Amy Dundon, ACLU of Idaho legislative strategist, isn’t so sure.
Last session, lawmakers passed the Clean Slate Act, which would allow for the records of some minor convictions to be sealed. People must have gone five years without re-offending.
“The bill didn’t go far enough. It does some things that I think are great,” Dundon said. “... I think the progress that we’re seeing in some of these states, some of these deep blue states, is really moving legislation in a way that might influence federal legislation. And so that would be good for a place like Idaho.”
There are tremendous barriers for people leaving prison, said Rep. Ilana Rubel, D-Boise, a co-sponsor of the Clean Slate Act.
One of the issues Rubel had with the act is needing to go five years without re-offending. She said some of the offenses people can get sealed are so minor, like littering, she felt that three years was better.
She understands the desire to see that people have turned over a new leaf. But she also said those five years are what decides whether you get your life on track or whether you end up back in the criminal justice system.
If in the five years, you can’t get housing or jobs, it makes it difficult to turn that new leaf over.
“It’s like climb Mount Everest and then we’ll give you your oxygen tank,” Rubel said. “Frankly, usually the damage is done by the end of the first year.”
The biggest drivers of recidivism are homelessness and unemployment, Rubel said. But having a conviction makes it difficult to get a job or get a house.
“When we’re driving people to recommit crimes, that’s really not good for any of us,” Rubel said.
Rubel said she’s interested in some kind of credential for model prisoners who underwent job training. She also said there needs to be more work done on developing a network of open-minded employers who are willing to hire those with convictions.
One of her goals is to get rid of mandatory minimum sentencing laws. She said that she’d like to see decriminalization of possession of small amounts of marijuana. But she’s open to suggestions.
The barriers for people leaving remain entrenched.
And with both liquor licenses and housing, it’s already hard enough to buy and rent without any legal barriers.
“I think the tie to culinary training is a very relevant one. Now, you know, presumably a person can still get a job as a chef ... but maybe not quite the entrepreneurial level of being able to start their own restaurant,” Rubel said. “That’s one of many, many, many, many, many things that they’re blocked from.”
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For the first time in Idaho history, Community Health Needs Assessment data was gathered as a joint, community effort, with many health organizations on the same assessment cycle.
The joint CHNA found that safe, affordable housing, access to affordable health care, and behavioral health — including mental health and substance use disorder treatments — are the most pressing health needs to more than half of Idaho’s residents.
“This opportunity provided a unique space for us to collaborate in a way that we’ve not done so before,” Director of Community Impact at United Way Treasure Valley Megan Remaley said. “We strongly believe that when we have intentional partnership around the work that we can go farther, we can go faster ... we know that we’ll be able to see significant outcomes when we do it together.”
This year’s assessment was a multi-agency initiative convened by the Western Idaho Community Health Collaborative with participation and funding from Central District Health, Southwest District Health, Saint Alphonsus Health System, and St. Luke’s Health System, among others.
The 10 counties assessed in the joint CHNA were Ada, Adams, Boise, Canyon, Elmore, Gem, Owyhee, Payette, Valley and Washington. The assessment is a collection of 3,000 survey responses, 67 focus groups and interviews, Western Idaho Community Health Collaborative Program Manager Alexis Pickering said.
The collaboration approach included substantial community input and a utilization of social determinants of health framework, identifying priority areas. Those priorities — affordable housing, access to affordable health care, and behavioral health — were highlighted consistently across 10 counties, regardless of how rural or suburban the communities were, Pickering said.
“This isn’t just one community’s problem, it’s something that is felt regionally. And I don’t think that’s going to be a surprise to a lot of folks, but I think we now have the data to prove that,” Pickering said. “The beauty of this regional assessment and us taking the time to get those rural voices and urban voices, I think speaks to the universal need to having these solutions.”
Historically, many of the organizations that collaborated on this assessment conducted individual community health assessments every three years, per a federal requirement, resulting in several slightly different data points for the same communities, Angie Gribble, senior director of community health and engagement at St. Luke’s, said. Because of that, each organization was on different timelines and processes, capturing data differently and resulting in different plans of action to address those assessments.
“This new approach is so transformational,” Gribble said. “We’re excited to be a part of this plan, because I think we can bring our own individual organizational strengths to a collaborative.”
That’s what makes this year’s CHNA so unique: It’s health partners aligning for the first time, working to solve community problems together. And that alignment is exactly what is going to help health organizations begin to solve the problems highlighted in the assessment, Pickering said.
“We work better together,” Pickering said.
Data collection began with community surveys people took in doctors office waiting rooms, community fairs, farmers markets and other forms of outreach, Remaley said. Focus groups were held with anyone who would participate, Remaley said.
“We were eager, particularly to speak with communities who may not often have the opportunity to share their voice,” Remaley said. “We rely on the voice of our community to help shape how we do work in the community, so being able to understand from our community what their top needs are, what they’d like to see us focus on, helps us then mobilize our partners pull together our community so that we can help find solutions to the needs that they brought to our attention.”
The demographic that completed the surveys were predominantly white women over 60, according to Pickering.
Survey questions inquired about adequate resources people have in their communities and what day-to-day challenges people experience in their respective counties, Gribble said.
“These are wicked complex problems that not one of us can do alone,” Gribble said. “I feel like the depth of data is more rich and will help us be more targeted in what we do about the needs, while the high-level priorities seem consistent with what we would have expected going into it.”
In interviews and focus groups, it was clear that the three top priority needs were intersectional, colliding with health needs, job security, transportation, childcare and general wellbeing, Pickering said. People, through survey or interview, identified and understood the depth of the issues they face, Pickering said.
“We are not blind to the challenges that exist living here. It’s a beautiful, wonderful place to be for a lot of reasons, but it can be challenging because of the cost of living, because of access to care,” Pickering said. “I don’t think this is isolated just to Idaho. I think this is a challenge that is facing the country. But what sets us apart is we’re thinking now, OK, how we all have a role in this. So what can we do about it?”
While health organizations will be working together to create an implementation plan in the coming months, the assessment data can serve as a guiding light for Idaho lawmakers, as their decisions often directly impact housing, jobs and transportation.
“Our hope is that all community partners and decision makers that have an opportunity to influence some of these needs, some of these challenges and ultimately use this assessment as appropriate to guide their level of influence,” Gribble said.
Regardless of how the assessment will be included in future decisions, community health partners in Idaho are committed to finding solutions to affordable housing, access to affordable health care, and access to behavioral health options.
“I want to honor these results,” Pickering said. “I think it shows how deeply committed our populations are to being here and making it work despite these challenges. And it’s up to us with the tools that we have to see what we can do to make life better, and make it a little bit easier for people to have a healthy, thriving life.”
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Lincoln Police arrested an Omaha man Saturday after he allegedly crashed a stolen SUV into an apartment building near 27th and Vine streets before fleeing on foot.
Just after 2 p.m. Saturday, Lincoln Fire and Rescue and police responded to the crash at 2480 Vine St., where the driver of a stolen 2002 Chevy Suburban had rammed into an apartment building before taking off on foot, Lincoln Police Lt. Justin Armstrong said.
The owner of the SUV told police it had been stolen from a gas station at 23rd and R streets just before the crash.
A short time later, police arrested 21-year-old Dearies Bogan of Omaha in a parking lot at 27th and Vine streets. Bogan was treated for minor injuries at a local hospital before being taken to the Lancaster County Jail on suspicion of theft by receiving stolen property, reckless driving and operating a motor vehicle without a license.
No one else was injured in the crash. A damage estimate for the apartment building was not available.
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Liam Dotson (left) is lifted out of the water by Brother Paul Holmes during a Jehovah's Witnesses' baptism Saturday in a swimming pool on the floor of Pinnacle Bank Arena. After a three-year hiatus due to COVID-19, more than 5,200 members of the denomination came to Lincoln for their annual convention, which ends Sunday.
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PLEASANT PRAIRIE — Officers arrested three teens involved in a reported carjacking incident that later turned into a vehicle pursuit and ended in a foot chase just beyond the 9300 block of Sheridan Road in the village.
A 17-year-old and two 16-year-old boys were apprehended following the 6:42 p.m. incident Saturday night.
Officers were initially alerted to a report of a stolen red Kia wanted in conjunction with an "armed carjacking" from Illinois. PPD officers observed the car traveling northbound in the 9700 block of 39th Avenue, according to Sgt. Chad Brown of the Pleasant Prairie Police Department.
Police pursued the vehicle, which traveled northbound to 88th Street, at which point Kenosha Police assisted with the pursuit, he said. The vehicle eventually drove back into Pleasant Prairie traveling south onto Sheridan Road, where road construction is currently taking place.
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Stationing themselves at 93rd Street and Sheridan Road, village police deployed “stop sticks,” successfully deflating the suspect vehicle’s tires, he said.
Brown said the vehicle entering the construction zone on Sheridan Road struck a pair of traffic barriers and a pile of gravel before coming to a stop.
At that point, officers arrested one of the teens who was attempting to flee. Two others were pursued on foot and eventually apprehended, Brown said. Two of the officers had minor injuries, following the foot chase.
The 17-year-old and one of the 16-year-olds were from Waukegan, Ill. The other 16-year-old boy was from Carpentersville, Ill., according to Brown.
One teen is expected to face a charge of operating a motor vehicle without owner’s consent and reckless endangering safety. The other two are expected to face charges of knowingly being in the reported stolen vehicle.
Police are also recommending charges of obstruction for all three boys, Brown said.
The incident is the second in a week involving the arrest of individuals involved in reported carjackings originating in Illinois. On July 15, Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department personnel, along Pleasant Prairie police and the Wisconsin State Patrol arrested an Illinois man driving a stolen vehicle in a report from Park Ridge, Ill.
Authorities said the man had escaped law enforcement custody and carjacked two separate vehicles while in Illinois. The second vehicle stolen, however, was equipped with OnStar, which automatically contacted law enforcement. Authorities located the vehicle in Kenosha County and as the driver turned into an on-ramp to Interstate 94, OnStar disabled the vehicle and the driver was taken into custody.
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).
Chaylen Terrell Wright
Chaylen Terrell Wright, 25, of Chicago, Illinois, faces charges of probation and parole, and resisting or obstructing an officer.
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There was plenty of food and fun at St. Therese Catholic Church’s annual parish festival Saturday evening.
The event, held on the lush Father Becker Festival Grounds at 2020 91st St., included live music, food vendors, a meet raffle and children's games. Thousands turned out throughout the weekend for the church’s three-day fundraiser.
Organizer Adam Kavalauskas has managed the event for the last four years. He said this year’s event was another success.
"We had people waiting before the festival and this is a great crowd to kick off the night," Kavalauskas said Saturday evening. "This is by far the biggest event and effort of the year. We also had a record night Friday. Everyone is in a good mood. Everybody's happy."
Kavalauskas said it takes months of diligent planning to properly host such a large scale event. He also thanked the dozens of volunteers who helped out.
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"It's nice that the church raises funds so we can help the community in a number of different ways. It brings fulfillment," Kavalauskas said.
"The Catholic churches in Kenosha have been doing festivals for a long time. Some of them aren't doing it anymore due to lack of help. We're very blessed to at least put something on once a year. We appreciate all the people who come out and support us. We want to thank both the festival goers and volunteers."
Mary Magdalen Moser was busy selling tickets for a meat raffle that included a grill and over 100 pounds of meat from Hometown Meats Deli & Catering.
"It's always really fun and we have the best grounds. We have the absolute best grounds for this," Moser said. "Something about southeast Wisconsin in general is that everybody goes to the festivals. ... It's fun for the whole family."
Rita VanGuyse was busy serving fried foods including Philly cheesesteak egg rolls with her family.
"We love the comradery here. We love the parish. We love the people here. We're happy to do it. We reserve the whole weekend to help raise money for the church," VanGuyse said.
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