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A North Texas nonprofit is racing to help people who are suffering through this brutal heat in their homes.
Servolution is working to raise $5,000 for Operation Be Cool. The group has already helped 18 families in need of working air conditioning units.
So far, the community is stepping up to help. Servolution shared photos on its Facebook page that highlight community members dropping off donations and volunteers helping seniors, veterans and other families in need with repairs.
The nonprofit serves families across Tarrant, Parker and Wise Counties.
Founder Jason Malewiski says the group is looking to welcome aboard as many partners and sponsors as they can because the need in the community continues growing.
"Try to improve people's quality of life. I think that's simply put, right? I'm from Wisconsin. So, this heat is absolutely miserable for me. But for our elderly folks for our disabled folks, people that are homebound and can't afford to fix their window units or replace them or their HVAC system. This is terrible living conditions right now," said Malewiski.
Malewiski says they partner with several local companies including The Home Depot, One Hour Air, Hart HVAC and CMB Mechanical to make repairs when possible. He says they are receiving a lot of requests for help from many families and people of all ages. Malewiski says they're currently prioritizing seniors and people with disabilities.
You can learn more about how to support Operation Be Cool here. If you need a window unit, apply here. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/nonprofit-launches-campaign-to-donate-a-c-units-to-vulnerable-families-amid-heatwave/3029978/ | 2022-07-23T04:07:02 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/nonprofit-launches-campaign-to-donate-a-c-units-to-vulnerable-families-amid-heatwave/3029978/ |
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An Amber Alert issued for 11-year-old girl out of Missouri City Friday ended after she was found, law enforcement officials said.
In a tweet, the FBI's Houston office said the girl was found alive in the southeast part of Houston at about 9:30 p.m.
No further information about her condition or the circumstances of her disappearance were released.
Police said they were looking for 21-year-old Daniel Diaz in connection with her abduction. Diaz is believed to be in a newer gray pickup truck.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Missouri City Police Department at 281-403-8700.
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- Endangered Missing Person Alert | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/amber-alert-ends-for-missouri-city-girl/3029952/ | 2022-07-23T04:07:22 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/amber-alert-ends-for-missouri-city-girl/3029952/ |
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Photographer Nic Antaya spent seven days aboard the Viking Octantis with Detroit News writer Francis X. Donnelly to take in the sights and experiences of the cruise line's Great Lakes Explorer cruise, a seven-day journey from Milwaukee to Thunder Bay.
The ship stopped at and passed through such locales as Mackinac Island, Lake Huron's Georgian Bay, and the Soo Locks, providing a unique way to see Northern Michigan, Ontario and the upper Great Lakes.
These are Nic's favorite moments from that trip.
The view from the island
My goal for the trip was to make at least one solid photo showing the scale of Viking Octantis. We were just about finished with our horse-drawn carriage tour, with the last stop at Fort Mackinac, and were about to go back to the downtown area. Instead of taking the carriage, I decided to walk back and found this nice view of the water and ship. It is quite a bizarre sight to see such a large ship on the Great Lakes.
Kayaks ply Silver Islet
This photo is one of those moments that Detroit News assistant photo editor Andy Morrison and I agreed you just can't plan for. I was on the trail hike excursion hoping to make some nice scenic photos of Silver Islet. It just so happened that when our hike made its way to the Sea Lion rock that the kayak excursion from the ship was also passing by the rock structure. It would have been a pretty photo without the kayakers, but it really is elevated by showing what the cruise line offers to passengers both on the hike and the kayak excursion.
Impromptu celebration
This morning was a very cold morning in Silver Islet. We were finishing up our excursion on the Special Operations Boat and about to get back on the cruise ship. All of a sudden, we saw a Zodiac boat stranded and made our way over to help them. There were a few crew members on board, and it appeared that their engines had cut out.
As we got closer, I noticed a blue milk crate and was very puzzled by it. Within moments, we were surprised with glasses of champagne from Third Officer Nikola Marinovic, left, beverage manager Tammy Marshall and crew member Darrell Ganoria. It was a nice surprise that led to some good laughs.
The Zodiac
Alex Dsouza of Goa, India, operates a Zodiac boat while outside of Killarney in the Georgian Bay in Ontario, Canada. Similar to my photo from Mackinac Island, I love how this shows the immense size of Viking Octantis. On this day, we had a morning excursion in Killarney. We checked out some really amazing rock formations and did so from the Zodiac boat. I used a fill flash to make Alex pop.
At attention
Capt. Hakan Gustafsson, right, looks on while waiting for a group portrait aboard the Viking Octantis on Lake Michigan. I like this photo a lot because it was the first day on the ship before departing for our journey.
I didn't think much of it when I was told there was a group photo happening on the front of the boat because the light wasn't great and a big group photo wouldn't help my vision. But I figured I'd still check it out and I was very pleased that I did. The situation made for some nice photos showing the crews together in one place. I used a strobe camera on the left to fill in the shadows for this image.
Solitude on the ship
I like the simplicity and design of this image, taken when we reached our first destination, Mackinac Island on June 19. The color palette feels really nice here. Because of the size and relatively small amount of people on the boat, it often felt empty like this, giving a sense that you had it all to yourself.
Billionaire CEO like one of the crew
Photographing Viking Cruises Chairman Torstein Hagen was a treat. I had never made a portrait of a billionaire before and I didn't expect one to be as easygoing as he was. He was very lighthearted and goofy. I had him pose on the couch and asked him to move over to the right a little bit and he just leaned over with this big smile on his face.
He showed us a photo on his phone that he took after asking to borrow one of the passenger's T-shirts that featured the Great Lakes. It sounded like most passengers he interacted with had a very similar experience where they were surprised at just how down-to-earth he is.
Wined and dined
Server Hafiz Ariffin of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, cuts a lobster tail for passengers Terry Martinson, left, of Plymouth, Massachusetts, Jean David of The Villages, Florida, and Marcia Martinson of Plymouth, Massachusetts, at Manfredi's Italian Restaurant aboard the Viking Octantis while en route to Silver Islet in Ontario, Canada.
I like this photo because it shows the level of service that each restaurant (and the cruise in general) has for making their guests feel well treated. Each table has two different servers waiting at their table. Absolutely no glass of wine goes empty.
Raising the bar
Bartender Emrah Ercelik of Ephesus, Turkey, flips a bottle of Bacardi aboard the Viking Octantis. I had heard from another crew member about Emrah's talent of throwing around bottles of vodka, so I went down to the bar to see it myself. It was pretty wild and I should have asked him if he had ever dropped one before.
A demonstration of the demographics
Passengers listen to a presentation in The Aula aboard the Viking Octantis on Lake Michigan on June 18. I really like this photo because it shows a more full view of who was on the ship. Being in my 20s, I definitely stood out like a sore thumb. It was largely an older crowd.
Shipmates
Robin Daniel of DeQueen, Arkansas, right, assists Mary Lang of Raleigh, North Carolina, in hiking the Lighthouse Trail in Killarney in the Georgian Bay in Ontario
The gift of cruising
Doug Reid, left and Beverly Reid of Austin, Texas, relax on the ship with their granddaughter Darian McMillen of Houston, Texas, in Frazer Bay in Ontario.
The Reids gifted their twin granddaughters the Viking trip for their graduation present. This photo was from the first day of fairly warm weather where passengers could comfortably make use of the outside amenities. The twins had just graduated high school and this was their graduation gift. They just made the cut, as the minimum age to board the ship is 18.
Undersea adventure
This was my first time being in a submarine, which was a really cool experience! There wasn't much life underwater, except for a mosquito in our submarine and a tiny little fish we saw at the bottom of the lake.
Here, Judy Nye, left, and Mike Nye, both of of Vero Beach, Florida, and Mary Andringa of Pella, Iowa, wait to depart from the submarine during the stop in Killarney in the Georgian Bay in Ontario.
The submarine itself was a very tight space where you were bumping elbows with the people next to you. We were waiting to get out of the submarine and I wanted to show the space off. The mixed expressions here show how it can be a fun yet also uncomfortable experience.
Portrait of good service
On June 24, the last day of the voyage, I had gotten to know quite a few of the crew members of the ship and did portraits of a handful of them. Waiter Swee Tan of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was one of the few who really stood out. He was a super nice guy and so happy to serve others. I really enjoyed meeting these crew members from all over the world and they were genuinely interested to learn more about the passengers. | https://www.detroitnews.com/in-depth/news/local/michigan/2022/07/23/viking-great-lakes-cruise-ship-octantis-favorite-moments-photos/10119151002/ | 2022-07-23T04:07:52 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/in-depth/news/local/michigan/2022/07/23/viking-great-lakes-cruise-ship-octantis-favorite-moments-photos/10119151002/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A Marion County grand jury unanimously found three Salem Police Department officers were justified in the shooting death of a teenager in July, the Marion County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday.
Salem Police Department reportedly had a warrant for 16-year-old Robert Brown’s arrest after suspecting he was responsible for a downtown Salem shooting on June 13 and a March 18 Salem Center Mall shooting.
According to the Marion County District Attorney’s Office, Salem police had been monitoring Brown’s location in the days leading up to July 13, when Brown was shot and killed.
Authorities said they had reason to believe Brown was armed and likely a danger to the public and responding officers the night of Brown’s death.
The DA’s office said on the night of his death, all responding authorities in the operation were wearing clearly marked gear including badges and the word “POLICE” displayed. Authorities staged a location near a house located at 4942 Oak Park Drive NE in Salem where officials said Brown was associated with the resident and was seen at the house throughout the day.
Shortly after 5 p.m., officers said they saw Brown and three other people in a parked red car in front of the house, with Brown reportedly sitting behind the driver.
Authorities in three different unmarked cars surrounded the suspect vehicle and deployed two “flash bangs”, the DA’s office said.
Police said Brown then brandished a loaded pistol and fired at officers, leading three officers to return fire and Brown repeatedly shooting back, the DA’s office said. Neighbors reportedly could reportedly hear the officer’s commands and hear them identify themselves as law enforcement, officials pointed out.
The DA’s office said in the undercover police car in front of the suspect car, was Salem Police officer Brian Frazzini who fired his rifle 11 times at Brown from the front passenger seat.
The DA’s office also reports that Corporal Waite, who drove that same undercover vehicle, fired his rifle three times at Brown through the front windshield of the driver’s seat. Detective Erik Hernandez, who was in the same car, reportedly sought cover at the back of the vehicle but was struck in the ankle by a bullet fired by Brown, officials said. The DA’s office noted he is expected to make a full recovery.
In the car blocking the suspect vehicle from the side, officials said, officer Ryan Morris fired his pistol six times toward Brown.
In the car pinning the back of the suspect car, Captain Luke Barr of the Salem Fire Department, who is cross-trained with (SWAT) as their assigned medic, got out of the car to cover other officers, but was struck by shrapnel in the face, arms and torso, law enforcement said. Authorities said Barr stayed on scene despite his injuries to provide aid to Detective Hernandez and Brown. The DA’s office reports Barr will make a full recovery.
Officials said after the shooting, Brown was injured and unresponsive. Medics were called; however, Brown was declared dead on the scene. Officials determined his cause of death was from gunshot wounds in his head and chest.
Based on shell casings at the scene, the DA’s office said, Brown shot his pistol at officers six times. Officials noted the entire incident lasted about 12 seconds.
The jury also indicted 20-year-old Anthony Medeiros for his conduct at the incident, authorities said, and is being held at the Marion County Jail for unlawful use of a weapon with a firearm, felon in possession of a firearm and two probation violations for third-degree assault from a previous conviction.
Medeiros is set to be arraigned on Monday. The DA’s office said no further information is available for Medeiros’ case.
Marion County District Attorney Paige Clarkson stated:
“My gratitude to the grand jury for their thorough and thoughtful assessment of this dynamic and complex incident is eclipsed only by my admiration for the bravery and heroism displayed by these Salem Police Officers, the Salem Fire Captain and the entire SWAT team. Our community is safer because of their selfless willingness to stand in harm’s way on behalf of us all. I am relieved that no officers lost their lives in this incident-an incident that but for the quick thinking and professional training of the Salem Police Department, could have ended much more tragically. My sympathies are extended to the family of Robert Brown. Nobody wanted this outcome for him.” | https://www.koin.com/local/marion-county/marion-county-grand-jury-finds-officers-justified-in-shooting-death-of-16-year-old/ | 2022-07-23T04:13:41 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/local/marion-county/marion-county-grand-jury-finds-officers-justified-in-shooting-death-of-16-year-old/ |
MAQUOKETA — Three people from Cedar Falls died Friday morning at Maquoketa Caves State Park.
The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation identified the dead as Tyler Schmidt, 42, Sarah Schmidt, 42, and Lulu Schmidt, 6.
Their deaths are being investigated as homicides, according to a news release from the Iowa DCI. A fourth person was found deceased of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.
Cedar Falls Mayor Rob Green issued a statement late Friday on Facebook saying the family was camping at the state park. The Schmidts' 9-year-old son, Arlo, was also there. He "survived the attack, and is safe," said Green.
Green identified the family as his neighbors and said Sarah Schmidt was a Cedar Falls Public Library employee.
"Like many of you just hearing the news, I'm devastated," he wrote in the Facebook post. "I knew Sarah well, and she & her family were regular walkers here in the Sartori Park neighborhood." He had spent some time working with her during the past week on a presentation.
"Details will be forthcoming about services and other memorials, and I will ensure the community knows about this," Green wrote. "Please offer some extra grace to the Schmidts' many friends, neighbors, and coworkers as we try to process this horrible tragedy. The Cedar Falls Library will be closed tomorrow for the sake of the staff who loved and worked with Sarah."
Found at campsite
The Jackson County Sheriff's Office and DCI were called about 6:23 a.m. for a report of a shooting at the park campground, Mike Krapfl, a special agent in charge with DCI, said during a news conference late Friday morning.
"When officers arrived, they located three deceased bodies at a campsite," Krapfl said.
He did not have information as of late Friday morning on how the Schmidts were killed.
As officers searched the campground, they learned one other camper was missing.
"He was later identified as 23-year-old Anthony Sherwin and we had information that he was armed at the time," Krapfl said.
Sherwin was found dead about 11 a.m. west of the park. He had an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Krapfl said he believed Sherwin was from Nebraska, but could not say if a firearm had been recovered.
Investigators were still trying to figure out what relationship, if any, there was between the Schmidts and Sherwin, Krapfl said.
The park will be closed until further notice because of the investigation.
Crowded park
Other people were in the park at the time and at least some of them were evacuated.
"The campground was relatively full," Krapfl said, though he did not have the exact number of people who were in the park when police arrived.
"Officers made contact with all the campers, tried to get as many out as they could," Krapfl said.
There was believed to be no further threat to the public.
One employee at Maquoketa Caves said that, at about 8 a.m., she was given the option to go home after police arrived and the park was locked down in response to the report of a shooting.
Parents with children attending the nearby Camp Shalom were notified Friday morning that it also was locked down.
"We were just notified that there is an active shooter at Maquoketa Caves," according to a Friday morning message to campers' parents. "Our top priority is camper safety, and we are following the protocols."
Fridays are usually pick-up days for campers at the Christian-focused camp. It is about a mile and a half away from the Maquoketa Caves, said executive assistant Beth Sallak.
But plans changed at 9:11 a.m., when local law enforcement sent a notification to the directors that there was an active shooter situation at the state park, and told them to evacuate immediately.
So, Sallak said, staff shifted gears.
“We told the campers, ‘We’re going to do a surprise visit to Little Bear Park in Maquoketa.’ They all cheered, and we loaded everyone on the bus. They had no idea there was an active shooter a mile and a half down the road.”
She complimented the staff for staying calm and quickly changing plans, as they’ve trained to do in emergencies. Campers this week ranged in ages from second graders to seniors in high school.
“Nobody expects for this to happen. The Maquoketa caves? Come on," Sallak said. "It’s one of the safest places you can be. I take my kids there, I hike there with my friends. That doesn’t mean you can’t in the back of your mind be prepared.”
Camp Shalom will continue to host campers until the end of the summer, which will be two more weeks.
“We’ll continue to keep campers safe, happy, and hydrated, slept and well-fed. We’re just going to move forward as we normally we do,” Sallak said.
Officials respond
State officials issued statements about Friday’s incident.
“I’m horrified by the shooting this morning at Maquoketa Caves State Park and devastated by the loss of three innocent lives,” Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said. “As we grieve this unimaginable tragedy, Kevin and I pray for the victims’ family members and the law enforcement officers who responded to the scene. We ask Iowans to do the same.”
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said on Twitter he was "closely monitoring" the situation in Maquoketa Caves State Park.
"Praying for the lives lost & their loved ones Im grateful for Iowa law enforcement who responded +camp staff for ensuring safety of other campers Violence can’t be tolerated Killing innocent ppl is sickening," Grassley tweeted.
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, likewise wrote on Twitter: "I am heartbroken to hear of the tragedy in Maquoketa Caves State Park and am praying for the victims and their families. My staff and I are following the situation. Thankful for all of the responding law enforcement."
Kayla Lyon, Iowa Department of Natural Resources director, said she and the DNR staff were also devastated by the incident.
“Our long standing tradition of enjoying Iowa’s natural wonders was shaken today, but the legacy for the millions of families that recreate at Iowa state parks will continue,” Lyon said.
Courier staff and Quad-City Times reporters Brooklyn Draisey and Sarah Watson contributed to this story. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/four-dead-at-maquoketa-caves-state-park-including-three-cedar-falls-residents/article_a6a94c2f-1a0c-5f28-89d3-5cb4c713ce08.html | 2022-07-23T04:26:23 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/four-dead-at-maquoketa-caves-state-park-including-three-cedar-falls-residents/article_a6a94c2f-1a0c-5f28-89d3-5cb4c713ce08.html |
AUSTIN, Texas — Staffing shortages are impacting Austin-Travis County EMS (ATCEMS), leading to longer response times in some cases.
On Friday, ATCEMS confirmed that an influx of 911 calls led to a 28-minute response time for a call that came in from a construction site.
The president of the Austin EMS Association first tweeted about the delayed response time shortly before 1 p.m. on July 22.
"We had a traumatic emergency and no ambulances available for almost 30 minutes," Selena Xie said in a tweet. "We have downed multiple units today due to staffing. Even though we’ve called in everyone on overtime."
ATCEMS later confirmed the response time, saying the call from the construction site was a lower priority call and that the influx of calls forced ambulances to be diverted to higher priority incidents.
“We of course want to arrive at the scene of 911 calls as quickly as we can, but these are definitely challenging times for public safety. The call that came from the construction site was a lower priority call," ATCEMS said. "We experienced an influx of 911 calls in that timeframe, so we had a lot of ambulances out on calls and being diverted to higher priority calls. This led to the 28-minute response time."
ATCEMS went on to say that Friday was an "extremely busy day" for the department.
"Today was an extremely busy day for us and our medics are working extremely hard. We want to give our staff credit during this time," ATCEMS said. "These temperatures don’t help and we’re seeing call volumes go up.”
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LULING, Texas — In Washington, D.C., this week, lawmakers are working to try and get wrongfully detained Americans out of foreign countries.
President Joe Biden signed an executive order to sanction criminals, terrorists and government officials who hold Americans captive abroad, and the U.S. Senate approved a resolution calling for Brittney Griner's release. The WNBA star has been a Russian prisoner for 155 days on marijuana charges.
While her case has been very high profile, there's another case involving a Texas businessman that most have never heard about. Mark Swidan has been held in a Chinese prison for almost 10 years. His mother fears that she won't live long enough to see her son come home.
In the small town of Luling, Texas, a mother's love never wavers. Inside her tiny apartment, Katherine Swidan lives surrounded by memories of happier times with her youngest son, Mark.
"I remember him at five or six years old. If he heard the national anthem in the game or something, he was the first one to stand up," she said. "He's a fantastic photographer, artist, he designs homes, he designs jewelry."
She slowly went through all of Mark's things that's she's kept, all while waiting for him to come home.
"I had to keep his clothes," she said. "These are his golfing hats, photography equipment like lenses and things."
It's been almost 10 years since Katherine Swidan has seen her son in person.
The last time the Chinese government let her speak to Mark Swidan was a 5-minute phone conversation in 2018.
"I don't even remember what I said. I just remember hearing his voice," she said.
She treasures a large box filled with old artwork and letters Mark Swidan was allowed to send home. It also holds letters she's gotten from lawmakers, the U.S. Ambassador to China and the State Department.
"This is from Sen. [John] Cornyn in 2017, and I can't get a hold of him now, so I just gave up on him," she said, adding that she's tired of waiting in vain for the government to help her son.
In 2012, Mark Swidan was in China on a business trip, buying flooring and fixtures. He was arrested and detained after officials accused him of buying and selling drugs. Mark Swidan lost his fiancée, his freedom and could possibly lose his life.
"He's never confessed through all the torture, the starvation," Katherine Swidan said.
A Chinese court gave Mark Swidan the death penalty. And while that's been delayed, his torturous detention continues.
"I'm already 72. I cannot ... I cannot die without seeing his face again," Katherine Swidan said with tears in her eyes. "I don't want his legacy to be just a box of stuff. And if he does come back and I'm not here, I want him to know that I ... I did everything I could possibly do."
Swidan isn't alone. A mural unveiled in D.C. this week displays Mark's face, along with 17 other Americans who are currently being held by foreign governments.
There's no official figure for how many Americans are being held overseas, but human rights groups estimate there are at least 60 US citizens being wrongfully detained in about 18 countries around the world.
Attorney Jason I. Poblete is president of the Global Liberty Alliance, which helps defend people whose fundamental rights are violated by authoritarian governments.
"When you travel around the world and you're caught in a legal system that's not the best, in some cases substandard, these things can happen," he said. "And then there's this big shock: Is America coming to help me? Well, guess what? They're not. In most cases, it takes a while."
Poblete said the torture Mark Swidan is going through locked away in a Chinese prison is truly inhumane.
"This man has not slept in a dark room in almost 10 years, they have not turned the lights off," he said. "He has been kept in a very small cell. He has been forced and subjected to extreme psychological pressure and pains."
Poblete hopes that as more and more people hear about the Swidans' case, the wheels of justice will start to turn faster, and his case will be made a priority.
"In Mark's case, it's frankly baffling why this man has been in that facility for almost 10 years ... the U.S. government has failed Mr. Sweden," he said.
Right now, all Katherine Swidan can do is worry and wait, and she continues to pray someone will step forward and do what they can to bring her son home before it's too late.
"The worst-case scenario is that people in the government just ignore what I'm saying, and they keep having meetings, meetings, meetings, and then Mark dies in the interim," she said. "You know, I don't know everything that goes on secretly in the government. I don't want to know. I just want Mark to come home."
Earlier this month, Katherine Swidan received a letter from Nicholas Burns, the U.S. Ambassador to China. In it, he wrote that getting Mark Swidan released is a "top priority" to the Embassy, the State Department and the White House. He also wrote that embassy officials recently tried to visit the prison where Mark Swidan is being held but were denied due to COVID-19 protocols.
KVUE reached out to Sen. John Cornyn's office about Mark Swidan's case as well. A spokesperson told us, "Senator Cornyn's office made contact with federal agencies on his behalf and shared those updates with his family. Sen. Cornyn's office is committed to working with all Texans in need of assistance."
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ROUND ROCK, Texas — In under a month school will be back in session for Round Rock ISD students. A top priority for the district is safety and security.
When students return to school in August, the district will conduct a safety and security audit of all its campuses and buildings.
“We don’t want to be just in a reactive mode. We want to be on a proactive mode,” Superintendent Dr. Hafedh Azaiez said.
When the results from the audit come in, the report will be presented to the board of trustees.
“Hopefully it will give us some information, more data, you know, any areas that we need to improve up on,” Azaiez said.
There’s also a big focus on mental health and communication. Azaiez said the district hired additional social workers for students and teachers this upcoming year.
“We are here to help and work together and collaborate with our parents and our students and our staff to ensure that everyone is safe. The last thing we want to see is a tragedy like what happened in Uvalde CISD,” Azaiez said.
Round Rock ISD’s resources will now extend to students who live outside district boundaries. For the first time, families outside the district can enroll their students at 15 RRISD campuses. It’s part of an open enrollment pilot program that would benefit students and the district’s budget.
“The more students we have, the more funding the district will receive, and obviously those funds will be used across the district to benefit every student in the district,” Azaiez said.
The campuses that are part of the pilot program are expected to be at 70% capacity or less this fall. Azaiez said enrollment numbers within the district have taken a hit since the pandemic started. With the open enrollment pilot program, Dr. Azaiez said the district expects to see an increase it hasn’t seen in two years.
“Our projection is for us to see actually an increase in enrollment and seeing more of those actually coming back to us now that many parents are feeling more comfortable having their students in person,” Azaiez said.
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KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — After a power failure caused a purple plume of iodine and methyl iodide to rise over Eastman Chemical Company on Friday, some Kingsport residents say the company needs to do a better job of letting people know what’s going on during failures like this.
Some live in the neighborhood where debris containing asbestos rained down in January. They say they deserve to know more as these failures happen.
“I can see pretty much the whole plant, so in my opinion, we should be the first to know,” said Ashley Burke, who lives near the plant.
Burke stayed inside after receiving a notification about an issue at the plant on her phone. Kingsport police said they received word about the purple vapors about an hour after they had been spotted. That’s when city officials activated the hyper-reach system to notify people.
“That goes out by phone calls, it goes out by text messages, it goes out by emails,” said Kingsport Police Department spokesperson Tom Patton.
During the January incident that caused debris containing asbestos to fall in neighborhoods near the plant, no notification was sent. The hyper-reach system was improved following that incident.
But Burke says the company needs to do a better job of being clear about what’s going on.
“To me, being up front with the community, that keeps you in business,” she said.
Anita Fleenor was at work a received a phone call at work about the problem.
“We were still close to the plant, and what I heard is that there had been a discharge, but it didn’t say what,” Fleenor said. She lives in the neighborhood where debris fell back in January. A former long-time Eastman employee, Fleenor worries about safety at the plant after those two incidents.
“My concern is that there may not be as thorough or as active a safety measure in all the different areas of Eastman,” she said.
After 11 a.m., Kingsport activated its emergency operations center, but say no Eastman officials showed up when invited, according to the police department.
After two incidents shut down the plant this year, Burke questions her future in the city.
“I don’t want to live here in Kingsport. It makes me nervous.” | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/residents-express-concern-after-eastman-incident/ | 2022-07-23T04:39:23 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/residents-express-concern-after-eastman-incident/ |
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EAST PROSPECT, Pa. — Earlier this week, residents of Lower Windsor Township received a postcard in the mail. In it, the township was advising residents not to wade in Kreutz Creek after toxic substances were discovered.
As the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection investigates the matter, one man believes he knows the source of the toxic substance.
"There's other stuff in the creek that doesn't belong here," said John Bowser of East Prospect.
John Bowser’s relationship with Kreutz Creek goes back several generations. His grandfather first built his property next to the creek, and John spent much of his childhood playing in the water.
“The creek was clean back then," said Bowser. "When I was a kid, I would fish in the creek, catch frogs and turtles, and that sort of thing.”
After a long career as a physicist, John and his wife returned to his grandfather’s land for retirement. When he returned, he saw how much the creek changed, with the water having a noticeably dark brown color.
He decided to find out why.
“A while back, I did some testing, and we found toxins in the creek that don’t belong here," said Bowser. "There is one toxin that I happen to be an expert at, it’s Perfluorooctanoic acid.”
Perfluorooctanoic acid is also known as PFOA. The chemical has been found in other bodies of water, as well as a variety of land and sea animals. It's referred to as a 'forever chemical,' meaning it doesn't break down.
John says the chemical is being dumped in the creek by a nearby landfill.
“Modern Landfill dumps its Leech-8 into the creek, and it’s been doing it for years.”
A video shot by John was sent to FOX43. The video shows a black substance being dumped from a discharge pipe into the creek by that landfill.
“You see this black liqud coming out, its hot and steaming," said Bowser.
John says he’s heartbroken by the state of the creek and hopes by raising awareness that more can be done to protect the land his family loves.
“Our grandchildren, we would love for them to enjoy this," said Bowser. "And maybe not necessarily come back and live here, but have an appreciation for places like this.”
FOX43 reached out to the Department of Environmental Protection for this story. A spokesman said the agency is looking into the situation and will provide more information at a later time. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/toxic-substance-found-in-kreutz-creek-pennsylvania-york-county/521-773bfe07-ded9-46ea-8416-fad2937df709 | 2022-07-23T04:42:43 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/toxic-substance-found-in-kreutz-creek-pennsylvania-york-county/521-773bfe07-ded9-46ea-8416-fad2937df709 |
INDIANAPOLIS — Zena is up for adoption right now.
She's recovering from surgery, but she's in good spirits.
She's one of so many. There are 400 animals at Animal Care Services right now, and they keep coming in.
"Yesterday alone, we took in 37 cats from one house," said Katie Trennepohl, deputy director. "We didn't know they were coming. We have to have supplies on hand to care for them."
The good news? Boxes of support are piling up.
"We do about 30 loads of laundry every day. Every animal has bedding in their cages, gets messy lots of laundry and laundry detergent to keep going," said Trennepohl.
The shelter posted a request for detergent online. It's a need that's ever growing
"Yesterday we took in 74 animals and had just 38 leave," Trennepohl said.
And as the animal population here increases, staffing does not. It's down down 20%
Volunteers are stepping up and employees are working overtime. That's why the supplies coming in are a morale boost for everyone.
"It's very encouraging for staff, public support, and uplifting for staff to see support coming in from public every day," said Trennepohl.
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KOKOMO, Ind. — This sweet update to a Kokomo couple's love story is definitely the best thing we've seen today.
Newlyweds Eric and Rachelle finally tied the knot Friday after an unusual proposal.
You might remember back in 2020, we shared the story with you when Eric proposed to Rachelle inside an Aldi store in Kokomo.
The two actually dated in middle school but broke up.
Then, while in college, they bumped into each other at the store and rekindled their connection.
One year later, Eric he popped the question.
"I've had a lot of people ask me, 'How do you find that, how do you find that person?' I don't really know what the answer is, other than to go grocery shopping," said Eric.
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It happened in a neighborhood behind the Walmart on Rockville Road.
Police say the driver didn't have a license and was going too fast.
The crash left significant damage, with half of the SUV lodged in the side of the house.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A federal judge declared a mistrial Friday in the case of a former Iowa state trooper who was charged with using unreasonable force against a motorcyclist during a traffic stop.
The judge declared the mistrial after jurors said in a note that “we have decided as a group that we cannot reach an unanimous decision or verdict” on the charges against Robert James Smith, according to the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Smith was charged with deprivation of rights under color of law — use of unreasonable force that causes bodily injury after a 2017 traffic stop of a motorcyclist who had been speeding on Interstate 80 near the small eastern Iowa city of West Liberty.
Dash camera video showed Smith pulling over the motorcyclist, Bryce Yakish, and then running from his car with his gun drawn. Smith knocked Yakish to the ground and briefly put his knee on his neck while handcuffing him.
Court records don't indicate whether federal prosecutors will retry Smith. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/iowa-state-trooper-mistrial-robert-james-smith/524-2c102d59-6d73-4f82-816f-7922a1f1858a | 2022-07-23T04:54:23 | 1 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/iowa-state-trooper-mistrial-robert-james-smith/524-2c102d59-6d73-4f82-816f-7922a1f1858a |
TWIN FALLS COUNTY, Idaho — A 44-year-old woman was killed Friday in a crash on U.S. 93 in Twin Falls County, Idaho State Police reported.
The woman was riding in a 2014 Ford Edge traveling westbound on 3700 N with a 25-year-old woman from Castleford and the driver, a 26-year-old man from Wendell. The vehicle did not yield at a stop sign and was hit by a 2014 Chevrolet Cruze, driven by a 40-year-old man from Buhl.
According to Idaho State Police (ISP), the driver of the Ford and the 25-year-old passenger were wearing their seatbelts. The two were taken to a local hospital by ground ambulance.
The woman from Twin Falls was not wearing her seatbelt and died at the scene of the crash, ISP said.
The driver of the Chevrolet was wearing a seatbelt and was not taken to the hospital.
ISP said U.S. 93 was blocked for around three hours in both directions as emergency responders assisted following the incident. The lanes are now open.
The Twin Falls Sheriff's Department, Filer Police Department, Filer Fire Department and Twin Falls County Coroner assisted ISP with its investigation at the scene.
Friday's crash is under investigation by Idaho State Police.
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BOISE, Idaho — On July 15, a local boy was miraculously saved by officers with the Nampa Police Department after he was run over by a car.
In a Facebook post Friday, Nampa Police said Tyson ran behind a vehicle as it was pulling out of his driveway. Luckily, Nampa officers were nearby on a call with probation officers and witnessed the accident.
An officer performed CPR on Tyson after he was run over and another Nampa officer helped them get into a patrol vehicle.
The Nampa officers met with emergency medical services and Tyson was taken to a local hospital in an ambulance, Nampa Police said.
On Thursday, the same Nampa crew went to Tyson's house and found him "talking, walking and feeling great," with only abrasions, bumps and bruises.
Tyson was greeted by the officers with gifts.
The Nampa Police Department said, "to see him holding their hands, to see him smiling and chatting, to see him give each of them a handshake or high five, to see him deliver thin blue line wrist bands of appreciation … Unimaginable! Miraculous!"
Nampa Police thanked Tyson's parents for their visit.
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Grant Crawford said anyone who knew his father, Dr. John Crawford, in a political capacity would recognize one of his favorite quotes: “Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.”
“I think he would be delighted to be proven wrong seeing so many friends here today,” Grant Crawford said Friday.
The Crawford family hosted a celebration of life for John Crawford at Memorial Coliseum. The former Fort Wayne city councilman and oncologist died at 73 after suffering a heart attack Sunday.
“Whether the connection is through medicine, politics, tennis, business or simply a love of Fort Wayne, you’re all here today, and my mom and I thank you for that,” Grant Crawford said.
He shared some of his favorite memories of his father in a eulogy Friday, with stories including the elder Crawford’s time on City Council and what he kept in his wallet.
“Fort Wayne will forever be better off having had John as one of its citizens,” Grant Crawford said. “I certainly wouldn’t be anyone close to who I am today without the guidance and support of my dad.”
Crowds formed a line inside the Coliseum’s conference center, waiting to speak with Grant and Marcia Crawford. Mementos from the New Orleans native’s life lined the walls.
Dr. Deepchand Bajpai, cofounder of Radiation Oncology Associates, was shocked when he heard about John Crawfod’s death, especially because he knew Crawford was in good health.
Bajpai said he found out after receiving a single text Sunday night, which read, “John Crawford is dead.”
“I picked up my phone, and I called the person who sent this text and I said, ‘You can’t just leave it at that. What happened?’ ” he said. “And then on Monday, I got phone calls and text messages.”
The two knew each other for 35 years and were like brothers, Bajpai said. They met when Crawford was looking for an associate and Bajpai was looking for a job as an oncologist. Bajpai said he became “totally enthralled” with Crawford’s vision.
“He was a man who knew his calling,” Bajpai said. “He knew his mission. And he was a man who would go an extra mile.”
Kristen Miller is a radiation therapist who worked with Crawford for 19 years. While she said the two weren’t close, she enjoyed working with him and was shocked when she heard about his death.
“He’s one of those people that always took care of themselves,” Miller said. “He was always exercising and seemed like such a fit person. … I just wasn’t expecting it.”
Miller said Crawford was always approachable and ready to listen to anyone.
Even though the two weren’t friends outside of work, Miller said she would often see Crawford at events when she was performing with Heartland Sings, a local choral group. He always recognized her and said something at work afterwards.
“Just a couple months ago, I saw him at work, and he goes, ‘Are you still singing with Heartland Sings?’ ” she said. “I just thought it was nice that he had thought about that because we hadn’t crossed paths in a long time.”
Mark Recht was one of Crawford’s patients and played tennis with him. He heard from friends that his doctor had died Sunday.
He described Crawford as “a very good guy” who was compassionate during treatment.
“He talked to my wife and I for an hour and a half consultation when I was getting a second opinion,” Recht. “And he was just wonderful. … He was very good all the way through, very helpful, very smart guy. … Everybody liked him.”
During City Council elections, Crawford always asked Recht if he could put a campaign sign in his yard.
“I’d say, ‘Oh sure, go ahead,’ ” he said, “even though I was on a different side of politics than he was.”
Alan Buck also said he didn’t share Crawford’s political beliefs, but the two still enjoyed discussing those matters. The pair played tennis every Friday and had known each other for more than 40 years.
Buck found out Crawford died in a text from one of their friends who had been playing tennis with Crawford on Sunday.
“I was just stunned,” he said. “You only have so many close friends.” | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/john-crawfords-friends-family-share-memories-at-celebration-of-life/article_e8f38ed2-0a0a-11ed-b24a-db437cf672d0.html | 2022-07-23T05:07:39 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/john-crawfords-friends-family-share-memories-at-celebration-of-life/article_e8f38ed2-0a0a-11ed-b24a-db437cf672d0.html |
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A Cincinnati man is wanted for allegedly filming a 14-year-old girl while she was showering in a Fort Wayne home.
The Allen County prosecutor’s office Friday filed a felony charge of child exploitation against Melvin Mauricio Samayoa-Hernandez, 34.
There was a warrant issued for his arrest.
Samayoa-Hernandez allegedly made two videos of the teen going into and coming out of a shower in early July 2020. He was visiting a home in Fort Wayne for the July 4 holiday, and the videos are dated from that time, according to the probable cause affidavit in his case.
The videos were apparently made using a cellphone on the bathroom floor, court documents said. A woman Samayoa-Hernandez was involved with found them on his phone when she searched it because she thought he was cheating.
The woman provided Fort Wayne police with copies of the videos. The phone is with the Forest Park Police Department in Cincinnati, where police are investigating Samayoa-Hernandez in connection with similar videos from the phone, according to court documents. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/ohio-man-wanted-for-filming-child-showering-in-fort-wayne/article_b06af5b4-0a19-11ed-b75a-47b5a29874b5.html | 2022-07-23T05:07:51 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/ohio-man-wanted-for-filming-child-showering-in-fort-wayne/article_b06af5b4-0a19-11ed-b75a-47b5a29874b5.html |
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COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. — For years, cell phone service in the rural communities of Golden Gate Estates has been an issue for residents.
“I have a lot more fear. Imagine you are home, you have South Florida thunderstorms, power goes out. Wifi goes out. Your phone is basically working because you use Wifi-enabled calling, and basically you don’t have cell phone service. You are in the dark, you can’t reach out, you can’t text, you can’t do anything,” said Tanya Acosta, a Golden Gate Estates resident that has been advocating for change on social media.
Acosta has joined more than 100 residents of the 34120 zip code to put pen to paper, filing formal complaints with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
“We’re doing this because we need change, and we haven’t seen it yet,” said Acosta.
If you would like to add a complaint to the list, you can at this link.
You can also find a list of current complaints here.
“This sort of thing hurts everyone … We struggle as a business to make calls, get calls, everything … and if the Wifi goes out, its over,” said Kayla Morales, of Moravelas Pizza in Golden Gate Estates.
Morales said sometimes the dead spots make it nearly impossible for the Pizza shop to take orders.
“I hope as the community here grows, and it’s growing, we find a solution to this,” said Morales.
At the local government level – it seems as if there’s a line to how much they can actually do.
“We are actively doing all we can to find a solution, we know this is a problem,” said District 5 County Commissioner Bill McDaniel.
McDaniel adds that his team is actively looking into incentives to encourage development of new cell towers in the Golden Gate Estates area.
“Essentially, we can’t tell a cell company to build a tower. That’s up to them. AT&T, Verizon, they have to step up too,” said McDaniel. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/07/22/hundreds-pen-complaints-to-fcc-over-lack-of-cell-service-in-golden-gate-estates/ | 2022-07-23T05:14:37 | 0 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/07/22/hundreds-pen-complaints-to-fcc-over-lack-of-cell-service-in-golden-gate-estates/ |
CLARKSBURG, Calif — The Yolo County Sheriff's Office says a body has been found in the Sacramento River a day after a missing person’s vehicle located in Clarksburg.
"A two-day collaborative search effort from multiple agencies resulted in the subject being found unfortunately deceased in the Sacramento River," law enforcement wrote in a Facebook post.
Law enforcement hasn't identified the person but said "no foul play is suspected" and that the family of the person has been made aware.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — A small plane crashed Friday on a street in a San Francisco Bay neighborhood, seriously injuring the pilot, authorities said.
The plane went down at about 7:15 p.m. near Reid-Hillview Airport in San Jose, authorities said.
San Jose police said the pilot had serious injuries and was taken to a hospital but there was no immediate word on his condition.
Nobody else was aboard the plane and nobody on the ground was hurt, police said.
Video from the scene showed the plane on a sidewalk up against a fence. No homes were damaged.
Police said several homes in the neighborhood were evacuated because of downed power lines. Pacific Gas & Electric crews were sent to restore power.
There was no immediate word on what caused the crash.
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FOLSOM, Calif. — Folsom Fire Department personnel introduced its first drone to find potential drownings during a water rescue training on Friday at Folsom Lake.
"It's absolutely critical we are very much efficient and very fast and effective at accessing patients," Sacramento Metro Fire Battalion Chief Jason Vestal told ABC10.
The drones can be used to guide boats where the potential victims are located in the lake. In addition, helicopters are used in the rescue.
"The victim could get lost out of the rescuers' hands and the drones can track them down the river," said Folsom Fire Battalion Chief Eric Lefkove. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/folsom-orangevale/folsom-fire-dept-use-drone-for-first-time-to-identify-drownings/103-df7e5d30-452e-48c6-a088-c8d45cda082f | 2022-07-23T05:18:03 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/folsom-orangevale/folsom-fire-dept-use-drone-for-first-time-to-identify-drownings/103-df7e5d30-452e-48c6-a088-c8d45cda082f |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Is anyone hungry for a taco?
A chef by the name of Rasheed Amedu has started a Nigerian taqueria called Naija Boy Tacos, creating a fusion between West African and Hispanic flavors.
Amedu is from Chicago, but his family originates from Nigeria, so food ranging from plantains to chicken stew with fufu has always been a staple to his family.
Just starting out in the restaurant industry, Amedu was a former prep and line cook at The Boiler Room in Chicago. Since moving to Sacramento, he has been the former sous chef at Urban Roots Brewing & Smokehouse, the former chef at 18 Grams Coffee Roasters, the former sous chef of TableVine, and has cooked for Kru Contemporary Japanese Cuisine.
A few years ago, Amedu was only beginning to think about tacos with some type of Nigerian influence.
After taste testing and solidifying his ideas, Naija Boy Tacos was born.
"I just wanted a Nigerian taqueria where I take the proteins that I was eating as a kid and do something as simple as putting them on in a tortilla," Amedu said.
At first, he was doing Taco Tuesday pop-up deals at bars and restaurants like Ro Sham Beaux, The Snug, and Bottle & Barlow. These initial pop-ups almost served as a test to Amedu to see how his audience would respond, and they wanted more.
Fast forward to today, Amedu has been operating from a food truck surrounded by Sac City Stems vibrant plants as well as communal benches and tables to bring the community together over the love and fusion of cuisine and culture.
"It's kind of mind-blowing to some people, and that was really the whole goal of wanting to do it," Amedu said. "I wanted to package it a certain way so people can understand it, right? It's a taco, but the things that are inside of it are different or foreign to them, and my goal is to get people kind of hooked on those flavors."
Being that Naija Boy Tacos is the first ever West African taqueria in Sacramento, Amedu feels proud and inspired, especially since the African community in the Sacramento area has shown a lot of support.
"I'm sharing my upbringing and my culture with the neighborhood and I just want to like give back and show people what the culture is like and what I'm about," Amedu said. "We need more representation for people that look like me in spaces where there's not a lot of people that look like me."
Amedu has curated a menu for Naija Boy Tacos consisting of tacos with chicken stew, beef stew, mushroom shawarma, curry goat, and seasonal veggie suya.
Although facing staffing issues and the long process of permitting, Amedu is almost there with the full opening of Naija Boy Tacos happening in a few weeks!
In the near future, Amedu wants to get Naija Boy Tacos in a brick-and-mortar, but for now, he's preparing for the opening and is excited for people to come by.
Naija Boy Tacos is located on 628 15th Street in Sacramento. Check out Naija Boy Tacos's website at www.NaijaBoyTacos.com to view the menu, place an order, and even get merchandise.
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CARROLLWOOD, Fla. — A Hillsborough County man has been arrested in connection to the death of a woman back in January 2022.
Darren Austrew, 26, was identified as a suspect before an investigation began into the death of a female found dead along Four Oaks Road, the sheriff's office said.
Through investigating, authorities believe Austrew assaulted the individual before killing her, the press release says. After uncovering the new details, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office was able to place Austrew under arrest. He faces one charge of second-degree murder.
Back on Jan. 9, 2022, the woman's body was found with upper body trauma and they believed her death was "suspicious in nature." However, deputies were unable to make an arrest.
Austrew's bond is set at $50,000. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/carollowood-january-murder-arrest/67-c7c3155c-245d-4cb9-a831-d8117661d07a | 2022-07-23T05:23:45 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/carollowood-january-murder-arrest/67-c7c3155c-245d-4cb9-a831-d8117661d07a |
SARASOTA, Fla — Sarasota police officers were able to place a 31-year-old man under arrest after he reportedly pointed a short-barreled shotgun at another resident in his home Thursday morning.
Just after 7:30 a.m., officers responded to a home on S. Shore Drive on a report of a "special interest person," the police department said in a news release. Officers said no one was hurt when Andrew Hendricks allegedly pointed his gun at a person, and they were able to place him under arrest.
Authorities did not immediately confirm what the relationship to the other person in the home was.
After Hendricks was taken into custody, there was concern that his room could contain a "booby trap" and other explosive devices, the police department said.
A search warrant and a risk protection order were executed by the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office and two firearms, a battle axe and multiple rounds of ammunition were reportedly discovered inside the room.
Hendricks is charged with possession of a short-barrelled shotgun and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill. He remains in the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office with a $150,000 total bond. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/sarasotacounty/firearms-battle-axe-sarasota-man-room-arrested/67-d2055264-3986-4211-aeef-d1a64b64d49c | 2022-07-23T05:23:45 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/sarasotacounty/firearms-battle-axe-sarasota-man-room-arrested/67-d2055264-3986-4211-aeef-d1a64b64d49c |
WACO, Texas — The Foster Village in Waco organized a shoe drive to give new shoes to foster kids in the area.
The non-profit organization specializes in providing resources for foster care kids and families. They recognize that foster care kids are often pushed aside, so they hold events and raise awareness with the hope that kids can see that they are loved and cared for.
This shoe drive was made with the goal of giving kids a sense of pride as they go back to school soon.
"The first day of school you shouldn't have dirty shoes," Jamie Villarrial, a board member for the Foster Village. "That's a telltale sign that you are different than everyone else. And so they should have dignity and they should be able to walk around the school with dignity and carry themselves in the way that everyone else does with nice shoes like everyone else."
Jamie and her husband Gerald are avid child care supporters and even raise foster children themselves. With five biological children and a sibling group of foster kids, they know very well how foster kids want to be treated like their peers with "nuclear families".
"What people don't understand is kids are kids, whether they're in foster care whether they're in families," Gerald Villarrial said. "Kids want what other kids have and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. We want these kids to have a normal life as normal as possible. And if that has to do with some Jordan's, then that's what we want to do for them."
The shoe drive will last until August 5th, and there are four drop off locations in Waco. Milk Bottle Cookies, Cultivate Twelve, Dunnam & Dunnam Law Firm and Club Pilates.
The Foster Village is asking for gently worn shoes. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/back-to-school-shoe-drive-for-foster-kids-in-waco-until-august-5/500-f4683725-7381-434e-b50c-e8d41ce62cc3 | 2022-07-23T05:38:06 | 1 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/back-to-school-shoe-drive-for-foster-kids-in-waco-until-august-5/500-f4683725-7381-434e-b50c-e8d41ce62cc3 |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – As the Portland metro area prepares for rising temperatures, Portland Fire & Rescue has enacted an immediate burn ban beginning 9 p.m. Friday, PF&R announced.
The ban includes recreational campfires, fire pits, agricultural burning and permits issued for open burning.
While barbecuing is still permitted, fire crews urge Portlanders to use extreme caution.
When it comes to cooking outdoors, Portland Fire & Rescue advises keeping a safe distance of at least 10 feet away from anything combustible such as fences, siding or shrubbery.
PF&R advises those using charcoal briquettes to dispose of the ashes in a covered metal container away from anything combustible, and to keep the ashes wet for a few days before disposing.
Additionally, officials remind Portlanders to make sure cigarettes are out and properly disposed and that fireworks are not allowed in the city.
Those living in rural areas are asked to maintain defensible space and growth near homes and other structures and keep adequate access for firefighting equipment. | https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/portland-enacts-immediate-burn-ban-ahead-of-high-temperatures/ | 2022-07-23T05:45:36 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/portland-enacts-immediate-burn-ban-ahead-of-high-temperatures/ |
CASTLE ROCK, CO. — Florence Gertrude Durk, 100, passed away on June 18, 2022 in Castle Rock, Colorado. Graveside services will be on Saturday July 23, 2022 at 10:00 am at Sunset Cemetery in Twin Falls, ID on Saturday July 23, 2022 at 10:00 am. Those wishing to share memories and condolences may do so on Gertrude’s memorial webpage at www.magicvalleyfuneralhome.com.
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Mid Dakota Clinic hire
Kayla Holzer has joined the Mid Dakota Clinic Long Term Care department working with patients in local nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
Holzer earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing and her Doctor of Nursing Practice from the University of Mary. She has nursing experience in hospital medicine (cardiology), clinical practice (internal medicine), and medical auditing (Medicaid fraud control).
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Siddiqui received his medical degree from Nishtar Medical University, Multan, Pakistan. He completed his pediatric residency and neonatal fellowship at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.
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Holden Mercer has joined the Cedric Theel Toyota recon team focusing on detailing and reconditioning vehicles.
Mercer grew up in Bismarck and graduated from St. Mary’s High School. Most recently, he worked laying concrete curbing.
Leadership Bismarck-Mandan graduates
Eighteen community members have graduated from Leadership Bismarck-Mandan: Amy Arenz, Job Service North Dakota; Teresa Chrest, Bartlett & West; Nicolas Cullen, Houston Engineering Inc.; Tim Flagstad, Sanford Health; Samantha Froelich, First International Bank & Trust; Nicole Gagner, Painter Nicole; Rae Gunn, United Tribes Technical College; Rena Mehlhoff, BisMan Bombshellz Roller Derby League; Kyren Miller, Bismarck State College; Linda Oster, city of Bismarck; Alicia Rogstad, Knutson Realty; Laura Sandberg, Security First Bank of North Dakota; Barry Schumaier, KFYR TV/West Dakota FOX; Ellie Shockley, North Dakota University System; Emily Smith, Newberry College; McKenzie Smith, Comfort Inn & Suites; Grant Sundquist, Basin Electric Power Cooperative; Destiny Voth, Gate City Bank.
Jeske recognized
Julie Jeske has received the 2022 Leadership Bismarck-Mandan Alumni Association Distinguished Alumna Award. Jeske, a private banking officer at Bravera Bank and a Bismarck Parks Board commissioner, graduated from Leadership Bismarck-Mandan in 2020.
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Judy Maslowski, Shirley Thomas, Amber Sandness, Brenda Foster, Heidi Stein, Cindy Cooper, Stephanie Stevens, Darcy Fettig, Kim Olson and Kyle Niess have been named Bianco Realty's Realtors of the month based on their closed sales for June.
Monthly awards
North Dakota Farmers Union Insurance, based in Jamestown, announced professionals who exceeded in their positions for the month of May.
David Beck, Bismarck, was a top producer of life insurance sales and health insurance sales.
Dave Berger, Mandan, was the top producer of auto insurance sales.
Jed Geer, Bismarck, was the top producer of FUIC commercial lines sales.
Philip Halvorson, Mandan, was a top producer of life insurance sales and health insurance sales.
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Submit businesspeople and business digest items to businessbeat@bismarcktribune.com. Deadline for submissions is noon Tuesday. | https://bismarcktribune.com/business/local/businesspeople---july-23-2022/article_672b2da6-06a9-11ed-9f49-a32a6dfc511d.html | 2022-07-23T06:09:24 | 1 | https://bismarcktribune.com/business/local/businesspeople---july-23-2022/article_672b2da6-06a9-11ed-9f49-a32a6dfc511d.html |
Bismarck's 26th Street from Main Avenue through Broadway Avenue will be closed to traffic starting at 7 a.m. Monday, for work on the railroad tracks across 26th Street.
The closure will be in place through the end of the day Wednesday, according to the city. Access to adjacent properties will be maintained.
No detour will be in place, and motorists are advised to seek alternate routes. The city's suggested alternate route is Broadway Avenue to 24th Street to Main Avenue, or Main to 24th to Broadway. | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/city-announces-26th-street-closure/article_fc933b68-09e2-11ed-a5f0-c3f6253eb36d.html | 2022-07-23T06:09:37 | 1 | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/city-announces-26th-street-closure/article_fc933b68-09e2-11ed-a5f0-c3f6253eb36d.html |
CARMEL, Ind. — A former bus driver for Carmel-Clay Schools is facing child molestation charges.
David Abshire is accused of sexually abusing a 4 year old while running a daycare out of his home in Carmel.
Court documents indicate the alleged abuse started last August and continued through March.
In an email sent to parents, Carmel-Clay schools said no students were involved. Abshire was placed on administrative leave immediately after they learned of the investigation.
The district said Abshire hasn't been on school property since April.
He is expected in court next week.
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PERU, Ind. — Every year, kids in Miami County learn skills that will last a lifetime: communication, teamwork, and fitness, to name a few. And perhaps this one-of-a-kind program is the reason many of those who ‘graduate’ take their experiences throughout adulthood. It’s the circus! Which for most — whether related by blood or not, is a family affair.
Juggling Practice
Training for the 62nd Peru Amateur Circus began in March. “I do juggling, teeterboard, Russian swing, high casting, French trap,” Kaden Hanson told us. He’ll be a freshman next school year. “I have four siblings, three doing circus. The youngest is not old enough yet,” he told us. “I’ve been juggling for five years now, and the only reason I’m as good as I am — or at least hope to be, is practice.” Hanson is just one of dozens of kids dedicated to the craft, spending four hours a day practicing, in the three months leading up to their performances.
Though the word ‘amateur’ is in the name of the traditional show — but a view of the performance in any seat around Peru’s permanent three-ring building, and even the most seasoned professionals will be ‘wowed’. The Circus City Festival began in 1960, in hopes of honoring and preserving “the Circus Capital of the World’s” rich history. Around 200 kids between the ages of 5 and 21 present ten shows across eight days in July.
Balancing Act
Among the most impressive acts, is the seven person pyramid walk across the high-wire. Many teens you’ll see perform each year, have over a decade of experience. “It’s pretty nerve-racking sometimes,” Kaci Whann told us. “I love feeding off the crowd when they cheer for us after we’ve done something really cool.”
Amid the cheers and exuberant band, those on the high-wire can be heard communicating with each other. “We count so we know how many steps to take,” she added. “We kind of just pump each other up and say ‘you got this!’ And cheer each other on while we’re up there.”
When performing such a complicated routine, trust is essential. “You just have to rely on everybody. Hope that they know how to do their tricks… and have confidence in your ability to do your trick,” Cory Bockover explained. After this season, Bockover will leave for Army basic training in August. “This year’s my last year. I’m super sad to see it go. It’s been a major part of my life.”
The Yoo Family
Though ‘aging out’ is one of the somber realities of the close-knit community, passion for the Peru Amateur Circus often comes full circle. Show producer Diana Yoo remains heavily involved with organizing the performances, decades after she starred in them herself. But despite the fond memories of the past, You admits she’s loving the present. “I really enjoy being a circus mom. It’s just so cool to see the blessings the circus has provided for them. The way they’ve learned confidence and working with each other, and working with others,” she explained. “It’s like another extended family.”
The Yoo children, Hannah and Jason, play a very unique role in the 2022 performance. As a pair, brother and sister complete the show’s finale trick from the flying trapeze. “It’s called the double summersault, pretty much a classic,” Hannah told us. “To throw it to your brother is certainly an experience to be had, but honestly I’ve loved every second of it.” It’s her final year in the circus, too. “When I think about it, I get a little sad,” she said. “It really just helps you with dedication, with physical and mental strength, and it just teaches you so many things like patience, trust and how to work together as a cohesive unit with your fellow performers.”
Jason Yoo plans to stick around as long as he can to help those up-and-coming. “There’s not nearly as many of us anymore in the show,” he said, of young men commonly utilized for their strength in catching, holding, and throwing. “We’ve got a few guys stepping up and I want to stay in and be an example and kind of show them the ropes on how to take my place when I’m gone.”
“Our whole family was essentially homeschooled, so circus is our primary social outlet. And I think the advantages that has given us over your average team sport or anything is massive difference,” Jason continued. “You’re part of a team, but you’re still allowed to be individuals and really have a deep, almost familial connection to this.”
May All Your Days Be Circus Days
Though the Circus City Festival is underway now, there are still several opportunities to attend. Performances are scheduled for Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. You can find more information and buy tickets here. Also on Saturday, is the annual parade in the morning at 10. This year’s Grand Marshal is Fort Wayne’s NBC anchor and Peru Amateur Circus ‘graduate’ Linda Jackson! | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/perus-amateur-circus-is-a-family-affair-miami-three-ring/531-d156780e-7ef7-4881-adeb-fc18acd68ddb | 2022-07-23T06:19:50 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/perus-amateur-circus-is-a-family-affair-miami-three-ring/531-d156780e-7ef7-4881-adeb-fc18acd68ddb |
MAQUOKETA — Three people from Cedar Falls died Friday morning at Maquoketa Caves State Park.
The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation identified the dead as Tyler Schmidt, 42, Sarah Schmidt, 42, and Lulu Schmidt, 6.
Their deaths are being investigated as homicides, according to a news release from the Iowa DCI. A fourth person was found deceased of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.
Cedar Falls Mayor Rob Green issued a statement late Friday on Facebook saying the family was camping at the state park. The Schmidts' 9-year-old son, Arlo, was also there. He "survived the attack, and is safe," said Green.
Green identified the family as his neighbors and said Sarah Schmidt was a Cedar Falls Public Library employee.
"Like many of you just hearing the news, I'm devastated," he wrote in the Facebook post. "I knew Sarah well, and she & her family were regular walkers here in the Sartori Park neighborhood." He had spent some time working with her during the past week on a presentation.
"Details will be forthcoming about services and other memorials, and I will ensure the community knows about this," Green wrote. "Please offer some extra grace to the Schmidts' many friends, neighbors, and coworkers as we try to process this horrible tragedy." The Cedar Falls Library was closed Saturday "for the sake of the staff who loved and worked with Sarah," he added.
Found at campsite
The Jackson County Sheriff's Office and DCI were called about 6:23 a.m. for a report of a shooting at the park campground, Mike Krapfl, a special agent in charge with DCI, said during a news conference late Friday morning.
"When officers arrived, they located three deceased bodies at a campsite," Krapfl said. He did not have information as of late Friday morning on how the Schmidts were killed.
As officers searched the campground, they learned one other camper was missing.
"He was later identified as 23-year-old Anthony Sherwin and we had information that he was armed at the time," Krapfl said.
Sherwin was found dead about 11 a.m. west of the park. He had an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Krapfl said he believed Sherwin was from Nebraska, but could not say if a firearm had been recovered.
Investigators were still trying to figure out what relationship, if any, there was between the Schmidts and Sherwin, Krapfl said.
The park will be closed until further notice because of the investigation.
Crowded park
Other people were in the park at the time and at least some of them were evacuated.
"The campground was relatively full," Krapfl said, though he did not have the exact number of people who were in the park when police arrived.
"Officers made contact with all the campers, tried to get as many out as they could," Krapfl said.
There was believed to be no further threat to the public.
One employee at Maquoketa Caves said that, at about 8 a.m., she was given the option to go home after police arrived and the park was locked down in response to the report of a shooting.
Parents with children attending the nearby Camp Shalom were notified Friday morning that it also was locked down.
"We were just notified that there is an active shooter at Maquoketa Caves," according to a Friday morning message to campers' parents. "Our top priority is camper safety, and we are following the protocols."
Fridays are usually pick-up days for campers at the Christian-focused camp. It is about a mile and a half away from the Maquoketa Caves, said executive assistant Beth Sallak.
But plans changed at 9:11 a.m., when local law enforcement sent a notification to the directors that there was an active shooter situation at the state park, and told them to evacuate immediately.
So, Sallak said, staff shifted gears.
“We told the campers, ‘We’re going to do a surprise visit to Little Bear Park in Maquoketa.’ They all cheered, and we loaded everyone on the bus. They had no idea there was an active shooter a mile and a half down the road.”
She complimented the staff for staying calm and quickly changing plans, as they’ve trained to do in emergencies. Campers this week ranged in ages from second graders to seniors in high school.
“Nobody expects for this to happen. The Maquoketa caves? Come on," Sallak said. "It’s one of the safest places you can be. I take my kids there, I hike there with my friends. That doesn’t mean you can’t in the back of your mind be prepared.”
Camp Shalom will continue to host campers until the end of the summer, which will be two more weeks.
“We’ll continue to keep campers safe, happy, and hydrated, slept and well-fed. We’re just going to move forward as we normally we do,” Sallak said.
Officials respond
State officials issued statements about Friday’s incident.
“I’m horrified by the shooting this morning at Maquoketa Caves State Park and devastated by the loss of three innocent lives,” Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said. “As we grieve this unimaginable tragedy, Kevin and I pray for the victims’ family members and the law enforcement officers who responded to the scene. We ask Iowans to do the same.”
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said on Twitter he was "closely monitoring" the situation in Maquoketa Caves State Park.
"Praying for the lives lost & their loved ones Im grateful for Iowa law enforcement who responded +camp staff for ensuring safety of other campers Violence can’t be tolerated Killing innocent ppl is sickening," Grassley tweeted.
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, likewise, wrote on Twitter: "I am heartbroken to hear of the tragedy in Maquoketa Caves State Park and am praying for the victims and their families. My staff and I are following the situation. Thankful for all of the responding law enforcement."
Kayla Lyon, Iowa Department of Natural Resources director, said she and the DNR staff were also devastated by the incident.
“Our long standing tradition of enjoying Iowa’s natural wonders was shaken today, but the legacy for the millions of families that recreate at Iowa state parks will continue,” Lyon said.
Courier staff and Quad-City Times reporters Brooklyn Draisey and Sarah Watson contributed to this story. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/four-dead-at-maquoketa-caves-state-park-including-three-members-of-cedar-falls-family/article_a6a94c2f-1a0c-5f28-89d3-5cb4c713ce08.html | 2022-07-23T06:32:11 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/four-dead-at-maquoketa-caves-state-park-including-three-members-of-cedar-falls-family/article_a6a94c2f-1a0c-5f28-89d3-5cb4c713ce08.html |
PORTLAND, Oregon — Healthcare leaders warn that capacity issues in Oregon hospitals continue to worsen, as hospitals grapple with understaffing and other challenges even long after the prior patient surges brought on by COVID-19.
“The [healthcare] system is really suffering from dramatic aftershocks from the pandemic,” said Becky Hultberg, president of the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems. “It’s just backed up right now, it is slowly grinding to a halt.”
As of Friday, Hultberg said 506 patients were essentially "stuck" in Oregon hospital beds, waiting for space to open up in post-care facilities.
“That is one of the things that is creating this capacity crisis,” said Hultberg. “We have people boarding in the emergency departments, people waiting for transfers, waiting for a higher level of care and that bed is not available for them."
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In the Portland metro area, 21 ICU beds (6%) were available on Friday, along with 50 non-ICU beds (3%).
Ambulance services are also feeling the impact. American Medical Response told KGW that their first responders are dealing with longer wait times for patient transfers. In a statement, an AMR spokesperson said in part:
“Ambulance crews continue providing high-quality patient care either in the ambulance or in the receiving areas of the emergency department. However, ambulances held at local emergency rooms with patients cannot respond to other 911 calls. We urge the public to utilize the hospitals and 911 system only when it is a true emergency or when directed by their healthcare provider."
Some fire departments also provide ambulance transport services, including Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue.
“There have been times over the last year when hospitals in the Portland metro area weren't able to accept patients into emergency departments,” said Cassandra Ulven, public affairs chief for Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue. “So TVF&R has had to transport patients as far south as Eugene."
Hultberg said they're working with the Oregon Heath Authority and the Governor’s office on short-term solutions to help free up hospital capacity. Hultberg noted that earlier in the pandemic, the state provided incentive payments to adult foster homes to take in patients, and many hospitals formed “Decompression Units” — nursing homes contracted to take patients ready to be discharged.
“Everything's on the table because we recognize that right now is actually a slow time for hospitals,” said Hultberg. “We have to address the capacity problem before we get to the fall when we typically see higher numbers because of the seasonal flu.” | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/oregon-hospital-capacity-staffing-ambulance-crisis/283-3e0058b6-45c5-41d6-b730-28adfc517bfe | 2022-07-23T06:32:19 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/oregon-hospital-capacity-staffing-ambulance-crisis/283-3e0058b6-45c5-41d6-b730-28adfc517bfe |
Arizona lottery numbers, July 22
Associated Press
These Arizona lotteries were drawn Friday:
Pick 3
0-7-9
Fantasy 5
03-24-31-36-41
Estimated jackpot: $150,000
Triple Twist
02-04-08-13-29-39
Estimated jackpot: $955,000
Mega Millions
14-40-60-64-66, Mega Ball: 16, Megaplier: 3
Estimated jackpot: $660 million
Powerball
Estimated jackpot: $119 million | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/07/22/arizona-lottery-numbers-july-22/10133701002/ | 2022-07-23T06:38:42 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/07/22/arizona-lottery-numbers-july-22/10133701002/ |
Police are searching for a man who they said shot a woman in the Lower East Side of Manhattan during an argument regarding a pregnancy.
The shooting occurred Friday evening near the corner of Suffolk and Delancey streets, police said. The man and a woman were arguing outside a hotel about her recently finding out that she was pregnant, and that he was the father.
As the two were arguing, the woman's 22-year-old sister tried to step between them, and was shot in the hip by the man. She suffered the gunshot wound right in front of her own 3-month-old child, according to police.
The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where she is expected to survive. The man, who has not been identified, was taken into custody at the scene. Charges were still pending against him.
A gun was also recovered at the scene. An investigation is ongoing. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/woman-shot-in-lower-east-side-during-argument-over-sisters-pregnancy-police/3791627/ | 2022-07-23T06:53:27 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/woman-shot-in-lower-east-side-during-argument-over-sisters-pregnancy-police/3791627/ |
BONNEY LAKE, Wash. — Terry Parker has lived in his Bonney Lake home for 11 years, and in 2020 was one of hundreds who had to evacuate during the Sumner Grade fire.
“It was kind of scary because we were hoping it wouldn’t jump the road because it could’ve wiped out our neighborhood. It was only half a block away,” said Parker.
The fire burned 800 acres and destroyed four homes. Parker said wildfires aren’t typical in that area.
“I’ve been coming here since 1964 and there’s never been a fire like that in this area or that close,” said Parker.
Now, the Western Fire Chiefs Association developed a first of its kind map that shows up to date information on wildfires happening so people can quickly take action.
“It can make a big difference for people that are in rural areas where they may not have really good exit areas,” said Leonard Johnson, McLane Blake Lake fire chief and chair of the Washington State Fire Defense Committee.
The fire map pulls data from the US Forest Service using the National Interagency Fire Center feed and 911 dispatch data via PulsePoint to track wildfires burning in real time.
“The map populates current fire information that is occurring today, has updated information from fires that occurred yesterday, and then it has another layer in there that provides fire information for ongoing fires,” said Johnson.
It gives the public up-to-date information on how big a fire is and how much is contained. Something Parker thinks could’ve made a huge different two years ago.
“You’ll get the information quicker than waiting to see it on the news. You can go on your phone and look at the map and see where it’s at,” said Parker.
By next year, the association hopes the map moves into phase two, which will include location based notifications.
“People can go to the map and say, hey, this is where I'm at what's around me. If they get earlier notification that a fire is approaching either a residence or a place that they're vacationing, it gives them a better opportunity to get out,” said Johnson.
The new tool is being released as wildfire season is expected to pick up.
“The Stayman fire is an early indicator that things are getting ready to burn. Just because it rained a lot this spring doesn't mean that we're still not going to have a pretty active fire season coming into the fall here,” said Johnson. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/wildfire/map-shows-wildfires-burning-real-time/281-44cc2e58-02e0-4a99-bbb5-b78ebff678d6 | 2022-07-23T07:10:54 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/wildfire/map-shows-wildfires-burning-real-time/281-44cc2e58-02e0-4a99-bbb5-b78ebff678d6 |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Savannah Martinborough said she'd never seen someone so far underwater until her 7-year-old nephew Massiah Browne told her there was a kid at the bottom of the pool at WestLake Apartments in Sacramento.
Massiah said he first spotted the toddler stranded in the water on Tuesday and went to Savannah for help — that's when she told her nephew to pull the kid out of the water.
"He grabbed his arm and came back up with him," Savannah told ABC10.
Adults with CPR training then rushed in to save the toddler as the Sacramento Fire Department provided medical assistance.
The 3-year-old was breathing normally by the time he was transported to a hospital.
Swimming already for half his life, Massiah says he doesn't consider himself a hero for helping save the toddler.
"But my mom does," he said.
Massiah said you can follow his family on Instagram, @thebrownebrothers. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/7-year-old-saves-toddler-from-potentially-drowning/103-701baece-4df5-4351-b599-00f42d9dc582 | 2022-07-23T07:23:59 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/7-year-old-saves-toddler-from-potentially-drowning/103-701baece-4df5-4351-b599-00f42d9dc582 |
Robert L. Freesemann, 85, of Allison, died Thursday, July 21, 2022, at MercyOne North Iowa Hospice in Mason City. Arrangements: Counsell Woodley Funeral Home.
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Linda K. Ott
November 21, 1950-July 20, 2022
NORA SPRINGS-Linda K. Ott, 71, of Nora Springs passed away Wednesday, July 20, 2022 at MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center in Mason City.
Funeral Services will be held 10:30am Monday, July 25th, 2022 at Hogan-Bremer-Moore Colonial Chapel, 126 3rd St. NE, Mason City, IA with Chaplain Beverly Butler of MercyOne North Iowa officiating.
Visitation and public viewing will be held from 3:00-5:00pm Sunday, July 24, 2022 at Sheckler Colonial Chapel, 114 North Hawkeye Ave, Nora Springs, IA. Visitation will continue one hour prior to the service at Hogan-Bremer-Moore Colonial Chapel.
In Lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed in care of her family.
Linda Kay was born November 21, 1950 in Riceville, the daughter of Eugene and Mavis (Prochaska) Murphy. She grew up in the area, attending country school and Riceville High School. She continued her education at NIACC, later earning her Bachelors and Masters degrees at the University of Iowa. On May 25, 1968 she married the love of her life, Richard Roman Ott. The couple was blessed with three children: Richard, Sheila and Keith. The family made their home in Nora Springs. For over 30 years, Linda worked at MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center, most recently in the Behavioural Health Center.
She was a longtime member of the Mason City Women's Bowling Association where she served as President, on the Board, as well as a Youth Coach for many years. Linda was a member of the board at the Transition Center and worked tirelessly to help others. Traveling around the country made her happy, especially if there was a casino to stop at along the way! But, most of all, Linda's family was her greatest joy. She looked forward to watching the grandchildren and eventually their children grow. Little feet running around the house was music to her ears. She loved traveling to follow the kids' sporting and school activities, and was constantly in the crowd cheering.
Those surviving are her husband of 54 years, Richard Sr.; children, Richard (Julie) Ott of Plymouth and Keith (Jennifer) Ott of Nora Springs; grandchildren, Scot (Jessica) Hollander, Clarissa (Willie) Wiseman, Jayden (Matthew) Hillson, Sarah (Chris) Andersen, Dilan (Megan) Ott, Morgan (Tyler Hillger) Ott, Colton Ott, Bella Ott, Jaxton Ott and Harley Ott; great grandchildren, Ashlyn and Raine Wiseman, Maaliyah, Maverick and Madilyn Hillson; sister, Ann (Dean) Ott; as well as nieces, nephews and extended family.
Welcoming her to Heaven was her daughter, Sheila; parents, Mavis and Eugene; sisters, Alice Murphy and Lorie Christensen; and a brother, Eugene Jr..
Sheckler Colonial Chapel. (641) 749-2210. ColonialChapels.com | https://globegazette.com/news/local/obituaries/linda-k-ott/article_2912a41f-a739-5919-8866-af8ff96e4ae9.html | 2022-07-23T07:26:26 | 1 | https://globegazette.com/news/local/obituaries/linda-k-ott/article_2912a41f-a739-5919-8866-af8ff96e4ae9.html |
Glafiro “Firo” Martinez, 90, of Twin Falls died July 21, 2022, at home surrounded by family. Arrangements are under the care of White-Reynolds Funeral Chapel in Twin Falls.
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Dana L. Friedrickson
ROCKVILLE - Dana L. Friedrickson, age 59 of Rockville, Indiana formerly of Griffith, Indiana, passed away on Tuesday, July 19, 2022.
She is survived by her children: Carey (Melvin) Litton, Christopher (Elissa) Baccino, and Jacob (Lindsay) Friedrickson; grandchildren: Kylie, Hannah, Caden, Nicholas, Lyla, Rush, Sawyer, Cora, and Ash; siblings: Elizabeth (Mike Fiore) Wolfe, Pam (Bob) Werhowatz, Jeff (Susan) Reitz, and Joey (Brenda) Reitz; numerous nieces and nephews; numerous great-nieces and great-nephews; and aunt, Donna (Cliff) Koleski.
She was preceded in death by her parents: Fred and Sandra Reitz.
All services will be private.
Dana was a graduate of Griffith High School class of 1980 and of Purdue University. She worked as a Medical Administrator for Crestmark in Roselawn, Indiana. Dana was a member of the NWI Paranormal Society and Spirit Seekers Society, and she loved traveling and spending time with her family. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/dana-l-friedrickson/article_b5f371bc-767d-5032-aca1-44321579d0cf.html | 2022-07-23T07:50:24 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/dana-l-friedrickson/article_b5f371bc-767d-5032-aca1-44321579d0cf.html |
Elizabeth Ann Chapa
July 23, 1984 - Nov. 21, 2003
IN LOVING MEMORY OF ELIZABETH ANN CHAPA ON HER 19TH BIRTHDAY IN HEAVEN.
Happy 38th Birthday Baby Girl. Words cannot express how much you are missed. Your laugh, your wisdom and your smile will live forever in our hearts.
Love, Mom, Dad, Mary, Andy, Jerry, Vicki, Amber, Angelica, Adriana, Zachary, Aliza, Alan, Lil' G, Esmeralda, Darwin and Family. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/elizabeth-ann-chapa/article_071991db-ff26-5fdf-a0e1-87adcb51c57e.html | 2022-07-23T07:50:30 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/elizabeth-ann-chapa/article_071991db-ff26-5fdf-a0e1-87adcb51c57e.html |
Lillian B. "Aunt Lil" Gaskill
MUNSTER - Lillian B. "Aunt Lil" Gaskill, age 96 of Munster, IN and formerly of Ogden Dunes, IN passed away on Wednesday, July 20, 2022. She is survived by her step-children: James Gaskill, Nancy (Gene) Randolph and Mae Z. Gaskill; step-grandchildren: Marc and Matthew Gaskill; nieces: Nancy (Jorge) Benavente, Nina Simpson and Mary (John) Duran; nephews: John (Carrie) Korpak and Frank (Debbie) Korpak; and numerous other nieces and nephews. Lil was preceded in death by her parents: Jesse and Christena Burge; husband, Charles Gaskill; son, Steven Burge; sisters: Gladys (Gordon) Lehman, Jane (Roy) McCuan and Helen (Frank) Korpak; and brothers: John (Lauris) Burge and Frank Burge.
Funeral Services will be held at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, July 24, 2022 at KISH FUNERAL HOME, 10000 Calumet Ave. Munster, IN with Chaplain Shiela Jones officiating. Interment will be at Greenlawn Cemetery Columbus, OH at a future date. Visitation will be on Sunday, at the funeral home from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Lillian was the beloved "Aunt Lil" to everyone's life she touched and will be dearly missed.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in Lillian's name to the Purdue for Life Foundation (purdueforlife.org) https://PNW.edu/Korpak-Memorial. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/lillian-b-aunt-lil-gaskill/article_f502b788-6312-5058-bcc7-9b9885a1af38.html | 2022-07-23T07:50:37 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/lillian-b-aunt-lil-gaskill/article_f502b788-6312-5058-bcc7-9b9885a1af38.html |
Patricia A. Miller
July 23, 1933 - July 20, 2022
WHITING - Patricia A. Miller, age 88, of Whiting, IN passed away peacefully on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, with her family by her side. She was born July 23, 1933 to the late John and Mary Norris in Hillsdale, IN.
Patricia is survived by her loving children: Stephen (Elaine) Miller, Debra (Ronald) Frey, Robert (Peggy) Miller and Timothy Miller; adoring grandchildren: Adam (Jenny) Buchta, Michael (Gabrielle) Frey, Aaron (Teara) Miller, LeeAnn (Ron) Perez, Timothy Miller and Steven Miller; cherished great-grandchildren: Logan, Noah, Kayson, Oaklynn, Reese, Merick and Aurora.
Patricia was happily married to Edward Miller for 53 years, until he passed in 2006. Together, they enjoyed dancing, roller-skating, gardening, raising their children and spending time with family and friends. Patricia was a devoted wife, loving mother and immaculate homemaker who will be greatly missed by all who shared in her life.
Visitation will be held at Hillside Funeral Home & Cremation Center, 8941 Kleinman Road in Highland, IN on Sunday, July 24, 2022 from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Funeral service will be held on Monday, July 25, 2022 at 9:30 a.m. at the funeral home followed by interment at Chapel Lawn in Crown Point, IN.
Patricia's family would like to thank her devoted caregivers who helped her in her time of need. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of the Calumet Area.
For additional information, please contact Hillside Funeral Home & Cremation Center Konnie Kuiper-Kevin Nordyke-Michael Kuiper-Vass by calling us at 219-838-0800 or visiting us at www.hillsidefhcares.com | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/patricia-a-miller/article_9ce3f8bb-4e70-5a13-8a9a-ded53d3056b6.html | 2022-07-23T07:50:43 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/patricia-a-miller/article_9ce3f8bb-4e70-5a13-8a9a-ded53d3056b6.html |
Patricia Marie Karner
In loving memory of my wife on her third anniversary in Heaven.
It's been three years since you've gone away, you're with the Lord, that's a great day. The sun will rise, I want to cry, it's lonely here, the reason why, a long three years I've had to stay, it want be long I'll come your way.
Your loving Husband. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/patricia-marie-karner/article_7e8a93ba-1643-5602-980f-87903ea40271.html | 2022-07-23T07:50:49 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/patricia-marie-karner/article_7e8a93ba-1643-5602-980f-87903ea40271.html |
Sharon R. (nee Bell) Binder
Aug. 19,1935 - July 19, 2022
HOBART - Sharon Rae (nee Bell) Binder, age 86, of Hobart, IN passed away peacefully on Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at St. Mary Medical Center in Hobart, surrounded by family. Sharon was born on August 19, 1935 in Gary, Indiana to the late Eldo and Louise M. (nee Niksch) Bell. She married William Henry (Bill) Binder on September 18, 1955 in Hobart and spent 66 wonderful years together. She had an adventurous nature and a lively sense of humor that she never lost. She loved fun, traveled the world, and made friends wherever she went. She was anchored in her faith like a rock and was the cornerstone of her family. Sharon was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, where she was involved in the Ladies Lydia Society, the Altar Guild, and the Lutheran Women's Missionary League. For many years, she spent winters in Florida with her husband, where she was active in the ladies quilting group at Woodland Lutheran Campground. She was a devoted wife, caring mother, loving grandmother, adoring great-grandmother, dear aunt, and committed friend who will be deeply missed by all who knew her.
Sharon is survived by her loving husband; three sons: Dr. Jay Binder, Michael James Binder, and Curtis Jon (Barbara) Binder; five grandchildren: Hollina (Scott Segally) Binder, Michael Andrew Binder, Seth (Melissa) Binder, Matthew Binder, and Rachel (Jake Thompson) Binder; four great-grandchildren: Ethan, Alexander, Avery, and Lincoln, and another one on the way; and many other loving family members and friends.
Sharon is preceded in death by her parents and her brother, Don (Gayle) Bell.
Family and friends may gather at Rees Funeral Home, Hobart Chapel 600 West Old Ridge on Sunday, July 24, 2022, from 2:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. Funeral service will take place on Monday, July 25, 2022 at Trinity Lutheran Church, 900 Luther Drive, Hobart, at 10:00 a.m., with Pastor Nathan Kramer officiating. There will be additional visitation from 9:00 a.m. until the time of service at Trinity. Sharon will be laid to rest at Evergreen Memorial Park. For more information, please call 219-942-2109. Online condolences may be shared with the family at www.reesfuneralhomes.com | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/sharon-r-nee-bell-binder/article_99a847c9-3c3c-5995-a904-7359f360e0b9.html | 2022-07-23T07:50:55 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/sharon-r-nee-bell-binder/article_99a847c9-3c3c-5995-a904-7359f360e0b9.html |
Walter "Sonny" Mshar
12/4/1941 - 7/23/2009.
IN LOVING MEMORY OF WALTER "SONNY" MSHAR
Remembering you is easy, we do it every day. Missing you is a heartache that never goes away.You are in our hearts and thoughts every day. Hope you are catching the big ones!
Your loving family. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/walter-sonny-mshar/article_e01d260a-30e6-57ae-8f6d-49e765482853.html | 2022-07-23T07:51:01 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/walter-sonny-mshar/article_e01d260a-30e6-57ae-8f6d-49e765482853.html |
Stacy Woodruff, Global Head for Vegetable Seeds Production Operations at Syngenta, speaks to those on hand during a lunch and tour of the company facility in Nampa on Friday.
Seed Health Operations Lead Maria Soto discusses molecular and virus testing operations during a tour of the Syngenta Seeds facility in Nampa on Friday.
NAMPA — Idaho’s southwest, including Canyon County, is considered one of the most important vegetable seed producing regions in the world.
But the fact that this region is a “seed mecca” is widely unknown, even among locals, said Stacy Woodruff, global head of vegetable seed production operations for Syngenta, a Swiss seed and pesticide company that operates locally in Nampa, Caldwell and Boise. Yet the high desert, irrigated environment available in the Treasure Valley is perfect for growing crops that produce seeds for farmers around the world to grow food, he said.
“All of the major vegetable seed companies are located in this area for a reason,” Woodruff said at an event showcasing the company’s new $15 million global quality control and seed health testing lab at its Nampa site.
The new facility is one of the final stops for seeds grown locally and elsewhere for quality testing before being shipped out to farmers worldwide, said Rebekah Wagner, quality control operations lead who oversees the Nampa facility.
“So the goal of testing is to protect our farmers to make sure that this seed that they’re receiving is free from disease, and also to ensure that as seed is moving globally, we are not risking the spread of disease from country to country,” Wagner said.
The facility tests seeds for viruses, bacteria and fungi. The company is moving toward increased genetic detection methods for pathogens, such as polymerase chain reaction tests, or PCR tests, which find pieces of pathogen DNA and make copies of them, said Maria Soto, the seed operations health lead for the facility.
A positive test does not necessarily mean the pathogen is active, but a negative test means the seed is pathogen-free, she said.
Such testing is important because there are little to no tools, such as chemical sprays, to treat bacterial infections of crops, Soto said.
“It’s not like fungi where you have fungicides … so the best control is preventing the introduction of the disease or the pathogen to things,” she said.
The company’s Nampa site is also home to a Corn Trait Conversion Accelerator facility, where workers hybridize plants to create new lines of crops with favorable traits that farmers want, said Judith Rivera, a lead of the project.
“We’re adding value,” Rivera said. “We’re adding value to the farmer as well.”
This process allows the company to develop a seed and take it to market in a little over a year instead of in six to seven years, she said.
Ultimately, the company’s Nampa operations are a continuation of the efforts of people who have sought to improve farming for generations, said Matthew Johnston, Syngenta’s global head of vegetable seeds and flowers, at the event.
“In some ways, we like to describe that our ancestors in the space did work that we’re trying to continue to do,” he said. The companies that operate under the Sygnenta umbrella have been operating for up to 150 years, he said. “And in many ways, we want to be good ancestors to those that come after us, so that people, not only in our company, but our customers around the world, and ultimately the food production system at large, are benefitted over time by the work that we do.”
U.S. Rep. Russ Fulcher flew in from Washington, D.C., for the event. Supporting farming and food production industries is critically important to the nation, with the U.S. agricultural industry comprising 21 million jobs and a $3 trillion economic impact, he said.
“We could not survive as a nation without this,” Fulcher said.
Erin Banks Rusby is a reporter with the Idaho Press. She covers Canyon County, including agriculture, education, and government. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/seed-mecca-local-leaders-tour-new-seed-processing-facility/article_44b8407d-4d7a-5fe5-bc0a-6791755da7b9.html | 2022-07-23T08:22:34 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/seed-mecca-local-leaders-tour-new-seed-processing-facility/article_44b8407d-4d7a-5fe5-bc0a-6791755da7b9.html |
A New York City traffic agent was attacked by two men as he issued a ticket in Brooklyn, police said, and then was run over by one of the suspects.
The incident occurred just after 11:30 a.m. Friday on Glenwood Road between East 31st Street and Nostrand Avenue in East Flatbush, according to police. Investigators said the traffic agent stopped a white 2001 white Ford van to issue a summons, which is when two men got out of the vehicle.
The pair got into an argument with the city worker, and then attacked him, police said. Afterward, police said one of the suspects hopped into a black Infiniti and then struck the traffic agent with the vehicle.
The car was last seen heading west on Glenwood Avenue. Detectives said that the other man got into the white Ford van and took off.
The traffic agent was taken to Maimonides Hospital with a head injury, but was expected to survive.
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CEDAR FALLS -- The outside northbound lane on Hudson Road, from W. 27th Street to W. 23rd Street will be closed starting Thursday, July 28 for water main work.
The city says the work is anticipated to take no more than one week, depending on the weather.
The inside northbound lane will still be open.
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Waterloo Police announced Thursday a third person had been arrested last week on felony money laundering charges related to the two-year investigation.
The deceased was a passenger in the driver's education vehicle, which crashed with another car Monday near Janesville and injured three others, including two 14-year-olds.
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Peoria buys acreage to add hundreds of parking spots in Warehouse District
PEORIA — The city of Peoria has purchased three blocks of vacant land in the Warehouse District to be used for future parking.
"The city has been hearing from developers in the Warehouse District that parking for residents and business patrons is needed," City Manager Patrick Urich said on Friday. "The acquisition of the land behind the 800-1000 block of Washington will allow the city to put in more than 300 parking spaces and address the parking needs."
The land is about 3.75 acres. The city paid about $1.7 million, according to records from the Peoria County Clerk's Office.
Last fall, the Peoria City Council voted to allocate just over $5 million to purchase the land and build the parking lot that will sit behind several buildings on the east side of the 800 to 1000 blocks of Southwest Washington Street and west of the railroad track.
Pat Sullivan, who owned the land, said he sold the property to the city at fair market value, and he believes it will help spur development within the Warehouse District.
"Let the city do it, and then they can get more taxes coming in from people who are living here," he said. "There are shops that could be on the first floors of some of the buildings, and that's more."
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At-Large City Councilman Zach Oyler, who serves on the Downtown Development Corporation, said this will cause a significant expansion within the Warehouse District.
"The city's ability to convert this land into parking will allow at least five buildings which have mixed use of commercial and residential to come online," he said.
Sullivan said he wants to keep the Warehouse District going forward as the additional parking will encourage more development.
"For the city, it's been one of the bright spots as there have been a lot of permits taken out," Sullivan said. "They aren't tearing down buildings. It's like a new subdivision but they don't have to go into a cornfield and tear out the corn."
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Last fall, Urich said once the city had purchased the land, it expected the project to be completed within 18 months. While Sullivan thinks the 300 parking spots are a first step, they might not be enough given the activity going in the area.
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IUKA • More people summit Mount Everest each year than complete the Great Loop, a 6,000-mile circumnavigation of the eastern United States and part of Canada.
Local couple Charlie and Robin McVey completed the loop in 2017. In 2019, they did it again.
After Charlie McVey, 68, retired from the Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Office, his wife Robin, 56, left her job and the couple traded their home and 43-acre farm in Clay County for a boat.
Having spent 19 years living in the country, Charlie realized once he reached retirement age that it wasn't how he wanted to spend the rest of his life.
"There's something else out there," he remembers telling Robin.
Completing the Great Loop
Charlie was at Midway Marina on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in 2014 when he first heard about the Great Loop.
He met a Florida couple who were taking on the challenge with their three dogs. They told him all about the Great Loop and handed him a book about it titled "Honey, Let's Get A Boat."
Immediately, Charlie knew he'd found what he'd been looking for in retirement.
The McVeys joined America's Great Loop Cruisers' Association (AGLCA) and began boat shopping that same month. In January 2015, they found the perfect vessel in Florence, Alabama — a 42-foot 1986 Jefferson Sundeck Trawler.
They dubbed it "The Lower Place" — a reference to what they called the acres of family land below their house back in Clay County.
Nearly one year later, on Oct. 23, 2016, they set off on the Great Loop. Almost exactly a year later — on Oct. 2, 2017 — they completed their grand adventure. During their trip, they sailed in three countries — the United States, the Bahamas and Canada — all at 8 to 10 miles per hour.
Excitement and adventure is what drives the McVeys, and they encountered plenty of it on their trip.
One of Charlie's favorite stops was Washington, D.C. They docked at the Gangplank Marina and spent a couple of weeks exploring the nation's capitol on foot.
The entire trip, Robin said, was a walk — or float — through history, all the while observing the exchange of culture and traditions, not just between countries, but between various regions of the U.S. Like when Charlie had some of the best barbecue he'd ever tasted on a dock in downtown D.C., for example.
Arriving in Iuka 50 weeks after they'd set sail, the McVeys earned the right to replace their white AGLCA burgee with a gold one signifying their completion of the Great Loop.
They bought a house in Counce, Tennessee, just across the Mississippi state line, in November 2017, a month after they finished the Loop. It's a short drive to the Safe Harbor Aqua Yacht marina in Iuka where they keep their boat and a pontoon for days on the river while they're home during the summer. To this day, the Tennessee River remains their favorite cruising spot.
"We bought a house up here to be near our boat," Robin said. "I don't know what that says about us, but hey, it's a cool place to live."
With most of their belongings still sitting in unpacked boxes, they left on the boat again in Feb. 2018 to spend a few months in Fort Myers, Florida.
They'd enjoyed cruising the Great Loop so much that they decided to do it a second time just over a year after they finished the first. They set out on Nov. 1, 2018, and finished in Sept. 14, 2019, now proudly displaying a platinum AGLCA burgee signifying that they've completed the Loop twice.
'I just couldn't do without a boat'
Before setting out on the first Loop, Robin McVey knew she'd need something on which to focus her attention. She'd seen a friend make a T-shirt quilt years ago, so she decided to collect them along the way as a reminder of where she and Charlie McVey had been.
She started on her first t-shirt quilt as soon as they got home. She found the process of creating the cover therapeutic.
"There's this thing that happens when you finish the Loop," Robin McVey said. "We've coined it 'the Looper blues.' It is very much a depression-type thing. All of a sudden, it doesn't matter what the weather's going to be. It doesn't matter what the tide is."
That's part of the reason they went back a second time, and for the last few years have taken "run from winter" excursions to warmer waters. This year, they went to Chesapeake, Virginia, where they left their boat until they're ready to cruise again.
The couple sold their Jefferson, on which they'd done both loops, in March 2021. Two months later, they replaced it with a 1991 Carver 4207 that now bears the same name as the first.
"We were going to wait a while," Charlie McVey said. "And I just couldn't do without a boat."
There may be days where you sit at home doing nothing in Tennessee, but when you're on a boat there's always something to do.
"It's a lifestyle," Charlie McVey said. "Like right now, we're away from the boat, and I miss it everyday."
Despite being married almost 32 years, the McVeys are closer than they ever were before traveling together on a boat.
"Marriage is one thing, but living on a 42-foot boat is a whole other story," Robin McVey said. "You become a team; you become more than husband and wife."
There's also a kinship between boaters. They look out for one another, something the McVeys have witnessed and put into practice. In 2021, they were named the True North Harbor Host of the Year recipients by the AGLCA for "their willingness to go above-and-beyond for their fellow Loopers."
"There is good in everywhere you go, and there is good in every person," Robin McVey said. "In two loops and several side trips, we never once felt threatened, concerned for our safety, intimidated by anything. I don't think we ever felt like we were ever at risk for our own personal safety. And that says a lot for the number of miles we traveled."
There are Loopers from all income brackets and all walks of life making a go of it with the same goal in mind.
"When you're boating, there is no difference," Charlie McVey said. "It doesn't matter if I pull up in my '91 Carver and this guy pulls up in his 2019 Voyager, when they get off on the dock they're just like us. They're boaters."
Finding what floats your boat
The McVeys have yet to decide whether they'll cruise the loop a third time, but there's no doubt they'll continue boating.
And they encourage everyone to find something that floats their boat.
"Anyone who has that sense of adventure, whether its the Appalachian Trail, climbing Mount Everest, doing America's Great Loop or doing 12 marathons in 12 months — whatever that dream is — make a plan, make a date, do it," Robin McVey said.
A single phone call can change a person's life drastically, whether that's a career, family or health change.
"If you wait until you think you're ready, it'll never happen," she said. "Don't say should've, could've, would've. Do it."
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In this file photo from Oct. 15, 2021, Tupelo City Councilwoman Nettie Davis listens as her attorney Jim Waide speaks to the media after her arraignment. Lawyers for Davis and for Secretary of State Michael Watson are currently at odds over whether a federal judge should pause civil litigation that argues Davis is being prosecuted under an unconstitutional law.
In this file photo, Charles Penson and Tupelo City Councilwoman Nettie Davis hold hands as they walk to the entrance of the Lee County Justice Center in October 2021.
In this file photo from Oct. 15, 2021, Tupelo City Councilwoman Nettie Davis listens as her attorney Jim Waide speaks to the media after her arraignment. Lawyers for Davis and for Secretary of State Michael Watson are currently at odds over whether a federal judge should pause civil litigation that argues Davis is being prosecuted under an unconstitutional law.
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In this file photo, Charles Penson and Tupelo City Councilwoman Nettie Davis hold hands as they walk to the entrance of the Lee County Justice Center in October 2021.
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TUPELO • With her elected post on the line, a pair of rulings by Circuit Court Judge Paul Funderburk has cleared the way for City Councilwoman Nettie Davis to face a trial before a jury of her peers on misdemeanor criminal charges.
In an order dated Tuesday, Funderburk denied a motion brought by Davis asking that her criminal charges of participating in an illegal election lottery be dismissed.
The circuit judge on the same day denied a motion brought by the Office of District Attorney John Weddle requesting that Davis face a bench trial with a judge deciding the verdict, not an 12-person jury.
In a brief order denying the district attorney’s motion, Funderburk ruled that Mississippi’s constitution guarantees the right to a jury trial for anyone criminally charged by indictment.
Funderburk ruled the same way on identical motions involving Charles Penson, a local minister and political operative who faces the same misdemeanor charges of proposing or conducting an unlawful lottery as a voting incentive.
Weddle told the Daily Journal he’s now trying to get a trial scheduled for Davis.
“We’re going to have to see what dates Judge Funderburk has available, and then we’ll go from there,” Weddle said.
The circuit court judge issued a longer order dealing with the motions of Davis and Penson to dismiss. Jim Waide, a criminal defense attorney representing both defendants, had argued that the law used to charge them is unconstitutional.
Davis faces charges that she violated a law that prohibits “offer[ing] any prize, cash award or other item of value to be raffled, drawn for, played for or contested for in order to encourage a person to vote or to refrain from voting in any election.”
Several days before Tupelo’s municipal general election in June, Davis solicited donations for a raffle intended to award cash prizes to people who voted in the general election. Davis has said the raffle never occurred.
Waide had argued that the offer of money in these circumstances should be regarded as political speech and that a prohibition on election lotteries therefore violates the constitutional guarantee of free speech.
However, Funderburk ruled that the state law in question serves a “compelling interest in preserving the integrity of elections.”
The charges lodged against Davis and Penson are only misdemeanors and carry no possibility of jail time. Instead, both could face maximum fines of $5,000 if convicted.
However, a conviction would trigger the removal of Davis from her elected office on the Tupelo City Council.
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TUPELO • Dance Like the Stars will waltz its way into the BancorpSouth Arena next weekend.
The annual Boys and Girls Club of North Mississippi fundraiser will feature eight dancers from Tupelo, New Albany and Ripley when it returns on July 30 at 6:30 p.m.
Typically held in August, Dance Like the Star's primary coordinator, Evie Storey, is looking forward to the earlier date.
"There have been a couple other times where it has been outside of the normal August time but not very many," said Storey, Director of Marketing and Special Events for Boys & Girls Clubs of North Mississippi.
For the last two years, however, the high-energy fundraiser has had to change their festivities to follow COVID-19 health and safety guidelines. The upcoming event represents a return to form.
"In 2022, we have gone back to the original plan to where things were before COVID-19," Storey said.
Dinner will be provided by Tupelo's Link Centre volunteers under the direction of Chef David Leathers. Talbot House Bakery and Cafe will provide their well-known chocolate chip cookies for dessert.
General admission tickets are available at the door for $20. While those tickets don't include dinner, Storey described the seating for general admission as "the best seat in the house.”
This year's celebrity dancers include Keith Storey of Ripley, Shaletha Knox of New Albany, and Tommy Green, Jessica Hollinger, Meagan Cherry, Councilwoman Rosie Jones, Judge Anthony Rogers, and Mary-Morgan Burks all of Tupelo.
Burks is currently leading the pack in fundraising, having collected $56,506 as of Wednesday, July 20. She is also the first third-generation dancer in the event’s history. Both her grandfather and mother have taken part in the program as dancers.
Oxford will be represented by Brady Bramlett and Nancy Maria Balach who will provide special entertainment. Both Bramlett and Balach were celebrity dancers for past Dance Like the Stars events.
Each year, funds raised from Dance Like the Stars goes directly towards aiding local Boys & Girls Clubs in Oxford, New Albany, Ripley and Tupelo. The goal for this year's fundraiser is to collect $225,000.
Aside from providing summer attendees with fun activities, the North Mississippi Boys & Girls Clubs also serve lunch and snacks for the children under their care.
"The good thing about this event is the money is being used all summer long," Storey said. "When money comes in, that's really helping us a lot because our costs are higher in the summer.”
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‘Why Greenwood?’: Vigil held for victims of Greenwood Park Mall shooting
Muhammad Safder and his 18-year-old daughter were in the Greenwood Park Mall food court Sunday afternoon when police say a man was waiting to emerge from a bathroom and open fire there.
A suggestion to eat at home led them away, said Safder, 57 of Beech Grove. They were in the Barnes and Noble a little while later when stores began to lock their doors, and Safder decided to leave and drive home.
"It didn't hit me until we found out there were some fatalities," said Safder, a board member of the Muslim Community Center.
Safder was one of several community leaders at Friday evening's Prayer Vigil for Healing at Greenwood Amphitheater.
The vigil was held to help people cope five days after a gunman opened fire on the food court at Greenwood Park Mall. Within 15 seconds Sunday he fatally shot three people and injured two before an armed civilian returned fire, killing him. The first 911 calls were received at 6:05 p.m.
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Well over a hundred people gathered in the park's grass as the sun bowed behind the amphitheater. Some of their arms clutched their neighbors' as prayer and song spanned religions. The only competition to the speakers' voices were bugs, birds and the faint cries of babies.
People prayed for the victims, first responders, mall employees, witnesses and the community. Among those killed were Pedro Piñeda, 56, and his wife Rosa Mirian Rivera de Piñeda, 37, and 30-year-old Victor Gomez. A 12-year-old girl and a 22-year-old woman were injured.
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Attendees also prayed for the shooter's family, whose attorney issued a statement just hours before the vigil began. The armed bystander was also praised, both by religious leaders and Greenwood Mayor Mark Myers.
"Why Greenwood?" Myers asked, lamenting that the community may never get that answer. Myers said now is the time for community members to show they care.
"Being together tonight in prayer will allow our hearts to start to heal as we come together to become a stronger and a more resilient community," Myers said. "This shooting will not define Greenwood. It will not define our community. I will not allow that to happen."
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As Sour Frank approached the cafe, Rosa stood in the doorway, pointing to a sign above her head.
“No firearms in Carlos’ cafe, Frank. Your AR-15 included.”
“I have the right to ...”
“Let me guess. Protect our way of life?” She folded her arms. “Some way of life, amigo. We’re a nation of guns, governed by fear.” Frank rolled his eyes and muttered.
It was on. “So the freedom of you and a small group of people to possess that stupid combat weapon is worth all of us losing our freedom to go to a parade, go to church, shop at a mall, go to a movie or send our little ones off to school without being afraid?”
“I carry this to protect us from criminals, Rosa. And to protect our country from crazies plotting to take it over.”
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Lurlene joined in. “Like your pals who plotted to take it over on January 6th?” Lurlene asked Frank if he knew how many times assault weapons had been used “by so-called patriots” to defend our way of life.
The diner fell silent.
“Zero. How many times have assault weapons been used to slaughter thousands of Americans?” My coffee grew as cold as the chill between old friends. Outnumbered, Frank stowed the gun in his truck. He returned, bowed his head over his order of three sides of bacon and prayed aloud. “Tucker is my shepherd, I shall not want fake news. He restoreth my country. Even though I walk through the valley of Hillary I will fear no Democrat.” Frank winked at Lurlene. “For Donald Trump, whose election was stolen, art with me. My AR-15 and our coming victory in the midterms, they comfort me. Amen.”
I noticed Frank’s “It’s not a choice, it’s a child” button at the same time Frank noticed Lurlene’s “I support Planned Parenthood” button. Frank was not going to leave it alone. ”Say what you will about the 10-year old rape victim who crossed state lines to get an abortion, Lurlene, at least she won’t have to put up with some woke teacher taking her away from shooter lockdown drills just to shove critical race theory down her throat.”
Lurlene exploded. “Like the Supreme Court Ayatollahs who shoved their religious belief about when life begins down our throats?!“
“It’s in the Bible,” asserted Frank. “Thou shalt not kill. Babies.”
“Where’s that? Two Corinthians? Ancient Biblical tradition holds that life begins when the first breath is drawn from creation. Your religion isn’t the state religion, Frank. Not yet.”
Rosa interrupted our theological bickering with a question. “Is it legal for a woman to drive across state lines to get an abortion?”
Lurlene scowled. “Better do it while it’s still legal for a woman to drive.”
Frank pushed his plate aside. “Make jokes all you want, Lurlene, but some of us respect the sanctity of life.”
Lurlene rolled her eyes. “How can someone like you who worships guns used to slaughter people lecture any of us about the ‘sanctity of life’. What about the sanctity of my womb? Thanks to you, the uterus of every woman in this cafe, this town and this state is now the property of the state!”
“You’re hysterical. Just what I’d expect from the crew still shaking in their boots over the COVID hoax.”
“Your ‘hoax’ killed friends of ours. And another thing, if you dare to whine one more time about a mask infringing on your precious right to control your body I’m going to …“
Carlos clanged two pans together. “Lurlene! Frank!”
“What?! Thanks to this self-righteous blowhard every woman in here is now a second-class citizen! With less rights! I’m waiting for the great Midwest and half of rural Arizona to secede, form a union, name itself Gilead and declare Frank their King.“
Frank responded with the familiar talking points. Chaos at the border. Woke politics. Biden’s economy. I responded with the Jan. 6th committee’s findings and the CNBC survey calling Arizona the worst state in the union when it comes to air pollution, public health, education and our cost of living. “Or, as Republicans who have run this state for decades would call it — a success story that was 30 years in the making.”
Our quarrel got hotter than the daytime high. Carlos came out of his kitchen and threw ice water on us. “It’s too hot for this, amigos.”
I sneered, “Speaking of climate change, this idiot’s …“
Carlos barked, ”Enough!” The rest of the morning we all ate in silence. Finally Rosa refilled Frank’s cup and smiled sweetly. “Since your gang made all women second-class citizens you may as well take away our right to vote, Frank. That is, if they want to be around after this next election.”
Carlos pleaded. “Rosa!”
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ATLANTIC CITY — A small group of people gathered Friday morning at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center on Pacific Avenue for the unveiling of the latest enhancement to the center's Safe Beginnings program — a vehicle for in-home care for expecting mothers and infants.
The Safe Beginnings program, started last year by the medical center, is funded by grants from the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority. The money helped buy the SUV, which will be used by nurses and doulas to travel to the homes of women and babies.
It is the first program in Atlantic City designed to help combat high rates of both maternal and infant mortality by providing families care from pregnancy up to the child's first birthday.
Services provided by Safe Beginnings include home visitations, a Transitions of Care Clinic and access to free baby safety items such as car seats, regardless of insurance or payment abilities.
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"Having care before, during and after pregnancy and through a baby’s first birthday is so critical to the health of babies and families, and to preventing infant and maternal mortality," said Sandra Garrett, assistant vice president for AtlantiCare Women's and Children's Services.
The mortality rate for infants is six of every 1,000 live births in Atlantic County, compared with four of every 1,000 statewide, which is "reason for concern," according to New Jersey state health assessment data.
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The program coincides with AtlantiCare's Women's and Children's Services, which provides care to 61 mothers and infants, although AtlantiCare is committed to seeing at least 100 patients this year.
"By using this bright, branded Safe Beginnings vehicle, we show our presence in the community to increase awareness about the program," said Garrett, who said when the team is in the home, they also assess the environment to identify other needs families might have.
Garrett said lack of transportation, housing and food insecurity, and social or emotional issues are some of the many barriers that keep some of their patients from getting access to necessary prenatal care.
The Safe Beginnings team includes certified nurse midwives, certified community doulas, a social worker, neonatologist, peer specialist and registered nurses. They not only provide care and services to women and infants in need but also provide parents with education and help connect them with community resources to give them a healthy start.
Charney Briggs, one of two doulas in the program, is one of the many AtlantiCare workers to have used her own vehicle to see patients before Safe Beginnings got its own. The vehicle allows them to meet patients wherever they are, whether it be at home, in a library or even a café.
"It's very important to provide affordable care to the women and infants of Atlantic City," said Briggs, who sees at least 10 to 15 mothers and infants a week. "This levels the playing field so they get the best care and support."
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Safe Beginnings organizes several other events for expecting mothers and infants, including quarterly baby showers for women in the program that offer them a group setting to connect with other women, talk to staff, work together and be more engaged in the program.
AtlantiCare also provides other services for expecting mothers and families, including having their Center for Childbirth, NICU, Maternal Fetal Medicine, Family Planning and OB/GYN services at their Mainland location in Galloway Township, which will eventually be moved to their new comprehensive care building in Atlantic City, set to open in the fall.
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CAPE MAY — The Nature Conservancy hosted a Monarch Mania community event Friday at the Garrett Family Preserve and cut the ribbon on a new butterfly sculpture by Brazilian artist Rubem Robierb.
“Rubem Robierb’s monarch-inspired butterfly sculpture will be a jewel in the crown of this beautiful preserve and provide another way for people to contemplate and engage with nature … plus it is a great photo opp,” said Barbara Brummer, the Nature Conservancy's state director.
The permanent sculpture, titled "Dream Machine Monarch," has an interactive feature that allows viewers to place themselves between the wings of the monarch butterfly to take photos and celebrate the transformational power of nature.
This isn't Robierb's first monarch sculpture, as he created "Dream" in 2018. His work has appeared in temporary exhibits all around the world, notably in New York City, Miami, Paris and Toronto.
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Robierb's inspiration comes from his belief that the monarch butterfly symbolizes believing in your dreams.
"I think, to me, butterflies mean transformation and evolution, and this is a sculpture that people can relate to," Robierb said. "It's nice to see people from many different backgrounds come here to the Nature Conservancy and do the same thing. They think about what their dream is, stand up between the wings, take a photo."
OCEAN CITY — Children from Discovery World preschool reacted with unabashed enthusiasm as Ca…
Aside from the sculpture from being an eye catcher for visitors, it emphasizes the importance of pollinators and the state's crucial role in monarch migration.
Brummer said the butterflies use this habitat as a stopover site during migration.
"They fly to Mexico during the winter, and that's why it's important for us to maintain this habitat," Brummer said. "They need to be able to make that trip, so they need to stock up on nectars for nourishment."
Brummer added that since the butterflies actively pollinate, they allow flowers and other things in the habitat to be pollinated.
Apart from the ribbon cutting ceremony, there were plenty of activities to keep families entertained, including butterfly face painting and crafts.
In the mid-1990s, the Nature Conservancy stepped up to protect the land that was originally known as the Cape Island Creek Preserve and prevented a plan that would've seen 24 houses developed there.
The Atlantic County Utilities Authority hosted its 30th annual Earth Day Festival on Sunday.…
The organization then received funding in 2010 from the family of Jim Garrett, a former illustrator for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Aside from having a love of art, Garrett had a love of nature and brought his family to Cape May on the weekends to enjoy the outdoors.
Once they received the funds, the organization used it to add several amenities, including a picnic pavilion and bird blind, and to improve the more than 4 miles of trails.
The preserve was renamed the Garrett Family Preserve in 2013 and now also features some artistic elements that Brummer wanted to make sure they incorporated.
"We have three adjustable art easels so people can come out here and draw or paint," Brummer said. "Then one of our trails is called the Braille Trail and for the visually impaired, they have a way to experience nature. They are able to hear things, and the trail has different stations on it that are in braille."
The unveiling of the sculpture came a day after the International Union for Conservation of Nature added the migratory monarch butterfly to its Red List of Threatened Species and classified them as endangered.
The union estimates the native population of the monarch butterfly has shrunk between 22% and 72% over the past few years and the western population has declined by more than 90% between 1980 and last year, which puts them at a high risk of extinction.
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Upon hearing that news, Good Morning America meteorologist Sam Champion, who was among those in attendance, stressed the importance of saving them.
"I feel like we all took monarchs for granted and never really thought much about protecting them when you would see hundreds of them swarm around you in a field," Champion said. "It's tragic that the numbers are going down, and we want to see our children and grandchildren get to experience catching them and running around with them in a field."
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/nature-conservancy-debuts-monarch-butterfly-sculpture-in-cape-may/article_e5ff368a-09ca-11ed-aac9-038d5a4a2659.html | 2022-07-23T11:01:58 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/nature-conservancy-debuts-monarch-butterfly-sculpture-in-cape-may/article_e5ff368a-09ca-11ed-aac9-038d5a4a2659.html |
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Debra Watts took only the bare necessities when she vacated her home at Seven Oaks Apartments to stay at a nearby Motel 6.
Her beloved dog, Baby, her medicine and a few dresses were among the few items that made the cut.
Watts, 59, is one of several Seven Oaks tenants staying at the motel because of what they see as inhuman living conditions. Watts has been there for a week and a half because of a broken air-conditioning unit in her apartment while San Antonio has experienced a streak of high temperatures.
“Ever since we’ve been in this situation, we’ve become like family,” Watts said. “We draw closer to each other.”
District 7 City Councilwoman Ana Sandoval used campaign funds to pay for 15 motel rooms for five days so Seven Oaks tenants without air conditioning could have a place to stay while their units were repaired. The city and the county funded a few more days for those still waiting on repairs.
As of Friday, 19 motel rooms for tenants were paid for through Monday, according to Andrew Solano, Sandoval’s chief of staff.
Residents have been vocal about their experiences with broken air conditioning, water leaks, mold and other problems that many said have gone unaddressed for months.
They partnered with Texas Organizing Project representatives last month to push for apartment repairs and to protest evictions. They have demanded change from the owner, Achieve Investment Group, and called on Mayor Ron Nirenberg for help.
Colin Strother, a consultant for Achieve Properties, said the company is doing its best to respond to tenant concerns as quickly as possible.
Strother said the company is creating a new tenant hotline to add another avenue for tenants to report problems and will be conducting individual assessments Monday and Tuesday to get a list of all deficiencies in the units.
There currently are four open work order requests for air-conditioning units, Strother said. Two units were being repaired Friday, and the other two are scheduled to be fully replaced next week.
Sandoval spent Friday morning and early afternoon meeting tenants of Seven Oaks Apartments — first while accompanying San Antonio code enforcement officers as they inspected several units at the Northwest Side complex and then going to the motel parking lot to help distribute San Antonio Food Bank meals to residents.
“I almost wish we had gotten involved sooner,” Sandoval said. “Nobody deserves to live in these conditions and certainly not for as long as they’ve been doing.”
Mike Shannon, director of the city’s Development Services Department, said complaints about Seven Oaks started coming in last month.
The complex has 254 units, 140 of which are occupied. Code enforcement officers have inspected about one-fourth of the occupied units, city public relations manager Ximena Copa-Wiggins said.
They issued 22 citations earlier this month to the complex for problems such as broken air-conditioning units, lack of hot water and dumpster maintenance issues.
When code enforcement officers checked 15 of the units Friday, five still had violations. Repairs had been made in three units, and seven units could not be reinspected because tenants were not present to let the officers in. Four additional apartments also were inspected because of new complaints.
Copa-Wiggins said one of the new units inspected Friday had a broken air-conditioning unit, but the parts to repair it have been ordered.
Another issue that code enforcement officers addressed was a leak outside one of the buildings. Water covered the nearby sidewalk, muddying a large patch of grass nearby. Shannon said it is wasting water and “causing major problems” for tenants, likely reducing water pressure in the building.
“We understand that things happen in units from time to time, but the number that we’re seeing and the lack of quick response by the owner is unacceptable,” Shannon said early on during Friday’s inspection process. “So that’s why we’re here. It’s not a good thing. We think that residents deserve better.”
When Achieve took ownership of the Seven Oaks Apartments in November, Strother said, there were a couple dozen nonpaying tenants and the property was in “a terrible state of disrepair.”
Achieve is looking to upgrade the property with a $2 million rehabilitation budget. Strother said the new ownership has spent about $208,000 so far on cosmetic upgrades, such as power washing and painting building exteriors, cleaning up the property and improving the site’s landscaping.
The plan is to continue making improvements over the next 12 to 15 months, he said. Achieve also is renaming the property: Seven Oaks Apartments will become Colinas at Medical.
“They want to have different branding,” Strother said, “because they feel that it’s going to be a wholly different experience for the tenants.”
megan.rodriguez@express-news.net | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Unacceptable-San-Antonio-apartment-tenants-17323705.php | 2022-07-23T11:14:19 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Unacceptable-San-Antonio-apartment-tenants-17323705.php |
The Oregon Oldtime Fiddlers invite the community to join their Winchester Bay “Fiddle at the Beach” Campout. The event will begin at 9 a.m. Thursday, August 18, and conclude Sunday morning, August 21. The festivities will be held at the Winchester Bay Community Center located at 635 Broadway in Winchester Bay.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday will be filled with open jams all day long. An evening stage show will begin each evening at 6 p.m. Friday will be Contest Night with this year’s theme of “Favorite Old Time Song.” Performers often wear costumes adding humor to their chosen song. The festivities will conclude Sunday morning with a Gospel Show which begins at 9 a.m. until all musicians have played their song, typically around 11 a.m. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/oldtime-fiddlers-to-host-campout/article_b1b0d932-085e-11ed-b275-83e16d408d94.html | 2022-07-23T11:17:14 | 1 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/oldtime-fiddlers-to-host-campout/article_b1b0d932-085e-11ed-b275-83e16d408d94.html |
Four people were killed early Saturday morning in a fiery three-car collision in Newark, authorities said.
Police responded to Frelinghuysen Avenue and Evergreen Avenue just after 4:15 a.m. for a crash and found three cars engulfed in flames.
Four people who were trapped in the cars all died of their injuries, officials said. A fifth person was taken to University Hospital in critical condition.
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The past several months have been tough on nearly everyone: Gas prices hit an all-time average high in June, inflation rates reached a four-decade high and supply and labor problems have persisted.
All population segments have been affected, but nowhere is the pain felt more acutely than with local and independent farmers, especially because of the record high costs of diesel fuel.
Dennis Koehler is a grain and beef farmer who co-owns Dale Koehler & Sons Farm in Bethlehem. During this year’s spring planting season, diesel prices almost doubled compared to the previous year.
Every step of the farming process, from fertilizing to harvesting, requires diesel, which still averaged $5.82 a gallon Friday, more than two dollars above the average price of a year ago.
“The cost of getting all the seeds from the manufacturer went up and the cost of shipping fertilizer went up, before we even planted,” Koehler said. “Then we have to work the soil, and of course we need fuel for the tractor.
“Then we need fuel for the planter, fuel for the spray rigs and the fertilizer, fuel for harvesting, fuel for drying and for delivering the crop to market. So the high gas prices doesn’t just affect our operation once, it affects it 10 or 12 times over.”
Among farmers, the topic of fuel prices and inflation is discussed “constantly.” Becky Rinaldi, co-owner of Rinaldi Farm, a soybean and corn farm in Easton, said crop farmers are “angry.”
Rinaldi said that the increase in fertilizer and fuel prices have really hurt their farm because her husband delivers their corn to mills in a large rig every day. She predicts that the economic crisis will not break for farmers within the calendar year, but her farm can weather the moment by digging into savings. Many farmers cannot rely on such savings and will be forced out of business, she said.
“My husband and I have been farmers for our entire lives, and we haven’t seen a situation like this, with all these combined factors, ever before,” Rinaldi said.
The increased cost of farming crops and livestock translates to higher prices for market vendors selling fresh produce. At the Allentown Farmers Market, many independent vendors are shouldering the impact of these price upticks.
Diane Billig, who works at Red Barn Produce, says her stall will be forced to absorb $5,000-$6,000 of additional expenses because of fuel increases. Her prices have also noticeably increased, she said.
“Some items have nearly doubled in price, and I can see the shock on customers’ faces,” Billig said. “We’ve also had to limit our offerings, because we’re in a position now where we’d rather run out of stock than have extra that goes bad.
“Unfortunately, we often find ourselves running out of stock on Saturdays, but at this point, it’s better to run out of stock than to not sell some of it.”
Fortunately, Red Barn Produce has a loyal customer base that purchases consistently despite the price increases, Billig said. However, she worries about customers on fixed incomes, especially seniors, who cannot afford to buy the same amount of food as they used to, she said.
Glenn Miller, who owns catering firm Culinary Experts of Allentown, has experienced multiple customers “getting in [his] face” over price increases, he said. On multiple occasions, people have accused Miller of “taking advantage of the pandemic to raise prices unfairly,” despite his explaining that the increases were due to fuel, labor and supply issues.
Miller also has noticed a change in people’s buying habits.
“Especially in the last two weeks, what I’m noticing is people are being more prudent about how they shop,” he said. “They’re buying less of the fancier, gourmet items. It’s noticeable, and that recession has been going on for a while.”
At Heckenberger’s Seafood in the Farmers Market, supply and labor issues have had the biggest impact, employee Bubba Adams said. Prices have gone up because suppliers and shippers are “short on help,” and their stock has shifted because the stall “just cannot get” many of their usual offerings, he said.
To cope with seafood scarcities, the stall has had to source different products and set up relationships with new smokehouses, which has been complicated, he said.
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Paul Bedway III, co-owner of Bedway Produce, also has sourcing difficulties. He sells some produce that comes from California.
“When goods are driven across the country in trucks that don’t have great gas mileage, that price per gallon affects everything,” Bedway said. “Consider potatoes that come from Idaho: They come in 50-pound boxes, with many of those boxes stacked in a heavy truck that already doesn’t get good gas mileage. That’s definitely going to have a negative impact on everyone.”
Supply price increases are not just limited to the actual produce, Bedway added. The prices of items that many people might not give much thought to, such as plastic bags and paper fruit containers, have also skyrocketed.
“Things are so much more expensive altogether, even just the quarts that we put tomatoes in,” Bedway said. “Every week, we need to buy more quarts to display our goods in, but those quarts have doubled or even tripled in price recently. So have our fruit trays. Every little thing has increased in price exponentially.”
For the most part, customers have been understanding of produce price increases, Bedway said. His business is trying to buy produce locally, if possible. The crisis for farmers and vendors is “a crazy, unique combination of things” caused by a slew of domestic and international factors, he said.
Each farmer and vendor noted that despite the uncertainty and direness of the economy, farming is unpredictable and those who work in agriculture are by nature adaptable.
“It’s a very bad situation right now,” Koehler said. “But people like me have learned how to roll with the punches, so that’s what we’ll have to do for a while.” | https://www.mcall.com/news/local/allentown/mc-nws-allentown-local-farmers-economy-troubles-impact-20220723-mjq7yi4kprehhjucfannfnv2re-story.html | 2022-07-23T11:27:21 | 0 | https://www.mcall.com/news/local/allentown/mc-nws-allentown-local-farmers-economy-troubles-impact-20220723-mjq7yi4kprehhjucfannfnv2re-story.html |
100 years ago
July 23, 1922: Condemnation proceedings will begin against certain properties bordering on Sugar Creek as a step toward the acquisition by Bloomington and Normal Sanitary District of all the property needed for the widening and deepening of the creek. The purpose is to prevent the flooding of the creek above the city water works, which causes sewage to be carried away with the flood water.
75 years ago
July 23, 1947: Coffers of 12 Bloomington societal, civic and fraternal organizations were enriched by $3,108.35 after a decision by County Judge Robert C. Underwood in the much-discussed case of "The People vs. 111 Slot Machines." The judge ordered confiscation and destruction of the machines and the stands on which they rested, but ordered the county sheriff to return to the defendant organizations all the money found in them.
50 years ago
July 23, 1972: Mrs. Edith Pressler Belt, 76, co-founder of the Steak 'n Shake restaurant chain, died at 2:45 a.m. July 22 at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. Belt, who was living in St. Louis, and her late husband, Augustus "Gus," opened their first restaurant at Main and Virginia in Normal in 1934. Since then, the chain has grown to 62 restaurants, including three locally. The home office is at 1700 W. Washington.
25 years ago
July 23, 1997: The McLean County Board reversed an earlier decision and approved a controversial rural LeRoy park planned by board member Bill Emmett. Critics argue the 1-acre park, honoring the Kickapoo Indians, is simply a way for Emmett to continue his crusade against megahog farms, since new state regulations prohibit larger-scale livestock facilities within a half-mile of outdoor recreational facilities.
Compiled by Pantagraph staff | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/history/50-years-ago-steak-n-shake-cofounder-dies-at-age-76/article_66d3bd06-09e1-11ed-8113-57b47301c3c6.html | 2022-07-23T11:32:53 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/history/50-years-ago-steak-n-shake-cofounder-dies-at-age-76/article_66d3bd06-09e1-11ed-8113-57b47301c3c6.html |
A Thomasville resident with a violent criminal history who fled from police after being caught illegally with multiple weapons has been sentenced to serve 21 years in prison for his crime.
VALDOSTA – A Thomasville resident with a violent criminal history who fled from police after being caught illegally with multiple weapons — including a stolen AR-15 semi-automatic rifle — has been sentenced to serve 21 years in prison for his crime.
Torrieo Monte Johnson, aka Corker, 40, was sentenced to 260 months in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Hugh Lawson after he previously pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. There is no parole in the federal system.
“Armed career offenders face accountability for their crimes at the federal level,” U.S. Attorney Peter D. Leary said in a news release. “The Department of Justice’s Project Safe Neighborhoods program calls for reducing violent crime in our communities using all of the federal, state and local resources available. Enforcement efforts remain focused on bringing violent repeat offenders to justice as we work together to make our neighborhoods safer.”
“This case is the product of a concerted collaborative effort on the part of ATF and its local partners to target, investigate and prosecute the perpetrators of violent crime,” ATF Assistant Special Agent in Charge Beau Kolodka said.
According to court documents and other evidence, Johnson — a convicted felon — and another individual ran from Thomasville Police Department officers after they discovered multiple weapons inside the vehicle Johnson was driving on June 26, 2019. The officers found a 9mm semi-automatic pistol, a .22 semi-automatic rifle, and a Spikes Tactical .223 semi-automatic rifle, along with multiple firearm magazines and boxes of ammunition. The Spikes Tactical weapon was reported stolen during a burglary at a Thomasville residence on June 17, 2019.
Arrest warrants were issued for Johnson, and he was captured in Tallahassee, Fla., on July 3, 2019. Johnson has a lengthy criminal history to include felony convictions for arson in the first degree, distribution of a controlled substance and burglary.
This case is being prosecuted as part of the joint federal, state, and local Project Safe Neighborhoods Program, the centerpiece of the Department of Justice’s violent crime reduction efforts.
The case was investigated by the Thomasville Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Assistant U.S. Attorney Sonja Profit prosecuted the case for the government.
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LYNCHBURG, Va. – The Lynchburg Police Department is investigating a shooting that happened behind Greenhaus Beer Garden early Saturday morning.
I happened at about 1:18 a.m.
Officers were on foot patrol near the intersection of 12th Street and Main Street when gunshots rang out in the parking lot behind the bar, located at 1124 Church Street. Officers entered the lot and found a man with a gunshot wound to the lower leg.
He was treated on scene until he was transported to Lynchburg General Hospital for treatment. He is expected to recover.
At this time, no suspects have been identified.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact Detective Campbell at (434) 485-7267 or Crime Stoppers at (888) 798-5900.
This is an ongoing investigation. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/23/man-injured-in-shooting-near-lynchburg-beer-garden/ | 2022-07-23T12:55:01 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/23/man-injured-in-shooting-near-lynchburg-beer-garden/ |
Robert LeRoy Rosenow, an inmate with the Iowa Department of Corrections, died on Monday, the department announced.
Rosenow, who was 64, died of natural causes at the Iowa Medical Classification Center, according to the department.
Rosenow was convicted of three counts of sexual abuse and three counts of lascivious acts with a minor in Scott County. He was serving a 70-year maximum prison sentence which began March 21, 2001. In 2002, the Iowa Court of Appeals denied an appeal from Rosenow to reduce his sentencing.
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Quincy Koala poses for a photo with children Wednesday at the Cedar Valley Hospice grief camp.
The board reversed its decision and rescinded his parole in March after a major disciplinary incident occurred and prison officials recommended revocation of his parole. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/state-and-regional/iowa-prison-inmate-convicted-in-scott-county-dies/article_47a7c62d-81fd-516d-b7e1-191b1f4cf80c.html | 2022-07-23T13:04:39 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/state-and-regional/iowa-prison-inmate-convicted-in-scott-county-dies/article_47a7c62d-81fd-516d-b7e1-191b1f4cf80c.html |
Kenosha Creative Space is hosting an all-day music event from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. today (July 23).
Creative Space Fest 2.0 takes place Downtown in the street in front of Creative Space, 624 57th St.
“This year’s lineup features some of Kenosha’s own talent, as well as regional acts that have been nationally noticed,” said Creative Space Executive Director Francisco Loyola.
Loyola said the goal of the event is to bring the community together with art and music, while raising funds for Creative Space.
Tickets are $15 at the gate for adults; free for people under age 18. Advance tickets are $10, available through the Kenosha Creative Space Facebook page.
The schedule
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Family fun. Lots of hands-on activities including painting, a community mural project, lawn games, a photo booth, face painting, flash mobs, tie dyes, art demonstrations and more. Many of these activities will continue throughout the day, as well.
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12:30 to 10 p.m.: Live music on two two stages — six full bands on the main stage and solo artists during set changes on the side acoustic stage.
There will be also be artist vendors.
Main Stage music lineup:
12:30 to 1:30 p.m.: Mykal Baas & The Delivery Men: Mykall Baas is a well-rounded musician and a man of many projects and a history of material drawing back to his high school years.
2 to 3 p.m.: Indigo Canyon: Indigo Canyon is native to Kenosha. They offer an eclectic mixture of blues, funk, folk and many other different music styles. They have a large emphasis on vocal harmonies and infectious guitar grooves. They frequently can be found playing a wide array of cover music all over the southeastern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois. However, this show will be a rare performance of all original music.
3:30 to 4:30 p.m.: Miles Over Mountains: A talent from Illinois, these musicians also play an interesting blend of progressive music and bluegrass. With mandolin guitar, banjo and bass and years of touring under their belt, this band won’t fail to amuse you with their original style of instrumental music and songs.
5 to 6 p.m.: Spare Change Trio: Spare Change Trio is known largely for their eclectic live performances that incorporate the Australian yidaki (didgeridoo) into flowing soundscapes of reggae, funk, and jazz-fusion.
6:30 to 8 p.m.: Bodhicitta: With their blend of funk, rock, jazz fusion, bluegrass and a vast range of influences, Bodhicitta is sure to please the senses. Opening for groups like Los Lobos and the Wailers, and The String Cheese Incident, you never know what to expect from this band. They are known to change it up in various performances.
8:30 to 10 p.m.: Peace Tree All Stars: This eclectic group of local musicians takes the stage for a prime-time performance.
Acoustic Stage music lineup:
1:30 to 2 p.m.: Brent Mitchell: He has been featured on television and has played all over the world introducing his interesting blend of blues country and Americana.
3 to 3:30 p.m. and 4:30-5 p.m.: Billy Farmer: Solo artist from Lake Geneva who plays folk style songs with jam band, and jazz style instrumentals.
6 to 6:30 p.m. and 8-8:30 p.m.: Kyle Young: Solo artist, who covers songs from many different styles of music with his guitar and keyboard. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenosha-creative-space-fest-2-0-is-july-23/article_e05362aa-09cb-11ed-b5f0-33439e30d46f.html | 2022-07-23T13:26:12 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenosha-creative-space-fest-2-0-is-july-23/article_e05362aa-09cb-11ed-b5f0-33439e30d46f.html |
Forget about all those gourmet flavors for a moment and celebrate Vanilla Ice Cream Day. It may not be as exciting as a dish of Triple Mocha Salted Caramel, but when you’re looking for a good, old-fashioned scoop of comfort, you turn to your old friend, vanilla ice cream.
Bobblehead alert: The Kenosha Kingfish return to Simmons Field tonight, for a 6:05 p.m. game against the Kokomo Jackrabbits. But more important than a baseball game is the team’s first 2022 bobblehead giveaway! Scuba Diver Elvis will be given out to fans, while supplies last. Stick around for post-game fireworks, too. There’s also a $28 ticket package available. For details, go to the team’s Facebook page. For tickets and more information, go to Kingfishbaseball.com, call 262-653-0900, or go to the ticket office at Simmons Field, 7817 Sheridan Road.
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The Jerry Smith Pumpkin Farm, 7150 18th St., is hosting a new event — Chalk Fest — from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. today (and Sunday). Artists signed up in advance to claim an 8-by-8-foot square to create the chalk art. There will also be live music, food, a beer garden and booths offering crafts and other items. Admission is free. The chalk art People’s Choice Judging begins at 3:30 p.m. today and ends at 5 p.m. on Sunday. jerrysmithfarm.com/event/chalk-fest.
The St. Mary Catholic Church Festival opens today outside the church, 7307 40th Ave. Musical entertainment today features the band Mitch the Lip and Side Hustle, performing from 7 to 10 p.m. Games include Bingo, mini golf, pull tabs, a Kids’ Zone and Chuck-O-Luck. The festival is open 3 to 10 p.m. today and noon to 8 p.m. Sunday.
Huzzah! The Bristol Renaissance Faire is open for another season of making merry while wearing chain mail. The Faire celebrates the day in 1574 when Queen Elizabeth visited Bristol, England. If you see the queen, remember to use your best royal wave to greet her majesty. The Faire is open weekends through Sept. 5, located just west of I-94 at the Wisconsin/Illinois border. For more details, go to renfair.com/bristol/ | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/todays-events-for-saturday-july-23/article_b05b9196-093d-11ed-a99d-af56ce4a21cb.html | 2022-07-23T13:26:18 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/todays-events-for-saturday-july-23/article_b05b9196-093d-11ed-a99d-af56ce4a21cb.html |
BRISTOL, Va. (WJHL) – News Channel 11’s Kelly Grosfield sat down with Bristol, Virginia Mayor Anthony Farnum to discuss his leadership background and ongoing projects throughout the city.
Have a question for the Mayor who represents the city or county where you live in Northeast Tennessee or Southwest Virginia? Email them to KGrosfield@WJHL.com. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/first-at-four/meet-the-mayor-bristol-virginia-mayor-anthony-farnum/ | 2022-07-23T13:28:58 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/first-at-four/meet-the-mayor-bristol-virginia-mayor-anthony-farnum/ |
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Newly released video appears to show a character at Sesame Place Philadelphia denying an interaction to two young Black girls while greeting people next to the pair, a gesture the family’s lawyer says contradicts the theme park’s original claims following the incident.
The new video is the latest development in what the family says was a clear example of racial discrimination against the 6-year-olds. B’Ivory LaMarr, the lawyer for the New York family, had telegraphed the release of the new video on Wednesday, saying it would show that the performer intentionally ignored the girls.
The video shows that after passing the girls, the character playing Rosita reached toward another girl – who LaMarr said was white – to give her what appears to be a hug.
In the original video, the Black girls are seen excitedly reaching out to the character. Although it appears that the performer had interacted with other children before reaching the girls, the video seems to show the character shaking their head “no” in the direction of the two girls.
Sesame Place originally said the performer’s costume may have made it difficult to see the girls and that the “no” gesture made by the character in the first video was not specifically aimed at the pair. The gesture, the park said, was made in “response to multiple requests from someone in the crowd who asked Rosita to hold their child for a photo which is not permitted.”
Asked for comment about the new video on Friday, the theme park pointed NBC10 to a statement saying that it “wholeheartedly” apologized to the family and that what the girls experienced was “unacceptable” and “antithetical to our values, principles and purpose.”
The park said it was reviewing its practices and instituting mandatory training for all employees to deliver an “equitable” and “inclusive” experience to guests.
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“We are committed to learning all we can from this situation to make meaningful change. We want every child who comes to our park to feel included, seen and inspired,” Sesame Place said.
The girls’ mother and aunt, meanwhile, has demanded the performer be fired. LaMarr, their lawyer, said Wednesday that Sesame Place should be made to cover any expenses related to the mental health of the girls, who he said are now dealing with “severe emotional distress.” | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/new-video-surfaces-in-sesame-place-controversy/3313893/ | 2022-07-23T13:50:59 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/new-video-surfaces-in-sesame-place-controversy/3313893/ |
WINCHESTER, Va. — Remember when you were a kid and your parents said your missing dog or cat had gone to live on a farm? Believe it or not, that farm actually exists — sort of.
John Netzel, founder and operator of the 13-acre animal sanctuary near Winchester, said one of the longest-term residents at Peaceful Fields is Brownie the donkey. Brownie is happy and content today, but his life before coming to the sanctuary eight years ago was horrific.
“He was rescued from the southern Shenandoah Valley,” Netzel said. “He was originally with a small group of horses in a small field, a small yard, and they were starving and denied water. Brownie was electrocuted on a regular basis ... with electric prods just to be cruel.”
Physically, Netzel said, Brownie has long since recovered. Emotionally, the scars remain but he has come a long way.
“He will trust a lot of people and you can interact with him,” Netzel said. “He’s a very sweet, kind, caring boy. He’s definitely one of my favorites.”
Brownie is among dozens of farm animals who never again have to worry about being abused and neglected. That’s because every living creature at Peaceful Fields will forevermore be pampered and loved by Netzel and his small crew of volunteers.
“None of us are paid” to care for the livestock, Netzel said, noting he typically works 10 to 12 hours a day, seven days a week. “But I love it. Can’t imagine doing anything else.”
Peaceful Fields Sanctuary is generally closed to the public, but it hosts three open houses per year so the community can tour the operation and meet the rescued cows, horses, donkeys, goats, chickens, turkeys and more that live there.
“It’s a chance for families to come out and spend some time around animals and have a great day,” Netzel said.
Apples are a particular favorite on the farm, especially with Toby the pygmy goat. (Yes, Netzel has named every one of the 70 animals at Peaceful Fields Sanctuary.)
As Toby contentedly nibbled on apple slices, Netzel explained the goat had “injured his front leg shortly after being born in the Virginia Beach area and the folks that owned him weren’t interested in providing any medical care. They were just going to snap his neck and kill him.”
Netzel stepped in before that could happen.
“He was almost dead when he got here,” Netzel said, because the compound fracture and open wound on his leg had gone untreated for several days.
Toby received emergency medical care and was stabilized. About a month later, he had regained enough strength for veterinarians from Virginia Tech to address his injured leg. In order for the goat to survive, though, the leg had to be amputated.
But that was the last bad day Toby will ever experience. Seven years after coming to Peaceful Fields, Netzel said, “He is a happy little boy, running around with the other pygmy goats. He’s super social so we take him to schools to visit with children, kids summer camps, lots of events. He’s kind of like our ambassador. Everybody loves our little three-legged goat.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/farm-offers-happily-ever-afters-to-rescued-livestock/2022/07/23/a487887a-0a87-11ed-80b6-43f2bfcc6662_story.html | 2022-07-23T14:04:07 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/farm-offers-happily-ever-afters-to-rescued-livestock/2022/07/23/a487887a-0a87-11ed-80b6-43f2bfcc6662_story.html |
OCEAN CITY, Md. — Sometimes the bright lights of Ocean City are more than they seem, especially if the light pollution they produce impact sea life.
The hotel, about two years after its opening, and the those like it precipitated a zoning code amendment by the city’s planning commission that would address LED lighting standards at current and future developments.
“We’ve spoken to several manufacturing experts to understand how to best measure this brighter light as well as looking at other communities,” said William Neville, director of Planning and Community Development for Ocean City. “We have a light code to deal with the light we’ve had for the past 10 or 20 years, but we need new standards. We haven’t prepared an ordinance yet, but we’ll be preparing one and presenting that to our planning commission in the next 30 days.”
According to Neville, multistory condominium buildings also have been replacing external light fixtures with newer, brighter hardware, leading to complaints to the city’s planning commission. The number of complaints wasn’t immediately known.
Being both a tourist destination and one that is continually growing makes it difficult to pinpoint just one impact from the light pollution. Furthermore, the number of buildings that already use myriad colors to stand out among the numerous businesses could make a light ordinance contentious.
“We are a big, developed community, so it’s hard to say it’s just one property as being behind any impact on natural resources. Our entire community is a city that comes alive at night with bright lights,” Neville said.
The iconic boardwalk, for instance, is replete with a plethora of neon and fluorescent lighting aimed at drawing in customers, especially during the peak summer season.
Florida-based Sea Turtle Conservancy notes nesting turtles once had no trouble finding a quiet, dark beach on which to nest, but now they must compete with tourists, businesses and coastal residents for use of sandy beaches.
As seaside condominiums and hotels dot locations like Ocean City, lights from these developments discourage females from nesting. If a female fails to nest after multiple false crawls, she will resort to less-than-optimal nesting spots or deposit her eggs in the ocean. In either case, the survival outlook for hatchlings is slim.
As recently as 2017, a dole of about 100 baby loggerhead turtles emerged from their eggs and began their journey from the sand to the sea on Assateague Island National Seashore. Ocean City beaches were also where the National Aquarium in Baltimore released three sea turtles after rehabilitation.
“Lighting near the shore also can cause hatchlings to become disoriented and wander inland, where they often die of dehydration or predation. Hatchlings, scientists believe, have an innate instinct that leads them in the brightest horizon, which is usually over the ocean,” the organization said in their species overview.
They also argued excess lighting from the nearshore buildings and streets draw hatchlings toward land, where they may be eaten, run over or drown in swimming pools.
The NOAA Fisheries Service underscores the six species found in U.S. waters are all listed and protected under the Endangered Species Act. They migrate hundreds to thousands of miles every year between feeding grounds and nesting beaches.
Between being accidentally caught by commercial fishermen, pollution in oceans and overdevelopment of coastlines, light pollution also makes them vulnerable. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/ocean-city-considers-turning-down-lights-to-help-sea-turtles/2022/07/23/a10b055a-0a87-11ed-80b6-43f2bfcc6662_story.html | 2022-07-23T14:04:14 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/ocean-city-considers-turning-down-lights-to-help-sea-turtles/2022/07/23/a10b055a-0a87-11ed-80b6-43f2bfcc6662_story.html |
BROADWAY, Va. — In the garish light of a ground floor production space, Ian Young — a young entrepreneur based in Broadway — excitedly clicked through a project management software called Notion.
Young has it pegged down to the day when his product — different varieties of microgreens — will be ready to harvest, package and sell, labeling efficiently stacked plastic palettes of seeds and soil at different stages of planting on tall racks outfitted with lights.
In the headquarters of his business, MicroBite Farms, Young — a transitioning veteran who served in the U.S. Marine Corps — grows over a dozen varieties of microgreens, green plants like broccoli and cilantro that are densely planted from seeds and harvested in under three weeks when they’ve grown their first set of leaves. They’re distinct from “sprouts,” which are grown in water.
“I lost so much weight when I started eating these,” Young said. “I got kind of fat when I got out of the Marines. There are just so many health benefits.”
Before becoming a vendor at the Harrisonburg Farmers Market on Tuesdays and Saturdays, and selling to CrossKeys Vineyards bistro and offering delivery and subscription for the tiny plants, Young — who has always had a green thumb — said he began growing microgreens as a hobby and for their superior nutrient content after having served in the military for four years.
“I just love doing this. It doesn’t feel like work to me. I love interacting with the customers at the market,” Young said. “The restaurant customers are all super friendly.”
These infant-versions of green plants also pack full-grown peppery, sweet and spicy flavors, depending on the plant. Young sells around a dozen varieties, including Red Acre cabbage, Daikon radish, sunflower, broccoli and salad mixes that combine varieties.
“I’ll eat (salads with microgreens) plain without any dressing because it’s just so full of flavor,” Young said. “You’re getting such a huge bang for your buck as far as nutrition.”
To grow them, he starts seeds in a palette of soil that’s weighed down with a concrete block. A subsequent “black out”” phase encourages the plants to develop longer stems. It’s a characteristic that attracted Leonel Velazquez, new executive chef of CrossKeys Vineyards, to partner with MicroBite as one of its first small local vendors.
“We like his product and we were excited to bring it on,” Velazquez said. “We use it for our dishes here at the bistro and for our events. They’re clean, they have good taste. I like to have micros with bigger stems and he does that.”
Young, who’s currently working toward a bachelor’s degree from Penn State University, said he started selling microgreens to restaurants around State College, Penn., but launched right around the pandemic and business was slow.
“I’ve always enjoyed the idea of being my own boss, but when you actually do it it’s really hard. I’m always learning and sometimes I feel like I have no idea what I’m doing,” Young said.
Young said being in the Marines — where it’s important to be on time and prepared — helped him develop the “self-management” he needed to run his own business full-time.
“I don’t think I could have done this before the Marines,” Young said. “You have to take care of yourself and stay fit and show up on time every day. That helps a lot with this. I don’t have days off. If I forget to water or something, the (plants) die.”
Hooked on efficiency, Young said one of the things he likes about this business is the ability to produce a lot of food without using any chemical fertilizers in a small, indoor space.
“That’s kind of the endgame for me is to control everything using the sun but not direct sunlight,” Young said. “Freshness is kind of hard to come by. Distributing on a larger scale but also maintaining quality is my longer-term goal.”
Young, who said he’s found his passion in growing microgreens, said he hopes to scale the business up a large degree. Young said his goal, which “sounds like a dream right now,” is to create a large solar-powered facility.
“At some point you just have to take a chance on something, whether it’s a career track or whatever it may be. And for me, this is it,” Young said. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/veteran-transitions-to-business-with-microgreens/2022/07/23/9d79d722-0a87-11ed-80b6-43f2bfcc6662_story.html | 2022-07-23T14:04:20 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/veteran-transitions-to-business-with-microgreens/2022/07/23/9d79d722-0a87-11ed-80b6-43f2bfcc6662_story.html |
Earlier this month a Dallas jury awarded a former Southwest Airlines flight attendant over $5 million in her lawsuit against the airline and her union after she was terminated for, she claimed, her religious convictions against abortion.
Former employee Charlene Carter stated in her lawsuit that she “is a Christian who believes that abortion is the taking of a human life contrary to the teachings of the Bible and the will of God.” She stated “Carter’s sincere religious beliefs require her to share with others that abortion is the taking of a human life. As a result, Carter opposes abortion and pro-abortion advocate, Planned Parenthood.”
Prior to January 2017, Carter had already been sparring with her union and the union president over issues related to union integrity on social media and had been engaging in oppositional efforts for four years.
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In January 2017, several Southwest Airlines employees and the union president attended the Women’s March in DC where Planned Parenthood was the exclusive premier sponsor. Carter claimed that the union used the union dues money to pay for the expenses of those attending, and that the union promoted the attendance of the “more than two dozen Southwest Airlines flight attendants” who marched.
Immediately thereafter, Carter posted a series of messages on Facebook objecting to the union’s activities. She sent a series of private messages to the union president, including one with a video showing an aborted infant and stating to the president, “This is what you supported during your Paid Leave with others at the Women’s MARCH in DC…You truly are Despicable in so many ways…by the way the RECALL is going to Happen and you are limited in the days you will be living off all of the [Southwest Airlines Flight Attendants]..cant [sic] wait to see you back on line.”
After several meetings with Southwest management, Carter was terminated for alleged violation of the company’s “Workplace Bullying and Hazing Policy” and “Social Media Policy.” In a letter terminating her, the company said she admitted to posting “graphic videos of aborted fetuses on Facebook and sent those same videos in a private Facebook message to another Southwest Flight Attendant.” It added, “You also admitted to sending the Flight Attendant a private message containing a picture of individuals wearing costumes depicting female genitals. You agreed that the pictures and videos were graphic.”
Southwest management told Carter that when she posted the videos and pictures on Facebook she was identifiable as a Southwest Airlines employee and she represented Southwest Airlines “in a manner that is disparaging to Southwest flight attendants” and employees. Southwest management described the posts as harassing and inappropriate.
Carter sued the airline and union pursuant to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act claiming the union and Southwest Airlines failed to accommodate her, and discriminated against her for her religious beliefs. She also sued under the Railway Labor Act.
The jury found that the union and Southwest Airlines unlawfully discriminated against her by causing or attempting to cause her discharge and that such cause or attempt was motivated by her sincerely held religious observances, beliefs or practices. The jury also concluded that the union treated Carter less favorably than other employees and such treatment was motivated by her sincerely held religious observances, beliefs or practices. The jury found that the union and Southwest Airlines failed to accommodate Carter’s religious beliefs, practices or observances, and that she was retaliated against under the Railway Labor act.
Based on jury verdict forms, Carter was awarded $850,000 in compensatory and other damages from both the union and Southwest Airlines, as well as $300,000 in punitive damages against the union and a whopping $3.5 million in punitive damages against Southwest Airlines.
The main problem for the defendants is that there appeared to be years of disrespectful postings in the past and there was no action. It was only when Carter posted about abortion that she was terminated. This inconsistency was detrimental to the employer.
But equally interesting is that while the cause of action arose before the recent Supreme Court opinion reversing the Roe v. Wade decision, the jury verdict came after. Employers have been quick to publicly support abortion rights following the decision, but need to realize not all employees agree on abortion rights. Some employees hold sincerely held religious beliefs against abortion and employers who are actively promoting abortion rights as a company policy might find themselves defending a similar case if an employee feels harassed, discriminated against or not accommodated due to the employee’s sincerely held religious belief against abortion.
Employers need to recognize that employees who hold religious beliefs likely don’t have a right to proselytize unless the employer has encouraged similar conduct with alternative views. Employers should avoid relying upon their own views when an employee seeks an accommodation, and apply the legal standard under Title VII for a reasonable accommodation and/or the right to not be harassed or discriminated against for religious views.
Karen Michael is an attorney and the president of Richmond-based Karen Michael PLC and author of “Stay Hired.” She can be reached at stayhired@stayhired.net. | https://richmond.com/business/local/labor-law-jury-awards-over-5-million-in-damages-to-former-flight-attendant-terminated-after/article_7385aea1-93dd-5280-a118-e3ee93bd3483.html | 2022-07-23T14:10:01 | 0 | https://richmond.com/business/local/labor-law-jury-awards-over-5-million-in-damages-to-former-flight-attendant-terminated-after/article_7385aea1-93dd-5280-a118-e3ee93bd3483.html |
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — DeKalb County Police announced a suspect Friday in the shooting at a gas station that left a good Samaritan and father of three dead. This comes on the day that good Samaritan's family held his funeral.
36-year-old Demario Parrish was killed last week while trying to break up an argument at the Chevron gas station on Candler Road in Decatur. The incident was all captured on security cameras.
Parrish's family and county leaders are hoping to prevent more senseless deaths like his.
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“He was a loving kind of guy, overprotective of his mother, sisters and his family. No matter what, he was always going to protect you from whatever situation you were in," said Angela Phillips, Parrish's mother.
His protectiveness led him to step in a situation at the gas station when he saw a woman and man fighting.
“When I saw it on TV, first thing I said, 'Well, why did he have to shoot him?'” Phillips said.
Parrish's protectiveness over a stranger at a gas station and a man's reaction to that led to his death.
“He's a father of three daughters, which he left behind, and this was just a sudden act that happened overnight that we are still trying to believe it happened," Phillips said.
His three little girls are now left without a father.
“We’re still in disbelief. We haven't even thought that far and him being gone so soon at such a young age," said Raven Phillips Smith, Parrish's aunt.
“I want everybody to remember Demario’s smile. It was a big smile. He was very loving. He never missed a hug from anybody," said Charnese Rice, Parrish's cousin.
DeKalb County Commissioner Lorraine Cochran-Johnson is proposing a new video surveillance system mandate to address concerns about violence at gas stations.
The ordinance would extend to monitored businesses who have more than three calls for police service within 30 consecutive days or a retail establishment where a serious crime took place. Crimes such as murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, kidnapping, armed robbery, rape, child molestation, aggravated sodomy, aggravated sexual battery, and others fall under the umbrella.
"I just want all of the residents of DeKalb to know that we take public safety seriously," said Cochran-Johnson. "I personally will not have a DeKalb County resident fearful to visit a gas or service station or any business in DeKalb County."
The Employee Relations and Public Safety Committee will hear the proposal again on August 4. Cochran-Johnson told 11Alive she is optimistic that DeKalb residents will have a new ordinance to help with curbing crime soon. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/demario-parrish-victim-dekalb-gas-station-shooting/85-0abf7f37-d67d-4322-acc6-3323515a2deb | 2022-07-23T14:11:18 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/demario-parrish-victim-dekalb-gas-station-shooting/85-0abf7f37-d67d-4322-acc6-3323515a2deb |
NEWTON COUNTY, Ga. — The driver killed in a crash earlier this week on Hwy. 11 in Newton County was identified Saturday by authorities.
The Newton County Sheriff's Office identified the driver in the incident as Darrell A. Stowe.
"Mr. Stowe was passing a truck in a no passing zone north on Hwy. 11 when he was struck head on by a south bound tractor trailer," a sheriff's office statement said.
The roadway south of Adams Circle was shut down for several hours when the incident occurred on Thursday. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/newton-county-hwy-11-crash-driver-identified/85-3bd3efb0-de2c-4aea-b521-cc467abb9881 | 2022-07-23T14:11:24 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/newton-county-hwy-11-crash-driver-identified/85-3bd3efb0-de2c-4aea-b521-cc467abb9881 |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Savannah Martinborough said she'd never seen someone so far underwater until her 7-year-old nephew Massiah Browne told her there was a kid at the bottom of the pool at WestLake Apartments in Sacramento.
Massiah said he first spotted the toddler stranded in the water on Tuesday and went to Savannah for help — that's when she told her nephew to pull the kid out of the water.
"He grabbed his arm and came back up with him," Savannah told ABC10.
Adults with CPR training then rushed in to save the toddler as the Sacramento Fire Department provided medical assistance.
The 3-year-old was breathing normally by the time he was transported to a hospital.
Swimming already for half his life, Massiah says he doesn't consider himself a hero for helping save the toddler.
"But my mom does," he said.
Massiah said you can follow his family on Instagram, @thebrownebrothers. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/7-year-old-saves-toddler-from-potentially-drowning/103-701baece-4df5-4351-b599-00f42d9dc582 | 2022-07-23T14:21:53 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/7-year-old-saves-toddler-from-potentially-drowning/103-701baece-4df5-4351-b599-00f42d9dc582 |
One of the most common Bay Area rites of passage is to desperately cling to any housing that’s below market price, no matter if that means putting up with tyrannical master tenants, stifling repair requests or, in the new short story collection “Out There,” spending hours a day moisturizing the walls with lotion.
“Out There” is the first short story collection from 37-year-old San Francisco author Kate Folk, who takes inspiration from the uncanny elements of San Francisco life — from housing scams to dates with robotic techies — and infuses them with a dash of sci-fi imagination, similar to writers like George Saunders and Kelly Link.
In the story “Moist House,” a down-and-out man named Karl is offered a rent-free Bay Area cabin and jumps at the offer, only to learn that the house comes with a big catch. Every few hours the walls will dry out and begin to crack. If he waits too long before moisturizing them, his own skin literally breaks out in rashes, the health of his body becoming intertwined with his new home.
“In a bunch of the stories, something will start going wrong with a room or a house,” Folk said, in an interview outside the Richmond library on 9th Avenue. “It's almost like the house possesses this agency of its own, or some kind of agenda. And people often become transfixed or hypnotized.”
The idea came from Folk’s experience living for 10 years in an early 1900s rent-controlled studio apartment in the Richmond. One evening, she noticed condensation on the wall by her bed, and she dreamed about putting lotion on it.
“I was just living in this one room, it felt like it had become a part of me and I was part of it,” Folk said,. “I kind of hated it, but I was very attached to it.”
Raised in Iowa City, Folk moved to SF in 2008 after a brief stint in New York City. She received a creative writing MFA from University of San Francisco in 2011, and served as an adjunct professor there while participating in fellowships through Stanford and the Headlands Center for the Arts, where she had a studio for three years.
Although making ends meet as a fiction writer in San Francisco without a three-night-a-week Uber side hustle might seem impossible, the fellowships and teaching help Folk pay the bills. She’s also started on a newfound career path in the film industry. After the eponymous short story from “Out There” was published in the New Yorker on the eve of the pandemic in March of 2020, Folk was approached to adapt the concept for television by the creator of the British show “Catastrophe.” Originally Hulu was interested, but Folk can’t share any other details.
The show is based on two stories from “Out There” that center around the concept of “blots,” AI-powered male humanoid robots who have overrun dating apps. The blots have stunted AI conversation abilities, but they make up for a lack of social graces with chiseled jaw lines and permanently perfect hair. Their ultimate goal is to seduce a woman, then take her on a romantic getaway to Big Sur, where the blots will hack her computer, send her banking info to Russian programmers and then disappear in a poof of lavender-scented smoke.
Like the stories about strange houses, “Out There” and its companion story “Big Sur” are inspired by Folk’s experiences in San Francisco, specifically with dating apps.
“I feel like everyone on the apps is working in tech and part of a world that I’m not really in,” Folk says. “The uncanniness of not knowing who you’re talking to — not only are they a stranger in the sense you haven’t met yet — but sometimes they seem uncanny, in the sense that maybe they’re a bot or something.”
Despite the dominance (and perhaps recent decline) of tech in SF, Folk feels like the city still has life left in it and offers plenty of material for a self-identified writer of “weird fiction.” For Folk, the lack of distinguishable seasons makes time move differently. Without summer heat or snow to accompany a memory and demarcate passage of time, it can be hard to pinpoint what time of year something happened.
“San Francisco is just such an otherworldly place. The landscape and the fog, it’s summer and it’s kind of cold, but everywhere else it's hot. It feels a bit like a weird little planet of its own,” she says.
Like many local creatives, she’s often considered moving to Los Angeles, but something always keeps her from leaving — be it a fellowship in Marin, the simple pleasure of sitting in Golden Gate Park, or that nebulously chilly weather. And despite the narrative that San Francisco is in a state of perpetual decline, she cites a thriving literary scene as a legacy of the city’s counterculture heritage.
“Historically, it’s been a place where misfit-type people can wash up and start over, or do their own thing,” Folks says. “That lingering eclectic quality to it can’t be completely stamped out by tech and corporatism." | https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/sf-author-kate-folk-17320401.php | 2022-07-23T14:27:33 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/sf-author-kate-folk-17320401.php |
A man has been charged in the shooting death of a police officer in Rochester, New York, authorities said Friday.
Another officer was wounded late Thursday in what police described as an ambush. A 15-year-old girl in a nearby house was also shot and wounded.
The slain officer, Anthony Mazurkiewicz, a 29-year member of the department, was in a parked vehicle with Officer Sino Seng when 17 rounds were fired into the vehicle from behind, Rochester Police Capt. Frank Umbrino said at a Friday news conference. The two were part of the department’s plainclothes tactical unit and were investigating a murder.
Umbrino said police found Kelvin Vickers, 21, hiding in the crawl space of a vacant house near the scene about an hour after the shooting, as well as a loaded 9 mm handgun. Umbrino said preliminary testing determined that the gun had been used in the shooting.
Vickers was charged with second-degree murder, attempted murder, assault and weapons counts.
The department’s chief, David Smith, called the shooting “a cowardly ambush” at a briefing earlier Friday.
Vickers is from the Boston, Massachusetts area and has an “extensive criminal background,” Umbrino said. He declined to elaborate, or to comment on why Vickers was in Rochester.
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Seng, after being struck in the lower body, got out of the vehicle and fired at the shooter, who was not hit. Seng was treated at a hospital and released. The girl, who was struck by a bullet that penetrated a wall, was recovering, authorities said.
The officers were shot the same day that Mayor Malik Evans declared a “gun violence state of emergency” after a recent spate of shootings in Rochester, a city of about 200,000 on the shores of Lake Ontario.
“Tony Mazurkiewicz could have easily retired, but he chose to continue going on the streets because he didn’t want folks in our neighborhoods to be held hostage by the very cowards that are wreaking havoc in our community,” Evans said in a written statement Friday.
“Not only am I sad for the Mazurkiewicz family — and we pray for the speedy recovery of Sino Seng — I am angry. And upset. Because all too often, we are seeing a blatant disregard for life,” he said.
Evans said the city had, before Mazurkiewicz's death, recorded 41 homicides this year and more than 200 people had been shot. The homicide count was one less than at the same time the previous year. The mayor said recent shootings were “directly tied to a deadly cycle of disputes and retaliations.”
In November 2021, the mayor at the time, Lovely Warren, declared a similar state of emergency to combat violence. The move clears the way for expanded resources and partnerships with other law enforcement agencies.
“Yesterday morning, at 11 am, I was asked by the media, 'How dangerous is it out there for the officers of the Rochester Police Department?'” Smith wrote in a statement Friday. “My response was that every day, the men and women of this department leave home, not knowing if they are going to return home at the end of their shift.”
Mazurkiewicz, he said, was killed 10 hours later. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/man-found-hiding-in-crawl-space-charged-in-fatal-shooting-of-rochester-officers/3791767/ | 2022-07-23T14:29:58 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/man-found-hiding-in-crawl-space-charged-in-fatal-shooting-of-rochester-officers/3791767/ |
A New York City correction officer was charged with murder on Friday in the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old man in the Bronx a day earlier, an episode that may have involved a toy gun.
Officer Dion Middleton, 45, was arrested Thursday in the shooting of Raymond Chaluisant, the New York Police Department said in a statement.
Chaluisant was shot in the face around 1:30 a.m. Thursday, police said. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Middleton was arrested hours later after he reported to work, according to the state attorney general's office, which is prosecuting the case because Middleton is a law enforcement officer.
Police said a toy gun that shoots water-filled gel beads was found near the shooting scene. It was not clear whether Chaluisant had fired the toy, called a gel blaster or bead blaster. The attorney general's office said Friday that Middleton had shot at a car in which Chaluisant was a passenger.
The police department later tweeted that bead blasters, considered a type of air rifle, are illegal in New York City.
Benny Boscio, president the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, the union that represents Middleton, said in a statement that Middleton fired a single shot after feeling something hit him in the back. He said the officer “felt his life was in immediate danger.”
Boscio said toy guns that don’t look like toys “remain an ongoing threat to public safety.” He added, “We will provide Officer Middleton with the best possible representation to ensure that his legal rights are protected.”
Middleton was arraigned Friday on charges of first-degree murder and first- and second-degree manslaughter before Judge Jeffrey Zimmerman. Bail was set at $1 million.
Louis Molina, the city correction commissioner, said in a statement that Middleton would be suspended without pay, “and if the charges are true, he will face the full consequences of the law and be terminated.” | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/off-duty-nyc-correction-cop-charged-in-killing-of-18-year-old-with-toy-water-gun-ny-only/3791756/ | 2022-07-23T14:30:04 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/off-duty-nyc-correction-cop-charged-in-killing-of-18-year-old-with-toy-water-gun-ny-only/3791756/ |
The Continental Country Club in Flagstaff is bankrupt. The question is why.
A July 14 article for the Arizona Daily Sun explored the issue through testimony from management of the country club’s homeowners association and other residents. In short, Continental’s answer was that the prohibitive cost of maintenance and legal battles over their failure to maintain the leaky man-made Lake Elaine was insurmountable. It has asked residents to vote to approve a $2,000 special assessment payment and a 20% increase in annual dues to help the country club emerge from bankruptcy and turn Lake Elaine into something less costly.
But some lakefront residents on the other side of the legal battle have a different perspective. They say Lake Elaine can be fixed, and that Continental can afford it but is using bankruptcy to shirk legal obligations established in 1990, suggesting that the Lake Elaine issue is being used to distract from a bigger issue: decades of financial mismanagement.
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Much of these claims of mismanagement are founded on an October 2020 Reserve Study of Continental’s reserve fund to evaluate how it would “maintain reserves above an adequate, not excessive threshold during one or more years of significant expenditures.”
In 2020 Continental knew it had some big expenses coming up, and the study was designed to help it figure out how to keep money in the bank.
“A reserve study is not something to be taken lightly,” said lakefront resident Dan Penoff, who has nearly 30 years of experience on homeowners association boards outside of Continental.
To him, the results of this 2020 study were “disturbing.”
Not only did the reserve study show that Continental had some monumental expenses coming up — including a $600,000 balloon payment due in 2021 — but that to reach a recommended level of roughly $5 million in reserve funds by 2050, Continental would have to start making massive annual contributions to the fund ranging between $310,000 and $1 million a year. At the time of the study, Continental’s reserve balance was $54,291. By the end of the year, they expected they could get that number to $125,000.
“I just see that as being poorly managed,” Penoff said. “Quite honestly, I can't imagine a professional management company letting this happen. One that was, you know, competent.”
Financial mismanagement reaches further back than the 2020 study, said resident John Nilsson. He recalled “clear statements” in meeting minutes from Continental’s board of directors meeting that “the reserves were significantly inadequate back in 2014.”
“There was no follow-through, and the reserves are still woefully inadequate,” Nilsson said. “Lake Elaine is not the reason for Continental Country Club's bankruptcy, it was only one of the straws to fall after years of what, in my opinion, is gross mismanagement.”
The Lakeside Legionnaires
The perceived pattern of mismanagement plays into the perspective put forward in court by the suing class of lakefront homeowners — the “Lakeside Legionnaires” as they call themselves.
In their amended disclosure statement, the Legionnaires claim the trouble with Lake Elaine is not that it’s impossible to maintain, but that “the Association [Continental] has simply failed to perform any real repair or maintenance of the Lake for nearly 30 years.” They say their perspective was upheld in 2020 by the courts, noting that “[Continental] argued then, and argues now, that it does not have enough money to fund Lake Elaine repair, but that did not persuade the Coconino Superior Court, which concluded that the Association knew it had a responsibility to maintain the lake but failed to do so. The Court further concluded that failure to plan did not equate to an inability to comply.”
While the Legionnaires do not deny Continental’s precarious financial situation, they don’t think it inhibits or excuses them from upholding legal obligations surrounding Lake Elaine. In their statement, they note that lakefront homeowners “have been very willing to work with [Continental] to negotiate a creative solution that would allow for repair of the lake as part of a holistic approach to address [Continental’s] broad financial challenges.”
In their opinion, Continental has refused to meet them halfway and has “tried to use the bankruptcy process to block enforcement of the 1990 Settlement Judgment and the 2020 contempt ruling.”
“Lakeside Homeowners attempted to negotiate flexible options allowing for repair of the lake over time,” the Legionnaire statement reads. “But [Continental] withdrew from those discussions and instead filed for bankruptcy.”
One of these “flexible options” that the Legionnaires indicated would be acceptable to them is a plan to refill Lake Elaine to a lower elevation below where a majority of the lake’s liner failure and leaks have been occurring. A 2019 report from engineering firm Terracon evaluated that the lower lake elevation would have “relative stability.” The same report concluded, however, that any plan “should include the eventual replacement of the liner below this elevation.”
Outlined in their amended disclosure statement, Continental has included a “small lake” option in its plan to emerge from bankruptcy, but with one caveat: the club no longer want to be responsible for maintaining the lake. Under the option, it would deed the Lake Elaine footprint to the lakefront owners and provide them $2.5 million raised from the proposed $2,000 payments so that the Legionnaires can implement a smaller lake “or any other solution the Lakefront Group determines is appropriate with the resources available, and thereafter, maintain such improvements as they deem fit with no further contribution from [Continental] or its broader membership.”
Based on their statement, the reason Continental wants to sever their responsibility for maintaining Lake Elaine has to do with their skepticism that “a long-term, sustainable lake” is possible. They stick to the claim that maintaining the lake in the manner outlined in 1990 is “no longer physically possible, economically feasible or ecologically sound.”
While the court concluded that it was possible to maintain the lake, and that Continental had a responsibility to do so, the engineering reports that informed the decision paint a more complex picture. The aforementioned 2019 Terracon report does indicate that there are viable solutions to refill Lake Elaine — including short-term use of the existing liner or a more long-term “geomembrane liner” — but does not shy from saying that the porous limestone and geologic conditions in the area are “problematic for a lake or reservoir.” It goes on to say that “it can certainly be argued that this site was a poor choice for a lake or water feature of any significant size.”
Another 2019 engineering report from Natural Channel Designs reached similar conclusions, saying “the geologic and environmental setting of the lake presents significant challenges to its continued existence."
Time and place
The issue is further complicated by the fact that Continental and the Legionnaires can’t seem to agree on how much it would cost to repair and maintain even a “small lake” option. In their disclosure statement, Continental says they are “informed and believe that the Lakefront Group has separately evaluated [the small lake option] and has concluded that the costs of implementing [this option] are significantly less than [Continental’s] $3 million estimate, but discussions between the parties to date have not been able to reconcile these differences.”
In either case, to the Legionnaires, being handed the deed to the lake is not an attractive option, and it asks the lakefront owners to “take on the problem that [Continental] created.” What they want is for Continental to take responsibility for the lake repair and also “pay some money toward the Lakeside Homeowners’ attorneys’ fees – which are damages that the Lakeside Homeowners have suffered as a result of [Continental’s] rejection of the 1990 Settlement Judgment.”
But for Continental to do any of this, they’ll need money, and they don’t deny that they need money for more than just Lake Elaine.
In a statement to the Arizona Daily Sun, Continental public relations officer Heidi Goitia said, “While Continental certainly has obligations other than the Lakefront Group, such as addressing its appropriate capital reserves to ensure proper maintenance of its amenities and common areas, this was not the primary cause for the bankruptcy filing.”
For these reasons, they continue to urge Continental residents to vote to approve the specially assessment payment of $2,000 and the 20% increase on annual dues, suggesting it’s the financially responsible thing to do.
“Raising dues and increasing assessments is an important step to funding the reserves,” Goitia’s statement said. “It is disingenuous for any group to shift the blame to the reserve study, and then not vote to fund the maintenance and improvements identified in the study.”
On this point, the Legionnaires agree. They might dispute the proper way to move forward with Lake Elaine, but they appear to agree that voting to approve the special assessment is necessary to help Continental emerge from bankruptcy.
“It is not true that the Lakeside Homeowners want to bankrupt [Continental],” the Legionnaire statement says. “The Lakeside Homeowners would lose as much as any other owner would if the bankruptcy ended in a liquidation.”
In a recent newsletter to Continental residents, General Manager Tahlia Murray confirmed that if unable to emerge from Chapter 11 Bankruptcy and forced to file Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, the Lake Elaine lawsuit would cease, as “the HOA cannot be sued by Lake Elaine property owners or any other entity” under Chapter 7
Still, Chapter 7 and the liquidation of assets that would follow are by no means in Continental’s interests.
In the same newsletter, Murray quoted Patrick A. Clisham of Engelman Berger, the legal counsel to Continental Country Club, as having said “Chapter 7 means chaos. There are no positives.”
Dissatisfied as the Legionnaires might be about the current state of Lake Elaine and Continental’s proposed solutions, “A successful vote is actually in everyone’s best interest,” said Legionnaire and lakefront resident Tim Harrington in an email to the Arizona Daily Sun. “We do support the vote for the additional funds for the homeowners association.”
What remains to be seen is whether Continental will get the votes they need to avoid Chapter 7, what will finally become of the contentious Lake Elaine,and whether the organization will be able to repair its financial situation in the long run.
Voting to approve these additional funds ends July 28. More information on the voting process for residents of the neighborhood can be found at continentalflagstaff.com/the-voting-process-on-the-two-fees/. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/deeper-into-lake-elaine-residents-contend-lake-is-not-to-blame-for-country-club-s/article_da4df71c-09f8-11ed-8eb9-77f48bc87173.html | 2022-07-23T14:33:00 | 0 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/deeper-into-lake-elaine-residents-contend-lake-is-not-to-blame-for-country-club-s/article_da4df71c-09f8-11ed-8eb9-77f48bc87173.html |
Beacon UU Sunday Service: “Family Doesn’t Mean Forgiveness” Jul 24 — Beacon Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 510 N. Leroux St., Flagstaff. 928-779-4492. 10-11 a.m., ALL are welcome! You BELONG at Beacon. Spiritually open and intentionally inclusive since 1958. Advice columns are filled with articles about individuals asking for help because family members are pressuring them to forgive parents who were abusive. In this Sunday’s message, Linda Ochi will talk about growing up with an abusive parent, how being family doesn’t equate to forgiveness, and offer words of support to other survivors of child abuse. Rev. Linda Ochi, preaching, with music from Andrez Alcazar and Kim Angelo. A supportive sharing circle will take place after the service. https://go.evvnt.com/1248147-0.
Unity of Flagstaff Jul 24 — Unity of Flagstaff Spiritual Center, 1800 S. Milton Road, Flagstaff. 10:30-11:30 a.m., How about it? It is pretty convoluted out here in the world sometimes. REALLY? What IS the REALity of my REAL Self. Sounds kinda deep! Let’s look at this week and start to grasp our own “awesomeness” and look at what life could look like were we to choose REALizing our Divine Nature and, as A Course In Miracles says, RELEASING our ego-based perception. This could be fun. Join Rev. Penni Honey and the music of Matt Devlin, Trina Goetz, Andy Stanford and Steve Huffman. Unity of Flagstaff: Find YOUR Expression. Join us this Sunday 10:30 AM Live or LIVE STREAM 1800 S. Milton Suite #103. https://go.evvnt.com/1249796-0.
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The Episcopal Church of The Epiphany Jul 23 — The Episcopal Church of The Epiphany, 423 N. Beaver St., Flagstaff. 928-774-2911. 8 a.m.- July 24, 10:30 a.m., WELCOMING ALL: with Rev. Alison Lee Celebrating, and Chaplain Brad Eubanks Preaching: SAT 5:30PM; SUN: 8:00AM & 10:30AM (COVID masks are required)- with organ, and congregational singing; IN PERSON or on-line at epiphanyaz.org ; 928-774-2911. https://go.evvnt.com/1248089-0.
Flagstaff Federated Community Church: Please join us for in person services Sundays at 10 a.m. We are located at 400 W Aspen Ave. on the corner of Aspen and Sitgreaves in Downtown Flagstaff. All are welcome to our services. For more information about Flagstaff Federated Community Church please call our office at 928-774-7383, Mon – Thurs 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Church of the Resurrection Sunday Church Services: May 8 — 740 W. University Heights Drive S., 740 W. University Heights Drive S., Flagstaff. 928-853-8522. 10-11:30 a.m., Church of the Resurrection Presbyterian Church in America (PCA): We invite you to join us for worship at 10 a.m. on Sundays at 740 W. University Heights Drive South as Rev. Joshua Walker preaches through the book of Acts. Please feel free to contact us for information on our mid-week gatherings and for more information on our church. You can find us at www.cor-pca.org and www.facebook.com/CORFlagstaff or we can be reached at corflagstaff@gmail.com and (928) 699-2715.
Living Christ Lutheran Church: Living Christ Lutheran Church is a diverse and LGBTQ-affirming community of disciples embraced by God's unconditional love and enduring grace. You are invited to celebrate with us God's love and presence in your life, grow in your discipleship, and leave empowered to be God's hands in the world. We worship through music, teaching, prayer, and the sacraments each Sunday at 10 a.m. with Rev. Kurt Fangmeier leading. We offer worship both in-person (masks are respected, not required; encouraged for unvaccinated) and online. Learn more about us at our new website: lclcflag.org.
Leupp Nazarene Church: The church, near mile post 13 or Navajo Route 15, has been holding services by teleconferences and doing drive-up meetings. For information, call pastor Farrell Begay at 928-853-5321. Teleconference number: 1-7170275-8940 with access code 3204224#. Services are 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sundays and 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays.
Christian Science Society of Flagstaff: 619 W. Birch Ave. The Christian Science Society of Flagstaff has opened for Sunday services while continuing to have them available via Zoom for online and phone. Wednesday testimony meetings are available only via Zoom. For phone Sunday Services: Dial: 669-900-9128, Meeting ID: 369 812 794#, Passcode: 075454#. For phone Wednesday meetings, dial: 669-900-9128, Meeting ID: 971 672 834#, Passcode: 894826#. The access for Zoom on Sundays is: https://zoom.us/j/369812794. The Zoom access for Wednesdays is: https://zoom.us/j/971672834. The password to use to enter both is CSS. We welcome all to attend our Sunday Services in person, or live by Zoom, at 10:00 o’clock, and to attend our Wednesday Testimony meetings live by Zoom, at 5:30 o’clock. Our Reading Room will be open on Wednesdays from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 10-12 noon. For further information please call 928-526-5982. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/flagstaff-religion-news-for-july-23/article_9ae26fd0-0972-11ed-bda8-37015ff71d51.html | 2022-07-23T14:33:06 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/flagstaff-religion-news-for-july-23/article_9ae26fd0-0972-11ed-bda8-37015ff71d51.html |
In the fall, I took an online Master Gardener class through the Cooperative Extension of the University of Arizona. My goal was to learn to grow flowers and vegetables here in the high desert, where years of previous efforts have met with disappointment.
According to the website of Washington State University, “The Master Gardener (MG) program, which began as a response to a need for information on gardening and pest management, has evolved into a proactive partner with other agencies in addressing environmental and social issues covering such topics as integrated pest management, natural yard care, and low‐impact development, to name but a few.”
Started in 1973, MG programs can now be found across the United States, as well as in parts of Canada and South Korea. As of 2018, there were over 86,000 MGs in this country alone, who volunteered more than five million hours. It’s a pretty big deal!
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If your attempts at horticulture have failed in this area after having been successful in another part of the country, you haven’t lost your green thumb. Nature’s challenges are a bit more taxing here. Our local soils are nutrient-poor and the sun is intense. Due to freezes as late as June and as early as October, the growing season is short. Spring’s near single-digit humidity and frequent high winds have unfavorable dehydrating effects. And when summer monsoons deliver much-needed moisture to our parched earth, it is often in the form of heavy rains and hailstorms.
The class taught me practical ways to work with these challenges. Some of its invaluable lessons include the best ways to amend the soil, effective planting techniques & protective measures, organic weed & pest control, drought-resistant landscaping, and composting. I also learned methods for creating environments that help specific plants thrive.
Now that I’ve completed the online learning, I’m busy with the required volunteer work, which is providing me with important hands-on experience. (To become a Certified Master Gardener in Coconino County, a minimum of 50 hours of volunteer work is required within 12 months after completing the class.)
In addition to learning to grow bountiful fruits, veggies, and flowers in these harsh conditions, there are other advantages to becoming an MG. Gaining a sense of accomplishment is one of them. I’m always in awe at the sight of a beautiful garden. And when a friend gifts me with home-grown tomatoes, peppers, or zucchini, I feel great admiration and appreciation. Gifts from the garden are infused with the pride of a grower’s successful partnership with Nature.
Making new friends is another benefit of becoming an MG. As we move through life, meeting new people whose company we enjoy can be challenging. Finding ways to spend time with others while sharing a mutual interest makes it easier. New friends and new experiences contribute to the expansion of our individual worlds, making them more interesting.
Finally, studies show that feeling we belong to a community improves our mental health and lengthens our lives. And a contingent of Master Gardeners is not just any community; it is one whose members are passionate about working with the earth and sharing information for the benefit of all. Volunteering at plant sales, garden shows, and public gardens gives new MGs the opportunity to really experience a sense of belonging.
Becoming a Master Gardener has opened a beautiful new world to me. This year, I have harvested vegetables for the first time since moving to Northern Arizona over a decade ago. I've met longtime gardeners who are happy to share kindness and expert advice. And I feel I’ve become a part of an extraordinary community. If you would like to improve your local horticultural skills while making new connections, I strongly encourage you to join the class starting this fall on August 29.
For more information about the program as well as the application, visit: https://extension.arizona.edu/coconino-master-gardener.
Lisa Miller is a writer, scratch cook, gardener, and outdoor enthusiast who has lived in Northern Arizona since 2010. Most evenings, she can be found preparing delicious plant-based meals while listening to really good music. She shares thoughts and research on how human health is tied to Nature along with occasional vegan recipes at https://microofthemacro.com/.
If you have a gardening question, email CoconinoMasterGardener@gmail.com or call the Master Gardener Hotline at 928-773-6115 and leave a message. A Master Gardener will get back to you. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/gardening-etcetera-the-appeal-of-becoming-a-master-gardener/article_1a406156-0973-11ed-bc1d-bb9265a0e351.html | 2022-07-23T14:33:12 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/gardening-etcetera-the-appeal-of-becoming-a-master-gardener/article_1a406156-0973-11ed-bc1d-bb9265a0e351.html |
The Flagstaff Star Chasers are making preparations to end their first collegiate summer baseball season with a road trip to play a series against the Alaska Goldpanners of Fairbanks in Fairbanks, Alaska, beginning Tuesday.
The Goldpanners -- who will host Flagstaff for five games across six days -- will likely be the toughest competition the Star Chasers have faced this season. With summer in the far northeast, games will be played in front of hundreds of fans nightly, and the sun may not set until late after the contests finish. It will be the first true road series Flagstaff plays since June.
After a summer of local games, it will be a new experience for nearly everybody on the Star Chasers roster.
“The most important thing is that we’re able to do it for the guys on our team. We’re able to see Alaska in itself, because it’s like no other state that we have in the country. So I think the guys are really excited,” manager Dave Deutschman said.
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Deutschman has a long-term connection with the Goldpanners. So does general manager Randy Barber.
In 2009, Deutschman was a player on the 50th anniversary team.
That’s where he met Barber, who remembers Deutschman as a “scrappy left-hander.”
Now, as the team wraps up its inaugural campaign, both of the leaders get to recollect a bit on past experiences.
“I’ve kind of talked to the guys about my route, my journey to get from there to here and how cool it is for me to be back there,” Barber said.
The team was formed for the enjoyment of college summer baseball in Flagstaff, but most importantly for the development of its players. There have never been official standings or a playoff chase, making the record -- unofficially at 20-6 with a few forfeits thrown in and some seven-inning doubleheaders -- a moot point.
Even still, the Star Chasers went on a 16-game win streak through the middle of the season. During that span, they never used the same lineup in consecutive games -- both for strategy and to get playing time for the many student-athletes on the roster -- but had consistent production from the entire batting order and pitching staff.
The way the season was set up -- without having to think about seeding in a tournament or win-loss records -- may have been part of why the Star Chasers were so successful.
Deutschman credits it more to effort from everybody in the dugout, regardless of playing time.
“We played phenomenal defense all summer, and putting that aggressiveness into play as hitters -- continuing that pattern -- and our pitchers putting pitches in the strike zone really made all that happen,” he said.
Now, with just six games left in the season and having played their final home game on Sunday, the Star Chasers leaders have been able to reflect on the team’s first campaign. It will be difficult after a long flight and quick turnaround to play at their best in Alaska, but a solid showing would provide a bright spot at the end of what the staff hopes is a long-term plan of competing in Flagstaff.
“You want the kids to play well, compete, enjoy themselves. Would it be fun to have them win a few games? Sure. But like a lot of things we’ve done this summer -- some right, some wrong -- we’re trying to establish something. It’s hard to do,” Barber said. “Three teams in the (Northern Arizona) League didn’t finish the summer. So I think if we can show that we’ve built something that will last and that is competitive, that will be a big deal.” | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/star-chasers-to-conclude-first-season-with-series-in-fairbanks/article_caf28f5e-09e8-11ed-95a7-0f5db67ce6e4.html | 2022-07-23T14:33:18 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/star-chasers-to-conclude-first-season-with-series-in-fairbanks/article_caf28f5e-09e8-11ed-95a7-0f5db67ce6e4.html |
This fall, students at one Lincoln high school will have a much harder time firing off a stealthy pocket text or scrolling TikTok behind the shield of a Chromebook.
In a letter to parents on Tuesday, Lincoln Southwest Principal John Matzen announced a new cellphone policy in which students will have to place their phones in a designated area before class begins.
While all high schools and middle schools at Lincoln Public Schools prohibit phone use during class, Southwest is the first to designate specific spaces schoolwide for students to stash their devices.
"It's something that has been verbalized by teachers for years as a distraction to learning," he said.
Some teachers at Southwest have used the policy for years — and to great effect, Matzen said.
"This policy is really just a natural growth from what teachers were experimenting and working with over the years, where classroom to classroom we had different policies," he said.
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In most rooms, the designated area will be hanging sleeves by the door in which students can drop their phones. Matzen said students can alternatively keep their phones in their lockers — or not bring them to school at all.
Students will still be allowed to use their phones during passing periods and lunch.
The district's one-to-one Chromebook program now allows each student to have access to digital content, Matzen said, making cellphones unnecessary for learning purposes.
"We have no real instructional purpose for those cellphones, and we know most of the time they're not being used for instruction, they're being used for entertainment," he said.
It will still be up to teachers to decide if phones would be helpful for a particular lesson. Students can also ask for an exception to the rule — like in the case of a personal family situation.
Southwest is not alone in looking at creative ways to eliminate electronic distractions from the classroom.
Last year, Weeping Water Public Schools began giving Yondr pouches to each student from grades 5-12 to store their phone during the school day.
The neoprene pouches — which some artists, like Jack White, have used at concerts to eliminate phone use — operate much like the magnetic security tags found at department stores.
When students walk into the building, they place their phone in the pouch and secure it at a magnetic locking station. They get to keep the pouch all day and unlock them only when they leave.
"It's been awesome," said Superintendent Kevin Reiman. "Our kids are more engaged in the classroom. Kids talk now at lunch instead of texting and having their nose in their phone the whole lunch period."
The first couple of weeks were difficult, Reiman said.
"Kids and adults are kind of addicted to their phones."
At Tri County Public Schools, middle and high school students also have their own Yondr pouches, which run about $20 a student.
Principal Ryan Clark said teachers were "at their wits' end" about kids using phones during class.
"It's an extension of them," he said.
So last fall, Clark introduced the pouch concept. The benefits became quickly evident.
"We noticed the improvement right away," he said. "Kids were engaged socially, verbally in face-to-face conversations."
Students have found creative ways to circumvent the rule — like dummy phones — but overall, the pouches work better than students putting them in their lockers or another area, Clark said. Teachers also conduct regular "pouch checks" to ensure compliance.
Clark is fielding "a ton" of phone calls and emails from other districts about the concept.
"The mental health of our students is the biggest benefit," he said.
At LPS, each middle school and high school has a certain degree of autonomy over their specific phone-usage guidelines, said Jessie Fries, director of secondary education.
Lincoln High School's student handbook, for example, recommends students leave devices in their lockers. The respective handbooks at Lincoln East and Lincoln Northeast state phones need to be off and out of sight during class. Schools also use a red-zone/green-zone policy to demarcate specific areas where phone usage is OK.
Rules at the middle school level are generally stricter, and students for the most part are asked to keep their phones at home or in lockers.
"It's really school-dependent," Fries said. "We encourage schools to talk through the policy and practice … and what they want to happen in their buildings."
At the elementary school level, phones are considered "nuisance items" and LPS recommends parents keep their students' devices at home.
The consequences for phone infractions include confiscation, parent notification and detention, and differ building to building as well.
Matt Larson, LPS associate superintendent of instruction, said officials are looking at how to implement consistent practices and expectations across the district.
"We've heard from teachers that they would like there to be more consistency in buildings," Larson said.
The conversation about phones is interesting to Matzen, the Southwest principal. Generations upon generations grew up without cellphones, he notes. Back in the day, a phone call to the office sufficed when a parent needed to reach their child.
But the times are a-changing.
On top of phones, the pandemic and virtual learning changed the way students "think about their engagement with the classroom," Matzen said.
"Our hope is this will help them get their focus and attention back to instruction." | https://journalstar.com/news/local/education/its-an-extension-of-them-lincoln-southwest-joins-number-of-schools-trying-to-tackle-phone/article_44cfe2fe-d548-5b8b-bd47-552c32c33f62.html | 2022-07-23T14:39:23 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/education/its-an-extension-of-them-lincoln-southwest-joins-number-of-schools-trying-to-tackle-phone/article_44cfe2fe-d548-5b8b-bd47-552c32c33f62.html |
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Three weeks ago, visiting Krakow, Poland, I summoned the courage to make the trip to nearby Auschwitz.
It was uncommonly hot, even for summer, worse than Arizona in June, and humid. It was hard not to think about the heat but no one complained. Imagine complaining having just learned that an inmate’s rations were a few ounces of bread and one cup of swill before working 12 hours in heat like this, or worse, frigid cold.
We hear of many Holocaust survivors living long lives after their liberation and wonder if they were somehow made stronger by the experience. But I doubt that’s it. Rather, they were exceptionally hardy to begin with. My doctor, the son of Auschwitz survivors, attributes his parents’ survival to the fact that they were made to walk to Auschwitz from their home 25 miles away, rather than stuffed in cattle cars and weakened after days without food and water.
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When the trains came in, Nazi doctors made split second decisions whether someone was fit to work, and those few were spared. The rest were sent immediately to the gas chambers, more than 1,000 at a time, as Nazi doctors measured the precise dose of Zyklon B to suffocate them in 30 minutes, but not longer.
As incomprehensible as the numbers killed, up to 10,000 a day, so too is the fact that an immense array of doctors, guards, soldiers and administrators — an army of staff —carried out these acts so compliantly.
There are corroborated accounts, however, that the crematorium was an innovation urged upon Hitler by SS chief Himmler after receiving complaints by soldiers that they were bothered having to shoot thousands of Jews a day in cold blood.
You struggle to not let the staggering numbers numb your mind as mere statistic, clinging to accessible representations of the horror: three people sleeping head to toe in narrow bunks piled on top of each other, trying to survive the night with one bucket of coal for an entire barracks in freezing temperatures; or hundreds using one bathroom, most of them failing to relieve themselves before the morning roll call, then standing often for hours in bitter cold.
The commandant’s wife wrote that her years at Auschwitz were the best of her life. She lived in a mansion with servants, overlooking the chimney puffing out the remains of human corpses. After the war, the commandant was tried and hung in the courtyard where his henchmen shot political prisoners.
The absurdities go on and no one can understand how it could have happened despite brilliant analyses on the subject. But the theories never add up. So the question endures: what is it that allows, or compels, people to commit unimaginable horrors, willingly and without remorse?
What makes one person report a Jewish family, inhabit their house and refuse to return it when the owner, having survived the war comes to reclaim it. Yet another person hides a Jewish family, risking, and often losing, his life for doing so.
I think about our country’s corrosive divisions and the “manipulation of fervor,” by elected leaders that writer Milovan Djilas termed the “germ of bondage.” How strong are we to resist demagogues who summon seditious impulses from their countrymen to sabotage our institutions?
Could a holocaust happen in America? I have no answer, only a question: What in world history, and recent American experience, provides the confidence that it couldn’t?
The final stop on the tour was the death barracks No. 25 at Birkenau where women too weak to work were warehoused without food for days until they could be exterminated. As the tour filtered out, I stayed behind. In those few precious moments alone, I stood by the bunks, said Kaddish, the traditional Jewish prayer for the dead, and walked numbly back to the bus.
Stuart Brody teaches ethics at the University of Arizona and is the author of “The Law of Small Things: Creating a Habit of Integrity in a Culture of Mistrust.” | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-a-visit-to-auschwitz-raises-troubling-questions/article_ee5a7198-09d7-11ed-b846-fbcf5aecff9f.html | 2022-07-23T14:47:46 | 0 | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-a-visit-to-auschwitz-raises-troubling-questions/article_ee5a7198-09d7-11ed-b846-fbcf5aecff9f.html |
Albany Area YMCA third- through fifth-graders have a better understanding of how farmers grow their food thanks to the Georgia Ag Experience visiting their school recently.
ALBANY – Albany Area YMCA third- through fifth-graders have a better understanding of how farmers grow their food thanks to the Georgia Ag Experience visiting their school recently.
The Georgia Ag Experience is a mobile classroom housed in a 36-foot trailer, which gives elementary students the chance to take a virtual field trip to a farm without leaving their school. Colorful farm photos, interactive technology and displays of products made from various ag commodities grown in Georgia highlight the importance of agriculture to their daily lives. The Georgia Ag Experience highlights Georgia’s poultry, beef cattle, cotton, peanut, timber, horticulture, fruit, vegetable and pecan farms.
The Georgia Foundation for Agriculture created and maintains the Georgia Ag Experience classroom with the support of numerous Georgia ag organizations.
“Dougherty County Farm Bureau is grateful the Georgia Foundation for Agriculture selected our county and Albany YMCA as a stop on the Georgia Ag Experience’s inaugural tour of Georgia,” Hazel Masters, the county Farm Bureau Women’s Committee chairman, said. “The Georgia Ag Experience classroom is a wonderful way to let students who have little to no first-hand knowledge of farming learn how farmers grow their food, cotton for clothes, or timber for paper and lumber.
"We appreciate the staff at Albany YMCA for working with us to host the mobile classroom. In the future, we hope to be able to bring the Georgia Ag Experience back to Dougherty so that other elementary students can enjoy this virtual farm tour. ”
Students learned how farmers plant and harvest their crops, take care of their livestock and preserve the natural resources on their farms. The classroom also highlighted the many career options in agriculture. All exhibits and lessons that are part of the Georgia Ag Experience have been professionally designed to meet science, technology, engineering and math standards.
The Georgia Foundation for Agriculture is partnering with county Farm Bureau offices across the state to arrange local mobile classroom visits. Teachers or school staff interested in booking the Georgia Ag Experience for a school or community event should contact their local Farm Bureau. Only county Farm Bureau staff can book classroom visits with the foundation.
Visit www.gfb.ag/contact to access a local Farm Bureau’s contact information. Visit www.gfb.ag/experienceplanavisit to access instructions for scheduling a visit and a list of dates the mobile classroom will be available across the state in 2021.
For more information about the Georgia Ag Experience and a list of the ag organizations, agribusinesses and Georgia commodity commissions that are supporting the mobile ag classroom, visit www.georgiaagexperience.org. Visit www.gfb.ag/GAEclassroomvirtualtour to tour the classroom.
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ALBANY -- Joyce Barlow, a local nurse, small business owner and candidate for the Georgia House District 151, announced that she has raised $83,995 to date. According to recent filings with the Georgia Government and Campaign Finance Commission, Barlow's total is more than double Republican incumbent Mike Cheokas’ fundraising to date.
Barlow also demonstrated strong grassroots support with 307 individual contributions, compared to 39 contributions for the incumbent.
“There’s no doubt - Georgians are excited about the opportunity to have a state representative who is committed to working for the people of southwest Georgia,” Barlow said in a news release. “While my opponent is building a campaign based on contributions from PACS and corporations, I am grateful for the support of the people of this district.”
According to campaign finance reports, only four of the incumbent’s 39 contributions are from individuals other than himself.
“Over the last several weeks, I have traveled the district, listening to the concerns of the people,” Barlow said. “There’s no doubt that voters are ready to move in a new direction. In one of the most competitive races in Georgia, the momentum is definitely on our side.”
The Georgia Democratic Caucus has called the House District 151 race one of the top five races in Georgia to flip blue this November. The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee listed the district as a “spotlight race” and one of the top races in the entire country to flip blue.
Barlow won the Democratic primary on May 24 and will face Republican Rep. Mike Cheokas in the Nov. 8 general election. She is a registered nurse and small business owner in Albany. A long-time advocate for public health, Barlow founded Englewood Health Care, a home health care facility, in 1984. In 1991, she opened Englewood Home Health and Hospice Systems in Albany, the first black-led Medicare/Medicaid-certified home health and hospice agency in southwest Georgia.
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ALBANY — The Southwest Georgia Department of Public Health is reporting two presumptive cases of monkeypox virus infection within the health district. Initial testing was completed at the Georgia Department of Public Health Laboratory, and confirmatory testing is being done at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laboratory in Atlanta. At this time, the patients have been isolated and have not required hospitalization.
The Southwest Health District is conducting contact tracing to identify anyone who may be at risk of developing monkeypox due to direct, close contact with the patients while they were infectious. The use of vaccines or antivirals is being evaluated on a case-by-case basis, in consultation with the Georgia Department of Public Health Epidemiology Section and the CDC. The Southwest Health District is working with community partners to promote awareness of monkeypox, including symptoms to look for, how to test for it, and ways to prevent transmission.
Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by infection with the monkeypox virus. Monkeypox symptoms are similar to smallpox symptoms but milder, and monkeypox is rarely fatal. Monkeypox is not related to chickenpox. Symptoms of monkeypox can include:
• Fever
• Headache
• Muscle aches and backache
• Swollen lymph nodes
• Chills
• Exhaustion
• A rash that can look like pimples or blisters that appear on the face, inside the mouth, and on other parts of the body, like the hands, feet, chest, genitals or anus.
The rash goes through different stages before healing completely. The illness typically lasts two to four weeks. Sometimes, people get a rash first, followed by other symptoms. Others only experience a rash.
As of July 22, more than 2,500 cases of monkeypox have been reported in the United States, including 211 cases in Georgia. In the current global outbreak, people with monkeypox generally report having close, sustained physical contact with other people who have monkeypox. If a person develops symptoms of monkeypox, they should isolate and call their health care provider or local health department, even if they do not think they’ve been exposed to monkeypox.
Everyone should take these steps to protect themselves from monkeypox:
• Avoid close, skin-to-skin contact with people who have a rash that looks like monkeypox.
• Do not touch the rash or scabs of a person with monkeypox.
• Do not kiss, hug, cuddle, or have close personal contact with someone with monkeypox.
• Do not share eating utensils or cups with a person with monkeypox.
• Do not handle or touch the bedding, towels or clothing of a person with monkeypox.
• Wash your hands often with soap and water or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
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For the 10th year in a row, the Reedsport Volunteer Fire Department will not issue burn barrel or debris burning permits within the Reedsport city limits for the 2022 fire season. There will be no exceptions to the policy for the duration of the fire season.
The fire department stopped issuing permits July 12, a day after the state of Oregon announced that fire season is in effect state wide.
The reasons for this policy are:
* To protect the welfare of the community
* Reduce the costs of fire operations
* Alignment with neighboring fire protection agencies
* To provide for firefighter safety
Warming fires, otherwise known as campfires or recreational fires, (for cooking or other non-debris activities) are still allowed year round (except during extreme fire danger) and do not require a permit. The fire department asks that you burn safely and responsibly. Use clean, dry firewood, do not leave the fire unattended, put it out completely when finished and be aware of smoke intrusion in your neighborhood, which is regulated by City Ordinance 6.08.020(1) | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/reedsport-stops-issuing-burn-permits/article_43cf0028-08a0-11ed-8223-e7fdc3225945.html | 2022-07-23T14:59:04 | 1 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/reedsport-stops-issuing-burn-permits/article_43cf0028-08a0-11ed-8223-e7fdc3225945.html |
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