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David Alan Shinkle vividly remembers the day he lost his grandfather. It was 50 years ago – on Aug. 16, 1972 – a day that would change the course of his life. It was the day a tragic storm took the lives of 13 fishermen in Pelican Bay.
Shinkle, like many young men and women, had the pleasure of spending summers with his grandparents. He remembers beach combing, shooting guns and just doing the things that young boys do.
When he was a teenager, he started fishing with his grandfather – Clayton Dooley. Dooley was captain of the “Dixie Lee,” a 35-foot diesel-powered trawler based out of Brookings. Shinkle took to commercial fishing quickly – so much so that at only 16 years old, he was planning to make a career of it.
“I was going to go to a vocational school and go to a navigation course to get my captains license,” Shinkle said.
But it wasn’t to be.
When he and his grandfather left the Brookings boat basin early the morning of the storm, the skies were overcast and it was lightly raining. They headed south toward the Saint George Reef Lighthouse and were salmon fishing for several hours when things took a sudden and swift turn for the worst.
A tuna boat captain notified boats in the area on the citizens’ hand-radio that strong winds were coming in.
“We thought it was better to head on in before that thing hit,” Shinkle said. “We got all the way in and were tacking toward the waves to get in to port and our starboard windows got taken out by a huge wave.”
Shortly after that, a chain broke on their fishing equipment and the waves flipped their boat and rolled it over.
“Grandpa said, ‘We’ve got to get away from the boat, it’s going down,’” Shinkle said.
The teen-aged boy and his grandfather were forced to hold on to each other in the ocean with only their life jackets as the storm rolled on.
“A Coast Guard boat came by and didn’t see us because it was so misty and stormy, another boat came and about ran over us – and I believe that was another boat that flipped in the surf,” Shinkle said.
“The survivability from hypothermia in the water is about two to three hours at the most – that is what grandpa lasted. But I had on my rain gear and my rubber boots because it was raining. Plus I was a pudgy little guy, and I think that’s part of what saved my life, and swimming and pulling him along.”
Shinkle could see an island and thought he could make it to shore. But his grandfather was struggling.
In a memoir, Shinkle wrote that has grandfathers eye’s had turned glassy and water came out of his mouth. The young man hesitated to let him go, but realized he needed to save his own life.
Finally the teen-aged boy saw another boat - and just as he thought the boat would pass him by, “I saw a guy – and he pointed at me. They came around and threw me a big rope and on the third try they pulled me up. I couldn’t stand up because my legs were all knotted and they took me in and gave me soup and blankets and I went to sleep.”
50-years-later, Shinkle can still hardly tell the story. His eyes water up as he talks about his grandfather – whose body was recovered by the Coast Guard.
David Shinkle and his wife. Karol, have made a family tradition to come to Brookings each year on Aug. 16 – the storm’s anniversary – as a tribute to his grandfather.
The event was so traumatic, Shinkle didn’t even talk about it to his wife for the first 15 years they were married, she said. But coming back to Brookings each year has helped him to process it.
“I think it has been good for him coming here,” Karol said during her and her husband’s trip to Brookings last week. “He lost his best friend that day and it changed the course of his life.”
Shinkle said he was terrified of water for months after the storm.
“And when the wind blew and a storm came up, I would kind of freak out,” he said.
But the next year, he came down to live with his granny and fished with one of his grandpa’s friends.
However, his previous plans to become a fisherman no longer felt right.
“In 1974. I got out of high school and got hired on the railroad, and I just retired not too long ago,” he said.
David Shinkle, who now lives in Lake Havasu, Arizona, said he hopes people the Brookings community will continue to honor their fishermen and other loved ones who have lost their lives in tragedies such as the Pelican Bay storm.
“It’s not a big deal to a lot of people but it’s a big deal to me,” he said. “And at the time it impacted a lot of people in the community.”
Thirteen fisherman lost their lives in the Pelican Bay storm and eight vessels were sank or destroyed. The storm made headlines in The Brookings Pilot to the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, WA. It has been featured in books, Disasters of the Northwest, and Oregon Disasters – True Stories of Tragedy and Survival.
An excerpt from the book Disasters of the Northwest states: “It was a freak storm if ever there was one, and some 69 commercial and sport-fishing boats lay directly in the storm’s path, most without a clue of what was coming. And most had little chance to outrun it even if they tried.”
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Today is National Senior Citizens Day. We’re talking about breaking the stereotypes of the people considered senior citizens.
The stereotypes of senior citizens are problematic because they’re not accurate. Stereotypes of senior citizens are retired, old, lonely, and have lost purpose in life. Think about older people sitting in rocking chairs in a nursing home. This paints a gloomy picture of getting older. No wonder so many people misunderstand aging. Stereotypes don’t give you anything to look forward to.
Older people should change the way that others view their generation. This means living life on your terms. Forget about what society says that you should do at a given age. Instead, you take your life by the horns. Explore the world the way you want. Whether exploring new interests, reconnecting with people from your past, traveling, or moving to a new city, state, or country.
Don’t feel like you have to abide by certain expectations imposed by your adult children. For example, many grandparents feel an obligation to take care of their grandchildren. If you prefer to spend time on a visit instead of babysitting, then it’s your prerogative. If you’re retired and want to become an artist, then learn how to create. Don’t listen to societal expectations of what old age should be.
You only have one life; to get the most out of your life and feel like you’ve lived, you make the rules. You want happiness and fulfillment; then you decide how to live the second half of your life.
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SAN DIEGO — The jaguar's range in the 1800s stretched from the Amazon rainforest to the southern United States.
But by the mid-20th century jaguars had been hunted out of the U.S. and were no longer seen north of the Mexican border.
However, a jaguar was sighted in Arizona as recently as January 6, 2021.
Ganesh Marin is a Biologist working on his PhD from the University of Arizona. He focuses on animal movement along the Arizona and Mexico border in the Cajon Bonita watershed.
"The Jaguars we saw in the Borderlands, Valerio, and Bonito were also males. The good news about them is they are young. You can find an astonishing amount of diversity. I'm talking Puma's, Black Bears, Beavers, and then there's Jaguars and this is incredible."
The first Jaguar showed up in March 2021 in Cuenca Los Ojos, a protected area located in Sonora, Mexico. The area is a Sky Island in the Sierra Madre that allows the Jaguar to traverse the mountain range and avoid the heat of the desert.
"When you have young like the ones we reported, it means the moment is not far. Males disperse first, females are slower, and female Jaguars could soon be in the United States.
Besides hunting, loss of habitat was a huge part of why Jaguars were lost in the United States.
"Jaguars are considered a near threatened species because there has been a loss of 20% to 40% of their range," said John Koprowski who is a professor at the University of Wyoming and is Marin's PhD advisor.
Koprowski adds that the Sky Islands in the Sierra Madre Mountains are what makes it possible for the Jaguars to move north.
"But this wonderful tapestry, this mosaic of diverse habitats that are connected to make the movement between Island, jump across an inhospitable desert environment to get to a more lush mountain environment," said Koprowski.
And with this pair of male Jaguars, Benito and Valerio making it so far North they're sending a message.
"They're essentially telling us there's some connectivity available and there's suitable habitat," said Koprowski.
Marin says keeping these corridors open and persevering areas like Cuenca Los Ojos, will support the Jaguars' return to the United States.
"We need to have all these mountainous areas and all the big washes and deep canyons in Mexico and the United States still open," said Marin.
With these two males establishing territory a female is likely to follow.
"My previous advisor, Dr. Gerardo Ceballos said that could happen within five years, I'm hopeful for that."
Editor’s Note: This article previously stated that researchers recently spotted a pair of male jaguars crossing into Arizona from Sonora, Mexico. That has been updated with this information: a Jaguar was sighted in Arizona as recently as January 6, 2021.
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BOISE, Idaho — This article originally appeared in the Idaho Press.
Idaho will get a new “free-market think tank” in October, but it’s promising not to engage in the tactics of the Idaho Freedom Foundation, the current Idaho group that’s used that descriptor.
Ken Dey, chairman of the board of the new Mountain States Policy Center, said, “We don’t have an agenda other than the free market. … I think it’s time to bring some adults into the room and have a debate.”
Chris Cargill, who has been Eastern Washington director for the Washington Policy Center for 13 years and is also a city councilman in Liberty Lake, Washington, will be the president and CEO of the new center, which Cargill described as a “spinoff” of the Washington Policy Center. It will be based in Idaho, with offices in Boise and Coeur d’Alene, and also will operate in Eastern Washington, Montana and Wyoming.
The group, a 501c3 educational nonprofit, plans to research policy issues in its region and provide the analyses to lawmakers, the news media and the public. Topics will include education and school choice, taxes and state budgets, business, health care, the environment, agriculture, transportation, small business, and transparency.
It’s been in the works since 2019, Cargill said. “We got together with a group of key folks … to discuss whether Idaho needed a more respected free-market think tank that could really start looking at and advance ideas and look at policy and analyze policy from a free-market perspective,” he said.
Unlike the IFF, Cargill said the new group won’t rate bills and legislators for how closely they match its agenda.
“As a 501c3, we can’t, nor do we want to do that,” Dey said.
Cargill said the new center also won’t have political affiliates that do campaigning and run ads. It won’t actively lobby, instead offering testimony only when legislators request it, and won’t get involved in social-media name-calling.
Also, unlike the IFF, it won’t refuse to talk to the news media.
Cargill said, “I’m a former media guy.” He worked at KXLY-TV in Spokane for 10 years.
Dey, director of government and public affairs at J.R. Simplot Co., said, “We see a value in talking about free-market policies.”
He joins eight other initial board members: Co-founders Becky Funk of Coeur d’Alene and Bill Baldwin of Hayden; Boise businessman John S. Otter; former state Rep. Dean Haagenson, R-Coeur d’Alene; Don Stafford of Spokane; Julie Shiflett of Coeur d’Alene; Oscar Evans of Homedale; and Bonnie Quinn Clausen of Spokane.
Baldwin and Otter are both former chairmen of the Washington Policy Center, which does similar work in the state of Washington.
Cargill stressed, “As a 501c3, we are not going to be political. We’re not going to have a C-4 arm. We are not going to be endorsing candidates or running ads against candidates.”
The group plans to publish a quarterly magazine for its members starting in January. It will hold events and publish its research regularly on its website. It will be staffed by Cargill and a contracted five-person research team. He said the team is already working on two analyses: One of the school funding initiative on the November ballot, focused in part on showing that increased funding doesn’t necessarily bring better results; and one on a proposal several states have adopted to require stickers on gas pumps to notify customers how much of the price of gas goes to state and federal taxes. The group won’t propose legislation, Cargill said, just ideas.
The Mountain States Policy Center describes its mission as to “empower individuals to succeed through non-partisan, quality research that promotes free enterprise, individual liberty and limited government.”
The group has raised nearly $400,000 thus far, Cargill said. While, like the IFF, it declines to reveal its funding sources, Dey said its board members are among its major contributors.
It plans kick off events in Boise and Coeur d’Alene in early October.
Said Cargill, “We want to add another voice to the political and policy debate.”
Betsy Z. Russell is the Boise bureau chief and state capitol reporter for the Idaho Press and Adams Publishing Group. Follow her on Twitter at @BetsyZRussell.
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TIFTON — Addressing the incoming freshman students at the annual Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Freshman Convocation on a drizzly, gray Saturday morning, new ABAC President Tracy Brundage said the students should use the opportunity as a “springboard" to their futures.
“This day serves as a springboard toward your future self,” Brundage told the standing-room-only crowd in front of historic Tift Hall. “We are honored that ABAC is able to accompany you on this significant journey.
“At ABAC, we pride ourselves on teaching you the transferrable skills needed for success. ABAC is a place where you can achieve your full potential, a place where you can realize your dreams. We want you to feel a sense of belonging here.”
Brundage, the first female president in the history of ABAC, took office on Aug. 1. For the past four years, she has served as the president of Keystone (Pa.) College.
“You are members of the Class of 2026 at ABAC,” Brundage said. “I’m going to consider you my special class because you are beginning your ABAC career the same time that I am beginning my ABAC career.
“I encourage you to move forward with an inquisitive spirit and start writing your success story. Know that we are here for you, and we want to help you become the best person that you can be.”
Ivey Cook, a junior agricultural education major from Ty Ty, also spoke to the freshmen from a student’s perspective. At the finale of the ceremony, the students arranged themselves on the front of the campus for a drone camera picture of the entire group.
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Grand Ronde Contest powwow returns to much celebration
GRANDE RONDE, Ore. - Thousands gathered throughout the weekend at the uyxat Powwow Grounds in Grand Ronde to celebrate the return of the Grand Ronde Contest Powwow.
The contest was last held in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic paused the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde's largest powwow and similar gatherings throughout the state and country.
On Saturday, cars were funneled into overflow parking as attendance for the weekend gathering continued to grow. There were attendees from all over the country, excited to see the return of the three-day powwow that invites hundreds of dancers to compete in different categories for more than $2,000 in prizes in various categories. Dozens of vendors were spread throughout the grounds selling handmade jewelry, pelts, bags, various clothing, and different food.
By early Saturday afternoon t-shirts commemorating the 2022 event were almost sold out.
Before the weekend, Dana Ainam, powwow committee chair, said organizers were preparing for a big turnout and a busy weekend with lots of excitement and good energy.
"It's the first in two years and I think for people who are used to the powwow lifestyle and the coming together and the celebration with each other, this will be even more meaningful," Ainman said.
It also was the first time people enjoyed upgrades to the powwow grounds. The powwow arbor had 14 new feet of the covered area added to the perimeter. A new concrete sidewalk made the arbor more accessible and a new roof was installed.
Craving connections
Powwows are a cultural way of life, Ainman explained. An opportunity for children and elders to celebrate who they are, connect with the history and teachings that are a part of them and build relationships between different communities that come together at the powwow.
Cassandra Calhoun came year after year for the weekend.
Originally from San Francisco, Calhoun and members of her family began the trip Tuesday from California to uyxat . While she was born and raised in San Francisco, most of her family lives in the area. It is why she keeps coming back, she said.
Her mother, born in Grand Ronde, would travel to the area every summer during years that the Confederated Tribes of Grand Rone remained stripped of its federal status and lands. President Ronald Reagan signed the Grand Ronde Restoration Act into law in 1983 and Calhoun began attending powwows 10 to15 years ago, she said. She's been craving the connection with her relatives for the past two years during the pandemic.
"It's been hard," she said.
The grand entry on Saturday was a special moment for Michael Langley, Secretary for the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. As dancers funneled into the arbor Langley tried to guess how many rings of dancers they could create. It was hard to tell if this year broke the record of dancers participating because of the expansion but Langley did not think the pandemic hadn't hurt attendance.
"This is what we do, gather," he said. "And it's really hard to gather when COVID says you can't."
Jane Jackson and Carissa Jackson represent the different generations gathering over the weekend. They are Klamath and Modoc people and have been attending for several years. They had traveled from Medford to dance. Jane is a traditional dancer while Carissa is a jingle dancer. Carissa has been dancing since she was two years old. She is now 20.
"Dancing is my whole world," she said. Being without it as long as she was was difficult, she said. The two participated in virtual powwows throughout the pandemic but it's not the same, Jane said.
Being back at uyxat gives native people a chance to dress, dance and enjoy the friends they haven't seen in a long time.
The new Royalty Court also was selected over the weekend. Among them was Anabey Smith, 16, who was selected as Senior Miss Grand Ronde for the first time.
"It's nice to be back with the community and be there for my other royalty," she said.
Veterans Senior Miss Tasina Bluehorse, 15, was celebrating her seventh year as royalty. She said she participates in royalty pageants, to represent her people in a good way and hopes to inspire the younger generation to also join.
Bluehorse said she enjoys representing the tribe and getting to travel to different events as a Tribal representative. The community has had to endure a tough two years, she said, and seeing everyone again felt overwhelming in a good way.
"It brings good medicine to my heart," Bluehorse said.
If you go
The final grand entry for 2022's Grand Ronde Contest Powwow will start at 1 p.m. Sunday at the uxyat Powwow Grounds at 9600 Highway 22 (Hebo Road).
All are welcome to attend but no alcohol or drugs is permitted. Visitors are asked to pay attention to the emcee for any special requests or announcements. Limited parking is available.
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Federal fisheries managers found that wild salmon and steelhead from the Snake and Columbia rivers are threatened by climate change like never before and that urgent action is required to save the fish.
But officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration opted to leave their status under the Endangered Species Act unchanged, surprising some who thought Snake River spring chinook might be reclassified from threatened to endangered. They also did not list breaching the lower Snake River dams as one of the recommended actions to help the fish. That is a departure from a draft report the agency released in July saying the dams need to come out.
The difference relates to the goal of the two disparate documents. In July, the agency released a draft report saying the dams should be breached, along with other aggressive actions, if the region wants to restore wild fish to healthy and harvestable levels.
The status reviews of four species that return to the Snake River and three to the mid and upper Columbia River released Thursday look at less lofty goals — keeping the fish from going extinct and restoring them to the point ESA protection is not needed. For example, the delisting criteria calls for a return of about 33,500 wild spring and summer chinook to their spawning grounds. The healthy and harvestable level, set by the NOAA convened Columbia River Partnership Task Force, is about 98,000 wild spring and summer chinook returning to the Snake River.
Biologists believe about 12,000 to 15,000 wild spring and summer chinook returned to the Snake River basin this year — that is up from previous years but still well shy of the number needed for delisting and miles from the higher goal for harvestable numbers.
“We’re not anywhere close to that. We’re kind of worried about moving in the other direction,” said Michael Milstein, a spokesperson for NOAA Fisheries. “It’s such an ambitious goal, much beyond what the Endangered Species Act requires. But that’s what people have told us we should be shooting for.”
Checking in
Every five years or so, the agency is required to review the status of fish and marine mammals protected by the ESA. The idea is to assess if recovery efforts are on pace and if changes need to be made.
“It is a snapshot of how the species have done in the last five years and how they are faring overall at a critical time,” Michael Tehan, Assistant Regional Administrator for the Interior Columbia Basin for the agency, said in a news release “We are seeing the impacts of climate change play out, which demonstrates the urgency of moving the most critical recovery actions ahead now. The takeaway message is that we cannot wait.”
The previous half-decade has been a rough one for salmon and steelhead from the Columbia basin and beyond. Poor ocean conditions and often hostile summer temperatures in freshwater have hit the fish hard. According to the review, 27 populations of wild Snake River spring chinook declined by an average of 55% and face a moderate-to-high risk of extinction. Steelhead declined by about 50% and face a moderate extinction risk. Sockeye continue to be critically imperiled. Fall chinook are doing much better and it’s conceivable the fish could be removed from federal protection if that pattern continues.
“Fall-run Chinook salmon are a bright spot that reflect the hard work that tribes and states have put into their recovery,” Tehan said. “We know what the species needs and we have been able to apply that.”
Nancy Munn, a NOAA scientist who led many of the reviews, said the agency seriously considered moving Snake River spring chinook from threatened to endangered. Instead of taking that step, they plan to closely watch fish numbers and expect a rebound if ocean conditions continue to improve as they did last year.
“If that doesn’t happen, if we see continued declines when ocean conditions are good, then we’re going to take a closer look,” she said.
To address climate change and other threats, the agency is stressing the need to make inland spawning habitat more resilient to higher summer temperatures and lower flows through large-scale habitat restoration projects. They also call for reductions in predation by sea lions and other marine mammals that feast on returning adults in the lower Columbia River.
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Baseball Card Exchange is opening a new retail storefront in Schererville in early September.
The baseball card retailer, which specializes in rare and vintage cards, is nationally known for its authentication services of vintage unopened boxes.
"We're opening up a new location on Sept. 3," Baseball Card Exchange employee Amanda Fleming said. "It's a larger location. We're having a couple of autograph guests coming."
Chicago Blackhawks Hall of Famer Bobby Hull will sign autographs in the new store from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, September 4. Chicago Bears Hall of Famer Dan Hampton also will sign autographs there from noon to 3 p.m. Sept. 4.
Baseball Card Exchange will open that weekend at 709B U.S. 41 in Schererville by La Carreta Mexican Restaurant & Bar.
"It's 5,000 square feet and will be one of the gold standards for a hobby shop in the country," owner Steve Hart said.
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A grand opening celebration will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.
"That night we are doing a Trade Night where people are able to bring in their card collections and trade with fellow hobbyists," said Billy Hinton, who will run the store. "We will be providing snacks for those in attendance as well."
Baseball Card Exchange dates back to 1990 when it opened a 500-square-foot shop in Lansing. It does a large business on eBay and claims to have the "world's largest vintage unopened inventory." It stocks many different types of trading cards for the four major sports, including Donruss, Fleer and SkyBox. It also buys unopened cards and individual cards that date back before 1975.
The new storefront will have a large selection of sports cards, including UFC, soccer, racing and golf. Pop culture cards will include Doctor Who, The Walking Dead, Star Trek, Spider-Man, X-Men, Dick Tracy, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Goosebumps. The store will have a card bar, boxes of cards at all price ranges and "tables full of factory and hand collated sets."
"When it comes to the inventory we carry baseball, basketball, football, hockey cards and wrestling cards from companies such as Topps, Panini and Upper Deck," Hinton said. "We also will be carrying many non-sport titles such as Star Wars, Stranger Things, Garbage Pail Kids and Pokemon. We offer a wide array of framed and signed sports memorabilia which includes items from players such as Tom Brady, Michael Jordan, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays and many more. We also carry tons of both modern and vintage singles which date back to the 1930s all the way to modern players. We plan on having many sets as well which go back to the early '60s."
Tickets to the autograph signings are $40 and include gift cards.
"That gets you one autograph from each player or two from the player of your choice along with a $10 Baseball Card Exchange gift card to use at a future date," Hinton said.
For more information, call 800-598-8656, visit www.bbce.com or email bbcexchange@sprintmail.com.
Coming soon
The American Legion Post 369 is relocating from East Chicago to St. John.
The veterans' service and social organization is currently located by Bishop Noll High School in Hammond. It bought a 2,600-square-foot building at 9501 Wicker Avenue in Saint John that it plans to move to.
The American Legion, an Indianapolis-based nonprofit that dates back to 1919 and is open to anyone in any branch who served in uniform, will take over a building that was previously used as a residential home, retail spot and day care.
“It’s a great feeling knowing this property will be owned and operated by American Veterans who will use it to connect with other veterans," Antony Miocic, Director of Office Group at Crown Point-based Latitude Commercial, one of the Region's largest commercial real estate firms.
He represented the seller in the transaction.
"The Legion has a great vision for this building and will do great work in the community,” he said.
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Collier Row Cottage Flower Farm recently opened in DeMotte.
"Collier Row Flower Farm is located in rural Northwest Indiana and provides naturally grown cut flowers and arrangements," Owner and President Tori Van Gorp said.
She and her husband Tony added extensive gardens to their home after they wed at the Jasper County Courthouse.
"Each year we added gardens, took out trees, moved landscaping and added wells. We acquired a 30 x 50 high tunnel and ultimately became a flower farm," she said. "Our first year was amazing. No pressure if our seeds didn’t germinate, if our flowers didn’t bloom or if we spent more than we made. Fortunately, all of the things that should have happened did. We learned a lot."
The business sells online, at 11717 N 570 W in Demotte and at the Chesterton Farmers Market. It specializes in floral arrangements for weddings.
"This year we are reconstructing our 1943 chicken coup making it into a cooler for our flowers, office, and design studio," she said. "We are expanding our growing capacities. It is exciting to see where this dream of an opportunity will take us."
For more information visit www.crflowerfarm.com, info@crflowerfarm.com, call 219-378-0359 or find the business on Facebook.
Opening
Back in Motion Sports & Chiropractic LLC, a new sports chiropractic office, will celebrate its grand opening in Merrillville at 4:30 p.m. Aug. 30.
It will have a ribbon-cutting ceremony, meet-and-greet, raffle, giveaways, massages and refreshments at its new office at 7895 Broadway, Suite E, in Merrillville.
“Here at Back in Motion Sports & Chiropractic LLC, patients are valued. I do my best to provide quality chiropractic care to help patients reach and/or exceed their health goals. I think of my patients as part of my extended family,” said founder and owner Dr. LaKia Brown.
She founded Back in Motion Sports & Chiropractic to help patients boost athletic performance and lead a pain-free lifestyle. Her practices encourage people to maintain better health, including through lifestyle changes and holistic strategies.
The chiropractic office specializes in chiropractic manipulation, soft-tissue techniques, therapeutic rehabilitation and other chiropractic services.
For more information, visit www.backinmotionsportschiro.com, email info@backinmotionsportschiro.com or call 219-544-5665.
Open
C&Co. Salon recently opened in Schererville.
The haircare salon at 1120 W. U.S. 30 in Schererville offers haircuts for women, men, children and teens, as well as styling blowouts, ironwork and bridal cuts. It offers Keratin and deep conditioning treatments, eyelash extensions hair extensions and a full range of coloring services.
C&Co. Salon will wax brows, lips, chins and full faces. It offers a range of skin care services, including Artic Blast, Kiss of the Rose and Triple Collagen Facials. It also has collagen tightening masks, microdermabrasion, red light therapy and Cavi-Lipo Body Sculpting that uses low-frequency ultrasound waves to target stubborn body fat.
People can make appointments online.
It's open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
For more information, call 219-227-8426 or visit saloncandco.com.
Open
Uncle Pig's Breakfast and Barbecue is serving up slow-cooked meat in Gary.
The BBQ joint at 3910 W. 5th Ave. west of downtown offers barbecue for dine-in and drive-through. It also offers delivery through DoorDash.
The menu includes pork ribs, pork rib tips, hot beef links, turkey tips and chicken wings. It has sides like mac and cheese, green beans, baked beans, potato salad, cole slaw, chips and fries. Entire pans of turkey or pork tips are available to feed a slew of people.
Beverage options include grape, orange and strawberry pop, as well as coffee and bottled water.
On weekdays, Uncle Pig's Breakfast and Barbecue offers a $5 Holla lunch special from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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MICHIGAN CITY —Franciscan Health has recognized Horizon Bank for its contribution of $7,500 to the Franciscan Health Foundation in support of the Center of Hope program.
“We are so thankful for all that Horizon has done to help us in our mission to minister to some of the most vulnerable in our community,” said Sister Petra Nielsen, vice president of mission integration for Franciscan Health Michigan City. “We are grateful to have them as one of our community partners.”
The Center of Hope program provides a safe environment for survivors of violence, sexual abuse and trauma. Indiana ranks second in the nation child abuse cases, making the services provided by the Center of Hope an essential part of Franciscan Health’s compassionate care for the community.
Financial support for the Franciscan Health Michigan City Center of Hope assists in the emotional, physical and spiritual healing of those impacted by sexual and physical assault and abuse.
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“Horizon Bank is very philanthropic and we’re always looking to give back to the community in which we do business,” Horizon Bank Regional President Steve Kring said. “I can’t imagine what the patients served by Center of Hope go through mentally and physically. To have a place where they can go is so important.”
The sexual assault nurse examiners (SANE) serving Center of Hope are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week to care for patients on-site, eliminating the need for patients to be transferred for further examination. The nurses are specially trained in cultural sensitivity, injury identification, evidence preservation, forensic photography, forensic documentation, courtroom testimony and the acute and long-term effects of sexual violence.
“I’m grateful for the support of businesses in our community and the leadership Steve and his colleagues provide,” Franciscan Health Michigan City President and CEO Dean Mazzoni said. “We couldn’t do it without them and the comfort these services provide is truly essential.”
Debbie Tatum, director of development for the Franciscan Health Foundation, said Horizon Bank donated $5,000 in 2021 and $2,500 in 2022 for Center of Hope.
“Horizon Bank has a strong presence in Michigan City,” Tatum said. “This two-year donation shows their commitment to the community and we’re really thankful for their support.”
To learn more about contributions to the Franciscan Health Foundation and the various opportunities for giving, go to www.franciscanhealthfoundation.org or call 219-661-3401. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/horizon-bank-donates-7-500-to-center-of-hope/article_308033a5-90c8-5c11-91f2-02329673f4cc.html | 2022-08-21T17:55:54 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/horizon-bank-donates-7-500-to-center-of-hope/article_308033a5-90c8-5c11-91f2-02329673f4cc.html |
The Gary Community School Corp. kicked off its 2022-23 school year Aug. 9 but back-to-school activities have continued through the month, many in cooperation with community organizations.
"You can feel a sense of Cougar pride this year," said Paige McNulty, manager of the Gary schools, referring to West Side Leadership Academy's mascot. "Local organizations, churches, teachers, staff, administration, students and community stakeholders are working together to make this school year impactful and phenomenal."
The school corporation's efforts to engage the community makes up part of its new "The Gary Way" mission statement. Among the organizations assisting the schools are Gear-Up, which supports academic programs and has now helped establish a gardening club at West Side.
And, a new parent-led Booster club is in the making to support GCSC athletic teams.
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"The list of community partners goes on and on as more organizations and businesses are engaging with the district," McNulty said.
For more information, visit garyschools.org. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/gary/gary-schools-welcome-partnerships/article_72578451-0702-5526-b0f4-23841f22dab3.html | 2022-08-21T17:56:11 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/gary/gary-schools-welcome-partnerships/article_72578451-0702-5526-b0f4-23841f22dab3.html |
The MAAC Foundation’s third annual First Responder Appreciation and Demonstration Day will be held on Aug. 27 at the MAAC Foundation Training Campus located at 4203 Montdale Park Drive, Valparaiso.
The free, family-friendly event will feature live demonstrations and activities from first-responder agencies from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Attendees will have the opportunity to witness the skills first responders learn during training. Departments from across Northwest Indiana will showcase various techniques, including live-burn firefighting, K9 officers in action, and vehicle extrication. Emergency response vehicles will also be available to explore.
The MAAC Foundation facilitates training and skill enhancement.
"We are proud to bring this event together to highlight the efforts of these courageous men and women in service of our communities," MAAC Foundation President Celina Weatherwax said.
Food will be offered for purchase by local food trucks. Tickets to the event are encouraged but not required. Go to www.eventbrite.com and search for MAAC Foundation with a location of Valparaiso to secure them.
For more information on the foundation and the event, visit maacfoundation.org or call 219-510-9111.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into the Porter County Jail
Tammy White
Arrest date: Aug. 13, 2022
Age: 44
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2203270
Charges: OWI, felony
Alexander Raudonis
Arrest date: Aug. 13, 2022
Age: 27
Residence: Michigan City, IN
Booking Number: 2203283
Charges: Domestic battery, misdemeanor
Alexander Lute
Arrest date: Aug. 13, 2022
Age: 45
Residence: Kewanna, IN
Booking Number: 2203280
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Krystal Harris
Arrest date: Aug. 13, 2022
Age: 22
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2203271
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Stacey Stilley
Arrest date: Aug. 12, 2022
Age: 32
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2203246
Charges: OWI, felony
Claire Baldwin
Arrest date: Aug. 13, 2022
Age: 21
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2203278
Charges: Battery, misdemeanor
Jeffery Dowd
Arrest date: Aug. 13, 2022
Age: 43
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2203273
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Emma Seguin
Arrest date: Aug. 13, 2022
Age: 18
Residence: Chesterton, IN
Booking Number: 2203277
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Amber Martin
Arrest date: Aug. 13, 2022
Age: 20
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2203276
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Randy Summerlott
Arrest date: Aug. 13, 2022
Age: 56
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2203268
Charges: OWI, felony
Alejandro Alicea-Velez
Arrest date: Aug. 13, 2022
Age: 48
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2203281
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
Jacob Georgiefski-Rios
Arrest date: Aug. 12, 2022
Age: 25
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number: 2203261
Charges: Child molestation, felony
Angela Porphir
Arrest date: Aug. 13, 2022
Age: 38
Residence: Hartford, MI
Booking Number: 2203272
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Daniele Kimbrough
Arrest date: Aug. 13, 2022
Age: 35
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number: 2203279
Charges: Possession of cocaine or narcotic drug, felony
Dylan Vogedes
Arrest date: Aug. 13, 2022
Age: 26
Residence: Chesterton, IN
Booking Number: 2203274
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
Jeffrey Gutierrez
Arrest date: Aug. 13, 2022
Age: 50
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2203269
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Thomas Gross III
Arrest date: Aug. 7, 2022
Age: 33
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2203171
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
Blake Lesniak
Arrest date: Aug. 11, 2022
Age: 23
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2203232
Charges: Possession hypodermic syringe or needle, felony
Jason Coleman
Arrest date: Aug. 12, 2022
Age: 33
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number: 2203250
Charges: Possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon, felony
Sophia Silva
Arrest date: Aug. 10, 2022
Age: 35
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number: 2203221
Charges: Possession of cocaine or narcotic substance, felony
Anthony Manson
Arrest date: Aug. 9, 2022
Age: 32
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number: 2203213
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Scott Austin
Arrest date: Aug. 9, 2022
Age: 32
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2203215
Charges: Battery, misdemeanor
Carl Scannel
Arrest date: Aug. 8, 2022
Age: 37
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2203184
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
Mathew Arwood
Arrest date: Aug. 10, 2022
Age: 33
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2203229
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Kyle Knutson
Arrest date: Aug. 8, 2022
Age: 39
Residence: Chesterton, IN
Booking Number: 2203180
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Michele Mau
Arrest date: Aug. 9, 2022
Age: 62
Residence: Mokena, IL
Booking Number: 2203203
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Elmer Aguilar Medina
Arrest date: Aug. 8, 2022
Age: 23
Residence: Elkhart, IN
Booking Number: 2203197
Charges: Theft/firearm, felony
Jessica Fisher
Arrest date: Aug. 10, 2022
Age: 24
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2203219
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Brandon Sweeney
Arrest date: Aug. 10, 2022
Age: 40
Residence: Chesterton, IN
Booking Number: 2203228
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
Maurice Thomas Jr.
Arrest date: Aug. 11, 2022
Age: 42
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number: 2203240
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
William Dodaro
Arrest date: Aug. 9, 2022
Age: 42
Residence: Chesterton, IN
Booking Number: 2203205
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Kristin Martin
Arrest date: Aug. 8, 2022
Age: 34
Residence: High Ridge, MO
Booking Number: 2203189
Charges: Possession of methamphetamine, felony
Aldino Gallo
Arrest date: Aug. 10, 2022
Age: 66
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number: 2203223
Charges: Theft, felony
Patricico Soto Guerrero
Arrest date: Aug. 9, 2022
Age: 45
Residence: LaSalle, IL
Booking Number: 2203208
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Jacob McKay
Arrest date: Aug. 8, 2022
Age: 32
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2203182
Charges: Domestic battery, misdemeanor
Brandon Gast
Arrest date: Aug. 8, 2022
Age: 33
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2203199
Charges: Residential entry, felony
Timothy Hutchinson
Arrest date: Aug. 10, 2022
Age: 71
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2203225
Charges: Domestic battery, misdemeanor
James Huspek-Hein
Arrest date: Aug. 9, 2022
Age: 26
Residence: Wanatah, IN
Booking Number: 2203217
Charges: Resisting law enforcement, felony
Jonathan Styers
Arrest date: Aug. 9, 2022
Age: 42
Residence: Redington Beach, FL
Booking Number: 2203211
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Stan Radake
Arrest date: Aug. 8, 2022
Age: 35
Residence: St. Louis, MO
Booking Number: 2203195
Charges: Possession of methamphetamine, felony
Felicia Cusic
Arrest date: Aug. 12, 2022
Age: 37
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2203248
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Novise Alexander Jr.
Arrest date: Aug. 12, 2022
Age: 27
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number: 2203249
Charges: Resisting law enforcement, felony
Robert Maddex
Arrest date: Aug. 9, 2022
Age: 51
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2203204
Charges: OWI, felony
Elysha Williams
Arrest date: Aug. 9, 2022
Age: 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number: 2203206
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Terrell Rea
Arrest date: Aug. 8, 2022
Age: 56
Residence: Boardman, OR
Booking Number: 2203202
Charges: Dealing methamphetamine, felony
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The National Weather Service’s forecast calls for an increased chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms this week.
NWS meteorologist Mack Morris said moisture in the region, a weak cold front and upper-level energy have heightened the chance for rainfall. The best chance for precipitation is Monday afternoon through Wednesday afternoon, both with a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms.
“We are confident it’s going to rain, we just don’t know how much in some spots,” Morris said. “It’s really dependent on where some of the heaviest rain sets up.”
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Rainfall from 2 to 4 inches per hour is possible with the heaviest activity. The system may bring strong wind gusts, but severe weather isn’t in the forecast.
Morris said there’s no flood watch, but with the long drought period, heavier rainfall could cause flash flooding in areas, especially the Hill Country.
“With everything being so dry, it might take a little bit of time for some kind of soaking rain to absorb in the soil," he said, “and might have more runoff initially.”
Cloud cover and rain will bring below average high temperatures to the mid- to upper 90s in some areas. This week’s highest temperature is expected to be 95, on Monday, with the lowest at 75 on Wednesday.
The record high for San Antonio in August was 110 in 2011; the record low was 57 in 1891.
Morris said this type of weather is not common for late August and may stretch to the end of the month.
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GRANT COUNTY, Wash. — On Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, Grant County deputies believe they prevented a mass shooting at a concert at the Gorge Ampitheatre after detaining a suspect in possession of two weapons.
According to the Grant County Sheriff's Office, 30-year-old Jonathan R. Moody was arrested outside of the venue after deputies found two loaded 9 mm pistols on him. He has been booked into the Grant County Jail on suspicion of one count of possession of a dangerous weapon and one count of unlawful carrying or handling of a weapon.
The sheriff's office said witnesses at the venue notified deputies around 9 p.m. after noticing the suspect inhale an unknown substance from a balloon and then load the two pistols from the trunk of his car. Moody then concealed the guns in the rear of his waistbelt and an outside-the-waistband holster, according to police.
Witnesses went on to report that Moody was approaching concertgoers and asking them what time the show ended and where people would be exiting the theater.
Police said Moody never entered the venue. Security detained him outside the gates and disarmed him of the weapons. After investigating, deputies arrested him and booked him in the Grant County Jail.
In a Facebook post, the sheriff's office noted that last night's concert series, Bass Canyon, was sold out, meaning there were upwards of 25,000 people attending. Deputies said Moody's possession of weapons, inhaling of a toxicant and questions to concertgoers raised enough suspicion to warrant his arrest.
The sheriff's office said no one was injured in the arrest. The sheriff's office thanked concertgoers for reporting the suspect's activity.
This is a developing news story and we will provide more updates as we receive them.
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SAN ANTONIO — Missing for eight months.
San Antonio police are still searching for 4-year-old Lina Sardar Khil who went missing last year on December 20.
The toddler girl vanished from the playground of the apartment complex where she lived with her family. Lina was 3-years-old at the time of her disappearance. Police told KENS 5 in May that her case has not gone cold and tips are still coming in.
Still, the 20th of each month continues to be a day of despair for the girl's family.
"It's a hard day," said Pamela Allen, a family spokesperson.
Allen said despite efforts made by police and a private investigator from Project Absentis, the little girl remains missing eight months later.
"There's been a few leads that have come in but nothing solid," she said.
Allen said public searches are on pause for now as it's believed Lina is no longer in San Antonio or Texas. Still Allen is big on awareness about the young girl's disappearance. She encourages people to wear buttons with the child's face on it and post her missing flyers.
"We're believing that someone will say something that will lead out to be a good tip." said Allen.
A $250,000 reward is still up for grabs for tips that could lead to where Lina is. A large amount that Allen hopes will eventually lead to answers.
"[Her parents] still hope and pray that one day they'll have this baby in their arms again," she said.
If you have any information about the child's disappearance, the Missing Person Unit's phone number is 210-207-7660. They answer the phone 24 hours a day.
Tips can be anonymous. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/its-a-hard-day-family-of-missing-lina-sardar-khil-mark-another-month-without-their-daughter/273-4e0e88dc-d4d9-4860-84b0-275f4e1c7c1a | 2022-08-21T17:58:47 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/its-a-hard-day-family-of-missing-lina-sardar-khil-mark-another-month-without-their-daughter/273-4e0e88dc-d4d9-4860-84b0-275f4e1c7c1a |
SAN ANTONIO — A 17 year veteran with the Bexar County Sheriff's Office was arrested for criminal mischief Saturday morning and is now possibly facing termination from the agency, officials say.
Around 12:55 a.m., Adelina Agosto is reported to have drunkenly showed up to someone's residence. When that person did not answer the door, she reportedly caused damage to the door. The resident then called 911 fearing that someone was trying to break in.
San Antonio Police responded to the scene and arrested Agosto for criminal mischief which is a class B Misdemeanor due to the resident's door being damaged.
BCSO said Agosto is a detention corporal and has been served termination paperwork in accordance with BCSO's policies and procedures with Bexar County Civil Service Rules, BCSO says.
“In my opinion, this tenured corporal choosing to drunkenly destroying the property of another is no better than the criminals we are sworn to guard society against. I personally believe she has no place in this profession, and she will soon have no place in this agency,” Sheriff Javier Salazar said.
Agosto is on unpaid administrative leave and an administrative investigation is taking place. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/off-duty-bcso-deputy-arrested-criminal-mischief-facing-possible-termination-officials-say/273-38092e9d-4454-467a-acc4-b050ba4f0f1f | 2022-08-21T17:58:53 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/off-duty-bcso-deputy-arrested-criminal-mischief-facing-possible-termination-officials-say/273-38092e9d-4454-467a-acc4-b050ba4f0f1f |
SAN DIEGO — The jaguar's range in the 1800s stretched from the Amazon rainforest to the southern United States.
But by the mid-20th century jaguars had been hunted out of the U.S. and were no longer seen north of the Mexican border.
However, a jaguar was sighted in Arizona as recently as January 6, 2021.
Ganesh Marin is a Biologist working on his PhD from the University of Arizona. He focuses on animal movement along the Arizona and Mexico border in the Cajon Bonita watershed.
"The Jaguars we saw in the Borderlands, Valerio, and Bonito were also males. The good news about them is they are young. You can find an astonishing amount of diversity. I'm talking Puma's, Black Bears, Beavers, and then there's Jaguars and this is incredible."
The first Jaguar showed up in March 2021 in Cuenca Los Ojos, a protected area located in Sonora, Mexico. The area is a Sky Island in the Sierra Madre that allows the Jaguar to traverse the mountain range and avoid the heat of the desert.
"When you have young like the ones we reported, it means the moment is not far. Males disperse first, females are slower, and female Jaguars could soon be in the United States.
Besides hunting, loss of habitat was a huge part of why Jaguars were lost in the United States.
"Jaguars are considered a near threatened species because there has been a loss of 20% to 40% of their range," said John Koprowski who is a professor at the University of Wyoming and is Marin's PhD advisor.
Koprowski adds that the Sky Islands in the Sierra Madre Mountains are what makes it possible for the Jaguars to move north.
"But this wonderful tapestry, this mosaic of diverse habitats that are connected to make the movement between Island, jump across an inhospitable desert environment to get to a more lush mountain environment," said Koprowski.
And with this pair of male Jaguars, Benito and Valerio making it so far North they're sending a message.
"They're essentially telling us there's some connectivity available and there's suitable habitat," said Koprowski.
Marin says keeping these corridors open and persevering areas like Cuenca Los Ojos, will support the Jaguars' return to the United States.
"We need to have all these mountainous areas and all the big washes and deep canyons in Mexico and the United States still open," said Marin.
With these two males establishing territory a female is likely to follow.
"My previous advisor, Dr. Gerardo Ceballos said that could happen within five years, I'm hopeful for that."
Editor’s Note: This article previously stated that researchers recently spotted a pair of male jaguars crossing into Arizona from Sonora, Mexico. That has been updated with this information: a Jaguar was sighted in Arizona as recently as January 6, 2021.
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One young girl started a mission of inclusion for others with disabilities before she died
A lot of children have good ideas, but not all of them are like Olivia Bloomfield.
Before this 10-year-old died of congenital muscular dystrophy in July, she spearheaded and witnessed the grand opening of Olivia’s Playground, 323 Center St. The park is the only all-inclusive playground of its kind in Salina, giving children with disabilities a place to play.
Olivia and her grandparents, Sid and Susy Reitz, wanted to create an outdoor space where all children, including those with disabilities, could explore and play. She also advocated for a park in Leawood.
Her mother, Sara Bloomfield, who described Olivia as “an extraordinary little girl,” witnessed Olivia’s activism and loving spirit first-hand the day of the park’s grand opening in 2019.
“She absolutely adored playing there and loved the different components that make up the park,” Bloomfield said. “She was very aware of her own special needs and others’ needs too.”
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Olivia's Playground
The park sits on the northeast corner of Fourth and Center streets near Oakdale Park and not far from the Salina Regional Health Center. It features swings, two fully accessible play structures, a butterfly garden, slides, a Merry-Go-All, and a quarter-mile walking path. The ground’s surface is coated with poured-in-place rubber for safety.
Last year, a holiday lights display was added, providing the community a place to view lights up-close without physical barriers. Onlookers will hopefully see a new piece or two added to the thematic displays this holiday season, according to Marla McElderry, executive director of Salina Regional Health Foundation.
“The Christmas lights were inspired by Olivia, specifically by our trip to Big Cedar. It was all accessible and she could get there. That spurred my dad to add the holiday display at the park,” Bloomfield said.
She noted that while the park provides an all-inclusive place for children to play since its launch, she sees the potential to add shaded areas and restrooms. But, she said, she is grateful for the park.
More:Olivia Bloomfield Life Story
“Thank you for the continued effort to build what was a wonderful idea. I appreciate all that they do," Bloomfield said. "It’s a best-in-class playground.”
Helping the Salina community with an all-inclusive park
Others in the community are equally as appreciative of Olivia’s Playground, including Joyce Tower, director of the infant child development at SRHC. She uses the playground as a site for physical, occupational and speech therapy sessions.
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“The families we see typically use the park a lot, especially when the weather is good. There were no other opportunities for most of the children without that park. We’re blessed as a community to have this incredible facility.”
Trower said that families travel from out of town and often across state lines to experience the park.
“In terms of equipment, I think there’s some great opportunities there,” said Trower. “Children who use a walker or wheelchair can use the play wall from a seated or standing position.”
The community’s feedback continues to show support for the park.
Sam Collier, 8, and his brother Oliver, 6, enjoy the specially constructed zip line. Their older sister Audrey, 10, said the park is "more comfortable."
Joanie Collier, the children's mother, said they come to the park often, calling it unique.
“We have had an overwhelmingly large amount of positive responses to the park and all it has to offer,” said McElderry of the Salina Regional Health Foundation.
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Expanding all-inclusive spaces to the Midwest
In the spirit of Olivia’s activism, the Olivia Bloomfield Foundation has projects underway to help develop all-inclusive spaces for others throughout the Midwest. Its goal is to facilitate one playground per year. Additionally, the foundation wants to support inclusive community programs for dance and theater participants.
And that’s just what Olivia would have wanted, her mother said. Olivia taught others how to find joy and positivity in every scenario every day.
Since Olivia’s death in July, her positive impact on the community continues to affect others. Bloomfield recently received a letter from their mail carrier thanking Olivia for her selflessness.
“It read, ‘You smiled at me. You said "thank you." You always waved. And you made me feel good,’” Bloomfield said.
Today, children and adults of all ages and abilities have a place where they can go and feel good; it's Olivia’s Playground. The park is open to the public from dawn to dusk. | https://www.salina.com/story/news/local/2022/08/21/olivia-bloomfield-foundation-projects-underway-help-develop-inclusive-playgrounds-midwest/10294522002/ | 2022-08-21T18:14:28 | 0 | https://www.salina.com/story/news/local/2022/08/21/olivia-bloomfield-foundation-projects-underway-help-develop-inclusive-playgrounds-midwest/10294522002/ |
SPRINGFIELD — A new partnership between Illinois State University and Memorial Health aims to target the ongoing shortage of nurses.
The university's board earlier this month approved leasing roughly 9,900 square feet of space from Memorial Health, which will also provide a donation to cover the rent and operation costs, as well as additional educational resources.
The effort will allow ISU nursing students to finish the last two years of their degree in Springfield. The option is expected to appeal to transfer students, a group for which the university currently has more demand than capacity, officials have said.
The need for more nurses is something Judy Neubrander, dean of ISU’s Mennonite College of Nursing, has heard time and time again from the college’s health care partners.
“The message, loud and clear, is we need more nurses,” she said.
It's a national issue, one that educational institutions and health care organizations across the country are working to address.
Employment of registered nurses is projected to grow 9% from 2020 to 2030, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. About 194,500 openings for registered nurses are projected each year over the decade. Many of the openings are expected to result from the need to replace workers who leave the profession, either by choosing a new career, retiring or otherwise exiting the labor force.
That need is especially being felt in downstate and rural communities in Illinois, said Marsha Prater, Memorial Health’s senior vice president and chief nursing officer. Those communities have aging populations who often live significant distances from hospitals.
“There is a really dangerous, difficult, nursing shortage,” she said.
Nurses make up the largest group of health care professionals, too, Prater said. She has been working in nursing for more than 40 years and has never seen this many job vacancies.
The new location will be at 200 N. Grand Avenue West, a former Shop 'n Save, just a few blocks from Memorial Health's Springfield hospital. The plan is for it to be renovated to include the necessary classrooms, labs and office space, Neubrander said.
The goal is to start classes at the additional location in fall of 2023. It is expected to serve around 48 students the first year and add another 48 to that the second year, Neubrander said. The location will host only juniors and seniors, including students transferring from community colleges as well as those who started their education at ISU’s Normal campus.
That can include recruiting students in high school who then go to community college for two years before joining MCN, Neubrander said.
“We will admit them before they even go to community college,” she said.
Right now, MCN receives around 250 to 300 transfer applications but has room for fewer than 50 of them, Neubrander told the university's board Aug. 15.
An additional goal with recruitment is to focus on Springfield and south-central Illinois, Neubrander and Prater said. The students at the Springfield location will also be able to receive a scholarship to help with costs.
ISU President Terri Goss Kinzy said that while the university already recruits nationally, the additional location will likely help recruitment and the nursing shortage. She is excited for the move.
“I do think it will increase our visibility in Springfield,” she said.
She also highlighted the location's potential for deepening existing partnerships with community colleges.
While Memorial Health will help provide resources for teaching the students, MCN will have complete control over academics.
“Clearly the college of nursing has 100% oversight of the curriculum,” Neubrander said.
The sublease and most operational costs will come from a planned $6 million donation from Memorial Health to ISU, to be given in installments over the next five years as long as certain enrollment measures are met.
Memorial Health is also likely to benefit from the program by having students from its coverage areas who are learning in its facilities. Nursing students are more likely to stay in the area where they go to school and do their placements, Prater said. Memorial Health has more than 70 clinics and hospitals in Springfield, Decatur, Taylorville, Jacksonville and Lincoln.
Memorial Health will be providing clinical rotations at those locations for the nursing students, as well as letting MCN use its simulation labs. The labs provide a valuable space for students to begin to experience a clinical setting without any potential for hurting someone, Prater said.
At ISU’s campus in Normal, an expanded simulation lab is under construction north of the Bone Student Center. The move is part of a plan to grow MCN from around 900 students to 1,200 to 1,500, Neubrander has said.
The additional location will help the college go beyond the capacity added by the nursing lab expansion, Kinzy said. All of that goes to addressing the shortage in nurses.
The two expansions started coming together about the same time, which has made it an exciting time for MCN, Neubrander said.
“It just provides an opportunity for Mennonite College of Nursing not only to expand in Normal (…) but go on to another location,” she said.
Expanding services to address the nursing shortage is also something the college needs to be doing, she believes.
“I’m passionate that we needed to do our little bit to help the nursing shortage,” Neubrander said. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/education/watch-now-how-illinois-state-and-memorial-health-are-partnering-to-fight-nursing-shortage/article_60c8dc8c-1e51-11ed-b6d9-1b961cbd54f9.html | 2022-08-21T18:20:03 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/education/watch-now-how-illinois-state-and-memorial-health-are-partnering-to-fight-nursing-shortage/article_60c8dc8c-1e51-11ed-b6d9-1b961cbd54f9.html |
Do you have a disability, chronic illness, or physical limitation due to your age?
Do you have a Forward Health card (Medical Assistance) and need help with activities of daily living, such as bathing, grooming, dressing and undressing, and simple meal preparation?
If you answered “Yes” to these questions, you may be eligible for MA Personal Care Services.
For many years, Society’s Assets has been a Certified Wisconsin Medicaid Personal Care provider. Under the supervision of our registered nurses Susan or Laurie, a written plan of care is developed for you after we receive your physician’s written order.
Susan St. John, Lead RN Home Care Supervisor, offered her insight. “People, especially the elderly, are often hesitant about having others come into their homes. There is a sense that they would be giving up their independence, or they are worried that the next step will be taking them out of their homes. But, more accurately, having help when necessary can actually be the very thing they need to remain safe and comfortable at home. It may take some time to get used to the idea, but many of my clients see the positive outcome and praise the caregivers for their work.”
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To benefit clients and their loved ones, we offer a program called Familiar Faces, Familiar Places. Friends, family, neighbors, or church members you know may be eligible for hire as your personal care worker, if they meet hiring and background check requirements. Even if they do not have formal caregiving experience, they have an opportunity to apply with us to care specifically for you.
Training is offered, including mentoring by experienced caregivers if needed. Tasks that are covered can include transfers (i.e. from bed to chair or wheelchair and back), bathing, meal preparation, food purchasing, personal hygiene, or accompanying you to medical appointments.
Following our mission as an independent living center means that self-determination is an important aspect to successful independent living, whatever your disability. It means taking control of your life, choosing your lifestyle, and making decisions that are right for you.
Society’s Assets services are offered to encourage maximum self-reliance and independence, and are directed at maintaining your usual household routine and outside activities.
Our staff would be happy to talk with you so that you can learn more about this unique program and how it would benefit you. The number to call is 262-657-3999. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/community-update-from-societys-assets-increasing-your-independence-at-home/article_31e01bfe-2097-11ed-a944-d3c4c310d3f6.html | 2022-08-21T18:22:18 | 0 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/community-update-from-societys-assets-increasing-your-independence-at-home/article_31e01bfe-2097-11ed-a944-d3c4c310d3f6.html |
Nearly 50 years ago, Paul Rizzo’s parents’ Carmen and Sam Rizzo decided they wanted to open their own furniture business.
Carmen was an interior designer and Sam, who worked for American Motors, was something of a handyman, selling real estate and building houses.
With the help of their three kids and plenty of extended family, Scandinavian Design, 3127 Roosevelt Road, opened its doors for the first time to customers in August of 1974.
Paul Rizzo’s collection of photos from the early years of the store include a group image of the family sitting on the storefront’s ledge. Going by the store now, it’s hard to see what’s changed in nearly five decades, other than some paint and a giant “store closing” sign.
“It’s bittersweet. My parents were very charismatic, they drew in a lot of people. It was always fun,” Paul said. “But it was their dream.”
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Both of Paul’s parents have since passed, and after almost a decade of carrying on their dream, the doors on the business will be closing for the last time by the end of the month, 48 years after they opened.
Since 2013, when the store reopened from its “dormant state” during the early 2000s recession, the store has been largely open only on Saturdays. Paul, who lives in Illinois, would come up to Kenosha to sell off the remaining inventory left after his father’s passing in 2012. His mother passed away several years earlier, in 2004.
“50 days a year, it takes a long time at that rate to sell everything,” Paul said with a smile.
Stated at 16
Now in his 60s, Paul was just 16 when the business opened, working along with his twin Paulette, who passed several years ago, and sister Renee. Paul worked in delivery and assembly, which he said let him get to know the customers and people of Kenosha. HE attended UW-Parkside for accounting, and then moved to Chicago, returning to Kenosha on weekends to help the store.
“I had a unique opportunity to visit a lot of people in their homes,” Paul said. “You have a chance to talk about their lifestyles and how that furniture complements that.”
Most of the furniture in the two-floor store is gone now, leaving some pieces that Paul said he put together from leftover parts, and various smaller decorations or leftover equipment he was giving away for free.
“Last time it was this bare was when we opened up,” Rizzo said, gesturing to the largely empty showroom floor.
Retirement plans
Now retired, he plans to travel with his wife once the store closes and perhaps find new hobbies beyond building furniture. With such a long chapter of his family’s history coming to a close, he expressed his thanks to the community his parents served for so many years.
“What I want to convey, on behalf of my parents, is a heartfelt appreciation and gratitude for all the customers,” Paul said. “Thank you very much. We’ve had 48 years, and its been fun.”
The future of the store is uncertain, although Rizzo said he hopes to find a community-oriented business or organization to take over the location.
Upgrade your room with these dorm DIYs from TikTok
1. $5 Custom Clock
You don’t have to spend a ton of money for a cool wall clock. Instead, try this DIY from @emilyrayna to make a $4 Walmart clock look like a work of art.
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2. Unkillable Hanging Plants
Whether you lack a green thumb or your dorm room lacks natural light, these DIY paper plants from @joshuarcher_ are an adorable substitute for the real thing.
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3. Curtain Light Wall
TikTok creator @emmarupard made some pretty glowing curtains with string lights and sheer material. These would make a great room divider for a shared dorm.
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WAVERLY — AMVETS Post Auxiliary 79 will host a meal Thursday at Waverly Area Veterans Post, 1300 Fourth St. N.W. The dinner will include baked chicken breast, baked potato, glazed carrots and dessert for $10. Curbside pickup will be 5-6 p.m. Dine-in will be served 5:30-7 p.m. Make reservations by 8 p.m. Wednesday by calling (319) 483-9287.
Photos: "40th on 4th Street Cruise" in downtown Waterloo
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Classic cars roll across the Fourth Street Bridge to downtown Waterloo during the 40th annual Fourth Street Cruise on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER, Courier Staff Photographer
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Classic cars roll across the Fourth Street Bridge to downtown Waterloo during the 40th annual Fourth Street Cruise on Saturday.
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Classic cars roll across the Fourth Street Bridge to downtown Waterloo during the 40th annual Fourth Street Cruise on Saturday.
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Classic cars roll across the Fourth Street Bridge to downtown Waterloo during the 40th annual Fourth Street Cruise on Saturday.
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Classic cars roll across the Fourth Street Bridge to downtown Waterloo during the 40th annual Fourth Street Cruise on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER, Courier Staff Photographer
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Classic cars roll across the Fourth Street Bridge to downtown Waterloo during the 40th annual Fourth Street Cruise on Saturday.
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Classic cars roll across the Fourth Street Bridge to downtown Waterloo during the 40th annual Fourth Street Cruise on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER, Courier Staff Photographer
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Classic cars roll across the Fourth Street Bridge to downtown Waterloo during the 40th annual Fourth Street Cruise on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER, Courier Staff Photographer
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Classic cars roll across the Fourth Street Bridge to downtown Waterloo during the 40th annual Fourth Street Cruise on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER, Courier Staff Photographer
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Classic cars roll across the Fourth Street Bridge to downtown Waterloo during the 40th annual Fourth Street Cruise on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER, Courier Staff Photographer
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Classic cars roll across the Fourth Street Bridge to downtown Waterloo during the 40th annual Fourth Street Cruise on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER, Courier Staff Photographer
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Classic cars roll across the Fourth Street Bridge to downtown Waterloo during the 40th annual Fourth Street Cruise on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER, Courier Staff Photographer
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Classic cars roll across the Fourth Street Bridge to downtown Waterloo during the 40th annual Fourth Street Cruise on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER, Courier Staff Photographer
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Classic cars roll across the Fourth Street Bridge to downtown Waterloo during the 40th annual Fourth Street Cruise on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER, Courier Staff Photographer
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Classic cars roll across the Fourth Street Bridge to downtown Waterloo during the 40th annual Fourth Street Cruise on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER, Courier Staff Photographer
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Classic cars roll across the Fourth Street Bridge to downtown Waterloo during the 40th annual Fourth Street Cruise on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER, Courier Staff Photographer
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Classic cars roll across the Fourth Street Bridge to downtown Waterloo during the 40th annual Fourth Street Cruise on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER, Courier Staff Photographer
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Classic cars roll across the Fourth Street Bridge to downtown Waterloo during the 40th annual Fourth Street Cruise on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER, Courier Staff Photographer
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW)–This Year National Latina day fell on Saturday, August 20 and Hispanic leaders in Wichita organized their second annual Latina Bruch to celebrate.
The goal behind the brunch is to motivate and support Latina women all throughout the sunflower state. Idalia Loya is the Director of Community Impact at Empower and says she started the annual event to help connect minority women in our area.
It is a day for women to interact, chat, and get to know each other. People will be able to show their businesses, talk about their success stories, and future business plans. Around 60 Latinas registered for the annual brunch.
“So, there are Latinas who are attorneys, Latinas who are non-profit leaders, and Latinas who are elected officials. So yeah we wanted to stay connected and build each other up and with this network really help each other and support each other. So, if someone is running for office, we have a group of Latinas that can help. If someone just received an award, we have a group to help lift each other and lift our voices. Because typically we are not lifted so it is to highlight those women because we are doing things,” Loya said.
The event was sold out and held at the Evergreen Resource Center. If you are interested in assisting next year, you can reach out to the non-profit organization Empower. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/empowering-latinas-in-wichita/ | 2022-08-21T18:33:07 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/empowering-latinas-in-wichita/ |
What started as an apparent routine traffic stop uncovered a machete-wielding man's robbery and kidnapping attempt on Long Island, police said.
Police conducting an investigation Saturday at the Edgewood Motel in Jericho witnessed a red Ford pickup truck leave the parking lot with four occupants inside.
About 1.5 miles from the motel, officers pulled the driver over around 6:45 p.m. at Cambridge Avenue and Warren Street in Westbury for failing to perform a complete stop. What came next was far from routine.
All four occupants were asked to step out of the truck after one of the passengers "appeared to be in distress," police said. Once outside, one of the backseat passengers bolted.
According to police, the 23-year-old started running and took out a large machete that had been hidden in his shorts and tossed it to the ground. Officers attempting to arrest the man said he "violently resisted."
Further investigation of the situation revealed the distressed 48-year-old passenger had allegedly been lured to the motel where he was forced at knife point to turn over his keys, phone and money, police said.
The driver of the pickup truck and a female passenger were also taken into custody; it wasn't clear how involved each were.
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Police said the 23-year-old Hempstead man was facing half a dozen charges including robbery and kidnapping. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/long-island-traffic-stop-foils-machete-carrying-suspects-kidnapping-attempt/3832859/ | 2022-08-21T18:49:42 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/long-island-traffic-stop-foils-machete-carrying-suspects-kidnapping-attempt/3832859/ |
Q. I have heard from the county assessor’s office and title company that I need a “quiet title” for my property. What is a quiet title and why do I need it?
A. In short, a quiet title is a very specific type of lawsuit in Idaho for when there is a question of ownership of real or personal property. A person files a quiet title action (lawsuit) against the other party who is also claiming interest in the property. A quiet title is distinct from other types of lawsuits since, in a quiet title, a party is asking a judge to make a decision as to the ownership of property and not award monetary damages. Once a judge makes this decision, the owner and third parties can rely on this decision to sell, insure or otherwise deal with the property.
Usually, quiet titles come up when a person attempts to sell real estate and something unexpected shows up on the title report. The title company will tell the seller that if they wish to sell, they will first need a quiet title because of a lien, encumbrance or some type of interest that someone may have in the property. It may be that there is a break in the chain of title by way of a missing deed (or deeds). When this is the case, it is often caused by the death of someone who was in possession of the property in the past. This situation also arises when a farm has been handed down from generation to generation but no deeds have been recorded.
Additionally, a title company may require a quiet title before insuring property obtained through a tax deed or at a foreclosure sale. Often, there are junior liens or other interests in the property that were foreclosed by the tax foreclosure process and so the quiet title action is to confirm that the taxing entity followed its processes correctly in obtaining title.
One of the most difficult parts in a quiet title action is ensuring that all parties that may have an interest in the property are named in the suit and provided with appropriate notice. For real property, it is beneficial to first obtain a litigation guarantee from a title company.
Mark V. Cornelison in an attorney practicing in Idaho Falls. This column is provided by the 7th District Bar Association as a public service. Submit question to “It’s the Law,” P.O. Box 50130, Idaho Falls, ID 83405, or by email to rfarnam@holdenlegal.com. This column is for general information. Readers with specific legal questions should consult an attorney. A lawyer referral service is provided by calling the Idaho State Bar Association in Boise at 208-334-4500 | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/its-the-law-quiet-title-action/article_9e1a60f7-5c9e-5d59-acee-bbdcc08ec47f.html | 2022-08-21T18:51:17 | 0 | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/its-the-law-quiet-title-action/article_9e1a60f7-5c9e-5d59-acee-bbdcc08ec47f.html |
HARVEY COUNTY, Kan. (KSNW) — A man from Buhler died in a fatal car crash Saturday afternoon.
According to Harvey County, 37-year-old Timothy Rutherford was driving a car westbound in the 23600 block of West Dutch Ave around 2 p.m., when for an unknown reason, he crossed the center line. He then hit an SUV headed eastbound head-on.
Rutherford was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Harvey County.
Harvey County says the four people in the SUV all received non-life-threatening injuries. One of them was transported by EMS to a local hospital for treatment. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/buhler-man-dies-in-crash/ | 2022-08-21T19:03:33 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/buhler-man-dies-in-crash/ |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Wichita State Students are working to help workforce training centers to best serve their communities.
WSU’s Public Policy and Management Center has students act as secret shoppers to help improve training at workforce centers.
Students create a mock scenario about why they are using the workforce center, make an appointment, and use the service.
They then fill out a survey sharing how the training center did and what they can improve on.
“They are providing a really important and vital service to their communities. And to have people who are similar to the people that they serve and who are looking for specific things that they know would be helpful to those people especially since we try to include people from all kinds of demographics I think it is important to have that feedback,” said WSU Master’s Student, Elizabeth Ewers.
There have been multiple projects around Kansas and some in Nebraska.
And so far they said it has helped the training center pinpoint certain issues.
“We were able to say hey here is an area where you can improve these are things from environmental like maybe how they access the bathrooms or how comfortable they feel telling their story the amount of privacy they get,” said WSU Public Policy and Management Center Research and Program Evaluation Manager, Dulcinea Rakestraw.
This past summer they received a $7,000 grant to help continue the program. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/wsu-students-helping-workforce-training-centers-with-secret-shoppers/ | 2022-08-21T19:03:38 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/wsu-students-helping-workforce-training-centers-with-secret-shoppers/ |
The Arlington Convention and Visitors Bureau is hosting a competition between 12 restaurants to see who will be crowned Arlington's favorite taco.
According to the city of Arlington, almost a billion hours of unused vacation time are wasted each year. The Arlington Convention and Visitor's Bureau said it hopes to #SaveTheTacos by reminding people to use their well-deserved time off work and enjoy all the tacos that would otherwise go uneaten.
The 12 competitors in the #SaveTheTacos contest are:
- Damian's Cajun Soul Cafe: Smoked Meatloaf Taco
- Hayters Bar & Lounge: Banana Pudding Taco
- Hersheys Palace Pizza Wangs and Thangs: The Eclipse
- J. Gilligan's Bar & Grill: J. Gill's Real Deal Taco
- MillsMade Barbecue: First Nations Navajo Taco
- Prince Lebanese Grill: Spicy Shawarma Taco
- Roadrun’r Exotic Cereal Bar: Roadrunner Taco
- Smoke’N Ash BBQ LLC: Tex-Ethiopian Kickash Taco
- The Cartel Taco Bar: Cartel Southwest Taco
- The Original Chop House Burgers: Do You Wanna Tijuana
- Tic Taco: Orange Pork Taco
- Ventana Grille: The Vermilion Taco
For more information about the competing tacos, click here.
By signing up through the Arlington Convention and Visitors Bureau website, participants can win prizes by checking into the restaurants in the #SaveTheTacos competition.
Check-in to six restaurants and you’ll be entered into a drawing for a $50 VISA gift card. If you check into 12 restaurants, you’ll be eligible to receive a taco prize pack and be entered into a drawing to win a weekend in Arlington.
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You can sign up or vote for your favorite taco on the Arlington Convention and Visitors Bureau website. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/arlington-convention-and-visitors-bureau-hosts-restaurant-competition-to-find-the-citys-best-taco/3053479/ | 2022-08-21T19:12:26 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/arlington-convention-and-visitors-bureau-hosts-restaurant-competition-to-find-the-citys-best-taco/3053479/ |
According to the U.S Attorney's Office for the Nothern District of Texas, a Dallas lawyer has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for conspiring to launder money he believed was linked to narcotics trafficking.
52-year-old Rayshun Jackon of The Jackson Law Firm was arrested in April 2021and plead guilty to conspiracy to launder money in September 2021.
Mr. Jackson admitted to laundering $380,000 for an individual he believed was a drug trafficker, but was actually an undercover DEA agent, according to the plea papers.
He was introduced to the agent on Sept. 3, 2020, by "Person A," the leader of a large-scale opioid distribution ring known to deal in illegally diverted narcotics. After Person A vouched for the undercover agent's credibility, Mr. Jackson and the undercover agent talked about how the attorney could "clean" the agent's "dope money."
Mr. Jackson advised the agent that he could launder around $500,000 a month by funneling it through non-traceable cash businesses (i.e., coin laundries, car washes) and shell corporations.
"Ray is the bomb. He's a thug, he's just got a law degree," Person A told the undercover agent after the meeting, according to court documents.
The undercover agent delivered a black backpack filled with $100,000 cash to Mr. Jackson at his office just three weeks later. Jackson agreed to launder the money for a 4% fee and a 1% bonus in cash upfront. After depositing the remaining $95,000 into various firm bank accounts in various amounts on various days, he eventually transferred the entire sum into the DEA's undercover bank account.
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The following month, the undercover agent delivered an additional $300,000 cash to Mr. Jackson at his office with the same fees as before for laundering the money. After depositing the remaining $285,000 into his various firm bank accounts in various amounts on various days, he eventually transferred the same amount into the DEA's undercover bank account.
Mr. Jackson admitted to knowing of the unlawful purpose of the agreement and joined in it willingly, according to plea papers.
"The sentencing of Rayshun Jackson marks the end of a successful investigation by DEA Dallas. Criminal drug organizations need a combination of individuals who are willing to distribute drugs as well as those who hide and attempt to legitimize profits," said DEA Dallas Special Agent in Charge, Eduardo A. Chávez. "Mr. Jackson agreed to launder what he believed to be drug proceeds with DEA undercover. The sentencing of Mr. Jackson is just. With overdose deaths and poisonings reaching record highs, everyone will be held accountable for their criminal actions."
During the sentencing hearing, the prosecutor told the court that a five-year sentence would reflect the seriousness of the offense, promote respect for the law, and provide just punishment.
"Individuals such as Mr. Jackson, who use money laundering methods to conceal the true source of illegal drug profits, run the risk of serving jail time," said Christopher J. Altemus, Jr., Special Agent in Charge, IRS Criminal Investigation Dallas Field Office. "The sentence imposed by the court is a reminder to criminals that money laundering schemes will be vigorously investigated and prosecuted. IRS-CI special agents are proud to work hand-in-hand with our law enforcement partners to bring criminals like Mr. Jackson to justice."
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Texas Department of Public Safety has activated an Endangered Missing Persons alert for a 17-year-old girl who was last seen on Sunday.
According to police, Quinaejah Taylor was last seen at approximately 2 a.m. in the 3000 block of Tudor Lane wearing a black t-shirt with the Nike logo on the front, black leggings, and a silver purse.
Police said Taylor has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and suffers from depression.
Officers described Taylor as having "a child's mental capacity."
According to the Irving Police Department, Taylor may be a risk to herself.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Quinaejah Taylor should contact the Irving Police Department at 972-273-1010 or dial 911.
TEXAS STATEWIDE ALERT PROGRAMS
There are seven kinds of alerts that can be issued for people in Texas. They are listed below with links to a page with more information.
- Amber Alert
- Active Shooter Alert (in development)
- Blue Alert
- Silver Alert
- CLEAR Alert
- Camo Alert
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$52.2 million: Stetson University sets new fundraising record during 21/22 fiscal year
DELAND — Stetson University set a new fundraising record this fiscal year, with donors giving about $52.2 million.
The number surpassesthe previous record of $29 million, set in 2018.
"That really says a lot to the faith of where they see Stetson going," Krista Bofill, vice president of development and alumni engagement, said in a phone interview Thursday. "You’re not only investing in the university, but you're investing in the world, in the community going forward."
One of the gifts came from the late Antoinette "Toni" Levasseur LaValle who left $15 million to the school to go toward full scholarships for up to eight arts students, as well as other scholarships and programs.
Late artist's gift:Woman leave $15 million to Stetson University for art, music students and programs
Bofill said the university's fundraising efforts usually bring in between $12 million and $15 million.
"We don't have state funding, so gifts like this make us what we are," Bofill said.
About 75% of the funds raised each year go toward scholarships.
Stetson student Emmalina Simonis just began her sophomore year, which, like her freshman year, is covered by scholarship funding.
"It made a huge difference and helped my family out a lot because as well all know, college is expensive," Simonis said.
The marketing major said she wouldn't otherwise have been able to attend the university.
The funding also helped bring four displaced Ukrainian students and a scholar to Stetson for the 2022-23 academic year.
"My take on it was people felt there was no better time to give to Stetson University than right now given the challenges associated with the pandemic," Stetson University President Chris Roellke said in a phone interview Thursday. "This philanthropy is a tremendous investment in the future generation of young leaders, and it allows us to continue to serve an increasingly diverse and talented student body."
Roellke, standing before a sea of students Wednesday afternoon inside the Edmunds Center, kicked off the new school year during convocation and shared his excitement about the achievement.
"I am, and I know you are, looking forward to this year in a living and learning environment that is fully engaged, vibrant and together, in person," Roellke said to the crowd. "Stetson’s development team, students and colleagues raised more than $52 million for scholarships, academic support and facility improvements."
Part of the funding will go toward fixing up the Edmunds Center, which needs new bathrooms, ADA improvements, a new performance surface and more.
"We're very excited to be able to redo that space because it really is an iconic building for Stetson," Roellke said by phone.
A strong start
The Princeton Review this month, and for the eighth year in a row, named Stetson as one of the country's best undergraduate institutions, an honor for which about 14% of the nation's four-year colleges are chosen.
In the write-up that will appear in the 2023 edition of "The Best 388 Colleges," students said the school's smaller size makes it easier to meet new friends and get one-on-one help from faculty with the school's 12:1 student-to-faculty ratio.
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PHOENIX — A Valley-based animal rescue group says they helped save more than 150 cats and dogs from a homeless camp.
Elli Smith, the Founder of Sky Sanctuary Rescue, says they found the homeless camp just outside of Surprise. They found four people hoarding about 160 pets.
"It's just shocking and really sad," Smith says. "I mean, I went back to the van and cried." She said last week, one of the people living there reached out to her for help through social media. She says the man sent her a video of him huddled underneath one of the tents with several dogs during a storm.
Caitlin Beall, the director of the sanctuary, describes the video, "He was in during that monsoon with 160 animals with only a tarp to cuddle with them," she recalls. "Truly, it was heartbreaking."
Soon, Beall and Smith drove out to the camp. The video they took shows the massive encampment. Trash and tents littered everywhere. Inside those tents were the animals.
"This is so much worse than we had expected," Beall says.
In triple-digit heat, both the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office started taking each animal. It took two full days.
Smith says they were able to take 56 back to their sanctuary, where they immediately started treating them for injuries. "Two-day-old puppies all the way to 17-year-old dogs," Smith says.
Fortunately, Smith says none of them had to be put down. She was also surprised to learn none of them were malnourished, but there were some serious issues.
Smith says, "We have one that is going to have to get its eye nucleated." Since all the animals were out in the desert, Smith says each has to be tested for Valley Fever which she says can cost anywhere between $200 to $300.
The founder says the four people at the camp truly cared about their pets but wish it didn't have to get to this point. "Don't be afraid to ask for help," Smith says. "Don't let it get to a crisis point."
Many of the dogs that were rescued are now available for adoption.
If you wish to donate to Sky Sanctuary Rescue or want to adopt, click here.
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SAN ANTONIO — An argument between two friends turned violent early Sunday morning and ended with one of the men shot.
It happened around 12:51 a.m. in the 8500 block of State Highway 151 on the west side of town.
When officers arrived, they found a 40-year-old man who said he was shot by a friend.
Witnesses told police the two men were arguing over money issues when the 31-year-old suspect pulled out a revolver and shot the other man, then fled from the location in a Black Kia Optima with a female friend.
The victim was taken to University Hospital in non life-threatening condition.
Police searched the area but did not locate the suspect.
The crime scene was processed and all evidence collected.
This is an ongoing investigation.
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SAN ANTONIO — King’s Mane Barbering is hosting their annual Back to School event with free haircuts and school supplies for students, while supplies last.
The event is being held Sunday from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. at 4963 Stahl Rd., Suite 110.
They will be giving away free backpacks and school supplies, as well as free food and drinks for our kids in the community.
"The great thing about our event is we also include a very special Non-Profit Organization named 'Cleat Close', in which they donate as well as receive shoes to give back to the community," said Charlie James, co-owner of King's Mane Barbering. "It was started by the children of the Stewart Family and has helped many children throughout our city."
King's Mane Barbering teamed up with the Star Tom Lodge 100 Masons, and the Brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity to hold this event.
"Many of our Barber, including myself and my partner, are military veterans and truly believe in giving back," said James. "We will be providing haircuts, backpacks, shoes and pizza for students on a first come first serve basis."
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SAN ANTONIO — A man was shot in the chest Sunday morning after getting into an argument with another man, police say.
It happened just after 11 a.m. on the 1200 block of Saltillo Street near S. Zarzamora on the west side of town.
Police said the two men were arguing when one man shot another, then pistol whipped him and took off.
The 26-year-old victim, who was shot in the chest, was taken to University Hospital with non life-threatening injuries.
Police said the suspect fled in red Ford F-150.
This is a developing story.
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IRVING, Texas — An Endangered Missing Persons Alert is now active to help find a teenage girl that was last seen in Irving on Sunday.
Police say 17-year-old Quinaejah Taylor was seen at 2 a.m. on the 3000 block of Tudor Lane. She was wearing a black t-shirt with "Nike" on the front, black leggings, and a silver purse.
According to police, Quinaejah has been "diagnosed as bipolar, suffers from depression, and has a child's mental capacity."
It's not clear where she could be, but her loved ones and the police department believe she's a risk to her own safety.
Anyone with information on the teen's whereabouts is asked to call 911 or Irving Police at 972-273-1010.
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SAN DIEGO — The jaguar's range in the 1800s stretched from the Amazon rainforest to the southern United States.
But by the mid-20th century jaguars had been hunted out of the U.S. and were no longer seen north of the Mexican border.
However, a jaguar was sighted in Arizona as recently as January 6, 2021.
Ganesh Marin is a Biologist working on his PhD from the University of Arizona. He focuses on animal movement along the Arizona and Mexico border in the Cajon Bonita watershed.
"The Jaguars we saw in the Borderlands, Valerio, and Bonito were also males. The good news about them is they are young. You can find an astonishing amount of diversity. I'm talking Puma's, Black Bears, Beavers, and then there's Jaguars and this is incredible."
The first Jaguar showed up in March 2021 in Cuenca Los Ojos, a protected area located in Sonora, Mexico. The area is a Sky Island in the Sierra Madre that allows the Jaguar to traverse the mountain range and avoid the heat of the desert.
"When you have young like the ones we reported, it means the moment is not far. Males disperse first, females are slower, and female Jaguars could soon be in the United States.
Besides hunting, loss of habitat was a huge part of why Jaguars were lost in the United States.
"Jaguars are considered a near threatened species because there has been a loss of 20% to 40% of their range," said John Koprowski who is a professor at the University of Wyoming and is Marin's PhD advisor.
Koprowski adds that the Sky Islands in the Sierra Madre Mountains are what makes it possible for the Jaguars to move north.
"But this wonderful tapestry, this mosaic of diverse habitats that are connected to make the movement between Island, jump across an inhospitable desert environment to get to a more lush mountain environment," said Koprowski.
And with this pair of male Jaguars, Benito and Valerio making it so far North they're sending a message.
"They're essentially telling us there's some connectivity available and there's suitable habitat," said Koprowski.
Marin says keeping these corridors open and persevering areas like Cuenca Los Ojos, will support the Jaguars' return to the United States.
"We need to have all these mountainous areas and all the big washes and deep canyons in Mexico and the United States still open," said Marin.
With these two males establishing territory a female is likely to follow.
"My previous advisor, Dr. Gerardo Ceballos said that could happen within five years, I'm hopeful for that."
Editor’s Note: This article previously stated that researchers recently spotted a pair of male jaguars crossing into Arizona from Sonora, Mexico. That has been updated with this information: a Jaguar was sighted in Arizona as recently as January 6, 2021.
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SAN ANTONIO — Police are investigating after a man was hit by gunfire while standing in his front yard Saturday night.
It happened around 8:30 p.m. in the 700 block of Austin St. just east of downtown.
The 39-year-old victim told police that an unknown vehicle drove by his home and shot multiple times into the front yard, and he was caught in the spray of bullets.
He was taken to BAMC with non life-threatening injuries.
Officers received conflicting stories from the homeowner and witnesses at the scene.
They searched the area, but the suspect vehicle was not found.
No other injuries were reported and no other details were provided.
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SAN ANTONIO — VIA Metropolitan Transit is offering special event service to the Alamodome Sunday for the Mötley Crüe Stadium Tour.
The shuttles will begin at 2:30 p.m., which is two hours prior to the 4:30 p.m. start time of the concert, and end one hour after the concert ends.
The special event route will run from the Crossroads Park and Ride to the Robert Thompson Transit Center at the Alamodome.
The fare for the shuttle is $1.30 each way, with discounted fares for children, seniors, students, and active-duty U.S. military. Cash and credit cards are accepted at the Park & Ride location. Additionally, VIA passes will now be accepted for event service.
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ALBANY -- The Albany Area Chamber of Commerce has announced a pair of its most anticipated high-profile events. The Chamber will present the PROPEL Women in Business program Wednesday and announced that its annual Business Expo is set for Sept. 29.
The PROPEL event connects, engages and inspires women in the community, and provides them with the tools they need to design their future, the chamber said.
That event is set for 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday at the event center at the Northwest Library branch at 2507 Dawson Road. Networking and check-in are set for 11:30 a.m. Lunch and the event program are scheduled from noon-1:30 p.m.
Cost is $35 for chamber members and $45 for non-members.
The Business Expo allows participating businesses to market their business to more than 500 people at a fun-filled bash, the chamber said. Participants will be able to generate quality business-to-business leads, improve opportunities to achieve and sustain success, and showcase their businesses to a large segment of the general public. All in one place, at one time.
Opportunities include:
SPONSOR
Double booth with power in entrance area
2 6-foot tables and 4 chairs
Logo/name mentioned in all advertising
Members: $1,150
Prospects: $1,250
DOUBLE BOOTH
8-foot-by-16-foot with pipe & drape
2 6-foot tables and 4 chairs
Members: $575
Prospects: $675
REGULAR BOOTH
8-foot-by-8-foot with pipe & drape
1 6-foot table and 2 chairs
Members: $295
Prospects: $395
ADDITIONAL
Electricity: 120-volt, single phase -- $35
The Business Expo will kick off at 4:30 p.m. and last until 7 p.m. Sept. 29 at the Albany Civic Center, 100 W. Oglethorpe Blvd. Exhibitors are encouraged to bring one door prize of at least $25 value.
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The Sunnyside Unified School District election for governing board members has been canceled because only two candidates were running for two seats.
That means incumbent Consuelo Hernandez and former board member Roberto Jaramillo will be appointed to serve SUSD, the second-largest school district in Pima County, with no input from voters.
In its request asking the county Board of Supervisors to cancel the uncontested election, the Pima County School Superintendent’s Office said it determined the candidates met the nomination requirements for positions on the board.
Jaramillo, who will take over the seat now held by board member Eva Carrillo Dong, has long been involved in serving the Sunnyside community, according to the district's website. He served on the board from 1996-2011 and 2018-20.
Hernandez, who currently serves as board president, secured her first term as Sunnyside board member in 2019 in another uncontested race. She’s now also running as a Democratic candidate for Arizona House Legislative District 21 in the November election.
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The two board members will begin their four-year terms on Jan. 1, 2023.
The remaining eight major school districts in Pima County — Amphitheater, Catalina Foothills, Flowing Wells, Marana, Sahuarita, Tanque Verde, Tucson Unified and Vail — will still have elections for governing board members in November.
Investments in education
The United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona announced it will invest $70,000 through its Cradle to Career initiative to support early grade literacy and middle school math.
The funding will benefit elementary and middle schools in the Tucson, Marana and Sahuarita unified school districts.
A total of $38,000 will be invested in literacy efforts at Holladay Elementary in TUSD; Butterfield, Estes, Quail Run and Roadrunner elementaries in MUSD; and Sopori Elementary in SUSD.
The remaining funds will be invested in middle schools that are yet to be determined.
“We continually talk about how our children are the future and how critical it is to provide them with a quality education and supportive resources,” said Tony Penn, president and CEO of United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona. These investments show that we put the resources entrusted to us into the needs of these children.”
Have any questions or news tips about K-12 education in Southern Arizona? Contact reporter Genesis Lara at glara@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/education/uncontested-sunnyside-board-election-is-canceled/article_8d23b91a-1dbf-11ed-8b18-a77312faedb9.html | 2022-08-21T19:27:31 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/education/uncontested-sunnyside-board-election-is-canceled/article_8d23b91a-1dbf-11ed-8b18-a77312faedb9.html |
Leon Vitali, the “Barry Lyndon” actor who became one of Stanley Kubrick’s closest associates, has died. He was 74.
Though Vitali was often described as Kubrick’s assistant, Tony Zierra’s 2017 documentary “ Filmworker ” shed light on Vitali’s enormous and largely unsung contributions to the work of one of cinema’s greatest figures from “The Shining” through “Eyes Wide Shut.” He did everything from casting and coaching actors to overseeing restorations. Vitali even once set up a video monitor so that Kubrick could keep an eye on his dying cat.
Matthew Modine, who starred in Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket,” tweeted his condolences Sunday.
“There are people we meet who have a profound impact upon our lives. Leon Vitali was one such person in mine,” Modine wrote. “An artist in every aspect of his life. A loving father & friend to so many. A kind, generous & forgiving nature. He exemplified & personified grace.”
Filmmaker Lee Unkrich also tweeted that he was, “Completely heartbroken to hear about the passing of Leon Vitali. He helped me (asterisk)enormously(asterisk) with my Shining book and I’m gutted that he won’t see it. He was a sweet, kind, humble, generous man and a vital part of Stanley Kubrick’s team.”
Before meeting Kubrick, Vitali was a rising actor in England, appearing in several British television shows including “Softly, Softly,” “Follyfoot,” “Z Cars” and “Notorious Woman.” Then in 1974 he got his biggest break yet, when he was cast in “Barry Lyndon” as Lord Bullingdon, the son-in-law of Ryan O’Neal’s title character.
Vitali was so fascinated by Kubrick and his processes that he made an unusual decision: He gave up on acting and devoted himself entirely to the famously demanding director for over two decades. His next Kubrick credit was as “personal assistant to the director” on “The Shining,” though that’s only part of the story — Vitali famously helped cast 4-year-old Danny Lloyd to play Danny Torrance and Louise and Lisa Burns as the creepy Grady twins (citing Diane Arbus as inspiration).
“I made one truly, truly radical change in my life and that was when I said, ‘I’m more interested in that’ than I was in the acting,” Vitali told the Associated Press in 2017. “That’s the biggest conscious decision I’ve ever made. There were some sacrifices, but there were gains too.”
After Kubrick’s death in 1999, Vitali oversaw restorations for many of Kubrick’s films. He received a Cinema Audio Society award for his work. Vitali later worked with director Todd Field on his films “Little Children” and “In the Bedroom.”
Before making the documentary, Zierra said that he and many Kubrick-obsessed fans knew Vitali for his performances in “Barry Lyndon” and “Eyes Wide Shut,” in which he played Red Cloak, and as a key member of Kubrick’s inner circle. But when they finally met Vitali to make the film, they were struck by “his kindness, humility and the fascinating scope of his story.”
Zierra is working on a director’s cut of “Filmworker” that will include new footage that he and Vitali wanted in the film, but couldn’t get done in time for its Cannes debut in 2017. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/leon-vitali-stanley-kubricks-right-hand-man-dies-at-74/2022/08/21/de13aa32-2180-11ed-a72f-1e7149072fbc_story.html | 2022-08-21T19:27:47 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/leon-vitali-stanley-kubricks-right-hand-man-dies-at-74/2022/08/21/de13aa32-2180-11ed-a72f-1e7149072fbc_story.html |
RICHMOND, Va. — A counselor for Virginia’s largest public school system kept his job for more than a year and a half after his arrest on charges of soliciting prostitution from a minor, a newspaper reported.
Darren Thornton, 50, was arrested in an undercover chat operation in Chesterfield in November 2020. At the time, he was employed by Fairfax County Public Schools as a school counselor.
Thornton chatted with an undercover officer and set up a meeting for sexual acts, authorities said in court documents. The officer told Thornton she was 17, and Thornton agreed to meet up with her, according to chat transcripts included in court documents. He showed up to the apartment and was met by police, authorities said.
Thornton was convicted on March 11 and sentenced to five years. But the court suspended the sentence on the conditions of good behavior, following the law and paying court costs.
Thornton also had to register as a registered sex offender. The database lists him as living in Richmond. From fall 2006 to spring 2020, he was a school counselor and boys varsity basketball coach for Hanover County schools.
Thornton in June 2022 was arrested in another online chatting operation on charges of solicitation of prostitution and frequenting a bawdy place.
Thornton told the newspaper he was set up by police in the two undercover chat operations and that police do not tell the exact truth about what happened. He did not elaborate.
According to state law, an arresting agency is required to report anyone charged with a felony who is known to be, or discovered to be, a school employee to their school superintendent.
Chesterfield police spokeswoman Elizabeth Caroon said the department’s records indicate the Fairfax school system was notified of Thornton’s November 2020 arrest the following day, and again when Thornton was arrested this June.
But when contacted by The Times-Dispatch last month, Fairfax schools spokeswoman Julie Moult said Thornton was still employed by the school division.
Virginia Department of Education spokesman Charles Pyle said he could not recall a similar circumstance.
“We take (educator misconduct) very seriously,” Pyle said. “Back in 2008, it was the (VDOE) that strongly pushed for legislation to tighten reporting requirements around educator misconduct, and that’s when the requirement was placed on law enforcement to inform employing school divisions of the arrests of teachers.”
Thornton’s staff page was deleted from the school system’s website on July 28 after The Times-Dispatch began inquiring.
Helen Lloyd, also a Fairfax schools spokeswoman, declined to make school division officials available for interviews or to answer questions about the safety processes.
On Thursday, Fairfax Superintendent Michelle Reid sent a message to families, saying the division “took immediate steps to dismiss the employee” as soon as she and the School Board knew of the situation.
Reid said in the message to families that she initiated a comprehensive, independent investigation by outside counsel.
“There is no higher priority than the safety of our students and, on behalf of the school board and myself, I want to make this very clear: this entire situation is unacceptable from any perspective. We are deeply concerned about how this happened in one of our schools,” Reid said in the message. “I want to assure you that we are doing everything possible so this cannot happen again. I am committed to keeping you updated on this issue.”
Thornton’s next court date for his June arrest is Sept. 27 in Chesterfield District Court. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/school-counselor-remained-in-job-20-months-after-arrest/2022/08/21/77a3762c-2182-11ed-a72f-1e7149072fbc_story.html | 2022-08-21T19:27:53 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/school-counselor-remained-in-job-20-months-after-arrest/2022/08/21/77a3762c-2182-11ed-a72f-1e7149072fbc_story.html |
BLOOMINGTON — Police said one person was hurt in a shooting early Sunday morning in Bloomington.
Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Ivy Thornton told The Pantagraph it happened shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday in the 900 block of South Wright Street.
The police sergeant said Sunday morning a victim who was injured in the shooting was still being treated at a hospital.
It’s unclear how serious his wounds were. No further information about the victim or suspects was available Sunday.
Thornton said anyone with additional information on this shooting is asked to call BPD dispatch at 309-820-8888 and ask for Det. Paul Jones or Det. Jesse Landphear.
Filming locations from the best crime movies shot in NYC
Filming locations from the best crime movies shot in NYC
The New York City people imagine—whether they are lifelong New Yorkers or have yet to visit—is now mostly the stuff of fiction, an image dreamed up on the big screen. In recent years, some might say the city has been Disneyfied, stripped of its grit and grime in favor of coffee shop chains and gentrified boroughs. But if there's anything that immediately transports us back to the gaudy and gorgeously anti-glamorous streets we've come to associate with the City that Never Sleeps, it's the innumerable crime films that were shot there.
There's just something utterly timeless and irresistible about this dark and seedy side of NYC and, luckily for cinephiles, some of the most memorable monuments from such crime classics as "The Godfather" and "Taxi Driver" still remain. This means you can still go and visit some relics from the New York of yesteryear itself.
To help get your cinematic pilgrimage off to a start, Giggster looked at noteworthy shooting locations you can visit from the best crime movies shot in New York City. To qualify as one of the best, the film had to have at least a 7.5 user rating on IMDb .
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Don Corleone's resting place in 'The Godfather'
- Location: Calvary Cemetery, Greenpoint Avenue, Queens
Calvary Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery that stretches across 365 acres, making it one of the largest—as well as one of the oldest—cemeteries in the United States. The grounds are home to a few centuries worth of notable politicians and performers, as well as real-life mobsters like Stefano Ferrigno, deeming it an appropriate setting for one of the most emotionally charged scenes in "The Godfather."
It was in a section of the cemetery known as "First Calvary Cemetery" where Don Corleone (Marlon Brando) was laid to rest after suffering a heart attack while playing in the garden with his grandson. The funeral scene required 150 extras, 20 hearses, limousines, and thousands of dollars worth of flowers. As a spectacular site of historical preservation, the cemetery looks largely unchanged from how it was depicted in the movie—save for the warm, grainy camera filter.
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The bank exterior in 'Inside Man'
- Location: 20 Exchange Place, Manhattan
20 Exchange Place, formerly known as the City Bank-Farmers Trust Building, is a skyscraper located in the financial district of lower Manhattan, which boasts a facade bejeweled with high-end stones. In 2006, it appeared in Spike Lee's heist film "Inside Man" as a fictional bank branch named Manhattan Trust Bank.
Once a relic of New York's wave of art deco architecture in the 1920s, it has since been modernized. Though in the film, it was restored to its former glory and made to look like a financial institution from a former time. The building is basically a location scout's paradise, not least because of the ease of the city's Made in NY marketing incentives program, but also because, according to film location scout Nick Carr , who'd previously scouted the building for "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," filmmakers tend to get their run of the place here.
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The last pickup location in 'Taxi Driver'
- Location: St. Regis Hotel, 2 E. 55th St., Manhattan
Martin Scorcese's "Taxi Driver" is an expressionistic vision of NYC in the 1970s, before the city's so-called Disneyfication. The film is a lonely and claustrophobic journey through the psyche of Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), but there's some light relief when he gives Cybill Shepherd's character, Betsy, a free ride to the St. Regis Hotel on Fifth Avenue. While the city has undergone an extensive transformation since then, the St. Regis Hotel—known throughout the city for its glamour and prestige—has mostly gone untouched. The building itself is still largely the same, though the outside awning has been jazzed up a little with lights and black accents.
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The fountain Howie is thrown into in 'Uncut Gems'
- Location: 1245 6th Ave., Manhattan
As lifelong residents of New York City, the Safdie brothers have been committed to depicting the city at its sleaziest and best. In "Uncut Gems," their best-known film, Adam Sandler plays Howard Ratner, an on-edge jeweler attempting to barter his way through midtown Manhattan's diamond district. It's a location in perfect proximity to some of New York's most iconic sights—Fifth Avenue, Trump Tower, as well as 30 Rock, where Sandler got his start on "Saturday Night Live"—and now the film has made an icon of a water fountain on Sixth Avenue in the district.
In one memorable scene, after being punched in the face by two goons, Howard gets thrown into the fountain. While filming, Sandler was spotted bloodied and drenched in the fountain by passersby ; the Safdies generally like to plant their cameras across the block, making the scenes as realistic as possible.
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Where the famous car chase starts in 'The French Connection'
- Location: 2415 Stillwell Ave., Brooklyn
See it once and it will be burned into your brain forever. In one of the most famous car chase scenes in cinema history, Detective Jimmy Doyle (Gene Hackman) races through packed New York City streets in an attempt to arrest a man who commandeered a subway train. Doyle's wicked temper is in full force as tires screech across the pavements of Stillwell Avenue in Brooklyn.
Director William Friedkin has famously said that the scene wasn't entirely scripted but rather conceptualized on location—and off the cuff. Apparently, one reason for this is that the district only permitted the filmmaker to use one particular Brooklyn line: the West End stretch from Coney Island into Manhattan, the West End line. Since filming, the Avenue has expanded with apartment buildings, shops, and larger roads, but it still bears a remarkable resemblance to the area in the film.
This story originally appeared on Giggster and was produced and distributed in partnership with Stacker Studio.
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Here’s an update of the COVID-19 numbers in the state.
New positive cases: 1,546
New deaths: 5
Total positive cases: 2,261,005
Total number of deaths: 31,362
Total vaccine doses administered: 14,188,277*
Rate of transmission: 0.87
CASES BY COUNTY
Atlantic: 63,699 cases, 975 deaths, 381,651 doses administered*
Cape May: 12,688 cases, 269 deaths, 134,697 doses administered*
Cumberland: 37,866 cases, 584 deaths, 187,458 doses administered*
Ocean: 153,752 cases, 2,900 deaths, 704,781 doses administered*
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Source: N.J. Department of Health
Figures as of 3 p.m. Aug. 21
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ATLANTIC CITY — The two most-anticipated fights Saturday were saved for last.
In the eight-bout Boardwalk Boxing: Rising Star Series card at a packed and energetic Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall’s Adrian Phillips Ballroom, Justin "Time" Figueroa earned a first-round knockout to win his professional boxing debut.
Figueroa (1-0), who is a 2017 Holy Spirit High School graduate a lifelong Atlantic City resident, threw some strong jabs and fast punches as Ohio's Tavaris Smith (0-6) quickly went to the floor.
The fight was over in 1 minute, 34 seconds.
"Before it started, there was so much anxiety going through my mind. I did not want to underestimate anybody," Figueroa said. "But I knew all the hard work I put in and all the sacrifices I made. And I put too much work into this to let this moment bypass me. So, I knew what time it was. It was Justin 'Time.' I got it in and I got the job done. That was it. Thank you to everyone who came out. Stand up, Atlantic City. We did it. Onto the next."
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Millville's Thomas "Cornflake" LaManna (32-5-1, 13 KOs) won the main event with an eight-round unanimous decision over Mexico's Saul Roman (46-16, 38 KOs). The three judges scored the fight 78-73, 77-74, 77-74.
LaManna, a 2011 Millville graduate, has not fought in the resort since 2018, but his last fight was in August 2021, which was the longest he went without fighting, LaManna said. On Saturday, he said he had some "ring rust," but was able to shake some of that off as the fight unfolded.
"I keep saying it, but I'm just glad to be back," said LaManna, who thought he would never fight again after he suffered a loss in the World Boxing Association middleweight title bout in May 2021. "After that, it took a lot. That's why I give myself a C, maybe a B, on the performance.
"I also knew I had more skill than (Roman), it just came down to me believing in myself and putting it together," said LaManna, who lost 60-plus pounds and has not gone eight rounds in a long time. "I felt good going up to eight rounds."
After Figueroa won, he did a planned celebration — the worm. The 23-year-old had done the celebration when he fought at the amateur level. Then Figueroa motioned to his home crowd.
Figueroa is a member of the Atlantic City Beach Patrol.
"I’ve seen guys do the backflip and stuff. But I’ve never seen a guy do the worm as good as I do,” said Figueroa, who last fought in December 2021 but took time off to "get things right outside (the ring) and sharpen up my mindset."
When the fight started, Figueroa admitted Smith "was better than I thought." But this fight was the first time he wore smaller gloves and no headgear, he said. (A fighter wears headgear at the amateur level.)
"My feet were too quick. He couldn’t catch me," said Figueroa, who did not know how long the fight would last but he did know "it would not go the distance. The first couple punches I threw, he went down."
Added Figueroa in excitement, "It was that easy? It was that easy?"
There were a lot of supporters for Figueroa.
“I love Atlantic City. You can call me Mr. Atlantic City,” Figueroa said. “ The crowd was great. … The crowd's energy really boosted me up like crazy. I can’t believe my energy. I felt superior in there.”
Figueroa trains in the resort and runs on the Boardwalk everyday.
“I feel like I’m in a dream right now,” he added.
Millville-based company Rising Star Promotions, along with Atlantic City Sports Commission, staged the event. LaManna runs Rising Star, which has promoted cards since 2015.
LaManna is scheduled to fight for a WBA Regional title in Colombia in two weeks. He plans to be at 160 pounds for that fight. On Saturday, he was 170. He said Saturday's fight helped prepare him, and he will get back to training this week.
"All in all, I feel good," he said. "I'm happy to be back and put on another event. … I just need to find myself again. This is what I needed."
Other results
Tennessee welterweight Avious Griffin (9-0, 8 KOs) opened the card with a first-round TKO over Arizona's Ramon Marquez (4-2, 4 KOs). Woodbridge, Middlesex County, bantamweight Jose Nieves (4-0, 2 KOs) Juan Sequeira (1-1) won a four-round, 39-37 unanimous decision.
Philadelphia light-heavyweight Derrick Vann (2-4) won a four-round split decision over New York's Paul Bamba (4-2, 3 KOs). Undefeated junior welterweight Kurt Scoby (7-0, 5 KOs) earned a first-round TKO over Florida's Raul Chirino (19-16, 12 KOs).
Newark, Essex County, flyweight Anthony Johns (4-0, 3 KOs) won a four-round unanimous decision over Philadelphia's Jerrod Minor (2-14-2, 1 KO). In the co-main event, Puerto Rico's Emmanuel “Salserito” Rodriguez (12-0, 6 KOs) earned a fourth-round KO over Frank "El Castigador" Gonzalez (9-3, 4KOs) to win the World Boxing Organization NABO Latino Bantamweight Championship | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/boxing/justin-figueroa-wins-pro-debut-thomas-lamanna-wins-1st-fight-since-last-year/article_f8ef6380-20d3-11ed-a3f8-4f223e86e876.html | 2022-08-21T19:35:44 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/boxing/justin-figueroa-wins-pro-debut-thomas-lamanna-wins-1st-fight-since-last-year/article_f8ef6380-20d3-11ed-a3f8-4f223e86e876.html |
WOODSTOCK, Ga. — A Georgia jury has returned a $1.7 billion verdict against Ford Motor Co. involving a pickup truck crash that claimed the lives of a Georgia couple, their lawyers confirmed.
Jurors in Gwinnett County, just northeast of Atlanta, returned the verdict late last week in the yearslong civil case involving what the plaintiffs’ lawyers called dangerously defective roofs on Ford pickup trucks, lawyer James Butler Jr. said Sunday.
Melvin and Voncile Hill were killed in April 2014 in the rollover wreck of their 2002 Ford F-250. Their children Kim and Adam Hill were the plaintiffs in the wrongful death case.
“I used to buy Ford trucks,” Butler said on Sunday. “I thought nobody would sell a truck with a roof this weak. The damn thing is useless in a wreck. You might as well drive a convertible.”
Ford did not immediately respond to requests for comment Sunday. But in closing arguments, lawyers hired by the company defended the actions of Ford and its engineers.
The Michigan-based automaker sought to defend the company against accusations “that Ford and its engineers acted willfully and wantonly, with a conscious indifference for the safety of the people who ride in their cars when they made these decisions about roof strength,” defense lawyer William Withrow Jr. said in his closing arguments, according to a court transcript.
The allegation that Ford was irresponsible and willfully made decisions that put customers at risk is “simply not the case,” another defense lawyer, Paul Malek, said in the same closing argument.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs had submitted evidence of nearly 80 similar rollover wrecks that involved truck roofs being crushed that injured or killed motorist, Butler’s law firm, Butler Prather LLP, said in a statement.
“More deaths and severe injuries are certain because millions of these trucks are on the road,” Butler’s co-counsel, Gerald Davidson, said in the statement.
“An award of punitive damages to hopefully warn people riding around in the millions of those trucks Ford sold was the reason the Hill family insisted on a verdict,” Butler said. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/georgia-jury-awards-17-billion-in-ford-truck-crash-case/85-1bb236ac-2091-4c7d-b66c-3e16ade81fb1 | 2022-08-21T19:37:22 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/georgia-jury-awards-17-billion-in-ford-truck-crash-case/85-1bb236ac-2091-4c7d-b66c-3e16ade81fb1 |
LOVEJOY, Ga. — Four people have been shot after a gun accidently went off inside the Walmart on Tara Boulevard.
However, Lovejoy Police said that a man in the store accidently shot himself in the leg with the weapon, only to have the bullet ricochet and hit three other people in the store.
Police add that all the injuries are non-life-threatening.
Upon further investigation, they said the man's weapon was loaded but not in a holster. In a statement, they further added that "the handling of this firearm was not done in a reasonable standard of care."
According to police, that man will not be charged with reckless conduct and has been booked into a Clayton County Jail.
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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK)—A crash shut down one lane of I-64 westbound in Charleston on Sunday.
Kanawha Metro says that one person was taken to the hospital after a two-vehicle accident at the Oakwood entrance ramp at around 2:30 p.m.
There is no word on the extent of the person’s injuries.
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CABELL COUNTY, WV (WOWK)—The Cabell-Huntington Health Department will conduct a vaccine clinic for students in Cabell County on Monday.
According to Cabell County Schools, the clinic will be open to 7th and 12th-grade students still needing MVC4 and TDAP shots.
The clinic will take place at the Cabell-Huntington Health Department at 703 7th Ave. in Huntington. It will run from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
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VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – An explosion on a boat at Halifax Harbor Marina on Sunday injured four people, according to the Daytona Beach Fire Department.
Firefighters responded just after 1:15 p.m.; the department said the four boaters had just refueled the vessel, which exploded when they tried to start its engine.
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The fire department shared security video of the explosion on its Facebook page. The footage shows how the explosion sent multiple loose objects flying from the boarded vessel, as well as smoke from what officials said was an ensuing fire on the boat.
See the footage in the video player below.
One of the four people who were injured in the explosion — a woman in her 50s — was airlifted to an Orlando hospital for burns, firefighters said. The other three boaters were treated on scene and refused transport to the hospital, according to the department.
No other details have been shared at the time of this report.
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RILEY, Indiana — Three people died in a fiery crash near Terre Haute Sunday morning. Two others in the car were injured. "All are believed to be ISU students, including several football players," according to a post on Indiana State University's website.
Following the crash, Indiana State Football tweeted condolences on behalf of the team.
"Our hearts, thoughts and prayers go out to the families and all who were involved in this tragic accident!" the team said in the tweet.
Mike Bath, a football coach at ISU, also tweeted saying, "Heartbreaking… Please pray for the families and friends of these young men, this university, and the men and coaches in this program."
According to a report by WTWO, citing the Vigo County Sheriff's Office, the crash occurred around 1:34 a.m. on State Road 46 and Main Street in Riley, Ind., which is southeast of Terre Haute.
Investigators determined the car left the road and struck a tree before catching on fire. Two passengers escaped with serious injuries and were taken to the hospital.
The driver and two more passengers were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which is still under investigation.
“This is a terrible tragedy,” ISU President Dr. Deborah J. Curtis said in the school's post. “As we are waiting on additional details from authorities investigating this accident, our hearts go out to the families and friends of the students involved.”
The ISU women’s soccer match Sunday afternoon has been postponed because of the tragedy.
The school has counseling services available for students, faculty, and staff at 812-237-3939. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/3-dead-in-fiery-crash-near-terre-haute-5-isu-students-involved-riley/531-080c70ca-afbc-48f7-b0a6-d64fe1fb19c0 | 2022-08-21T19:57:29 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/3-dead-in-fiery-crash-near-terre-haute-5-isu-students-involved-riley/531-080c70ca-afbc-48f7-b0a6-d64fe1fb19c0 |
Henrico County voters will see a four-question bond referendum on their ballots this fall.
The county is asking voters for their approval to issue $511.4 million in bonds. The Commonwealth of Virginia requires counties to have a bond referendum — a vote of the people to to issue general obligation bonds.
In an effort to be transparent and democratic, the referendum will contain four yes or no questions in the areas of schools; recreation and parks; fire station and public safety; and flood prevention and stormwater drainage.
Some counties, including neighboring Chesterfield, lump all of the projects into one question on the ballot.
A Henrico resident has the option to vote yes to allow the county to issue $50 million in bonds for flood prevention and stormwater drainage projects, but vote no on the issuance of $37 million in bonds for recreation and parks projects if they choose.
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Schools projects
About two thirds of the proposed bonds are for Henrico County Public Schools projects. If the schools category is approved by voters, the county would issue $340.5 million for those projects.
The project with the most expensive price tag is the rebuild of Quioccasin Middle School, which is estimated to cost $89 million.
The school was built in 1971, and has a peculiar layout that causes an inability to see all the way down the hallways – unless you squat down and look from the floor.
Each hallway has a series of sections with stairs. Some hallways have three steps of stairs, separating the hall into three levels of descending heights. Because of the differing levels, there’s no straight line of vision down the hallways.
“This requires a lot more of (the) team at every class transition to be in the hallways. It pulls them away from being able to do other things, because we want to see all the kids during transition,” said Henrico School Board Chair Marcie Shea, who represents the Tuckahoe district where Quioccasin Middle School is located. “Instead of just having one person on a hall, you've got to have multiple stations. While classes go on, we have to have a lot more teachers on duty as well, for the same reason.”
The presence of stairs in each hallway creates challenges for students or staff members who use wheelchairs. There are wheelchair lifts at some stairs, so the school is in compliance with Americans with Disabilities Act requirements, but they can be challenging to use with crowded hallways.
“Logistically when you're looking at a class change when you have almost 1,000 kids in the building, even having a lift is challenging,” Shea said.
There’s also a double set of cafeterias.
“This isn’t the best design because you have half of our staff split up on this side, and half split on the other side as well,” said the school’s new principal, Robert Stevens. “That’s less time (administrators) can be spending in classrooms, giving teachers feedback on lessons or meeting families.”
If voters approve the $340.5 million in bonds for school projects, Quioccasin Middle will be rebuilt with an auditorium, Shea said. Of HCPS’ 12 middle schools, Quioccasin is one of four that do not have an auditorium. The school currently uses the gymnasium for performances, but it can only fit about one third of the student body.
Another issue with the unusual design of the school is widely varying classroom sizes – some are very small, making little room for students while other rooms are too large for any class size.
“It's just not conducive to the educational practices that our teachers utilize,” Shea said. “We're certainly looking forward to with a new building, being able to provide the learning opportunities that we know are best practice for our kids."
Other school rebuilds on the bond referendum include Jackson Davis Elementary ($36 million); R. C. Longan Elementary ($37 million); and Highland Springs Elementary ($45 million).
One school would be renovated: Charles M. Johnson Elementary ($26.5 million).
County officials allocated $13.3 million for an outdoor classroom building at Wilton Farms.
The remaining schools projects are two completely new schools that would be built years down the line to accommodate the county’s growing population: a Fairfield area elementary school ($46 million) and a West end area elementary ($47.7 million).
Henrico’s 2016 bond referendum, which was overwhelmingly approved by voters, funded the rebuild of J.R. Tucker High School and Highland Springs High School.
Fire station and public safety facilities projects
The six projects in the fire and safety category amount to $83.85 million. These include the rebuilding of three firehouses, which amounts to $44.3 million.
“The fire department has been around for almost 80 years, and in that time the mission has changed quite a bit,” said Henrico Fire Chief Alec Oughton. “It used to just be strictly a fire department, and we’re now what we refer to as an 'all hazards agency.'”
The Henrico Fire Department became heavily involved in emergency medical services in 1988, which added additional units and additional staffing to each station. Standards for staffing on fire trucks has also changed since the three fire stations in need of rebuilding were constructed in the late ‘60s to early ‘70s.
“We're living and working in those facilities 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” Oughton said. “It's important to have enough space to house those folks there so they are ready to respond at a moment's notice.”
There's also four major renovation projects on stations that were built in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s which amount to $6.55 million. One of the major priorities for these improvements is to reduce the risk of cancer that is caused by carcinogens that firefighters bring into station from fire scenes.
A unique project in the safety category is a new public safety training center, which comes with a price tag of $18 million. It would be used by all public safety teams and in the county to give responders structures that resemble realistic scenarios they might encounter on the job – things like urban mixed use developments and four-story townhouses.
The last safety project is a new no-kill animal adoption center, which would cost $15 million to build.
Flood prevention and stormwater drainage
Before the early 1980s, strict regulations against building homes in floodplains or next to creeks did not exist.
As a result, there are over 7,000 homes in Henrico County that have drainage problems, according to Steven Yob, deputy county manager for community operations. There are an additional 1,200 homes that are in the floodplain, and 70 roads in the county that routinely go underwater.
“It's a problem and that we've put some money to from our general fund, from our tax revenue, but it's really a much bigger problem than a few $100,000 a year is going to fix,” Yob said. “What we hope to do with ($50 million) is to take care of some of these neighborhoods that routinely have flooding problems. Hopefully we will be able to prioritize the ones that have the biggest problems and are least able to do anything about it.”
The potential improvements would vary by the neighborhood. Some might involve putting in drainage systems, which would require rebuilding the streets and putting in storm sewers and storm sewer basins.
Recreation and parks
The least expensive category on the bond referendum is for recreation and parks projects, which are slated for $37 million.
On the last bond referendum in 2016, Henrico County voters approved $87 million for recreation and parks.
A new Three Chopt area park featuring tournament-style fields and nearby road improvements would cost $25 million.
The other parks projects are $7 million for improvements at Deep Bottom Park in Varina and $5 million for additions to Tuckahoe Creek Park. | https://richmond.com/news/local/education/551-million-henrico-bond-referendum-includes-89m-for-rebuild-of-quioccasin-middle/article_78b0a509-385e-5020-8804-8a5ab9e2f69d.html | 2022-08-21T19:58:19 | 1 | https://richmond.com/news/local/education/551-million-henrico-bond-referendum-includes-89m-for-rebuild-of-quioccasin-middle/article_78b0a509-385e-5020-8804-8a5ab9e2f69d.html |
After an historic 2021 season, UTSA is looking to be even better in 2022.
The Roadrunners open the season against No. 24 Houston on Sept. 3 and then they hit the road to play the Army Black Knights on Sept. 10 at West Point, New York.
For fans who might still want to travel to the banks of the Hudson River to support the Roadrunners, and maybe enjoy some fall foliage, here are some lodging options near Michie Stadium, where the two teams will tangle.
These rentals were available as of Aug. 21, but that could change quickly.
Bear Mountain House
Stars: 5, nine reviews
Distance to Michie Stadium: 4 miles
Description: Welcome to our cozy Garrison cottage steps to Anthony's Nose hiking trail, minutes from the Bear Mountain bridge, 15 minutes to West Point, just 60min from NYC.
Bedrooms: 3, sleeps 8
Bathroom: 3 full
Review: My family of four, plus a grandparent stayed here for 2022 USMA Graduation. The location was super! Truly 15 minutes to Thayer Gate, plus convenient to Walgreens and grocery.
Sparrow House: A Cozy, Waterfront Retreat in the Hudson Valley
Stars: 4.8, six reviews
Distance to Michie Stadium: 5 miles
Description: Wake up to stunning views of the Hudson River and the Hudson Highlands in this huge, immaculately clean, & beautifully designed historic home.
Bedrooms: 4
Bathrooms: 2
Review: The house was extremely clean and comfortable. It was a great kitchen for cooking. We enjoyed watching the wildlife through the windows. Great place to relax and explore.
Serene Mountain Top Views overlooking Hudson River
Stars: 4.9 with 87 reviews
Description: Beautiful furnished apartment with antique bedroom set, private entrance and patio, kitchenette, dining area, full bath, central air, cable TV with blue ray and pullout queen size couch.
Distance to Michie Stadium: 3.7 miles
Bedrooms: 2
Bathrooms: 1
Review: Serene and quiet place we booked last week just for an overnight. The location is great for visiting West Point or exploring the Highlands.
Newly remodeled cottage close to trails, rivers, and lakes.
Stars: 4.5, four reviews
Description: Close to Peekskill, West Point, Bear Mtn, Harriman, Appalachian Trail, & Hudson & Croton Rivers.
Distance to Michie Stadium: 7.2 miles
Bedrooms: 2
Bathrooms: 1
Review: The cottage was quite new, with a well-appointed kitchen in a compact space. … The cottage has a cute front porch, and there is a patio seating area just off the porch for sitting or dining. Great location.
Historic Cold Spring Village House
Stars: 4.5, four reviews
Description: Perfect for a weekend getaway. You simply cannot beat the location of our quaint nineteenth century house, right in the middle of Cold Spring Village.
Distance to Michie Stadium: 2.2 miles
Bedrooms: 3
Bathrooms: 1.5
Review (2021): Property is very close to all the action in Cold Spring, great location. Excellent all around. Recommended!!!
Farmhouse updated
Stars: 4.7, three reviews
Description: This playfully renovated former farmhouse is the perfect getaway for couples and small groups to safely socialize for weekends and/or extended stays.
Distance to Michie Stadium: 12.7 miles
Bedrooms: 2
Bathrooms: 1
Review: This property was very clean and comfortable. It's rustic...no TV or microwave, but otherwise there's wifi and a full kitchen. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/UTSA-football-fans-traveling-to-the-Army-game-17388060.php | 2022-08-21T20:12:01 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/UTSA-football-fans-traveling-to-the-Army-game-17388060.php |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An Oroville man has died after being hit by two cars while waving down cars following a crash in Sutter County, officials with the California Highway Patrol's Yuba-Sutter office said.
Around 5:20 a.m. Sunday, a 31-year-old man from Oroville was driving north on Highway 99 near Hutchinson Road when he reportedly drove off the roadway and into a ditch on the side of the highway.
The man got out of his car and began standing in traffic lanes, attempting to wave down cars as they passed by, the CHP said.
At around 5:25 a.m., the man was hit by a silver Honda that was traveling southbound.
The force of the crash reportedly caused the man to land in the northbound lane. Another gray Honda that was traveling northbound then also hit the man, officials said.
The man, who has not been identified yet, died from his injuries. Officers believe alcohol was a factor in the crash.
According to authorities, both drivers of the cars involved pulled over and cooperated with the investigation.
Those who witnessed the crash or who may have information are asked to call the CHP at (530) 674-5141.
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SAN DIEGO — The jaguar's range in the 1800s stretched from the Amazon rainforest to the southern United States.
But by the mid-20th century jaguars had been hunted out of the U.S. and were no longer seen north of the Mexican border.
However, a jaguar was sighted in Arizona as recently as January 6, 2021.
Ganesh Marin is a Biologist working on his PhD from the University of Arizona. He focuses on animal movement along the Arizona and Mexico border in the Cajon Bonita watershed.
"The Jaguars we saw in the Borderlands, Valerio, and Bonito were also males. The good news about them is they are young. You can find an astonishing amount of diversity. I'm talking Puma's, Black Bears, Beavers, and then there's Jaguars and this is incredible."
The first Jaguar showed up in March 2021 in Cuenca Los Ojos, a protected area located in Sonora, Mexico. The area is a Sky Island in the Sierra Madre that allows the Jaguar to traverse the mountain range and avoid the heat of the desert.
"When you have young like the ones we reported, it means the moment is not far. Males disperse first, females are slower, and female Jaguars could soon be in the United States.
Besides hunting, loss of habitat was a huge part of why Jaguars were lost in the United States.
"Jaguars are considered a near threatened species because there has been a loss of 20% to 40% of their range," said John Koprowski who is a professor at the University of Wyoming and is Marin's PhD advisor.
Koprowski adds that the Sky Islands in the Sierra Madre Mountains are what makes it possible for the Jaguars to move north.
"But this wonderful tapestry, this mosaic of diverse habitats that are connected to make the movement between Island, jump across an inhospitable desert environment to get to a more lush mountain environment," said Koprowski.
And with this pair of male Jaguars, Benito and Valerio making it so far North they're sending a message.
"They're essentially telling us there's some connectivity available and there's suitable habitat," said Koprowski.
Marin says keeping these corridors open and persevering areas like Cuenca Los Ojos, will support the Jaguars' return to the United States.
"We need to have all these mountainous areas and all the big washes and deep canyons in Mexico and the United States still open," said Marin.
With these two males establishing territory a female is likely to follow.
"My previous advisor, Dr. Gerardo Ceballos said that could happen within five years, I'm hopeful for that."
Editor’s Note: This article previously stated that researchers recently spotted a pair of male jaguars crossing into Arizona from Sonora, Mexico. That has been updated with this information: a Jaguar was sighted in Arizona as recently as January 6, 2021.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A person is recovering Sunday after a Saturday night shooting at an unknown location, officials with the Sacramento Police Department said.
Around 10:54 p.m. Saturday, officers say they responded to the area of 15th Street and Broadway near Sacramento's Tower Cafe and found a person who had been shot.
Officials say the person sustained a gunshot wound to the pelvic area and gave conflicting statements as to where the shooting occured and what led to the shooting.
According to the Sacramento Police Department, no crime scene was located but a crime report was generated.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As wildfires rage across California each year, exhausted firefighters call for reinforcements from wherever they can get them — even as far as Australia.
Yet one homegrown resource is rarely used: thousands of experienced firefighters who earned their chops in prison. Two state programs designed to get more former inmate firefighters hired professionally have barely made a dent, according to an Associated Press review, with one $30 million effort netting jobs for just over 100 firefighters, little more than one-third of the inmates enrolled.
Clad in distinctive orange uniforms, inmate crews protect multimillion-dollar homes for a few dollars a day by cutting brush and trees with chainsaws and scraping the earth to create barriers they hope will stop flames.
Once freed from prison, however, the former inmates have trouble getting hired professionally because of their criminal records, despite a first-in-the-nation, 18-month-old law designed to ease their way and a 4-year-old training program that cost taxpayers at least $180,000 per graduate.
“It’s absolutely an untapped pool of talent," said Genevieve Rimer, who works with former inmates trying to clear their records. “Thousands of people are coming back from California’s fire camps annually. They have already been trained. They have a desire to go and put their lives on the line in order to ensure public safety.”
California is hardly alone in needing seasoned smoke eaters, but the nation's most populous state faces different challenges than other more sparsely settled Western regions. A wildfire that nearly leveled the Sierra Nevada foothills town of Paradise nearly four years ago, for instance, was the nation’s deadliest wildfire in nearly a century, killing 85 people.
The U.S. Forest Service is short about 1,200 firefighters, 500 of them in California, and the Interior Department is down about 450 firefighters, 150 of them in California, said two of the state's top elected officials, U.S. Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla, in a recent letter to Biden administration officials.
Other Western states are grappling with the issue. Nevada is considering a program like Arizona’s “Phoenix Crew,” which started in 2017 and provides mostly former inmate firefighters a pipeline to firefighting jobs.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the California legislation in 2020, allowing former inmates to seek to withdraw guilty pleas or overturn convictions. A judge can then dismiss the charges. Former inmates convicted of murder, kidnapping, arson, escape and sex offenses are excluded.
Since the law took effect, the nonprofit Forestry & Fire Recruitment Program, started by two former inmate firefighters, has worked with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles to help former inmates clear their records and get hired.
Yet they have only been able to file 34 petitions, and just 12 had records expunged during what the program warns “can be a long and drawn out process.”
Ashleigh Dennis is one of at least three attorneys filing expungement petitions through the Oakland-based advocacy group Root & Rebound. She has similarly been able to file just 23 requests, with 14 granted.
Among other hurdles, applicants must show a judge evidence they have been rehabilitated, and the expungement only applies to crimes they were incarcerated for while working in firefighting crews. Many people have unrelated convictions that must be separately expunged.
It's been a learning curve to educate judges about the law and get the corrections department to speed up certifying to the court that inmates have served as firefighters, said Dennis and one of her clients, Phi Le. He petitioned the court in October and his record was expunged in January.
Da’Ton Harris Jr.'s record was finally cleared in August, about 18 months after starting the process.
“I’m out here, a public servant, risking my life every day to try and better my community," said Harris. “I don’t think it was a smooth transaction at all.”
Despite his record, Harris obtained firefighting jobs with the U.S. Forest Service, the state's firefighting agency Cal Fire, and the Forestry & Fire Recruitment Program.
But like Le, his advancement was limited because his criminal record made him ineligible for an Emergency Medical Technician certification, an obstacle that disappeared with the expungement. Outside of temporary federal and state firefighting agency jobs, most fire departments require applicants to be licensed EMTs — a certification the state bans certain felons from obtaining because the job comes with access to narcotics and sharp objects.
Rimer, the Forestry & Fire Recruitment Program's director of supportive services, said California should automatically expunge records of eligible former inmates, much as it does for those convicted of antiquated marijuana crimes. And it should include their entire criminal record, she said.
“I think it spearheaded opportunity for people, but I don’t think it’s good enough,” she said of the expungement law.
The law's author, Assembly Majority Leader Eloise Reyes, a Democrat from San Bernardino, has been struggling ever since to learn how many former inmates it has helped. She said many former inmates have contacted her office to praise “the life-changing impact of the legislation.”
The corrections department informs eligible inmates about the law but doesn't track expungements, said department spokeswoman Tessa Outhyse. Cal Fire, the court system and the state Department of Justice also couldn't say how many have had their records expunged.
In another effort, California in 2018 created a training program to help former inmates get hired professionally.
The 18-month program is run by Cal Fire, the California Conservation Corps, the state corrections department and the nonprofit Anti-Recidivism Coalition at the Ventura Training Center northwest of Los Angeles. Conservation corps members also are eligible. Former inmates convicted of arson or sex offenses are excluded.
Participants spend six months on life skills and firefighter training and the next year fighting or preventing fires and doing other community service, for which they are paid $1,905 a month. The center has four fire crews with 60 participants.
In four years the program has cost over $29.5 million but has just 106 graduates.
Nearly all found a professional job: 98 are with Cal Fire and three are with other agencies including the Orange County Fire Authority and the U.S. Forest Service, according to corrections officials. Cal Fire provided slightly different figures.
But they're the fortunate ones among the 277 who have participated since the program's inception. Another 111 participants, or 40%, left before completing the program, said Outhyse.
Climate change is making wildfires more frequent and destructive, so the shortage comes at a time when demand for wildfire crews is going up.
And the state is turning more to professional wildland firefighters, largely because inmate crews are less available after voters shortened criminal sentences and officials released thousands of lower-level inmates early to prevent coronavirus infections.
This August about 1,670 inmates are in fire camps, including staff like cooks and laundry workers, down about 40% from August 2019. The corrections department was budgeted for 152 crews this year, but fielded just 51, each with about 15-18 firefighters.
With fewer inmate crews, California is turning more to other agencies. The conservation corps is responsible for filling 30 crews, Cal Fire 26 and the California National Guard 14.
The state also is creating what officials called the first all-hazards fire engine strike team operated by a state National Guard. The fire engines can respond both to wildfires and urban blazes.
“We’ve recognized for a few years now that due to early release, due to COVID, a number of other reasons, we have to do something,” said Battalion Chief Issac Sanchez, a Cal Fire spokesman.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A man has been cut by what he is telling police was a machete, according to the Wichita Police Department (WPD).
Wichita police say they received a call around 1 a.m. for the report of a cutting in the 1200 block of N Broadway.
Upon arrival at the scene, police say they found a man with cuts to his forehead and left wrist. He had waited two hours to call and tried to bandage his wounds himself.
Not knowing how much blood the man had lost, he was taken to a local hospital in critical condition. There he received staples and stitches, according to police.
The WPD says the man was uncooperative, and therefore the identity of the suspect is not known at this time. Police do say the incident is not random, and that he knew the woman.
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WOODSTOCK, Ga. — A Georgia jury has returned a $1.7 billion verdict against Ford Motor Co. involving a pickup truck crash that claimed the lives of a Georgia couple, their lawyers confirmed.
Jurors in Gwinnett County, just northeast of Atlanta, returned the verdict late last week in the yearslong civil case involving what the plaintiffs’ lawyers called dangerously defective roofs on Ford pickup trucks, lawyer James Butler Jr. said Sunday.
Melvin and Voncile Hill were killed in April 2014 in the rollover wreck of their 2002 Ford F-250. Their children Kim and Adam Hill were the plaintiffs in the wrongful death case.
“I used to buy Ford trucks,” Butler said on Sunday. “I thought nobody would sell a truck with a roof this weak. The damn thing is useless in a wreck. You might as well drive a convertible.”
Ford did not immediately respond to requests for comment Sunday. But in closing arguments, lawyers hired by the company defended the actions of Ford and its engineers.
The Michigan-based automaker sought to defend the company against accusations “that Ford and its engineers acted willfully and wantonly, with a conscious indifference for the safety of the people who ride in their cars when they made these decisions about roof strength,” defense lawyer William Withrow Jr. said in his closing arguments, according to a court transcript.
The allegation that Ford was irresponsible and willfully made decisions that put customers at risk is “simply not the case,” another defense lawyer, Paul Malek, said in the same closing argument.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs had submitted evidence of nearly 80 similar rollover wrecks that involved truck roofs being crushed that injured or killed motorist, Butler’s law firm, Butler Prather LLP, said in a statement.
“More deaths and severe injuries are certain because millions of these trucks are on the road,” Butler’s co-counsel, Gerald Davidson, said in the statement.
“An award of punitive damages to hopefully warn people riding around in the millions of those trucks Ford sold was the reason the Hill family insisted on a verdict,” Butler said. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/georgia-jury-awards-17-billion-in-ford-truck-crash-case/85-1bb236ac-2091-4c7d-b66c-3e16ade81fb1 | 2022-08-21T20:32:32 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/georgia-jury-awards-17-billion-in-ford-truck-crash-case/85-1bb236ac-2091-4c7d-b66c-3e16ade81fb1 |
SAN ANTONIO — Missing for eight months.
San Antonio police are still searching for 4-year-old Lina Sardar Khil who went missing last year on December 20.
The toddler girl vanished from the playground of the apartment complex where she lived with her family. Lina was 3-years-old at the time of her disappearance. Police told KENS 5 in May that her case has not gone cold and tips are still coming in.
Still, the 20th of each month continues to be a day of despair for the girl's family.
"It's a hard day," said Pamela Allen, a family spokesperson.
Allen said despite efforts made by police and a private investigator from Project Absentis, the little girl remains missing eight months later.
"There's been a few leads that have come in but nothing solid," she said.
Allen said public searches are on pause for now as it's believed Lina is no longer in San Antonio or Texas. Still Allen is big on awareness about the young girl's disappearance. She encourages people to wear buttons with the child's face on it and post her missing flyers.
"We're believing that someone will say something that will lead out to be a good tip." said Allen.
A $250,000 reward is still up for grabs for tips that could lead to where Lina is. A large amount that Allen hopes will eventually lead to answers.
"[Her parents] still hope and pray that one day they'll have this baby in their arms again," she said.
If you have any information about the child's disappearance, the Missing Person Unit's phone number is 210-207-7660. They answer the phone 24 hours a day.
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IRVING, Texas — An Endangered Missing Persons Alert is now active to help find a teenage girl that was last seen in Irving on Sunday.
Police say 17-year-old Quinaejah Taylor was seen at 2 a.m. on the 3000 block of Tudor Lane. She was wearing a black t-shirt with "Nike" on the front, black leggings, and a silver purse.
According to police, Quinaejah has been "diagnosed as bipolar, suffers from depression, and has a child's mental capacity."
It's not clear where she could be, but her loved ones and the police department believe she's a risk to her own safety.
Anyone with information on the teen's whereabouts is asked to call 911 or Irving Police at 972-273-1010.
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SAN DIEGO — The jaguar's range in the 1800s stretched from the Amazon rainforest to the southern United States.
But by the mid-20th century jaguars had been hunted out of the U.S. and were no longer seen north of the Mexican border.
However, a jaguar was sighted in Arizona as recently as January 6, 2021.
Ganesh Marin is a Biologist working on his PhD from the University of Arizona. He focuses on animal movement along the Arizona and Mexico border in the Cajon Bonita watershed.
"The Jaguars we saw in the Borderlands, Valerio, and Bonito were also males. The good news about them is they are young. You can find an astonishing amount of diversity. I'm talking Puma's, Black Bears, Beavers, and then there's Jaguars and this is incredible."
The first Jaguar showed up in March 2021 in Cuenca Los Ojos, a protected area located in Sonora, Mexico. The area is a Sky Island in the Sierra Madre that allows the Jaguar to traverse the mountain range and avoid the heat of the desert.
"When you have young like the ones we reported, it means the moment is not far. Males disperse first, females are slower, and female Jaguars could soon be in the United States.
Besides hunting, loss of habitat was a huge part of why Jaguars were lost in the United States.
"Jaguars are considered a near threatened species because there has been a loss of 20% to 40% of their range," said John Koprowski who is a professor at the University of Wyoming and is Marin's PhD advisor.
Koprowski adds that the Sky Islands in the Sierra Madre Mountains are what makes it possible for the Jaguars to move north.
"But this wonderful tapestry, this mosaic of diverse habitats that are connected to make the movement between Island, jump across an inhospitable desert environment to get to a more lush mountain environment," said Koprowski.
And with this pair of male Jaguars, Benito and Valerio making it so far North they're sending a message.
"They're essentially telling us there's some connectivity available and there's suitable habitat," said Koprowski.
Marin says keeping these corridors open and persevering areas like Cuenca Los Ojos, will support the Jaguars' return to the United States.
"We need to have all these mountainous areas and all the big washes and deep canyons in Mexico and the United States still open," said Marin.
With these two males establishing territory a female is likely to follow.
"My previous advisor, Dr. Gerardo Ceballos said that could happen within five years, I'm hopeful for that."
Editor’s Note: This article previously stated that researchers recently spotted a pair of male jaguars crossing into Arizona from Sonora, Mexico. That has been updated with this information: a Jaguar was sighted in Arizona as recently as January 6, 2021.
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Nearly 80 years since founding, Tim Boulden leads Boulden Brothers to success
In 1946, brothers Omar & Urie Bolden started a coal delivery business, Boulden Brothers Coal, in Newark.
Today, grandson Tim Boulden carries on their legacy, earning the small leadership award in the News Journal’s Top Workplaces competition for 2022.
Over the years, the company has come a long way from its original service of coal delivery. Taking on many iterations, from providing heating oil services to septic tank pumping, the company now deals with plumbing, heating, air and electric.
Whether it’s a drop-in from Boulden’s son with some newborn puppies or a wall that shows the souvenirs of the Boulden Brother’s charity work throughout the years, the same sense of family that started with a company led by brothers pervades the current workplace.
“We want to have everyone feel like they’re welcome and a part of what we’re doing,” Boulden said.
For Boulden, this means explaining the “why,” not just the “what.” He wants his team members to be a part of company decisions and to understand his reasoning.
“As I got older, I was more willing to talk about the things that were important to me outside of just the business,” Boulden said.
Moving forward, Boulden said the company has a desire to grow, but not so much that the business loses its sense of “connectivity.” He wants it to stay small enough that he and the managers know everyone on the team.
“You can tell he’s a true leader and he tries his best to take care of all branches of staff within the company,” an employee wrote about Boulden in the Top Workplaces survey.
Boulden’s journey as a leader extends beyond just the company to a few sessions about 20 years ago as a state representative. The desk that Boulden used to sit in as a legislator now resides in his office in Newark.
As for whether or not the business will stay within the family, Boulden is not quite sure about that yet. His children are currently off pursuing their dreams, from law school to songwriting in Nashville.
“Life is too short for not trying to find something you love,” Boulden said. | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/topworkplaces/2022/08/21/family-style-approach-has-helped-boulden-brothers-succeed/65379338007/ | 2022-08-21T20:38:58 | 1 | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/topworkplaces/2022/08/21/family-style-approach-has-helped-boulden-brothers-succeed/65379338007/ |
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. — The Arkansas Tech University Board of Trustees on Thursday (Aug. 18) approved the design, financing and other steps necessary to move ahead with construction of a $49.3 million student union and recreation center on the Russellville campus.
Construction on the 94,802-square foot facility is set to begin in August 2023 with a planned grand opening between June and August 2025.
“Arkansas Tech University has boldly envisioned a new recreation center and student union building and a unifying plaza at the crossroads of campus,” Laury Fiorello, ATU vice president for administration and finance, said in a press release. “This site is a central location slated to be a hub of student life and a landmark building for the university. Here lies the opportunity to create a memorable place on campus for student wellness, belonging, collaboration, gathering and enjoying the outdoors.”
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Employee ownership at KCI leads to welcoming environment
At KCI Technologies, an employee-owned structure helps to create a self-motivated, disciplined team.
“Our people are really invested in doing things well and doing them right and doing them to the best of their ability to meet our clients needs,” Whitney Shumaker, corporate communications manager at KCI, said.
KCI, a national engineering, planning and construction firm, won third place in the mid-size category in Delaware’s annual Top Workplaces.
The company’s work covers a wide array of services, from designing to planning, managing, inspecting, installing, assessing and constructing a client’s ideal environment.
The personal nature of the firm comes to Shumaker’s mind to describe KCI’s environment.
“We are a large scale firm with the ability to do a breadth of services,” she said. “We have the knowledge and ability to do those types of services, but we deliver it with the commitment and care of a smaller-size firm.”
KCI’s ability to form bonds with clients extends to the bonds formed between employees at the company.
“Although we are a firm of more than 2,000 people, each of our offices has its own personalities that fit into that large-scale firm,” Shumaker said.
Comments from KCI employees demonstrated how they feel appreciated and valued by the company. Multiple employees said that they love their coworkers and they feel that KCI is a place for them to grow.
“It gives me a professional environment to practice,” one employee wrote. “My colleagues provide me a very encouraging environment to work in.”
Now with more than 60 offices nationwide, KCI started as a two-person firm, operating from a basement of one of their houses. Over time, the company moved out of the basement, was purchased by a larger firm, merged with other firms and expanded its offices.
At this point, when the firm was bought out by another large company, employees decided to band together to accomplish a buyout.
The company’s Delaware offices are in Dover, Georgetown and Newark.
“I've done this work for 30 years and I feel like I'm appreciated at KCI,” an employee wrote in the survey. | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/topworkplaces/2022/08/21/kci-fosters-a-close-knit-atmosphere-for-employees-and-clients/65378000007/ | 2022-08-21T20:39:04 | 0 | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/topworkplaces/2022/08/21/kci-fosters-a-close-knit-atmosphere-for-employees-and-clients/65378000007/ |
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — August is national 'Black Business Month' and in an effort to help increase the lifetime of the 'Black dollar' within the Black community, which Black Owned NWA says is only six hours, the lowest amount of time compared to other racial communities. Black Owned NWA hosted its semi-annual "Black-Owned Business Expo," increasing the visibility of Black businesses and attempting to build generational wealth.
Saturday, Theatre Squared was busy with hundreds filling the area. The outside was surrounded by food trucks creating heavy foot traffic inside, where you could find just about anything.
"I'm selling 24k gold-covered candles," said Whitney King, owner of Candles by Whitney "All natural made with soy wax handmade."
Yvonne Stewart promoted her event staffing company, Bohemian Geeks. "We do everything, we provide bartenders, waitstaff," Stewart said. "Everything you need for an event behind the scenes."
The three floors of TheatreSquared were full of Black-owned businesses. From masseuses, therapists, food trucks, and apparel and clothing companies.
"This is so needed because so many people come together," Ronlisha Nichols, owner of Vonshai's Custom Apparel and More. "What we do is customize everything."
Her company customizes everything from shirts, mugs, rugs, hats and more.
"You name it, we can do it for you," Nichols said.
Each business had a story to it as did the business owners.
J is the owner of Taco Virgo. Their name is just one letter. However, to describe her personality you'd need to use the whole alphabet.
"Lindsey it was lovely to meet you, I would hug you but I'm not touching people right now," J said while laughing with a customer. Instead of physically touching people, J touches people's hearts and taste buds.
"This is my contribution to the world and Northwest Arkansas," J said.
J is from Little Rock but calls NWA her second home.
"I came up here for school and just kind of hung around," J said.
In 2020, J lost their job, a silver lining they didn't know she needed.
"I opened up April 9, 2020," J said. They now have another job and run Taco Virgo as a side hustle. Thankful for events like the "Black-Owned Business Expo."
Giving Black businesses who usually aren't seen, a front seat at the table.
"We are booked into 2024," Stewart said.
"I couldn't have started this business anywhere else," King said.
Organizers say many of the business owners in the expo can't afford a commercial property yet, so this event offers entrepreneurs exposure.
Organizers will host this event again in February.
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FORT SMITH, Ark. — Fort Smith Police are investigating a deadly hit-and-run that took place at around 4:20 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 21, morning in the 5200 block of Towson Ave.
The pedestrian has been identified as 27-year-old Thomas Anthony Miller.
Police are looking for the vehicle in this photo in connection to the incident.
Police are looking for more surveillance footage from the area and will release it when available.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Fort Smith Police Department at 479-709-5100.
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WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — A 47-year-old man was arrested and charged with second-degree murder for the shooting death of Demetrick Brown at a block party on July 4.
Bernard Footman was taken into custody on Sunday just a few days after police obtained a warrant for his arrest on Thursday, according to a statement from Winter Haven police.
"Our investigators worked tirelessly to get justice for Demetrick's family," said Police Chief David Brannan. "We know this doesn't erase the pain the family has gone through, but we are glad to help bring closure for them."
According to police, the 26-year-old was shot in the back four times while talking to someone. The father of two was described as "hardworking" and "outstanding."
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Police said in a news conference on July 28, that they estimated more than 100 people were at the party and are sure someone may have seen something that could help them close the case.
In addition to being charged with second-degree murder, Footman was also charged with two counts of attempted murder, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, tampering with physical evidence and discharge of a gun in public.
Footman is currently in the Polk County jail.
Additional information about the arrest is scheduled to be released during a news conference Monday morning. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/polkcounty/demetrick-brown-winter-haven-shooting-arrest/67-9d6b2748-9fbb-4524-bc6c-e715b9db65ff | 2022-08-21T20:41:05 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/polkcounty/demetrick-brown-winter-haven-shooting-arrest/67-9d6b2748-9fbb-4524-bc6c-e715b9db65ff |
SAN DIEGO — The jaguar's range in the 1800s stretched from the Amazon rainforest to the southern United States.
But by the mid-20th century jaguars had been hunted out of the U.S. and were no longer seen north of the Mexican border.
However, a jaguar was sighted in Arizona as recently as January 6, 2021.
Ganesh Marin is a Biologist working on his PhD from the University of Arizona. He focuses on animal movement along the Arizona and Mexico border in the Cajon Bonita watershed.
"The Jaguars we saw in the Borderlands, Valerio, and Bonito were also males. The good news about them is they are young. You can find an astonishing amount of diversity. I'm talking Puma's, Black Bears, Beavers, and then there's Jaguars and this is incredible."
The first Jaguar showed up in March 2021 in Cuenca Los Ojos, a protected area located in Sonora, Mexico. The area is a Sky Island in the Sierra Madre that allows the Jaguar to traverse the mountain range and avoid the heat of the desert.
"When you have young like the ones we reported, it means the moment is not far. Males disperse first, females are slower, and female Jaguars could soon be in the United States.
Besides hunting, loss of habitat was a huge part of why Jaguars were lost in the United States.
"Jaguars are considered a near threatened species because there has been a loss of 20% to 40% of their range," said John Koprowski who is a professor at the University of Wyoming and is Marin's PhD advisor.
Koprowski adds that the Sky Islands in the Sierra Madre Mountains are what makes it possible for the Jaguars to move north.
"But this wonderful tapestry, this mosaic of diverse habitats that are connected to make the movement between Island, jump across an inhospitable desert environment to get to a more lush mountain environment," said Koprowski.
And with this pair of male Jaguars, Benito and Valerio making it so far North they're sending a message.
"They're essentially telling us there's some connectivity available and there's suitable habitat," said Koprowski.
Marin says keeping these corridors open and persevering areas like Cuenca Los Ojos, will support the Jaguars' return to the United States.
"We need to have all these mountainous areas and all the big washes and deep canyons in Mexico and the United States still open," said Marin.
With these two males establishing territory a female is likely to follow.
"My previous advisor, Dr. Gerardo Ceballos said that could happen within five years, I'm hopeful for that."
Editor’s Note: This article previously stated that researchers recently spotted a pair of male jaguars crossing into Arizona from Sonora, Mexico. That has been updated with this information: a Jaguar was sighted in Arizona as recently as January 6, 2021.
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Ceremonial shovels commemorate Meta’s announcement of the building of a new data center planned for downtown Kuna during a news conference in February.
Kuna Fire District engineer/paramedic Greg Johnson, firefighter Pat McConnel Jr., and Capt. John Charlton have a conversation recently in one of the vehicle bays at Kuna Fire District Station 1.
This aerial rendering shows what the $800 million, 960,000-square-foot Meta data processing center in Kuna will look like.
Submitted Photo/Idaho Commerce
Ceremonial shovels commemorate Meta’s announcement of the building of a new data center planned for downtown Kuna during a news conference in February.
A new water treatment plant isn’t the only investment Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is making in the city of Kuna with its controversial new data center going in.
A one-time mitigation payment of $8.2 million will go toward funding services that rely on property taxes as a main source of support — mainly the Kuna Police Department, which is contracted out to the Ada County Sheriff’s Office — according to the contract between the city and Meta. This payment will go into the city’s general fund.
Meta is working through a limited liability company named Brisbie — which is a shell company owned by Foxtrot Acquisition Corp. of Delaware, according to BoiseDev — in its contracts with the city.
“They’re making a substantial investment in our police department that will help carry us through so that we can enlarge our police department and add more officers,” Kuna Mayor Joe Stear said.
According to the contract, the reason these services need additional support in the growing community is because HB 389, which was signed into law in January 2021 and caps taxing districts’ budget increases from property taxes at 3% and an additional 5% for new construction, “may negatively impact the City’s ability to fund City Property Tax-Supported Services.”
Since its passage, the controversial bill has vexed mayors of growing cities around the Treasure Valley and even led to a 120-day building moratorium in Caldwell last year, as previously reported by the Idaho Press.
Sums from the 8.2 million will be allocated to the police budget on an annual basis for the next 21 years, per a memo from Kuna Economic Development Director Morgan Treasure to the Kuna City Council on Dec. 7. But Kuna City Clerk Chris Engles said the exact breakdown of this money influx hasn’t been budgeted out yet, and the city doesn’t know when it will be. The city doesn’t have the money yet but will once the first building permit on the property is issued.
The Kuna Rural Fire District also negotiated a separate deal with Meta through Brisbie.
The data center site is located outside of fire district boundaries, and rather than annex the site, KFRD spokesperson Krystal Hinkle said the fire district decided to enter into a service agreement with Meta to avoid a tax funding cutoff due to HB 389. According to the contract, the fire district is “very dependent” on property taxes to fund its operations. Hinkle said the bill only allows taxing districts to take 90% of property taxes received from new construction, taking away 10% of the total amount that would have been collected. Even so, the increase on 90% for 2023 would put the district over the 8% budget growth allowance by .41%.
“House Bill 389 was a huge detriment to local government, especially for those experiencing growth like Kuna,” Hinkle said. “The state Legislature chose to almost punish, actually, local districts by saying, ‘Hey we know you’re dealing with growth but we only are going to allow you to take a percentage of it.’”
The first year of the contract, which started on May 31, Meta will pay the fire district a base contract service fee of $162,000. The following year, the district will receive $324,000 and every year following the base contract service fee will increase annually by a rate of 3% assuming there are no new expansion projects on the data center site.
Hinkle said Meta also agreed to pay impact fees to the district even though it was not obligated to.
These funds will provide for three additional firefighters to be hired for the district which, in the words of Fire Chief T.J. Lawrence, is “struggling” and has staffing levels that are “not safe for our community or its firefighters.”
Recently, Capt. Matt Coffelt said a past shift rotation only had three firefighters on duty to service the 30,000 people who live in the district, as previously reported by the Idaho Press. And emergency call volumes in the district have increased by 72.42% in the past 10 years, according to a press release from the district. Between 2010 and 2020 the city’s population grew by 36.7%, according to U.S. Census data. The fire district also serves people living in the surrounding area outside city limits.
Stear said the Meta funding is a good sign from the company whose arrival in Kuna has drawn the ire of many residents. Distaste for the project stemmed from multiple areas including worry about local businesses losing workforce, anger over Facebook’s platform policies and perceived politics; and concern about the data center’s water use. Many were taken off guard by the announcement and feel that the company does not align with the small town’s values, according to emails obtained by the Idaho Press.
But Stear remains hopeful about the presence of Meta in his community.
“They’re already investing in the community so I hope that there’s gonna be — I think there will be some good things from it and hopefully the good things will far outweigh the bad things,” Stear said.
William Marks, the community development regional manager for the project, said Meta wants the community to benefit from its presence.
“We don’t just work here. We live here, too,” Marks said. “And we are neighbors and part of the community and if the community thrives long-term, it’s for everyone’s benefit.” | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/meta-works-with-kuna-fire-district-to-soften-blow-of-hb-389-rapid-growth/article_b83adfea-cf42-5d8d-814e-da36b5073869.html | 2022-08-21T20:48:52 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/meta-works-with-kuna-fire-district-to-soften-blow-of-hb-389-rapid-growth/article_b83adfea-cf42-5d8d-814e-da36b5073869.html |
PLEASANT PRAIRIE – Village officers arrested suspects in two separate drug-related incidents over the weekend.
Officers took into custody two boys, ages 15 and 17, both of Kenosha, after receiving report of a suspicious vehicle at the beach in the 10100 block of Lakeshore Drive early Sunday.
At about 1:45 a.m., upon checking on the vehicle, officers noted that one of the suspects had marijuana “sitting on their lap,” according to a release posted on the department’s social media site.
“They originally gave bad information about their birth dates when the officers tried to (talk) to them,” said Sgt. Mike Algiers, of the Pleasant Prairie Police Department. The teenagers were also parked at the beach after hours, he said. Officers detained the juveniles and searched the vehicle.They later found several bags containing a white powdery substance that, when tested at the police department, confirmed the presence of cocaine.
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Algiers said the two teens were recommended for a summons for possession of cocaine with intent to deliver. They were also cited with obstruction.
In a separate incident at 3:50 p.m. Saturday, an officer patrolling Sheridan Road near the state line observed a “suspicious subject” staggering while walking in the area. According to police, the suspect “appeared to be under the influence” and was then seen taking a beer can and lighter and attempting to smoke something from the can.
“Our officer noted the suspicious activity and made contact with the subject who admitted to smoking crack cocaine out of the beer can,” according to the release.
The 25-year-old Kenosha man was taken into custody and was found to be in possession of additional crack cocaine, Algiers said.
Authorities recommended charges of possession of cocaine and possession of narcotic drugs.The substance also tested positive for Fentanyl, which authorities said has been found with increasing frequency locally.
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 50 stronger than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Commonly mixed other drugs, including heroin and cocaine, it is a major contributor to non-fatal and fatal overdoses. An estimated 150 deaths a day occur in the U.S., from synthetic opioids, such as Fentanyl, according to the CDC.
Police encourage residents to call the department if they see suspicious activities. In the event of an emergency, callers can contact 911 or 262-694-7353 for non-emergencies.
‘I know I need to stop using, but my brain just won’t let me': Stories of addiction and loss
Fueled by trauma, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and given deadly effect by the dangerous opioid fentanyl, the rate of fatal opioid overdoses in Wisconsin has never been as high as it is today. Here are stories of six of those who died.
Sarah Caldwell, 32, died from an overdose involving heroin in July 2020.
Auriel McNutt, 27, died from an overdose involving fentanyl in June 2020.
Steven Welnetz, 21, died from an overdose involving fentanyl in November 2021.
Erin Kjellstrom, 27, died from an overdose involving fentanyl in May 2020.
Abraham Bendorf, 20, died from an overdose involving fentanyl in February 2021.
Isaac Weires, 19, died from an overdose involving fentanyl in December 2020. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/village-police-arrest-suspects-in-two-separate-drug-related-incidents-confiscating-marijuana-fentanyl-laced-cocaine/article_e5b37c6e-2170-11ed-83f5-d314ddc78e2b.html | 2022-08-21T20:54:46 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/village-police-arrest-suspects-in-two-separate-drug-related-incidents-confiscating-marijuana-fentanyl-laced-cocaine/article_e5b37c6e-2170-11ed-83f5-d314ddc78e2b.html |
Gateway Technical College and its students had a $554 million economic impact to the college district economy, or about equal to 2.4 percent of the region’s gross regional product, a recent economic survey indicated.
In addition, one out of every 28 jobs in the Gateway Technical College District is supported by the activities of GTC and its students.
The survey was part of a sweeping report of the college’s 2020-21 Fiscal Year impact on the economy, taxpayers, its students and the state conducted by Emsi Burning Glass, a national labor market and economics analytics company.
“Gateway’s economic impact within and throughout Southeast Wisconsin is evidenced by the return on investment outlined in this study,” said Gateway Technical College President and CEO Bryan Albrecht. “On behalf of the Gateway community, we value the investment in our college and strive for positive results through education, training and community service.”
While this year’s data and analytics have changed from other studies – making it hard to compare the new study with older studies – the results are similar in that the college continues to be an important part of the area’s economic machine.
It shows the college’s strong impact on the economy and tax base of Southeastern Wisconsin as well as the long-lasting impact a Gateway education has on its graduates and the economy.
Specific findings
While the report takes a look at the lifelong impact of the college’s education on its students and the area economy, it also focuses specifically on the 2020-21 Fiscal Year for other specific data.
The economic impact outlined in the study supported 8,573 regional jobs, and Emsi Burning Glass findings showed that for every $1 of public money invested in Gateway, taxpayers receive a cumulative return of $1.30 in the form of higher tax receipts and public sector savings.
Other findings include:
By the end of the working careers of students enrolled in 2020-21, the state will have collected a present value of $99.7 million in added taxes.
People in Wisconsin invested $142.9 million in Gateway in Fiscal 2020-21. It included the college’s expenditures, student expenses and student opportunity costs. In return, the state of Wisconsin will receive an estimated present value of $1.1 billion in added state revenue over the course of the students’ working lives.
The total impact of student spending is $8.3 million in total added income and is equivalent to supporting 172 jobs.
Over a working lifetime, the benefits of the associate degree over a high school diploma will amount to an undiscounted value of $424,200 in higher earnings per graduate. The present value of the cumulative higher future earnings that all of Gateway’s Fiscal 2020-21 students will receive over their working careers is $317 million.
The study was conducted by Emsi Burning Glass, which in June rebranded itself as Lightcast.
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The owner of the proposed cannabis dispensary on the border with Wisconsin said, to be honest, the value of the location is because he knows people will come across the border from Wisconsin, where they cannot buy marijuana legally. “I don’t want to pretend anything else.”
The three people were injured outside the park when shots were fired from a single vehicle, according to a spokesperson for the park, which is located about 45 miles north of Chicago.
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AUSTIN, Texas — The Austin Police Department said a 65-year-old man who had been missing since Saturday evening has been located.
Frank Lee had last been seen at the 10800 block of Amblewood Way in northeast Austin around 6 p.m., police said. He was reported missing on Sunday around 7:30 a.m.
There were concerns for his welfare due to his health conditions.
Around 1:40 p.m. on Sunday, APD said Lee had been located.
No other information is available at this time.
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ALBANY -- The Albany Area Chamber of Commerce has announced a pair of its most anticipated high-profile events. The Chamber will present the PROPEL Women in Business program Wednesday and announced that its annual Business Expo is set for Sept. 29.
The PROPEL event connects, engages and inspires women in the community, and provides them with the tools they need to design their future, the chamber said.
That event is set for 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday at the event center at the Northwest Library branch at 2507 Dawson Road. Networking and check-in are set for 11:30 a.m. Lunch and the event program are scheduled from noon-1:30 p.m.
Cost is $35 for chamber members and $45 for non-members.
The Business Expo allows participating businesses to market their business to more than 500 people at a fun-filled bash, the chamber said. Participants will be able to generate quality business-to-business leads, improve opportunities to achieve and sustain success, and showcase their businesses to a large segment of the general public. All in one place, at one time.
Opportunities include:
SPONSOR
Double booth with power in entrance area
2 6-foot tables and 4 chairs
Logo/name mentioned in all advertising
Members: $1,150
Prospects: $1,250
DOUBLE BOOTH
8-foot-by-16-foot with pipe & drape
2 6-foot tables and 4 chairs
Members: $575
Prospects: $675
REGULAR BOOTH
8-foot-by-8-foot with pipe & drape
1 6-foot table and 2 chairs
Members: $295
Prospects: $395
ADDITIONAL
Electricity: 120-volt, single phase -- $35
The Business Expo will kick off at 4:30 p.m. and last until 7 p.m. Sept. 29 at the Albany Civic Center, 100 W. Oglethorpe Blvd. Exhibitors are encouraged to bring one door prize of at least $25 value.
For additional information, contact Mary Bickerstaff at (229) 434-8700.
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ALBANY -- Albany city commissioners will determine, either at their business meeting Tuesday evening or at the same meeting next month, whether to add elected officials to the city's pension plan.
While exact wording of a draft amendment to make elected officials available for pension consideration is not officially set, if the ordinance passes it would come with an initial cost of $109,000 in retroactive pay to "catch up" and an annual cost to the city of around $13,800, according to Albany Chief Financial Officer Derrick Brown.
Brown said Ward I Albany City Commissioner Jon Howard, the longest-serving member of the board, is pushing for the amendment to add elected officials to the city pension plan, an action that Brown and Albany City Attorney Nathan Davis said is "more common than I expected."
"In doing research on the proposed amendment, I found (adding elected officials to pension plans) is a lot more typical than I expected," Davis said. "I found a long list of cities that include their elected officials in their plan."
Brown, too, said he was surprised by the number of cities that include elected officials in their pension plans.
"It's a little more common than I initially thought," the city's top financial official said. "The issue was first brought up at the commission's (February) retreat, and I've provided additional feedback -- like costs -- through March and April. I got with our actuary and our pension board, and Nathan came up with a draft amendment.
"I don't know if the commission is ready to vote on the amendment at this month's business meeting (Tuesday). They asked some questions and talked about some changes. If they decide to make the changes, the vote will have to come next month. If they decide to leave the draft amendment as it is, they can vote on it (Tuesday)."
Some of the provisions of the current amendment include a minimum period of service, set now at two consecutive four-year terms, and making the pension payment retroactive to 2012. Among current commissioners, only Howard, Ward V Commissioner Bob Langstaff and Mayor Bo Dorough, who served on the commission before being elected to the city's top office, are eligible under those provisions.
There are, however, members of the board who are not interested in adding to the city's financial obligations.
"I'm not supportive of anything that gives (prospective commission members) an additional financial reason to stay in office too long," Ward IV Commissioner Chad Warbington said. "What this amounts to, essentially, is a salary increase with the retroactive pay. When we ran for office, we knew what the pay was. I don't think this is why the people elected us."
Brown said that, after the initial payment of $109,000, the city would add a $13,800 annual contribution to keep elected officials in the plan, while commissioners would pay $900 to the plan annually and the mayor $1,500.
"It concerns me that the draft amendment now makes participation mandatory," Warbington said. "My first objection is that a pension is an archaic form of benefit. There are much better products. Plus, I don't think we've talked about this to the point that we're ready to vote on it.
"I'll be honest with you, I think it will be a challenge to get four votes on this."
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SPRINGDALE, Utah — Authorities have been searching for days for an Arizona woman reported missing after being swept away by floodwaters in Utah’s Zion National Park as strong seasonal rain storms hit parts of the U.S. Southwest.
National Park Service officials said rangers and members of the Zion Search and Rescue Team were in the Virgin River area Sunday looking for Jetal Agnihotri, 29, of Tucson.
They said Agnihotri was among several hikers who were swept off their feet Friday afternoon by rushing water in the popular Narrows area in the park, known for its spectacular red-rock cliffs and narrow canyons, in southern Utah near the Arizona border.
All of the hikers except Agnihotri were found on high ground and were stranded until water levels receded.
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Rain can turn hiking in the park deadly when the moisture runs off the desert landscape and quickly fills canyons with water, rocks and debris, especially during the summer when seasonal afternoon thunderstorms develop. The storms can lead to flooding in normally dry washes and in areas stripped of vegetation by wildfires that have plagued the drought-stricken region.
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Flooding Safety:
The Arizona Fire & Medical Authority has provided the following tips on what hazards to watch out for during and after a flood, including fire, electrical and chemical safety:
Generators and alternative heating devices can create fire hazards during flooding if they aren’t used correctly or maintained properly. Pools of water and appliances can become electrically charged and can cause electrical fires.
On electricity, residents in flooded areas should turn off the power to their homes if they can reach the main breaker or fuse box. All wiring in the house may be electrically charged and hazardous. Residents should have a professional technician check their home for damages before turning on the power.
Make sure potentially combustible liquids like paint thinner, lighter fluid or gasoline haven’t spilled within or near your home. Keep combustible liquids away from electrical or alternative heat sources as to not start a fire.
All smoke alarms in the home should be tested monthly and batteries should be replaced yearly. Some smoke alarms are dependent on your home’s electrical service and may go out when power is turned off.
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The driver police say is responsible for wreaking havoc on a New Jersey street was arrested Saturday night on suspicion of driving under the influence.
Video shows the driver of a black pickup truck mangle one car in a string of late-night crashes, according to police in Paterson. Reports of the first crash came in around 10 p.m.
The exact number of vehicles left in the driver's wake wasn't immediately known, but the damage was extensive.
Some vehicles suffered scraps, others were smashed with enough force to leave the cars totaled.
A woman told News 4 her white Toyota -- damaged beyond repair -- was her ride to get into work every day.
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Storm activity continues across Arizona; temperatures expected to be below average
Monsoonal activity continues in Arizona as thunderstorms are possible across the state on Sunday with higher chances in the northern areas, according to the National Weather Service.
Storms are expected to develop in northern areas and spread towards the south to the lower desserts throughout Sunday afternoon and evening, according to Bianca Feldkircher, a meteorologist with the weather service in Phoenix.
There is a 60% to 70% chance of rain in Flagstaff on Sunday afternoon, Benji Johnson a meteorologist for the weather service in Flagstaff, said. Storm activity is expected to decrease on Monday and Tuesday and pick up again on Wednesday in this area.
“Monday and Tuesday are definitely the days with the least chance of precipitation, but we have a chance for storms every day for the next week,” Johnson said.
With storms there is always a flood chance depending on where the rain falls and how quickly it falls, Johnson said. The higher chances of flooding are expected to be on Sunday and Wednesday.
In Phoenix, the chances of thunderstorms on Sunday are about 30% and Feldkircher said strong winds around 40 mph to 50 mph could be seen. The following days are expected to be drier and isolated thunderstorms could develop in the area on Monday and Tuesday.
“It's not like completely dry where we were not expecting anything. It's just going to be a lot less than what we saw in the past few days,” Feldkircher said.
On Wednesday, there is a chance for stronger storms in the Phoenix area but it will be drier again over the next weekend, according to Feldkircher. She said widespread floods are not expected but there could be localized flooding.
Thunderstorms chances in Tucson are of about 40% to 50% on Sunday, according to Rob Howlett, a meteorologist with the weather service in Tucson.
“We've got another day of typical monsoon thunderstorm activity where we have chances of rain across southeast Arizona, and it's going to continue here for the next several days. It looks like we're going to remain moist and keep having our daily rounds of showers and thunderstorms,” Howlett said.
Over the next days the thunderstorms chances in Tucson will range between 30% and 60%, according to Howlett. He said some isolated areas could experience flooding.
The storm activity will decrease a little bit over the next weekend in Tucson.
Temperatures are expected to be average or a little below average in Flagstaff and Tucson throughout next week. In Flagstaff highs around the 70s and lows in the 50s are likely, according to Johnson. Tucson will see temperatures in the mid and upper 90s throughout the week, Howlett said.
In Phoenix, the temperatures will stay below normal throughout the week and by Tuesday they will start getting closer to around 100 degrees. The highest temperature on the week is expected to be around 103 degrees.
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A 30-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a killing that occurred in November 2020 on Tucson's west side.
Jesse James Perez-Geehan was taken into custody Friday afternoon at a duplex in the 400 block of East Wilcox Drive, near East Grant road and North First Avenue, after a long standoff, Tucson police said Sunday in a news release.
Perez-Geehan has been linked to the killing of Morgan Tyler Brown, 30, early in the morning of Nov. 20, 2020. On that morning, neighbors called police about 6 a.m. to report gunfire and Brown was found shot to death in the 800 block of N. Camino Santiago, near West Speedway and North Silverbell Road, police said.
Perez-Geehan was booked into the Pima County jail on suspicion of first-degree murder. His bond was set at $1 million, police said. | https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/tucson-police-man-arrested-in-november-2020-killing/article_8a7cfc7e-2186-11ed-9720-5fad0a6f7647.html | 2022-08-21T21:33:14 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/tucson-police-man-arrested-in-november-2020-killing/article_8a7cfc7e-2186-11ed-9720-5fad0a6f7647.html |
PHOENIX — A new lawsuit is challenging a state law set to take effect next month that would require county recorders to cancel the voter registration of anyone they have a "reason to believe" is not U.S. citizens.
The provision in HB 2243 creates an "anyone-can-accuse investigation of those we have reason to believe are not U.S. citizens' scheme.," say attorneys for the Arizona Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander for Equity Coalition.
The result they said, will result in "arbitrary" investigations using databases not designed to determine voting eligibility.
What's worse said Amit Makker, the lead attorney, is that anyone who does not provide what he called "onerous evidence of citizenship" within 35 days is referred to the county attorney and attorney general for criminal investigation.
Makker also said the 35-day window was chosen for deliberate political reasons.
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He pointed out HB 2243 is set to take effect on Sept. 24. The result, Makker said, will be "an illegal voter purge just days before the November election."
Now he wants a federal judge to block implementation until there can be a full hearing on the constitutionality of the measure.
The legislation is part of a multi-pronged effort by the business-oriented Free Enterprise Club to alter state voter registration laws.
"The first step in election integrity is ensuring clean and current voter rolls," said Greg Blackie, who lobbies for the organization. And that, he said, requires not just ensuring that people are legally qualified to vote but also "regular maintenance to ensure that people who are no longer qualified, whether due to death, felony conviction, residency status or for other reasons are regularly removed."
Republican lawmakers actually approved a different version earlier this year, only to have HB 2617 vetoed by Gov. Doug Ducey.
"The implementation of this provision is vague and lacks any guidance for how a county recorder would confirm such a determination," Ducey wrote.
"Our lawfully registered voters deserve to know that their right to vote will not be disturbed without sufficient due process," the governor continued. "This provision leaves our election system vulnerable to bad actors who could seek to falsely allege a voter is not a qualified elector."
That resulted in HB 2243, which was billed as a cleaned-up version.
Makker, for his part, doesn't see it that way.
The new law still requires actual proof of citizenship and not just a signature, sill results in voter cancellation versus being placed in inactive status, and still requires referral to prosecutors if there is no adequate response, he said.
In fact, Makker said, the new version is even worse in at least one respect.
He said the original bill gave those sent notices of insufficient citizenship proof on file 90 days to respond. Now that is just 35 days.
"There is, of course, only one reason for that: the legislators who passed HB 2243 and are anticipating its immediate enforcement want to cancel the registration," Makker wrote. And he took a swat at Ducey for failing to acknowledge the flaws in the revised version.
"For Gov. Doug Ducey to veto HB 2617 on grounds of fairness and process, and then sign the next version of the bill that makes it clear that he actually meant fairness and process only as to some Arizonans — and not as to voters of color and naturalized voters — is remarkable," Makker wrote.
That question of who does — and does not — get to vote this November is more than academic.
The Free Enterprise Club is the major backer of a ballot measure which, if approved, will impose new requirements on all voters.
First, it would scrap state laws that say mail-in ballots are presumed valid if the signature on the envelope matches what county officials already have on file.
Instead, they would have to include a date of birth and a voter identification number. And the latter could be the last four digits of a social security number, a driver's license number or the number from another state-issued ID.
But Proposition 309 also would require those who go to the polls to present a photo ID. Gone would be an alternate option of bringing in two different documents without a photo that contain the person's name and address, like a utility bill, vehicle registration certificate or property tax statement.
The Free Enterprise Club also is behind a lawsuit to quash an initiative that actually would ease some voter requirements.
That measure would allow people to register and vote at the same time, including on Election Day. And people would be registered to vote when they get an Arizona driver's license unless they opt out,
It also would reinstate the state's permanent early voting list which automatically provides ballots by mail for anyone who requests it, overturning a decision by the Republican-controlled legislature.
The future of that initiative remains in doubt, however, after a judge ruled last week that many of the signatures collected cannot be counted due to issues ranging from qualifications of circulators to missing information about signers.
But there is not yet a final tally of what remains and whether it will fall below the minimum requirement of 237,645.
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As Gov. Eric Holcomb nears the midpoint of his second and final term as Indiana's chief executive he's seeing everything much more clearly.
The 54-year-old Republican recently underwent surgery to remove cataracts from both of his eyes and to improve his vision overall.
As a result, Holcomb no longer requires the eyeglasses that have been a constant part of his life since his early teen years.
"I can see without them now," Holcomb said. "I went from 20/65 vision to being able to read at 20/15."
"I asked if there was a plan where I could see into the future. They said no, but they did give me really good long-distance and up-close vision."
Holcomb said not many people have realized yet he's no longer wearing glasses and looks somewhat different since his eyes are more visible.
He laughed away the suggestion he's trying to make life difficult for the future painter of his gubernatorial portrait by entering office with glasses and a clean-shaven face and approaching the end sporting a beard and no glasses.
Here are the new Indiana laws to know that took effect July 1
Animals
The owner of a lion, tiger, leopard, snow leopard, jaguar, mountain lion or bear must prevent all direct physical contact between the animal and a member of the general public, no matter the age of the animal. Violations are subject to a $1,000 fine for each person who comes into contact with the animal. (House Enrolled Act 1248 )
The owner of a lion, tiger, leopard, snow leopard, jaguar, mountain lion or bear must prevent all direct physical contact between the animal and a member of the general public, no matter the age of the animal. Violations are subject to a $1,000 fine for each person who comes into contact with the animal. (House Enrolled Act 1248)
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Annexation
The Aberdeen subdivision may seek to officially become part of Valparaiso, even though the neighborhood is not currently contiguous to the city. A pre-annexation financial study must be completed so Aberdeen residents know the fiscal impact of being voluntarily annexed by Valparaiso. (House Enrolled Act 1110 )
Doug Ross, file, The Times
Ag equipment
Counties, cities or towns can designate agricultural zones as Economic Revitalization Areas (ERA) on the same basis as outdated business districts or distressed residential neighborhoods. New farm equipment or new agricultural improvements located in an ERA are eligible for a property tax abatement for up to five years. The exemption does not apply to farmland. (Senate Enrolled Act 119 )
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Bone marrow
The Indiana Department of Health is authorized to establish and promote a bone marrow donor recruitment program to find eligible Hoosiers willing to donate bone marrow to individuals fighting leukemia, lymphoma and other blood cell conditions. (Senate Enrolled Act 398 )
John Luke, file, The Times
Campus speech
State colleges and universities cannot designate outdoor areas of campus where First Amendment activities are prohibited. Higher education institutions may impose reasonable and content-neutral time, place and manner restrictions on other campus speech that's narrowly tailored to serve a significant interest of the school. (House Enrolled Act 1190 )
John J. Watkins, file, The Times
Caregivers
An adult relative caring for a child after the child has been removed from a dangerous home situation is entitled to directly participate in court hearings concerning services needed by the child, or terminating the parent-child relationship. Previously, only state-licensed foster parents had a statutory right to intervene in legal proceedings pertaining to abused or neglected children. (Senate Enrolled Act 410 )
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Catalytic converters
A catalytic converter is redefined as a "major component part" of a motor vehicle and only licensed automobile salvage recyclers are permitted to buy or sell used catalytic converters. Automobile salvage recyclers also must keep the same records for catalytic converters as valuable metal dealers and cash payouts for detached catalytic converters are capped at $25 per transaction per day. (Senate Enrolled Act 293 )
Jonathan Miano, file, The Times
Coerced abortion
A new crime of "coerced abortion" punishes anyone who knowingly or intentionally coerces a pregnant woman to have an abortion with up to 2 1/2 years in prison. State law already required "the voluntary and informed consent of the pregnant woman" prior to obtaining an abortion. (House Enrolled Act 1217 )
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Data breach
Businesses, banks and similar entities that suffer a data breach must notify their customers within 45 days of the breach being discovered, instead of simply providing notification "without unreasonable delay." (House Enrolled Act 1351 )
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Dementia training
Home health aides who provide care to individuals with symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, dementia or a similar cognitive disorder must complete at least six hours of dementia care training within 60 days of hire. Current home health aides with at least one year of experience must participate in at least three hours of dementia training. (Senate Enrolled Act 353 )
Joe Ruffalo, file, The Times
Double voting
The penalty for fraudulently casting more than one ballot in the same election is set at up to 2½ in prison and a fine of up to $10,000. The penalty does not apply to individuals casting a valid replacement ballot as permitted by law. (Senate Enrolled Act 328 )
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Expungement
Individuals charged with crimes who either are acquitted following a trial or the charges are dismissed will have their court records automatically expunged within 60 days of disposition, unless the county prosecutor requests a one-year expungement delay. Any non-prosecution of criminal charges within 180 days following an arrest must be expunged immediately. (Senate Enrolled Act 182 )
Jonathan Miano, file, The Times
Foreign land purchases
Foreign business entities are barred from purchasing Indiana agricultural or timber land, with certain exceptions. Businesses organized under Russian law or controlled by Russian nationals are prohibited from acquiring any real estate in Indiana. (Senate Enrolled Act 388 )
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Health officers
The Indiana Department of Health no longer is entitled to remove a local health officer on the basis of intemperance. Health officers still may be removed for failing to collect vital statistics, follow rules, keep records, make reports, respond to official inquires or for neglect of official duty. (House Enrolled Act 1169 )
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Handguns
Adults age 18 and up legally entitled to possess a handgun are not obligated to obtain a state permit to carry a handgun in public. Indiana carry permits remain available for out-of-state reciprocity purposes. Handguns continue to be prohibited in schools, courthouses, and any residence or business that chooses to bar handguns. (House Enrolled Act 1296 )
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Housing shortage
A 13-member Housing Task Force is directed to study issues relating to housing and housing shortages in Indiana. The task force must submit recommendations for policy changes to the General Assembly and the governor no later than Nov. 1. (House Enrolled Act 1306 )
Tony V. Martin, file, The Times
Hunting
The holder of an archery hunting permit is allowed to use a bow and arrow or a crossbow. Previously, crossbow hunters were required to obtain a separate license. (Senate Enrolled Act 186 )
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Inmate calls
The in-state rate for telephone calls placed by inmates at Indiana Department of Correction facilities drops to 12 cents per minute from 24 cents per minute. County jail telephone rates are capped at 21 cents per minute statewide, instead of ranging from 22 cents per minute to $4.70 per minute. (House Enrolled Act 1181 )
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Lead testing
Beginning Jan. 1, 2023, doctors must offer a blood lead screening test to the parents of children between nine months and six years old if the child has not previously been tested for lead poisoning. Parents are not required to have their children tested for lead. (House Enrolled Act 1313 )
John J. Watkins, file, The Times
Low-level felons
Judges once again may sentence level 6 felony offenders to state prisons operated by the Indiana Department of Correction, replacing a mandate that individuals found guilty of minor felony crimes only serve their six-month to 2 1/2-year sentences in county jails. (House Enrolled Act 1004 )
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Lowell investment
The town of Lowell is authorized to segregate its recent water utility sale proceeds from other town funds, contract with an investment adviser, and deploy the funds in most kinds of investments offering higher returns than fixed-income securities, except corporate stock and other equity securities. (House Enrolled Act 1011 )
Kale Wilk, file, The Times
Medicaid
Pregnant individuals whose family incomes are less than 208% of the federal poverty level are entitled to receive low- or no-cost health coverage through Indiana Medicaid for the duration of their pregnancy, and up to 12 months after giving birth. (House Enrolled Act 1140 )
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Nuclear power
The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission is directed to adopt rules by July 1, 2023, permitting small modular nuclear reactors to be used to generate electricity in the Hoosier State. The law does not mandate any utilities switch to nuclear power but opens the door by putting in place the regulations that would guide its development and use. (Senate Enrolled Act 271 )
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Pregnant inmates
Restraints used on a prison inmate in her second or third trimester of pregnancy need to be the least restrictive restraints necessary. A pregnant inmate must be unrestrained while in labor, delivering a baby and during the immediate post-delivery period, unless she is an immediate danger to herself or others, or a substantial flight risk. (House Enrolled Act 1294 )
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Property tax
The $3,000 property tax deduction for mortgaged property is eliminated beginning Jan. 1, 2023, and the homestead deduction is increased to $48,000 from $45,000. The senior citizen tax deduction may be claimed on homes worth up to $240,000, instead of a maximum of $200,000. (House Enrolled Act 1260 )
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Public comment
School boards must allow any person physically present at a school board meeting to address the board if the person is interested in doing so in accordance with the board’s public comment rules, including any time limits. Boards still can take "reasonable steps to maintain order in a meeting," including "removal of any person who is willfully disruptive of the meeting." (House Enrolled Act 1130 )
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Rape
The definition of rape is expanded to include a person who disregards the other person's attempts to physically, verbally, or by other visible conduct refuse the person's sexual acts. Rape in Indiana also consists of the use of force, or imminent threat of force, to compel sexual conduct; sex with a person unaware sexual conduct is occurring; or sex with a person unable to consent to sex due to mental disability. (House Enrolled Act 1079 )
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Semiquincentennial
A 23-member commission is established to organize events and commemorations across the state celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 2026. (Senate Enrolled Act 12 )
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Simulated child porn
The production, distribution, possession or viewing of a video or image depicting obscene sexual conduct involving a person who appears to be less than 18 years old — even if the person is over 18, or doesn’t exist — is the legal equivalent of child exploitation, possession of child pornography and similar felony crimes. (House Enrolled Act 1363 )
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State fossil
The mastodon is designated as the official fossil of Indiana. Dozens of mastodon fossils have been found throughout Indiana, including the bones of at least five mastodons now held by the Indiana State Museum that were discovered in 2005 by workers digging a pond in the Porter County town of Hebron. (House Enrolled Act 1013 )
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Tax cuts
The utility receipts tax, a 1.46% charge paid by businesses and consumers on a portion of their electricity, natural gas, water, steam, sewage and telephone bills, is eliminated July 1. Beginning Jan. 1, 2023, the state income tax rate drops to 3.15% from 3.23%, with the possibility of future reductions to 2.9%. (House Enrolled Act 1002 )
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Tourism
The definition of "agritourism" is expanded beyond agricultural activities to include camping, canoeing, kayaking, river tubing and winter sports activities. An agritourism participant release form may be signed electronically, instead of only on paper. (Senate Enrolled Act 343 )
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Township trustees
A township trustee who fails to perform the duties of his or her office is subject to removal by court order if the removal is endorsed by the township board, county commissioners and county council, and other conditions are met. (Senate Enrolled Act 304 )
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Trans sports
All children assigned male at birth are barred from participating in any elementary, middle or high school athletics designated as a "girls" or "female" sport — no matter the child's gender identity or physical characteristics. (House Enrolled Act 1041 )
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Tribal law enforcement
A police officer employed by the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi in South Bend may exercise law enforcement authority anywhere in the state, so long as the officer meets the standards of the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy and the tribe consents to statewide police powers. (Senate Enrolled Act 347 )
Turn signal
A mandate that drivers signal all turns or lane changes at least 200 feet ahead of time, or 300 feet if the vehicle is traveling in excess of 50 mph, is deleted on Jan. 1, 2023, in favor of a requirement that motorists signal all turns and lane changes "a reasonable time" before completing them. (House Enrolled Act 1167 )
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University gifts
Public and private colleges and universities in Indiana must report to the state, and disclose on their website, all gifts from foreign entities that already must be reported to the federal government upon receipt. (Senate Enrolled Act 388 )
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Vaping taxes
A tax of 15% is imposed on the wholesale price of closed system cartridges used for vaping. Under a 2021 law, the tax rate was scheduled to be 25%. An additional tax of 40 cents per ounce is assessed on alternative nicotine products, such as electronic cigarettes. (Senate Enrolled Act 382 )
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Virtual instruction
Public schools may only hold up to three student-directed virtual instruction days during the 180-day school year absent extraordinary circumstances and a waiver approved by the Indiana Department of Education. (House Enrolled Act 1093 )
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Youth ag
A public school or school corporation may purchase up to $10,000 in food each year from a youth agricultural program, up from the former annual maximum of $7,500. (House Enrolled Act 1320 )
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A man is dead after a motorcycle crash in Des Moines early Sunday morning, the Des Moines Police Department said in a press release.
DMPD patrol officers and Des Moines Fire Department rescue personnel responded to the incident at the intersection of Prospect and Hickman Roads at around 2:24 a.m. Sunday.
Upon arrival, first responders found a motorcycle of the north side of Hickman Road. The 57-year-old operator was declared deceased at the scene.
Initial evidence indicates the motorcyclist lost control while travelling westbound on Hickman and crashed.
This is the 14th traffic-related fatality of 2022, and the sixth involving a motorcycle.
The Des Moines Police Department Traffic Unit continues to investigate the crash.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) –A second suspect has been arrested in the fatal shooting that killed 49-year-old Dennis Haynes, of Wichita.
The Wichita Police Department (WPD) arrested Shannon Cavitt Jr., of Wichita, on suspicion of 1st-degree murder on Friday, Aug. 19.
On Wednesday, Aug. 17, Wichita police arrested the first suspect, Caviontay Conway, also on suspicion of 1st-degree murder.
The WPD says they have presented the case to the District Attorney’s Office.
These individuals would not have been arrested so quickly without the hard work and dedication of our Violent Crime Community Response Team and Community Response Teams. Thank you for all that you did in order to capture these two Murder suspects.”
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According to police, around 7:50 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 15, officers were dispatched to the 5200 block of E Gilbert for the report of a shooting.
Upon arrival at the scene, Wichita police say they found Dennis unconscious and not breathing. Officers then began life-saving measures. He was taken to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
An investigation by the WPD revealed that Dennis and several other people were inside a home when two armed men entered and shot Dennis. They then fled on foot, according to Wichita police. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/second-man-charged-in-fatal-wichita-shooting/ | 2022-08-21T22:07:12 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/second-man-charged-in-fatal-wichita-shooting/ |
Henrico County voters will see a four-question bond referendum on their ballots this fall.
The county is asking voters for their approval to issue $511.4 million in bonds. The Commonwealth of Virginia requires counties to have a bond referendum — a vote of the people to to issue general obligation bonds.
In an effort to be transparent and democratic, the referendum will contain four yes or no questions in the areas of schools; recreation and parks; fire station and public safety; and flood prevention and stormwater drainage.
Some counties, including neighboring Chesterfield, lump all of the projects into one question on the ballot.
A Henrico resident has the option to vote yes to allow the county to issue $50 million in bonds for flood prevention and stormwater drainage projects, but vote no on the issuance of $37 million in bonds for recreation and parks projects if they choose.
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Schools projects
About two thirds of the proposed bonds are for Henrico County Public Schools projects. If the schools category is approved by voters, the county would issue $340.5 million for those projects.
The project with the most expensive price tag is the rebuild of Quioccasin Middle School, which is estimated to cost $89 million.
The school was built in 1971, and has a peculiar layout that causes an inability to see all the way down the hallways — unless you squat down and look from the floor.
Each hallway has a series of sections with stairs. Some hallways have three steps of stairs, separating the hall into three levels of descending heights. Because of the differing levels, there’s no straight line of vision down the hallways.
“This requires a lot more of (the) team at every class transition to be in the hallways. It pulls them away from being able to do other things, because we want to see all the kids during transition,” said Henrico School Board Chair Marcie Shea, who represents the Tuckahoe district where Quioccasin Middle School is located. “Instead of just having one person on a hall, you’ve got to have multiple stations. While classes go on, we have to have a lot more teachers on duty as well, for the same reason.”
The presence of stairs in each hallway creates challenges for students or staff members who use wheelchairs. There are wheelchair lifts at some stairs, so the school is in compliance with Americans with Disabilities Act requirements, but they can be challenging to use with crowded hallways.
“Logistically when you’re looking at a class change when you have almost 1,000 kids in the building, even having a lift is challenging,” Shea said.
There’s also a double set of cafeterias.
“This isn’t the best design because you have half of our staff split up on this side, and half split on the other side as well,” said the school’s new principal, Robert Stevens. “That’s less time (administrators) can be spending in classrooms, giving teachers feedback on lessons or meeting families.”
If voters approve the $340.5 million in bonds for school projects, Quioccasin Middle will be rebuilt with an auditorium, Shea said. Of HCPS’ 12 middle schools, Quioccasin is one of four that do not have an auditorium. The school currently uses the gymnasium for performances, but it can only fit about one third of the student body.
Another issue with the unusual design of the school is widely varying classroom sizes — some are very small, making little room for students while other rooms are too large for any class size.
“It’s just not conducive to the educational practices that our teachers utilize,” Shea said. “We’re certainly looking forward to with a new building, being able to provide the learning opportunities that we know are best practice for our kids.”
Other school rebuilds on the bond referendum include Jackson Davis Elementary ($36 million); R. C. Longan Elementary ($37 million); and Highland Springs Elementary ($45 million).
One school would be renovated: Charles M. Johnson Elementary ($26.5 million).
County officials allocated $13.3 million for an outdoor classroom building at Wilton Farms.
The remaining schools projects are two completely new schools that would be built years down the line to accommodate the county’s growing population: a Fairfield area elementary school ($46 million) and a West end area elementary ($47.7 million).
Henrico’s 2016 bond referendum, which was overwhelmingly approved by voters, funded the rebuild of J.R. Tucker High School and Highland Springs High School.
Fire station and public safety facilities projects
The six projects in the fire and safety category amount to $83.85 million. These include the rebuilding of three firehouses, which amounts to $44.3 million.
“The fire department has been around for almost 80 years, and in that time the mission has changed quite a bit,” said Henrico Fire Chief Alec Oughton. “It used to just be strictly a fire department, and we’re now what we refer to as an ‘all hazards agency.’”
The Henrico Fire Department became heavily involved in emergency medical services in 1988, which added additional units and additional staffing to each station. Standards for staffing on fire trucks has also changed since the three fire stations in need of rebuilding were constructed in the late ‘60s to early ‘70s.
“We’re living and working in those facilities 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” Oughton said. “It’s important to have enough space to house those folks there so they are ready to respond at a moment’s notice.”
There’s also four major renovation projects on stations that were built in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s which amount to $6.55 million. One of the major priorities for these improvements is to reduce the risk of cancer that is caused by carcinogens that firefighters bring into station from fire scenes.
A unique project in the safety category is a new public safety training center, which comes with a price tag of $18 million. It would be used by all public safety teams and in the county to give responders structures that resemble realistic scenarios they might encounter on the job — things like urban mixed use developments and four-story townhouses.
The last safety project is a new no-kill animal adoption center, which would cost $15 million to build.
Flood prevention and stormwater drainage
Before the early 1980s, strict regulations against building homes in floodplains or next to creeks did not exist.
As a result, there are over 7,000 homes in Henrico County that have drainage problems, according to Steven Yob, deputy county manager for community operations. There are an additional 1,200 homes that are in the floodplain, and 70 roads in the county that routinely go underwater.
“It’s a problem and that we’ve put some money to from our general fund, from our tax revenue, but it’s really a much bigger problem than a few $100,000 a year is going to fix,” Yob said. “What we hope to do with ($50 million) is to take care of some of these neighborhoods that routinely have flooding problems. Hopefully we will be able to prioritize the ones that have the biggest problems and are least able to do anything about it.”
The potential improvements would vary by the neighborhood. Some might involve putting in drainage systems, which would require rebuilding the streets and putting in storm sewers and storm sewer basins.
Recreation and parks
The least expensive category on the bond referendum is for recreation and parks projects, which are slated for $37 million.
On the last bond referendum in 2016, Henrico County voters approved $87 million for recreation and parks.
A new Three Chopt area park featuring tournament-style fields and nearby road improvements would cost $25 million.
The other parks projects are $7 million for improvements at Deep Bottom Park in Varina and $5 million for additions to Tuckahoe Creek Park. | https://richmond.com/news/local/education/511-million-henrico-bond-referendum-includes-89m-for-rebuild-of-quioccasin-middle/article_78b0a509-385e-5020-8804-8a5ab9e2f69d.html | 2022-08-21T22:11:34 | 1 | https://richmond.com/news/local/education/511-million-henrico-bond-referendum-includes-89m-for-rebuild-of-quioccasin-middle/article_78b0a509-385e-5020-8804-8a5ab9e2f69d.html |
A crash that killed one cyclist and seriously injured another last weekend in Henrico County highlights a national trend of increasing roadway fatalities.
“This is surely a tragedy, and we’re very aware of the overall trends when it comes to our vulnerable road users,” said Terrell Hughes, director of the Henrico Department of Public Works.
Jonah Holland, 49, died in the Aug. 13 crash on Osborne Turnpike. Her friend, Natalie Rainer, 30, is recovering.
Jeffrey Brooks, 18, of Richmond has been charged with driving under the influence and manslaughter.
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Holland is the second bicyclist to be involved in a fatal crash in the Richmond-Petersburg region this year. Four fatal bicycle crashes occurred last year, according to Department of Motor Vehicles data.
A report from the nonprofit Drive Smart Virginia shows that 967 deaths occurred on Virginia’s roadways in 2021, an increase of about 15% from the previous year. As of Friday, the DMV has recorded 573 fatal crashes in Virginia.
Overall, the number of U.S. traffic deaths has been increasing in recent years, hitting 9,560 for the first three months of 2022, the most for a first quarter in two decades, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The agency has pointed to an increase in speeding, impaired driving and other reckless behavior.
Hughes said Henrico and neighboring areas are working to improve infrastructure for all road users. The county works with the community and such groups as Sports Backers, the Virginia Capital Trail Foundation and PlanRVA to promote and enhance safety for pedestrians and bicyclists.
In addition to expanded public transit services, sidewalks, bicycle lanes and shared paths, the county also has worked on a draft bike plan that includes $423 million in pedestrian and cyclist safety measures.
Ben Sheppard, a spokesperson for Henrico, said the county was also instrumental in advancing the development of the Fall Line Trail with funding from the Central Virginia Transportation Authority.
“The safety of bicyclists and others as they’re traveling throughout Henrico County is of utmost concern,” Sheppard said. “Our hearts go out to the family of Jonah Holland, and we wish a full and speedy recovery for Natalie Rainer.”
On Thursday, the Richmond Area Bicycle Association held the Jonah Holland Memorial Ride and Recovery Ride for Natalie Rainer at Crump Park in Henrico.
Like Richmond, Henrico is integrating the policies and practices outlined in the city’s Vision Zero initiative, which calls for a strategy to eliminate all traffic fatalities and injuries.
“There’s been a significant change in how the city approaches roadway safety, and multimodal transportation,” said Jakob Helmboldt, the city’s pedestrian, bicycle and trails coordinator. “We need to be diligent, because we are seeing an increase in crashes again.”
Helmboldt said 53 miles of dedicated bike lanes and 4 miles of paved, shared-use paths have been installed since the city began focusing on bike infrastructure in 2011.
About 52% of Richmond’s fatal or serious accidents occur on 7% of its roadways, according to Helmboldt.
While traffic engineers can target those pathways, the difficult task is predicting and correcting the behavior of road users.
“It’s frustrating,” Helmboldt said, because despite good progress, “we can’t always predict driver behavior.”
He said Richmond is in the process of preparing an impaired driver action plan and determining strategies to help deter drivers who are experiencing substance abuse disorder or mental health crisis from getting on the road.
“It’s of utmost importance for us to remember that we’re sharing a potentially dangerous space with people,” said Brantley Tyndall, president of the Virginia Bicycling Federation and a safety advocate with Sport Backers’ Bike Walk RVA program.
As the Richmond region continues to transform into a multimodal destination, Tyndall said people need to be more engaged on and off the road and remember that one error can alter the course of one’s life.
“Whether we’re going to work, going home or going to the store we need to be reflective of that in our own actions,” Tyndall said. | https://richmond.com/news/local/fatal-henrico-county-bicycle-crash-underscores-increasing-number-of-roadway-fatalities/article_b0d55b6c-d629-5bdd-88e2-abe2db43c8f8.html | 2022-08-21T22:11:40 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/fatal-henrico-county-bicycle-crash-underscores-increasing-number-of-roadway-fatalities/article_b0d55b6c-d629-5bdd-88e2-abe2db43c8f8.html |
A 26-year-old man is dead and one other is injured after an early Sunday morning shooting in Deep Ellum, Dallas police confirm to NBC 5.
Officers responded at 2:55 a.m. Sunday morning to a shooting in the 2600 block of Elm Street. Upon arrival, Dallas police found a man lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the chest and another man who had around the corner who was shot in the leg.
Ricky Burns, 26, died at the scene and another victim, also 26, was treated at a nearby hospital. A Dallas police investigation determined Burns and an unknown Latin male, between 20-30 years old, were arguing. Both men attempted to pull weapons from their waistbands when the unknown suspect shot Burns and the other victim.
The unidentified suspect ran from the scene and is still at large. Police are asking that those who have information call Detective Andrea Isom with Dallas' Homicide Unit at 214-671-3701. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/one-dead-one-injured-after-deep-ellum-shooting/3053547/ | 2022-08-21T22:36:35 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/one-dead-one-injured-after-deep-ellum-shooting/3053547/ |
RICHMOND, Ind. — Richmond police officer Seara Burton has been fighting for her life in an Ohio hospital, after being critically injured in a shooting a week before her wedding.
It wasn't the wedding they had planned, but on Saturday, her fiancée Sierra Neal posted a video on TikTok of her walking in a white dress toward Burton's hospital room.
In the video, "Something in the Orange" by Zach Bryan plays in the background as Neal walks toward the room, surrounded by hospital staff standing in support of her and Burton.
"This walk was supposed to look a lot different, but I will always be thankful we still got to celebrate. Even if it is not legal on paper, you are my wife. I love you Seara," Neal wrote in the caption for the video.
A photo hangs on the door of Burton's room, showing the Richmond officer and her K-9 partner Brev, who was with her when she was shot on Wednesday, Aug. 10.
The video has been viewed millions of times and has more than 260,000 likes. It's gained attention from people across the country, offering their prayers for Burton, Neal and their families.
A suspect, Phillip Lee, shot Burton at close range as Brev was checking his moped for drugs. She's been clinging to life in a Dayton, Ohio hospital ever since.
Neal continues to show her strength in the face of tragedy, posting on social media last week to publicly thank everyone for their support.
In the post she said, "Seara is the strongest person I know and she continues to prove that every single day. She is the most beautiful human inside and out and anyone who has ever been lucky enough to know her will tell you the same."
Neal ended her post with, "Seara Burton I love you more than anything in this entire world and I am so very proud of you. You are my person." | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/tiktok-injured-richmond-indiana-officer-seara-burton-fiancee-sierra-neal-wedding/531-3d683eec-b521-4bc3-aa17-0fa80f6fe0ca | 2022-08-21T22:42:26 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/tiktok-injured-richmond-indiana-officer-seara-burton-fiancee-sierra-neal-wedding/531-3d683eec-b521-4bc3-aa17-0fa80f6fe0ca |
Nebraska already has fast and relatively cheap broadband internet. In fact, a recent report from Uswitch found that the state has the second-cheapest broadband in the country when measured by price per megabits per second.
The report said Nebraskans pay 6 cents for each megabit of speed on average, a rate eclipsed only by California, where residents pay 4 cents per megabit.
I'm guessing a lot of that has to do with the expansion of Allo, which is now in dozens of cities large and small around the state. The company has provided competition to larger, more-entrenched providers, which has forced them to upgrade their services and get more aggressive with pricing.
In an Aug. 10 blog post, Google Fiber CEO Dinni Jain said the company has been "talking to city leaders" in Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada and Idaho.
Only Arizona so far has a publicly identified city (Mesa) and timeline (work started in July).
Jain did say in his blog post that the five states, "will be the main focus for our growth for the next several years."
A follow-up email to Google Fiber's media representative got me exactly zero additional information. If I had to guess, I'd say it's probably Omaha or an Omaha suburb such as Bellevue that Google is targeting, but I guess we'll just have to wait to find out.
Black Hills Energy has opened enrollment for its annual price option for residential customers, which allows them to pay a predetermined price for natural gas during the winter. | https://journalstar.com/business/local/more-cheap-broadband-in-the-cornhusker-state/article_6ecfa23c-3621-5dbd-bb2b-cc8f09a1e81c.html | 2022-08-21T22:42:36 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/business/local/more-cheap-broadband-in-the-cornhusker-state/article_6ecfa23c-3621-5dbd-bb2b-cc8f09a1e81c.html |
WOODSTOCK, Ga. — A Georgia jury has returned a $1.7 billion verdict against Ford Motor Co. involving a pickup truck crash that claimed the lives of a Georgia couple, their lawyers confirmed.
Jurors in Gwinnett County, just northeast of Atlanta, returned the verdict late last week in the yearslong civil case involving what the plaintiffs’ lawyers called dangerously defective roofs on Ford pickup trucks, lawyer James Butler Jr. said Sunday.
Melvin and Voncile Hill were killed in April 2014 in the rollover wreck of their 2002 Ford F-250. Their children Kim and Adam Hill were the plaintiffs in the wrongful death case.
“I used to buy Ford trucks,” Butler said on Sunday. “I thought nobody would sell a truck with a roof this weak. The damn thing is useless in a wreck. You might as well drive a convertible.”
Ford did not immediately respond to requests for comment Sunday. But in closing arguments, lawyers hired by the company defended the actions of Ford and its engineers.
The Michigan-based automaker sought to defend the company against accusations “that Ford and its engineers acted willfully and wantonly, with a conscious indifference for the safety of the people who ride in their cars when they made these decisions about roof strength,” defense lawyer William Withrow Jr. said in his closing arguments, according to a court transcript.
The allegation that Ford was irresponsible and willfully made decisions that put customers at risk is “simply not the case,” another defense lawyer, Paul Malek, said in the same closing argument.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs had submitted evidence of nearly 80 similar rollover wrecks that involved truck roofs being crushed that injured or killed motorist, Butler’s law firm, Butler Prather LLP, said in a statement.
“More deaths and severe injuries are certain because millions of these trucks are on the road,” Butler’s co-counsel, Gerald Davidson, said in the statement.
“An award of punitive damages to hopefully warn people riding around in the millions of those trucks Ford sold was the reason the Hill family insisted on a verdict,” Butler said. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/georgia-jury-awards-17-billion-in-ford-truck-crash-case/85-1bb236ac-2091-4c7d-b66c-3e16ade81fb1 | 2022-08-21T22:52:26 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/georgia-jury-awards-17-billion-in-ford-truck-crash-case/85-1bb236ac-2091-4c7d-b66c-3e16ade81fb1 |
LOVEJOY, Ga. — Four people have been shot after a gun accidentally went off inside the Walmart on Tara Boulevard Sunday afternoon.
However, Lovejoy Police said that a 29-year-old man in the store accidentally shot himself in the leg with the weapon, only to have the bullet ricochet and hit three other people in the store.
Police add that all the injuries are non-life-threatening.
Upon further investigation, they said the man's weapon was loaded but not in a holster. In a statement, they further added that "the handling of this firearm was not done in a reasonable standard of care."
According to police, that man will now be charged with reckless conduct and has been booked into a Clayton County Jail.
This is a developing story. Check back often for new information.
Also download the 11Alive News app and sign up to receive alerts for the latest on this story and other breaking news in Atlanta and north Georgia. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/people-shot-inside-lovejoy-walmart/85-55203077-fc3f-48a7-8bcf-a67694c116bc | 2022-08-21T22:52:32 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/people-shot-inside-lovejoy-walmart/85-55203077-fc3f-48a7-8bcf-a67694c116bc |
WILSON COUNTY, Texas — Officials in Wilson County came to the rescue of two dogs who were abandoned under a tree, left for days in the Texas heat with no food or water.
Property owners off Texas-539 Loop saw the two dogs hanging around under a tree earlier this week and noticed they stayed in the same place for three to four days days. Some kind soul gave them a bucket of water, or they might not have survived in the time it took to be rescued.
"We discovered the black dog was morbidly obese and unable to walk," said Wilson County No Kill Shelter. "The golden dog was kind of guarding her and barked when anyone came close. Once we gave her a treat and gentle pet, she was wagging her tail and ready to go."
The rescue said that another family was so heartbroken about leaving them there another day, that they took them further down the road to their property to give them shelter, food, and water while the pair of canines waited to be saved.
Volunteers went out Saturday to pick them up. The black dog weighs about 170 pounds and isn't mobile, so it took three rescuers to transfer the dog onto an ATV and then into a truck.
Once back at the shelter, the pair were scanned for microchips.
It was discovered that the black dog's name is Autumn Noir and she was registered to a man named David V in San Antonio. Her chip information showed she was born in January 2016 and adopted from the Animal Defense League of Texas in April 2016.
Wilson County No Kill Shelter contacted the registered owner who denied owning her.
"He said he has been living in Tennessee for the last six years. He claimed they had the puppy for about two weeks in 2016 and then returned her to the ADL because “something was wrong with her." We contacted the ADL who said there was nothing in their computer showing Autumn Noir was ever returned," said Wilson County No Kill Shelter.
Sad. Sad for this dog who is now seven years old. At a time when she should be lounging in the living room with her family and sleeping on a cozy bed; instead, she was left to waste away in the Texas heat….deep in the country.
So how did this girl get morbidly obese, immobile, and camped out under a random tree in the middle of nowhere? There is no way she could have walked there on her own. It's a mystery.
The golden dog did not have a chip.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The person who died after getting caught in a rip current in Seaside Saturday was a man in his 50s, the city said Sunday.
Seaside Fire & Rescue responded to a reported water rescue at the beach out from 6th Avenue at around 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Three Seaside lifeguards were already in the water in an active rip current trying to help two people.
There were also several bystanders trying to help.
First responders used jet skis, which allowed rescuers to quickly assist the lifeguards in bringing the victims and bystanders back to the beach.
Both victims were taken to Providence Seaside Hospital for treatment and evaluation. One of them, a man in his 50s, was unconscious in the water and was pronounced dead after first responders were unable to revive him.
A teenage girl survived the incident.
About 45 minutes after the incident in Seaside, the city said another water rescue occurred in Cannon Beach. Lifeguards rescued two swimmers who were in distress at the south end of Seaside’s beach off Avenue U.
A 27-year-old woman who was rescued in Cannon Beach told firefighters that she and the other swimmer were waist-deep in the water one minute and struggling in water over their heads the next.
“We cannot stress the unpredictable dangers of the ocean enough,” said Genesee Dennis, division chief of prevention for Seaside Fire & Rescue. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family for their tragic loss yesterday.”
Seaside officials remind beachgoers that the Pacific Ocean can be very dangerous. Swimmers should use extreme caution and always enter the water with other people present. People should avoid areas prone to rip currents and should know how to escape – by swimming parallel to the beach.
Signs have been posted in the area of the incident to warn people of the immediate rip current dangers. | https://www.koin.com/local/oregon-coast/person-killed-in-seaside-rip-current-was-man-in-his-50s/ | 2022-08-21T23:07:51 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/local/oregon-coast/person-killed-in-seaside-rip-current-was-man-in-his-50s/ |
A woman died and a man was critically wounded when two gunmen pulled up next to their car and opened fire near a Philadelphia church Sunday afternoon, police said.
The shooters sprayed 26 bullets into the car on the 1100 block of West Wingohocking Street in the Logan neighborhood, killing the 26-year-old woman and wounding the 40-year-old man, Philadelphia Police Department Inspector D.F. Pace said.
The shooting happened in a residential neighborhood in front of houses and next to a park. The gunfire was also just a few hundred feet from a church.
Police placed several evidence markers as bullets littered the ground. The shooting happened around 3:48 p.m., police said.
There was no immediate description of the gunmen, but their vehicle was described as a white Nissan sedan.
The slaying was just one of several shootings this weekend in Philadelphia, including one that wounded a 16-year-old boy and his father, and another that wounded a 7-year-old boy.
A count by the Philadelphia Office of the City Controller, last updated Aug. 18, shows at least 313 fatal and 1,193 non deadly victims of gunfire in 2022. The Philadelphia Police Department had recorded at least 346 killings as of Aug. 20, a 1% increase from the same time in 2021, which ended as the year with the most killings in Philadelphia's recorded history.
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KENOSHA -- Anderson Arts Center is offering Beginner Ballroom Dance classes at the Kemper Center in Kenosha this fall.
Taught by former Broadway dancer Geri Dougherty, the September and October classes will meet on Tuesdays for four weeks each. The November classes will meet on Wednesdays.
Beginner couples will learn basic steps for the Waltz, Foxtrot, Tango, Salsa, Cha Cha, Rhumba and other classic dance styles.
This fall, there are three separate Sessions, each four weeks long. Signups for Session One are currently taking place. The cost is $75 per couple, per four week Session. Single dancers and all ages are welcome.
Session One: Tuesdays, Sept. 13, 20, 27, and Oct. 4.
Session Two: Tuesdays, Oct. 11, 18, 25, and Nov. 1.
Session Three: Wednesdays, Nov. 2, 9, 16 & 23.
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The Ballroom Dance Classes will be held in Kemper Center’s Simmons Gymnasium, 6501 Third Ave., from 7 to 8 p.m.
For more information, or to sign up for classes, visit www.kempercenter.com, or call 262-925-8040.
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Change is an essential element in program effectiveness. Adjusted perspectives are essential, whether we are talking about diabetics reassessing how they think about food, or credit counseling that not only leads to short term credit repair, but to long term financial health.
Cognitively, a return from prison is much the same. Thoughts that lead one to anti-social cognition need to be reassessed, faced head on, and challenged. New perspectives are required to successfully integrate into a community.
What is cognition? Cognition refers to the higher brain functions such as memory and reasoning. What is change? It is a process for identifying problematic behaviors followed by interventions to address and correct flawed thinking patterns that lead to the justification of undesirable behaviors. This is not just a reentry process. This is how we change thoughts and behaviors around finances, health and nearly all the important aspects of our lives.
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The point is this, reentry is not so much a moral reckoning as it is a paradigm shift in how one lives as part of a healthy and high functioning community. However, healthy change does require a mature and sophisticated understanding of the balance between rights and responsibilities.
Successful reentry also requires the desire to learn new rules for engagement by the reentrant and those around them. Stable intimate relationships are a hallmark and a sign of healthy change. Relationships built on mutual respect, trust, honesty, compromise, maintaining individuality, good communication, anger control, a commitment to problem solving, and understanding others can stabilize a life.
Anti-social relationship patterns such as control, hostility, dishonesty, intimidation, and physical violence are short term solutions to regain control of a situation. These approaches can have disastrous consequences, personally and legally. Many people learn these techniques early in life through family dysfunction and life in the streets. Changing lifelong patterns is difficult and takes focus, practice, and patience. For reentrants, changing these patterns are the key to staying out of prison.
Change is centered on dismantling an anti-social mindset and replacing it with a pro-social framework. This is easier said than done. All of us have core beliefs that reinforce the way we think and ultimately inform how we behave. That is the rub! Changing core beliefs are some of the most difficult challenges we will face. Anyone who has tried to diet, quit smoking, or beat a gambling habit knows this well. Heather Bennett, Second Chance Program Director for Kenosha Vocational Ministry says it this way, “through one-on-one interventions, a person begins to build a pro-social narrative which ultimately becomes the engine for community building behavior.”
Be patient and supportive with those who are trying to change life-long patterns. Cognitive change is hard work. It is not about simple compliance but about choosing to think in a new way. Walking alongside those seeking a better path is our best strategy for community success. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/community-column-from-kenosha-vocational-ministry-following-prison-real-change-is-needed/article_1efb1f74-2098-11ed-89f4-3b82792b5f8a.html | 2022-08-21T23:14:08 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/community-column-from-kenosha-vocational-ministry-following-prison-real-change-is-needed/article_1efb1f74-2098-11ed-89f4-3b82792b5f8a.html |
Cherish Rupp-Kent, who will be in the fifth Grade at Brass School this fall, participates in a drill with Carthage College football wide receivers coach Treston Womack looking on Sunday. About 30 students participated in a field trip sponsored by SOS Outreach, which partnered with Brass School and the college for the event.
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Julio Castallanos Fernandez, who will be in the fifth grade at Brass School this fall, climbs the rock wall at Carthage College’s N.E. Tarble Athletic and Recreation Center Sunday afternoon.
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Quentin “QJ” Williams, who will be attending 5th grade at KTEC in the fall, scales the rock wall to the very top before ringing the bell at Carthage College’s N.E. Tarble Athletic and Recreation Center Sunday afternoon.
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Tricia Jardon, a Brass School teacher, tries her hand (and legs) at one of the football drills at Carthage College Sunday afternoon.
A group of soon-to-be local fifth-graders spent the dog days of summer climbing a rock wall, running drills with a local college football team and spending time at the beach in an action-packed Sunday afternoon.
The field trip on the Carthage College campus at the N.E. Tarble Athletic and Recreation Center was a way to help about 30 students at Brass Community School beat summer boredom while connecting with the community, learning new skills, especially outdoors, and having fun with classmates and their teachers.
Just ask Cherish Rupp-Kent who ran drills on the nearby football field with members of the Carthage College football team cheering her on.
Cherish, who will be in the fifth grade this fall, turned up the speed and showed her athletic prowess as Carthage’s wide receivers coach Treston Womack looked on. She easily ran through the obstacle, knocking the padded practice mat with power at the end.
“I like this because it reminds of when I’m at home and I play with my siblings,” she said.
Inside the athletic center, Quentin “Q.J.” Williams took on the large rock wall, scaling to the very top and ringing the bell, to cheers from members of the football team who were also volunteering at the activity.
Quentin, a fifth-grader who will be attending KTEC in the fall and whose mom works at Brass School, said he enjoyed climbing and beat several of the college students who also attempted the rock course.
Quentin said he had never climbed a rock wall before.
“I felt nervous,” he said.
The event was sponsored by a nonprofit organization called SOS Outreach which has headquarters in Vail, Colo. It has partnered with Brass School previously, according to Tricia Jardon, an ESL teacher at Brass who coordinated the event.
Last winter, the students participated in a ski program called “Learn to Ride,” sponsored by SOS Outreach.
The 30 then fourth-grade students were given ski clothes, lift tickets, busing, dinner, and five weeks of small group ski lessons at Wilmot Mountain. The students also received a lesson each week on one of the “core values” that SOS encourages in its program: courage, discipline, integrity, wisdom, compassion, and humility.
SOS Outreach works with kids across nine states, 15 local communities, and 24 mountain resorts.
“The whole point is just to get these kids out in the community with nature and building up their confidence and building up their esteem and getting them to do these amazing things that they probably wouldn’t get a chance to do normally,” Jardon said.
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Cherish Rupp-Kent, who will be in the fifth Grade at Brass School this fall, participates in a drill with Carthage College football wide receivers coach Treston Womack looking on Sunday. About 30 students participated in a field trip sponsored by SOS Outreach, which partnered with Brass School and the college for the event.
Julio Castallanos Fernandez, who will be in the fifth grade at Brass School this fall, climbs the rock wall at Carthage College’s N.E. Tarble Athletic and Recreation Center Sunday afternoon.
Quentin “QJ” Williams, who will be attending 5th grade at KTEC in the fall, scales the rock wall to the very top before ringing the bell at Carthage College’s N.E. Tarble Athletic and Recreation Center Sunday afternoon. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/watch-now-brass-community-school-students-reach-new-heights-in-outing-at-carthage-college-sunday/article_0b7b59bc-218f-11ed-8345-1ff097e92bab.html | 2022-08-21T23:14:15 | 0 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/watch-now-brass-community-school-students-reach-new-heights-in-outing-at-carthage-college-sunday/article_0b7b59bc-218f-11ed-8345-1ff097e92bab.html |
CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — Clayton County Police are asking the public for help finding a missing 15-year-old.
Franky Lopez was last seen Saturday at the 7900-block of Stanebrook Drive in Jonesboro, leaving around 10 a.m. in a white GMC truck headed toward Buford Highway, according to the police department.
Authorities said Lopez has brown hair and brown eyes. He is 5-feet 6-inches tall and weighs 96 pounds. He was last seen wearing a light blue jacket, Clayton County Police said.
Anyone with information about Franky Lopez's whereabouts is asked to call the Clayton County Police Department at (770) 477-3550. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/missing-in-georgia/clayton-county-missing-teen-franky-lopez/85-3e5e32bc-1015-4a45-9f38-c1f30f08a54f | 2022-08-21T23:15:02 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/missing-in-georgia/clayton-county-missing-teen-franky-lopez/85-3e5e32bc-1015-4a45-9f38-c1f30f08a54f |
CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — A Mattie's Call Alert has been issued for a missing 18-year-old in Clayton County, who is diagnosed with bipolar and other behavioral disorders.
Destinee Smith was last seen Saturday around noon at the 6000-block of Deans Way in Morrow, according to Clayton County Police. Authorities said Smith has been known to frequent the area of Mt. Zion Boulevard and Maddox Road.
Smith has black hair and brown eyes. She is 5-feet 11-inches tall and weighs 329 pounds.
Clayton County Police said Smith was last seen wearing a pink shirt, dark blue pants and black crocs.
Anyone who sees Destinee Smith is asked to call the Clayton County Police Department at (770) 477-3550. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/missing-in-georgia/matties-call-missing-destinee-smith/85-2eeb4cec-e6c5-4fb3-907f-088a9e076385 | 2022-08-21T23:15:08 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/missing-in-georgia/matties-call-missing-destinee-smith/85-2eeb4cec-e6c5-4fb3-907f-088a9e076385 |
The front door of a Bronx bodega was torn off its hinges by a man police say threatened to hurt the man working inside.
Police said the unidentified man entered the bodega on East 179th Street in Claremont Village around 11:30 p.m. Friday and got into a verbal argument with the 31-year-old worker.
After exiting the store, police said the suspect threw something at the front door that damaged the glass. Then, the man broke the door right off its hinges.
In total, the damage to the bodega was estimated to run $3,500.
Police said the bodega worker tried running after the perp but was met with a firearm the man pulled out of his waistband. He allegedly told the worker, "look what I go," before continuing off into the night.
The bodega worker was not physically injured in the incident, NYPD officials said. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/after-fight-with-bronx-worker-armed-man-rips-bodega-door-off-hinges/3832984/ | 2022-08-21T23:18:00 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/after-fight-with-bronx-worker-armed-man-rips-bodega-door-off-hinges/3832984/ |
Startling video of a vicious attack on two teenagers in New York City has police on the lookout for a group of five attackers also accused of stealing from the victims.
Investigators said a group of five people approached the duo and pushed them down a flight of stairs inside a Bronx apartment building. The assailants then punched and kicked the teens multiple times.
The Saturday morning attack occurred around 5:30 a.m., police said, inside a building on East 171st Street.
One of the group pulled out a sharp object and slashed one of the teens, who are both 16 years old. They took his phone and $100. The second victim was also slashed, in the check, and also had his phone swiped, police said.
Bruised and bloody, the teens managed to get to Montefiore Medical Center where they were treated for their injuries.
Police said the five assailants fled and were still in the wind the next day. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/attackers-shove-teens-down-nyc-apartment-stairs-in-robbery-beatdown/3833003/ | 2022-08-21T23:18:06 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/attackers-shove-teens-down-nyc-apartment-stairs-in-robbery-beatdown/3833003/ |
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