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The Dutton family is one of the hundreds who responded to the city of Fort Worth’s call for volunteers Thursday through Sunday.
Eight-year-old Gordon Dutton channeled Captain America, in his superhero shirt, cleaning up a new trailhead right off Northside and Interstate 35 along the Trinity River.
“We picked up like tuna cans, plastic, and wrappers also,” said eight-year-old Gordon Dutton.
Volunteering with his dad and family has left him feeling good.
“I feel good because this is one of my favorite cities anyways,” said Dutton.
Fort Worth City Health Officer and Director of Code Compliance, Brandon Bennett, says hundreds of volunteers helped clean six locations around the Trinity River.
“On Thursday, when volunteers first came out, we picked up about 5,000 pounds, and on Friday, 23,000 pounds of debris. So you can imagine, based on the weight, how much litter that actually was,” said Bennett.
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Floodwaters swept debris above a 12-foot high structure and several feet up the riverbank.
“The top of the litter line is the top of the waterlines, which is pretty significant,” said Bennett.
It’ll take a few weeks to fully clean this trailhead, and cleanup at more locations is already scheduled.
Early next week, city crews will focus on cleaning up debris at Lake Arlington and Lake Worth, using specialized equipment and boats. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/hundreds-of-volunteers-help-clean-up-debris-along-trinity-river-after-record-rainfall-and-flash-flooding/3058757/ | 2022-08-28T19:28:26 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/hundreds-of-volunteers-help-clean-up-debris-along-trinity-river-after-record-rainfall-and-flash-flooding/3058757/ |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Law enforcement in Sacramento are searching for a gunman after a deadly shooting in the Del Paso Heights neighborhood Saturday, officials with the Sacramento Police Department said.
Around 10:50 p.m. Saturday, officers said they responded to the area of Harris Avenue and Fig Street after a report came in that a person had been shot.
On scene, officers said they found the shooting victim described as an adult man who had at least one gunshot wound. The victim was seriously injured and pronounced dead on scene by personnel from the Sacramento Fire Department, police said.
Homicide detectives and crime scene investigators took over the investigation and canvassed the area for evidence and witnesses, according to a Sunday morning news release.
Authorities have not released information on what led up to the shooting or information on a suspect.
Witnesses and those with information on the homicide are asked to call police at 916-808-5471 or Sacramento Valley Crime Stoppers at 916-443-4357.
Callers to Crime Stoppers can remain anonymous and may be eligible for a reward up to $1,000.
The deadly shooting in Del Paso Heights marked the second homicide investigation for Sacramento Police officers Saturday night. A woman also died in an officer-involved shooting in Sacramento Saturday.
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SAN DIEGO — San Diego parishioners who gathered Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Coronado for a consistory party say it's an incredible day watching Bishop Robert Walter McElroy elevated to Cardinal.
“This is a historic day for the Diocese San Diego,” said Father Michael Murphy, Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Coronado
In a consistory party, parishioners watched in awe as Pope Francis elevated Cardinal McElroy.
This marks the first time a San Diego bishop was named a Cardinal in a holy ceremony at the Vatican.
“This was very compelling and interesting and filled with all of the specialness and holiness,” said Deacon Bob Griffin.
Parishioners say their admiration for Cardinal McElroy grew even stronger after watching the ceremony.
“I was just telling Father Mike how exciting it is to see Rome, to see all of our cardinals and bishops together and that sense of community that we belong to,” said Erika Rosas, Sacred Heart School Vice Principal.
The Pope named 20 churchmen to the Cardinal rank, McElroy is the only bishop in the U.S. to receive the scarlet biretta and at 68 years old, the youngest in this ceremony.
The Pope chose 16 under 80 years old, which will be eligible to vote for his successor if he resigns or dies.
“The fact that our bishop is made one of the close advisors and has an ear of the Pope is very important. It shows Cardinal McElroy’s faith and discernment to guide the holy father,” said Murphy.
McElroy’s progressive beliefs are in line with the Pope but without controversy in the Catholic Church.
“I believe Bishop McElroy is cut for the same cloth that they have the same beliefs about engaging with the poor, immigrants, environment,” said Father Gilbert Gentile.
McElroy has been outspoken against excluding pro-choice politicians from holy communion and welcoming LGBTQ+ into the church.
“Pope Francis has said that the shepherds should smell like the sheep, in other words, be with the people not above the people and my sense is bishop, Cardinal McElroy is a man of the people,” said Gentile.
Parishioners echoed Gentile’s admiration for McElroy.
“When he speaks to us, he is a man of the people. He always speaks at everyone's level, kind and welcoming presentation, and a nice sense of humor,” said Mary Griffin.
As church membership declines globally, one of his top priorities is bringing in more young people to the church.
“Being young in the church there is still a lot, it hasn't grown old. For me it's going, it's vibrant, it's alive and there is a lot for me to still do,” said Rosas.
This was more than just a ceremony to honor the new College of Cardinals, it was a moment to grow and reflect on their faith and love for their church.
“We are just thrilled. We are so happy, it's a joyous church in San Diego,” said Fr. Murphy.
The church says Cardinal McElroy will remain in San Diego and looking to name another auxiliary bishop.
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HOUSTON — Everything old is new again at NASA as they prepare to launch the unmanned Orion spacecraft to the moon. The first in a series of missions, NASA said the Artemis 1 mission will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration.
It's a critical test drive, of sorts, to check out Orion's systems in a spaceflight environment and how it performs on its re-entry, splashdown and recovery. NASA said a successful mission will demonstrate its capability to "extend human existence to the moon and beyond."
By "beyond," they mean Mars.
"When we think about Artemis, we focus a lot on the moon," said chief astronaut Reid Wiseman. "But I just want everybody in this room and everybody watching to remember our sights are not set on the Moon. Our sights are set clearly on Mars."
Artemis 1 launch details
- Launch date: Aug. 29, 2022; window opens at 7:33 a.m. Central time
- Mission duration: 42 days, 3 hours, 20 minutes
- Total distance traveled: 1.3 million miles
- Re-entry speed: 24,500 mph (Mach 32)
- Splashdown: Oct. 10, 2022
Next Monday, Orion will launch on board the "most powerful rocket in the world and fly farther than any spacecraft built for humans has ever flown," according to NASA. The SLS rocket will produce 8.8 million pounds of thrust during liftoff as it launches the nearly six-million-pounds Orion to orbit.
"Our teams have been working extremely hard for a very, very long time to get to this point and this is very special and we’re extremely excited,” said Artemis I flight director Rick LaBrode.
Unlike the Apollo missions to the moon in the late 60s and 70s, Orion will travel thousands of miles beyond the moon during the four to six-week mission.
“This is a mission that truly will do what hasn’t been done and learn what isn’t known,” said Mike Sarafin, Artemis I mission manager at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “It will blaze a trail that people will follow on the next Orion flight, pushing the edges of the envelope to prepare for that mission.”
To the moon and back
As Orion continues on its path from Earth orbit to the moon, it will be propelled by a service module provided by the European Space Agency. On future missions, the module will provide housing, air and water for astronauts.
To talk with mission control in Houston, Orion will communicate through the Deep Space Network.
The outbound trip to the moon will take several days. During this period, it will collect data and allow mission controllers to assess its performance.
After four to six weeks and a total distance traveled exceeding 1.3 million miles, the mission will end with a test of Orion’s capability to return safely to the Earth.
The spacecraft will splash down off the coast of Baja, California. Divers from the U.S. Navy and operations teams from NASA will approach in small boats from a recovery ship. The divers will inspect the spacecraft for hazards and hook up tow lines, and then engineers will tow the capsule into the recovery ship for its journey home.
What's next?
The second flight of Artemis will carry a crew on a different trajectory and test Orion’s critical systems with astronauts aboard.
Future exploration missions with crew aboard Orion will assemble and dock with a Gateway. NASA and its partners will use the gateway for deep-space operations "to extend human exploration farther into the solar system than ever before."
With the Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the moon with plans to eventually establish the first long-term presence on the moon.
With the experience and knowledge they gain from lunar exploration, NASA said it will be ready to take the next giant leap by sending the first astronauts to Mars. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/artemis-moon-mission/285-af46a3c7-da9a-4c3b-b938-fe9cc8d8e130 | 2022-08-28T19:28:50 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/artemis-moon-mission/285-af46a3c7-da9a-4c3b-b938-fe9cc8d8e130 |
STOCKTON, Calif. — Officials with the Stockton Police Department are investigating after a 57-year-old man was allegedly shot and killed near Stockton's downtown district Sunday morning.
At 4:15 a.m. Sunday, officers said they responded to the 600 block of Oak Street after reports came in that a person had been shot.
At the scene, police said they found a 57-year-old man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was reportedly pronounced dead at the scene.
Officials have not released infomation on a suspect or a move in the homicide but asked witnesses and those with information to come forward.
Those with information are asked to call investigators at 209-937-8377 or Stockton Crime Stoppers at 209-946-0600.
Crime Stoppers is offering anonymity and a cash reward of up to $10,000 for information that leads to an arrest in the deadly shooting.
The Sunday morning homicide marked the second deadly shooting investigated by Stockton Police officers over the weekend and the 37th homicide case in the city so far in 2022.
Hours before the deadly shooting, police in Stockton also responded to an unrelated shooting that left three injured at a Sikh temple.
STOCKTON CRIME IN CONTEXT
An increase in homicide cases in Stockton during the early months of 2022 came on the heels of a decline in 2021, where police reported fewer homicides ending the year with a total of 38 cases.
While that’s not the lowest number the department has dealt with in the past 12 years, it is below the annual average of 40 homicide cases per year since 1995.
In response to the rise in homicides, community groups held prayer vigils and outreach events meant to unite Stockton residents against violence.
Activists have called on the community to show up to such events and work with local organizations such as Advance Peace, Faith in the Valley, Lighthouse of the Valley and the Office of Violence Prevention to discourage crime and help impacted communities heal.
Click here for a map of crime statistics.
In an interview with ABC10 in March, Stockton City Manager Harry Black said the Stockton Police Department is trying to prevent more deaths by working more on intelligence gathering and cooperating with federal partners such as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. Marshall's Service.
The city is also working to improve its crime prevention, intervention and fighting strategy, Black said. Representatives with the city's Office of Violence Prevention are working to be more present in communities impacted by crime. The office's 'peacekeepers program' places mediators and mentors in high crime areas.
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Deputies: 76-year-old man drowns off Siesta Key
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The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office is investigating a drowning that took place off Siesta Key on Saturday.
According to a Sheriff's Office report, deputies were called to Crescent Beach on Siesta Key just after noon on Saturday. Deputies responded with paramedics and attempted to render aid, but the victim died at the scene.
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Detectives identified the victim as Francisco Telesforo Campos La Nuez, 76, of Hollywood, Florida. Detectives do not believe foul play is involved and are awaiting an official cause of death from the Medical Examiner's Office, according to the report. | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/sarasota/2022/08/28/hollywood-florida-man-drowns-off-crescent-beach-siesta-key-sarasota/7924924001/ | 2022-08-28T19:37:52 | 0 | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/sarasota/2022/08/28/hollywood-florida-man-drowns-off-crescent-beach-siesta-key-sarasota/7924924001/ |
SANDERS, Ariz. — A three-vehicle collision has left one person dead and closed the eastbound lanes of Interstate 40 near Sanders, officials with the Arizona Department of Public Safety said.
Officials said that the crash happened around 9:25 a.m. on Sunday morning, and blocked all eastbound lanes near milepost 328.
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Currently, there is no estimated time for when those lanes leading into Sanders will reopen.
Officials have not released the identity of the deceased, and no further details on the crash were provided.
This is a developing story. Stay with 12News for more updates.
Deaths on Arizona roads
Data from the Arizona Department of Transportation shows that roadway fatalities have been gradually rising in Arizona over the last decade:
- 2011: 825 deaths
- 2012: 821 deaths
- 2013: 844 deaths
- 2014: 774 deaths
- 2015: 895 deaths
- 2016: 952 deaths
- 2017: 1,000 deaths
- 2018: 1,010 deaths
- 2019: 982 deaths
- 2020: 1,057 deaths
ADOT offers driving tips on its website to help keep people safe on the road.
"There’s always room for improvement when it comes to road safety," the department said on its website.
ADOT's suggestions include:
- Don’t speed or drive aggressively
- Never drive while under the influence of substances
- Avoid distractions while driving
- Wear your seatbelt and make sure all passengers are doing the same
- When an emergency vehicle is on the side of the road, move over
- Stay extra aware in work zones
- Be prepared for weather conditions that make driving dangerous
"Real-time highway conditions are available on ADOT’s Arizona Traveler Information site at az511.gov, by calling 511, downloading the AZ 511 app and through ADOT’s Twitter feed, @ArizonaDOT," the department said.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. — Residents in the Arrowhead Lakes community could be waking up to a new neighbor Sunday morning. Glendale Police are currently investigating reports that someone was seen putting what appeared to be an alligator into the neighborhood's artificial lake.
Arrowhead Lake, which sits just north of Loop 101, is an artificial lake developed to provide boating, fishing, and waterfront property to residents.
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Sunday morning, police said that they'd received reports that someone allegedly released an alligator into those waters.
At this time, no alligator has been spotted, and there are no reports of any alligator-related injuries.
So, while police cannot confirm that an actual alligator was released into the lake, they are taking steps to make sure that residents are safe in the event that the reptile is real.
The department said that they're taking the report seriously, and have already contacted "several resources" to retrieve the gator and take it to a sanctuary.
Officials did not say which resources had been contacted.
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FRANKFORD, Del. (AP) — Ernest Marvel has a case full of medals in his Frankford home.
He was awarded his most recent addition, the French Legion of Honor, in July — almost 80 years after he helped liberate the country from the Germans in World War II.
Marvel, now 98, has rarely left the Bethany Beach area, save for the war.
“I’m a home boy,” he said.
He speaks fondly of his family. His garden is his pride and joy. He likes to dance and sing karaoke on the weekends at the local VFW and Eagles Club.
But Marvel also holds dark memories of a different time, when heroes had to fight through Europe to free thousands held in concentration camps under Adolf Hitler’s control.
He was one of those heroes.
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In 1945, Marvel made his way through French and German villages, across the Rhine River and to the gates of Dachau.
Marvel’s war story
Pfc. Marvel entered the war late, just after the Battle of the Bulge, according to historian Eric Montgomery. A member of U.S. Army Company B, 179th Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion, 45th Infantry Division, the 20-year-old made his way to Europe aboard the Queen Elizabeth troopship.
One of Marvel’s first missions, according to Montgomery, was to crawl “across an enemy-held field (strewn) with mines and booby traps.”
“We had to climb from foxhole to foxhole to get to our headquarters to let them know where we were,” Marvel said. “Each foxhole had two Germans in it, but they were kids. They were maybe 15 or 16 years old and they were scared to death.”
His division crossed the Rhine River in storm boats as the Germans fired mortars at them.
“About three boats down from me there was a mortar shell landing and it blew it apart,” Marvel said. “We were about halfway across. It could’ve been us.”
At 20 years old, Frankford’s Ernest Marvel was drafted into the U.S. Army during World War II.
From there, the soldiers moved into Germany, taking village after village, often house by house.
“I was a bazooka man for a good while, and I would knock out the wheels of a tank so they couldn’t move. I’d shoot a phosphorus grenade into the turret, and it’d get so hot, they’d have to come out. Some would come out fighting, some with their hands up,” Marvel said.
He bombed German soldiers shooting from perches in church steeples, as well.
“I could hear ‘em for ages, screaming as it blew ’em out,” Marvel said.
He became reflective as he spoke.
“It’s not a good feeling,” he said. “I’m doing better.”
Marvel said he has post-traumatic stress disorder. After the war, he’d wake his wife up in the night as he experienced flashbacks. Ultimately, he got help from a psychiatrist.
“He said my trouble was it was all bottled up in me; I wouldn’t let it out. He said, ‘You start letting it out and you’ll feel better.’ And I did. I started telling different people about different things and it started coming around, but it’s still never left my mind,” he said.
Liberating Dachau concentration camp
Part of the trauma he experienced was during the liberation of Dachau concentration camp. Marvel’s memories are vivid of the horrific place where thousands of people were killed.
“There was about a half a mile of concrete road, and they had a big German barrack made out of brick on each side of the road. In between was a white-bark tree,” he said.
Marvel and his fellow soldiers moved through the buildings and killed or took prisoner the German soldiers inside.
Elsewhere on the grounds, he opened up a boxcar, only to find it and several others like it full of bodies.
“The smell was terrible. They had … big incinerators that they were burning them with and they couldn’t burn them as fast as they were dying,” he said.
That day, U.S. soldiers found more than 30 railroad cars filled with bodies brought to Dachau, all in an advanced state of decomposition, according to the U.S. National Holocaust Memorial Museum.
He was shocked by the condition of the prisoners still alive inside the camp, who were starving and wracked with diseases.
“You’ve seen ‘The Walking Dead’?” Marvel asked of the zombie apocalypse TV series. “They looked worse than that. They were dying of malnutrition. They were nothing but skin and bones, and their eyes sunk right into their heads.”
Soldiers “tossed candy bars and cigarettes over the barbed wire to the starving prisoners until ordered to stop,” according to the July 2022 National WWII Museum article, “The Last Days of the Dachau Concentration Camp,” but most of them stayed out of the main compound for “fear of disease.”
“Medical staff came, regulated the supply of food and water to those beset with malnutrition and created a typhus ward to respond to the epidemic of that dreaded disease in the camp,” the article states.
U.S. forces liberated 32,000 prisoners at Dachau, according to the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
A connection to the present
The only injury Marvel said he suffered during the war was from being hit by a piece of shrapnel on his arm. He still has a scar.
“Our general … he wanted us to take this village. He said they had been flying over and reconnaissance planes saw no activity,” he said. “We got out halfway into the field. It was breaking day, and they started shooting at us. ... And the shrapnel was flying everywhere.”
Marvel was one of eight of 28 men to survive the attack, he said.
One of the soldiers who did not survive was Orla Moninger, a man Marvel had become close friends with since arriving in Europe, he said. When they returned to retrieve the bodies the next day, Moninger’s hand was over his heart, holding photos of his family, Marvel said.
Marvel’s grandson, Donnie Carey, knew of Moninger from stories shared by his grandfather. He began wondering if the fallen soldier had any family still alive. The historian he’d been working with, Montgomery, found Moninger did indeed have a living son, and Carey gave him a call.
“He said he heard (his father) was getting off a train in Germany and was shot,” Carey said, recalling the conversation with Moninger’s son. “The hair just stood up on my arm because I knew I had some information he had never heard. … It was right before holidays and he was like, ‘I have a story I can tell now.’ It was a great moment.”
A grandson, a country music singer and the Legion of Honor
Carey said he became interested in learning more about his grandfather’s time in the war about six years ago. That was when his wife read “The Diary of Anne Frank,” the well-known writings of a young Jewish girl who spent two years hiding from Nazis with her family and ultimately died in a concentration camp.
“She said, ‘You know, your grandfather experienced a lot of this stuff at Dachau,’ and I just realized how honored I was to still have the opportunity to help him and learn from him,” Carey said. “He’s my hero.”
Carey and the rest of Marvel’s extended family surprised him last summer when they took him to see country music singer Jamey Johnson at the Freeman Arts Pavilion in Selbyville. Johnson gave Marvel a shout-out before singing “In Color,” a song about a veteran.
The family made their way to the front of the stage and Johnson said, “Thank you for your sacrifice, sir.” He then came down and gave Marvel a handshake, a hug and some guitar pics.
Video of the moment was posted online, and one of those who viewed it reached out to let Carey know Marvel qualified for the Legion of Honor, France’s highest decoration.
“I’m just trying to do everything I can to help him be recognized while he’s still here,” Carey said.
Marvel turned 98 in May.
This summer, he contracted pneumonia on top of COVID-19, but recovered in time for the Legion of Honor ceremony in Washington, D.C. It was held the day before Bastille Day, France’s most notable patriotic holiday, and Marvel and two other American World War II vets were presented the award by French Ambassador Phillipe Etienne.
The award was created in 1802 “to recognize outstanding services rendered to France by military and civilian personnel,” Etienne said.
An average of 2,200 French citizens and 300 foreigners are decorated each year, according to the Legion of Honor website. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/delaware-veteran-receives-frances-highest-honor/3347257/ | 2022-08-28T19:52:02 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/delaware-veteran-receives-frances-highest-honor/3347257/ |
LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Denise Vaccaro bought her home on the Jersey Shore over 20 years ago, charmed by the little beach at the end of a sandy spit on Barnegat Bay where she could sit and read while listening to the waves and enjoying the cool breezes.
That home was destroyed 10 years ago in Superstorm Sandy, and the beach she loved is also gone, claimed by rising seas that are eroding the shoreline and pushing water to porches.
“It's so sad that this little community has lost its beach,” Vaccaro said. “People are losing their property. My home was totally destroyed. It's a way of life that's being lost.”
It's a story being played out on shorelines all around the world as once idyllic beach communities are washing away, and residents are struggling to adapt.
But a partial solution being tried around the world is also being done here: establishing oyster colonies to form natural barriers that blunt the force of waves and help stabilize eroding shorelines.
Such a project is underway near Vaccaro's rebuilt house, carried out by the American Littoral Society, which received a $1 million grant from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. The group has been building steel wire cages, filling them with rocks and whelk shells and positioning them in rows along the shoreline of Barnegat Bay.
Tiny baby oysters, called spat, are attached to whelk shells and placed in the bay near the existing cages to further stabilize the shoreline.
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The shoreline in Vaccaro's neighborhood has lost 150 feet (46 meters) of beach since 1995, according to the Littoral Society.
In much of it, there is no sand at all; waves pound against grassy mounds that are getting smaller all the time. A shuffleboard court that used to be part of a wide beach with plenty of sand between it and the bay is now halfway submerged in water.
“Some of the people along this shoreline have seen the bay swallow their back porches, more than one,” said Julie Schumacher, habitat restoration coordinator for the Littoral Society. “The water is right up against them.”
The rows of oysters appear to be doing their job as effective breakwaters. One recent day, a strong east wind rippled the bay with whitecaps out beyond the oysters. But between the oysters and the shoreline, the water was much calmer, and waves sloped gently onto the shoreline instead of pounding against it.
As an added benefit, the oysters help improve water quality in the bay: A single oyster can filter up to 50 gallons (190 liters) of water a day.
Projects like this one are an important part of New Jersey's coastal resilience program — using plants and shellfish beds to create “living shorelines” that complement engineered structures like sea walls and bulkheads to protect homes and people.
A few miles south, a group called ReClam the Bay is building an oyster reef to protect the shoreline of Mordecai Island, an uninhabited patch of land that in turn protects the shoreline of Beach Haven, a popular resort town on Long Beach Island.
Volunteers fill mesh bags with 35 pounds (16 kilograms) of whelk shells, to which millions of baby oysters have been attached, then sail them out to the reef a few hundred yards offshore. They've placed 10,000 bags of oysters and whelk shells there since 2015.
“In the last 100 years, Mordecai Island has lost 35% of its size,” said Jack Duggan, a longtime volunteer with the group. "If we do nothing, in 40 years the island will be gone — just washed over. This island protects Beach Haven from taking the force of all that wave action."
ReClam The Bay has done a similar project establishing an oyster reef in front of a brick wall in Tuckerton, further north in the bay, and the Littoral Society has numerous other oyster projects underway. At the Naval Weapons Station Earle in Middletown, the NY/NJ Baykeeper organization is growing oysters along the heavily guarded pier and deploying them along the shoreline to protect the coast, which suffered serious erosion during Sandy.
Governments and volunteers in other places are doing the same thing.
In New York, city, state and federal agencies are building “living shorelines” along the southwestern tip of Long Island, using oysters, shells and native plants. A similar project in Delaware used 1,300 bags of shells to extend shoreline protection near Lewes CanalFront Park.
The Oyster Recovery Partnership in Maryland has placed billions of oysters on shells in Chesapeake Bay in a project set to run through 2025. In Florida, volunteers and researchers established oyster colonies along portions of the Peace River in Punta Gorda.
In California, the Wild Oyster Project is establishing reefs in San Francisco Bay for shoreline protection and water quality improvement purposes.
In Argyll, Scotland, a group called Seawilding began restoring an area in 2020 near a coastal inlet that had become degraded. They've restored more than 300,000 oysters there. Also in Scotland, a project aims to restore 30,000 oysters near Edinburgh.
Vaccaro realizes her New Jersey home may well depend on the success of a bunch of tiny oysters.
“If we don't do anything, we're not going to have any of these houses,” Vaccaro said. "In 20 years my house — which I rebuilt on pilings — could be gone again. This is why what we're doing here is so important to me. I saw what happened and I see what can happen again.” | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/tiny-oysters-play-big-role-in-stabilizing-eroding-jersey-shorelines/3347250/ | 2022-08-28T19:52:09 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/tiny-oysters-play-big-role-in-stabilizing-eroding-jersey-shorelines/3347250/ |
LAKE COUNTY — Two people were killed in a fiery, high speed crash that involved three cars on Interstate 80/94 early Sunday morning, according to Indiana State Police.
Troopers responded to a multi-vehicle crash on I-80/94 eastbound between Cline Avenue and Burr Street, just before 1 a.m. Sunday. A preliminary investigation conducted by ISP showed a blue 2021 Chevrolet Camaro was speeding eastbound when it rear-ended a silver 2011 Honda Pilot. The impact pushed the Honda into the median wall. The Camaro then hit a red 2000 Ford Mustang, pushing it into an outer sound barrier. The Camaro also hit the sound barrier and burst into flames.
After extinguishing the fire, the Gary Police Department found two dead individuals in the Camaro, according to ISP.
The identities of the victims will be released by the Lake County coroner's office once the families have been notified.
Neither the driver of the Honda or the Ford was injured.
ISP said the driver of the Ford, 43-year-old Scott Kennedy, of Crown Point, showed signs of impairment at the scene. Kennedy refused to submit a chemical test, ISP said, and a search warrant for a blood draw was signed by a Lake County judge. Kennedy's blood was drawn at Methodist Hospitals Northlake Campus, and he was taken to Lake County Jail. ISP said charges are pending prosecutor approval.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/two-killed-in-fiery-crash-on-i-80-state-police-say/article_1c2ae1ac-00ce-5ba4-81e7-310d8999b63f.html | 2022-08-28T19:54:25 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/two-killed-in-fiery-crash-on-i-80-state-police-say/article_1c2ae1ac-00ce-5ba4-81e7-310d8999b63f.html |
PORTAGE — Portage Township Trustee Brendan Clancy has won his easiest election. He was unopposed for the chairmanship of the Porter County Democratic Party. He didn’t even have to campaign.
He’s no stranger to politics, though, having been involved for 49 years by his count. He was 8 years old when he helped his grandfather work a precinct.
Clancy learned tenacity from his grandfather, along with standing up for what you believe in. “Either lead, follow or get out of the way,” he said.
Clancy replaces Drew Wenger, who resigned to focus on family, friends and his real estate appraisal firm.
“I’m really excited about the opportunity and always enjoy a good challenge,” Clancy said. “I think I’ve been in boot camp for 30 years.”
“I knew that the former chairman was resigning, and I wanted the opportunity to help some good candidates through this election and maybe into the future,” he said.
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Clancy plans to bring different organizations together so that everyone is working together. The Democratic Party is known as a big tent party, with leftists and centrists but one common goal, he said.
“I think you have to have one campaign and one message,” he said.
Bitter partisanship isn’t on Clancy’s agenda. “I was not in that world. It really wasn’t on my radar,” he said.
“I’m sick and tired of a lot of the negativity and vile politics nationally and want to find common ground,” Clancy said.
In Porter County, there are two Republican and one Democratic county commissioners, and county offices often go back and forth between the two parties, Clancy noted. “I want to define Porter County as educated voters.”
The county is marking its first year of using vote centers instead of requiring voters to go to a specific polling place based on where they live. Clancy wants to make voting even easier to address low voter turnout.
“I think we as a country just need to do a better job,” he said. “If you can pay your mortgage with your thumb, I don’t see why you can’t vote with your thumb.”
“I don’t understand for the life of me why election day isn’t a national holiday,” he said.
Turnout is higher during presidential elections, but Clancy observed that local politics affect lives more than most national issues. Streetlights, police and fire protection and parks are all issues that are decided by local officials, he noted.
Looking toward the November election, Clancy made just one prediction: “I think a lot of people are going to be surprised,” nationally and locally. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/porter/clancy-now-leads-porter-county-dems/article_b92f637b-5789-5fa9-8a3e-0a4f07b0198f.html | 2022-08-28T19:54:32 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/porter/clancy-now-leads-porter-county-dems/article_b92f637b-5789-5fa9-8a3e-0a4f07b0198f.html |
HOUSTON — Everything old is new again at NASA as they prepare to launch the unmanned Orion spacecraft to the moon. The first in a series of missions, NASA said the Artemis 1 mission will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration.
It's a critical test drive, of sorts, to check out Orion's systems in a spaceflight environment and how it performs on its re-entry, splashdown and recovery. NASA said a successful mission will demonstrate its capability to "extend human existence to the moon and beyond."
By "beyond," they mean Mars.
"When we think about Artemis, we focus a lot on the moon," said chief astronaut Reid Wiseman. "But I just want everybody in this room and everybody watching to remember our sights are not set on the Moon. Our sights are set clearly on Mars."
Artemis 1 launch details
- Launch date: Aug. 29, 2022; window opens at 7:33 a.m. Central time
- Mission duration: 42 days, 3 hours, 20 minutes
- Total distance traveled: 1.3 million miles
- Re-entry speed: 24,500 mph (Mach 32)
- Splashdown: Oct. 10, 2022
Next Monday, Orion will launch on board the "most powerful rocket in the world and fly farther than any spacecraft built for humans has ever flown," according to NASA. The SLS rocket will produce 8.8 million pounds of thrust during liftoff as it launches the nearly six-million-pounds Orion to orbit.
"Our teams have been working extremely hard for a very, very long time to get to this point and this is very special and we’re extremely excited,” said Artemis I flight director Rick LaBrode.
Unlike the Apollo missions to the moon in the late 60s and 70s, Orion will travel thousands of miles beyond the moon during the four to six-week mission.
“This is a mission that truly will do what hasn’t been done and learn what isn’t known,” said Mike Sarafin, Artemis I mission manager at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “It will blaze a trail that people will follow on the next Orion flight, pushing the edges of the envelope to prepare for that mission.”
To the moon and back
As Orion continues on its path from Earth orbit to the moon, it will be propelled by a service module provided by the European Space Agency. On future missions, the module will provide housing, air and water for astronauts.
To talk with mission control in Houston, Orion will communicate through the Deep Space Network.
The outbound trip to the moon will take several days. During this period, it will collect data and allow mission controllers to assess its performance.
After four to six weeks and a total distance traveled exceeding 1.3 million miles, the mission will end with a test of Orion’s capability to return safely to the Earth.
The spacecraft will splash down off the coast of Baja, California. Divers from the U.S. Navy and operations teams from NASA will approach in small boats from a recovery ship. The divers will inspect the spacecraft for hazards and hook up tow lines, and then engineers will tow the capsule into the recovery ship for its journey home.
What's next?
The second flight of Artemis will carry a crew on a different trajectory and test Orion’s critical systems with astronauts aboard.
Future exploration missions with crew aboard Orion will assemble and dock with a Gateway. NASA and its partners will use the gateway for deep-space operations "to extend human exploration farther into the solar system than ever before."
With the Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the moon with plans to eventually establish the first long-term presence on the moon.
With the experience and knowledge they gain from lunar exploration, NASA said it will be ready to take the next giant leap by sending the first astronauts to Mars. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/artemis-moon-mission/285-af46a3c7-da9a-4c3b-b938-fe9cc8d8e130 | 2022-08-28T19:56:54 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/artemis-moon-mission/285-af46a3c7-da9a-4c3b-b938-fe9cc8d8e130 |
UPDATE (2:23 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 28): The Kanawha County Commission has also ordered flags on county property to be flown at half-staff to honor Charleston PD K-9 Axel.
In a statement, the commission said, “The City of Charleston and the Charleston Police Department suffered a great loss last night as their Police K9, Axel gave his life in a heroic act saving his partner Ptl. Clendenin and fellow Police Officer Ptl. Childress. We will pay our respects and honor Axel by immediately lowering the State Flags on County Property. Our thoughts and prayers are with all of the Law Enforcement community today.”
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – Charleston Mayor Amy Goodwin has ordered city flags to be lowered to half-staff after the death of Charleston Police Department’s K-9, Axel.
Officials say Axel was shot and killed saving his partner Ptl. Clendenin and Ptl. Childress on Saturday as they fought off an armed felon.
“We are saddened by the loss of K-9 officer, Axel,” said Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin. “Our thoughts and prayers are with his partner, Josh, and his family – as well as all of our men and women in blue.”
The Chief of Police, Tyke Hunt said in a statement he is, “thankful yet saddened.”
“I am thankful Axel was faithful, selfless, and most of all fearless in his duties for he saved the lives of two of our officers, but deeply saddened K-9 Axel is now gone,” said Chief Hunt.
Flags will remain at half-staff through the day of services which have not been set. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/charleston-to-lower-flags-to-honor-fallen-k-9/ | 2022-08-28T19:59:07 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/charleston-to-lower-flags-to-honor-fallen-k-9/ |
MEIGS COUNTY, OH (WOWK)—The Meigs County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help identifying two individuals they say were involved in a breaking and entering.
The sheriff’s office provided the photos below.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Deputy Rick Smith at 740-992-3371 or 740-992-4653. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/suspects-wanted-for-meigs-county-ohio-breaking-and-entering/ | 2022-08-28T19:59:14 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/suspects-wanted-for-meigs-county-ohio-breaking-and-entering/ |
SAN ANTONIO — A man was hit and killed by a train early Saturday morning after he reportedly lay down on the tracks.
It happened around 6:19 a.m. on Saltillo Street at South Trinity Street near Martinez Park on the west side of town.
The victim has been identified as 22-year-old Ricardo Amador. He died from blunt force injuries.
Police said a representative with Union Pacific called 9-1-1 to report that one of their trains hit a person who was lying down on the tracks.
Officials met with the crew from the train and found the deceased man underneath the train.
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A man who was found shot behind a shed on a vacant property in Dallas has died, police say.
Dallas Police responded to an active shooter call in the 800 block of Wixom Lane where rounds hit a home Sunday morning.
According to the Police Department, Dallas Fire Rescue responded and the man died at the scene. The man's identity is unknown at this time and will be determined by the Medical Examiners' Office.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Koerner with the Homicide Unit at (214) 671-3605 or by email at Derek.koerner@dallascityhall.com and reference case number 156437-2022. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/man-dies-after-being-found-shot-behind-shed-in-dallas-police/3058796/ | 2022-08-28T20:16:06 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/man-dies-after-being-found-shot-behind-shed-in-dallas-police/3058796/ |
FORT WORTH, Texas — Fort Worth police are looking for a woman that went missing early Sunday morning.
According to the police department, 64-year-old Ruth Esther "Sally" Simon was last seen on South Jennings Avenue at about 1:30 a.m.
Simon is a Black woman standing at 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs about 180 pounds.
Before she went missing, police say she was wearing a yellow dress and a black and white head scarf. She also had a small brown dog with her.
Anyone with information about Sally Simon's whereabouts should call 911 or the Fort Worth Police Department at 817-392-4222.
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WASHINGTON COUNTY, ARKANSAS, Ark. — Friday’s “midnight madness” event at the Washington County fair turned into chaos quickly.
“You don’t think it's going to happen to you and then it does, and now you’re stuck thinking will it happen again,” said Maddi McMillian
Around 10:30 p.m. Friday night, witnesses heard multiple shots fired. Many say a fight broke out between teenagers, moments before the gunfire.
"We thought it was a fire at first because I didn't see anything and there was dust picked up from all the people running and people we're saying shooter's here, there's been a shot. And so were like someone's shooting the place up, we gotta go," said McMillian.
"All I remember seeing was people scattering and there were kids separating from their parents and it was just like a nightmare because you didn't know after it was one person or if you know somebody was trying to have a mass shooting going on," said Emily Franks, witness.
Franks says she was going to get on a ride but saw multiple people fighting one male. Prior to the heated confrontation, Franks says she had a feeling the situation was going to escalate.
“Teenagers were crying because you know they knew these people. It was just horrible,” Franks recalled.
Fayetteville police say a boy under 18 was shot and has minor injuries despite being shot multiple times
“It definitely was a scary situation. It is scary for everyone who was involved out there you know they're out at the county fair to have a good time and a group of individuals decide to have a fight within the middle of the fair and introduce a firearm into that fight, so it definitely was a scary scene,” said Sergeant Murphy.
Friday night’s shooting left many parents anxious about taking their kids to the fair.
“It's very frustrating to have to think twice whenever your child goes somewhere to think that something like that is going to happen you can’t really predict it or prepare for it,” Rochelle Bailey said.
Rochelle Bailey is the mother of a 13-year-old boy, who was at the fair. She said going forward she would like to see stricter safety measures upon entry.
“I would like for the sheriff’s department to pat people down of course as a parent, but I have to think realistically and think about their bandwidth and their capabilities. I definitely wouldn’t feel safe with my son going back to the fair,” said Bailey
Most of the witnesses I spoke to said they were mostly annoyed that their evening of fun was ruined due to senseless gun violence. Fayetteville police did say they had officers there as security Friday night and moving forward there will be an increase in patrols and increased security.
Fayetteville police told 5NEWS that despite the boy being shot multiple times he is expected to survive.
Fayetteville police are asking anyone who may have details or took video before or after the shooting to contact them. you can call Fayetteville police at 479-587-3555. The department also says you can share any video by messaging the Fayetteville Arkansas police department Facebook page.
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ARKANSAS, USA — Scott Hamilton has seen his organization, the Urban League of the State of Arkansas, tackle a variety of societal issues during his two-and-a-half years at the helm.
Working on everything from hunger relief during the pandemic to gathering school supplies for underserved kids to reaction to police force in the wake of the George Floyd protests, Hamilton is disturbed by the recent viral video of three law enforcement officers in Crawford County violently subduing a suspect at a convenience store.
The Urban League put out a statement condemning the “extremely aggressive actions” and complimented the swift condemnation and investigation into the matter from local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.
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Midland Teen Court was founded in 1986 as a collaboration between the city of Midland and the Junior League of Midland.
It’s mission, according to Executive Director Chalace Phillips, is to use alternative discipline methods to impede Midland teens’ pattern of poor choices, reducing the likelihood of further offenses while also promoting accountability and community.
Teen court isn’t solely focused on reprimanding illegal behavior, they want to turn young people who have made poor choices into productive members of their community.
Phillips said the number of teens directed to Midland Teen Court varies, but they typically see 300 to 400 youths a year.
“I’d say we’re pretty successful, we kind of measure recidivism and how often they’re coming back,” Phillips said, “It’s not often, about 80% of our teens don’t come back.”
Teen offenders are ordered by a Midland County judge to attend teen court instead of traditional forms of criminal punishment.
“When they come to our program, they’re required to do community service to give back and make up their fines. The juries decide on the amount of community service and the number of jury duties they have to do,” Phillips said.
In addition to community service, teens are required to serve on juries themselves. Also, teen court works with community organizations to conduct services like anger management classes and counseling.
“When they commit a crime, when they’ve made an offense, there’s usually an underlying reason it’s not just bad choices there is usually something going on,” Phillips said.
There are also monthly educational seminars available for young people on teen court. This furthers the court’s mission of turning young offenders into dynamic society members.
The court partners with federal organizations to bring in human trafficking awareness specialists, speakers who share statistics and information on prescription drug abuse and driving while intoxicated. They’ve also brought in speakers from Midland mental health clinic Rays of Hope to speak about grief and coping skills, according to the executive director.
“Different community organizations teach these kids about how to be safe and make good choices,” she said.
Midland Teen Court takes on youths with any offense from minor traffic violations to assault, disorderly conduct, destruction of property, theft or drug and alcohol offenses.
“This teaches our teens to become productive citizens, it’s not just ‘Let’s throw them in jail’; it’s accountability for their actions. They don’t just get off, they have to do some work and kind of make up for what they’ve done,” Phillips remarked.
The founding and near 40-year history of this program shows that Midland cares about the future of area teens, according to Phillips.
“Instead of just entering the system, we’re trying to keep them out of it,” she said.
Phillips remarked that the teen court is impacting lives in a great way by stopping illegal behavior at its origin.
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Midland banker Bill Stovall can get “it” done, whatever “it” happens to be.
He and his wife Monte (Lawson) are this year’s honorary chairs for the Texas Size Garage Sale, beginning Oct. 7. It’s a fitting tribute for someone who has supported senior services since the 1970s and his steadfast high school sweetheart. The fundraiser benefits Meals on Wheels and other programs at Senior Life Midland, and the deadline for donations is Sept. 1. The Early Bird opening on Oct. 7 has a $5 admission fee, and the other dates, Oct. 8, 11 and 13, have free admission.
Bill was a charter member of the board of Senior Life Midland’s nascent organization, Community and Senior Services (CSS). For one of that agency’s programs, he used his banking connections to get local merchants to offer discounts on “Gold Cards” for senior citizens.
He was board president when Fred Fuhrman’s home at Sinclair and Midkiff was donated for CSS headquarters in the 1980s. Until this year, it has continued to serve the organization and will be the site of its expanded new home.
Stovall tells the story that the fledgling nonprofit was using donated downtown office space prior to the gift. As a banker, he was most concerned that utility costs and upkeep of the grounds would drastically affect the budget. So, along with his board and the executive director at the time, Bill suggested to the city that CSS operate the two existing senior citizens centers. With that plan in place, they asked the parks department to handle lawn maintenance for the new headquarters.
CSS originally operated a handyman service, the Gold Cards, and added a Share-a-Meal offering on weekends to Meals on Wheels recipients. The meals were purchased from Midland Memorial Hospital and delivered by volunteers in organizations like the Jaycees. A separate organization handled weekday meals, but it eventually merged with Community and Senior Services and the Fuhrman garage was retrofitted as a commercial kitchen. In 2022, 500 meals are prepared five days per week for local folks.
Over the years, Bill and Monte have donated to the garage sale, he says. When one of his sons was returning home in a Ryder truck after college graduation, Bill arranged for the CSS truck to meet him in front of his house. They backed the Ryder truck up to the other one, offloaded it and nothing touched the ground. He says Monte is replacing living room furniture in time to donate the existing pieces to this year’s sale.
Just as he’s watched his banking career twist and turn with the economy, the oil business, and bank failures and mergers, he’s seen this popular fundraiser grow. It is now housed in a 25,000-square-foot, colorful warehouse complex at 407 E. Scharbauer Drive, just east of Big Spring Street, donated by Lloyd Innerarity. Garage sale donations are accepted there on Mondays and Wednesdays from 8 a.m. until noon through Sept 1. Once a conglomeration of stuff, the location is divided into departments for ease of shopping thanks to volunteers who work for months to organize everything.
Bill finally finished his board service at Community and Senior Services. After serving eight years as a Midland Junior Baseball commissioner, long after his two sons had aged out, Bill had to beg off getting it done for that group. When Lee High School needed a baseball game announcer, Coach Jesse Benavides turned to Bill who became the voice of the Rebels.
There are other projects that Bill has helped “get done” including passage of the bond for the sports complex. In fact, about the only time he didn’t succeed was when he co-chaired the school bond election with the late Joan Baskin. He still bristles about that loss.
Looking out the window of his 12th floor corner office at Community National Bank, where he’s CEO and has worked for 26 years, he comments that he started his banking career at age 22 in the red brick building that Community National Bank moved from in 2020. Long ago, it was the home of Midland National Bank. He cycled through First City and Norwest banks before landing at CNB.
Although he and his wife are Midland High alumni, both of his sons graduated from Lee High School, and his grandchildren attend Midland Christian School. No doubt someone somewhere in Midland is about to ask him to chair a project and get “it” done. | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/Texas-Size-Garage-Sale-means-so-much-for-Bill-and-17400323.php | 2022-08-28T20:23:21 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/Texas-Size-Garage-Sale-means-so-much-for-Bill-and-17400323.php |
The trial for a man accused of taking part in killing eight people in Pike County in 2016 could start this week.
Jury selection is expected to wrap up Monday in the murder trial for George Wagner IV, the older son of George “Billy” Wagner III and Angela Wagner. They and younger son Edward “Jake” Wagner are all accused of conspiring in the murders.
George Wagner is the first of the four to go on trial. Here are five things to know about the case:
1. Brother, mother to testify
Angela and Jake Wagner have already pleaded guilty to their roles in the murders. Their plea deals require them to testify against the other two when they go to trial, in exchange for the death penalty to be taken off the table for all four defendants.
Jake Wagner last year pleaded guilty to 23 counts in relation to the murders. Wagner’s sentence was suspended until he cooperates and testifies against the others. If he does to the state’s satisfaction, Wagner will spend the rest of his life in prison and all four will be spared the death penalty.
Angela Wagner accepted a similar deal last year, with prosecutors dropping murder charges against her but recommending she spend 30 years in prison for helping plan the killings.
2. Custody battle behind dispute
The Dayton Daily News was the first to reveal that a custody battle was at the center of the dispute that led to the killings.
Jake Wagner had a daughter with Hanna Rhoden who was 2-years-old at the time of the murders. Six days after Hanna Rhoden and seven others were killed, Jake Wagner filed for custody of the girl.
Using custody documents and other records, a Dayton Daily News investigation found a fight over the girl was at the heart of a fierce dispute that prosecutors believe escalated to murder.
The daughter was not there when the killings were carried out. But three children, ages 3, 6 months and 4 days, were. The three were left alive at the crime scene.
3. The victims
In addition to Hanna, the victims were her father Chris Rhoden Sr.; mother Dana Manley Rhoden; brothers Chris Rhoden Jr. and Clarence “Frankie” Rhoden; her uncle Kenneth Rhoden; cousin Gary Rhoden; and Frankie’s girlfriend Hannah “Hazel” Gilley.
They were killed “execution style” at four separate homes on three different properties in rural Pike County the same night on April 22, 2016. Investigators say they were shot a total of 32 times, mostly in the head.
4. Largest investigation in state history
The Wagners were arrested in November 2018, more than two years after the killings. The family moved to Alaska briefly in 2017 but returned to Ohio.
Pike County residents were giving up hope that the crime would be solved, though then-Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine — now the governor — and local law enforcement authorities said the investigation was still making progress.
It was the largest criminal investigation in state history. Investigators combed through 1,100 tips from the public, conducted 550 interviews, tested more than 700 pieces of evidence, and served more than 200 search warrants, subpoenas and court orders.
But the final piece of evidence that led to the indictments of the Wagner family and their arrests came in October 2018, when, DeWine said, authorities confirmed the existence of a homemade silencer the suspects are accused of building.
At the time of the arrest, DeWine described a sophisticated scheme, saying the suspects bought ammunition, a device to catch spent shell casings, a “bug” detector, and specific shoes from Walmart as they prepared to commit the crimes.
Investigators haven’t released information on how exactly they believe the Wagners perpetrated the murders and covered up their tracks. That information may emerge in trial testimony.
5. Massive media attention
The murders made international news, and the trial likely will as well.
Among the multiple outlets covering the trial, Court TV has announced it will stream the trial gavel-to-gavel.
Residents of the small rural county — Pike County’s population is a little over 28,000 — expressed frustration in interviews with the Dayton Daily News in the past with how their community was portrayed after the murders, and how disruptive the media onslaught was.
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LIMESTONE, Tenn. (WJHL) — A drum circle fundraiser for the David Crockett Birthplace State Park (DCBSP) will be held on Thursday, Sept. 22 from 5-6:30 p.m.
Lorelei Goff, founder of Rhythm Element, will be facilitating a drum circle at the park amphitheater. All ticket sales and donations will go towards programs and projects in the park.
“Drumming, a part of the culture of European settlers, Native Americans and other worldwide cultures since prehistory that now make up the melting pot of America, remains a vital part of our music, celebrations and ceremonies,” says the release. “The modern resurgence in hand drumming on percussive folk instruments brings these long-respected traditions into our present day for fun, community and a variety of health benefits, through informal gatherings to drum as a group in a circle.”
No musical experience is necessary and instruments will be provided. Participants can also bring their own hand drums.
Preregistration is required and can be completed on the park’s website or the event page.
For more information call the DCBSP at 423-257-2167. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/fundraiser-to-be-held-for-david-crockett-birthplace-state-park/ | 2022-08-28T20:27:00 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/fundraiser-to-be-held-for-david-crockett-birthplace-state-park/ |
ROCKVILLE, Md. — Officials say Maryland’s Montgomery County has agreed to pay $275,000 to settle a lawsuit that grew from an encounter between a 5-year-old boy and two police officers at East Silver Spring Elementary School.
Officials say the money will come from the county’s self-insurance fund.
The mother of the child sued the county last year. She asserted among other claims that the officers’ behavior left her son with PTSD.
Court filings show attorneys for the county aggressively challenged the allegations.
According to a seven-page “Release and Settlement of Claim,” signed by all parties and made public Friday, the child’s parents agreed not to bring any more claims against the county and the county assumed no admission of liability over the incident. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/county-settles-lawsuit-over-police-encounter-with-5-year-old/2022/08/28/8bdbbba4-270e-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html | 2022-08-28T20:35:28 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/county-settles-lawsuit-over-police-encounter-with-5-year-old/2022/08/28/8bdbbba4-270e-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html |
UPPER TOWNSHIP – Almost as long as ATVs have been commercially available, their use has led to conflicts with neighbors who complain about the noise and sometimes about reckless behavior by the riders.
A controversy about it crops up in Upper Township every few years, according to Mayor Curtis Corson. The riders are notoriously difficult to keep out of wooded areas — “All terrain” is right there in the name of the vehicles. In a recent interview, Corson said the township would not want to go so far as to risk injuring riders, such as setting obstacles on a path.
The latest concern is for a stretch in Marmora known as Gandy’s Pit, the site of a former sand mine. Part of the area is in private hands, while another section is owned by the township, bequeathed to the community by the former owner with the understanding that it would be used for recreation.
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That caveat was included as a deed restriction when the township took possession of the property.
The township hasn’t developed the property at all. According to Township Engineer Paul Dietrich, residents of the surrounding neighborhoods use it for jogging, to walk their dogs and for the trails winding through.
All of that is good, officials say. The dirt bikes and ATVs are not, at least as far as the township is concerned.
“I think the general idea is to keep it one of the natural spaces but to restrict access to ATVs and mopeds,” said Committee member Kim Hayes when the matter was discussed at the Aug. 22 committee meeting. “It’s a safety and liability issue. The neighbors in the area are being disturbed. Their property is also being trespassed on.”
The site sits amid several residential neighborhoods, bordered by an out-of-use railroad track that runs to the former BL England power plant. Trains used to deliver coal to the plant. The track is becoming overgrown.
Dietrich has discussed the possibility of creating a bike path along the tracks, an idea that would be years away. He suggested the area could someday be an offshoot of a bike route, with trails for BMX or mountain bikes through the woods.
In the meantime, the tracks would allow ATV riders to bypass most barriers, he said.
“Build a wall,” added Committee member Jay Newman. “Oh, that’s not this discussion.”
Corson said there was supposed to be a gate put in place where a path enters the area, but Dietrich said on a recent visit to the site, he saw no sign of a barrier.
Hayes said a private property owner felled trees to block a path to the former sand pit, only to have someone clear the way with chainsaws.
“Whatever’s there, they’re removing,” she said.
At a dead end off Tuckahoe Road, a path leads over the tracks and into the woods. There is no visible indication if the area is open to the public or restricted. There is simply a sign stating “No Dumping.”
On a hot August morning, the neighborhood and the trails were quiet, with the only sound the traffic passing on Stagecoach Road on the far side of the area and the rustle of an occasional fence lizard in the dry leaves.
Networks of interlocking trails show deep ruts where off-road vehicles have passed, and it appears that the riders have built obstacles of their own, piling dirt to improve a jump. Among the trees, multiple water bottles and other soft drink bottles were scattered near the path.
There are open areas and woods, along with trails that circle back and others that lead to nearby neighborhoods. It seems clear that short of fencing the entire property, blocking a single path would not change the situation.
Corson added that the township would not want to risk someone getting hurt, for instance by blocking a path with something a young ATV rider might accidently hit. At one point, there was consideration of putting cable across paths.
“We can’t put cable up,” he said.
But he said riders have a responsibility to find out if the area where they are riding is restricted.
Township attorney Daniel Reeves said it may be possible to amend the deed restriction on the property, allowing the township to put it to a different use that is not related to recreation. That could expand the number of options on the table, he said.
The former owner who left the property to the township has been dead for decades, Corson said. It would still be possible to find a legal successor and seek a change to the restriction.
Township administrator Gary DeMarzo said the property is being used.
“It’s beautiful. Maybe you make it look more like a park,” he said.
Corson said the township does not plan to develop it. He said the township already has parks to maintain, and they face vandalism and need updating.
Dietrich said people occasionally have bonfires in the property.
“After the first frost, I’d like to go out there and take a look around,” Corson said. He was concerned about ticks an chiggers, he said.
The area includes about 15 acres.
DeMarzo said the township could place “No Trespassing” or “No ATV use” signs in the area. Committee members described it as the first step. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/atvs-roar-back-into-upper-township-discussions/article_1fa05198-258d-11ed-a39a-c72b301ec941.html | 2022-08-28T20:36:47 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/atvs-roar-back-into-upper-township-discussions/article_1fa05198-258d-11ed-a39a-c72b301ec941.html |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Bright-colored t-shirts filled the streets of Old Towne on Saturday, Aug 27. Many enjoyed a cold brew to support a good cause, but it’s the personal connections to cancer that are bringing most people together.
The Cancer Bar Crawl is an event that shows everyone has a story.
“I lost my father two years ago to cancer,” Tiffany Obannion, a participant in the Cancer Bar Crawl, said. “My younger brother is a survivor, and then my sister-in-law is a breast cancer survivor.”
After her father’s diagnosis, he was given two years to live, but he passed in just five short months.
“My dads was undetected,” Obannion said. “He didn’t know he had it. We just need to be aware of our body and what our body’s telling us.”
Tara Rangle’s family was hit hard with cancer as well. Her mother is a breast cancer survivor, and she lost her grandma to breast cancer. She says losing her daughter to a form of childhood cancer at an early age hurts the most, though.
“We didn’t know that it was cancer at first,” Rangle, who participated in Cancer Bar Crawl, said. “And then five days later, we found out she was already gone. She was almost two, and she’d be 13 now.”
Some even traveled from Arkansas to support the cause after losing a stepsister to bone cancer five years ago.
“We found out about this, and we were on the bandwagon like, ‘Yes, let’s do this,’” Maggie Parks, a Cancer Bar Crawl participant, said.
Parks is now an advocate for early screenings.
“I don’t care if you’re over 25, get them done regardless,” Parks said. “Because you never know what you don’t know.”
But Rangle believes screenings aren’t a permanent solution. She hopes to see all cancers cured. That’s why Saturday’s event was so important.
“We have all these treatments for everything, but cancer is like one of the biggest things that takes everybody,” Rangle said. “We’re still in the same boat as before all these treatments, but nothing is like curable.”
The message at the 2022 Cancer Bar Crawl is clear, though.
“Cancer sucks!” Obannion laughed.
A volunteer with the Cancer Bar Crawl said the event usually brings out 2,500 people. Money raised from this year’s crawl will support the Make A Wish Foundation and Camp Hope, a camp for kids diagnosed with cancer. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/cancer-bar-crawl-brings-people-downtown-to-support-cancer-research/ | 2022-08-28T20:46:03 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/cancer-bar-crawl-brings-people-downtown-to-support-cancer-research/ |
Police released the first look at a come-from-behind robbery aboard a Staten Island bus earlier this month that saw a suspect stealing hundreds of dollars of cash from a man in a wheelchair.
NYPD officials released video Sunday of the two-week-old robbery on an S40 MTA bus in hopes of tracking down the suspect.
Surveillance video catches the moment police said a man stands up behind the 64-year-old victim and takes $250 from shirt pocket. A brief struggle follows as the victim stands up and tries to stop the man, but he was able to get away.
The robbery occurred Aug. 13 around 9:10 p.m. as the bus was stopping at Clinton Avenue and Richmond Terrace, according to police.
The victim was not hurt.
Police said the suspect was last seen wearing a black "TLC" t-shirt, black Nike basketball shorts, white socks and black sandals.
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A pair of brazen moped-riding thieves rode up on two women walking down a Manhattan sidewalk on Saturday in an unsuccessful attempt to swipe some jewelry.
Police said two 28 year olds were strolling down East 89th Street, around the corner from the Guggenheim Museum, when they were approached by the sticky-fingered bandits.
Video shows the robbery duo pull up next to the women around 12:15 p.m. The driver of the bike makes the first reach for the necklace of one of the women, who pulls back hard and stumbles to the ground.
As her friend tries to help pull the woman away from the thieves, the second man gets off the back of the video and chases them down. His attempts fail as well after he's dealt several hard kicks from the woman whose still on the ground trying to get away.
The second man gets back on the moped and the two ride off down the sidewalk.
NYPD officials said the woman suffered minor injuries but refused medical attention.
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EL PASO — Ukrainian pastor Vadym Kulynchenko was surprised when Russia first invaded Ukraine , but the fact that his country is still standing after six months is less of a surprise.
“I didn’t believe Putin would start a full-sized war,” he told The Pantagraph. “(…) I’m not surprised that we are wining this war.”
Kulynchenko spoke to a group of around 75 people in El Paso on Sunday during a trip to the United States, organized by Tom and Jennifer Roth , leaders of Can Do Kids International. The organization has been working in Ukraine since 2017 and is now helping direct funds to Kulynchenko’s efforts.
Kulynchenko described his trip as helping to spread the news that Ukraine still needs help, including humanitarian aid.
“One of the reasons I’m here is to wave my Ukrainian flag,” he said.
Russian invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 , after weeks of military buildup along the border in Russia and Belarus. Russian forces pushed in from the north, east and south. Since the early invasion, Ukraine’s military, with the assistance of weaponry provided by the U.S. and other countries, has pushed the Russians back, with fighting now centered in the east and south.
Vadym Kulynchenko, a pastor from Ukraine, speaks to the audience at South Pointe Park in El Paso on Sunday.
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Kulynchenko is a pastor at a church in central Ukraine and part of a network of churches providing aid. He was one of Can Do Kids International’s first contacts in Ukraine and has continued working with them during the war.
The crisis is still acute, he said.
“A lot of people are dying, a lot of infrastructure is being destroyed,” he said.
Kulynchenko said there are four main areas that his network is working to address right now: evacuations, housing, jobs and humanitarian aid.
Ukraine’s economy is also decimated. He estimates that less than a third of businesses are operating at full capacity, leading to massive loss of jobs and income.
Oksana Perestoronina said it is still a scary time for Ukraine. She and her immediate family left the Kyiv area on the first day of the war and have resettled in Bloomington-Normal. They were part of the audience on Sunday.
“We lived close to Kyiv, and we saw when the Russian army started to attack the (Antonov Airport in Hostomel); Russian helicopters flew above our house,” she said.
Her mother, sister, grandmother and in-laws are still in Ukraine. They have been able to stay in touch with Telegram, which allows internet calls.
“All of them have some depression. It’s scary, life in Ukraine is rough,” she said.
Kulynchenko’s network of churches has helped around 1,800 people leave the areas of fighting, and the help centers it provides assistance to in neighboring countries have helped more than 140,000 people, he told the crowd. Much of the humanitarian assistance in Ukraine is being done by evangelical churches, he said.
The war has led to the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. As of July 5, there were more than 5.6 million refugees who have left Ukraine and another 7.1 million people displaced within the country, according the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Perestoronina said her family's U.S. visa is good for a year, but beyond that it is hard to know what to do next. They arrived in the U.S. in April, two months after leaving their home.
“Of course I want to stay, because of my children,” she said.
The audience listens to Ukrainian pastor Vadym Kulynchenko at South Pointe Park in El Paso on Sunday.
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Children are also a focus for Kulynchenko's church, which has been trying to provide some normalcy for kids affected by the war, by providing summer camp. The distraction seems to help the children.
This year, thanks to Western aid, the camp was offered for free, and helped primarily children whose parents had been killed, whose parents were in the Ukrainian military or who come from underprivileged backgrounds.
“Some kids in the East, they learned to identify different types of missiles by the sound,” he said.
Those interested in giving can do so through Can Do Kids International, which is serving as an intermediary, sending 100% of the donations to Ukraine on to the volunteers on the ground in the country. The organization’s website is candokidsinterntional.org .
Kulynchenko believes firmly that Ukraine will win the war, and that doing so will prove its independence after generations of Russian interference. He also asked for prayers for the country, and for victory.
“I’m not surprised Ukraine is standing strong, because that’s the kind of nation we are,” he said.
Photos: 6 months of war in Ukraine
FILE - Ukrainian emergency employees and volunteers carry an injured pregnant woman from the maternity hospital that was damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. A Russian attack has severely damaged the maternity hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol, Ukrainian officials say. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Evgeniy Maloletka
FILE - The body of a serviceman is coated in snow next to a destroyed Russian military multiple rocket launcher vehicle on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. Russian troops bore down on Ukraine's capital Friday, with gunfire and explosions resonating ever closer to the government quarter, in an invasion of a democratic country that has fueled fears of wider war in Europe and triggered worldwide efforts to make Russia stop. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
Vadim Ghirda
FILE - Natali Sevriukova reacts next to her house following a rocket attack the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
Emilio Morenatti
FILE - Oleksandr Konovalov, an ambulance paramedic, performs CPR on a girl injured by the shelling in a residential area as her father sits, left, after arriving at the city hospital of Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. The girl did not survive. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Evgeniy Maloletka
FILE - An armored personnel carrier burns amid damaged and abandoned Russian light utility vehicles after fighting in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. The city authorities said that Ukrainian forces engaged in fighting with Russian troops that entered the country's second-largest city on Sunday. (AP Photo/Marienko Andrew, File)
Marienko Andrew
FILE - Ukrainian volunteers tear cloth into strips to make camouflage nets in Lviv, western Ukraine, Feb. 28, 2022. Volunteerism has seized the city. Until the missiles struck within walking distance of the cathedrals and cafes downtown on Friday, March 18, Ukraine's cultural capital was a city that could feel distant from the war. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
Bernat Armangue
FILE - A man carries a baby as people struggle on stairways after a last minute change of the departure platform for a Lviv bound train in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. Explosions and gunfire that have disrupted life since the invasion began last week appeared to subside around Kyiv overnight, as Ukrainian and Russian delegations met Monday on Ukraine's border with Belarus. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
Vadim Ghirda
FILE - A member of the Ukrainian Emergency Service looks at the City Hall building in the central square following shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Russian strikes pounded the central square in Ukraine's second-largest city and other civilian sites Tuesday in what the country's president condemned as blatant campaign of terror by Moscow. (AP Photo/Pavel Dorogoy, File)
Pavel Dorogoy
FILE - The children of medical workers warm themselves in a blanket as they wait for their relatives in a hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Evgeniy Maloletka
FILE - Aleksander, 41, presses his palms against the window as he says goodbye to his daughter Anna, 5, on a train to Lviv at the Kyiv station, Ukraine, Friday, March 4. 2022. Aleksander has to stay behind to fight in the war while his family leaves the country to seek refuge in a neighbouring country. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
Emilio Morenatti
FILE - Ukrainians crowd under a destroyed bridge as they try to flee crossing the Irpin river in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
Emilio Morenatti
FILE - An elderly lady sit in a wheelchair after being evacuated from Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Demands for ways to safety evacuate civilians have surged along with intensifying shelling by Russian forces, who have made significant advances in southern Ukraine but stalled in some other regions. Efforts to put in place cease-fires along humanitarian corridors have repeatedly failed amid Russian shelling.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
Vadim Ghirda
FILE - Dead bodies are placed into a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022 as people cannot bury their dead because of the heavy shelling by Russian forces. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Evgeniy Maloletka
FILE - An explosion is seen in an apartment building after Russian's army tank fires in Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Evgeniy Maloletka
FILE - A picture of Russian President Vladimir Putin hangs at a target practice range in Lviv in western Ukraine, Thursday, March 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
Bernat Armangue
FILE - Irina Zubchenko walks with her dog Max amid the destruction caused after a bombing in a shopping in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 21, 2022. (AP Photo/ (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
Rodrigo Abd
FILE - An injured dog is seen at the ADA foundation centre in Przemysl, southeastern Poland, Monday, March 28, 2022. Amid the exodus of more than 2.2 million Ukrainian refugees to Poland who fled the Russian invasion are the pet lovers who could not leave their animals behind. The evacuation of the animals was dangerous but was made possible due to the efforts and cooperation of several animal rights groups and Ukrainian refugees. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)
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FILE - A neighbour walks on the debris of a burning house, destroyed after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
Felipe Dana
FILE - A man rides his bike past flames and smoke rising from a fire following a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
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FILE - The hand of a corpse buried along with other bodies is seen in a mass grave in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
Rodrigo Abd
FILE - Women stand in their robes outside after leaving their building to get a better look at smoke rising after Russian attacks in Odesa, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)
Petros Giannakouris
FILE - A lifeless body of a man with his hands tied behind his back lies on the pavement in Bucha, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. Associated Press journalists in Bucha, a small city northwest of Kyiv, saw the bodies of at least nine people in civilian clothes who appeared to have been killed at close range. At least two had their hands tied behind their backs.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
Vadim Ghirda
FILE - Four bodies lie in a mass grave, including the village mayor and her family, in Motyzhyn close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 4, 2022, after Russian army were pushed out from the area by Ukrainian forces. The bodies appeared to have been shot at close range, with the mayor's husband with hands behind his back, with a piece of rope nearby, and a piece of plastic wrapped around his eyes like a blindfold. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
Efrem Lukatsky
FILE - Ira Gavriluk holds her cat as she walks next to the bodies of her husband, brother, and another man, who were killed outside her home in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 4, 2022. Russia is facing a fresh wave of condemnation after evidence emerged of what appeared to be deliberate killings of civilians in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
Felipe Dana
FILE - A resident looks for belongings in the ruins of an apartment building destroyed during fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces in Borodyanka, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
Vadim Ghirda
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - The remains of victoms and the fragments of a Russian military helicopter can be seen near Makariv close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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FILE - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his office in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 9, 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he's committed to pressing for peace despite Russian attacks on civilians that have stunned the world. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
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FILE - Volunteers load on a truck corpses of civilians killed in Bucha to be taken to a morgue for investigation, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
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FILE - A woman reacts next to the body of a 15-year-old boy killed during a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, April 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
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FILE - Nadiya Trubchaninova, 70, cries while holding the coffin of her son Vadym, 48, who was killed by Russian soldiers last March 30 in Bucha, during his funeral in the cemetery of Mykulychi, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 16, 2022. After nine days since the discovery of Vadym's corpse, finally Nadiya could have a proper funeral for him. This is not where Nadiya Trubchaninova thought she would find herself at 70 years of age, hitchhiking daily from her village to the shattered town of Bucha trying to bring her son's body home for burial. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
Rodrigo Abd
FILE - An injured man smokes following a Russian bombing of a factory in Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, on Tuesday, April 19, 2022, killing at least one person and injuring three others. Russian forces attacked along a broad front in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday as part of a full-scale ground offensive to take control of the country's eastern industrial heartland in what Ukrainian officials called a "new phase of the war." (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)
Petros Giannakouris
FILE - A car is parked under a tree in partially abandoned Chernobyl town, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
Francisco Seco
FILE - The body of an unidentified man in seen on a road barrier near a village recently retaken by Ukrainian forces in the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
Felipe Dana
FILE - Anna Shevchenko, 35, waters the few flowers that survived in the garden of her home in Irpin, near Kyiv, on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. The house, built by Shevchenko's grandparents, was nearly completely destroyed by bombing in late March during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In her beloved flowerbed, some roses, lilies, peonies and daffodils survived. "It is new life. So I tried to save my flowers," she said. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
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FILE - Oksana Balandina, 23, receives medical assistance by a doctor who cleans her wounds at a public hospital in Lviv, Ukraine Saturday, May 14, 2022. Oksana lost both legs and 4 fingers on her left arm when a shell sticking in the ground near her house exploded on March 27. "There was explosion. Just after that I felt my legs like falling into emptiness. I was trying to look around and saw that there were no legs anymore - only bones, flesh and blood". (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
Emilio Morenatti
FILE - Iuliia Loseva cries over the coffin of her husband Volodymyr Losev, 38, during his funeral at a cemetery in Zorya Truda, Odesa region, Ukraine, Monday, May 16, 2022. Volodymyr Losev, a Ukrainian volunteer soldier, was killed on May 7 when the military vehicle he was driving ran over a mine in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
Francisco Seco
FILE - Ukrainian servicemen sit in a bus after they were evacuated from the besieged Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant, near a remand prison in Olyonivka, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov, File)
Alexei Alexandrov
FILE - Nila Zelinska holds a doll belonging to her granddaughter, she was able to find in her destroyed house in Potashnya outskirts Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 31, 2022. Zelinska just returned to her home town after escaping war to find out she is homeless. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
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FILE - Two national guard soldiers drink a shot to honor the memory of two late soldiers in Kharkiv cemetery, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, May 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
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FILE - Elena Holovko sits among debris outside her house damaged after a missile strike in Druzhkivka, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, June 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
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FILE - A woman brandishes the Ukrainian flag on top of a destroyed Russian tank in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, June 10, 2022. With war raging on fronts to the east and south, the summer of 2022 is proving bitter for the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The sun shines but sadness and grim determination reign.(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
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FILE A Russian soldier inspects a labyrinth of the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal, in Mariupol, on the territory which is under the Government of the Donetsk People's Republic control, eastern Ukraine, Monday, June 13, 2022. The plant was almost completely destroyed during the siege of Mariupol. This photo was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense. (AP Photo, File)
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FILE - Sixty-six-year-old Volodymyr, injured from a Russian bombardment, sits on a chair in his damaged apartment, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
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FILE - Relatives and friends attend the funeral ceremony for Liza, 4-year-old girl killed by Russian attack, in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, Sunday, July 17, 2022. Wearing a blue denim jacket with flowers, Liza was among 23 people killed, including two boys aged 7 and 8, in Thursday's missile strike in Vinnytsia. Her mother, Iryna Dmytrieva, was among the scores injured. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
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Medic volunteer Nataliia Voronkova, top right, gives a medical tactical training session to soldiers in a bomb shelter as air raid sirens go off, in Dobropillia, eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 22, 2022. Voronkova has dedicated her life to aid distribution and tactical medical training for soldiers and paramedics, working on front line of the Donetsk region since the war began in 2014. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
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FILE - The lights of a police vehicle illuminate the side of a road, as servicemen arrive to check damages in the aftermath of a car accident between a civilian and soldier, after curfew hours in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, July 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)
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FILE - EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - A burned out body of Ukrainian military prisoner is seen in destroyed barrack at a prison in Olenivka, in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces, eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 29, 2022. Russia and Ukraine accused each other Friday of shelling the prison in Olenivka in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine, an attack that reportedly killed dozens of Ukrainian military prisoners who were captured after the fall of a southern port city of Mariupol in May. (AP Photo, File)
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FILE - Maria and Oleh Berest embrace while posing for their photographer by a fountain on their wedding day as sandbags fortify the opera house in Odesa, Ukraine, Friday, July 29, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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FILE - A wheat field burns after Russian shelling a few kilometers from the Ukrainian-Russian border in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Friday, July 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
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FILE - Nelia Fedorova, left, is embraced by her daughter, Yelyzaveta Gavenko, 11, the day after they were wounded in a rocket attack which also killed Fedorova's husband, Oleksii, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The family had previously evacuated to central Ukraine but returned to their home at the end of June after Nelia and Oleksii had trouble finding work. The strike killed three people and wounded 13 others, according to the mayor. The attack came less than a day after 11 other rockets were fired at the city as Russia's invasion continues. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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YORK COUNTY, Pa. — Six people are displaced after a fire in York County Sunday morning.
Emergency crews responded to the fire on the 100 block of Wellsville Road, Warrington Township just before 6 a.m.
Officials with York County 911 Dispatch say while nobody was injured in the fire, four adults and two children were displaced, with the Red Cross assisting.
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Middleboro eliminated; Thanksgiving Fenway football: Top 5 Brockton-area stories last week
BROCKTON — The saying goes all good things must come to an end, and that was the case for Middleboro's magical run at the Little League World Series. The New England champs came up short, losing 7-5 to Mid-Atlantic champ Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.
A Brockton school police executive officer is on leave and is the subject of a Brockton Police Department investigation.
A woman drove from her home in Providence, Rhode Island to her workplace in Easton before noticing a naked man sleeping in the back seat of her SUV.
The Thanksgiving high school football game between Brockton and Bridgewater-Raynham is one of the best rivalries in the state. This year the Boxers and Trojans will play on Thanksgiving Eve at Fenway Park, infield and all.
There have been 17 murders in the Brockton area in less than two years. Here’s what we know about each case.
In case you missed it, here are five stories from the past week throughout the Brockton area that resonated with our readers.
Middleboro eliminated by Mid-Atlantic champs at Little League World Series
All good things must end, including Middleboro's magical run at the Little League World Series. The New England champs fought until the last out but came up just short, losing 7-5 to Mid-Atlantic champ Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, in an elimination game in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The little leaguers were greeted by hundreds of people when they returned home during a welcome home celebration at the High School
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Photos from Williamsport:Middleboro Little Leaguers and family take in downtown Williamsport
Behind the scenes:Behind the scenes with Middleboro at Little League World Series in Williamsport
Brockton and Bridgewater-Raynham football will play Thanksgiving game at historic venue
Even though there have only been 12 iterations of the Thanksgiving high school football game between Brockton and Bridgewater-Raynham, there are plenty of highlights in the rivalry, making it one of the best going in the state. This year's version will have some extra dirt on it, literally. The Boxers and Trojans will play on Thanksgiving Eve at Fenway Park, infield and all, the Fenway Sports Management group announced in a press release. That will be one of five high school football games hosted at the home of the Boston Red Sox.
Brockton plays B-R at Fenway:Brockton and Bridgewater-Raynham football will play Thanksgiving game at historic venue
B-R football practice photos:Bridgewater-Raynham football practice
Photos from Thanksgiving 2021 match up: Brockton vs. Bridgewater-Raynham Thanksgiving high school football
Brockton school police executive officer under investigation by city's police department
Brockton school police Executive Officer Daniel Vaughn is on leave and is the subject of a Brockton Police Department investigation, officials said. None of the agencies or people involved would comment on the reason for the investigation. A spokesperson for the Brockton Public Schools told The Enterprise to contact Brockton police for further questions. The spokesperson for the Brockton Police Department said questions should go to the school district.
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All aboard the Cape Cod Flyer from Brockton to the beach — beer, bikes and pets optional
Every weekend, Brockton families board the Cape Cod Flyer for a beach getaway. Avoiding tolls and rush hour traffic on Interstate 495 on Friday evenings (and then again on Sunday afternoons), people can travel from South Station to Cape Cod – with a few stops along the way – or have an even shorter trip from the Brockton stop. The Cape Cod Flyer, which has been running for nearly 10 years now, was established as a partnership with the MBTA in 2013, different from the transit authority's "Commuter Rail."
All aboard the Cape Cod Flyer:Cape Cod Flyer from Brockton to the beach — beer, bikes and pets optional
Woman drives from RI to Easton before noticing naked man in back seat, police say
A 911 caller told Easton police she had driven her SUV all the way from Providence, Rhode Island to Easton before discovering there was a naked stranger sleeping in the backseat, according to an Easton Police Facebook post. When officers arrived on the scene, they found the man sleeping in the rear of the vehicle.
Woman drives 40 minutes before noticing naked man:Woman drives from RI to Easton before noticing naked man in back seat, police say
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Does MA have a white supremacy problem? Depends which Brockton state rep hopeful you ask.
BROCKTON – Candidates for the city's new majority-minority State House district took questions on race, rent and revitalization in a debate hosted by the Brockton Area Branch NAACP.
Three people hope to represent the 11th Plymouth District: Democrats Shirley Asack and Rita Mendes, plus Fred Fontaine, who is running as an independent on a sticker campaign after missing an election filing deadline.
Asack and Mendes both serve on the City Council, with Asack the longtime representative of Ward 7 and Mendes the top vote-getter among at-large candidates.
Questions from panelists Patricia Jackson and Courtney Henderson laid bare some differences among the candidates at the forum on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022.
White supremacy in the Bay State
Jackson asked about a "dramatic increase" in white supremacy and with it violence against minorities, citing a July march in Boston in which neo-Nazis assaulted a person of color.
"Would you please tell us what you would do in terms of laws that would better protect minorities from these assaults, and also do you feel that white supremacy is an issue in the state of Massachusetts?"
Asack's answer drew gasps from some audience members.
"I do not feel that Massachusetts has a problem with white supremacy," said Asack, who came to the U.S. as a child from Lebanon. "I grew up here, I've lived here all my life and I follow what's happening throughout the country. What's happening throughout the country, I think, isn't happening directly here in Massachusetts or to the level that it's happening throughout the country."
Fontaine, originally from Haiti, said more Black police officers need to be hired.
"I believe everywhere in the United States white supremacy exists," Fontaine said.
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Mendes, an immigrant from Brazil, echoed Fontaine's call for more police officers of color.
"This is an uncomfortable topic that people don't want to talk about, but white supremacy is real and it has been shed to light more with the former president," Mendes said. "It's getting closer and closer to home, it's getting closer and closer to Massachusetts."
The debate format gave Asack a chance to speak again on the subject, since she was the first to answer the question.
"This is a major issue and I would hate to believe that it's here, directly in our home in the city of Brockton," Asack said of white supremacy. "Because I feel we are a very diverse city, we're a melting pot, and I would do everything I can to eliminate white supremacy here in this city."
Rent control: One yes and two nos
The three candidates also diverged on rent control.
Fontaine allowed that although he benefited from the policy when he lived in Cambridge in the 1990s, paying just $380 for a big apartment, he opposes not allowing owners to invest in their properties.
Asack also does not support rent control. She said that downtown is booming with housing, fueled by developers being able to fill their buildings with tenants paying market rate.
Only Mendes supported rent control. She said she spoke at the Statehouse in favor of the policy. Massachusetts prohibits rent control but Mendes said individual cities should be able to adopt the policy if it has local support.
Investigation underway:Brockton school police executive officer under investigation by city's police department
Asack pressures Mendes on money, local knowledge
The candidates engaged in some sparring. In response to a question about money in politics, Asack said that not only has she raised the most money among the three, but that she hasn't used any of her own money. A review of the campaign finance reports through July 31 bears out Asack's claim, though several family members have donated to her campaign. Mendes has loaned her campaign $15,000 and Fontaine has loaned his campaign $2,150, according to finance records.
Through July 31, Asack had raised $22,505 to Mendes' $20,792 and Fontaine's $7,221.
Asack also took Mendes to task for a response to a question about jobs which seemed to indicate she did not know that Brockton High School, which hosted the debate, has some vocational programs.
"This high school has vocational," Asack said. "This high school teaches nursing, they've always taught auto repair, so it's here."
Voting is underway
Early voting in the Democratic primary began Saturday at the Westgate Mall, with Election Day coming up on Tuesday, Sept. 6. The winner of the Democratic nomination would have no opposition printed on the ballot for the Nov. 8 general election.
There's a chance – however small – of Fontaine winning the Democratic primary. What then? Fontaine would have to file a written acceptance of the nomination with the state, according to the Secretary of State's website.
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The Bureau of Land Management transferred ownership of 27.5 acres of land to Tucson Unified School District, which paid its market value of $480,000.
The land on Tucson's southwest side holds the former Hohokam Middle School, 7400 S. Settler Road, which TUSD shut in 2013 as part of a bigger cost-saving measure. That property was then held in trust and operated by the Pascua Yaqui Tribe.
The latest action, according to a BLM news release, clears the way for TUSD to expand educational opportunities for students as Tucson’s population continues to grow.
“Currently, it allows TUSD to lease the property to the Pascua Yaqui Tribe so they can provide services and education opportunities to their community,” TUSD spokeswoman Karla Escamilla said.
Escamilla added that, in return, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe has invested approximately $2 million in the building and is scheduled to invest further.
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“Thus, if/when TUSD needs the building in the future, it will be in good shape for occupancy,” she said.
Marana pre-kinder
Young students in Marana Unified School District will be able to participate in the state’s pilot pre-kindergarten readiness program, called Waterford Upstart.
Through this online program, preschool-aged children will be taught basic skills they need in reading, math and science to prepare them for success in kindergarten and beyond, MUSD announced in a news release.
Waterford Upstart is designed for 4-year-olds who will enter kindergarten in August 2023. It consists of online activities and resources, as well as family focused guidance, at no cost to the participants.
The participants will receive personalized family education and coaching; a new computer and internet, if needed; and the adaptive educational software.
Approximately 700 spots are available throughout the program for students in qualifying districts this year and next year, for a total of 1,400.
To learn more or to enroll a child in the program, visit waterford.org/upstart.
Stipends for science
The Society for Science, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the education and promotion of science, announced its roster of 84 educators, three of whom are from Tucson, to participate in its Advocate Program during the 2022-2023 school year.
The three local teachers are Stephen Beall of City High School, Jackie Nichols of Billy Lane Lauffer Middle School, and Sharon Sapp of Tucson High Magnet School.
According to the society’s news release, the teachers will receive stipends to work with students from underrepresented groups and low-income households to help them develop science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) projects and enter competitions.
Beall and Sapp each received $3,000 stipends. Nichols, who was appointed as a lead advocate, received a $5,000 stipend and will oversee a group of educators in the program.
“In the face of learning loss, a teacher shortage and recovery from an ongoing pandemic, it is critical that we guide students in science research in diverse learning environments and help them thrive in STEM competitions,” the Society for Science said in its news release.
To learn more about the Advocate Program, visit www.societyforscience.com.
Some substitute teachers and Exceptional Education staff will see bumps in their pay this school year as TUSD deals with hard-to-fill vacancies.
Plus other Tucson-area education news in brief, including: United Way to invest $70,000 to support early grade literacy and middle school math.
In the days following the sudden closure of San Xavier Mission School, diocese leaders coordinated with families and employees to help them find placements in other Tucson-area schools.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Candidate for Texas Governor Beto O'Rourke postponed his planned trip to Corpus Christi Saturday.
O' Rourke will miss the events in Three Rivers, Corpus Christi and Goliad due to what his staffers are saying is an illness. He has postponed the events in order to "rest at home," campaign officials said.
His campaign confirmed via text that they do plan to return to our area soon.
Nueces County Democrats said on Saturday that they will be glad to welcome O'Rourke back to the area once he is feeling better.
O'Rourke is trying to unseat Greg Abbott for Governor of Texas in the November election.
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DALLAS — As students are beginning to go back to school across the North Texas area, parents and police are both seeing a rise in drivers speeding where many of these kids are walking outside. And some local parents are noticing this trend as well.
The Dallas Police Department posted a Tweet Friday, saying that the officers have focused on back-to-school enforcement during the past two school weeks. During that time, the department handed out 244 tickets to drivers in school zones.
The Department also mentioned the increase in foot and vehicle traffic around these local schools as a reason for the increased enforcement as well.
Seven years ago, Hillary Taylor and her husband moved into a home near Mockingbird Elementary School. It's in a neighborhood near Mockingbird Lane and Skillman Street.
"We know the area well," Taylor said. "Love the area. Love the neighborhood."
However, similar to the Dallas Police Department, Taylor has started to see a rise in people speeding down her road the past few weeks. For Taylor, she said her road is in a unique situation because it's the first street drivers can cut through to avoid school zones.
This is worrisome for her because she said there are a lot of families with young children oftentimes playing outside, whether it's during the school year or not.
"It's not great," Taylor said. "Especially when you have littles. I mean, we're out in the front yard and cars are just whipping through."
Taylor said there are also many students walking to and from school during the day.
"It really just comes down to people being aware and courteous," Taylor said. "I mean, these are kids. People just totally miss school zones." | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/dallas-police-hand-out-244-citations-schools-zones-during-first-2-weeks-classes/287-dc2ba44e-334b-434e-96f6-9f442a3391d3 | 2022-08-28T21:21:34 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/dallas-police-hand-out-244-citations-schools-zones-during-first-2-weeks-classes/287-dc2ba44e-334b-434e-96f6-9f442a3391d3 |
One of the pandemic’s major lessons: students learn best when in school with a dedicated teacher – at least according to superintendents and district officials.
But the hard part is getting students to attend class consistently.
After years of increased absenteeism brought on by the pandemic, some administrators are implementing new strategies to get kids consistently back in school.
It won’t be easy. There are a number of obstacles and deterrents: online learning trends; laws that promote opting out of class time; parents’ indifference; student mental health challenges; and a statewide switch to enrollment-based funding.
But administrators are still vowing to battle for increased seat time as the school year gets underway. Student social, emotional, and academic wellbeing depend on it.
“There’s a high correlation between excellent attendance and excellent student achievement,” Pat Charlton, superintendent of Jerome School District, said. “We learned during Covid that there’s no substitute for going to class and having a teacher in the classroom … It’s really hard to replicate that interaction between teachers and students online as compared to face-to-face.”
100 different reasons for absenteeism
According to Attendance Works, a national nonprofit that aims to reduce chronic absences, the country is “facing an attendance crisis” that is leading to adverse social, emotional, and academic impacts.
“Prior to the pandemic, eight million students were chronically absent (missing 10% or more of the school year),” its website reads. “That number has more than doubled.”
The trend tracks in Idaho, too.
The Coeur d’Alene School District has seen a rise in absenteeism at all levels, according to spokesperson Scott Maben. Prior to the pandemic, about 7% of students were chronically absent. Last school year, that number jumped to about 11% of students. Maben said they are still looking into why attendance has dropped so much, but said it could be due to “residual apathy after two years of Covid.”
“We are fairly concerned and alarmed about those numbers,” he said. “We want to reengage with students and families this school year so they understand how important attendance is.”
At the Boise School District, chronic absenteeism increased from 11.4% in the 2018-2019 school year to approximately 15% in the 2021-2022 school year.
Attendance has dropped by about 5% since the pandemic at Bonneville School District. Jerome School District has seen a similar decrease among its secondary students.
“That’s fairly substantial,” Pat Charlton, the superintendent of the Jerome School District, said. “That’s quite a few kids who are missing school.”
Districts say that illness and quarantine only partially account for the increased absenteeism.
“There are 100 different reasons why kids don’t come to school,” Corrie Anderson, an elementary counselor coordinator for Nampa School District, said.
Students might have anxiety, work obligations, a funeral or appointment, or a test they want to avoid. Some kids feel disconnected and don’t see the value in education, Anderson said. They might have a family history of not placing importance on academics or graduating from high school.
And parents are more likely to pull students from school for various reasons – including vacation time.
“Families are more resistant,” Scott Woolstenhulme, the superintendent of Bonneville School District, said. “It doesn’t matter as much to them if their kids are in class … People want more flexibility and time with their family; they don’t want to be as hamstrung by schools.”
Districts try communication over punishment
Woolstenhulme said the Bonneville District used to send kids to Saturday school when their absences were excessive. Doing so allowed the district to earn a higher rate of average daily attendance – a number that affected funding. But the state later disallowed such practices, so the incentive for offering Saturday school was not there and they stopped doing it.
“There’s been frustration among teachers who feel like we don’t have teeth (behind attendance policies) anymore,” Woolstenhulme said.
Instead, the district has opted for less-punitive measures like increased communication.
Bonneville School District launched a new platform last year called SchoolStatus that allows teachers to text parents about absences without their personal numbers appearing. Parents have been more responsive to that than emails or phone calls.
And the program allows teachers to send out mass texts so it’s not as time-consuming as making personal calls.
“Over a million texts were sent last year,” Woolstenhulme said. “That personal communication from teachers to parents makes all the difference. When kids miss school and they feel like it doesn’t matter if they’re there or not, it’s easy to keep that pattern up.”
The Nampa School District is also moving away from punishment-based attendance initiatives.
“Referrals to the SRO are the last resort,” Anderson said.
Instead, Nampa provides “wraparound services” for students struggling to show up to school. Those students check in with an adult – whoever they have the best relationships with – in the morning or multiple times a day.
Dan Hollar, the spokesperson for the Boise School District, agrees that positive staff-student relationships have a huge impact on attendance. Teachers, counselors, social workers, and child psychologists all reach out to students whose desks are too often empty.
And Jerome Middle School started an attendance campaign featuring the slogan: “Attend today, achieve tomorrow.” It has promoted the saying with bookmarks, stickers, and signs in front of the school.
“We’re making an effort to increase the feeling of being welcome at school,” Charlton said.
But positive approaches to quelling absenteeism have their limitations.
“Attendance incentives are kind of tricky in these times,” Courtney Fisher, the spokesperson for Pocatello/Chubbuck School District said. “We want people to take care of themselves and stay home when they need to, but impart the message that attendance is important.”
Legislators are complicating efforts
Recent laws are undermining school attendance efforts, Woolstenhulme said.
“(The laws) cut our legs out from under us,” Woolstenhulme said of the self-directed learner and extended learning opportunity laws. “I haven’t had parents take advantage of them yet but when the opportunity is there, it’s hard for me to say ‘you have to be in school’ when the law allows them to not be there.”
The extended learning opportunities law requires districts to have a policy allowing students to earn credits by demonstrating mastery even if they don’t attend class. And the independent learner law allows students to earn credits for outside-of-class learning, like internships or apprenticeships.
Woolstenhulme said there’s some viability to that model, but it wouldn’t make sense for some classes and he’s worried the law will be abused by students or parents to avoid attending school.
“We’re fighting a bit of an uphill battle,” Woolstenhulme said. “We need to decide if we care that (learning) is in-person or not. It’s a fractured system.”
But Sen. Steven Thayn, the legislator who sponsored the bills, said “learning is a function of student interest, not attendance.”
Thayn, R-Emmett, lost his bid for the District 14 Senate seat to Scott Grow, R-Eagle, and will be teaching science at Emmett Middle School this year.
He said only those students who earn good grades and are self-motivated are eligible to take advantage of the self-directed learner law. Plus, the bills will enable districts like Wilder to have the needed flexibility to focus on learning over attendance.
Not all districts are focused on attendance
The Wilder School District has been piloting a unique school model since 2016-2017 that encourages students to self-regulate and make their own choices as learners. They arrive at school when they want (although those who ride buses have a limited ability to do so) and go from class to class when and how they want. There are no bells, no tardies, and lax attendance policies.
“If they aren’t here, we’re not in their grill about being here,” Jeff Dillon, superintendent of the Wilder School District, said.
Dillon said the unique learning approach has been successful, and pointed to its high graduation rates and 2022 senior class GPA average of 3.4.
But the district had a small class of 34 seniors and they were only allowed to earn As and Bs – otherwise their grade is incomplete and they don’t receive credit.
“No student is allowed to fail in the district,” he said.
Wilder has shown mixed results on standardized tests. Its average composite SAT score was 808 in 2022, which was well below the state average of 962. And Wilder’s spring 2022 IRI rates show that 39.2% of its students earned a proficient composite score (compared to 68.2% statewide).
But Wilder students scored above the state average on the 2021 ISAT — about 27% of students achieved proficiency on the 2021 math ISAT (compared to 21.9% statewide) and 34% earned proficiency on the 2021 English Language Arts ISAT (compared to 32.5% statewide).
Funding is another challengeWhile superintendents say that attendance is essential to student achievement, many are also looking to the Legislature to make enrollment-based funding permanent. But doing so would also remove the financial incentive that drives some attendance efforts.
Traditionally, school funding has been tied to average daily attendance. However, the State Board of Education has temporarily switched that to enrollment. This is the third year that temporary rule has been in place.
That’s been a lifesaver for schools as they’ve worked to accommodate the extended absences students have needed in order to quarantine during the height of the pandemic.
Administrators are hoping enrollment-based funding will become permanent, a move one superintendent characterized as non-negotiable at a conference last month.
At the very least, district leaders want to know what the future will hold on a permanent basis.
“Not knowing what (the Legislature) will do has made it difficult to set budgets and negotiate with teachers,” Kathleen Tuck, the spokesperson for Nampa School District said. “It’s thrown a wrench for everybody in budgeting.”
On Wednesday, the State Board will consider approving proposed legislation that would make enrollment-based funding permanent if the Legislature approves it.
Online learning is here to stayA trend toward online learning is also pulling students away from the classroom — but online enrollment numbers that peaked during the height of the pandemic are declining. That’s okay with most administrators, who say students generally learn best when in person.
When the pandemic shuttered schools in March 2020, teachers were suddenly asked to become online instructors and redesign lesson plans made for in-person learning – and most were doing it on the fly and with little training.
Idaho Digital Learning Alliance, an online state school, was in a unique position. It had been offering online classes for years and expanded its services during the pandemic by starting a K-5 program. In 2020, its enrollment numbers skyrocketed from 35,000 the year before to more than 61,000.
But this year, IDLA expects an enrollment of about 45,000 – a number on track with its pre-pandemic growth rate of about 8 percent a year – but significantly lower than its peak enrollment.
Traditional school districts also adapted to the pandemic by adding or expanding online offerings and similarly report that surges in online enrollment have dropped.
The Boise School District, for example, started providing an online school for elementary and secondary students in the fall of 2020. In April 2021, 3,411 students were enrolled in its online school. By April 2022, that number had dropped to 531. But the district still plans to offer its online alternative.
“We know that in-person learning provides a first-rate education, but we also understand that that’s not the preference of all,” Hollar, the district’s spokesperson, said. “That’s why we offer both.”
The Nampa School District also started an online school for its students in the fall of 2020. Tuck said the school was “really big” at first. It still has an enrollment of 253, but the vast majority of the district’s students – who number about 14,000 – have opted to return to in-person learning.
Bonneville School District has had an online school for over a decade. It was established in part to support the learning of homeschooled students. But those students have the option to go in person to the Bonneville Online School, where teachers can help them.
“The first year after the shutdown, there was a surge in those schools, particularly at the elementary level,” Woolstenhulme said. “Gradually those students went back.”
Currently, he said enrollment numbers are only slightly higher than they were pre-pandemic – by just about 50 students.
But even though Bonneville does provide online options for learners, Woolstenhulme said traditional learning is best for kids.
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EL PASO — Ukrainian pastor Vadym Kulynchenko was surprised when Russia first invaded Ukraine , but the fact that his country is still standing after six months is less of a surprise.
“I didn’t believe Putin would start a full-sized war,” he told The Pantagraph. “(…) I’m not surprised that we are wining this war.”
Kulynchenko spoke to a group of around 75 people in El Paso on Sunday during a trip to the United States, organized by Tom and Jennifer Roth , leaders of Can Do Kids International. The organization has been working in Ukraine since 2017 and is now helping direct funds to Kulynchenko’s efforts.
Kulynchenko described his trip as helping to spread the news that Ukraine still needs help, including humanitarian aid.
“One of the reasons I’m here is to wave my Ukrainian flag,” he said.
Russian invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 , after weeks of military buildup along the border in Russia and Belarus. Russian forces pushed in from the north, east and south. Since the early invasion, Ukraine’s military, with the assistance of weaponry provided by the U.S. and other countries, has pushed the Russians back, with fighting now centered in the east and south.
Vadym Kulynchenko, a pastor from Ukraine, speaks to the audience at South Pointe Park in El Paso on Sunday.
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Kulynchenko is a pastor at a church in central Ukraine and part of a network of churches providing aid. He was one of Can Do Kids International’s first contacts in Ukraine and has continued working with them during the war.
The crisis is still acute, he said.
“A lot of people are dying, a lot of infrastructure is being destroyed,” he said.
Kulynchenko said there are four main areas that his network is working to address right now: evacuations, housing, jobs and humanitarian aid.
Ukraine’s economy is also decimated. He estimates that less than a third of businesses are operating at full capacity, leading to massive loss of jobs and income.
Oksana Perestoronina said it is still a scary time for Ukraine. She and her immediate family left the Kyiv area on the first day of the war and have resettled in Bloomington-Normal. They were part of the audience on Sunday.
The audience listens to Ukrainian pastor Vadym Kulynchenko at South Pointe Park in El Paso on Sunday.
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“We lived close to Kyiv, and we saw when the Russian army started to attack the (Antonov Airport in Hostomel); Russian helicopters flew above our house,” she said.
Her mother, sister, grandmother and in-laws are still in Ukraine. They have been able to stay in touch with Telegram, which allows internet calls.
“All of them have some depression. It’s scary, life in Ukraine is rough,” she said.
Kulynchenko’s network of churches has helped around 1,800 people leave the areas of fighting, and the help centers it provides assistance to in neighboring countries have helped more than 140,000 people, he told the crowd. Much of the humanitarian assistance in Ukraine is being done by evangelical churches, he said.
Tom Roth introduces Vadym Kulynchenko at South Pointe Park in El Paso on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022.
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The war has led to the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. As of July 5, there were more than 5.6 million refugees who have left Ukraine and another 7.1 million people displaced within the country, according the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Perestoronina said her family's U.S. visa is good for a year, but beyond that it is hard to know what to do next. They arrived in the U.S. in April, two months after leaving their home.
“Of course I want to stay, because of my children,” she said.
Children are also a focus for Kulynchenko's church, which has been trying to provide some normalcy for kids affected by the war, by providing summer camp. The distraction seems to help the children.
A table was set up at South Pointe Park in El Paso on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022, with information about ongoing relief efforts in Ukraine. Included was a photo of Kayley and Roma Kocherzhuk, the daughter and son-in-law of the organizers of the event. The couple fled Ukraine as the Russian invasion began.
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This year, thanks to Western aid, the camp was offered for free, and helped primarily children whose parents had been killed, whose parents were in the Ukrainian military or who come from underprivileged backgrounds.
“Some kids in the East, they learned to identify different types of missiles by the sound,” he said.
A table was set up at South Pointe Park in El Paso on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022, with information about ongoing relief efforts in Ukraine. Included was a photo of Kayley and Roma Kocherzhuk, the daughter and son-in-law of the organizers of the event. The couple fled Ukraine as the Russian invasion began.
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Those interested in giving can do so through Can Do Kids International, which is serving as an intermediary, sending 100% of the donations to Ukraine on to the volunteers on the ground in the country. The organization’s website is candokidsinterntional.org .
Kulynchenko believes firmly that Ukraine will win the war, and that doing so will prove its independence after generations of Russian interference. He also asked for prayers for the country, and for victory.
“I’m not surprised Ukraine is standing strong, because that’s the kind of nation we are,” he said.
Photos: 6 months of war in Ukraine
FILE - Ukrainian emergency employees and volunteers carry an injured pregnant woman from the maternity hospital that was damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. A Russian attack has severely damaged the maternity hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol, Ukrainian officials say. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Evgeniy Maloletka
FILE - The body of a serviceman is coated in snow next to a destroyed Russian military multiple rocket launcher vehicle on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. Russian troops bore down on Ukraine's capital Friday, with gunfire and explosions resonating ever closer to the government quarter, in an invasion of a democratic country that has fueled fears of wider war in Europe and triggered worldwide efforts to make Russia stop. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
Vadim Ghirda
FILE - Natali Sevriukova reacts next to her house following a rocket attack the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
Emilio Morenatti
FILE - Oleksandr Konovalov, an ambulance paramedic, performs CPR on a girl injured by the shelling in a residential area as her father sits, left, after arriving at the city hospital of Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. The girl did not survive. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Evgeniy Maloletka
FILE - An armored personnel carrier burns amid damaged and abandoned Russian light utility vehicles after fighting in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. The city authorities said that Ukrainian forces engaged in fighting with Russian troops that entered the country's second-largest city on Sunday. (AP Photo/Marienko Andrew, File)
Marienko Andrew
FILE - Ukrainian volunteers tear cloth into strips to make camouflage nets in Lviv, western Ukraine, Feb. 28, 2022. Volunteerism has seized the city. Until the missiles struck within walking distance of the cathedrals and cafes downtown on Friday, March 18, Ukraine's cultural capital was a city that could feel distant from the war. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
Bernat Armangue
FILE - A man carries a baby as people struggle on stairways after a last minute change of the departure platform for a Lviv bound train in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. Explosions and gunfire that have disrupted life since the invasion began last week appeared to subside around Kyiv overnight, as Ukrainian and Russian delegations met Monday on Ukraine's border with Belarus. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
Vadim Ghirda
FILE - A member of the Ukrainian Emergency Service looks at the City Hall building in the central square following shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Russian strikes pounded the central square in Ukraine's second-largest city and other civilian sites Tuesday in what the country's president condemned as blatant campaign of terror by Moscow. (AP Photo/Pavel Dorogoy, File)
Pavel Dorogoy
FILE - The children of medical workers warm themselves in a blanket as they wait for their relatives in a hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Evgeniy Maloletka
FILE - Aleksander, 41, presses his palms against the window as he says goodbye to his daughter Anna, 5, on a train to Lviv at the Kyiv station, Ukraine, Friday, March 4. 2022. Aleksander has to stay behind to fight in the war while his family leaves the country to seek refuge in a neighbouring country. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
Emilio Morenatti
FILE - Ukrainians crowd under a destroyed bridge as they try to flee crossing the Irpin river in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
Emilio Morenatti
FILE - An elderly lady sit in a wheelchair after being evacuated from Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Demands for ways to safety evacuate civilians have surged along with intensifying shelling by Russian forces, who have made significant advances in southern Ukraine but stalled in some other regions. Efforts to put in place cease-fires along humanitarian corridors have repeatedly failed amid Russian shelling.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
Vadim Ghirda
FILE - Dead bodies are placed into a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022 as people cannot bury their dead because of the heavy shelling by Russian forces. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Evgeniy Maloletka
FILE - An explosion is seen in an apartment building after Russian's army tank fires in Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Evgeniy Maloletka
FILE - A picture of Russian President Vladimir Putin hangs at a target practice range in Lviv in western Ukraine, Thursday, March 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
Bernat Armangue
FILE - Irina Zubchenko walks with her dog Max amid the destruction caused after a bombing in a shopping in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 21, 2022. (AP Photo/ (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
Rodrigo Abd
FILE - An injured dog is seen at the ADA foundation centre in Przemysl, southeastern Poland, Monday, March 28, 2022. Amid the exodus of more than 2.2 million Ukrainian refugees to Poland who fled the Russian invasion are the pet lovers who could not leave their animals behind. The evacuation of the animals was dangerous but was made possible due to the efforts and cooperation of several animal rights groups and Ukrainian refugees. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)
Sergei Grits
FILE - A neighbour walks on the debris of a burning house, destroyed after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
Felipe Dana
FILE - A man rides his bike past flames and smoke rising from a fire following a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
Felipe Dana
FILE - The hand of a corpse buried along with other bodies is seen in a mass grave in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
Rodrigo Abd
FILE - Women stand in their robes outside after leaving their building to get a better look at smoke rising after Russian attacks in Odesa, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)
Petros Giannakouris
FILE - A lifeless body of a man with his hands tied behind his back lies on the pavement in Bucha, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. Associated Press journalists in Bucha, a small city northwest of Kyiv, saw the bodies of at least nine people in civilian clothes who appeared to have been killed at close range. At least two had their hands tied behind their backs.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
Vadim Ghirda
FILE - Four bodies lie in a mass grave, including the village mayor and her family, in Motyzhyn close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 4, 2022, after Russian army were pushed out from the area by Ukrainian forces. The bodies appeared to have been shot at close range, with the mayor's husband with hands behind his back, with a piece of rope nearby, and a piece of plastic wrapped around his eyes like a blindfold. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
Efrem Lukatsky
FILE - Ira Gavriluk holds her cat as she walks next to the bodies of her husband, brother, and another man, who were killed outside her home in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 4, 2022. Russia is facing a fresh wave of condemnation after evidence emerged of what appeared to be deliberate killings of civilians in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
Felipe Dana
FILE - A resident looks for belongings in the ruins of an apartment building destroyed during fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces in Borodyanka, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
Vadim Ghirda
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - The remains of victoms and the fragments of a Russian military helicopter can be seen near Makariv close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Efrem Lukatsky
FILE - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his office in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 9, 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he's committed to pressing for peace despite Russian attacks on civilians that have stunned the world. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Evgeniy Maloletka
FILE - Volunteers load on a truck corpses of civilians killed in Bucha to be taken to a morgue for investigation, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
Rodrigo Abd
FILE - A woman reacts next to the body of a 15-year-old boy killed during a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, April 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
Felipe Dana
FILE - Nadiya Trubchaninova, 70, cries while holding the coffin of her son Vadym, 48, who was killed by Russian soldiers last March 30 in Bucha, during his funeral in the cemetery of Mykulychi, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 16, 2022. After nine days since the discovery of Vadym's corpse, finally Nadiya could have a proper funeral for him. This is not where Nadiya Trubchaninova thought she would find herself at 70 years of age, hitchhiking daily from her village to the shattered town of Bucha trying to bring her son's body home for burial. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
Rodrigo Abd
FILE - An injured man smokes following a Russian bombing of a factory in Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, on Tuesday, April 19, 2022, killing at least one person and injuring three others. Russian forces attacked along a broad front in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday as part of a full-scale ground offensive to take control of the country's eastern industrial heartland in what Ukrainian officials called a "new phase of the war." (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)
Petros Giannakouris
FILE - A car is parked under a tree in partially abandoned Chernobyl town, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
Francisco Seco
FILE - The body of an unidentified man in seen on a road barrier near a village recently retaken by Ukrainian forces in the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
Felipe Dana
FILE - Anna Shevchenko, 35, waters the few flowers that survived in the garden of her home in Irpin, near Kyiv, on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. The house, built by Shevchenko's grandparents, was nearly completely destroyed by bombing in late March during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In her beloved flowerbed, some roses, lilies, peonies and daffodils survived. "It is new life. So I tried to save my flowers," she said. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
Emilio Morenatti
FILE - Oksana Balandina, 23, receives medical assistance by a doctor who cleans her wounds at a public hospital in Lviv, Ukraine Saturday, May 14, 2022. Oksana lost both legs and 4 fingers on her left arm when a shell sticking in the ground near her house exploded on March 27. "There was explosion. Just after that I felt my legs like falling into emptiness. I was trying to look around and saw that there were no legs anymore - only bones, flesh and blood". (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
Emilio Morenatti
FILE - Iuliia Loseva cries over the coffin of her husband Volodymyr Losev, 38, during his funeral at a cemetery in Zorya Truda, Odesa region, Ukraine, Monday, May 16, 2022. Volodymyr Losev, a Ukrainian volunteer soldier, was killed on May 7 when the military vehicle he was driving ran over a mine in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
Francisco Seco
FILE - Ukrainian servicemen sit in a bus after they were evacuated from the besieged Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant, near a remand prison in Olyonivka, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov, File)
Alexei Alexandrov
FILE - Nila Zelinska holds a doll belonging to her granddaughter, she was able to find in her destroyed house in Potashnya outskirts Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 31, 2022. Zelinska just returned to her home town after escaping war to find out she is homeless. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
Natacha Pisarenko
FILE - Two national guard soldiers drink a shot to honor the memory of two late soldiers in Kharkiv cemetery, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, May 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
Bernat Armangue
FILE - Elena Holovko sits among debris outside her house damaged after a missile strike in Druzhkivka, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, June 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
Bernat Armangue
FILE - A woman brandishes the Ukrainian flag on top of a destroyed Russian tank in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, June 10, 2022. With war raging on fronts to the east and south, the summer of 2022 is proving bitter for the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The sun shines but sadness and grim determination reign.(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
Natacha Pisarenko
FILE A Russian soldier inspects a labyrinth of the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal, in Mariupol, on the territory which is under the Government of the Donetsk People's Republic control, eastern Ukraine, Monday, June 13, 2022. The plant was almost completely destroyed during the siege of Mariupol. This photo was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense. (AP Photo, File)
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FILE - Sixty-six-year-old Volodymyr, injured from a Russian bombardment, sits on a chair in his damaged apartment, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
Nariman El-Mofty
FILE - Relatives and friends attend the funeral ceremony for Liza, 4-year-old girl killed by Russian attack, in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, Sunday, July 17, 2022. Wearing a blue denim jacket with flowers, Liza was among 23 people killed, including two boys aged 7 and 8, in Thursday's missile strike in Vinnytsia. Her mother, Iryna Dmytrieva, was among the scores injured. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
Efrem Lukatsky
Medic volunteer Nataliia Voronkova, top right, gives a medical tactical training session to soldiers in a bomb shelter as air raid sirens go off, in Dobropillia, eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 22, 2022. Voronkova has dedicated her life to aid distribution and tactical medical training for soldiers and paramedics, working on front line of the Donetsk region since the war began in 2014. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
Nariman El-Mofty
FILE - The lights of a police vehicle illuminate the side of a road, as servicemen arrive to check damages in the aftermath of a car accident between a civilian and soldier, after curfew hours in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, July 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)
Nariman El-Mofty
FILE - EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - A burned out body of Ukrainian military prisoner is seen in destroyed barrack at a prison in Olenivka, in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces, eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 29, 2022. Russia and Ukraine accused each other Friday of shelling the prison in Olenivka in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine, an attack that reportedly killed dozens of Ukrainian military prisoners who were captured after the fall of a southern port city of Mariupol in May. (AP Photo, File)
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FILE - Maria and Oleh Berest embrace while posing for their photographer by a fountain on their wedding day as sandbags fortify the opera house in Odesa, Ukraine, Friday, July 29, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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FILE - A wheat field burns after Russian shelling a few kilometers from the Ukrainian-Russian border in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Friday, July 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Evgeniy Maloletka
FILE - Nelia Fedorova, left, is embraced by her daughter, Yelyzaveta Gavenko, 11, the day after they were wounded in a rocket attack which also killed Fedorova's husband, Oleksii, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The family had previously evacuated to central Ukraine but returned to their home at the end of June after Nelia and Oleksii had trouble finding work. The strike killed three people and wounded 13 others, according to the mayor. The attack came less than a day after 11 other rockets were fired at the city as Russia's invasion continues. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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ATLANTA — A family gathering in Atlanta turned violent Saturday night, with a 7-year-old girl dying from her injuries, authorities said. Atlanta Police are still investigating the tragic shooting.
Here is what we know right now.
Details of the fatal shooting
Atlanta Police said they were called to 180 Jackson Street -- which is the Camden Vantage Apartments -- around 10:20 p.m. on August 27 to respond to a shooting where a child had been injured.
The victim, who the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office identified as Ava Phillips, died at the scene.
APD said she was shot in the head.
The tragic scene
People who live at the complex said they heard chaos as it unfolded.
Tia Wilson, who said she lives in the building where it happened, said she was coming home when she heard loud noises.
"We were approaching my door, you just heard chaos. You heard like screaming. It was it was like multiple people screaming, you had dogs barking," Wilson said.
She went inside her apartment with her mom, but couldn't imagine what had taken place. She said the noises didn't sound like laughter.
"It was like, like a literal trauma scream," Wilson added.
The investigation
The preliminary investigation indicated, according to APD, that the shooting stemmed from a domestic incident that escalated to gunfire. Deputy Chief Charles Hampton Jr. said the victim was hit when the gunfire broke out.
Homicide Investigators responded to begin their investigation.
"We asking everyone that was here, we know that there was a kind of a family gathering, we know that a couple of individuals left the scene after the shooting. We are asking anyone who was here to call CrimeStoppers or the Homicide Unit," he said.
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WHITING — An electrical fire that broke out at the BP Whiting Refinery Wednesday could affect surrounding oil supply chains and prices — prompting Michigan to temporarily lift some fuel regulations and the U.S. Department of Transportation to declare a regional emergency.
A photo posted on Twitter at about 4:30 p.m. Aug. 24 showed a large plume of smoke coming from the facility.
BP spokesperson Christina Audisho said the electrical fire occurred around 3 p.m. on Aug. 24. The fire was limited to a single electrical system and was quickly put out. No one was hurt and there have been no known impacts outside the refinery, but the fire did lead to the loss of utilities in other parts of the facility, Audisho said.
Three days after the fire, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued an executive order declaring an energy emergency. Whitmer's order lifts caps and limits on the hours that motor carriers and drivers can drive if they are carrying gas and diesel.
The order also suspends some regulations related to accessing the fall fuel supply. Additionally, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana were all granted emergency waivers by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The waiver lifts a Clean Air Act requirement that lower-volatility gasoline be sold during summer months to limit ozone pollution. The waiver is in effect until Sept. 15.
Whitmer's executive order is in effect until Sept. 15, or until the supply chain issues related to the Whiting fire are resolved, whichever comes first.
"The impacts of the outage at the Whiting facility will be widespread across our region, and I am taking proactive steps to help Michiganders get the fuel they need to drive their cars and help businesses keep their products moving," Whitmer said in a news release announcing the executive order. "With today’s action, I am freeing up more gas supply and removing any impediments to gas delivery to cut down wait times at stations. I will keep working to get Michiganders the affordable gas they need without delay.”
In a news release announcing the executive order, Whitmer's office wrote that the Whiting refinery provides approximately 20% to 25% of the refined gasoline, jet fuel and diesel used collectively by Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin.
On Aug. 26, the U.S. Department of Transportation declared a regional emergency for Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. The emergency declaration lifts maximum driving times for motor carriers and drivers providing direct assistance in the four affected states.
The Whiting refinery is "making significant progress and working toward a phased restart," Audisho said. She also said BP is working with partners to secure fuel for the impacted Midwest states.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Cleveland-Cliffs CEO, Mrvan tour Indiana Harbor Works steel mill
Cleveland-Cliffs CEO, Mrvan tour Indiana Harbor Works steel mill
Cleveland-Cliffs CEO, Mrvan tour Indiana Harbor Works steel mill
Cleveland-Cliffs CEO, Mrvan tour Indiana Harbor Works steel mill
Cleveland-Cliffs CEO, Mrvan tour Indiana Harbor Works steel mill
Cleveland-Cliffs CEO, Mrvan tour Indiana Harbor Works steel mill
Cleveland-Cliffs CEO, Mrvan tour Indiana Harbor Works steel mill
Cleveland-Cliffs CEO, Mrvan tour Indiana Harbor Works steel mill
Cleveland-Cliffs CEO, Mrvan tour Indiana Harbor Works steel mill
Cleveland-Cliffs CEO, Mrvan tour Indiana Harbor Works steel mill
Cleveland-Cliffs CEO, Mrvan tour Indiana Harbor Works steel mill
Cleveland-Cliffs CEO, Mrvan tour Indiana Harbor Works steel mill
Cleveland-Cliffs CEO, Mrvan tour Indiana Harbor Works steel mill
Cleveland-Cliffs CEO, Mrvan tour Indiana Harbor Works steel mill
Cleveland-Cliffs CEO, Mrvan tour Indiana Harbor Works steel mill
Cleveland-Cliffs CEO, Mrvan tour Indiana Harbor Works steel mill
Cleveland-Cliffs CEO, Mrvan tour Indiana Harbor Works steel mill
Cleveland-Cliffs CEO, Mrvan tour Indiana Harbor Works steel mill
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WATERLOO – One person has been charged in connection with a Saturday shooting that left one person dead.
On Sunday, Waterloo police announced they arrested Savion Devonte Wilson, 23, of 421 Boston Ave., on a charge of first-degree murder. Bond was set at $1 million.
Authorities also identified the deceased as 26-year-old Cortavius Benford.
According to police, officers were called to Apt. D at 226 Palmer Drive around 12:07 p.m. Saturday and found Benford suffering from a single gunshot wound. Paramedics with Waterloo Fire Rescue took him to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
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WASHINGTON COUNTY, ARKANSAS, Ark. — Friday’s “midnight madness” event at the Washington County fair turned into chaos quickly.
“You don’t think it's going to happen to you and then it does, and now you’re stuck thinking will it happen again,” said Maddi McMillian
Around 10:30 p.m. Friday night, witnesses heard multiple shots fired. Many say a fight broke out between teenagers, moments before the gunfire.
"We thought it was a fire at first because I didn't see anything and there was dust picked up from all the people running and people we're saying shooter's here, there's been a shot. And so were like someone's shooting the place up, we gotta go," said McMillian.
"All I remember seeing was people scattering and there were kids separating from their parents and it was just like a nightmare because you didn't know after it was one person or if you know somebody was trying to have a mass shooting going on," said Emily Franks, witness.
Franks says she was going to get on a ride but saw multiple people fighting one male. Prior to the heated confrontation, Franks says she had a feeling the situation was going to escalate.
“Teenagers were crying because you know they knew these people. It was just horrible,” Franks recalled.
Fayetteville police say a boy under 18 was shot and has minor injuries despite being shot multiple times
“It definitely was a scary situation. It is scary for everyone who was involved out there you know they're out at the county fair to have a good time and a group of individuals decide to have a fight within the middle of the fair and introduce a firearm into that fight, so it definitely was a scary scene,” said Sergeant Murphy.
Friday night’s shooting left many parents anxious about taking their kids to the fair.
“It's very frustrating to have to think twice whenever your child goes somewhere to think that something like that is going to happen you can’t really predict it or prepare for it,” Rochelle Bailey said.
Rochelle Bailey is the mother of a 13-year-old boy, who was at the fair. She said going forward she would like to see stricter safety measures upon entry.
“I would like for the sheriff’s department to pat people down of course as a parent, but I have to think realistically and think about their bandwidth and their capabilities. I definitely wouldn’t feel safe with my son going back to the fair,” said Bailey
Most of the witnesses I spoke to said they were mostly annoyed that their evening of fun was ruined due to senseless gun violence. Fayetteville police did say they had officers there as security Friday night and moving forward there will be an increase in patrols and increased security.
Fayetteville police told 5NEWS that despite the boy being shot multiple times he is expected to survive.
Fayetteville police are asking anyone who may have details or took video before or after the shooting to contact them. you can call Fayetteville police at 479-587-3555. The department also says you can share any video by messaging the Fayetteville Arkansas police department Facebook page.
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SPRINGDALE, Ark. — The Springdale Police Department (SPD) is investigating a shooting that left one man dead Sunday, Aug. 28.
SPD responded to a call from the security at Zabana Nightclub at around 2:20 a.m. saying they heard several gunshots.
When police arrived, they found a man believed to be in his 20s laying in the parking lot with several gunshot wounds. Officers began CPR until the paramedics arrived on the scene. The man was transported to the hospital where he later died.
The man was identified as 19-year-old Luis Lemus. No other victims were found and the suspect has not been identified at this time.
No further information has been released. Anyone with information is asked to call SPD at 479-751-4542 or the Criminal Investigation Division at 479-750-8139.
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Buried treasure. Is it gold doubloons, gems, and jewelry?
It’s not usually glass.
But that’s what’ was found in a pile of old glass plate photo negatives discovered in Twin Lakes inside a crawlspace within a crawlspace of the old Lake Mary Resort in the spring of 2001 during the building’s demolition.
Mike Yoder, who was working on the demolition dragged out a wooden box with a large number of three-inch by five-inch glass plate negatives. Knowing I love a good mystery, he gave them to me.
The old Lake Mary Resort was located on Lance Drive, just west of Lance Park on the south side of the road. Today, a condominium complex of the same name takes it place.
Glass plate what?
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In the recent past, when you got a roll of conventional film developed, it came with a strip of negatives along with the prints. Glass plate negatives predate those film negatives and in theory, they work the same.
The glass plates are approximately 1/8” thick, coated on one side with emulsion made of gelatin and metallic silver. They were made to use with the older box cameras, the kind they used before photographer/inventor George Eastman made film photography the new technology in 1888.
Eastman marketed revamped box cameras pre-loaded with enough film for 100 exposures; the camera was small enough to be hand-held. It was $25 and another $10 to have the film developed. That would be well over $1,000 in 1890 money.
So many hobbyists hung on to their old equipment and kept using it.
A glass plate box camera photographer used a tripod. They would slip a glass plate into the back of the box camera and expose the plate by removing the lens cap.
Clues to the mystery
About 40 of the plates found in the crate were in good shape — good enough to get a print from. Time and the elements damaged the other plates beyond use.
The images seen here, with the exception of one, were “cleaned up” with a computer program.
I had help back than from Greg Saucerman, author of “The 1994 Summer Enchantment=A History of Twin Lakes,” who examined them and came up with some solid speculations.
The first tip was from an image of a lake with a fisherman in a boat that had “Twin Lakes” scratched into the emulsion, a common way to label pictures.
Saucerman thought the plates that were salvaged were not of Lake Mary Resort or any of its predecessors on the site, but were taken at another resort.
One badly damaged plate showed a large resort with the sign on it that reads “Schwardt.”
William and Margaret Schwardt came to Twin Lakes from Chicago in the early 1900s and purchased the Ackerman Hotel.
Saucerman wrote in his book: “After renovating and reopening the Ackerman, he (William Schwardt) sold it and erected a resort in 1914 on the northeast side of Lake Mary, known as Schwardt’s Resort. The hotel itself was a long, two-story building with rooms upstairs and a dining room and bar with a dance floor downstairs.
The resort also had cottages and boasted a beach complete with shade trees, wooden swings and a long pier for swimming … It’s said that the barroom was a showplace in the early 1900s.”
After passing through a number of hands and name changes, Schwardt’s Resort eventually became the Edgewater Beach Hotel. In 1980, it was knocked down to make room for the Edgewater Beach Condominiums on South Lake Avenue.
The Schwardt family built a home on the Hilltop Motel property and in 1922 built the Schwardt’s ice cream parlor to accommodate thirsty patrons from the Twin Lakes Ballroom across the street. Today the building houses the Corner Kitchen Restaurant.
Of course, without talking to the photographer or another substantial source, we can’t be absolutely sure of our findings.
In 2005, I spoke with Bob E. Livingston, who was chairman of the Twin Lakes Lake Protection and Rehabilitation District Steering Committee. He recalled seeing many of those plates during the demolition of the building.
“There were piles and piles of them laying in the bottom of that building,” Livingston said, adding that it wasn’t until he picked up a broken one in the dirt later that he realized what they were. “Hundreds of those plates must have been destroyed by the earth-moving machinery.”
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Ten new sculptures will be installed in along the Kenosha HarborPark Sculpture Walk in coming weeks, changing the line-up for the the next two years.
The new sculptures will be put into place on Sept. 14 and 15, according to Natalie Strohm, Sculpture Walk project manager. They will remain in place until September 2024.
“We are thrilled about the artistry of the new sculpture installation, especially since the new exhibit was delayed due to the pandemic,” Strohm said. “We think people will enjoy the new sculptures.”
Most of the sculptures are located along the promenade on the south side of HarborPark. Additional locations are near the Pierhead Lighthouse at the Kenosha Water Utility, 100 52st Place, and Civic Center Park, 5600 Sheridan Road.
One of the new sculptures is still in need of support, Strohm said. The piece is “Whole of My Heart,” by artist Chris Plaisted.
“The funds raised help support the artists who have created each sculpture, and also go toward supporting the arts throughout Kenosha County,” Strohm said. “This is a wonderful opportunity to support public art and to be a part of a very popular point of interest in our community.”
Individuals, businesses and organizations can support the sculpture through donations to the Kenosha Arts Fund, a component of the Kenosha Community Foundation, 600 52nd St., Suite 110, Kenosha, WI 53140.
Strohm encouraged anyone who has not seen the current exhibit to do so. The current temporary exhibit sculptures are:
“Flambay” by Ted Garner of Chicago, sponsored by Abatron;
“Magic” by John Adduci of Chicago, sponsored by The Kloss Foundation;
“Both Sides” by Maureen Gray of Interlochen, Mich., sponsored by the Kenosha Community Foundation;
“Newly Discovered” by Trenton Baylor of Caledonia, sponsored by Snap-on Inc.;
“Moose” by Paul Bobrowitz of Colgate, sponsored by Uline;
“Here” by Ruth Aizuss Migdal of Chicago, sponsored by Visit Kenosha;
“Celestial Trio” by Bruce Niemi of Kenosha, sponsored by Dr. and Mrs. Clifton Peterson;
“On Balance” by Paul Bobrowitz of Colgate, sponsored by Trish Petretti;
“Xuberant!” by Craig Snyder of Plymouth, Minn.,, sponsored by John and Shawna Neal;
“Vietnam Veterans Memorial” by Bruce Niemi of Bristol, sponsored by the City of Kenosha.
For more information about sponsoring a sculpture, email artsfund@kenoshafoundation.org or call 262-654-2412.
30 photos of past state fair butter sculptures
VICTOR
Jim Victor of Conshohocken, Pa., touches the 800 pound butter cow sculpture he carved at the Pennsylvania State Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, Jan. 9, 2003. The project took nearly 10 days and has been a farm show tradition for the last 12 years. (AP Photo/Kalim A. Bhatti)
KALIM A. BHATTI
BUTTER TIGER WOODS
Norma "Duffy" Lyon works on a butter sculpture of golfer Tiger Woods, Tuesday Aug. 9, 2005, at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa. Lyon, who has carved a life-size dairy cow out of butter at the fair for more than 40 years, has in the past made butter sculptures of actor John Wayne and country singer Garth Brooks. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
CHARLIE NEIBERGALL
Butter Sculpture
The Pennsylvania Dairy Industry rolled out their 1,000-pound "Butter Sculpture" prior to the opening of the 95th Annual Pennsylvania Farm Show, Thursday, Jan 6, 2011, in Harrisburg, Pa. The sculpture depicts a dairy farmer providing milk to children playing. Following the Farm Show the butter will be converted into biofuel. (AP Photo/Bradley C Bower)
Bradley C Bower
FARM SHOW RENDELL
A section of the Pennsylvania Farm Show Butter Sculpture is seen in a case Thursday, Jan. 6, 2005, at the show in Harrisburg, Pa. This year's sculpture is made out of 800 pounds of butter and is called "Preserving the Pennsylvania Farm." It shows a girl bottle-feeding a calf. Jim Victor created the sculpture in about 15 days. Gov. Ed Rendell plans to deliver his first speech at the annual show - halfway through his four-year term. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
CAROLYN KASTER
DAVIS
Corbin Davis, 13, of Chambersburg, Pa., looks through the glass case at the 2005 Pennsylvania Farm Show Butter Sculpture, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2005, at the Pennsylvania Farm Show, in Harrisburg, Pa. This year's sculpture is made out of 800 pounds of butter and is called "Preserving the Pennsylvania Farm." It shows a girl bottle feeding a calf as her father look on from the left. Governor Ed Rendell will deliver his first speech at the annual Pennsylvania Farm Show when it opens in Harrisburg on Saturday. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
CAROLYN KASTER
Sharon BuMann
Sculptor Sharon BuMann, of Central Square, N.Y., creates the "Butter Cow" sculpture using 700 pounds of butter in the Dairy Barn at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield, Ill., Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006. BuMann creates a different pose for the sculpture each year. The Illinois State Fair is scheduled to start Friday, Aug 11. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
SETH PERLMAN
Farm Show
The official butter sculpture of the 2008 Pennsylvania Farm Show is seen inside its refrigerated case at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008, in Harrisburg, Pa. The sculpture is made of 900 ponds of butter and is of three children and a cow waiting to board a school bus. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Carolyn Kaster
Farm Show Butter Sculpture
A section of the 2009 Butter Sculpture is seen at the 93rd annual Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. This year's sculpture is dedicated to the Pennsylvania National Guard and depicts a Guardsman saying goodbye to his family. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Carolyn Kaster
Farm Show Butter Sculpture
The 2009 Butter Sculpture is seen at the 93rd annual Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. This year's sculpture is dedicated to the Pennsylvania National Guard and depicts a Guardsman saying goodbye to his family. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Carolyn Kaster
Farm Show Butter Sculpture
The butter sculpture is unveiled at the 93rd annual Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. This year's sculpture is dedicated to the Pennsylvania National Guard and depicts a Guardsman saying goodbye to his family. Unveiling the butter sculpture, from left, are: Nicole Wasson an alternate Dairy Princess from Centre County, Pa.; Dennis Wolff, the Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture; Jim Victor the sculptor; Leeann Kapanick Pennsylvania Dairy Princess from Crawford County, Pa., and Abby Trotter an alternate Dairy Princess from Lawrence County, Pa. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Carolyn Kaster
BUTTER SCULPTURE
Pennsylvania Dairy Princess Rhonda Kieklak of Wattsburg, Pa., stands behind a butter sculpture depicting former President Dwight Eisenhower feeding an Angus calf after unveiling at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, Jan. 4, 1996. The sculpture was carved from 800 pounds of butter.(AP Photo/Paul Vathis)
PAUL VATHIS
BUTTER SCULPTURE
Harrisburg elementary school children view a sculpture made of butter after unveiling at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa. Thursday, Jan. 8, 1998. The sculpture is made of 800 pounds of donated butter and depicts a school cafeteria employee serving a student a meal made of food products produced in Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Paul Vathis)
PAUL VATHIS
ROSS
Dan Ross adds butter to his butter cow sculpture at the Ohio State Fair Friday, July 30, 1999, in Columbus, Ohio. Ross has been creating sculptures of a butter cow at the Fair since 1964. (AP Photo/Terry Gilliam)
TERRY GILLIAM
LYON
FILE - In this Aug. 11, 1999, file photo, Norma "Duffy" Lyon works on her version of "The Last Supper", a sculpture in butter, at the Iowa State Fair, in Des Moines. Lyon, who famously sculpted butter into cows, Elvis and even Jesus for the Iowa State Fair, has died. She was 81. (AP Photo/Rodney White)
RODNEY WHITE
Farm Show Butter Sculpture
A sculpture made from nearly 1,000 pounds of butter that pays tribute to dairy farm families is displayed at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, Jan. 7, 2009. The sculpture depicts a dairy cow, as well as a dairy farmer pouring a glass of milk at the breakfast table with his family. The sculpture, by sculptor Jim Victor, of Conshohocken, Pa., was crafted from butter donated by Land O' Lakes in Carlisle, Pa. The Pennsylvania Farm Show runs Jan. 9-16. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Carolyn Kaster
Farm Show Butter Sculpture
A sculpture made from nearly 1,000 pounds of butter that pays tribute to dairy farm families is displayed at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, Jan. 7, 2009. The sculpture depicts a dairy cow at the breakfast table with a dairy farmer and his family. The sculpture, by sculptor Jim Victor, of Conshohocken, Pa., was crafted from butter donated by Land O' Lakes in Carlisle, Pa. The Pennsylvania Farm Show runs Jan. 9-16. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Carolyn Kaster
Butter Cow
Seen is the Iowa State Fair butter cow sculpture Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010, in Des Moines, Iowa. The 600 lb. sculpture made of butter will be on display at the state fair that runs Aug. 12-22. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Charlie Neibergall
Butter Cow
Sarah Pratt, of West Des Moines, Iowa, works on the Iowa State Fair butter cow sculpture Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010, in Des Moines, Iowa. The 600 lb. sculpture made of butter will be on display at the state fair that runs Aug. 12-22. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Charlie Neibergall
Butter Sculpture
The Pennsylvania Farm Show Butter Sculpture is unveiled during a ceremony at the Farm Show complex Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015, in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Bradley C Bower)
Bradley C Bower
State Fair Butter Cow
The 2014 Illinois State Fair butter cow is unveiled at the Illinois State Fairgrounds Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014, in Springfield, Ill. The sculpture depicts a cow being milked by a boy who is waving to a woman. The 500-pound bovine is made of unsalted butter. Built from scratch, it has been an unofficial mascot of the fair since the 1920s. Fair organizers have said they're not changing security procedures after vandals threw paint on a butter cow at the Iowa state fair last year. The Illinois State Fair begins Friday, Aug. 8 and runs through Sunday, Aug. 17. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
Seth Perlman
Iowa State Fair
Sarah Pratt works on a butter sculpture of actor Kevin Costner during final preparations for opening day of the Iowa State Fair, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014, in Des Moines, Iowa. The Field of Dreams movie, celebrating it's 25th anniversary this year, was filmed in Iowa. The fair opens Thursday and runs through Aug. 17th. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Charlie Neibergall
State Fair Butter Cow
Visitors to the Dairy Barn at the Illinois State Fair enjoy the Butter Cow exhibit Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013, in Springfield, Ill. The Illinois State Fair will run through Aug. 18. The butter cow has been an unofficial icon of the fair since the 1920's. 800 pounds of unsalted butter are used to sculpt the life size figure by hand over a wire and wood frame. The process takes about two days. After the fair, the butter will be removed and reused in another sculpture. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
Seth Perlman
Farm Show
The 2013 Butter Sculpture is unveiled at the 97th Pennsylvania Farm Show Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013 in Harrisburg, Pa. The 1,000-pound tableau, featuring milk and dairy items, grapes and wine, Christmas trees, and fruits and vegetables, pays tribute to the state's home-grown agricultural products. (AP Photo/Bradley C Bower)
BRADLEY C BOWER
Butter Sculpture
The Pennsylvania Farm Show Butter Sculpture is unveiled during a ceremony at the Farm Show complex Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015, in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Bradley C Bower)
Bradley C Bower
State Fair Butter Cow
The 2014 Illinois State Fair butter cow is unveiled at the Illinois State Fairgrounds Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014, in Springfield, Ill. The sculpture depicts a cow being milked by a boy who is waving to a woman. The 500-pound bovine is made of unsalted butter. Built from scratch, it has been an unofficial mascot of the fair since the 1920s. Fair organizers have said they're not changing security procedures after vandals threw paint on a butter cow at the Iowa state fair last year. The Illinois State Fair begins Friday, Aug. 8 and runs through Sunday, Aug. 17. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
Seth Perlman
Butter Cow Things To Know
In this Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017, photo, Sarah Pratt works on a butter sculpture of author Laura Ingalls Wilder with her daughter Grace, left, at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa. More than 1 million people typically visit the Iowa State Fair annually, and sometimes it seems like all of them are clustered around Butter Cow. The creamy creation has been among the state fair's top attraction since 1911. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Charlie Neibergall
Pennsylvania Butter Sculpture
This Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018, photo provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture shows a sculpture carved from a half-ton of butter in preparation for the 102nd Pennsylvania Farm Show, scheduled from Saturday, Jan. 6, through Saturday, Jan. 13, at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg, Pa. The sculpture unveiled Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018, sponsored by the American Dairy Association North East (ADANE), reflects the show's theme this year, "Strength in our Diversity," by depicting a dairy cow; a dairy farmer, second from left; an agronomist who helps produce corn to feed dairy cows, left; a milk processor, second from right; and a consumer, right, carrying agriculture products from Pennsylvania. (Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture via AP)
HOGP
Pennsylvania Farm Show
Show is the butter sculpture depicting the mascots for the Philadelphia Eagles' Swoop, left, Pittsburgh Steelers' Steely McBeam, center, and Philadelphia Flyers' Gritty during the 104th Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa., Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Matt Rourke
100Th Pennsylvania Farm Show
Shown is the annual butter sculpture Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, at the Farm Show complex in Harrisburg, Pa. Starting Saturday, thousands of visitors are expected to descend on the state capital for the 100th Pennsylvania Farm Show, a weeklong celebration agriculture and rural life. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Matt Rourke
100Th Pennsylvania Farm Show
Shown is a detail of the annual butter sculpture Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, at the Farm Show complex in Harrisburg, Pa. Starting Saturday, thousands of visitors are expected to descend on the state capital for the 100th Pennsylvania Farm Show, a weeklong celebration agriculture and rural life. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Matt Rourke
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SOMERS — Thousands descended upon Petrifying Springs Park Saturday evening for Kenosha County’s annual Picnic in the Park event.
“Every parking place is full, so I’m betting several thousand people turned out,” said Kenosha County Parks Director Matt Collins while helping to direct traffic Saturday evening. “We’ve got a steady flow of people coming into the park for the event. That’s a very good thing and it’s a beautiful day. ... This is a celebration of the parks.”
The event, held on the south end of the park, 5555 Seventh St., included live music, fireworks, kids’ games and food vendors. Originally set for last weekend, it was scheduled due to threats of severe weather. The county’s Parks Department organizes the event.
Western Kenosha County Transit provided shuttle services for visitors to the Biergarten and parking areas. Overflow parking and shuttle services were available at nearby University of Wisconsin-Parkside.
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First held from the late-1980s to the early-1990s and revived last year following the COVID-19 pandemic, Picnic in the Park aimed to raise awareness of the county’s parks system.
Collins said Petrifying Springs Park is by far the most popular public space in the county.
“Last year, we had 1.4 million people visit this park,” he said. “It’s about 500 acres when combined with the golf course.”
Tim Wade, owner of Hyde and Cheese food truck, was busy selling grilled cheese sandwiches Saturday evening.
“I love it out here,” he said. “We were actually here for all the special events here this summer. “
Felicia Banks, of Kenosha, attended the event for the first time with her family.
“I think it’s great. There’s a lot to do with the kids and the food so far is great,” she said.
And even though summer is winding down and students are headed back to school, Collins said the fall is also “extremely busy for the parks.”
Upcoming events
The fall season has a number of events scheduled in Kenosha County Parks, including:
Sunday, Sept. 4: Southern Wisconsin All Airborne Chapter Car Show in Petrifying Springs Park. The car show moved from Simmons Island to “Pets” in 2021 “and it was wildly successful,” said Collins. “It’s a beautiful open space, and a lot of classic cars — more than 450 — fit in there.”
Thursday-Saturday, Sept. 8-11: USCA National Sieger Show (German Shepherd Dog Show) in Petrifying Springs Park.
Saturday, Sept. 10: Oktoberfest in Old Settlers Park, Paddock Lake. “This event has been going on for more than a decade,” Collins said of the annual celebration, highlighted by the popular “Dachshund Dash” wiener dog race. “It’s run by a dedicated group of local volunteers, with the proceeds going to fund the building of a permanent band shell at the park.” Construction of that band shell, he said, should begin later this fall.
Friday-Sunday, Sept. 16-18: Petrifying Springs Biergarten Oktoberfest. “This is a huge event,” Collins said, “which draws a big crowd.” As for why these “Oktoberfest” events are happening in September and not October, he explained that the “Oktoberfest” name refers to the seasonal beers and not the month. Also, Wisconsin weather in September is more generally more favorable for outdoor events — and “Septemberfest” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Saturday, Sept. 17: Fall Fun Fest at the Pringle Nature Center in Bristol Woods Park. “This is a traditional event with hay rides, animal demonstrations, children’s crafts and food, Collins said. Though it’s in mid-September “it always seems to be scorching hot that day,” he said, adding that “we planted a lot of trees there, so in about 20 years we’ll have more shade.”
Saturday, Sept. 17: Pike River Cleanup in Petrifying Springs Park.
Saturday, Sept. 24: Fall Wheel Ride. This event starts in Kennedy Park, with bike riders heading to Petrifying Springs Park, where they’ll find refreshments and bike-friendly activities.
Saturday, Sept. 24: Tri-Fox Flex Disc Golf Tournament in Silver Lake Park.
Saturday, Oct. 8: Flannel Fest in Petrifying Springs Park. This event, which was new in 2021, features the Jockey Undie Run and a lumberjack show. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/watch-now-kenosha-countys-picnic-in-the-park-draws-thousands/article_da290f5a-2704-11ed-b082-ffa608146038.html | 2022-08-28T22:00:51 | 0 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/watch-now-kenosha-countys-picnic-in-the-park-draws-thousands/article_da290f5a-2704-11ed-b082-ffa608146038.html |
hen looking at the makeup of American families today, it’s rare to see a home where a pet isn’t part of the family. According to the most recent data from the APPA National Pet Owners Survey, 67% of households, or around 85 million homes, own a pet. Of these households, dogs and cats top the list of most popular pets, with 63.4 million and 42.7 million households owning dogs and cats, respectively.
In exploring the history of animal shelters and rescue organizations in the country, nothing proves as problematic as the lack of a centralized reporting system to collect data on these organizations. Most of the shelter statistics that are available and accepted today are estimates based on several period surveys, including the aforementioned APPA National Pet Owners Survey along with the AVMA U.S. Pet Ownership & Demographics Sourcebook. Without a nationally codified and streamlined process for collecting, organizing, and reporting on shelter data, there has been a grave lack of transparency around the country’s shelters. That makes it difficult not only to pinpoint accurate statistics regarding sheltered animals in America but also to understand the true state of animal welfare in the country, which is the first step to improving that welfare.
If you’ve been considering bringing home a furry companion, be sure to keep reading. Stacker compiled a list of dogs available for adoption in Sherman, Texas on Petfinder, ranging in age, breed composition, temperament, and needs. It’s important to note that pet adoption is a huge responsibility and requires available savings for emergency and routine veterinary care, a day-to-day routine and game plan for coverage if the pup needs to be left at home during the day (i.e. hiring a dog walker), and time and attention devoted to training your newest family member. Be sure to do due diligence on breed research to see what kind of dog will be the best fit for your lifestyle.
Without further ado, here are adoptable dogs in your home city.
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Cream Cheese DFW
– Gender: Male
– Age: Baby
– Breed: Great Pyrenees
– Read more on Petfinder
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Roosevelt HTX
– Gender: Male
– Age: Young
– Breed: Great Pyrenees
– Read more on Petfinder
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Banjo
– Gender: Male
– Age: Young
– Breed: Pit Bull Terrier
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Swirly
– Gender: Female
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Pit Bull Terrier (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Charlie
– Gender: Male
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Labrador Retriever (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Midnight
– Gender: Male
– Age: Baby
– Breed: Black Labrador Retriever, Mixed Breed (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Carley
– Gender: Female
– Age: Baby
– Breed: Black Labrador Retriever, Mixed Breed (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Oreo
– Gender: Male
– Age: Baby
– Breed: Black Labrador Retriever, Mixed Breed (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Winston
– Gender: Male
– Age: Baby
– Breed: Black Labrador Retriever, Mixed Breed (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Buttermilk
– Gender: Female
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Pit Bull Terrier, Mixed Breed (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Mystro
– Gender: Male
– Age: Senior
– Breed: Mixed Breed
– Read more on Petfinder
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Bruce Willis DFW
– Gender: Male
– Age: Young
– Breed: Great Pyrenees, Anatolian Shepherd (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Patrick Stewart DFW
– Gender: Male
– Age: Young
– Breed: Great Pyrenees, Anatolian Shepherd (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Stanley Tucci DFW
– Gender: Male
– Age: Young
– Breed: Great Pyrenees, Anatolian Shepherd (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Milo
– Gender: Male
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Boxer, Mixed Breed (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Odis
– Gender: Male
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Shepherd, Mixed Breed (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Snickers
– Gender: Male
– Age: Baby
– Breed: Pit Bull Terrier, Mixed Breed (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Rooster
– Gender: Male
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Doberman Pinscher
– Read more on Petfinder
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Rose
– Gender: Female
– Age: Young
– Breed: Shepherd
– Read more on Petfinder
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Margarita
– Gender: Female
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Border Collie
– Read more on Petfinder
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Mango Melon
– Gender: Female
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Pointer (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Becca
– Gender: Female
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Australian Cattle Dog / Blue Heeler
– Read more on Petfinder
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Ole Red
– Gender: Male
– Age: Young
– Breed: Hound
– Read more on Petfinder
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Wilson SAT
– Gender: Male
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Great Pyrenees (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Rogue of Texas Loves Litter ATX
– Gender: Female
– Age: Young
– Breed: Great Pyrenees (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Leah
– Gender: Female
– Age: Young
– Breed: Black Labrador Retriever, Mixed Breed (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Carter
– Gender: Male
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Border Collie, Mixed Breed (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Professor HTX
– Gender: Male
– Age: Baby
– Breed: Akbash, Great Pyrenees (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Gunther SAT
– Gender: Male
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Great Pyrenees
– Read more on Petfinder
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Ticket DFW
– Gender: Male
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Great Pyrenees
– Read more on Petfinder
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Lucy Lee
– Gender: Female
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Great Pyrenees, Anatolian Shepherd (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Trixie
– Gender: Female
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Shepherd (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Link
– Gender: Male
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Rottweiler, Shepherd (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Nate The Great ATX
– Gender: Male
– Age: Baby
– Breed: Great Pyrenees
– Read more on Petfinder
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Nina Starr Braunwald DFW
– Gender: Female
– Age: Young
– Breed: Great Pyrenees, Belgian Shepherd / Malinois (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Miss Percy aka Persephone SAT
– Gender: Female
– Age: Young
– Breed: Great Pyrenees, Belgian Shepherd / Malinois (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Hank(y Panky) ATX
– Gender: Male
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Great Pyrenees
– Read more on Petfinder
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Bingo HTX
– Gender: Female
– Age: Baby
– Breed: Great Pyrenees (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Iron Giant
– Gender: Male
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Great Dane (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Wanda
– Gender: Female
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Shepherd (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Kyle Winston SAT
– Gender: Male
– Age: Young
– Breed: Great Pyrenees
– Read more on Petfinder
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Belle
– Gender: Female
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Boxer, Mixed Breed (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Alora
– Gender: Female
– Age: Senior
– Breed: Labrador Retriever, Mixed Breed (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Pinto HTX
– Gender: Male
– Age: Baby
– Breed: Great Pyrenees, Brittany Spaniel (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Polo Bear ATX
– Gender: Male
– Age: Young
– Breed: Great Pyrenees
– Read more on Petfinder
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Casper the Prancer HTX
– Gender: Male
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Great Pyrenees
– Read more on Petfinder
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Hey There Delilah DFW
– Gender: Female
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Great Pyrenees, Anatolian Shepherd (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Leia
– Gender: Female
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Pit Bull Terrier (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Cletus SAT
– Gender: Male
– Age: Young
– Breed: Great Pyrenees
– Read more on Petfinder
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Regis
– Gender: Male
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Pit Bull Terrier, Mixed Breed (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Brunch—the portmanteau combining the words “breakfast” and “lunch”—is the best of both worlds. An event as much as a meal, brunches are weekend affairs, where a large meal is served in the late morning and into the early afternoon, featuring not just coffee but drinks like bloody marys and mimosas alongside waffles, pancakes, french toast, and mounds of eggs, toast, and breakfast meats. Whether you’re looking for eggs benedict or bottomless mimosas, Stacker compiled a list of the highest rated brunch restaurants in Sherman on Tripadvisor. Tripadvisor rankings factor in the average rating and number of reviews. Restaurants on this list may have recently closed.
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#6. Sweetberries Cafe
– Rating: 3.5 / 5 (45 reviews)
– Detailed ratings: Food (3.0/5), Service (3.0/5), Value (3.0/5), Atmosphere (3.5/5)
– Type of cuisine: American, Cafe
– Price: $
– Address: 1835 Texoma Pkwy, Sherman, TX 75090-2615
– Read more on Tripadvisor
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#5. Bean Me Up Coffee & Bistro
– Rating: 4.5 / 5 (16 reviews)
– Detailed ratings:
– Type of cuisine: Coffee & Tea, American
– Price: $
– Address: 115 S Travis St Inside Kelly Square, Sherman, TX 75090-5990
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#4. Whataburger
– Rating: 4.0 / 5 (19 reviews)
– Detailed ratings:
– Type of cuisine: Quick Bites, Fast Food
– Price: $
– Address: 3609 N US Highway 75, Sherman, TX 75090
– Read more on Tripadvisor
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#3. IHOP
– Rating: 4.0 / 5 (44 reviews)
– Detailed ratings: Food (3.5/5), Service (3.5/5), Value (3.5/5)
– Type of cuisine: American
– Price: $$ – $$$
– Address: 2617 N US Highway 75, Sherman, TX 75090-0501
– Read more on Tripadvisor
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#2. Cracker Barrel
– Rating: 3.5 / 5 (115 reviews)
– Detailed ratings: Food (3.5/5), Service (3.5/5), Value (3.5/5), Atmosphere (3.5/5)
– Type of cuisine: American
– Price: $$ – $$$
– Address: 3501 N US Highway 75, Sherman, TX 75090-2575
– Read more on Tripadvisor
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#1. Camino Viejo Mexican Restaurant
– Rating: 4.5 / 5 (158 reviews)
– Detailed ratings: Food (4.5/5), Service (4.5/5), Value (4.5/5), Atmosphere (4.0/5)
– Type of cuisine: Mexican, Latin
– Price: $$ – $$$
– Address: 110 E Houston St, Sherman, TX 75090-5908
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CAMDEN — The trial of a Margate firefighter accused of participating in a scheme that defrauded state health insurance will continue Monday with testimony from a South Jersey doctor who filled prescriptions tied to the scandal.
Dr. John Gaffney, of Margate, testified Thursday before proceedings against Thomas Sher, of Northfield, were paused at about 2 p.m.
William Hickman, a Linwood resident who will be sentenced for spearheading the scandal this fall, testified Thursday he had Gaffney and a doctor's associate fill hundreds of prescriptions for compound medications as a way to make money from commission spawned from health insurance reimbursement.
The scheme involved recruiters, more than a dozen of their subordinates and at least two out-of-state pharmacies that conspired to defraud the New Jersey state health benefit plan by having public employees submit claims with their health insurance provider for specially made, or “compounded” medications that they didn’t need.
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The conspirators had capitalized on the fact that New Jersey’s State Health Benefits Plan and School Employee Health Benefit Plans both generously reimbursed pharmacies for these medications. Prosecutors say the ring collected the reimbursements, using some of the profit to pay kickbacks to doctors and employees who’d submitted the prescription, according to court documents.
The scheme took place from July 2014 to April 2016.
Thomas Sher's brothers, John Sher and Michael Sher, have been linked to the scheme. John and Michael Sher have both pleaded guilty to their involvement.
Hickman, 46, pleaded guilty in June 2020 to defrauding state insurance programs and other insurers out of more than $50 million. He is set to be sentenced Oct. 18. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/trial-of-margate-firefighter-linked-to-health-care-fraud-resuming-monday/article_c8bd32f0-2542-11ed-915e-ab819a7bf9ca.html | 2022-08-28T22:18:25 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/trial-of-margate-firefighter-linked-to-health-care-fraud-resuming-monday/article_c8bd32f0-2542-11ed-915e-ab819a7bf9ca.html |
OCEAN CITY — After he tossed and turned Saturday night, Millville High School football coach Humberto Ayala probably slept like a baby Sunday.
Jacob Zamot threw four touchdown passes — two of them to highly-recruited sophomore wide receiver Lotzeir Brooks — to propel the Thunderbolts to a 41-10 win over Thomas Jefferson in Ayala’s debut as head coach Sunday morning in Ocean City.
“If you’re not nervous, you’re not a true competitor,” Ayala said. “I was nervous, got four hours of sleep last night. I couldn’t stop running everything through my mind, but I feel I’ve been coaching long enough and been in big games that I can find that level of poise. More than anything, it’s that group of young men that I’m confident in. I know they’re going to make it happen every time.”
The game was part of the Battle at the Beach showcase event, which featured several of the state’s top teams this weekend. Thomas Jefferson, located outside of Pittsburgh, is a perennial Pennsylvania power. Millville won the South/Central Group IV title last season and is ranked No. 1 in The Press Elite 11.
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Much of the preseason speculation about Millville centered around how Ayala and Zamot would do in their new roles. Ayala, a Millville assistant the past five seasons, took over as head coach this spring after former coach Dennis Thomas became a Rutgers University assistant.
Meanwhile, Zamot was making his first varsity start at quarterback Sunday.
The Thunderbolts started slowly. They failed to pick up a first down on their first two possessions. Zamot missed on his first four passes.
“There were some pre-game jitters, but after that I kept my head up and there was great play calling. My receivers did their thing,” Zamot said. “I have studs across the board. If I throw a ball in their area, I know my guys are going to make plays for me.”
Late in the first quarter, the Thunderbolts started to look like their old selves.
Zamot threw a 74-yard TD pass to junior wide receiver Ta’Ron Haile to give Millville a 7-3 lead. The Thunderbolts never trailed again.
Brooks, who is one of the state’s best players with scholarship offers from schools such as Oregon, Georgia and Texas A&M, wowed the crowd with two TD catches in the second quarter.
On the first, Brooks caught a simple out pass and appeared stopped on the sideline. But he kept his feet and eventually shook free, stepping out of one of his cleats and sprinting away for the 69-yard score.
“I know I’m a ballplayer,” Brooks said. “I made a statement this game and more statements are to come in following games.”
On the second, he caught the ball in stride on a go route and easily outraced a lone defender for a 95-yard TD.
“We just had to get the jitters out,” Brooks said. “I know how our team is. Once we get those jitters out, game over.”
Brooks finished with four catches for 183 yards and two TDs. Zamot completed seven of 18 attempts for 360 yards. Haile, who also has multiple Division I scholarship offers, caught two passes for 92 yards. Zamot’s four TD passes averaged 80.8 yards.
As impressive as its passing game was, Millville turned to its ground game in the second half to protect its lead. Na’eem Sharp carried 13 times for 119 yards and scored on a 69-yard, fourth-quarter run.
Not to be outdone, the Millville defense shut down the Jefferson offense. Senior linebacker Solomon Massey-Kent had three tackles for a loss for the Thunderbolts.
All in all, it would be to imagine a more successful debut for the Thunderbolts. But they didn’t leave the field content. Millville faces North Jersey power Irvington on Friday at Rutgers University.
“We did two things — we won the special teams game and didn’t turn the ball over,” Ayala said. “Rocky start, which we expected, but we put the ball in our playmakers’ hands and they went to work.” | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/after-a-rocky-start-millville-opens-the-2022-season-to-rave-reviews/article_fe24dd44-2718-11ed-a991-17019c57dcf8.html | 2022-08-28T22:18:43 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/after-a-rocky-start-millville-opens-the-2022-season-to-rave-reviews/article_fe24dd44-2718-11ed-a991-17019c57dcf8.html |
1 fatally shot at Salem's Geer Park
Shannon Sollitt
Salem Statesman Journal
One man was killed early Saturday morning in a shooting at Geer Park.
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Police responded to a call of a man with a gunshot wound just before 3 a.m. Saturday, according to Salem Police. When officers arrived, they found the man dead in the park's parking lot.
Police said the shooting was the result of a dispute between three people.
The shooting suspect remains at large. Police say they know the identity of the suspect and are treating it as an isolated investigation since those involved were all known to each other. | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2022/08/28/1-dead-in-geer-park-shooting-in-salem/65460713007/ | 2022-08-28T22:18:45 | 0 | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2022/08/28/1-dead-in-geer-park-shooting-in-salem/65460713007/ |
A teenage boy was hospitalized after being shot in the leg in Philadelphia's Strawberry Mansion neighborhood Sunday afternoon, police said.
The 13-year-old was shot in the left leg near the intersection of North Natrona and West Cumberland streets shortly after 3 p.m. Police said the teen didn't know the gunman.
Philadelphia police said the teen was placed in stable condition at the hospital.
No arrests have been made in the case, police said.
Entering Sunday, 146 minors have been shot in Philadelphia this year, according to data from the city controller's office. That's roughly 11% of the total number of shooting victims so far in 2022. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/13-year-old-boy-injured-in-strawberry-mansion-shooting/3347301/ | 2022-08-28T22:24:12 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/13-year-old-boy-injured-in-strawberry-mansion-shooting/3347301/ |
A 4-year-old boy was shot and injured in a Philadelphia barbershop late Sunday afternoon, police said.
Philadelphia police said the young child was shot in the shoulder while inside the barbershop on the 5000 block of Rising Sun Avenue in the Olney neighborhood at approximately 5:15 p.m.
The 4 year old was taken to the hospital where he's in stable condition, authorities said.
Police said no arrests have been made in the case.
Two hours earlier, a 13-year-old boy was injured after being shot in the leg in Philadelphia's Strawberry Mansion neighborhood, police said.
Entering Sunday, 147 minors have been shot in Philadelphia this year, according to data from the city controller's office. That's roughly 11% of the total number of shooting victims so far in 2022.
This story is developing. Check back here for updates. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/4-year-old-boy-shot-inside-philadelphia-barbershop/3347324/ | 2022-08-28T22:24:18 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/4-year-old-boy-shot-inside-philadelphia-barbershop/3347324/ |
ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. – Interstate 81 southbound reopened Sunday afternoon after an hours long closure due to a fatal crash.
Update: Crash: SB on I-81 at MM135.5 (1.7mi south of VA-112 Exit137) in Roanoke Co. No lanes closed. Delay 4 mi. 3:38PM
— 511 Southwest VA (@511southwestva) August 28, 2022
It happened around 10:40 a.m. at MM 135.5. Virginia State Police say a tractor trailer overturned in the median and the driver was trapped inside.
VSP identifies the driver as Alan Everett Peck, 52, of Leesburg, Florida. They add he was not wearing a seatbelt and died at the scene. A passenger was flown to the hospital for treatment of their injuries.
Delays will remain, according to VDOT.
The crash remains under investigation. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/28/i-81-south-in-ronaoke-county-reopens-after-fatal-tractor-trailer-crash-sunday-morning/ | 2022-08-28T22:28:49 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/28/i-81-south-in-ronaoke-county-reopens-after-fatal-tractor-trailer-crash-sunday-morning/ |
ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, Va. – A man died in a crash late Saturday night near Lacy Lane in Rockbridge County, according to Virginia State Police.
Around 10:15 p.m., a 1996 Ford Explorer was travelling on Spring Branch Road when it ran off the right side of the roadway, overcorrected and overturned, officials explained in a press release.
VSP identified the driver as Alvin O’Neal Merchant, 58, of Lexington. He was not wearing his seatbelt, and officials believe alcohol was a factor in the crash.
Merchant’s vehicle was the only involved. He died at the scene.
The crash remains under investigation. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/28/lexington-man-dies-in-crash-late-saturday-night-vsp-investigating/ | 2022-08-28T22:28:55 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/28/lexington-man-dies-in-crash-late-saturday-night-vsp-investigating/ |
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. – Need a furry friend to snuggle with, or maybe one to explore with? Keke might just be the perfect fit for you.
Shelter staff said that Keke is friendly, outgoing, and loves a good snuggle sesh.
She’s 11 years old, but her age doesn’t stop her from exploring all around, both inside and outside.
Prior to coming to the shelter, Keke lived with a small dog, but shelter staff said they aren’t sure how she’d do with other animals.
According to a Facebook post by the Montgomery County Friends of Animal Care & Control, she’s sprayed, up to date on vaccines, and her adoption fee is sponsored.
If you want to meet this sweet kitty in person to see if your home might be a good fit for her, you can contact the Montgomery County Animal Care and Adoption Center at (540) 382-5795. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/28/meet-keke-the-friendly-outgoing-snuggly-kitty-up-for-adoption-in-montgomery-county/ | 2022-08-28T22:29:01 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/28/meet-keke-the-friendly-outgoing-snuggly-kitty-up-for-adoption-in-montgomery-county/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – Roanoke Police are investigating a shooting that happened early Sunday morning. Two men were shot, one died.
Around 2:45 a.m., police say they were called to the 1900 block of 10th Street NW for a person with a gunshot wound. Medics rushed the man to the hospital with critical injuries where he later died.
At the same time, officers say they were notified that another man arrived at the hospital with gunshot wounds. His injuries appeared to be non-life threatening.
Investigators believe both men were involved in the incident that occurred outside of a business in the 1900 block of 10th Street NW.
No suspects were named by police. No arrests have been made.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call (540)344-8500 and share what you know. You can also text us at 274637; please begin the text with “RoanokePD” to ensure it’s properly sent. Both calls and texts can remain anonymous. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/28/one-man-dies-another-injured-in-nw-roanoke-shooting/ | 2022-08-28T22:29:08 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/28/one-man-dies-another-injured-in-nw-roanoke-shooting/ |
OCOEE, Fla. – Two men were hospitalized following a drive-by shooting in Ocoee on Saturday, according to the Ocoee Police Department.
Police said at about 5 p.m., a dark or black sedan fired shots toward the two men, who were walking on the sidewalk in the area of South Maguire and Highbrooke Boulvevard.
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The men ran into the Brookstone subdivision before being located with gunshot wounds, police said. Both were transported to Orange Regional Medical Center in stable condition, police said.
The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Ocoee Police Department at 407-905-3160 or Crimeline at 407-423-TIPS.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A Winter Park motorcyclist died Saturday after a wreck with a car that turned into his direct path on University Boulevard, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The 44-year-old man was traveling westbound on University Boulevard in the center lane when the driver of a BMW facing southbound on Pelee Street attempted to make a left turn onto the roadway eastbound from a stop sign around 3 p.m., according to a crash report.
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The motorcycle struck the left side of the BMW, troopers said. The BMW’s occupants — a 52-year-old Apopka man driving and one passenger, a 40-year-old Orlando man — were not injured in the crash and remained at the scene, the report states.
The Winter Park man was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead, troopers said.
The fatal crash remains under investigation.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – NASA is just one day away from launching its most powerful rocket yet for a consequential and long overdue test flight.
The Space Launch System, or SLS, is finally ready to take off from Kennedy Space Center in what will be the first major step for the space agency’s Artemis program that aims to one day return astronauts to the lunar surface.
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Ken Kremer with Space UpClose joined anchor Justin Warmoth on “The Weekly” to preview the mission and the pressure NASA faces to make sure everything goes smoothly.
“They’re absolutely feeling the pressure and it has to go well,” Kremer said. “There’s very little margin for error. Just about everything has to go well.”
Hundreds of thousands of tourists are expected on the Space Coast to witness the historic liftoff that Kremer expects will look, feel and sound more like a space shuttle launch.
“The SLS is the most powerful rocket in the world,” Kremer said. “It’s about 15-20% more powerful than Apollo and the space shuttle, so it’s that class of vehicle. That class is like four times the Falcon 9.”
Atop of the SLS will be an unpiloted crew capsule that will embark on a 42-day voyage around the moon, testing numerous features before astronauts climb aboard.
The two-hour launch window opens at 8:33 a.m. Monday. Backup launch opportunities are available Sept. 2 and Sept. 5.
Watch the full interview in the video player above.
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EL PASO — Ukrainian pastor Vadym Kulynchenko was surprised when Russia first invaded Ukraine , but the fact that his country is still standing after six months is less of a surprise.
“I didn’t believe Putin would start a full-sized war,” he told The Pantagraph. “(…) I’m not surprised that we are wining this war.”
Kulynchenko spoke to a group of around 75 people in El Paso on Sunday during a trip to the United States, organized by Tom and Jennifer Roth , leaders of Can Do Kids International. The organization has been working in Ukraine since 2017 and is now helping direct funds to Kulynchenko’s efforts.
Kulynchenko described his trip as helping to spread the news that Ukraine still needs help, including humanitarian aid.
“One of the reasons I’m here is to wave my Ukrainian flag,” he said.
Russian invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 , after weeks of military buildup along the border in Russia and Belarus. Russian forces pushed in from the north, east and south. Since the early invasion, Ukraine’s military, with the assistance of weaponry provided by the U.S. and other countries, has pushed the Russians back, with fighting now centered in the east and south.
Vadym Kulynchenko, a pastor from Ukraine, speaks to the audience at South Pointe Park in El Paso on Sunday.
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Kulynchenko is a pastor at a church in central Ukraine and part of a network of churches providing aid. He was one of Can Do Kids International’s first contacts in Ukraine and has continued working with them during the war.
The crisis is still acute, he said.
“A lot of people are dying, a lot of infrastructure is being destroyed,” he said.
Kulynchenko said there are four main areas that his network is working to address right now: evacuations, housing, jobs and humanitarian aid.
Ukraine’s economy is also decimated. He estimates that less than a third of businesses are operating at full capacity, leading to massive loss of jobs and income.
Oksana Perestoronina said it is still a scary time for Ukraine. She and her immediate family left the Kyiv area on the first day of the war and have resettled in Bloomington-Normal. They were part of the audience on Sunday.
The audience listens to Ukrainian pastor Vadym Kulynchenko at South Pointe Park in El Paso on Sunday.
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“We lived close to Kyiv, and we saw when the Russian army started to attack the (Antonov Airport in Hostomel); Russian helicopters flew above our house,” she said.
Her mother, sister, grandmother and in-laws are still in Ukraine. They have been able to stay in touch with Telegram, which allows internet calls.
“All of them have some depression. It’s scary, life in Ukraine is rough,” she said.
Kulynchenko’s network of churches has helped around 1,800 people leave the areas of fighting, and the help centers it provides assistance to in neighboring countries have helped more than 140,000 people, he told the crowd. Much of the humanitarian assistance in Ukraine is being done by evangelical churches, he said.
Tom Roth introduces Vadym Kulynchenko at South Pointe Park in El Paso on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022.
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The war has led to the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. As of July 5, there were more than 5.6 million refugees who have left Ukraine and another 7.1 million people displaced within the country, according the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Perestoronina said her family's U.S. visa is good for a year, but beyond that it is hard to know what to do next. They arrived in the U.S. in April, two months after leaving their home.
“Of course I want to stay, because of my children,” she said.
Children are also a focus for Kulynchenko's church, which has been trying to provide some normalcy for kids affected by the war, by providing summer camp. The distraction seems to help the children.
A table was set up at South Pointe Park in El Paso on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022, with information about ongoing relief efforts in Ukraine. Included was a photo of Kayley and Roma Kocherzhuk, the daughter and son-in-law of the organizers of the event. The couple fled Ukraine as the Russian invasion began.
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This year, thanks to Western aid, the camp was offered for free, and helped primarily children whose parents had been killed, whose parents were in the Ukrainian military or who come from underprivileged backgrounds.
“Some kids in the East, they learned to identify different types of missiles by the sound,” he said.
A table was set up at South Pointe Park in El Paso on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022, with information about ongoing relief efforts in Ukraine. Included was a photo of Kayley and Roma Kocherzhuk, the daughter and son-in-law of the organizers of the event. The couple fled Ukraine as the Russian invasion began.
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Those interested in giving can do so through Can Do Kids International, which is serving as an intermediary, sending 100% of the donations to Ukraine on to the volunteers on the ground in the country. The organization’s website is candokidsinterntional.org .
Kulynchenko believes firmly that Ukraine will win the war, and that doing so will prove its independence after generations of Russian interference. He also asked for prayers for the country, and for victory.
“I’m not surprised Ukraine is standing strong, because that’s the kind of nation we are,” he said.
Photos: 6 months of war in Ukraine
FILE - Ukrainian emergency employees and volunteers carry an injured pregnant woman from the maternity hospital that was damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. A Russian attack has severely damaged the maternity hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol, Ukrainian officials say. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Evgeniy Maloletka
FILE - The body of a serviceman is coated in snow next to a destroyed Russian military multiple rocket launcher vehicle on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. Russian troops bore down on Ukraine's capital Friday, with gunfire and explosions resonating ever closer to the government quarter, in an invasion of a democratic country that has fueled fears of wider war in Europe and triggered worldwide efforts to make Russia stop. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
Vadim Ghirda
FILE - Natali Sevriukova reacts next to her house following a rocket attack the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
Emilio Morenatti
FILE - Oleksandr Konovalov, an ambulance paramedic, performs CPR on a girl injured by the shelling in a residential area as her father sits, left, after arriving at the city hospital of Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. The girl did not survive. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Evgeniy Maloletka
FILE - An armored personnel carrier burns amid damaged and abandoned Russian light utility vehicles after fighting in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. The city authorities said that Ukrainian forces engaged in fighting with Russian troops that entered the country's second-largest city on Sunday. (AP Photo/Marienko Andrew, File)
Marienko Andrew
FILE - Ukrainian volunteers tear cloth into strips to make camouflage nets in Lviv, western Ukraine, Feb. 28, 2022. Volunteerism has seized the city. Until the missiles struck within walking distance of the cathedrals and cafes downtown on Friday, March 18, Ukraine's cultural capital was a city that could feel distant from the war. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
Bernat Armangue
FILE - A man carries a baby as people struggle on stairways after a last minute change of the departure platform for a Lviv bound train in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. Explosions and gunfire that have disrupted life since the invasion began last week appeared to subside around Kyiv overnight, as Ukrainian and Russian delegations met Monday on Ukraine's border with Belarus. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
Vadim Ghirda
FILE - A member of the Ukrainian Emergency Service looks at the City Hall building in the central square following shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Russian strikes pounded the central square in Ukraine's second-largest city and other civilian sites Tuesday in what the country's president condemned as blatant campaign of terror by Moscow. (AP Photo/Pavel Dorogoy, File)
Pavel Dorogoy
FILE - The children of medical workers warm themselves in a blanket as they wait for their relatives in a hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Evgeniy Maloletka
FILE - Aleksander, 41, presses his palms against the window as he says goodbye to his daughter Anna, 5, on a train to Lviv at the Kyiv station, Ukraine, Friday, March 4. 2022. Aleksander has to stay behind to fight in the war while his family leaves the country to seek refuge in a neighbouring country. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
Emilio Morenatti
FILE - Ukrainians crowd under a destroyed bridge as they try to flee crossing the Irpin river in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
Emilio Morenatti
FILE - An elderly lady sit in a wheelchair after being evacuated from Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Demands for ways to safety evacuate civilians have surged along with intensifying shelling by Russian forces, who have made significant advances in southern Ukraine but stalled in some other regions. Efforts to put in place cease-fires along humanitarian corridors have repeatedly failed amid Russian shelling.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
Vadim Ghirda
FILE - Dead bodies are placed into a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022 as people cannot bury their dead because of the heavy shelling by Russian forces. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Evgeniy Maloletka
FILE - An explosion is seen in an apartment building after Russian's army tank fires in Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Evgeniy Maloletka
FILE - A picture of Russian President Vladimir Putin hangs at a target practice range in Lviv in western Ukraine, Thursday, March 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
Bernat Armangue
FILE - Irina Zubchenko walks with her dog Max amid the destruction caused after a bombing in a shopping in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 21, 2022. (AP Photo/ (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
Rodrigo Abd
FILE - An injured dog is seen at the ADA foundation centre in Przemysl, southeastern Poland, Monday, March 28, 2022. Amid the exodus of more than 2.2 million Ukrainian refugees to Poland who fled the Russian invasion are the pet lovers who could not leave their animals behind. The evacuation of the animals was dangerous but was made possible due to the efforts and cooperation of several animal rights groups and Ukrainian refugees. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)
Sergei Grits
FILE - A neighbour walks on the debris of a burning house, destroyed after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
Felipe Dana
FILE - A man rides his bike past flames and smoke rising from a fire following a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
Felipe Dana
FILE - The hand of a corpse buried along with other bodies is seen in a mass grave in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
Rodrigo Abd
FILE - Women stand in their robes outside after leaving their building to get a better look at smoke rising after Russian attacks in Odesa, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)
Petros Giannakouris
FILE - A lifeless body of a man with his hands tied behind his back lies on the pavement in Bucha, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. Associated Press journalists in Bucha, a small city northwest of Kyiv, saw the bodies of at least nine people in civilian clothes who appeared to have been killed at close range. At least two had their hands tied behind their backs.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
Vadim Ghirda
FILE - Four bodies lie in a mass grave, including the village mayor and her family, in Motyzhyn close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 4, 2022, after Russian army were pushed out from the area by Ukrainian forces. The bodies appeared to have been shot at close range, with the mayor's husband with hands behind his back, with a piece of rope nearby, and a piece of plastic wrapped around his eyes like a blindfold. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
Efrem Lukatsky
FILE - Ira Gavriluk holds her cat as she walks next to the bodies of her husband, brother, and another man, who were killed outside her home in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 4, 2022. Russia is facing a fresh wave of condemnation after evidence emerged of what appeared to be deliberate killings of civilians in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
Felipe Dana
FILE - A resident looks for belongings in the ruins of an apartment building destroyed during fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces in Borodyanka, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
Vadim Ghirda
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - The remains of victoms and the fragments of a Russian military helicopter can be seen near Makariv close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Efrem Lukatsky
FILE - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his office in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 9, 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he's committed to pressing for peace despite Russian attacks on civilians that have stunned the world. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Evgeniy Maloletka
FILE - Volunteers load on a truck corpses of civilians killed in Bucha to be taken to a morgue for investigation, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
Rodrigo Abd
FILE - A woman reacts next to the body of a 15-year-old boy killed during a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, April 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
Felipe Dana
FILE - Nadiya Trubchaninova, 70, cries while holding the coffin of her son Vadym, 48, who was killed by Russian soldiers last March 30 in Bucha, during his funeral in the cemetery of Mykulychi, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 16, 2022. After nine days since the discovery of Vadym's corpse, finally Nadiya could have a proper funeral for him. This is not where Nadiya Trubchaninova thought she would find herself at 70 years of age, hitchhiking daily from her village to the shattered town of Bucha trying to bring her son's body home for burial. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
Rodrigo Abd
FILE - An injured man smokes following a Russian bombing of a factory in Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, on Tuesday, April 19, 2022, killing at least one person and injuring three others. Russian forces attacked along a broad front in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday as part of a full-scale ground offensive to take control of the country's eastern industrial heartland in what Ukrainian officials called a "new phase of the war." (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)
Petros Giannakouris
FILE - A car is parked under a tree in partially abandoned Chernobyl town, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
Francisco Seco
FILE - The body of an unidentified man in seen on a road barrier near a village recently retaken by Ukrainian forces in the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
Felipe Dana
FILE - Anna Shevchenko, 35, waters the few flowers that survived in the garden of her home in Irpin, near Kyiv, on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. The house, built by Shevchenko's grandparents, was nearly completely destroyed by bombing in late March during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In her beloved flowerbed, some roses, lilies, peonies and daffodils survived. "It is new life. So I tried to save my flowers," she said. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
Emilio Morenatti
FILE - Oksana Balandina, 23, receives medical assistance by a doctor who cleans her wounds at a public hospital in Lviv, Ukraine Saturday, May 14, 2022. Oksana lost both legs and 4 fingers on her left arm when a shell sticking in the ground near her house exploded on March 27. "There was explosion. Just after that I felt my legs like falling into emptiness. I was trying to look around and saw that there were no legs anymore - only bones, flesh and blood". (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
Emilio Morenatti
FILE - Iuliia Loseva cries over the coffin of her husband Volodymyr Losev, 38, during his funeral at a cemetery in Zorya Truda, Odesa region, Ukraine, Monday, May 16, 2022. Volodymyr Losev, a Ukrainian volunteer soldier, was killed on May 7 when the military vehicle he was driving ran over a mine in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
Francisco Seco
FILE - Ukrainian servicemen sit in a bus after they were evacuated from the besieged Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant, near a remand prison in Olyonivka, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov, File)
Alexei Alexandrov
FILE - Nila Zelinska holds a doll belonging to her granddaughter, she was able to find in her destroyed house in Potashnya outskirts Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 31, 2022. Zelinska just returned to her home town after escaping war to find out she is homeless. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
Natacha Pisarenko
FILE - Two national guard soldiers drink a shot to honor the memory of two late soldiers in Kharkiv cemetery, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, May 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
Bernat Armangue
FILE - Elena Holovko sits among debris outside her house damaged after a missile strike in Druzhkivka, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, June 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
Bernat Armangue
FILE - A woman brandishes the Ukrainian flag on top of a destroyed Russian tank in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, June 10, 2022. With war raging on fronts to the east and south, the summer of 2022 is proving bitter for the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The sun shines but sadness and grim determination reign.(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
Natacha Pisarenko
FILE A Russian soldier inspects a labyrinth of the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal, in Mariupol, on the territory which is under the Government of the Donetsk People's Republic control, eastern Ukraine, Monday, June 13, 2022. The plant was almost completely destroyed during the siege of Mariupol. This photo was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense. (AP Photo, File)
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FILE - Sixty-six-year-old Volodymyr, injured from a Russian bombardment, sits on a chair in his damaged apartment, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
Nariman El-Mofty
FILE - Relatives and friends attend the funeral ceremony for Liza, 4-year-old girl killed by Russian attack, in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, Sunday, July 17, 2022. Wearing a blue denim jacket with flowers, Liza was among 23 people killed, including two boys aged 7 and 8, in Thursday's missile strike in Vinnytsia. Her mother, Iryna Dmytrieva, was among the scores injured. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
Efrem Lukatsky
Medic volunteer Nataliia Voronkova, top right, gives a medical tactical training session to soldiers in a bomb shelter as air raid sirens go off, in Dobropillia, eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 22, 2022. Voronkova has dedicated her life to aid distribution and tactical medical training for soldiers and paramedics, working on front line of the Donetsk region since the war began in 2014. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
Nariman El-Mofty
FILE - The lights of a police vehicle illuminate the side of a road, as servicemen arrive to check damages in the aftermath of a car accident between a civilian and soldier, after curfew hours in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, July 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)
Nariman El-Mofty
FILE - EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - A burned out body of Ukrainian military prisoner is seen in destroyed barrack at a prison in Olenivka, in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces, eastern Ukraine, Friday, July 29, 2022. Russia and Ukraine accused each other Friday of shelling the prison in Olenivka in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine, an attack that reportedly killed dozens of Ukrainian military prisoners who were captured after the fall of a southern port city of Mariupol in May. (AP Photo, File)
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FILE - Maria and Oleh Berest embrace while posing for their photographer by a fountain on their wedding day as sandbags fortify the opera house in Odesa, Ukraine, Friday, July 29, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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FILE - A wheat field burns after Russian shelling a few kilometers from the Ukrainian-Russian border in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Friday, July 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Evgeniy Maloletka
FILE - Nelia Fedorova, left, is embraced by her daughter, Yelyzaveta Gavenko, 11, the day after they were wounded in a rocket attack which also killed Fedorova's husband, Oleksii, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The family had previously evacuated to central Ukraine but returned to their home at the end of June after Nelia and Oleksii had trouble finding work. The strike killed three people and wounded 13 others, according to the mayor. The attack came less than a day after 11 other rockets were fired at the city as Russia's invasion continues. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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Arizona Motor Vehicle Division: MVD employees donated school supplies for its first “Tools for Schools” project. The project was created by MVD's new community engagement program, "MVD Community Connections." Supplies collected included paper, pencils, folders, glue and backpacks; as well as hygiene supplies such as hand sanitizer, facial tissues and paper towels. The collected supplies were delivered to schools in the same area as the participating MVD offices. The department plans to make this an annual event, and is planning additional community events at different times of the year.
Risas Dental and Braces: Risas Dental and Braces is hosting its fifth annual Labor of Love, where patients can choose from one of the four following free treatments: a basic cleaning, filling, simple extraction, or exam and X-Ray at any participating Risas Dental location from 8 a.m. to noon on Monday, Sept. 5. This year, Risas Dental will also be offering free orthodontic consultations for any patients interested in braces or clear aligners.
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Risas Dental treated over 1,200 patients during its 2021 Labor of Love event. Risas Dental estimates it will give away over $500,000 in free dental care during the event this year across all participating offices in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Texas. Participating Tucson locations include: South Tucson, 2901 S. Sixth Ave., and Midvale Park, 1979 W Valencia Road.
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1 child dead, 4 injured after school bus crash near Sanders
One child is dead and four others are injured after a three-vehicle crash happened Sunday morning on eastbound Interstate 40 near Sanders.
The crash occurred just before 9:30 a.m. after traffic was slowing down due to a prior collision, a single vehicle rollover.
A school bus carrying 19 people was slowing down in traffic when it was rear-ended by a semi-truck, according to the Department of Public Safety. Due to the crash, the school bus was pushed into a van.
A child who was on the school bus has died. Four other school bus occupants have sustained serious injuries.
According to DPS, there is a full closure on eastbound I-40. Traffic is being diverted through Holbrook to SR 180 to St. Johns and up SR 191 to I-40. Westbound traffic is open and unaffected.
An investigation is ongoing.
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2 people dead, 1 injured after shooting at house party in Phoenix
Two people are dead and one person is injured after a shooting at a house party in the area of 27th Street and South Mountain Avenue in Phoenix early Sunday morning.
Phoenix Police Department received a call around 1:35 a.m. reporting a loud house party with possible gunshots fired.
When officers arrived on the scene, they saw dozens of cars blocking the street.
As officers attempted to contact the homeowner, they heard several shots being fired from the backyard area, said Phoenix Police Department in a statement.
"Dozens of partygoers took off running as officers made their way to the backyard," the statement said.
Officers then located three people with gunshot wounds. Two people died on the scene and a third person was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Neither the victims nor a suspect has been identified at this time. An investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Phoenix Police Department or Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS or 480-TESTIGO.
Reach breaking news reporter Haleigh Kochanski at hkochanski@arizonarepublic.com or on Twitter @HaleighKochans.
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1 man dead, suspects outstanding after shooting in Phoenix
One man is dead after a shooting in the area of 91st Avenue and Indian School Road in Phoenix on Sunday morning.
Phoenix police responded to the scene around 4 a.m. after reports of a shooting.
"When officers got to the scene, they learned that a group of people arrived at a home, confronted an adult male, and shot him," according to Phoenix Police Department.
The suspects left the scene before officers arrived and the victim died from his injuries.
An investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact Phoenix Police Department or Silent Witness if they wish to remain anonymous.
Reach breaking news reporter Haleigh Kochanski at hkochanski@arizonarepublic.com or on Twitter @HaleighKochans.
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19-year-old motorcyclist dies after crashing with truck near Central Avenue and Bell Road
Angela Cordoba Perez
Arizona Republic
A motorcyclist died after crashing with a truck Saturday night near Central Avenue and Bell Road.
Officers were called to the area around 8 p.m. for a collision between a motorcycle and a truck, and found the motorcyclist, identified as Leonardo Rios-Aguilar, 19, dead, according to Phoenix police. The truck driver was taken to a hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Police were working on learning what led to the collision.
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LAKE COUNTY, Ind. — Two people were killed and multiple cars were hit during a high-speed crash in northern Indiana early Sunday morning that ended with a car bursting into flames, Indiana State Police said.
The crash happened just before 1 a.m. near the 5.7 mile-marker on I-80/94, which is between Cline Avenue and Burr Street in Lake County.
Investigators said a Chevrolet Camaro was headed east on I-80/94 at a "high rate of speed," although they didn't say exactly how fast the Camaro was going.
As it sped down the highway, the Camaro rear-ended a Honda Pilot, pushing the Honda into the median wall. The driver of the Honda was not injured.
Then the Camaro went to the right side of the road and hit a Ford Mustang, sending the Mustang into the barrier wall on the right side of the road. The driver of the Ford wasn't injured in the crash, however, ISP said they were arrested at the scene for drunk driving.
After hitting the Mustang, the Camaro slammed into the barrier wall along the highway and burst into flames upon impact, ISP said.
Firefighters from the Gary Fire Department extinguished the burning Camaro and found two people inside who had died.
Authorities haven't identified the two people who died.
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INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis man was killed in a motorcycle crash on the south side of the city Saturday night.
Indiana State Police said 40-year-old John Byers died in a crash on I-465 near East Street at around 7:15 p.m.
Investigators determined Byers drove off the road and struck a construction sign on the left side of the highway near the 3.2-mile marker of I-465. It is not clear what caused Byers to run off the road and there were no other vehicles involved.
When emergency crews arrived after the crash, they found Byers unconscious and unresponsive. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The left two lanes of I-465 were closed in the area for approximately two hours while the crash was investigated.
Hours later, another motorcyclist was killed in a crash in a construction zone on I-70 early Sunday morning.
Investigators said a truck and trailer were broken down in the construction zone east of Mt. Comfort Road, where there are no emergency shoulders.
Mark Webster, 47, of Richmond, was riding a motorcycle just before midnight when he hit the trailer. His motorcycle was then hit by a car, and then a semi-truck. The semi-truck caught fire as a result of the secondary crash.
When first responders arrived, they found Webster in the road. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Indiana State Police said no other injuries were reported. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indianapolis-man-killed-in-motorcycle-crash-interstate-465-indiana/531-953b737e-9062-4a85-bd4f-386a6a5cfdd9 | 2022-08-28T22:46:22 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indianapolis-man-killed-in-motorcycle-crash-interstate-465-indiana/531-953b737e-9062-4a85-bd4f-386a6a5cfdd9 |
AUSTIN, Texas — This coming week will mark one year since the U.S. pulled forces out of Afghanistan. Due to the Taliban taking over, there are now many Afghan refugees living right here in Central Texas, and it hasn’t been easy for them.
That’s why Global Impact Initiative and Combined Arms came together to give laptops to 40 Afghan refugee families. This is the fourth laptop giveaway they have hosted. All of the laptops were donated by Dell Technologies.
After they received the laptop, they received help setting it up and learning how to use it.
One refugee, who came to Austin after fleeing Afghanistan almost exactly one year, ago said this act of kindness means a lot.
He said many refugee families have struggled to get high-paying jobs due to different certifications and degrees not translating over to the U.S. and because of language barriers. He said this makes it hard for them to support their large families.
"They’re not getting the jobs because of their language and if they are getting it, they are getting paid like $12, $13, $14 an hour, which for a family of eight, 10, and 11, it is nothing,” said Kaleemullah Ghazi, who resettled from Afghanistan one year ago. “You are not going to even be qualified for renting a house.”
Ghazi served with the U.S. Armed Forces for 10 years and said that because of that service, he will never be able to go home to Afghanistan. He said when they had to evacuate, he didn’t have time to say goodbye to some friends and family, he said they just had to leave. His four children are here in Austin as well.
Global Impact Initiative offers English language classes, CDL classes, mentoring, tutoring and more for refugee families. They have helped hundreds of refugees in Central Texas gain employment. They are always in need of donations to make these efforts happen.
Hear more from Ghazi about his experience this past year below:
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GRASS VALLEY, Calif. — A man on post-release community supervision has been arrested by authorities in Grass Valley accused of a string of car burglaries and mail thefts across the Sacramento region.
According to a Facebook post by the Grass Valley Police Department, the victim in a recent car burglary told detectives that they were tracking the location of their stolen AirPods.
Officers were sent to the 100 block of Valley View Drive in Grass Valley, where the location of the stolen AirPods pinged.
While in the area, officers say they made contact with a man who was on post-release community supervision out of Sacramento County.
Officers say they conducted a search and found several items stolen from multiple car burglaries in Grass Valley in recent weeks and stolen mail from multiple jurisdictions in Sacramento County.
The suspect was arrested and booked into jail on suspicion of burglary, possession of stolen property and grand theft.
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SANDERS, Ariz. — One child is dead and four other people are seriously injured after a Holbrook Indian School bus was involved in a three-vehicle crash on I-40 Saturday morning.
The school confirmed on Facebook that the bus was taking staff and students on a field trip to Window Rock, New Mexico.
DPS officials said that the crash happened around 9:25 a.m. on Sunday morning when a school bus slowing in traffic was rear-ended by a semi-truck. The bus was then pushed into a nearby van.
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Of the 19 occupants on the school bus, one child was killed and six other people were injured said officials with the Holbrook Indian School. As of the last update, DPS had only confirmed four injuries.
ADOT tweeted that all lanes are now open, but drivers can still expect delays as the roadway clears.
Sanders is located in Apache County roughly 55 miles east of Holbrook.
This is a developing story. Stay with 12News for more updates.
Deaths on Arizona roads
Data from the Arizona Department of Transportation shows that roadway fatalities have been gradually rising in Arizona over the last decade:
- 2011: 825 deaths
- 2012: 821 deaths
- 2013: 844 deaths
- 2014: 774 deaths
- 2015: 895 deaths
- 2016: 952 deaths
- 2017: 1,000 deaths
- 2018: 1,010 deaths
- 2019: 982 deaths
- 2020: 1,057 deaths
ADOT offers driving tips on its website to help keep people safe on the road.
"There’s always room for improvement when it comes to road safety," the department said on its website.
ADOT's suggestions include:
- Don’t speed or drive aggressively
- Never drive while under the influence of substances
- Avoid distractions while driving
- Wear your seatbelt and make sure all passengers are doing the same
- When an emergency vehicle is on the side of the road, move over
- Stay extra aware in work zones
- Be prepared for weather conditions that make driving dangerous
"Real-time highway conditions are available on ADOT’s Arizona Traveler Information site at az511.gov, by calling 511, downloading the AZ 511 app and through ADOT’s Twitter feed, @ArizonaDOT," the department said.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The city of Sacramento is poised to receive millions in state funds to support art programs that prioritize communities of need.
The $4.75 million in funds awarded to the city's Office of Arts and Culture come from the California Creative Corps, a pilot program funded through the California Arts Council using a $60 million one-time fund allocation in Governor Gavin Newsom's 2021 state budget.
The program allocates funding to organizations to bring awareness to water and energy conservation, climate mitigation, emergency preparedness, civic engagement, social justice, community engagement and messages to stop the spread of COVID-19.
The pilot program awarded funds to 14 organizations across the state. According to state documents, the city of Sacramento plans to use its funding by administering the Capital Region Creative Corps program.
Sacramento, Yolo, El Dorado, Alpine and Solano Counties will be part of the Capital Region Creative Corps program, city officials said.
The program will redistribute funds to artists, art collectives, nonprofits and local and tribal governments to increase public awareness of health, social and environmental challenges facing the region.
City officials say information on how the funds will be redistributed and how people can apply will be released as the program becomes formalized.
Those interested in applying are encouraged to sign up for email updates from the Office of Arts and Culture.
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Texas Democratic gubernatorial nominee Beto O'Rourke said Sunday that he had cleared his campaign schedule after receiving treatment at a San Antonio hospital for an unspecified bacterial infection.
In a statement tweeted Sunday by his campaign, O'Rourke said he sought treatment at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio after feeling ill Friday. Intravenous antibiotic infusions improved his symptoms, O'Rourke said.
"While my symptoms have improved, I will be resting at home in El Paso in accordance with the doctors' recommendations," he said. "I am sorry to have had to postpone events because of this, but (I) promise to be back on the road as soon as I am able."
O'Rourke continues to trail Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in opinion polls before the Nov. 8 general elections. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/beto-orourke-treated-for-bacterial-infection-pauses-campaign/3058823/ | 2022-08-28T22:56:50 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/beto-orourke-treated-for-bacterial-infection-pauses-campaign/3058823/ |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A police pursuit in northeast Wichita in the early morning of Sunday, Aug. 28, ended with one person in custody.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP), at 1:31 a.m., a 31-year-old man was driving a 2007 Chrysler 300 – 4door when he took the ramp to Woodlawn from eastbound Kansas Highway 96 to flee from police.
The KHP says the man failed to take a right-hand turn at the bottom of the ramp and as a result, struck the raised cement median on Woodlawn. His car came to a stop, disabled, on the east side of Woodlawn.
The man then fled on foot, according to the KHP. He was taken into custody a few minutes later.
The KHP says the man suffered minor injuries and was taken to a local hospital for treatment. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/police-pursuit-in-ne-wichita-ends-with-one-in-custody/ | 2022-08-28T23:03:44 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/police-pursuit-in-ne-wichita-ends-with-one-in-custody/ |
FLOWER MOUND, Texas — The body of 63-year-old man was pulled from Grapevine Lake on Sunday morning, officials said.
The Flower Mound Fire Department said it responded to a drowning call in the Murrell Park area of the lake on Saturday night.
Officials said the department, along with agencies such as Grapevine Fire and the Texas Game Warden, searched the waters through Saturday evening and then returned on Sunday morning, which is when the victim was pulled from the lake.
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner identified the victim was Benny Dabney.
"Our condolences are with the family, but again we stress the importance of life jackets whenever you are in the lake," the Flower Mound Fire Department said in a Facebook post. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/body-of-63-year-old-man-pulled-from-grapevine-lake/287-aa9929cf-745f-4d8d-8b60-d94c9e6f2b1b | 2022-08-28T23:07:46 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/body-of-63-year-old-man-pulled-from-grapevine-lake/287-aa9929cf-745f-4d8d-8b60-d94c9e6f2b1b |
DALLAS — Read this story and other North Texas business news from our content partners at the Dallas Business Journal
Dallas Fort Worth International Airport officials want to move forward with long-term planning for a long-awaited sixth terminal after putting the project on hold for the last two years because of the pandemic.
The airport informed investors that it submitted a $27.8 million capital spending request to the airlines in May to cover the design cost for Terminal F, according to roadshow documents from a bond issuance earlier this summer. The request marks the airport’s first step in restarting the highly anticipated project.
“The note in our bond documents is to notify investors that we would like to proceed with the long-term planning of Terminal F,” airport spokesman Francisco Rodriguez said in a statement. “DFW Airport is committed to informing our investors of potential capital projects as it would have a material impact on the airport’s debt outlook. We have not received airline funding approval for Terminal F. We look forward to continuing discussions with the airlines regarding Terminal F.”
Terminal F, originally announced in May 2019, would have been DFW’s most significant infrastructure project in decades. The terminal, estimated at the time to cost upward of $3 billion, would have been located south of Terminal D and added up to 25 gates.
When the pandemic hit in 2020 and slammed the travel industry, the airport put the project on pause. CEO Sean Donohue said in April 2020 that the timing of the project and the size of the terminal would need to be “revisited.” Airport officials have remained mum about the project ever since.
The request to the airlines comes amid a recovery for the travel industry. The major airlines have seen passenger demand boom, and fares have spiked. Fort Worth-based American Airlines Group Inc., the dominant carrier out of DFW, reported record revenue in the second quarter and a return to profitability. The airport itself has also experienced a turnaround, exceeding pre-pandemic passenger traffic totals for the first time in April. DFW also exceeded pre-pandemic numbers in May and June.
Earlier this month, DFW’s board of directors approved a $1.2 billion operating budget for fiscal 2023, representing a 13% increase from the current fiscal year. The airport estimates 78.3 million passengers will come through in fiscal 2023, up 9.5% from the outlook for the current year.
DFW needs approval from the airlines for spending from a joint capital account as part of use agreements. The airport remains mired in negotiations over new use agreements with 28 passenger and 29 freight airlines. The current use agreements expired in September 2021, but the airport and airlines have a month-to-month extension while they negotiate a new long-term agreement.
American Airlines (Nasdaq: AAL) has more than 80% market share at DFW and stands to benefit from a new terminal. The carrier also has to ensure it grows in a cost-effective way, which means the project is almost surely at the center of the use agreement negotiations.
“DFW is American’s largest hub and a central gateway to our extensive international and domestic network,” AA spokesman Matt Miller said in a statement. “We are grateful for our long-term partnership with the airport and proud to have led the growth that has propelled DFW to become the second busiest airport in the world. We continue to work with DFW to finalize a new lease agreement and capital plan that will set the stage for American and DFW to continue to grow – in a prudent and cost-effective manner – for years to come.”
While DFW can use Terminal F-related spending as a bargaining chip, the airport controls landing fees. During the budget discussions, Chief Financial Officer Chris Poinsatte said DFW does not plan to impose a rate increase on the airlines in the first quarter. However, he said the airport has scheduled a rate increase set to go into effect in January.
The airport has given about $300 million in federal relief money — about three-quarters of its total — to the airlines for rate relief. Currently, airport officials plan to use federal relief money in 2023 for inflationary impacts on capital projects.
“We are willing to talk about applying some of that to rate relief should we get to the negotiating table and finish our use agreement negotiations,” Poinsatte said to the DFW board. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dfw-airport-wants-start-moving-forward-new-terminal-f/287-6182608a-97bd-4146-b2e3-3cf0409edd2d | 2022-08-28T23:07:52 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dfw-airport-wants-start-moving-forward-new-terminal-f/287-6182608a-97bd-4146-b2e3-3cf0409edd2d |
DALLAS — Editor's note: The video above is from a report on Aug. 10, 2022.
It's now time to mark down your food stops at this year's State Fair of Texas!
The State Fair on Sunday announced the winners of the 2022 Big Tex Choice Awards, which honors the top dishes in the categories of sweet, savory and creative.
The awards season began with 51 contestants and eventually came down to 10 finalists that were revealed over two weeks ago.
On Sunday, a panel of judges had the final say on the top 2022 State Fair foods after tasting the 10 dishes.
Here are the winners!
Best Taste - Savory
Fried Charcuterie Board, Tami Nevins-Mayes & Josey Mayes
Meats, cheeses, fruits – oh my! Chopped-up fresh mozzarella, salami, and crisp green apples are tossed in olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and Italian herbs. Then the ingredients are wrapped in a wonton wrapper and fried to a golden crisp, topped with creamy goat cheese and a drizzle of hot honey. Everyone's favorite appetizer rolled into one perfect bite!
Best Taste - Sweet
Peanut Butter Paradise, Chris Easter & Nicole Sternes
Man cannot live by bread alone - he must have peanut butter. Peanut Butter Paradise starts with deep-frying a honey bun. Then, caramel is injected into the honey bun and then topped with creamy peanut butter. The treat is then layered with some fan-favorite peanut butter treats, Reese's Pieces, Crushed Butterfinger crumbles, topped off with peanut butter cups, drizzled caramel, and a cloud of powdered sugar. Just another day in paradise!
Most Creative
Cha-Cha Chata, Garza Family
Sidestep all the others ‘cause it’s finally here - the milkshake that will make you Cha-Cha Chata all night long! Inspired by the cha-cha dance, the recipe starts with a triple-step of two kinds of milk and vanilla ice cream blended to perfection with the Garza family’s top-secret (but famously delicious) horchata recipe. The creamy drink is then poured into a cup rimmed with caramel and cinnamon goodness and topped with a Texas-sized dollop of whipped topping. To bring even more flavor to your tastebuds, the Cha-Cha Chata is dusted with crushed candy, a sprinkle of cinnamon galletas de gragega, and deep-fried arroz con leche bites. Take hold of the churro straw and take a sip, we promise it will cha-cha change your life!
The 2022 State Fair of Texas will run from Sept. 30 through Oct. 23. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/state-fair-texas-winners-2022-big-tex-choice-awards/287-52a8b30a-ce15-42c8-83d5-672615385ec4 | 2022-08-28T23:07:58 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/state-fair-texas-winners-2022-big-tex-choice-awards/287-52a8b30a-ce15-42c8-83d5-672615385ec4 |
FORT WORTH, Texas — A 5-year-old boy and a 17-year-old boy have died after a drive-by shooting in a Fort Worth neighborhood on Sunday afternoon, police said.
An 18-month-old boy was also injured in the incident but is expected to survive.
Police said they responded to the shooting around 2:15 p.m. in the 8500 block of Steel Dust Drive in the northern area of the city, near Bailey Boswell Road and Saginaw Boulevard.
Officers arrived and found the three victims at the home where the shooting was reported, police said. The victims were transported to a hospital, where the teenager and 5-year-old boy died.
According to police, it's believed an unknown number of suspects drove by the home and started firing at the victims who were in the front yard. The suspects then drove away.
Further details were not immediately released as the investigation continues.
Anyone who may have information on the incident is urged to call police at 817-392-4336.
"We're seeing a rise in violent crime across the country and unfortunately we're seeing violent crime here in Fort Worth," Fort Worth Police Chief Neil Noakes said during a news conference about the shooting. "But when you have children who are murdered completely senselessly, it adds just another level to that tragedy we're all experiencing."
"I think of a 17-year-old who should be looking at his senior year, graduating and starting his life. I think of a 5-year-old who should be starting kindergarten," Noakes said. "... I can tell you this much. The Fort Worth Police Department is going to put every resource necessary to this investigation to do everything we can to bring those responsible to justice." | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/teen-5-year-old-killed-drive-by-shooting-fort-worth-steel-dust-drive/287-0297c772-f65e-4fd4-b90d-318b09339645 | 2022-08-28T23:08:04 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/teen-5-year-old-killed-drive-by-shooting-fort-worth-steel-dust-drive/287-0297c772-f65e-4fd4-b90d-318b09339645 |
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Beto O' Rourke missed his scheduled stops in South Texas due to a bacterial infection that put him in the hospital, a statement from O'Rourke said Sunday.
"While my symptoms have improved, I will be resting at home in El Paso in accordance with the doctors’ recommendations," O'Rourke said. "I am sorry to have had to postpone events because of this, but promise to be back on the road with you as soon as I am able."
The candidate for Texas governor was scheduled to be in Corpus Christi, Three Rivers and Goliad this weekend for his 49-day "A Drive for Texas" campaign event. Staff members of his campaign notified 3NEWS on Friday he would have to postpone the events due to an illness. No other information was given at that time.
In his statement Sunday, O' Rourke said he began to feel sick on Friday and decided to go get checked out. He thanked the doctors and nurses of Methodist Hospital in San Antonio where he said he was treated for the bacterial infection.
"The extraordinary team there — from custodians to nurses and doctors — gave me excellent care and attention, including IV antibiotics and rest," the statement said.
It is unclear when O'Rourke will continue his campaign events across Texas. Campaign officials told 3NEWS he does plan to reschedule the events he missed in the Coastal Bend. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas/beto-orourke-missed-south-texas-events-due-to-bacterial-infection/503-a8064e1c-18ee-44b4-a8b7-be395230b8b1 | 2022-08-28T23:08:10 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas/beto-orourke-missed-south-texas-events-due-to-bacterial-infection/503-a8064e1c-18ee-44b4-a8b7-be395230b8b1 |
After a brutally hot and dry summer, San Antonio residents could see scattered showers and thunderstorms in the afternoons this week.
Starting as early as Monday there is a 30 percent chance of rain. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday currently have a 50 to 60 percent chance of rain.
On ExpressNews.com: What's normal weather these days?
“We have a generally disturbed weather pattern this week,” said Andrew Quigley, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service Office at Austin-San Antonio, on Sunday afternoon.
Energy coming up from the Gulf of Mexico and a weak front approaching the area from the north combine to create thunderstorms, Quigley said.
Quigley warns that while there are chances for rain everywhere, the coverage area is not widespread.
“Unfortunately, there are probably going to be some neighborhoods (in San Antonio) that get through this week and don’t see any rain,” Quigley said.
claire.bryan@express-news.net | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/San-Antonio-weather-17403723.php | 2022-08-28T23:12:49 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/San-Antonio-weather-17403723.php |
Concrete restoration work on the Borman Expressway stymied drivers last week trying to access the interstate in west Lake County. As of Monday, the Indiana Department of Transportation said Friday, work crews will be shifting to a new phase that will allow the reopening of on-ramps at Calumet Avenue and Indianapolis Boulevard.
The shifting work will require westbound right lanes along the westernmost 6.5 miles of Interstate 80/94 during overnight hours.
Dates and times for specific changes depend on weather, INDOT noted on its northwest district social media accounts.
The $32 million concrete patching work began in late spring and is expected to last into next spring. The project area stretches from the state line to Cline Avenue.
The northbound right turn lane from Ind. 51 to U.S. 6 in Hobart will be closed for crews to install a water main, with work beginning on or after Monday, INDOT announced. Construction is expected to take through early September.
The South Shore Line is continuing the buy-one-get-one-free monthly ticket promotion begun during the pandemic. All monthly tickets purchased for the month of September 2022 will remain valid throughout October 2022, the commuter railroad announced.
Paper September monthly tickets will be honored through October, and purchasers of digital tickets via the mobile app will have an October ticket uploaded to their accounts prior to Oct. 1.
Passengers who receive September tickets through an employer benefit program such as Wage Works or Commuter Benefit Solutions should not order October tickets if they receive a September monthly ticket. Additional information and assistance are available through the online contact form at mysouthshoreline.com/contact.
North Judson road projects
Two state highway projects are set to begin in North Judson.
Crews are scheduled to begin work as early as Monday and last to early November on curb ramps and sidewalks on Ind. 10/39 between Mint Road and Oakwood Avenue.
During construction, traffic will be maintained by flaggers when needed, but most of the work will be taking place outside of the roadway, INDOT announced.
Then, on or after Sept. 6, Ind. 10/39 will be closed for utility work between Schricker Avenue and Oakwood Avenue. That project is expected to be complete by the end of October.
INDOT’s official detour includes Ind. 39, Ind. 8 and U.S. 421.
The Pittsburgh-based steelmaker has initially offered an 11% pay increase over the next four years, less than the 14% union steelworkers agreed to during the last round of contract talks in 2018.
Giant dinosaurs have invaded the Harvest Tyme Family Farm, which is opening its Dino Tyme attraction Saturday. Visitors will be able to check out more than 20 dinosaurs and an erupting volcano from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Sept. 18. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/transportation-borman-lane-ramp-usage-shifts-continue/article_1bdfe268-0993-5da3-8d85-7c3b79631d87.html | 2022-08-28T23:20:39 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/transportation-borman-lane-ramp-usage-shifts-continue/article_1bdfe268-0993-5da3-8d85-7c3b79631d87.html |
Although the Knot anticipates a stunning 2.6 million weddings are expected to take place in the United States this year after two years of pent-up pandemic demand, Idaho is seeing perhaps less of a rebound than other states. But the outlook for 2023 weddings is good here in The Gem State.
Over 6,000 couples got married in Idaho from January to June of this year, beating the same time frame in 2019 by slightly over 300 marriages, according to Idaho Department of Health & Welfare data.
Venues owned by government entities have seen an increase in weddings, but some private venues and event planners said things aren’t significantly busier now, because Idaho’s looser COVID-19 restrictions meant not as many weddings were canceled during the pandemic.
“With weddings here in Idaho, we definitely had a little bit more freedom than a lot of the rest of the country,” said Erin Olson, owner and lead planner and designer for Dreamer Events. “Things definitely slowed down, but they didn’t stop.”
So while some people in places with tighter, longer-lasting restrictions may have had to postpone weddings in order to have the ceremony and reception they wanted, Idaho was different.
“I wouldn’t say that there was a big hold back. I think that people in Idaho sort of just said ‘yeah, whatever,” said Brad Rowen, host, MC, DJ and owner of The Wedding Doctor Events & Entertainment. “They’re like, ‘we’re still having our wedding, we don’t really care.’ And even when it was supposed to be smaller numbers.”
City parks
But other venues, like city of Boise parks, have seen an increase in weddings this year, according to city of Boise data.
Around 137 wedding reservations have been made at city of Boise locations, including Kathryn Albertson Park, the Boise Depot and the Julia Davis Park Rose Garden. That’s compared with pre-pandemic numbers of 111 in 2019, though the Kathryn Albertson Park Rookery was under construction during the 2019-2021 reservation seasons.
At Ada County’s Barber Park Education and Event Center, 68 weddings are set to take place this year, more than in 2020 and 2021 combined (45). The number of scheduled weddings this year blows past Barber Park’s pre-pandemic number of 53 in 2019, according to Ada County data.
It’s possible these wedding bookings were affected because governments own them — which could mean stricter compliance with COVID-19 restrictions. For other Idahoans in 2020, a backyard wedding ceremony or one in nature would have allowed them to skirt the regulations.
Amelia Berg, executive director of The Bishops’ House, said there’s been more weddings this year, including more weddings booked for mid-week days.
As a state-owned building, the Bishops’ House had to be strict about following city ordinances.
“As the mandates got smaller and smaller, we had more people just postpone,” Berg said. “So this year has been pretty crazy, because we’ve had to fit in all of the weddings that postponed or are joining us because their wedding venue just canceled.”
On several weekends, the Bishops’ House has had weddings three days in a row – on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Berg said.
The Bishop’s House doesn’t give refunds for postponed or canceled events, but some people who got married elsewhere after postponing used their payment at Bishops’ House to throw a baby shower or some sort of other event at the venue.
“We have had a lot of receptions. We normally have more weddings and receptions,” Berg said. “They postponed it and they got married at City Hall last year and now they’re doing the receptions this year.”
The pandemic year
As 2020 began, marriages were chugging along in Idaho. In the first three months, 2,365 couples got married, ahead of 2,052 in the same time frame the year before. But then COVID-19 cases appeared in the United States, and started rising.
In April 2020, the number of weddings dropped to 601, an unusual swing for that time of year. Since 2014, the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare had never recorded a drop in weddings in April.
Only seven weddings took place at Barber Park in 2020. City of Boise wedding reservations dipped all the way to 60 in 2020 and in 2021 rebounded to 102.
“I would say we had, maybe a 20% to 40% reduction. … When COVID-19 first hit, we definitely had a quick slow down on it, but a lot of them just postponed or ended up just changing their dates,” Rowen said. “I think we only had one actual cancellation.”
Many of the people who hadn’t booked yet took a “wait and see” approach, he said. Some people had a “knee jerk” reaction and changed their dates.
But for others there was a “the show must go on,” attitude.
“There was some changes from some of the venues … and so there was definitely some occasions where we definitely did more like backyard style weddings,” Rowen said. “I think they adapted to what the new norm was going to be for the time.”
At The Cottage At Riverbend, some couples postponed their weddings in 2020, said Manager Savanna Adriano.
However, the Cottage is an outdoor venue so many people didn’t postpone, and those who did had their dates filled.
“We still were booked out,” Adriano said.
The Cottage booked out faster for 2023 than normal, though Adriano attributes that to engaged couples knowing they have to go look for venues well in advance.
“We do book out every year, but not this quickly, usually it’s by October, middle of the year before we book out,” she said. “But for 2023, we booked out probably two months ago. … A lot of people who’ve come around have just been like ‘the venues booked out so fast.’”
As early as the end of May 2020, Olson, the Dreamer Events owner, had weddings with anywhere from 40 to 50 people.
By July 2020, wedding sizes were back to normal.
Still, the pandemic has added an extra stressor to wedding planning but Olson said it helps that she’s been dealing with it for two years.
Now, people moving forward want to gather and party.
“We honestly thought that like 2021 was going to be it and it was going to be crazy. And then we thought 2022 was going to be it and it was going to be crazy,” Olson said. “But 2023 has definitely meet and beat expectations on the amount of weddings, the size and the magnitude and the money spent on weddings.”
Rising costs
Couples who are planning to get married also might have to contend with rising venue costs, according to Berg and Rowen.
Venues used to cost about $2,000 to $3,000, Rowen said, but it’s seeming now like venues run from $3,000 to $7,000. However, Idaho has a low average wedding budget compared with other states.
“I think that the bar for the actual budgets has been raised dramatically,” Rowen said. “Boise in the last few years, with the quick growth that it’s had with so many people moving here, I think that they might be used to different budgets.”
Essentially, it’s still a deal if you’re coming from California where it can cost $10,000 to get a venue.
“They still feel like they’re getting a deal,” Rowen said.
With COVID-19 and inflation, flower prices have gone up, as well as the cost of food. Some people are minimizing their guest counts to make up for that, Olson said.
But at the end of the day, Idaho weddings are a day to celebrate love. Even if the pandemic slowed weddings down a bit, Olson said she’s noticed the pandemic helping more couples get to that decision.
“I think it made people be a little bit more reflective on what they want and who they want to be with,” Olson said. “I think it’s definitely kind of reignited the marriage match.” | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/post-pandemic-idaho-weddings-on-the-upswing/article_e0aa57fa-24c3-11ed-85ae-33260d6605f8.html | 2022-08-28T23:36:47 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/post-pandemic-idaho-weddings-on-the-upswing/article_e0aa57fa-24c3-11ed-85ae-33260d6605f8.html |
CAPE MAY — For years, a dedicated group of locals fought to preserve the Beach Theatre, the city’s only movie house.
They failed. Now the question is: What happens next at the site?
The theater itself came down more than a decade ago, demolished by the owner in 2011. The front façade and retail stores remain but appear the worse for wear, with steel posts shoring up the canopy in front of the building.
“It’s an embarrassment to the entire city of Cape May,” said Eustice Mita, the current owner of the property. He’s the chief executive officers of ICONA Resorts, which owns several hotels along the shore.
Mita wants to build a $150 million hotel at the site, taking up much of the block across from the city’s Convention Hall. Plans call for 160 rooms between Stockton Place and Gurney Street, along with what he described as high-end retail shops, restaurants, ballrooms and extensive interior parking.
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To do that, Mita said, he will need the city to declare the block an area in need of redevelopment, which would give the local government extensive leeway in approving projects.
In an interview last week, Mita described that declaration as a necessary step for his plan to go through, suggesting that objectors could derail a proposal at the Planning Board if the project went through the normal planning process.
“At the Planning Board, you’ll have the same very small group of people who are the ones who show up and put pressure on the governing body,” he said.
He said he has three groups to convince: the residents, the other business owners in town and the governing body. Toward that end, he plans to present the plans at a special event at Cape May Convention Hall from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 1.
“We hope to garner support from the citizenry and businesses owners, and therefore the governing body will support what the majority of the community wants, which is the first new hotel in over half a century in Cape May,” Mita said. He described the project as similar to the classic grand hotels of the past.
Without the designation, he said, the project won’t happen. And there is no Plan B.
“There is only one option,” Mita said.
Otherwise the site will remain as is, and as he had indicated, he believes it is currently an eyesore.
“I’ll just sell it. I’m not going to hang on to it,” he said.
Mita indicated he has support from the local government and suggested Mayor Zack Mullock has not said he opposed the plan or the designation.
Mullock tells a different story.
“We’ve informed them that we’re not interested in a redevelopment zone,” Mullock said recently.
He said Mita’s proposal seems like a “high-quality project” but wants the developer to apply to the construction office. But he does not want City Council making decisions that should fall to the Historic Preservation Commission, the Planning Board and the Zoning Board, Mullock said.
“They’ve helped keep Cape May unique. I see no reason why anybody should be skipping those boards,” Mullock said.
No tax incentives
As proposed, the plan would appear to require variances for height and density, if not more, unless the site were designated as an area in need of redevelopment.
That designation could also include tax incentives, which Mullock described as unnecessary in Cape May.
“That’s an absolute ‘No.’ We have a lot of businesses in town, and nobody’s asking for tax breaks. They just do their business,” he said.
Mita said he was not asking for tax incentives. And he pointed out that the city itself has discussed the area as being in need of redevelopment, independent of his proposal. The most recent example came in the master plan reexamination report in 2019, which cited the former movie theater and other parts of that neighborhood as underutilized, with vacant commercial space “and buildings that are not readily adaptable to a viable use.”
Another proposal to designate an area of Cape May as being in need of redevelopment, this one a block next to the Washington Street Mall pedestrian shopping area, ruffled feathers and riled residents in 2018. Backed by businessman Curtis Bashaw, the area included the city’s only supermarket and the adjacent parking lot, as well as City Hall, churches and other uses from Ocean to Franklin streets, between Washington Street and Lafayette Street.
After an overflowing room of speakers slammed the proposal for hours on a cold night in January, the Planning Board rejected that proposal.
“This is totally different. This is a hotel. This is in a blighted area,” Mita said. “It’s way, way different from what Curtis wanted to do.”
Convention centers need hotels, he said. The ICONA project could make the Cape May Convention Hall across Beach Avenue a year-round destination, he suggested. Also, Mita said, resorts need hotel rooms.
He said Cape May has lost about 50% of its inn and hotel rooms since 2000, with many becoming private homes or being sold as condominiums.
In cases where individual rooms are sold to separate owners, now a common practice in beach communities, it becomes almost impossible to renovate the property because of the need to get multiple owners to agree.
“It stays in its present form forever,” he said. That means an ugly building will remain an ugly building, he said.
In October 2021, when Mita presented his vision at a City Council meeting, it met with a mixed response, with some praising the design while others raised concerns about increased density and traffic. On Thursday, he will try to convince the city that this proposal will benefit residents and businesses. He described tourism as the life’s blood of Cape May, and hotel rooms as vital for tourism.
The company already has one hotel in Cape May, the ICONA at 1101 Beach Ave., as well as additional hotels in Diamond Beach, Avalon, and a recent purchase in Spring Lake, Monmouth County, a Victorian-era hotel set to become part of the ICONA Boutique Collection. The company also owns the Mahalo in Diamond Beach.
As proposed, the hotel would encompass most of the block and be one of the tallest buildings in Cape May. According to Mita, the Marquis de Lafayette at 501 Beach Ave. would still be slightly taller.
In 2019, ICONA bought the Beach Theatre property at a bankruptcy auction for $6.65 million. The other properties included in the plan have also been purchased, according to Mita.
The hotel project would cover the area from Stockton Place to Gurney Street, including the site of the former theater and the stores in front along Beach Avenue, as well as another line of shops on Gurney and a bike rental place next door.
Mita estimates construction would take about 18 months once permits are in place.
It’s possible the members of City Council who will decide on approving the site as being in need of redevelopment will not be the same members currently on council. Four of the five members, everyone but Mullock, are up for reelection this year.
Mita said he did not believe the proposal would be a factor in the November election. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/icona-owner-to-take-plans-for-a-grand-hotel-at-the-beach-theater-site-to/article_4fa2dcfa-23e7-11ed-9a00-df44d5e39659.html | 2022-08-28T23:50:01 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/icona-owner-to-take-plans-for-a-grand-hotel-at-the-beach-theater-site-to/article_4fa2dcfa-23e7-11ed-9a00-df44d5e39659.html |
OCEAN CITY — Apparently, things were booming in 1924 when The First National Bank of Ocean City opened its new building at 801 Asbury Ave., cattycorner from its previous location.
The seven-story commercial structure towered over the shore community’s downtown. On the ground floor, the bank lobby in the Classic Revival style seems designed to impress, a soaring two-story space supported by columns and lit by chandeliers, with tall windows on the north.
That space is now a second-hand store, and it remains impressive, with teller windows still in place along one side and the imposing steel hulk of the vault at the end of the room. The six floors above include office space, some vacant, some occupied, including the offices of the city’s long-published weekly newspaper.
The current owner has filed for bankruptcy.
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The city wants the building, administrator George Savastano told City Council on Thursday. He said there is no specific use in mind yet but that the city has begun talks with a trustee appointed by a bankruptcy court to begin negotiations.
The next step will be to evaluate the condition of the building, what Savastano described as due diligence.
“The administration considers this property to be extremely worthy of consideration for acquisition given its prime location within our downtown,” Savastano said. “While there are not definitive ideas yet for what the ultimate purpose of the property would be, it clearly presents a number of options if it were to come in to the public domain.”
Savastano told City Council that the administration is talking to the trustee about getting access to the building, and intends to bring resolutions to council in September to approve professional service contracts for structural and environmental evaluations for the property, as well as the condition of the HVAC system.
The entire property had been listed for sale recently, with an asking price of $8.595 million. The current assessed value, including the parking area on Central Avenue, is closer to $3.5 million.
The listed owner of the property is 801 Asbury Avenue LLC, according to Ocean City tax records. The same LLC also owns the parking lot across the alley on Central Avenue, which includes five parcels. On Sunday, Mayor Jay Gillian confirmed that the city is interested in the parking lot as well.
“The whole property,” he said.
In his weekly message to residents Friday, Gillian described the property as a “unique opportunity worth taking a look at.”
He, too, said the next step will be to have professionals evaluate the condition of the structure.
“There are many public needs the purchase of this property could potentially satisfy,” Gillian wrote.
Seven-stories tall
Not mentioned at the meeting, or by Gillian, were the city’s efforts to find a new home for its police department and municipal court, which is now housed in a former school nearby on Central Avenue. Last year, the administration presented a $42 million plan to combine police and fire headquarters with the municipal court and other functions at Fifth Street and West Avenue.
Some members of the City Council said that plan was too costly, and did not want to see the removal of a skate park on the same block.
Court documents show James McCallion as the principal owner of 801 Asbury Avenue LLC.
According to Ocean City Tax Assessor Joe Elliot, the building is divided into condominiums, meaning there are separate properties within the single building. But in this case, they are each owned by 801 Asbury Avenue LLC.
The city describes the building as six stories, but the first floor is two stories tall, so it is seven stories from the sidewalk to the roof.
The first floor, the two-story section with the vaulted ceiling and bank teller windows, is assessed at $646,500, Elliot said. The ground floor also include another retail area on one side, which has been home to a variety of businesses over the years, including a restaurant and a barber. There are now “Trump 2024” flags hanging the front window but no other signs of life.
The second floor has an assessed value of $395,500, while the other four floors are each assessed at $423,700. They each include office space, with several of the units occupied.
The parking lot is also divided into separate properties, also each owned by 801 Asbury Avenue LLC, with their assessed values ranging from more than $100,000 to $308,000. The lot is adjacent to a metered parking lot owned by the city.
On Friday, things were busy at the Second Chance Boutique, a program of Cornerstone Community Church. Funds raised at the store benefit community members. Volunteers and staff declined to be interviewed for this story, and there was no response to a message left for a manager.
At the top of the building, cell transmission bases line the brick parapet, giving the impression of crenellations on a medieval fortress. According to a survey of Ocean City buildings completed for the Historic Preservation Office of the state Department of Environmental Protection, the building was renovated in 1994, when it was known as the Crown Bank Building. The exterior still has a “Crown Bank” sign.
“The commercial style, a term used to characterize urban commercial buildings of five or more stories constructed from the late-19th century to the mid-20th century, often utilizes steel-frame construction,” reads the report, prepared in April of 1019. “Masonry comprises the exteriors of commercial style buildings, with windows located between the beams of the framework. Ornamentation is subordinate to the style’s use of light and space.”
Since 2018, the city has been working to acquire property at 16th and Haven Avenue, the site of a former car dealership. There, city officials have said, the purpose will be to preserve the land for open space. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/ocean-city-looks-to-acquire-crown-bank-building-downtown/article_b7f3c2ca-26fc-11ed-a789-5bbdabc8d664.html | 2022-08-28T23:50:08 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/ocean-city-looks-to-acquire-crown-bank-building-downtown/article_b7f3c2ca-26fc-11ed-a789-5bbdabc8d664.html |
The fifth and final day of the MidAtlantic Fishing Tournament on Friday featured a record catch and dramatic finishes.
On the day dubbed "Moving Day," with so many big changes to the leaderboard occurring, the largest fleet of the week of 160 boats competed for the tournament's $5.23 million purse.
Going into the final day, Michael Jordan’s Jupiter, Florida-based Catch 23 sat atop the leaderboard in the white marlin category with his 73-pounder followed by Vero Beach, Florida’s Matthew Weber aboard his Max Bet with a 65 pounder. It was Anthony Alves, of Millstone, Somerset County, who took the top spot on the final day aboard the Kaarmaa with his white marline of 75 pounds.
Tom Jarvis, aboard the Random Chaos out of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, jumped into third with a 66-pounder late Friday.
Kaarmaa’s 75-pounder won $871,404. Catch 23’s 73-pounder received $693,615, and Random Chaos won $192,165.
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In the blue marlin category, the Avalon-based Low Profile of Captain Joe Trainor had a blue marlin that measured 122¾ inches, which angler Ken Wibble battled for well over three hours. It weighed in at 657 pounds to win $576,209 for the heaviest blue marlin.
Robert Boyce of Key Largo, Florida, aboard his Lucky 7, was second and won $168,625 for his 619-pounder caught on Day 4. Christopher Kinsley, of Seven Valleys, Pennsylvania, aboard his Kilo Charlie, took third place and received $580,119 for his 607-pounder caught on Day 3.
Art Boykin of Berlin, Maryland, aboard his Lucky Duck, took the top tuna prize of $290,050 with a big eye of 210 pounds caught on Day 4. Summit, Union County's Bob Hugin, aboard his The Right Place, took second and third place with big eyes of 193 and 152 pounds caught on Day 1 and won a total of $793,014 for both places.
The wahoo division saw a complete overhaul of the category on Day 5, and the top prize of $65,729 went to Plantation, Florida’s Charles Phelan aboard his Special Situation for a tournament record 104-pounder, which broke the previous record of 97 pounds in 2009. Second place went to Keith Boyd of Ivyland, Pennsylvania, aboard his Craftsmanship, with a 72-pounder worth $57,528. Third place and $14,570 went to Mike Penza, of North Palm Beach, Florida, aboard his Oil Slick for a 46-pounder.
The dolphin category saw Fort Pierce, Florida’s, Joseph Valentine, aboard his Valentine, win $78,231 for a 43- pounder caught on Day 4. Billy Wrede, of Randolph, Morris County, aboard Lovin’ Life, finished second with a 39- pounder and won $34,874, also caught on Day 4. Donnie White, of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, aboard his Sea Wolf, finished third with a 33-pound dolphin weighed on Day 5 and won $24,722. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/fishing_boating/31st-midatlantic-tournament-comes-to-a-close/article_d24a0752-271e-11ed-979f-137e90d47cfd.html | 2022-08-28T23:50:26 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/fishing_boating/31st-midatlantic-tournament-comes-to-a-close/article_d24a0752-271e-11ed-979f-137e90d47cfd.html |
Holy Spirit's Gavin Roman hauls in a 74-yard touchdown pass against Cherokee on Sunday afternoon in a Battle at the Beach game in Ocean City. Holy Spirit knocked off No. 7 Cherokee 34-31 with a last-second field goal.
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Holy Spirit's Jahcere Ward muscles his way against the Cherokee defense Sunday afternoon in Ocean City. He rushed for 161 yards in the Spartans' win.
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Holy Spirit's Tahmir Jones is forced out of bounds just before the end zone.
OCEAN CITY — Mason Forte missed three of his four extra-point attempts Sunday, but with 3 seconds left in the game, he made up for that in a big way.
Forte kicked a 23-yard field goal as time expired to lead the Holy Spirit High School football team to a 34-31 victory over Cherokee in a Battle at the Beach game at Carey Stadium on the campus of Ocean City High School.
“After the first extra point I missed, I was in my head a little bit,” said Forte, 16, of Margate. “I tried getting out. The second one I made. Third one I missed again. Then I missed again.
"(Lining up for the game-winning FG), I was, like, all right, I’m done. I have a chance to win this. Let's focus up for my team. They played a (heck) of a game out there. All I had to do was put it right through the uprights, and I did.”
Cherokee called a timeout when Forte initially lined up for the kick. Forte just took a deep breath and remained focused. His team and coaches told him to take his time. When the ball went through the uprights, the Spirit sideline mobbed Forte.
Cherokee, which finished 7-3 last season and is ranked seventh in The Press Elite 11, is one of the top teams in South Jersey, so the win was very special for the entire Holy Spirit program, especially first-year coach Andrew DiPasquale.
“The message to the team was you are underdogs, and we knew that coming in,” DiPasquale said. “It was a great opportunity for these kids to show that Holy Spirit hasn’t gone anywhere. We are still here to play, and that’s what we did.
“That game was awesome,” added DiPasquale, a former Spartans assistant and player. “You cannot write it up better than that. The heart rate was definitely up for that one, but it was a lot of fun. The kids played awesome. The kids did everything we could ask them to do, and it worked out well for us.”
Spirit senior quarterback Sean Burns was one of the best players on the field.
The 18-year-old Absecon resident threw for 369 yards with four touchdowns, including three in a high-scoring first half. Burns had 221 passing yards at halftime and was a big part of the season-opening win.
Holy Spirit led 25-17 at halftime.
“It was a fun game,” Burns said. “Coming into this game, I knew we would be throwing that ball a lot. It’s exciting for it all to work out and come out with a victory. … We had a lot of doubters coming into this game. People thought we weren’t going to win, so to come out and win this game is such a great feeling.”
Jake Zubrzycki caught a 13-yard touchdown pass to open the third quarter and cut Cherokee’s deficit to 25-24. On the first play of the ensuing drive, Barnes threw a 74-yard touchdown to Gavin Roman, who finished with 165 yards. Spirit’s Khajuan Roseborough then had an interception, but the Chiefs' defense stopped the Spartans on the goal line.
Zubrzycki then caught a 71-yard touchdown that tied the game 31-31. On the Spartans’ next drive, they again turned the ball over on downs inside the Cherokee 10.
“In the red zone, you have to get points out of it, but in the end it all worked out,” Burns said. “It was still a great win to start us off. So excited for the rest of the season.”
Spirit turned the ball over on downs on its first possession of the game. Cherokee’s Ray'Mir Johnson then had a very long run that put the Chiefs at the Spartans’ 21. The Spirit defense stepped up, and Cherokee settled for Tommy Pajic’s 25-yard field goal and a 3-0 lead.
The Spartans then drove to the Chief’s 22-yard line, but after a false start, faced a fourth-and-7. Burns threw a touchdown pass to Jayden Llanos. Roman had two big catches on that drive that gave the Spartans a 6-3 lead.
Cherokee quarterback Ryan Bender rushed for a 12-yard score that gave the Chiefs a 10-6 lead. Spirit capped a 71-yard, eight-play drive with a Jahcere Ward 22-yard touchdown run on second-and-8 that put the Spartans up 13-10. Ward rushed for 161 yards.
“I think our offense did a great job of scoring to either match it or go up,” Barnes said.
The back-and-forth scoring continued when Brandon Boria scored from 52 yards out to give Cherokee a 16-13 lead. The Spartans put together a 72-yard, nine-play drive capped by Burns’ 9-yard pass to Roseborough that gave the Spartans a 19-17 lead.
The Spirit defense then forced a punt, which led to Burns' 23-yard touchdown pass to Christian Surles
Cherokee attempted to score near the end of the first half, but with 50 seconds remaining, Spirit senior Luc Lewis had an interception. Holy Spirit did not run another play and took a 25-17 lead into halftime.
“We will enjoy (Sunday night) and Monday it’s back to work,” DiPasquale said. “We have a short week. We can’t let this carry over. It's awesome to get this win, but we have to move on and get ready for next week.”
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Holy Spirit's Gavin Roman hauls in a 74-yard touchdown pass against Cherokee on Sunday afternoon in a Battle at the Beach game in Ocean City. Holy Spirit knocked off No. 7 Cherokee 34-31 with a last-second field goal. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/holy-spirit-beats-cherokee-on-mason-fortes-field-goal/article_437adfb8-271b-11ed-9d18-d396fb9ffb59.html | 2022-08-28T23:50:32 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/holy-spirit-beats-cherokee-on-mason-fortes-field-goal/article_437adfb8-271b-11ed-9d18-d396fb9ffb59.html |
The Kenosha Area Family & Aging Services, Inc. Board of Directors has named Ronald C. Tatum as the new executive director of Kenosha County’s non-profit provider of family and aging services to all citizens of Kenosha County since 1969.
Tatum’s background as an executive in the non-profit sector, combined with a deep passion for people and community-based programs, will be assets for KAFASI as it continues its mission throughout Kenosha County.
His hiring comes with plans for strategic growth in grant programs, diversity, inclusion, and equity leadership, and services to the residents of Kenosha County.
Tatum has a long history of community outreach and volunteerism, including as president of the Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Racine and Kenosha Counties, vice president of Cops N Kids Reading Program, former NAMI Board member, vice president of Operations for Feeding America, Eastern Wisconsin and Director of Supply Chain for Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin.
KAFASI officials expressed their appreciation that Tatum accepted the position and excitement he will continue the agency’s legacy and mission.
“Ron Tatum brings the necessary experience, leadership, enthusiasm and great communication skills that will further advance the mission of the organization. We feel very lucky to have found him and look forward to a successful future with his leadership,” said KAFASI Board President Jim Hanson.
KAFASI’s mission is to promote healthy aging, strong families and a connected community. It is home to Kenosha’s largest volunteer force of over 600 volunteers and 60 staff members providing programs and services supporting community members of every generation and stage of life.
Two years ago today, with Kenosha already in the international spotlight following the shooting of Jacob Blake, two men were shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse. Here's a recollection of that night, from someone actually on the ground.
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.”
When a gunman shot and killed Racine Police Officer John Hetland three years ago, Gov. Tony Evers called Hetland a hero and ordered flags flown at half-staff statewide in a show of respect. But bills vetoed by the governor and other actions of his have led Hetlands' family to believe Evers' words were hollow. Hetland's parents are ripping the governor in a political advertisement that invokes their son's memory on behalf of Republicans trying to defeat Evers.
Police in the Waukesha County community of Muskego say a 17-year-old girl suffered a fatal head injury Sunday evening in a utility vehicle accident that occurred near the Racine County line. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenosha-area-family-and-aging-services-names-new-executive-director/article_22b96692-25a3-11ed-beaf-d39117b4a611.html | 2022-08-28T23:53:44 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenosha-area-family-and-aging-services-names-new-executive-director/article_22b96692-25a3-11ed-beaf-d39117b4a611.html |
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A 17-year-old and a 5-year-old are dead and an 18-month-old has been injured after a shooting in Fort Worth on Sunday afternoon, police confirmed in a press conference.
Fort Worth police responded to calls of a shooting at 2:13 p.m. Sunday afternoon on the 8500 block of Steel Dust Drive. Upon arrival, police discovered three boys, ages 17, 5 and 18 months, with gunshot wounds. The victims received medical treatment on scene and were transported to local hospitals nearby.
Despite treatment, the unidentified 17 and 5-year-old boys died. The 18-month-old victim suffered minor injuries and is expected to survive.
Fort Worth police also learned an unknown amount of individuals drove to the location where they fired at a group of individuals in the front yard, injuring the three young victims.
Neil Noakes, Fort Worth Police Chief, said at a press conference that when violent crime is on the rise across the country and the city, the death of children adds to the tragedy.
"When you have children who are murdered completely senselessly, it adds just another level to that tragedy we're all experiencing," Chief Noakes said.
Noakes added that both the deceased victims will never get to their full life or complete school and that the injured 18-month-old will experience physical and emotional setbacks.
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"That 17-year-old will never graduate. That 5-year-old will never graduate kindergarten," Noakes said. "That 18-month-old will have physical and emotional scars that may stay with him for the rest of his life."
The investigation remains active at this time. Fort Worth Police said if you have any information on the shooting to call 817-392-4336. Case number is 220068041. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/two-minors-dead-one-injured-after-fort-worth-shooting/3058848/ | 2022-08-28T23:57:45 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/two-minors-dead-one-injured-after-fort-worth-shooting/3058848/ |
BRANDON, Fla. — A man driving a motorcycle died in a car crash in Brandon after he lost control of the bike, Florida Highway Patrol said in a news release.
The 46-year-old man was heading northbound on U.S. 41 when, for an unknown reason, he lost control of the motorcycle as he approached West Bloomingdale Avenue, troopers say.
The 46-year-old reportedly then entered the median, overturned and was removed from the motorcycle.
The motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, FHP says. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/46-year-old-man-motorcycle-dies-brandon-crash/67-e2e3986a-6eb5-49c2-a133-d05e7fa0464f | 2022-08-29T00:08:35 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/46-year-old-man-motorcycle-dies-brandon-crash/67-e2e3986a-6eb5-49c2-a133-d05e7fa0464f |
LAKE WALES, Fla. — Police in Lake Wales says they are investigating a shooting that resulted in a man dead and two other people hospitalized around 1:44 p.m. Sunday.
Authorities arrived at the Lake Wales Housing Authority Grove Manor Apartments regarding a report about a shooting, Lake Wales Police Department said in a news release.
Law enforcement says one person died from the shooting and two other people were transported to a hospital to be treated for gunshot wounds and are expected to survive.
Police say there is no current threat to the public and more information will be provided when available as the investigation remains ongoing.
Anyone with information regarding the shooting is asked to contact Detective David Arana at 863-678-4223, extension 269. To remain anonymous and eligible for a cash reward, contact Heartland CrimeStoppers at 1-800-226-8477. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/polkcounty/1-dead-2-hospitalized-lake-wales-shooting/67-33d0467f-92f6-47b7-9439-16d2a644460c | 2022-08-29T00:08:41 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/polkcounty/1-dead-2-hospitalized-lake-wales-shooting/67-33d0467f-92f6-47b7-9439-16d2a644460c |
AUSTIN, Texas — The Austin Police Department is seeking the public's help in locating a missing 85-year-old.
Geraldine Godwin was last seen Saturday around 3 p.m. on the 11900 block of Swearingen Drive. She was wearing grey Capri shorts and a dark tank top that was possibly blue or gray.
Godwin is described as follows:
- White female
- Grey hair
- Blue eyes
- 4 feet, 11 inches tall
- 120 pounds
Anyone with more information is asked to call 911 or the APD's Missing Persons Unit at 512-974-5250.
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DALLAS — Editor's note: The video above is from a report on Aug. 10, 2022.
It's now time to mark down your food stops at this year's State Fair of Texas!
The State Fair on Sunday announced the winners of the 2022 Big Tex Choice Awards, which honors the top dishes in the categories of sweet, savory and creative.
The awards season began with 51 contestants and eventually came down to 10 finalists that were revealed over two weeks ago.
On Sunday, a panel of judges had the final say on the top 2022 State Fair foods after tasting the 10 dishes.
Here are the winners!
Best Taste - Savory
Fried Charcuterie Board, Tami Nevins-Mayes & Josey Mayes
Meats, cheeses, fruits – oh my! Chopped-up fresh mozzarella, salami, and crisp green apples are tossed in olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and Italian herbs. Then the ingredients are wrapped in a wonton wrapper and fried to a golden crisp, topped with creamy goat cheese and a drizzle of hot honey. Everyone's favorite appetizer rolled into one perfect bite!
Best Taste - Sweet
Peanut Butter Paradise, Chris Easter & Nicole Sternes
Man cannot live by bread alone - he must have peanut butter. Peanut Butter Paradise starts with deep-frying a honey bun. Then, caramel is injected into the honey bun and then topped with creamy peanut butter. The treat is then layered with some fan-favorite peanut butter treats, Reese's Pieces, Crushed Butterfinger crumbles, topped off with peanut butter cups, drizzled caramel, and a cloud of powdered sugar. Just another day in paradise!
Most Creative
Cha-Cha Chata, Garza Family
Sidestep all the others ‘cause it’s finally here - the milkshake that will make you Cha-Cha Chata all night long! Inspired by the cha-cha dance, the recipe starts with a triple-step of two kinds of milk and vanilla ice cream blended to perfection with the Garza family’s top-secret (but famously delicious) horchata recipe. The creamy drink is then poured into a cup rimmed with caramel and cinnamon goodness and topped with a Texas-sized dollop of whipped topping. To bring even more flavor to your tastebuds, the Cha-Cha Chata is dusted with crushed candy, a sprinkle of cinnamon galletas de gragega, and deep-fried arroz con leche bites. Take hold of the churro straw and take a sip, we promise it will cha-cha change your life!
The 2022 State Fair of Texas will run from Sept. 30 through Oct. 23. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/state-fair-texas-winners-2022-big-tex-choice-awards/287-52a8b30a-ce15-42c8-83d5-672615385ec4 | 2022-08-29T00:10:59 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/state-fair-texas-winners-2022-big-tex-choice-awards/287-52a8b30a-ce15-42c8-83d5-672615385ec4 |
AUSTIN, Texas — While we saw some measurable rain last week, most of Central Texas remains in a drought. Many counties still have water restrictions in place, and it's hard to keep a pretty lawn, which is why experts recommend drought-resistant landscaping.
The City of Austin has created this guide, so residents know what plants are native to the state and thrive under our usual dry conditions.
Drought-resistant plants are also able to hold more water when they get it. The City of Austin said these drought-tolerant plants need little if any supplemental fertilizer and are resistant to most diseases and pests. Using less water, fertilizer and chemicals in one's yard also helps protect Central Texas water resources.
These plants are also good to have during wildfire season.
"They're not going to hold a fire, if it does occur, for very long," said Alex Bregenzer, Texas A&M Forest Service program coordinator. "It'll either burn out quickly or won't be as intense. It will be lowered to the ground."
If you're looking to take it a step further, zero-scaping is another option.
"Taking grass or taking plants and placing it with completely fire-resistant materials like stone, rock -- in some cases, concrete," added Bregenzer.
Overall, the goal is to use as little water as possible and keep a pretty lawn year-round. This is something homeowners are able to achieve with drought-resistant plants because they can withstand almost any type of weather.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Beto O' Rourke missed his scheduled stops in South Texas due to a bacterial infection that put him in the hospital, a statement from O'Rourke said Sunday.
"While my symptoms have improved, I will be resting at home in El Paso in accordance with the doctors’ recommendations," O'Rourke said. "I am sorry to have had to postpone events because of this, but promise to be back on the road with you as soon as I am able."
The candidate for Texas governor was scheduled to be in Corpus Christi, Three Rivers and Goliad this weekend for his 49-day "A Drive for Texas" campaign event. Staff members of his campaign notified 3NEWS on Friday he would have to postpone the events due to an illness. No other information was given at that time.
In his statement Sunday, O' Rourke said he began to feel sick on Friday and decided to go get checked out. He thanked the doctors and nurses of Methodist Hospital in San Antonio where he said he was treated for the bacterial infection.
"The extraordinary team there — from custodians to nurses and doctors — gave me excellent care and attention, including IV antibiotics and rest," the statement said.
It is unclear when O'Rourke will continue his campaign events across Texas. Campaign officials told 3NEWS he does plan to reschedule the events he missed in the Coastal Bend. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/beto-orourke-missed-south-texas-events-due-to-bacterial-infection/503-a8064e1c-18ee-44b4-a8b7-be395230b8b1 | 2022-08-29T00:11:11 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/beto-orourke-missed-south-texas-events-due-to-bacterial-infection/503-a8064e1c-18ee-44b4-a8b7-be395230b8b1 |
LAKE HAVASU CITY, Arizona — A hiker has been found dead after getting lost on trails in a 1,100-acre regional park in Lake Havasu City.
Mohave County Sheriff's officials said the 31-year-old man became separated from a group of three other out-of-town hikers and his body was located Saturday afternoon.
The man’s name is being withheld until his relatives can be notified.
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Authorities said the four hikers called 911 around 2:30 p.m. Friday to say they were lost, out of water showing signs of heat exhaustion in 104-degree conditions.
Besides the 31-year-old man, the other hikers were a 61-year-old man and two women, ages 63 and 27.
City fire rescue crews found three hikers near a trail and sent the two women to a hospital for treatment of hydration.
The 61-year-old man told authorities about the 31-year-old man who left the group to find the trailhead.
The man was found dead off the trail system in a desert wilderness area of Lake Havasu City, which is in northwestern Arizona.
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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK)—A man wanted for murder in Charleston is off the streets.
On Sunday, Charleston Police said that Shavan Vondell Collins turned himself in and is currently at the Charleston Police Department.
Collins is accused of shooting Dontaze Mosley, 34, of Charleston, who was found in the front yard of a house on the 1400 block of Frame St. with a gunshot wound to his chest. Mosley was pronounced dead at the hospital on Friday.
Police say the two men got into an argument, and Collins shot Mosley in the chest before fleeing the scene. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/charleston-murder-suspect-in-custody/ | 2022-08-29T00:18:40 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/charleston-murder-suspect-in-custody/ |
ARKANSAS, USA — A new federal law that’s expected to impact climate change will extend or establish tax incentives for solar arrays, electric vehicles and U.S. manufacturers of solar array components, Arkansas energy officials said.
On Friday (Aug. 26), the Arkansas Advanced Energy Association hosted a virtual event to highlight how the Inflation Reduction Act will affect the energy industry. On Aug. 16, President Joe Biden signed the act into law after Congress approved it along party lines. The Arkansas Congressional Delegation voted against it.
Paul Osborne, partner for HCJ CPAs and Advisors, discussed the act’s $369 billion in climate and energy-related provisions that includes new or extended tax credits. He said a solar production tax credit that had expired in 2006 has been restored under the new law.
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On Ryane Martinez-Garibay’s 22nd birthday, she started work at her retail job and texted her mom about having lunch the next day. The two would celebrate by getting Indian food, their favorite, and Ryane would show her mom her newly decorated apartment.
Instead, Ryane received a phone call from a family friend that a constable had been shot at a nearby apartment complex. She went on a frantic search to locate her mom, Constable Deborah Martinez-Garibay, who had just texted her to arrange birthday plans a few hours before.
Deborah was not at her home, and none of the nearby hospitals had reported receiving her.
Ryane eventually got another call, this time from an unknown man’s voice: “He said, your mom, she was shot, and she didn't make it,” Ryane recalled.
Deborah was one of three killed Thursday at Lind Commons Apartments after a man being evicted shot her, apartment manager Angela Fox-Heath and neighbor Elijah Miranda before turning the gun on himself.
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Gavin Lee Stansell, the 24-year-old shooter, was facing eviction from the apartment for threatening a neighbor with a gun "and has otherwise disturbed the peace," according to court records.
But Deborah’s family questions whether she knew of the true danger she faced, and why there was a lack of safety afforded to her and other victims.
The family says a detective working on the case alerted them that Stansell’s mother had called for a wellness check on him the morning before the shooting due to the concerning behavior he displayed. TPD could not confirm if a wellness check was called in Thursday morning, but Sgt. Richard Gradillas, a department spokesman, said he was not aware of one based on the criminal briefing of the shooting.
“As far as we know, that was not communicated to Deborah. And so she went into this situation blind,” said Joanna Caballero, one of Deborah’s three sisters.
According to Esther Gonzalez, constable for Justice Precinct 2 and a close friend of Deborah’s, constables are only given the information provided on the judgment issued for the papers they serve. Constables can look up a person through a computer system, she said, which can tell them if a person has been “booked into the jail or has had some kind of contact with law enforcement.”
Gonzalez said serving papers to those with criminal backgrounds is “a daily thing.”
“And if you have on your plate consistently 15 to 20 evictions a day, on top of all the other work we do, I mean, we're just going through these nonstop,” she said.
As they mourn Deborah’s death, the constable’s family is waiting for answers on how such a deadly situation unfolded after a standard eviction.
“What are those steps in place to protect people? I think at the very least, they ought to do a warrant check for them prior to sending out these constables, to see what kind of threats they're facing when they get to that place,” said Michelle Martinez-LaVetter, Deborah’s sister. “And then briefing those constables and saying you know what, this might be a little too dangerous for you. Let's send our cops out there, and let's send our deputies out there.”
“There's a lot of answers that need to be had. We expect them. And we're waiting,”
'They sent her in there unprepared'
Deborah was appointed by the Pima County Board of Supervisors as constable for Justice Precinct 8 in midtown Tucson to replace a constable who resigned in March. A constable’s job entails serving legal summons such as eviction notices and protection orders from the justice courts to residents. As elected officials, they're not required to have any background in enforcement or training before taking on the position.
Deborah served 16 years in the Army and ran the Tucson chapter of an adaptive golf program for veterans called PGA HOPE.
Her family says Deborah was a “force of nature” and wanted to take on the constable position while continuing her volunteer work with veterans “because she wanted to help people.”
“She would go out and get resources and then she would ask, ‘What can I do for you? You don't need to worry about being on the street, we got this place, we got food, we got stamps.' She would go to Walmart to donate gift cards so people could get groceries,” Deborah’s father Joe Martinez said. “And at the same time, she never quit laughing.”
But while she was excited to take on the job, Deborah’s family said after six months as a constable, she still didn’t have the county-issued firearm, Kevlar vest or badge the county issues to constables.
“I feel that they sent her in there unprepared,” said her mother, Margaret Martinez.
Gonzalez said she has a county-issued gun, Taser and vest that she was fitted for, but it took “months” for the equipment to come in. She worked for the constable’s office for 12 years before being elected and trained under former Constable Marge Cummings, who lent Gonzalez an extra vest as she waited for her fitted one to come in.
Deborah’s family says the constable was armed with her personal firearm while waiting for a county-issued one to arrive.
In addition to long wait times for equipment, Gonzalez said the constables’ office also has issues regarding communication with law enforcement. Constables rarely know the nature of the individual they’re serving papers to before they knock on their doors, according to Gonzalez.
Normally, apartment managers will give constables a forewarning about a dangerous tenant, Gonzalez said. But even when a constable asks for help, the responses given can vary. According to Gonzalez, at one meeting the constables attended, an agenda item was listed about “how we need to stop calling so much for backup.”
“There needs to be more communication within the office. … I believe that other law enforcement agencies need to communicate with our office directly because we're not the peons of the county,” she said. “Our job is, I believe, more dangerous than what these other agencies have to go through because we are directly entering other people's houses that we don't know. We're going in blind.”
Arizona law requires newly elected constables to attend a training course within six months of taking on the job. According to Scott Blake, president of the Arizona Constables Association, the training takes place each January after an election. Deborah was appointed to the position in March.
Blake said the association also hosts two 20-hour conferences a year that cover safety protocol for constables including “de-escalation techniques, communication, first aid and officer safety.” Deborah's family said she attended a conference in Flagstaff a few weeks ago, but it's unclear what training she may have received.
When asked about the protocol for constables approaching dangerous situations, Scott wrote in an email: “Remember sometimes when knocking on a door we have no idea what is going to happen. However, let’s say tomorrow while I am executing the eviction that I have set up for at 5 PM changes from the tenant being cooperative to a tenant that is threatening with a gun, I would feel my best option is to back out of the house if possible and then to create a safe environment for everyone at that moment. I would then get more resources on that location to resolve the situation as safely as possible.”
It’s unclear if Deborah knew Stansell's eviction involved threats of firearms.
But according to her family, if Deborah knew the true danger that lay ahead, things would have gone differently.
“She wouldn't have had that landlord with her. Frankly, she would have been prepared,” said Deborah’s sister Connie Hall. “She would've gotten backup.”
Contact reporter Nicole Ludden at nludden@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/constables-family-mourns-loss-waiting-for-answers-about-deadly-eviction/article_dda347b2-259d-11ed-b0e8-67fc4856be9b.html | 2022-08-29T00:21:56 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/constables-family-mourns-loss-waiting-for-answers-about-deadly-eviction/article_dda347b2-259d-11ed-b0e8-67fc4856be9b.html |
The Bureau of Land Management transferred ownership of 27.5 acres of land to Tucson Unified School District, which paid its market value of $480,000.
The land on Tucson’s southwest side holds the former Hohokam Middle School, 7400 S. Settler Road, which TUSD shut in 2013 as part of a bigger cost-saving measure. That property was then held in trust and operated by the Pascua Yaqui Tribe.
The latest action, according to a BLM news release, clears the way for TUSD to expand educational opportunities for students as Tucson’s population continues to grow.
“Currently, it allows TUSD to lease the property to the Pascua Yaqui Tribe so they can provide services and education opportunities to their community,” TUSD spokeswoman Karla Escamilla said. Escamilla added that, in return, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe has invested approximately $2 million in the building and is scheduled to invest further.
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“Thus, if/when TUSD needs the building in the future, it will be in good shape for occupancy,” she said.
Marana pre-kinder
Young students in Marana Unified School District will be able to participate in the state’s pilot pre-kindergarten readiness program, called Waterford Upstart.
Through this online program, preschool-aged children will be taught basic skills they need in reading, math and science to prepare them for success in kindergarten and beyond, MUSD announced in a news release.
Waterford Upstart is designed for 4-year-olds who will enter kindergarten in August 2023. It consists of online activities and resources, as well as family-focused guidance, at no cost to the participants.
The participants will receive personalized family education and coaching; a new computer and internet, if needed; and the adaptive educational software.
Approximately 700 spots are available throughout the program for students in qualifying districts this year and next year, for a total of 1,400.
To learn more or to enroll a child in the program, visit waterford.org/upstart.
Stipends for science
The Society for Science, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the education and promotion of science, announced its roster of 84 educators, three of whom are from Tucson, to participate in its Advocate Program during the 2022-2023 school year.
The three local teachers are Stephen Beall of City High School, Jackie Nichols of Billy Lane Lauffer Middle School, and Sharon Sapp of Tucson High Magnet School.
According to the society’s news release, the teachers will receive stipends to work with students from underrepresented groups and low-income households to help them develop science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) projects and enter competitions.
Beall and Sapp each received $3,000 stipends. Nichols, who was appointed as a lead advocate, received a $5,000 stipend and will oversee a group of educators in the program.
“In the face of learning loss, a teacher shortage and recovery from an ongoing pandemic, it is critical that we guide students in science research in diverse learning environments and help them thrive in STEM competitions,” the Society for Science said in its news release.
To learn more about the Advocate Program, visit www.societyforscience.com.
Some substitute teachers and Exceptional Education staff will see bumps in their pay this school year as TUSD deals with hard-to-fill vacancies.
Plus other Tucson-area education news in brief, including: United Way to invest $70,000 to support early grade literacy and middle school math.
In the days following the sudden closure of San Xavier Mission School, diocese leaders coordinated with families and employees to help them find placements in other Tucson-area schools.
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