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For 40 years, Heidi Dawes family has called Casa View home, but she never experienced terror there the way she felt early Friday morning.
"I had laid down next to my son, and it was just [gunshot noises] just firing," Dawes said. "I heard my dad yelling, and then I heard my mom screaming."
It was around 4:45 a.m. Friday when Dallas Police said an unknown person seen on surveillance camera in a dark sedan fired several shots into the house on Andrea Lane near Shiloh Road.
"We just see a dark car driving from Harry Stone with their lights off very, very slow,” said Dawes.
On the exterior walls of the family’s home are bullet holes where nearly a dozen shots entered. At least one of those landed in the room Dawes shares with her son.
The rest entered her parents' room where her mother was struck in the foot as she tried to scramble to the floor.
"She's in a lot of pain but she's hanging in there,” said Dawes.
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Her mother was transported to a local hospital before being released to come home.
As police continue to investigate, the family's trying to piece together whether they were targeted and who could be responsible.
"Nobody even knows why or who or what was the reason,” she said.
Most likely, Dawes said this is simply a random act of violence. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/gunfire-wakes-shakens-family-in-east-dallas-drive-by/3061816/ | 2022-09-01T03:29:18 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/gunfire-wakes-shakens-family-in-east-dallas-drive-by/3061816/ |
Someone spray-painted ethnic slurs and white supremacy symbols and messages on a McKinney church and police want to know who.
It happened not once but twice recently at Stonebridge United Methodist Church on Stonebridge Drive.
“The Christian message that's in the bible is that god loves all people,” said lead pastor Jeff Lust. “Here, we don’t teach hate.”
Yet on Sunday, hate landed on the church’s doorstep.
Before service on Sunday, Lust said a church employee discovered an ethnic slur towards black people spray-painted on an exterior wall.
Lust said the church has predominantly white members, “So that seemed odd, too,” he said.
Then by an entrance, there were more than a dozen swastikas and a message that read "NOT MY BEST WORK yet…”
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“That's probably the one thing that has folks most on edge around here is well, what does that mean exactly?” said Lust.
Sunday is the second time the church has been vandalized. The first was on July 17, exactly six weeks prior, when a message about white supremacy was spray-painted on an exterior wall. The message is now covered up though it could still be made out.
“Our feeling was that was not a message we wanted people to see as they came to church,” said Lust.
Still, the images made the rounds, to other churches and households nearby like the Lloyds.
“I was angry about it and at the same time I was kind of almost in the frame of mind where you're going 'Well, what else is new?'” said Markus Lloyd.
Lloyd is a husband and father of two biracial sons. He also runs a ministry called Threaded which is centered around uniting churches across racial lines.
“People are starting to go 'ok, so what do we do with this now?'” said Lloyd. “I think that's a great response for something like this.”
Wednesday, McKinney Mayor George Fuller met Lust and denounced the vandalism.
“This is the act of some ignorant cowards, quite frankly, and not representative of our community in any way, shape or form,” said Fuller.
McKinney police said they are investigating the graffiti and the dumpster and two plants that were set on fire Sunday. Anyone with information is asked to contact the McKinney Police Department at 972-547-2700.
Lust said the church has had no other threats or communication and is at a loss for who would do this.
He said the church is stepping up security and plans to use what’s happened as an opportunity to unite different walks of faith for good.
“So that we, our church can be an ally in the effort to fight racism,” said Lust. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/mckinney-church-vandalized-with-racist-messaging-twice/3061740/ | 2022-09-01T03:29:25 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/mckinney-church-vandalized-with-racist-messaging-twice/3061740/ |
LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — Months ahead of the November elections, political figures from the country's two largest parties are descending on Northeastern Pennsylvania.
President Biden appeared in Wilkes-Barre to rally support for his "Safer America Plan" Tuesday, just days ahead of former President Donald Trump's scheduled "Save America" rally at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre Township on Saturday.
"This is a state that can determine who controls Congress. It can determine and important governorship in this country," said Dr. JoyAnna Hopper, a University of Scranton political science professor.
Hopper said Pennsylvania has become a critical swing state in recent election cycles.
Northeastern Pennsylvania has been in the limelight, she argues, because of President Biden's personal connection to the area.
"Biden has pretty routinely, and not just in his presidential run, referred to Scranton as his hometown. This is a means of connecting to voters," she said. "Scranton is characterized as being hard-working. It's a blue-collar town. It's a voting demographic that both Republican and Democratic parties continue to try to reach out to. So, this is a good place for candidates from both parties to go."
But do these rallies make a difference?
While they often feature appearances from candidates and politicians at every level, Hopper said they're often more about rallying the party base than attracting new voters.
Depending on where they stand, she said, some officials may shy away from big events with polarizing figures.
"While President Biden's approval ratings have shown some improvement recently, there still may be some candidates that are reluctant to attach themselves to him, to appear with him," Hopper said. "The same goes with Trump."
But that doesn't mean the rallies are slowing down.
"The fact that you're seeing candidates from both parties that are showing up here and visiting all parts of the state, it just shows how crucial Pennsylvania is in determining the direction of American politics," Hopper added.
Dr. Hopper said Pennsylvania's political climate mirrors the larger battle playing out in races across the nation, in which traditional candidates are being challenged by candidates who have spent most-if-not-all of their careers outside of politics.
Want to see what was in news in 1983? Head on over to WNEP's YouTube. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/why-is-northeast-pa-a-hotbed-for-political-rallies-dr-joyanna-hopper-wnep-marshall-keeley-trump-biden-wilkes-barre-scranton/523-3ee4c3cd-cefa-49e5-a522-4f785899557c | 2022-09-01T03:37:18 | 0 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/why-is-northeast-pa-a-hotbed-for-political-rallies-dr-joyanna-hopper-wnep-marshall-keeley-trump-biden-wilkes-barre-scranton/523-3ee4c3cd-cefa-49e5-a522-4f785899557c |
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Former Idaho state Rep. Aaron von Ehlinger, who was convicted of raping a legislative intern, looks around the room before the start of his sentencing at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022.
Former Idaho State Rep. Aaron von Ehlinger testifies on his own behalf on day three of his rape trial at the Ada County Courthouse, Thursday, April 28, 2022.
Former Idaho state Rep. Aaron von Ehlinger, who was convicted of raping a legislative intern, looks around the room before the start of his sentencing at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022.
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Former Idaho State Rep. Aaron von Ehlinger testifies on his own behalf on day three of his rape trial at the Ada County Courthouse, Thursday, April 28, 2022.
Originally published August 31, 2022, at IdahoCapitalSun.com Former Rep. Aaron von Ehlinger will serve at least eight years in prison for the felony crime of rape, with another 12 years or the possibility of parole, for a total of 20 years in prison, Fourth District Judge Michael Reardon ruled Wednesday.
Von Ehlinger will also be required to register as a sex offender upon the time of his release, and a court order not to contact the victim in the case will remain in place until Aug. 30, 2055. He will also receive credit for the 139 days he has already served in Ada County Jail, and is ordered to pay court costs and $2,015 in restitution.
The sentencing comes four months after a jury found von Ehlinger guilty. The jury found von Ehlinger not guilty of the second charge of oral penetration.
A 19-year-old legislative intern, who is referred to as Jane Doe to protect her identity, said von Ehlinger, then 38, took her to dinner in early March 2021, then back to his apartment, where she said he forced her to perform oral sex and inserted his fingers inside of her without her consent.
The prosecuting attorneys asked for a 40-year sentence for von Ehlinger with 15 years fixed and the remaining time either in prison or on parole. Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Katelyn Farley said von Ehlinger had a low probability of rehabilitation. That determination is based on the pre-sentencing investigation that was conducted by a doctor to determine von Ehlinger’s risk of reoffending.
Von Ehlinger’s attorney, Jon Cox, asked for a lighter sentence with retained jurisdiction, meaning von Ehlinger would complete a rehabilitation program and Reardon could reassess his sentence afterward.
Ada County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Emily Lowe said Doe did not want to make any statements after the sentencing, and she only briefly appeared during the trial before fleeing the stand.
But Doe did record a victim impact statement that prosecutors played during the sentencing. In the recording, she said she already had post-traumatic stress from events that happened during her childhood, and what she experienced that night has put her in a constant state of hypervigilance.
“How can I recount the terror my body was going through that evening?” Doe said. “Have you ever tasted blood from biting the inside of your lips because you couldn’t say ‘no’ loud enough? Have you ever felt buried alive in your own flesh, that your screams stay trapped on the tip of your tongue?”
Doe said she will never forget the strength and force of von Ehlinger’s grip as he squeezed her head and forced her to perform oral sex. She said she worried he would become violent if she resisted beyond saying, “I don’t want to.”
She also said she does not feel safe in her own home, and that she was petrified to speak even on a recording.
“But I will not be intimidated into complacent silence so that another rapist can slip through the cracks of this justice system,” she said.
Cox motioned for a new trial earlier this month based on what Cox said were constitutional violations during the April trial as well as new evidence. Reardon denied that motion on Aug. 25, saying the evidence was not compelling and he did not think any constitutional violations occurred.
Von Ehlinger represented Lewiston in the Legislature for less than one year, after Gov. Brad Little appointed him to the Idaho House of Representatives on June 3, 2020, to fill the seat held by the late Rep. Thyra Stevenson. He resigned from the Legislature following an ethics hearing in the House of Representatives in April 2021. The ethics committee recommended his suspension or expulsion for the alleged conduct.
Von Ehlinger had a history of misdemeanor violations on his record that were pardoned by the state of Idaho prior to the rape accusation and conviction. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/former-idaho-rep-aaron-von-ehlinger-sentenced-to-at-least-8-years-in-prison-for/article_b63d2c78-297c-11ed-beac-1bc653577035.html | 2022-09-01T03:51:27 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/former-idaho-rep-aaron-von-ehlinger-sentenced-to-at-least-8-years-in-prison-for/article_b63d2c78-297c-11ed-beac-1bc653577035.html |
AUSTIN, Texas — The Austin Police Department and the U.S. Marshals Service are asking for the public’s assistance in locating a suspect accused of murdering a 16-year-old in the Tech Ridge area in September 2020.
Franco Javier Maldonado, 22, has an outstanding warrant for the murder of Luke Kemper on Sept. 29, 2020.
APD released a booking photo of Maldonado from a previous, unrelated arrest in an appeal on Wednesday. He has been on the run since Kemper’s murder in 2020, police said.
Detectives believe the incident started with a drug deal. Maldonado has a prior record, which includes narcotics and theft of a firearm.
Authorities believe Maldonado may still be in Central Texas, but there is a possibility he fled to Mexico, they said.
He is described as a Hispanic man, 5 feet, 11 inches tall, 195 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with any information is asked to call APD at 512-974-8477, email homicide.apd@austintexas.gov or call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 512-472-8477.
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A startling discovery at West Point has some standing at attention.
A congressional panel said that tributes to the Confederacy and a plaque with "Ku Klux Klan" on it have been hiding in plain sight at the New York military academy. The Naming Commission said that it found the plaque, which also featured a hooded man, on the entrance to Bartlett Hall, the science building on campus.
There were also the names of several Confederate generals, including Robert E. Lee, on different barracks, roads and other buildings.
The commission said that the names and plaques did not appear until the 1930s at earliest, when the "Lost Cause" movement to preserve the honor of the Confederacy took hold across the U.S.
West Point sent NBC New York a photo that shows the plaque is part of three bronze panels, a triptych, which were dedicated in 1965 to graduates of the academy who served in World War II and the Korean War. In one small section is where the KKK member can be spotted.
In addition to saying that the school is "fully committed to creating a climate where everyone is treated with dignity and respect," West Point said that the artist, Laura Gardin Fraser, "wanted to create art that depicted 'historical incidents or persons' that symbolized the principled events of that time, thereby documenting both tragedy and triumph in our nation’s history."
The statement went on to say that "among many other symbols, the triptych also includes individuals who were instrumental in shaping principal events of that time, and symbols like the “Tree of Life” that depict how our nation has flourished despite its tragedies." | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/confederate-names-and-kkk-plaque-found-at-west-point/3846981/ | 2022-09-01T04:09:13 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/confederate-names-and-kkk-plaque-found-at-west-point/3846981/ |
A slow-moving battle is playing out on Long Island — over sloths.
The town of Islip wants a business called "Sloth Encounters" in the hamlet of Hauppauge to shut down because they say it's illegal, as the town supervisor said it has issued several summonses to the owner of the business, Larry Wallach.
The town said that the business violates several codes, including the ban on owning or possessing a wild animal.
Wallach has said there is nothing wrong with the business, but the town calls him a wannabe "Sloth King" (a reference to the Netflix documentary "Tiger King") and has said some residents have accused him of mistreating the sloths.
Wallach said he has answered all the citations and done everything he has supposed to do. The owner is expected to appear in court on Sept. 14th over the violations. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/long-island-town-says-sloth-king-is-violating-animal-codes-wants-business-shut-down/3847077/ | 2022-09-01T04:09:19 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/long-island-town-says-sloth-king-is-violating-animal-codes-wants-business-shut-down/3847077/ |
The New York City Department of Correction said that three Rikers Island staff members have been suspended in connection with the jail's latest inmate death.
The department said that 40-year-old Michael Nieves had been at the jail since June 8th, after a burglary arrest. During his time at Rikers, two correction officers and a captain failed to respond for at least ten minutes after Nieves slit his own throat with a razor, according to the New York Times.
Nieves died Tuesday night at Elmhurst Hospital, becoming the 13th Rikers inmate to die in 2022. DOC Commissioner Louis Molina called it "a painful loss," and said that they will continue to investigate "the circumstances surrounding this incident."
The Legal Aid Society blamed Nieves' death on the Adams administration for "failing to respond to the gross incompetence of its staff."
NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Comptroller Brad Lander said in a joint statement that it was "not the first time that officers stood by passively during a suicide attempt. While some corrections staff are working intensely to improve health and safety on the island, others are actively undermining these efforts."
Williams and Lander also called the recent death another example of why the jail needs to close.
"Those in charge of the wellbeing of detained people must be held accountable when the basic standards of human decency are not met," the joint statement read. "The City must renew and expedite its efforts to close the jail facilities at Rikers." | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/three-nyc-corrections-dept-employees-suspended-after-latest-death-at-rikers/3847086/ | 2022-09-01T04:09:25 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/three-nyc-corrections-dept-employees-suspended-after-latest-death-at-rikers/3847086/ |
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HIGH POINT — After coming together to search for 81-year-old Heddie Dawkins following her disappearance last week, family, friends and strangers drew close again Wednesday evening.
This time to remember her life and how she touched them.
More than 200 people attended a prayer vigil for Dawkins at Gethsemane Baptist Church, a day after her body was found by a volunteer search party less than a mile from her home.
Dawkins, who suffered from dementia, wandered away from her home in the early morning of Aug. 24. Her family reported her missing later that morning, launching days of searching by police and the public.
“Sister Heddie had one more assignment,” Pastor Roy Fitzgerald told the overflowing crowd, “and that assignment was to bring us all together.”
He noted the beautiful rainbow that appeared around the time Dawkins’ body was found.
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“(God) painted it at the appropriate time,” Fitzgerald said.
Dawkins’ grandson, Cory Dawkins, told the crowd that his grandmother was always after him for procrastinating. With her passing, he urged others to heed her advice as he planned to do.
“She walked through that door to wake us all up,” he said. “We all have a message. We all have a testimony. Make sure to tell your loved ones that you love them.”
The family thanked law enforcement officers and people who prayed, searched and hoped for Dawkins’ safe return.
Her disappearance touched people across the Triad. Strangers drove miles to help search neighborhoods, fields and wooded areas in hopes of finding the former guidance counselor alive.
Condolences for the family flooded the Facebook group MISSING: Find Heddie Dawkins—High Point/Jamestown NC after her body was discovered.
One those messages came from Katie Schoenfelder Gumerson. She said Wednesday afternoon that she organized and participated in several searches for Dawkins.
“I think the thing that really changed me was that people of every age, fitness level, background, profession — it doesn’t matter who you were — everybody was there with a goal of just to find her,” Schoenfelder Gumerson said. “And we strangely had a really memorable and nice time together.”
It’s that type of bonding that Dawkins’ family said gives them hope amidst their pain.
“We’re going to use this. We’re going to be better,” Bert Dawkins told the crowd Wednesday evening. “This is bigger than my mom.”
After seeing more than 100 people show up early Tuesday to help police search for her mother, Dawkins’ daughter, Rhonda Neal, said the ordeal has boosted her faith in people.
“The latest news — the things that are going on in the world — makes you think that society is just messed up,” Neal said. “And to see this. If her only purpose was to do this, bring people together, she would do it again the same way.” | https://greensboro.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/final-act-heddie-dawkins-brought-us-all-together-in-life-as-well-as-death/article_94b1778e-2964-11ed-8194-8f7b37700633.html | 2022-09-01T04:17:13 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/final-act-heddie-dawkins-brought-us-all-together-in-life-as-well-as-death/article_94b1778e-2964-11ed-8194-8f7b37700633.html |
GREENSBORO — A North Carolina nonprofit is planning a conference in Guilford County on Sept. 14 and 15 about the education of students of Latin American heritage in the state.
The group, LatinxEd, will hold its 2022 Latinx Education Summit at The Conference Center at Guilford Technical Community College. It is located in Colfax, just northwest of Greensboro.
Panel discussions will include topics like college access and success, teacher diversity, mental health, language access, and immigration. Spanish language translation will be available.
Former Guilford County Schools Superintendent Sharon Contreras is set to give the keynote address titled, “Reflections on Leading for Equity.” Contreras is the CEO of the Innovation Project, a nonprofit working group of North Carolina school district superintendents and their teams.
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“The Latinx community is the fastest growing demographic group in North Carolina,” said Elaine Townsend Utin, co-founder and executive director of LatinxEd, in a news release. “As our population continues to grow across the state, we must build culturally sustaining education systems that truly recognize, honor, and serve the diverse needs of our families. This is what fuels our Latinx Education Summit.”
LatinxEd was founded in 2018 and is based in Chapel Hill. Its mission is, “to invest in Latinx leadership and expand educational equity and opportunity in North Carolina.”
For more information about the conference, visit www. latinxed.org/summit. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/education/group-plans-latinx-education-summit-in-guilford-county/article_81905dc2-2889-11ed-8640-73ae46dfadda.html | 2022-09-01T04:17:19 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/education/group-plans-latinx-education-summit-in-guilford-county/article_81905dc2-2889-11ed-8640-73ae46dfadda.html |
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High Point: Collection delayed by one day. Collections are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/labor-day-closings/article_6bee0e3c-2948-11ed-94cc-bf18caa0abed.html | 2022-09-01T04:17:25 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/labor-day-closings/article_6bee0e3c-2948-11ed-94cc-bf18caa0abed.html |
ATLANTA — It’s a collection of cultures at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The MexTour 2022 international soccer tour came to Atlanta Wednesday with Mexico and Paraguay taking to the pitch.
Soccer excitement filled the air in what is the kickoff to a very busy weekend ahead in Atlanta. An estimated 70,000 fans packed inside the stadium, and for Atlanta's Hispanic community, this is much more than a soccer match.
Culture filled the air, whether it was music, sombreros, or Mexican food.
Marvin Alarcon tailgated with friends and family as his Uncle Jorge served as the barbecue master.
Marvin's love of Mexican soccer runs deep. Both of his parents emigrated from the country.
“Both of them come from the same state in Mexico, which is Guerrero," he said. "They knew about each other over there, but they met here in the U.S.”
Soccer is a big part of Marvin's heritage.
“I feel like it’s one of those things you grow up with," Marvin said. "I feel like I didn’t become a fan. I always was a fan.”
Marvin's wife Aileen also grew up as a soccer fan.
"My parents are from the city of Mexico," Aileen said. "I just like sharing the culture with my parents. It just makes me proud of where I come from, and it’s just really exciting to be here."
Uncle Jorge cooked traditional beef and chicken on the grill. His family felt the connection not just with each other but with all who wore red, white, and green.
“It’s like a sense of community," Marvin said. "You look around, and it’s people who look like me, talk like, and it’s a sense of being a big ole family.”
The soccer game kicks off a busy weekend with tens of thousands of people expected in Atlanta for Black Gay Pride, Dragon Con, and the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Classic. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/mextour-2022-international-soccer-match-atlanta/85-17aaed14-f83c-44a5-b0ca-bd0cf8a073fe | 2022-09-01T04:24:43 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/mextour-2022-international-soccer-match-atlanta/85-17aaed14-f83c-44a5-b0ca-bd0cf8a073fe |
Starting on Aug. 26, the Bureau of Land Management further restricted certain public activities on BLM-managed lands in Coos, Douglas, and Curry counties to prevent human-caused fire and reduce wildfire potential.
Under the current fire prevention order, campfires are only allowed at the BLM’s Edson Creek, Loon Lake and East Shore Campgrounds. In all other areas, visitors can use portable cooking stoves that use liquefied or bottled fuels. Otherwise, campfires or any other type of open fire, including the use of charcoal briquettes, is prohibited.
In addition to campfires, the following activities are restricted:
⦁ Smoking is only allowed while in vehicles on improved roads, in boats on the water or at designated areas.
⦁ Operating a motor vehicle and parking off road (including motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles) is only allowed on roadways clear of flammable vegetation.
⦁ Using fireworks, exploding targets or tracer ammunition is prohibited.
⦁ Welding, or operating a torch with an open flame, is prohibited.
Visitors to BLM-managed lands are also required to carry with them tools to ensure small fires can be put out quickly. These tools include a shovel, axe, and at least one gallon of water or a 2.5 pound fire extinguisher.
Violation of these restrictions can result in a fine up to $1,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/campfires-limited-to-select-locations-as-fire-danger-increases/article_85222088-270d-11ed-b2f3-b77f639bd3a9.html | 2022-09-01T04:29:05 | 1 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/campfires-limited-to-select-locations-as-fire-danger-increases/article_85222088-270d-11ed-b2f3-b77f639bd3a9.html |
February 03, 1942 – July 31, 2022
Richard was born in Oak Park, Illinois and grew up there and in Plainfield, New Jersey; St Louis Park, Minnesota; and Prairie Village, Kansas. He graduated from Shawnee Mission East High School and Kansas State University. He served in the US Army and was honorably discharged as a Captain. His name will be added to the Department of Defense Honor Roll in Washington, D.C. to commemorate his military service.
He worked for Metropolitan Life and Jim Palmer Trucking in Wichita, Kansas. He moved to Reedsport, Oregon in 2010. He was an avid woodworker and design carpenter; was a member of the NRA; and enjoyed target shooting, hunting, fishing, hot-air ballooning, and reading.
He is survived by three brothers, Paul Nauert of Santa Barbara, CA, Peter Nauert of Overland Park, KS, and Robert Nauert of Rocklin, CA; one sister, Nancy Tubbs of Portland, OR; four nieces; six great nieces; and one great nephew.
He was cremated at Dunes Memorial Chapel. His ashes will be spread on Sandia Peak in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In his memory, donations may be made to the American Heart Association or the American Cancer Society. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/obituaries/richard-a-nauert/article_07e931e2-2983-11ed-aafa-bb69e3ca5f52.html | 2022-09-01T04:29:11 | 1 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/obituaries/richard-a-nauert/article_07e931e2-2983-11ed-aafa-bb69e3ca5f52.html |
CLEARWATER, Fla. — The family of the Largo High School teenager who was hit and killed walking to his bus stop is calling on their Pinellas County community to help create safe change.
Wednesday afternoon Ethan Weiser’s family went door to door in their Clearwater neighborhood handing out flyers about his vigil happening Thursday night.
Ethan was hit and killed on Friday morning when he was crossing Belleair Road to get to his bus stop in Clearwater.
There are no lights or crosswalks in that area. His family hopes to change that and they want the community to get involved.
They handed out flyers asking people to attend Ethan's vigil to show the county and state officials more is needed at Ethan’s bus stop and others to make sure kids get to school safe.
"Just a super gentle, super kind, all-around great person and we’ll never get to see where that was going," Ethan's uncle, Matt Croasmun said. "What the future holds for him. We lost that."
Ethan's sister Emma who was with him when he was killed also walked door to door to hand out flyers.
"For me, it means getting more support and getting people to show up to the vigil," Emma Wesier said.
Ethan's family hopes people will attend his vigil and show leaders people care about seeing change.
The vigil is at 6:45 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 1. It will be in Clearwater where Ethan was hit along Belleair Road near South Haven Drive. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/ethan-weiser-vigil-largo-clearwater-teen-bus-stop-crash/67-6e42d94b-d264-401e-843f-60af773ef361 | 2022-09-01T04:29:35 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/ethan-weiser-vigil-largo-clearwater-teen-bus-stop-crash/67-6e42d94b-d264-401e-843f-60af773ef361 |
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — According to LIVE Tampa Bay, a local non-profit fighting opioid addiction, an average of 30 people die from drug overdoses each week in the Tampa Bay area. Furthermore, it says an average of 34 people in the area are resuscitated from overdoses with Naloxone every single day.
Behind those jarring statistics, there are countless personal stories about addiction, including that of Emily Chomic.
Chomic started using drugs when she was just 13 years old as a way to cope with the untimely death of her sister. The years that followed were marred by arrests, stints in rehab and strained relationships with her family and friends.
"I could never figure out why I kept going back and it took me a long time to figure out it was me; I wasn’t feeling comfortable with myself," Chomic said. "I hated myself for the embarrassment that I put my family through and myself, I could never forgive myself for the past."
At 25, her addiction spiraled. She overdosed five times in two years.
"You would think that would scare you, you would think like, 'oh my God I just died, I need to get my life together, I have a problem.' But no, there's just something about that drug that you just pick it over anything."
Executive Director of LIVE Tampa Bay Jennifer Webb said Chomic's experience with overdoses is not uncommon.
"Substance use disorder is a disease. It's a chronic behavioral health disease like diabetes is a chronic health disease," Webb said. "You would no more refrain from giving a diabetic insulin than you should refrain from giving someone overdosing naloxone or medication to help them get into recovery."
As we remember those lost to overdoses, Webb said she hopes to reach those still struggling.
"Let's keep supporting people until they can get into recovery, because recovery is possible," she said. "We keep bringing people back and working to connect them to recovery and treatment so they can get their life back together and get into recovery and become a contributing, productive member of society. That’s absolutely possible."
Now three months clean, Chomic said she strives to be living proof that recovery is possible.
"I'm learning how to be strong within myself, which is very hard, but it's doable. I just can't believe I'm sitting here today. It's a blessing," she said.
If you're struggling, there are resources out there. Dial 211 to be connected to local resources.
Sept. 1 marks the beginning of National Recovery Month. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/overdose-survivor-live-tampa-bay-emily-chomic/67-b97d95f2-2c68-4af9-88f6-4a1575b83add | 2022-09-01T04:29:42 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/overdose-survivor-live-tampa-bay-emily-chomic/67-b97d95f2-2c68-4af9-88f6-4a1575b83add |
PALM HARBOR, Fla. — A member of a Tampa Bay-area motorcycle gang was arrested for shooting a member of a related gang to death, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said on Monday.
A couple of days later, the sheriff's office is still searching for other members who the agency says were involved in the murder.
48-year-old Paul Mogilevsky was charged with first-degree murder in the death of 46-year-old Dominick Paternoster.
Dominick was killed on April 27 at his Palm Harbor home.
Nicole Paternoster, the ex-wife of Dominick, said she saw where the scene of the murder occurred.
"I sat in the chair with the bullet holes in it, where his head would have been for about an hour, and cried my eyes out," she said.
Nicole and Dominick shared three kids together but had been separated for over five years. The pair met when they were teenagers in New York.
"He had a great sense of humor. He was quite intelligent and witty. He had a heart of gold," Nicole said.
However, Nicole said things changed in their relationship when Dominick became a drug addict and talked about being part of a biker gang.
"He took a turn for the worst and turned violent, and he never was that way. It was kind of too late for him, I think," she said.
Gualtieri explained that Mogilevsky is a member of the motorcycle gang Mongols, and Paternoster was a member of the Raiders — a smaller gang that fed into the Mongols. Both groups share a clubhouse in Tampa. These clubs are known for killing people who cross them, and that's what happened in this case.
Despite her bad feelings for him, Nicole said she and her children are fighting for justice to find the people who were involved in her ex-husband's murder.
"I like to see all of them executed. Whoever was involved, an eye for an eye. Life imprisonment would not be enough," she said.
A confidential witness told detectives Mogilevsky pre-planned the homicide and admitted to shooting and killing Paternoster.
Mogilevsky and the other members then allegedly disposed of the evidence in Tampa Bay. It was recovered by the sheriff's office dive team.
Gualtieri said these motorcycle gangs are known for engaging in criminal activity like selling drugs and engaging in prostitution.
The investigation of the case remains ongoing. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/ex-wife-dominick-paternoster-motorcycle-gang-member-killed/67-a6b66c77-ed51-4e8c-96f9-8871c61147b7 | 2022-09-01T04:29:48 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/ex-wife-dominick-paternoster-motorcycle-gang-member-killed/67-a6b66c77-ed51-4e8c-96f9-8871c61147b7 |
DALLAS — Hours after blatant racism by a Dallas police officer surfaced, a Dallas police major apologized.
“It’s sickening and disgusting,” Major Jim Lewis told a room of people at the Polk-Wisdom Branch Library during a previously scheduled “meet and greet” between community members and Dallas police officers who work under Lewis at South Central patrol.
The meeting, organized by Dallas city council member Tennell Atkins, had been on the calendar for Aug. 31 for a while.
The Wednesday night event turned out to be perfect timing.
On Tuesday night, DPD said administrative staff learned that a police officer posted on social media a picture of a new challenge coin designed to commemorate South Central Patrol’s 15 years in existence.
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The coin was being offered for sale.
It was full of blatantly racist images, said Terrance Hopkins, president of the Black Police Association of Greater Dallas.
The coin featured a Pillsbury Dough Boy holding cash and a gun at an apparent drug house.
The character had gold teeth and was holding an assault rifle in one hand and a stack of cash in the other.
A Dallas police car and a purple car with large rims were visible, as was "Big 'T' Plaza,” a shopping center in South Oak Cliff.
Hopkins said the dough boy refers to a movie where the main character is a drug dealer.
He said the images make community member ask questions like, “Is this the way white officers view us in our community? Is this the only vision they have of Black people?”
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The police officer is on leave pending an investigation and Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia said at a news conference with Hopkins that he would not tolerate racist behavior.
“This may have happened at the Dallas Police Department before I got here, but it’s the first time it’s happened since I’ve been here and I’m going to tell you I’m not having it,” Garcia said. “It’s not going to happen on my watch.”
Lewis echoed the chief’s remarks at the town hall meeting, which happened hours after news of the coin’s design became public.
“Let me apologize as the commander over the officers that work this area,” Lewis said. “We failed in this instance.”
Lewis told the crowd he knew damage had been done.
But Atkins said he trusted it could be repaired with the internal investigation now underway.
“Racism is not over with,” Atkins said.
Community members who attended the meeting questioned whether the officer who designed the coin acted alone.
“There are other people in this as well and we need to get to the bottom of that,” one woman told Atkins and Lewis.
In 2019, before Garcia took over at DPD, racist texts between Dallas officers surfaced during the murder trial of former officer Amber Guyger who was found guilty in the death of Botham Jean.
That same year, a nationwide investigation revealed racially insensitive social media posts from officers across the country - including members of DPD - that led to disciplinary action for some.
Rev. Michael Waters, lead pastor of Dallas’s Abundant Life African Methodist Episcopal Church and a longtime community leader, sees a disturbing pattern.
“It’s a sickening depiction of Black life and it’s terrifying for me and terrifying for the in the south central area of Dallas,” he said of the coin.
“It comes from a very horrid history in our nation of Black people caricature that allows for the dehumanization of Black people.”
He called for DPD to do “deep internal reflection” about what needs to be done to shift culture.
“This has an impact on the psyche of police officers and how they encounter the residents they’ve sworn an oath to serve,” he said. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/top-dallas-pd-brass-apologize-admit-failure-over-racist-coin-design/287-992330d2-0b52-498f-9668-06676dcaee03 | 2022-09-01T04:35:45 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/top-dallas-pd-brass-apologize-admit-failure-over-racist-coin-design/287-992330d2-0b52-498f-9668-06676dcaee03 |
Body of missing Plainfield Twp. woman found in Wyoming, Mich.
The body of a missing Plainfield Township woman has been found in Wyoming, Michigan, police said Wednesday.
Mollie Schmidt, 33, had been missing for nine days. Her body was found in an apartment in the 1500 block of 44 St. SW on Tuesday with a gunshot wound, Wyoming police Lt. Rory Allen said in a video of a media briefing posted by Wood-TV.
Police are seeking Yenly Garcia, 44, as a person of interest. Schmidt's body was found in his apartment, Allen said.
"Detectives are investigating this case as a homicide and are pursuing all leads," Allen said.
Garcia is 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs about 200 pounds and has dark hair and distinct tattoos on his face. He was last seen driving a black 2019 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck with a Michigan plate of ELW6780, according to Allen.
Schmidt went missing on Aug. 21. She was last seen at her home near the East Beltline & 5 Mile Rd NE in Plainfield Township. The Kent County Sheriff's Office had been investigating her disappearance, calling it "uncharacteristic" because Schmidt left behind her children.
Sheriff's Office detectives and Wyoming police had obtained a search warrant for Garcia's apartment and discovered Schmidt's body during the search, Allen said.
Garcia has an active warrant out for his arrest on charges unrelated to Schmidt's disappearance and death, police said at t he briefing.
Wyoming police asked anyone with information about the case to contact them at (616) 530-7300 or Silent Observer at (866) 774-2345.
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@hmackayDN | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/09/01/body-missing-plainfield-twp-woman-found-wyoming-mich/7957055001/ | 2022-09-01T04:47:17 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/09/01/body-missing-plainfield-twp-woman-found-wyoming-mich/7957055001/ |
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Republican secretary of state candidate Diego Morales continues to campaign around the state in advance of November’s election, including a stop in Fort Wayne this evening.
In advance of the visit, Morales talked with The Journal Gazette about his campaign, his goals if elected and his past statements on the 2020 election.
In a March op-ed, Morales wrote he believes there are “valid reasons to doubt the official vote tallies in key states” during the 2020 election.
The article, published on the website Hoosier State Today, compares his positions with current secretary of state and then-primary rival Holli Sullivan, stating she “will not even acknowledge the most controversial election in American history.”
He criticized other states that changed their statutes during the pandemic to allow more mail-in voting, calling the changes “last-minute, and largely illegal.” Morales also alleged in-person voters on Election Day were subjected to “serious scrutiny … compared to drop-box and mass mail-in voters” – something he called a “total violation of the letter and spirit” of the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause.
“In clear contrast to Sullivan, let me make my own position on 2020 crystal clear,” Morales wrote. “The 2020 election was flawed and the outcome is questionable. There are three main components to the scam that was perpetrated upon the citizens of Indiana, and against all Americans.”
However, since winning the nomination at the GOP state convention in June, his rhetoric around President Joe Biden’s victory against former President Donald Trump has cooled considerably.
“We have moved forward on this,” Morales said this week when asked about the 2020 election. “I have moved on on this. My focus now is on the 2022 elections. Biden is the president; he’s in the White House.”
That focus involves considerable travel around Indiana, including today’s visit to Allen County. Morales said he’s “crisscrossed” all 92 counties “several times already,” and he plans to continue throughout the campaign until he faces Democratic candidate Destiny Scott Wells in November.
An immigrant, Morales’ family came to Indiana from Guatemala when he was younger. He emphasized his family immigrated legally, “respecting the rule of law.”
He joined the military in 2007, prior to becoming a citizen of the United States – a process Morales said took “almost 10 years.”
“I had a green card in my wallet when I enlisted in the U.S. military,” Morales said. “When I was stationed in Fort Benning, Georgia, that’s when I was asked if I was registered to vote. I said, ‘No, I’m not.’ The other soldiers were like, ‘Why?’ And I was like, ‘I’m not a U.S. citizen – yet. I’m working on it. I’m legally here, I’m just not a naturalized citizen.’ ”
Morales said the day he became a U.S. citizen was “one of the best days of [his] life” and that afterward, he immediately registered to vote.
He’s worked in the state government, in the governor’s office under Mike Pence and in the secretary of state’s office when now-Attorney General Todd Rokita held that post.
However, those credentials have come under scrutiny in the past, including during Morales’ run for the GOP nomination in Indiana’s 4th Congressional District.
The Associated Press reported at the time that Morales had been fired from one job in Rokita’s office and resigned from another following disciplinary action.
Rokita attempted to put those concerns to bed by issuing a statement, which the Morales campaign shared.
“As far as I’m concerned, Diego left my office on good terms, and I consider him a long-time friend,” Rokita wrote. “He has always worked hard and that is what is necessary to be a statewide officeholder.”
When asked about his job history, Morales said he has a “record of work ethic.”
“My work ethic, if you ask anybody, is impeccable,” Morales said. “I always have worked multiple jobs, two jobs at least, to be where I am. People can check my record. I am where I am right now because of hard work and determination.”
He said he feels he’s living the “American dream.”
“I want to protect that American dream for future generations: for our children, for our grandchildren,” Morales said. “I believe it starts at the ballot box, at the polls.”
Morales talked about his goals if elected in November. Those objectives include making car title delivery the “best and most efficient process in the country” and addressing “financial illiteracy.”
He also wants to lead a delegation of county clerks overseas to observe international elections and learn other countries’ best practices – something Morales said he’s previously done in El Salvador and Guatemala.
As for elections, Morales said he plans to focus on education and “increasing voter confidence.” He said he wants to make it “easy to vote, harder to cheat,” to make it “flexible [and] accessible for everyone to vote, but at the same time, secure.”
Additionally, Morales talked about a previous comment about early voting. Indiana Public Broadcasting Statehouse Bureau Chief Brandon Smith reported before his nomination that Morales wants to cut the number of early voting days in Indiana in half, from 28 to 14.
Now, Morales said the current system is “working great” and that “it will stay that way.”
“We have 28 days of early voting right now; it is working for everyone,” Morales said. “My job is to continue to encourage everyone to get out and vote.” | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/indiana/statehouse/secretary-of-state-candidate-talks-elections-ahead-of-fort-wayne-campaign-stop/article_593ca304-2973-11ed-8f51-a32a871d1ccb.html | 2022-09-01T04:50:57 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/indiana/statehouse/secretary-of-state-candidate-talks-elections-ahead-of-fort-wayne-campaign-stop/article_593ca304-2973-11ed-8f51-a32a871d1ccb.html |
A boy who was carrying a gun on school property and who was involved in an altercation with school staff and other adults at a football game Friday at North Side High School was arrested on two charges.
The charges against the juvenile were felony unlawful carrying of a firearm on school property and battery to a school official. The boy was not identified because of his age.
That boy was the only one arrested out of three involved in the altercation that included another boy and an adult male at Friday’s game between Bishop Dwenger High School and North Side. Fort Wayne Community Schools spokeswoman Krista Stockman couldn’t confirm if those involved or the boy arrested were North Side students.
The incident started about 8 p.m. Fort Wayne police working at the football game saw a disturbance between the boy with his companions and the parent of another student, according to an email from Sgt. Jeremy Webb, Fort Wayne Police Department public information officer.
An officer and school staff got between the arguing people at which time the juvenile who was eventually arrested battered a staff member, Webb said. Then the juvenile and the two people with him took off running. Officers found all three after a pursuit.
Officers had been told that the boy who hit the staff member had a firearm on him. An officer and a dog conducted a search and found a 9 mm handgun hidden in a clay pipe sticking out of the ground underneath a detached garage in the 600 block of Stadium Drive , Webb said.
The other boy and adult from the pursuit who weren’t arrested have been banned from Fort Wayne Community Schools property.
Stockman said no one in the altercation was seriously hurt. School officials will look at potential changes in security measures for future events.
“We are always reviewing our security procedures,” Stockman said. “So certainly, when something happened – or nearly happened – (we ask ourselves) was there something we should improve on.”
The district has many safety measures in place, not all of them known to the public. The more noticeable ones include police officers at events such as football games and security cameras on school property, she said.
“When we’re going to have a large group, we’re going to have security,” Stockman said. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/juvenile-arrested-accused-of-bringing-gun-to-high-school-football-game/article_55d5f10e-296c-11ed-b261-bfd7284957e6.html | 2022-09-01T04:51:03 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/juvenile-arrested-accused-of-bringing-gun-to-high-school-football-game/article_55d5f10e-296c-11ed-b261-bfd7284957e6.html |
A man accused of running a drug trafficking operation that sold cocaine, fentanyl and M-30 fentanyl pills in northeast Indiana was arrested in Arizona, according to federal court records.
Robert Lamons, arrested Tuesday, is charged with distribution of a schedule II controlled substance, fentanyl, and with aiding and abetting, for allegedly moving thousands of dollars’ worth of drugs from the southwest United States. His distribution network in northeast Indiana included a woman he called his baby mama and a juvenile girl, according to the criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Fort Wayne.
The criminal complaint didn’t indicate how big of a distribution network Lamons allegedly ran. However, last spring his agents sold a total $20,000 in M-30 fentanyl pills to informants for the FBI Fort Wayne Safe Streets Gang Task Force, court records said.
The task force heard from informants that Lamons was trafficking drugs into the area and set up a deal of $6,000 for 3,000 M-30 pills on April 14. The informant had bought from Lamons several times before and used the Telegram phone app to set up deals.
A special agent for the task force listened in on the Telegram call and recognized Lamons because of an extended interview he’d had with Lamons before. During the call, Lamons told the informant that he was out of town but would send the juvenile girl or another young female to the transaction in Fort Wayne, according to the criminal complaint.
After the informant went to the Fort Wayne location, a blue Nissan pulled up, and the juvenile female allegedly got into the informant’s vehicle and lifted her shirt, taking out a bag full of the pills. She told the informant after making the transaction that Lamons had gone out of town the day before without telling anyone but would be back in a few days.
The pills weighed 331.6 grams (11.7 ounces) and tested positive for fentanyl, and the sale was recorded on audio and video.
On April 25, the task force agents watched the informant set up a deal for 4,000 pills, paying $6,000 at the swap and owing another $2,000 after the informant sold them. The next day, the same girl made that sale in the informant’s car again, the pills weighing 414 grams (14.6 ounces) this time and testing positive for fentanyl.
The informant made a payment of $1,000 on the debt May 2 with the adult woman, who arrived in the same blue Nissan and also completed the deal in the informant’s vehicle. On May 16, the informant scheduled a buy for 3,000 pills at $6,000, and the older woman showed in a blue Lincoln MKZ and conducted the deal in the same manner.
The pills from the third time weighed 383.1 grams (13.5 ounces) but didn’t test field positive for fentanyl, court documents said. However, they had the consistency and appearance of counterfeit M-30 pills from other investigations.
The federal government officially charged Lamons with the two crimes July 5. However, the records were sealed until Tuesday.
No others have been charged with crimes in connection to the sales, court documents said. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/man-charged-with-running-drug-trafficking-network-in-northeast-indiana/article_b0f201b8-2985-11ed-9ef2-af30d7c0dcfb.html | 2022-09-01T04:51:09 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/man-charged-with-running-drug-trafficking-network-in-northeast-indiana/article_b0f201b8-2985-11ed-9ef2-af30d7c0dcfb.html |
Northwest Allen County Schools Superintendent Wayne Barker shakes hands with Carroll Middle School sixth grade student Marissa Davis as her twin sister, Mallory, and mother, Jennifer Freeland-Davis, look on. Freeland-Davis was a student of Barker’s when he taught accounting. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/nacs-greeting/article_5c457d68-299c-11ed-865c-eb4ee3eac919.html | 2022-09-01T04:51:15 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/nacs-greeting/article_5c457d68-299c-11ed-865c-eb4ee3eac919.html |
This year’s graduating class of the Indiana chapter of Jobs for America’s Graduates earned more than $24.3 million in scholarship money, officials announced Wednesday.
Many of those students came from five northeast Indiana counties.
“The Jobs for America’s Graduates program impacts the lives of young people in an extraordinary way, and I’m thrilled to see so many Hoosiers reap the benefits of receiving their high school diplomas and earning financial aid for more education or training to begin their career,” said Gov. Eric Holcomb, who serves on the JAG’s National Board of Directors, in a statement. “JAG continues to equip Hoosiers with employable skills and provides a road map to lifelong success.”
JAG Indiana, which is administered by the Indiana Department of Workforce Development, is a state-based, national nonprofit organization dedicated to helping high school students who have experienced challenging or traumatic life experiences achieve success through graduation.
JAG students receive adult mentoring while in school and one year of follow-up counseling after graduation.
Since 2006, more than 40,000 students have participated in JAG Indiana with 94% graduating from high school.The number of students receiving scholarships in northeast Indiana: Allen County, 36 students, $1,199,348; DeKalb County, 13 students, $848,938; Kosciusko County, eight students, $155,540; Noble County, four students, $67,261; and Wabash County, 29 students, $2,042,738. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/students-from-5-northeast-indiana-counties-receive-scholarship-money-from-jag/article_6be498de-2943-11ed-a7e0-eb480372de12.html | 2022-09-01T04:51:21 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/students-from-5-northeast-indiana-counties-receive-scholarship-money-from-jag/article_6be498de-2943-11ed-a7e0-eb480372de12.html |
Three Rivers Ambulance Authority is raising wages and giving one-time hazard payments to employees now that it’s running operations after the departure of its contractor.
Medics will see wage increases of $5 an hour, dispatchers will get raises of $2 an hour and all employees will receive one-time payments of $1,000 after board members unanimously approved the incentives Wednesday.
PatientCare EMS Solutions, the ambulance’s contractor since 2009, handled operations for its last day Wednesday after the board found the company in default last month for unacceptably slow response times. The contractor managed medics, ambulances and operations, and the ambulance authority handled billing and administrative work.
Fort Wayne has used the public utility model for emergency medical services since 1983. In a public utility model system, a government entity creates an ambulance authority that serves as a purchaser of emergency medical services from a contractor.
Starting today, the ambulance authority will handle operations and administration. Joel Benz, executive director, said the nonprofit’s leaders talked with city officials Friday about the problems they face in light of taking over operations.
The ambulance authority, which has run on user fees and Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement in the past, will likely have to ask the city for funding assistance, but Benz said data from the transition will show the size of the organization’s needs. The ambulance authority will look for nonprofit funding opportunities that it wasn’t able to use with a for-profit contractor.
“We are, for sure, going to operate at a loss for the remainder of the year here so that cannot continue forever,” Benz said. “But I think we need to have a pretty good idea (of funding needs).”
Starting pay is now $24 an hour for paramedics and $19.75 an hour for emergency medical technicians. Rachel Guin, board president, said the ambulance authority’s medics have been some of the lowest paid in the area, and she hopes the raises will help work-life balance for employees.
“The end goal of this is not just to pay more,” Guin said. “It’s to bring in more employees. It’s to increase the longevity of the employees we have.”
The ambulance authority had about 65 full-time medics as of Wednesday, and Benz said he will consider the organization to be fully staffed once it has at least 80.
Mike Bureau, who managed operations for the contract, has said the unacceptably slow run times on top-priority emergencies has been caused by a nationwide paramedic shortage. The city’s contract requires medics to arrive to at least 90% of emergency calls with life-threatening emergencies within 8 1/2 minutes – a standard that has not been met in two years.
The highest PatientCare’s compliance rate has been this year was 77% in May.
Benz said the ambulance authority’s leaders are dealing with several moving pieces as they move through the transition.
The organization is searching for a human resources director and a clinical director. The human resource director’s salary is expected to be between $80,000 and $90,000, and Guin said the ambulance authority intends to hire a head hunter to find the right fit.
The ambulance authority will increase the clinical director’s salary, which is currently about $70,000. Guin called the position “woefully underpaid” but said the organization might split the responsibilities into two positions.
The board also looked into two quotes for insurance. The ambulance authority didn’t have to worry about auto insurance or having high coverage for workers’ compensation before, but that is changing as the organization takes over operations.
Despite the organization going through a big transition, Benz said he doesn’t expect residents to notice a difference.
“At the end of the day, it’s the same people going on the same ambulances to the same calls with the same equipment,” Benz said. “The only difference really is where their paycheck is coming from.” | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/traa-takes-over-ambulance-operations-raises-approved-for-medics-other-pesonnel/article_60c47c08-2943-11ed-9676-47e6aff50769.html | 2022-09-01T04:51:28 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/traa-takes-over-ambulance-operations-raises-approved-for-medics-other-pesonnel/article_60c47c08-2943-11ed-9676-47e6aff50769.html |
3D-printed home unveiled in Redding, billed as a first in California
A partnership between the city of Redding, Emergent 3D and AccessHome was unveiled Wednesday at Enterprise Community Park.
That’s where Redding is expected to become the first city in California to build an on-site 3D-printed home — a 1,200-square-foot house that will serve as the residence for the Enterprise Community Park host.
The home’s exterior and interior walls will be 3D printed. The rest of the house, including the foundation, will be built the traditional way.
“The reason you don’t see any printing, we are in the middle of training,” said Don Ajamian, a local builder who partnered with Matthew Gile to establish Emergent 3D. Ajamian is CEO. Gile, who moved to Redding weeks before the 2018 Carr Fire, is founder and chief visionary officer.
In the wake of the Carr Fire, Ajamian and Gile saw a demand for affordable housing for those who lost a house in the devastating fire, which destroyed nearly 1,100 homes in Shasta County.
Ajamian said the cost to build a 3D-printed home is about 11% cheaper than a traditional stick-built house.
AccessHome, a Redding-based nonprofit, will operate the home in Enterprise Park and has committed to a 20-year contract to maintain the property, which is down a dirt road at the northwest end of the park off Victor Avenue in south Redding.
The park has had hosts in the past, but previously they lived in trailers that they brought onto the property, city officials said.
“We’re calling this the wildfire restoration house, a house that is meant to get people back in housing,” Ajamian said.
Ajamian said Emergent 3D has agreements to build six more 3D-printed homes in Redding and one in Butte County.
David Benda covers business, development and anything else that comes up for the USA TODAY Network in Redding. He also writes the weekly "Buzz on the Street" column. He’s part of a team of dedicated reporters that investigate wrongdoing, cover breaking news and tell other stories about your community. Reach him on Twitter @DavidBenda_RS or by phone at 1-530-338-8323. To support and sustain this work, please subscribe today. | https://www.redding.com/story/news/local/2022/08/31/3-d-printed-home-unveiled-redding-billed-first-california-homes-zillow-redfin-butte-county/7950309001/ | 2022-09-01T04:53:08 | 1 | https://www.redding.com/story/news/local/2022/08/31/3-d-printed-home-unveiled-redding-billed-first-california-homes-zillow-redfin-butte-county/7950309001/ |
Shasta County will recruit again for a health officer after finalist rejects job offer
Shasta County officials thought they had found their new health officer.
But four months after firing the embattled previous health officer — who had drawn the ire of many who protested mask mandates, vaccination requirements and other safety measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic — the county will restart the search for a replacement.
That’s because the preferred candidate rebuffed the county.
Coming out of closed session after the public portion of Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, county Counsel Rubin Cruse Jr. announced the news.
“The candidate to whom the County extended an offer of employment has declined the offer. The County will begin a new recruitment, using an interview panel including local physicians, County staff, and Supervisors (Mary) Rickert and (Patrick) Jones,” Cruse wrote in an email to the Record Searchlight on Wednesday morning.
Patrick Minturn, acting county executive officer, said Wednesday that the panel was unanimous in its endorsement of the individual, who was interviewed once by the panel before the county extended an offer to him.
Minturn declined to identify the finalist and say the reason he gave for turning down the job.
“I was disappointed. The county did extend a written offer,” Minturn said.
Rickert, who supported former Health Officer Dr. Karen Ramstrom and was upset that she was dismissed in May, said she was devastated.
“I thought he would have been an excellent fit. He was very moderate in his approach to COVID and his interest was that he wanted to basically serve the needs of the entire community and really wanted to be a public health officer,” Rickert said Wednesday.
Related: Shasta County exoduses continue as adult services director latest to leave job
Jones told the Record Searchlight on Wednesday that he doesn't know why the candidate said no to the county's offer.
"He interviewed well and he was a good candidate and he ultimately changed his mind for whatever reason," Jones said, adding that the candidate was from out of state but was certified to practice medicine in California.
Jones said it's "easy enough" to restart the process and "it's not the end of the world."
"We are not in any time crunch here. We want a good health officer and we will take our time to look," Jones said.
Rickert referred questions to Minturn about why the candidate rejected the offer. She did say that county health officers are in short supply and suggested the treatment Ramstrom got makes it challenging to find her replacement.
“And so, it’s difficult that we’ve had the political upheaval in our county, and that it’s difficult to attract people that would want to come into a position where the previous health officer was fired,” she said.
Rickert said the topic of Ramstrom did come up in the interview.
"He asked a few questions and I was very positive about Dr. Ramstrom. That's all I am going to say," she said.
Hired in 2018, Ramstrom was measured in her approach to the pandemic. But people against COVID-19 safety guidelines were critical of her and claimed her actions were unconstitutional, though she did not enact any mandates related to the pandemic.
Only once did the county enforce health guidelines on businesses, when it sent a letter to a water park during the first few months of the pandemic. In late July 2020, WaterWorks Park agreed to end its season early after the county said it needed to cease operations to avoid having its public pool permit revoked.
In May 2020, she also did issue guidance to businesses to explain state rules related to shutdowns during the pandemic, Kat DeBurgh, executive director of the Health Officers Association of California, told the Record Searchlight about a week before Ramstrom was fired.
It all came to head on May 2, when supervisors voted 3-2 in favor of terminating Ramstrom’s at-will employment with the county without cause. Voting to dismiss Ramstrom were Jones, Les Baugh and Tim Garman. Voting against the termination were Rickert and Joe Chimenti.
Minturn said it will now take about 60 days to recruit candidates for the health officer position and then the panel will interview candidates.
In the meantime, Dr. Michael Vovakes is pulling down duty as interim health officer and deputy county health officer.
David Benda covers business, development and anything else that comes up for the USA TODAY Network in Redding. He also writes the weekly "Buzz on the Street" column. He’s part of a team of dedicated reporters that investigate wrongdoing, cover breaking news and tell other stories about your community. Reach him on Twitter @DavidBenda_RS or by phone at 1-530-338-8323. To support and sustain this work, please subscribe today. | https://www.redding.com/story/news/local/2022/08/31/shasta-county-health-officer-candidate-rejects-job-offer-covid-pandemic/7950258001/ | 2022-09-01T04:53:14 | 1 | https://www.redding.com/story/news/local/2022/08/31/shasta-county-health-officer-candidate-rejects-job-offer-covid-pandemic/7950258001/ |
SAN ANTONIO — Gov. Greg Abbott Wednesday denied Uvalde residents' plea to raise the purchasing age for semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21.
People related to children who died in the mass shooting at Robb Elementary have repeatedly asked Abbott to call a special session so lawmakers could debate the proposal.
"It's clear that the gun control law they are seeking in Uvalde, as much as they may want it, has already been ruled to be unconstitutional," Abbott said, citing three recent court rulings related to gun laws.
In May, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals threw out out a California law that would've barred adults younger than 21 from buying semi-automatic, centerfire rifles.
The California attorney general's office says it's reviewing the ruling. State attorneys could appeal the decision.
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out a century-old New York law which required citizens to demonstrate need in order to carry a handgun outside the home.
The high court's ruling did not address age restrictions, but dramatically changed the way judges will measure gun laws' constitutionality. The decision represented a significant win for gun rights organizations, perhaps signaling justices' appetite for loosening existing policies.
In August, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman ruled it is unconstitutional for Texas to prohibit adults younger than 21 from purchasing a handgun. The decision did not have an immediate affect.
Pittman stayed the ruling, expecting an appeal.
Uvalde's city council, school board, and county commissioners each formally asked Abbott to call a special session to raise the purchasing age for semi-automatic rifles.
In response, Abbott's office told KENS 5 "all options are on the table." The governor's Wednesday remarks represent a clear departure from that stance, albeit unsurprising.
Abbott would not back raising the purchasing age during a May 25 press conference in Uvalde.
“The ability of an 18-year-old to buy a long gun has been in place in the state of Texas for more than 60 years,” he said. “Over the course of that 60 years, we have not had episodes likes this.”
He said he doesn’t know why mass shootings have seemingly become more prevalent, but argued that communities’ collective mental health has suffered in that time period.
"Don't sit there and act like you're for the people, that you're for the parents, that you're for the children," said Brett Cross, whose son died in the shooting at Robb. "You don't give a damn." | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/governor-raising-rifle-age-21-unconstitutional/273-3f3d7ff9-1f39-466f-8b66-2f0ca71e5795 | 2022-09-01T05:05:43 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/governor-raising-rifle-age-21-unconstitutional/273-3f3d7ff9-1f39-466f-8b66-2f0ca71e5795 |
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — With a shortage of dispatchers and an increase in crime, resources can be stretched thin— We've heard your concerns and reported on the delays in Little Rock's emergency response.
"We are being successful in getting the job done, however, the main concern for me about the physical and mental well-being of my staff," said Juana Green, Little Rock's 911 Communications Director.
Green has been the director for almost a year and has made changes to the department at a time when staffing has been very limited.
She said the department has 56 total dispatcher positions, and they are down almost half with only 32 of those positions filled.
One of the most recent changes that have been implemented— is the creation of a 12-hour work day.
"This actually allows them to have more off time where they can reset, decompress, not have to pick up a mandatory overtime shift," explained Green.
The national standard for call-answer time is less than 20 seconds. Green said Little Rock dispatch meets that standard around 81% of the time and they want to do better.
She also advised people not to hang up if it takes longer to get a dispatcher on the line. And added that there's a queue when you call in.
If you hang up and try to call back, you will be put at the bottom of the queue again.
Green said when a person calls the emergency dispatch, once that call is answered, the information is received then that information is assigned a priority level.
Life or death events are top priority, and lower priority calls could get a longer response time.
If you need to report an incident that doesn't require police presence, you can call the non-emergency line at (501) 918-4397.
"I don't want to confuse the public with saying their emergency is not a priority, but for us to better manage control of the types of incidents we have we have to assign them a priority code which is already established by the police department," explained Green.
We have been working with LRPD to get a list of what calls are prioritized, we will update the article when we get that answer. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/little-rocks-dispatch-operations-work-staff-shortage/91-6be9f436-6790-42c2-83d1-5bad0790fb87 | 2022-09-01T05:08:06 | 0 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/little-rocks-dispatch-operations-work-staff-shortage/91-6be9f436-6790-42c2-83d1-5bad0790fb87 |
SCRANTON, Pa. — Some kids are already back in the classroom, but students in Scranton are preparing to head back next week.
A back-to-school clinic was held at Isaac Tripp Elementary.
At the clinic, children could get a fresh haircut, so they look and feel their best before the new school year.
There was also an ice cream truck and free uniforms for the kids.
"We just really want to get them excited to come back to school because some of them had a year and a half off where they weren't in school. We just want to make school a fun place where they're going to learn so much and meet new friends," said Shannon Rucker, principal.
Employees with the Wright Center were also on hand to provide free dental examinations and vaccines for children at the back-to-school clinic.
Want to see what was in news in 1983? Head on over to WNEP's YouTube. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/back-to-school-clinic-held-in-lackawanna-county-isaac-tripp-elementary-wnep-shannon-rucker/523-9fe95461-8402-4bee-9a64-01bb3acbb379 | 2022-09-01T05:08:46 | 1 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/back-to-school-clinic-held-in-lackawanna-county-isaac-tripp-elementary-wnep-shannon-rucker/523-9fe95461-8402-4bee-9a64-01bb3acbb379 |
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MIDLAND, Texas — It is confirmed that Dr. Angelica Ramsey is planning to leave Midland ISD.
Fort Worth ISD announced their decision to name her the lone finalist for their superintendent job at an open school board meeting last night.
Though she isn't leaving the district immediately, that hasn't stopped the public from talking about the news and also expressing their opinions on the matter.
MISD board president Bryan Murry has noticed a trend regardless of which side the people are on about the news.
"A lot of what I've seen in the questions from the community, and I've had people reach out to me directly, but I've also seen a little bit of social media, people wanting in the next superintendent someone that you know, has west Texas ties," said Murry.
Ramsey, despite being originally from California, spent an extended amount of time in El Paso, which was taken into account in the board’s original decision to appoint her in the first place.
But there are those in the community who echo what the MISD board president has heard, and feel that a local face would help.
"I would like to see someone who’s qualified, but yes, someone who’s around here, because otherwise we’re gonna end up having the same issue," said Esmy Juarez, a PTA member. "Where they come, and then they see, it makes it look like as if someone who’s coming from outside and using us as a step ladder."
The board will take West Texas ties into consideration when choosing a candidate, but at the end of the day the qualifications of a candidate matter more to them. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/angelica-ramsey-looking-move-from-misd/513-7189d7ea-36e6-454a-9cbd-9792a695e3e0 | 2022-09-01T05:10:25 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/angelica-ramsey-looking-move-from-misd/513-7189d7ea-36e6-454a-9cbd-9792a695e3e0 |
ODESSA, Texas — When it comes to tragic events, healing isn't easy, or something that happens fast. You have to take it day by day.
Victims' families and the community where these tragedies strike know this especially well.
Kelby Davis is the mother of 4-year-old Anderson Davis, who was one of the youngest victims of the Midland-Odessa mass shooting. She knows that it is a process, but faith, family and community are some of the biggest keys to healing.
Anderson was just a little over 1 year old when the mobile mass shooting happened, and was injured by shrapnel with her brother right by her side. On Wednesday, Anderson was at the Bright Star Memorial with big smile on her face, happy and healthy.
"The last three years, there's been a lot of healing taking place, and any time I think about our own healing and with Anderson over the last three years, I have to pause and acknowledge that all of us that were affected that day were affected so differently," said Kelby Davis. "And I know healing looks so differently for each individual, and for us as individuals."
For the Davis family, that means leaning on multiple different things.
"For our family, our faith in god has been a huge part of that," said Kelby Davis. "Our belief in community has been a huge part of that, and the choice that we have made as a family just to love to pay it forward all of the love that we've been shown through this healing process."
Anderson and her brother were young when the shooting happened, but it is something being talked about as they get older.
"Anderson and her twin brother Rhett were both in the car with us that day, and obviously had no clue what was actually happening, but through the last couple of years, it's been really amazing to see how their understanding of that day's events has grown, but the healing process has grown as they've grown," said Kelby Davis.
Although the Davis family and the community are still processing this tragedy, it is important to focus on the good.
"They know that evil is out there, but we have to be looking for the joy, and if you can't find that joy, be that joy for someone else," said Kelby Davis.
One of those things is paying it forward and giving it back.
"We challenge people, go out throughout the day and just commit to a random act of kindness, hold a door open, smile at someone, buy the coffee of the person in front of you, because spreading that hope, spreading that joy, spreading that light, is how we're going to continue to heal each day," said Kelby Davis.
University of Texas Permian Basin and those involved with Bright Star Memorial encourage people to engage in community service or commit a random act of kindness at any point. If you are interested in sharing those acts of kindness, you can submit them here. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/families-focus-healing-mass-shooting-anniversary/513-19c0f3a3-14d8-4e97-91d3-f6b3d9a3a927 | 2022-09-01T05:10:31 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/families-focus-healing-mass-shooting-anniversary/513-19c0f3a3-14d8-4e97-91d3-f6b3d9a3a927 |
Armstrong Ford Road dam could be removed
Gaston County and two local municipalities are helping to fund a study that will determine whether a dam on the South Fork River can be removed.
The study, which will be conducted by Wildlands Engineering, an engineering firm in Charlotte, will look at the impact of removing the Armstrong Ford Road low head dam, said Brandon Jones, a riverkeeper at the Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation.
Engineers want to find out what will happen to the discharge from a nearby wastewater treatment plant if the dam is removed, as well as what the dam's removal would do to a bridge that is downstream. They also must do sediment analysis to be sure that the removal of the dam won't release contaminants into Lake Wylie.
"There's a long history of textile industry on the South Fork River. And, historically, it was even named the rainbow river from all the different dyes, different discharges from the textile facilities," Jones said. "And some of those discharges and pollution could have potentially fallen out in the soils, and it could be sitting there behind the dam and so we certainly don't want to release that."
Catawba Riverkeeper just received itsr final piece of funding for the $40,000 study last week. Gaston County, Belmont, and Cramerton each spent $10,000 on it, while Wildlands Engineering and Catawba Riverkeeper each contributed $5,000.
"We expect that wildlands will start this hopefully in September, but if not, definitely in October," Jones said. "Depending on what they find, it'll be a 60 to 90 day process."
The dam could be removed for several reasons. It was built by N.C. DOT in 1926 so that Stuart Cramer, a wealthy manufacturer for whom Cramerton was named, could ride his yacht around, Jones said.
It does not currently serve any environmental purpose and is preventing the natural passage of fish and other aquatic species.
"It's a barrier, and so it's dividing up habitat," Jones said.
The second reason it could be removed has to do with recreation. Removing the dam would allow kayakers to paddle further on the South Fork River, and could potentially allow motorboats onto the river.
Thirdly, the dam is holding back water and creating a small reservoir. Removing it would create more space in the water, which should help prevent future flooding, Jones said.
Low head dams, sometimes referred to as "drowning machines," are also dangerous.
This type of dam creates circular current that can suck people under water repeatedly, drowning them.
Depending on the results of the study, the dam could be removed in full or in part, and funding would likely come from multiple sources.
"It would likely be a large coalition of different funding to get this thing done," Jones said.
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A district court judge who ruled to overturn a state ban on 18-to-20-year-olds’ carrying handguns was correct in doing so, according to a firearms trainer and a manager at a local firearms store.
U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman ruled that a Texas law that banned adults under the age of 21 from carrying a handgun was unconstitutional. Since early September 2021, 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds could carry a handgun as long as they had a protective order against an individual.
Danny Anderson, a manager at Midland’s SK Arms, looks to the constitution to justify this ruling.
“The Second Amendment applies to everybody,” Anderson said. “There’s no reason they should be given a machine gun and sent off to die for their country and not be able to carry a pistol while they’re back in the U.S.”
Hoss Dugger, a firearms trainer from Odessa’s Absolute Pistol Training, said this week he supports the ruling and shared that handgun training, safety and education should be of utmost importance.
“It is remarkably important, and not just for young people for everyone,” Dugger said.
Dugger remarked that he’s had people in his courses who are 40, 50 or 60 years of age and don’t know the basics of safety, like when they can or cannot use a handgun in self-defense. That lack of education, he said, must change.
Though the ruling is recent, Anderson claimed gun safety should always be of paramount importance to gun owners.
“It’s as important as it’s ever been. It’s not like gun safety got more or less important,” he said. “Even gun people don’t spend enough time training,”
For Anderson, one positive to this ruling is freedom for Texas citizens – “We’re more free, that’s a huge advantage. I think more guns will reduce crime and make Texas safer,”
Dugger claimed a possible pitfall of the ruling will be young adults misunderstanding the law’s status before it’s officially made into law. Dugger made clear that while this ruling was made, there is a 30-day stay on the law, meaning it will not go in effect until 30 days from the ruling. If it’s contested, it can be longer than that until it’s made into Texas law.
“A lot of misinformation and people thinking they can just strap it on and carry (could be a problem),” he said. “They think, ‘Well, the judge ruled that I can carry if I’m under 21.’ Well, he has but there has been a stay put on it and I can see of folks thinking that they can carry now. They will be arrested, and they can be thrown in jail.”
Anderson remarked that he is in full support of the ruling but doesn’t see much changing in terms of gun ownership.
“It’s not the case that all the sudden everybody has a gun. There’s still just about the same number of guns that were around before,” he said.
He added that this ruling won’t result in “some wild west scenario.”
“Now, you will have a bunch of law-abiding 18-year-olds carrying guns for defense of their self and others and I don’t see how that’s bad,” Anderson said. | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/Officials-Firearms-ruling-makes-sense-for-Texans-17411181.php | 2022-09-01T05:26:26 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/Officials-Firearms-ruling-makes-sense-for-Texans-17411181.php |
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and the Southwest Clean Air Agency issued an air quality advisory Wednesday for the Portland-Vancouver metro area, Salem, Albany and Corvallis due to smog.
The advisory is expected to last until Thursday evening.
The DEQ said ozone pollution levels are elevated and could be unhealthy for some people, including kids, older adults, and those with heart disease or respiratory conditions.
Smog can irritate the eyes, nose and lungs. The DEQ and the SWCAA recommended that people concerned about their health take the following precautions:
- Limit driving by using public transit or carpooling
- Avoid unnecessarily running engines
- Refuel vehicles during cooler evening hours
- Postpone moving the lawn or using leaf blowers
- Postpone projects that use paint and aerosol spray
Ozone is produced when hot temperatures and low winds combine with pollution from cars and chemicals in paints and aerosols. The air pollutants then react with sunlight and heat to form ozone and haze.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the DEQ's air quality map showed areas south of the Portland metro under "moderate" air quality, meaning there may be a health risk for some people.
In southern Oregon, smoke from the Rum Creek Fire moved northward across western Oregon. KGW meteorologist Chris McGinness shared satellite imagery of the smoke in a post on Twitter. The Rum Creek Fire, which started two weeks ago, has burned nearly 13,000 acres in a largely remote and rural area.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — The arrest of a man accused of killing his former partner has put a spotlight on the Portland Freedom Fund, the nonprofit group that bailed him out of jail one week earlier. Mohamad Osman Adan was behind held on charges stemming from repeated incidents of violence and threats towards Racheal Abraham, the mother of his children.
This isn’t the first time the Portland Freedom Fund has found itself in hot water over concerns about bailing out defendants who are charged with violent crimes or considered at risk of committing further violence if released.
Last year, a defendant named Malik Muhamad was extradited from Indiana to Portland on charges of violence during the 2020 Portland protests, including throwing a Molotov cocktail at police. His bail was set at more than $2 million, but the Portland Freedom Fund posted $212,000 to get him out of jail. Federal law enforcement agents arrested him again a few days later on additional charges.
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A separate bail fund group called the Northwest Community Bail Fund has been criticized for multiple similar incidents in Washington, including one last year when it bailed out defendant Michael Sendejo after he had been arrested for allegedly assaulting a man in a park in Seattle. Two months later, Sendejo was charged with murdering a man in that same park, KING5 reported.
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In a statement posted to Facebook on Tuesday, the Portland Freedom Fund said that in Adan’s case, "the court had deemed him eligible for bail release" and he had been referred with a letter of community support, and that the group had been in contact with him and "did not receive any indications for concern."
Abraham’s ex-husband, Mario Abraham, started a GoFundMe campaign this week to help with expenses for her burial.
Bail funds
Bail is an amount of money that a defendant must pay in order to be released from jail while awaiting a trial, with the money serving as collateral to ensure the defendant shows up at trial.
A defendant’s bail is set during an initial court appearance and the amount generally depends on the severity of the alleged crime, although the exact procedure varies from state to state. In Oregon, defendants only need to post 10% of the bail — the remainder becomes due if they skip out on their trial or break the terms of their release.
Community bail funds aren’t a new concept, but the idea has seen widespread adoption in the age of online crowdfunding, with many new organizations springing up in the past decade. One of the biggest examples is The Bail Project, which was founded in 2018 and operates nationally (it is not affiliated with the Portland Freedom Fund).
The Bail Project's core criticism of the bail system, as outlined on its FAQ page, is that judges too often set bail amounts that many defendants cannot afford to pay, resulting in defendants getting stuck in jail due to their financial situation rather than their risk of endangering the community – and a disproportionate number of those low-income defendants tend to be people of color.
The resulting system has become "a mechanism for incarcerating low-income people," the group argues, and "a two-tier system where two individuals charged with exactly the same thing are treated differently based on their race and economic status."
Being stuck in jail also puts added pressure on those often low-income and minority defendants to accept plea deals, founder Robin Steinberg and two other Bail Project leaders argue in a 2018 article published in the UCLA Criminal Justice Law Review:
In this precarious situation, poor people under arrest often fall prey to the whispers of prosecutors who promise them an enticing deal — plead guilty now and you can return home. But this comes at an enormous cost — a permanent criminal record that will have negative rippling effects on all aspects of an individual’s’ life, including his or her employment, housing, voting rights, immigration status, child custody, physical and mental health.
The organization relies on a mix of donations and a "revolving bail fund" model in which a central fund pays bail for defendants and is then replenished when those defendants get their bail returned at the end of their court cases. In its most recent annual report in June 2021, the group claimed to have posted bail for 17,500 people over its first four years in operation.
Local bail reform
The IRS granted the Portland Freedom Fund nonprofit status in October 2021, although the group appears to have been operating longer than that – in its Tuesday Facebook post, it claimed to have provided assistance to hundreds of people over the past four years, mainly in the Portland metro area.
The group is local and independent, but describes itself in terms similar to those of The Bail Project, writing on its website that it is "a fund that pays bail for our Black, Brown and Indigenous neighbors in the Portland Metro area." In the Facebook note, the organization stated that it "seeks to limit the number of persons held pretrial solely for inability to pay the bail."
The organization is emerging in the spotlight at a time when bail reform is already a hot topic in Oregon. A 2019 OPB story detailed how Portland-area public defense attorneys were embarking on a coordinated effort to advocate for changes to the system.
Oregon Senate Bill 48, which passed last year and took effect in July, moves the state away from a cash bail system and toward one that focuses more on the danger a defendant poses to the community. It doesn’t eliminate cash bail altogether, but it replaces a previous schedule of mandatory minimum bail amounts for specific crimes with a new individualized assessment.
The new system almost immediately attracted controversy when Dylan Kesterson, arrested for assaulting a family of Japanese descent on Portland’s Eastbank Esplanade, was released shortly after being booked in jail on July 2.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler was among those who criticized that decision, arguing that a violent bias crime suspect should not have been released before a court hearing.
Who bears responsibility for pre-trial release?
In some cases, prosecutors appear to view bail as a direct means of keeping dangerous defendants in jail, rather than simply a way to make sure they come back for a trial. In the Sendejo case, for example, KING5 reported that prosecutors specifically asked for a high bail because they were concerned that he would be a danger to the community.
Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt voiced support for Senate Bill 48 in June, telling KGW in a statement that "It doesn't matter to victims of crime if a defendant has $500 or not" and that his office "continues to advocate to reduce reliance on cash bail and instead focus on detaining those individuals who pose the most significant threat of future criminality, regardless of their financial means."
However, Schmidt released a statement this week criticizing the Portland Freedom Fund’s decision to post bail for Adan, arguing that "when a judge imposes bail, the defendant’s ability to pay is among the factors they consider. The action taken by the Portland Freedom Fund circumvented this, with tragic results."
KING5 also reported that the Northwest Community Bail Fund argued that it shouldn’t be singled out for intervening in the bail system, because bail fund nonprofits aren’t the only groups out there that regularly intercede on behalf of low-income defendants.
There are also for-profit bail bond companies that post bail in the same way, but they charge defendants non-refundable fees for the assistance – a practice that has drawn criticism from groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and is illegal in Oregon, Illinois, Kentucky, Wisconsin and most countries outside of the United States, according to The New York Times. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/domestic-violence-death-puts-spotlight-community-bail-funds/283-84de8950-8f51-4ca4-a548-014d1bd19002 | 2022-09-01T05:29:46 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/domestic-violence-death-puts-spotlight-community-bail-funds/283-84de8950-8f51-4ca4-a548-014d1bd19002 |
PORTLAND, Ore. — The greater Portland area has been working to get people off the streets and into housing. It’s part of the voter-approved Metro Supportive Housing Fund, which was passed in May 2020. It’s a ten-year effort but the results from the first year were just released.
From July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022, officials reported that more than 1,600 people got off the streets and into housing. Another 9,200 were able to avoid homelessness altogether.
These were people in Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties. Those behind this tri-county effort said there’s more work to be done but this early data shows they are moving in the right direction.
“This is a regional housing and homelessness crisis — it’s not unique to any one particular community in the region, it's affecting everybody,” said Patricia Rojas, Metro’s regional housing director.
The Metro Supportive Housing Fund comes from incremental taxes on high-income earners and large businesses. It started in January 2021 and is overseen by Metro. Metro expected to get $180 million in the first fiscal year but they ended up getting more than $200 million. Rojas said they’ve spent about $56 million and the rest will roll over into the coming years.
“We are expecting much more. Something to keep in mind is that this is our first year and so we have a lot more doing and building to look forward to,” Rojas explained.
So far, they’ve housed 1,129 people in Multnomah County, 340 in Washington County and 170 in Clackamas County. More than 9,000 people in Multnomah county received eviction protection, plus 66 in Washington County. They’ve also opened 514 new, year-round shelter beds across the entire region.
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However, officials say that Clackamas County didn’t use all the money allocated to them.
“We are paying attention — for example, Clackamas County is underspent, so we are going to be working with Clackamas and the oversight committee to make sure they are on path to spend the allocation that they received,” said Rojas.
KGW asked Rojas, with the fund's $200 million first year, what are taxpayers who contributed to the program actually paying for?
“That is a great question. The funding can go towards any type of service that helps a person on their journey to exit homelessness,” said Rojas. That includes things like case managers, long-term rental assistance, behavioral health services and new shelter beds.
Once someone has been connected with housing, KGW asked Rojas how officials are ensuring that they remain there and don't end up back on the streets.
“Absolutely, that’s a great question. You know folks need varying needs of support after they’re housed,” Rojas said.
To keep people housed, they have what’s called permanent supportive housing. This provides people like Jessica Perry, who’s been homeless for nine years, with financial help and employment so she can keep her apartment.
“That probably is what stops most homeless people from searching out housing or trying to get into a place, because it’s very daunting,” Perry explained.
Money from the Metro Supportive Housing Fund paid for Perry’s first and last month’s rent, along with moving fees. She said it totaled about $5,000.
“I know I couldn’t have gotten to that place without that initial start,” she said.
Now, Perry works full-time at Cultivate Initiatives and pays her own rent each month.
“I wake up every day and I love coming to work. I wake up ready to go and I love it. I love being able to go home and pay my bills and enjoy being inside and all of the awesome little perks that come with it that you don’t realize are important until you don’t have them.”
Metro’s ten-year goal is to house at least 5,000 people experiencing homelessness and to help at least 10,000 who are either newly homeless or at extreme risk of becoming homeless. Their full annual report comes out in October. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/homeless/portland-metro-fund-homeless-housing-taxpayer/283-2f7d158d-53bd-4512-bad9-57d37ddd14a3 | 2022-09-01T05:29:52 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/homeless/portland-metro-fund-homeless-housing-taxpayer/283-2f7d158d-53bd-4512-bad9-57d37ddd14a3 |
SALEM, Ore. — Portland General Electric (PGE) shut off power to hundreds of customers in the Salem area on Wednesday, despite high temperatures expected to climb into the 90s.
The power outage will occur between 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. as crews work to reenergize "a new underground wire to reduce reliability concerns for the area," according to Allison Dobscha with PGE.
Dobscha said crews have been working to address the issue through a phased approach in an attempt to reduce the likelihood of a prolonged outage. She added that crews are working quickly to complete the repairs and restore power to customers.
"Once this work is complete, it will significantly reduce the risk of future outages that are lengthy and unplanned," said Dobscha.
The outage is expected to impact about 280 customers, PGE said.
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A Salem man, who contacted KGW on Tuesday and left a voice message, said he received a scheduled maintenance notice from PGE. The man said he was "deeply concerned about the health and well-being" of the people impacted because of the hot weather.
A KGW crew also spoke to residents of a mobile home park where the power was shut off all day because of the work PGE was doing. They said that nobody received any word that they were going to be without power all day when temperatures were expected to climb well into the 90s again on Wednesday.
"My neighbors who have health issues don’t have oxygen and they didn’t get to prepare for this — that’s the biggest thing, the health issues that we’re all going to go through here during the heat," said Sarah Mentzer, who lives at the Lakeside Village Mobile Home park in Salem.
KGW reached out to PGE for comment.
“We know any outage can be frustrating, especially on a hot day, and we appreciate customers’ understanding as our crews complete this critical work,” Dobscha said.
Dobscha also noted that PGE considers a range of factors, including hot weather, before deciding to move forward with an outage.
High temperatures in the Portland metro are forecasted to remain in the low- to mid-90s on Wednesday and Thursday.
A Heat Advisory was issued for parts of the Willamette Valley, the Columbia River Gorge and the Columbia Basin on Tuesday. Most of the valley saw record temperatures, but only Portland spiked to 100 degrees.
The power was back on by 3:00 Wednesday afternoon.
Staying cool
While the city of Salem hasn't designated any cooling centers for residents this week, there is a list of neighborhood splash fountains available on the city's website to help people get some relief from the summer heat.
Other options to escape the heat are public indoor facilities including shopping centers, movie theaters and libraries:
- Salem Main Public Library: 585 Liberty St., open 10 a.m.-7 p.m. on Wednesdays
- West Salem Branch: 395 Glen Creek Rd., open 12 p.m.-5 p.m. on Wednesdays | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/pge-planned-power-outage-salem/283-ccfde7c9-dceb-4e93-96e8-0cf34afbf788 | 2022-09-01T05:29:59 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/pge-planned-power-outage-salem/283-ccfde7c9-dceb-4e93-96e8-0cf34afbf788 |
PORTLAND, Ore. — Back in mid-March, Grady Lambert picked Cannon Beach, Ore. as the place to start his more than 4,000-mile run to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
"He just had such a big heart and compassion for those who struggled," his father Mark Lambert said.
Mark and Julie Lambert said their son was running across the country in a show of support for those impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The friendly bartender from The Rambler in North Portland saw the toll the pandemic was taking on other service industry workers, as well as health care workers and small business owners.
Grady would stop in different towns during his run to talk with these people. He also kept in touch with his mom.
"He's like, 'Mom, I don't understand why I'm not getting media attention while I'm running,'" Julie Lambert said. "He was really bummed."
Grady is now getting that media attention, but for all the wrong reasons.
The Lamberts said on Sunday evening, Grady was running through the Amarillo, Texas area when he was struck by a pick-up truck.
"It was dusk and the driver said he didn't see Grady," Julie said.
The Lamberts believe it was an accident. They said Grady will pass away in the coming days, but not before donating what organs he can.
"Some really cool stuff is going to be happening here in the next 24 to 36 hours with that," Mark said. "Grady, being the compassionate person he was, is giving in that fashion as well so pretty cool."
It is fitting for a guy who for the last five months has been running across America for a good cause — a journey that is not yet over.
"He told us if something were to happen, he wants us to finish," Mark said.
"He wants us to take his ashes and finish his run," Julie added. "So at some point, we'll take his ashes and spread them from here to Hilton Head Island."
Grady started a GoFundMe at the start of his run to raise money for the different types of people impacted by the pandemic. With the run cut short, money is now being raised for a scholarship to help a student in Grady's hometown of Stillwater, Oklahoma get into nursing. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-man-injured-cross-country-run/283-c9696ba4-b08b-43e9-9524-54885d67e7ff | 2022-09-01T05:30:05 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-man-injured-cross-country-run/283-c9696ba4-b08b-43e9-9524-54885d67e7ff |
SPOKANE, Wash. — The man accused of pointing a gun at a group of employees at a downtown Spokane restaurant and firing a round at a group at Riverfront Park was arrested in Oregon on Aug. 26.
26-year-old Matthew Brumfield was arrested near Portland for allegedly shooting at parkgoers at Riverfront Park and pointing a gun at restaurant employees in early August.
Spokane deputies responded to a call on Aug. 17 before 7 p.m. at the 800 block of Third Ave. for a possible robbery. When officers arrived at the location, they learned from witnesses that employees of a restaurant nearby had been dealing with some customers who became unruly.
Witnesses told officers that employees went to the parking lot to ask the group to leave the area. One of the people in the group, later identified as Brumfield, then pointed a gun at the employees and threatened them. The group left and employees called 911.
Minutes later, SPD responded to a call of a shot fired near Riverfront Park on the 500 block of N. Howard. Witnesses told officers that two cars, one driven by a woman and the other by a man, drove up and pulled up alongside a curb.
The man fired a round toward witnesses sitting in Riverfront Park, who tried to stop the fight after they told the man and woman they would be calling the police. The witnesses told deputies the man and woman began arguing, and then the man hit the woman. Nobody was injured and the man left the scene.
SPD's initial investigation found the two incidents were related and that Brumfield and the woman arguing near Riverfront Park were also at the business on the 800 block of Third Ave before the second incident.
On Aug. 26, Brumfield was found in Portland after fleeing the Spokane area. He was taken into custody by the Portland Police Bureau and is currently awaiting extradition back to Washington. It is not known when he will return to the state.
Brumfield faces two counts of First Degree Assault, two counts of Second Degree Assault and one count of drive-by shooting.
This is a developing story and will be updated when more information becomes available.
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VANCOUVER, Wash. — C-TRAN's bus rapid transit system, The Vine, is expanding to Mill Plain Boulevard in 2023.
The agency says Mill Plain is Vancouver’s second-busiest transit corridor and expects The Vine will greatly improve service. Crews broke ground in the transit line in September 2021.
This comes after success along Fourth Plain Boulevard, C-TRAN’s busiest transit corridor, which averages nearly 2 million trips a year.
The agency The Vine on Fourth Plain about five years ago to ease congestion. It has made traveling between downtown and the Vancouver Mall a lot more efficient.
The Vine runs through Vancouver’s most diverse area, known as the International District, where you can find roughly 150 businesses serving the people there.
“It's a good safe district to come and share with your family and some great family restaurants,” said Paul Burgess.
Burgess leads Fourth Plain Forward, an organization that promotes International District and works to improve it. He said the district offers a wide array of reasons to visit, and it's catching on.
“Certainly people are slowly starting to get to know that, and part of the work that we do here at Fourth Plain Forward is to boost the opportunity and that recognition that the people should be coming in,” said Burgess.
Businesses say the bus rapid transit system has been part of what's seen the area through a few tough years.
"The Vine, I feel like it is progressive for our community, especially when it comes to the way COVID has hit everybody, and I feel like it's accessible makes it easier access for businesses and for the community to be able to travel," said Zaynab Afu, manager of Hawaiian Style Grill on Fourth Plain.
Business is good at the restaurant, and chef Chinta Reselap gives some credit to the bus service.
“Because we’re busy every day. Before, it's not really, but now it's crazy,” Reselap said with a laugh.
And The Vine is not only good for the options is provides. Burgess said for many people, the bus is a necessity.
“It's very difficult for a number of community members to own cars, and so The Vine has really opened up that transportation opportunity and really makes a big difference.” | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/vancouver/c-tran-the-vine-mill-plain-boulevard-2023/283-ab24dfbf-5cf9-41c4-a545-5e5c2d1b9eb6 | 2022-09-01T05:30:17 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/vancouver/c-tran-the-vine-mill-plain-boulevard-2023/283-ab24dfbf-5cf9-41c4-a545-5e5c2d1b9eb6 |
SEATTLE — A Seattle-area organization is helping those affected by catastrophic flooding in Pakistan.
Floodwaters resulting from an intense monsoon and glacial melt has impacted 33 million people in Pakistan, a country of 220 million. At least 1,100 people died from the floods. Nearly one-third of the country is under water.
"The Pakistani people are facing a monsoon on steroids," United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said.
In Seattle, the head of a Pakistani community group is mobilizing to provide aid for those affected by the floods.
"It took us about two weeks to plan for a telethon," said Kamran Salahuddin, the founder of the Pakistan Association of Greater Seattle. The goal of the nationwide telethon, held in New York on Saturday, was to raise relief funds for Pakistan.
The telethon raised $1.75 million, according to Salahuddin.
"Everybody is moved. People have opened up their hearts to help," Salahuddin said.
Salahuddin, who has been operating his printing and copy business in Seattle's Lower Queen Anne for nearly 30 years, has been thinking about those impacted by the severe floods, which he and climate scientists say are related to climate change.
"We here in the northwest, or even in the west in general, enjoy our lives and don't even think about what all these emissions and all these pollution that we are creating, caused this kind of devastation for people who have nothing to do with it," Salahuddin said.
His organization is currently accepting donations on this page.
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SEATTLE — Harborview Medical Center is again accepting patients it considers non-urgent after reducing the number of inpatients at the facility.
According to a spokesperson, the hospital is at approximately 115% of its licensed capacity of 413, down from more than 130% earlier in August.
However, the inability to discharge patients waiting to be placed in post-acute care facilities remains an issue.
On Aug. 11, Harborview leadership announced it would no longer accept patients that aren't in need of urgent care in order to address its overcrowding issue. Patients not in need of urgent care were diverted to other area hospitals.
At the time, there were more than 560 inpatients, with more than 100 patients no longer requiring hospitalization and waiting to be discharged to post-acute care facilities, such as rehabilitation facilities.
Dr. Steven Mitchell, medical director of Harborview's emergency department, said patients in need of urgent care were having to wait longer to be admitted -- sometimes hours.
Earlier this summer, hospital leaders across the state warned of facilities being overcapacity. The biggest factor, like at Harborview, was patients who no longer needed hospitalization taking up beds while they waited to be transferred to long-term care facilities.
Providence-Swedish said at the time that as many as 20% of their patients no longer required hospitalization.
Understaffing, too, is an area of concern with a decline in healthcare workers.
In early August, an ER nurse concerned over a staffing shortage, told KING 5 the hospital was seeing up to 300 patients a day. Sometimes, there would be 10 patients for every one nurse, they said. Patients could be left waiting in the lobby for up to 12 hours.
According to the Washington State Hospital Association, the number of nurses has shrunk by 6,000. The use of temporary nurses is up 84%.
The nursing shortage, combined with continuing COVID-19 cases has forced Providence to delay or cancel surgeries, costing it a significant revenue stream. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/harborview-medical-center-accepting-patients/281-39d2ed17-702b-4a64-b170-fdea30a0f5d7 | 2022-09-01T05:33:11 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/harborview-medical-center-accepting-patients/281-39d2ed17-702b-4a64-b170-fdea30a0f5d7 |
New video shows a brutal attack on a man walking along a Brooklyn street, as one of the suspects is seen repeatedly bashing the victim with a baseball bat, according to police.
The attack occurred just before 3 p.m. on July 31, as the 31-year-old victim was walking near Saint Johns' Place and Ralph Avenue in Crown Heights. Police said that the man got into an argument with three others before one of the men he was disputing with swung the bat and hit him in the face.
The two other men seen in the video then punched the victim multiple times before he was able to cross the street and get away from them. The suspects took off shortly after, while the critically injured victim was taken to Kings County Hospital with a severe cut to his face, as well as swelling.
The suspect who was seen wielding the baseball bat appeared to have been a minor, according to police. The other two suspects appeared to be older.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or, for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website or on Twitter @NYPDTips. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/attacker-bashes-man-with-baseball-bat-on-brooklyn-street-as-2-others-throw-punches/3847110/ | 2022-09-01T05:36:24 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/attacker-bashes-man-with-baseball-bat-on-brooklyn-street-as-2-others-throw-punches/3847110/ |
Chad K. Shaw
February 26, 1971-August 26, 2022
GARNER-Chad K. Shaw, 51, of Garner, passed away on Friday August 26, 2022, in an ATV accident in South Dakota. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 am on Friday, September 2, 2022, at The Dock, Zion on Main, in Clear Lake. Visitation will be Thursday from 4-7 pm at The Dock. Burial will take place at Concord Cemetery in Garner, IA. Funeral services are under the guidance of the Sietsema-Atkinson Funeral Home in Hampton.
Chad Kenneth Shaw was born February 26, 1971, in Mason City to Kenny and Linda (Gobeli) Shaw. He graduated from SC-MT High School and attended Upper Iowa University. On July 3, 1993, Chad was united in marriage to Ranae Atkinson at the St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thornton. Leaving Upper Iowa (and his football days behind), Chad followed his heart… he packed up and moved back home to pursue his love of all things farming. After many years working for Lage, Land, and Livestock, Chad spent time at Trans Ova Genetics, MaxYield, AgVantage FS and eventually landing at Bayer Crop Science. This is where Chad would have retired. He made so many friendships through this path and for that we are forever grateful.
While Chad's official title may have been sales rep, he filled so many other shoes. He was a son, a husband, father, grandfather, uncle, friend and colleague. And since he could never make up his mind, he was also a farmer, hunter, fisherman, bus driver, coach, trucker, and most recently a rancher. His pride and joy could be found at his fingertips daily. Of the many calls he made each day, his boys topped that list. They were his everything. Papa Shaw, as Chad was affectionately known, welcomed his first grandchild less than a week before his passing. Sullivan John Shaw was born on August 20th, 2022. His was heart was forever full.
Chad's zest for life was unmatched. He lived life to the fullest and all who knew Chad could attest to that. “Go Big or Go Home” was the motto he lived by daily. He is to be remembered for his infectious smile, kind heart, and if you were lucky enough, an occasional bear hug. He was loved by many but know that you each had a special place in his heart as well. If one would have to guess, he is sitting above, having a beer with all of his friends and family who were close and dear, talking all things Iowa State and Dallas Cowboys, and most likely telling a story or two. He truly lived his best life.
Chad is survived by his wife Ranae, parents Kenny and Linda Shaw, sons Spencer (Maddie) Shaw and baby Sullivan of Pocahontas, Conner Shaw of Pocahontas and Jared Shaw of Pocahontas, sisters Michelle (Rob) Duff of Mason City, Kendra (Doug) Shaw of Mason City and mother-in-law Jan Atkinson of Cedar Rapids and sister-in-law Becky (Kevin) Hulsing of Cedar Rapids, as well as many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents Dean and Wilma Gobeli, paternal grandparents Wayne and Ardis Shaw, paternal grandparents-in-law Richard and Velma Atkinson, maternal grandparents-in-law Verne and Elaine Freie as well as his aunts Bertha Shaw and Doreen Shaw. | https://globegazette.com/news/local/obituaries/chad-k-shaw/article_fcc98fc7-b963-52ef-9e31-30d1a9365919.html | 2022-09-01T05:48:14 | 0 | https://globegazette.com/news/local/obituaries/chad-k-shaw/article_fcc98fc7-b963-52ef-9e31-30d1a9365919.html |
MUNSTER, IN - Dorothy M. Pietrzak (nee Hauter), 87 of Munster, IN passed away on Tuesday, August 30, 2022. She is survived by her sons: Kenneth (Sally), Gary (Deborah), James (Cara) and Raymond Pietrzak; grandchildren: Joseph, Emily, Kendall, Sara, Maya, Devan and Jake; several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her Husband, Raymond; parents: Andrew and Lena Hauter; brothers: Robert and John Hauter.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Saturday, September 3, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. at St. Maria Goretti Church, 500 Northgate Dr., Dyer, IN. Interment will be at Holy Cross Cemetery, Calumet City, IL. Visitation will be on Friday from 4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at KISH FUNERAL HOME, 10000 Calumet Ave., Munster, IN and on Saturday from 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. at the church.
Dorothy was a longtime surgical nurse at St. Margaret Hospital as well as other local hospitals. She was a Lector at St. Maria Goretti Church. Dorothy was a member of the Chicago Bulls Swingin' Seniors Dance Troop and the St. Jude's Players Group. In lieu of flowers, contributions to a charity of your choice in her memory would be appreciated. www.kishfuneralhome.net | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/dorothy-m-pietrzak-nee-hauter/article_64589fe9-668a-5914-b696-dabe1dee8f5a.html | 2022-09-01T05:58:58 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/dorothy-m-pietrzak-nee-hauter/article_64589fe9-668a-5914-b696-dabe1dee8f5a.html |
CRAWFORDSVILLE, IN - Dorothy S. Keilman (nee Virus) age 89, of Crawfordsville, IN formerly of East Chicago, passed away Tuesday, August 30, 2022. Survived by three loving children: Dorothy A. Dolato, Leonard Mark (Sherry) & Allen (Kristin) Keilman; Loving Grandmother of: Katherine Keilman, Rachel Kizior, Gregory, Marcia & Daniel Keilman, Tyler & Aaron (Sadie) Wilson; special great-grandchildren: Fae Kizior, and Charlotte and Chloe Wilson; great-grandson, Grayson Wilson and many special nieces, nephews, family and friends. Preceded in passing by her loving husband of 61 years, Leonard R. Keilman; parents: Joseph & Anna Virus; Sisters: Mary (Michael) Spisak, Anna (Clem) Pokorski, Julia (Joseph) Mikulaj, Helen (Valentine) Mikulaj; brothers: Joseph (Oretta), John (Adeline) & Michael (Frances) Virus.
Funeral Mass of Christian Burial will be held Saturday, September 3, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. at St Mary's Church, 525 N. Broad St., Griffith, IN, with Fr. Keith M. Virus, officiating. At Rest, St John-St Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Hammond, IN. Friends may visit with the family on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022 from 4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at SOLAN-RUZIN FUNERAL HOME, 14 Kennedy Ave., Schererville, IN and also on Saturday from 9:30 a.m. until time of Mass. In lieu of flowers, Memorials may be made to a Humane Society or an Animal Shelter of your choice.
Dorothy was a lifelong resident of East Chicago and a few years ago, moved to be near some of her children in Crawfordsville, IN. A graduate of ECW. After High School and before marrying Leonard, she worked as a Comptometer Operator. She was a loving and supportive wife, mother and grandmother who will be dearly missed by all of her loving family & friends. Services entrusted to David J. Pastrick. SolanPruzinFuneralHome.com | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/dorothy-s-keilman-nee-virus/article_b211ef35-9d44-5197-920a-ee5b1c0da3ab.html | 2022-09-01T05:59:05 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/dorothy-s-keilman-nee-virus/article_b211ef35-9d44-5197-920a-ee5b1c0da3ab.html |
HAMMOND, IN - Dr. Jack Schwartz, age 94 of Hammond, IN passed away on Monday, August 29, 2022. He is survived by his son, Karl Schwartz; daughter, Karen Schwartz-Brattain; and grandchildren, Megan, Aaron, Sarah, Elana and Ben. Dr. Jack is preceded in death by his wife, Dr. Magda Schwartz; and siblings, Leopold, Reisi, Hershy and Arthur.
Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, September 2, 2022 at KISH FUNERAL HOME, 10000 Calumet Ave., Munster, IN with Rabbi Gidon Isaacs officiating. Interment will follow at Elmwood Cemetery Hammond, IN. Visitation will be on Friday, at the funeral home from 10:00 a.m. until the 11:00 a.m. Service.
Dr. Jack was an obstetrician-gynecologist who delivered over 20,000 babies in "The Region". He was partners in both Life and Medicine with his beloved wife Magda, an anesthesiologist. Dr. Jack was a Holocaust survivor, a wonderful physician, and a devoted family man. He always taught his family that "it feels better to give than to receive." He will be so deeply missed. www.kishfuneralhome.net | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/dr-jack-schwartz/article_d41626b8-21cf-5e8d-8d51-5c48005d37ec.html | 2022-09-01T05:59:11 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/dr-jack-schwartz/article_d41626b8-21cf-5e8d-8d51-5c48005d37ec.html |
IN LOVING MEMORY
OF GARY ERWIN
Rest in Peace:
Gary 9/1/2019
Scoobie 7/15/2022
Missing you and now Scoobie too, but with the love and memories within our hearts, you will walk with us forever. Love for you always, Laura Labadie
IN LOVING MEMORY
OF GARY ERWIN
Rest in Peace:
Gary 9/1/2019
Scoobie 7/15/2022
Missing you and now Scoobie too, but with the love and memories within our hearts, you will walk with us forever. Love for you always, Laura Labadie
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EAST CHICAGO, IN - Jesse V. Mendoza age 27, of East Chicago, IN passed away on Sunday, August 28, 2022. He is survived by his loving mother, Dora (Luis) Rodriquez; dear sister, Kara Amada Rodriquez; grandfather, Jesus Mendoza; grandparents, Fernando and Priscilla Rodriguez; aunts, Angela (Patrick) Rosado, Gabriel (Donna) Mendoza and Mary (Michael) Garza; and several cousins. Proceeded in death by loving grandmother, Lucy Mendoza.
Jesse graduated from Portage High School in 2014. He liked watching movies & boxing. He was funny and loved teasing his sister. Jesse adored his cousins as his own siblings. Growing up Jesse enjoyed video games with the boys and was always protective of the girls. He cherished home cooked meals from his mom or Tia Angie. His favorite dessert was his Lela's strawberry cake. Jesse loved all his dogs but adored Pedro. His laugh and spirit will live on.
A visitation will be held at SOLAN PRUZIN FUNERAL HOME, 14 Kennedy Avenue, Schererville, IN on Saturday, September 3, 2022 from 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM. A Funeral Service Celebrating Jesse's Life will be held Saturday at 6:00 PM with Rev. Jeffrey Burton officiating. Solanpruzinfuneralhome.com | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/jesse-v-mendoza/article_5ee177f0-8493-5016-bac9-24137c26a09f.html | 2022-09-01T05:59:23 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/jesse-v-mendoza/article_5ee177f0-8493-5016-bac9-24137c26a09f.html |
Joan Arlene Hendrix
MCKINNEY, TX - Joan Arlene Hendrix, age 88 of McKinney, TX, formerly of Saint John, IN and hometown South Holland, IL, went home to her Lord and Savior on Sunday, August 28. She is survived by her children and their spouses: Janet (Terry) Seagrave, Terry (Kim) Kelley-Hybarger, Scott (Theresa) Hendrix, Mark (AnDrea) Hendrix, Jamie Broetjes-Taylor, and Tom (Dana) Broetjes. Also surviving are grandchildren: Amy Bierhup, Todd Seagrave, Kyle Seagrave, Amber Kelley, Jeff Hendrix, Connor Hendrix, Kristen Hendrix, Cory Kelley, Hannah Hendrix, Steven Hendrix, Elizabeth Hendrix, Robin Taylor, Kelly Taylor, Greg Taylor, Yvette Broetjes, Chantel Broetjes, Amanda Broetjes, Thomas Broetjes, Nicholas Broetjes, Cameron Cleaves, Adyen Cleaves, and Lauren Cleaves; nine great-grandchildren; and three siblings: Cornelius (Coz) Dekker, Arnold Dekker, and Gloria Holman. Joan was preceded to Heaven by her husband: Jim Hendrix; parents: Cornelius R. Dekker Jr. and Nellie Dekker; sisters: Anne Meter, Henrietta Bronkema, Joellyn Toren, son-in-law: Jim Kelley, and granddaughters: Grace and Hope Hendrix.
Joan grew up in South Holland IL and attended Illiana Christian High School in one of its first graduating classes. She attended Northwestern College (Orange City, IA), Saint Joseph's College, and Governors State. Joan married Jim Hendrix and she taught for 30 years at Brookwood School District, where she helped to found their special education department. She raised four children at home and supported her extended family with tireless Christian love and compassion. She ran a tutoring business from a space she remodeled in her family home. For many years, she worked with a faith-group called "The 29ers", and they worked on church camps and social outreach restoring locations with a wide network of friends. She became active in Christian missions traveling to countries or working in a Pennsylvania supply warehouse on behalf of GAIN and Village Church Missions throughout Eastern Europe, the Caribbean, and Central America. She continued traveling for missions and with her social group until 2018. Due to her health, she moved from the South Holland-NW Indiana area to McKinney, Texas at the end of 2019. Joan passed away on Sunday morning, August 28th in the company of her children and grandchildren who prayed with her as she passed. She was a faithful Christian throughout her life who loved to show hospitality and witness by her example rather than her words. She enters a well-earned rest in eternity. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Village Church Missions Board.
Friends are invited to visit with Joan's family on Friday, September 2 from 4:00 – 8:00 PM at Village Church, 14819 W. 93rd Ave., Dyer, IN 46311. The funeral service will be held on Saturday, August 3 at 10:30 AM. Joan will be laid to rest in Oak Ridge Cemetery. For more information visit: https://www.schroederlauer.com/obituary/joan-hendrix | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/joan-arlene-hendrix/article_4dda8ab2-bf88-5644-92d7-fba54d592110.html | 2022-09-01T05:59:29 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/joan-arlene-hendrix/article_4dda8ab2-bf88-5644-92d7-fba54d592110.html |
SCHERERVILLE, IN - Joseph "Pat" Patrick Logue, Jr., age 74, of Schererville, formerly of Crown Point, IN, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, August 30, 2022. He is survived by his loving wife of 54 years, Jackie Logue (nee Barlog); children: Yvette (Thomas) Strayer and Austin (Candice) Logue; precious grandchildren: McKenna and Ian Strayer, Adeline and Joseph Logue; brother, Todd Logue; in-laws, Roman (Lynn) Barlog and Mark (Margaret) Barlog; and several nieces, nephews and cousins. Preceded in death by his siblings: Gene (still living, Marg) Logue, Sharon Logue, and Stephen Logue; and in-laws, Jim (still living, Linda) and Greg Barlog.
Pat graduated from Elkhart Institute of Technology in 1967 in Dental Technology. He was a Dental Technician for 55 years and owned J L Dental in Griffith. Pat was the former president of Certified Dental Labs of Indiana. Pat and his wife were devoted members of St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church in Schererville as Eucharistic Ministers. He was an avid golfer, bowler and sports fan. He cheered on the Ohio State Buckeyes, Chicago White Sox and Bears. Pat was a youth baseball and basketball coach for many years. He was a music trivia enthusiast and known for his sense of humor. He also loved to travel and enjoyed his many trips with his family to the beach. Pat was a loving husband, father and grandfather who cherished his time with them. He will be dearly missed.
A visitation will be held at SOLAN PRUZIN FUNERAL HOME, 14 Kennedy Avenue, Schererville, IN on Thursday, September 1, 2022 from 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated directly at St. Maria Goretti Church, 500 Northgate Dr. Dyer, IN on Friday, September 2, 2022 at 10:00 AM. Pat will lie-in-state at the church on Friday at 9:30 AM until time of service. Burial at St. Michael Cemetery in Schererville. In lieu in flowers, donations to Autism Speaks or Hospice of the Calumet Area would be appreciated. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/joseph-pat-patrick-logue-jr/article_e28add70-d49a-520a-aa5e-6f310c7c96eb.html | 2022-09-01T05:59:35 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/joseph-pat-patrick-logue-jr/article_e28add70-d49a-520a-aa5e-6f310c7c96eb.html |
Feb. 21, 1927 - Aug. 29, 2022
CHESTERTON, IN - Joyce Maxine (Mackey) Hoffman Semms, age 95 of Chesterton, IN passed away on Monday, August 29, 2022. She was born on February 21, 1927 in Gary, IN.
Joyce is survived by her son, James (Nancy) Hoffman; three granddaughters, Amy (Ariel) Rivera, Carrie (Clay) Mason, Rebecca (Steve) Mitcheltree; and six great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, mother, Martha Mackey; her father, Paul Mackey; and sister, Shirley Fox.
Joyce was a school teacher and librarian. She lived for many years in the Merrillville and Crown Point area. Joyce spent many winters at her Seascape condo in Bonita Beach, FL. She loved to read and enjoyed watching the Chicago Bears and Cubs. Joyce enjoyed spending time with her family.
Joyce's family will be having a Celebration of her life on Saturday, September 3, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. at Gelsosomo's Pizzeria, 371 Indian Boundary Rd., Chesterton, IN 46304. Arrangements made with EDMONDS & EVANS FUNERAL HOME, Chesterton, IN. To leave online condolences to the family please visit www.ee-fh.com | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/joyce-maxine-mackey-hoffman-semms/article_00ac83c0-beca-50a9-9d1f-d8bdd65545f1.html | 2022-09-01T05:59:42 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/joyce-maxine-mackey-hoffman-semms/article_00ac83c0-beca-50a9-9d1f-d8bdd65545f1.html |
Milorod Miller Ristich
NEW LENOX, IL - Milorod Miller Ristich, 86, of New Lenox, formerly Crete and South Holland, passed away on Aug. 30, 2022. He is survived by his wife and "Honsey" of 56 years, Darlene; daughter, Marla (Demetrius) Dillahunty, of Atlanta, GA; sons: Randall Ristich of New Lenox and Gregory (Amy) Ristich of Frankfort; Grandpa of Nicholas (Carly), Demetrius, Cora, Alison, Lauren, Adam, Kelly, and Michael; Great-grandpa of J.R.; Brother of late Emily (late Claude) King, late Sam (late Elaine) Ristich, Marie (Wayne) Jurgens of Grayslake, Robert (Barbara) Ristich of Glendale Heights; Son of the late Bozo and Anka Ristich; Son-in-law of the late Marko and late Mildred Willich; Brother-in-law of the late Steve Willich, late Michael Willich, late Joseph (late Betty) Willich, Daniel (Nancy) Willich. Miller also leaves behind numerous nieces, nephews and Kumovi.
After graduating from Chicago Vocational High School, Miller proudly enlisted in the United States Marine Corp. After serving four years, he fearlessly began his career with the Local 1 Iron Workers. The contributions of him and his peers serve as a major part of the awesome Chicago skyline. He "retired" at 62 and was a member of the Iron Workers Local 1 Retiree Club. He also enjoyed golfing, fishing, bowling, and hunting. His days were filled with fixing anything he could find broken around his and his children's homes. His greatest joy was spending time with his grandchildren and attending their various sports activities and school functions.
Special thanks to Natalie and Colleen from Lightways Hospice for their kindness and compassion. Memorials may be directed to St. Archangel Michael Serbian Orthodox Church, 1500 186th St., Lansing, IL 60438, St. George Serbian Orthodox Church, 300 Stryker Ave., Joliet, IL 60436, or P.A.W.S. of Tinley Park, IL, 8301 W. 191st St., Tinley Park, IL 60487.
Visitation will be held on Friday, September 2, from 3:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m. with a Pomen Service at 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday from 11:00 a.m. until the time of Funeral Service at 12:00 p.m. at KURTZ MEMORIAL CHAPEL, 65 Old Frankfort Way, Frankfort, IL. A Committal Service with Military Honors will follow at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Frankfort. To sign guestbook please visit heartlandmemorial.com or call 708-444-2266. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/milorod-miller-ristich/article_f42af633-7939-51b5-a492-96d177bbf261.html | 2022-09-01T05:59:48 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/milorod-miller-ristich/article_f42af633-7939-51b5-a492-96d177bbf261.html |
LOWELL, IN - Wayne Greer 66, of Lowell, passed away Thursday, August 25, 2022. He is survived by his children, Wayne, Luke and Kyle; grandchildren, Autumn and Owen; the mother of his children, Clare; sister, Michelle (Mitch) Hollifield.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Wayne and Louise.
Wayne was an Auto Mechanic who loved drag racing and was a hot rod enthusiast.
Private Cremation through SHEETS FUNERAL HOME & CREMATION SERVICES in Lowell, with Celebration of Life services to be held at a later date. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/wayne-greer/article_033758f2-212c-5de7-9426-34b2ad97467d.html | 2022-09-01T05:59:54 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/wayne-greer/article_033758f2-212c-5de7-9426-34b2ad97467d.html |
TEMPLE, Texas — After two years, the Safe Sitter Program is back at Baylor Scott & White Children's Hospital. The program is offered to kids and adults every first Saturday of the month during the school year.
The program took a break due to COVID, but now is back and teaching kids important skills that can apply to watching small children, or even just being more responsible in general.
"We talk about things like first aid skills rescue skills secure and we also talked about business skills," Trauma Coordinator Krista Easley said. "So accepting the job, defining your job, screening your job, and other things that kind of help children understand what they're getting into before they agree to anything."
The kids who participate have been highly receptive to the skills and lessons they've learned. The instructors are even teaching kids about stopping the bleeding in cases where a child may end up bloody and injured. The instructors teach kids about making sure they have a watchful eye on a child at all times even for something as simple as fetching a snack.
"Kids say, I didn't know this, or I never thought about it this way. A lot of kids don't even know what to do for a nosebleed," Easley said. "So it's a useful resource for them. And when they are by themselves watching."
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — On one of Sacramento's hottest days of the summer so far, more than a dozen young people, many of them women, were throwing heavy medicine balls and scaling a six-foot wall behind the Sacramento Police Department.
The Wednesday boot camp event was specifically geared for the upcoming female fitness challenge, and part of a broader goal to increase representation of women in the department to 30% by 2030. Chief Kathy Lester told ABC10 it was just 17% in March.
Police Corporal Alexis Grove said research has shown that women officers get fewer complaints, use force less often and have more success getting victims of crimes to speak out.
"In some cases when you show up on scene, people are just drawn to you due to that comfortability of seeing a female, so having females in law enforcement is a huge asset," Grove said.
The six-foot wall at the boot camp was initially one of the most challenging obstacles for applicant Megan Limeberger.
"I’ve been through the process once. Unfortunately, I didn’t make it, so now I’m re-applying," Limeberger said, more determined than ever to pass.
While the triple-digit temperatures in Sacramento this week didn't help the participants, Grove said training in such an environment is actually very applicable to real life as a police officer.
"I mean it’s a mental push but we work in this, we work in the rain, we work in the extreme heat," Grove said. "It’s a mindset that you have to work through and it’s really applicable to what our job entails."
WATCH ALSO: | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento-police-female-officers/103-f44657b7-92a2-46c8-b91a-27b3b98418b5 | 2022-09-01T06:11:11 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento-police-female-officers/103-f44657b7-92a2-46c8-b91a-27b3b98418b5 |
ROSEVILLE, Calif. — Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento and Roseville were recognized in “Newsweek” magazine’s latest “Best Maternity Hospitals” report for their care to new moms and babies.
"What sets us apart is the fact that we have this integrated care,” said Dr. Rachel Dong, Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Kaiser Permanente’s South Sacramento medical center.
The following 11 Kaiser Permanente hospitals received the latest “Best Maternity Hospitals” designation: Antioch, Redwood City, Roseville, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Clara, Santa Rosa, South Sacramento, Vacaville, Vallejo and Walnut Creek.
According to Kaiser Permanente, the national designation was awarded to 350 hospitals in the United States, and only 55 in California.
The “Newsweek” report identifies leading maternity care programs that have met or exceeded rigorous quality and safety standards.
Kaiser Permanente has a total of 24 hospitals that received the elite designation and approximately 40% of those are listed in California.
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ARPA for the Arts: New studio gives Great Falls' Micah Rauch space to make art
Visual artist Micah Rauch was looking for a space of his own.
Until recently, Rauch, 35, was making art in a bedroom in his Great Falls home that was cramped and only had one working electrical outlet.
To get himself some more space, Rauch began building a detached studio among the chickens and roaming felines that populate his yard.
He had updated the electrical and paid for some of the studio himself, but he thought it would take about two years to get it ready for use.
“I was getting to the point where it was like, 'Is this going to work, or am I just going to have to give up on this idea?'” Rauch said.
Then along came a $10,000 American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) grant.
ARPA helping artists:Grant lets James Rickley concentrate on composition
With it, Rauch insulated, put up drywall, painted and added flooring, making the space functional within a month. His next step is to get a quote to add heating.
Having the space has meant a lot for Rauch’s art, which he’d someday like to turn into a full-time career.
Rauch went to school for graphic design at Montana State University and went to work in-house at a design company. He was doing freelance work when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and all his clients dried up.
Fortunately, his wife’s job kept them afloat, but the pandemic forced Rauch to look at other ways to use his art. He began doing non-graphic design work that he sells online. He did his first art show at Helena’s Ten Mile Creek Brewery and has already put up art for a second show there.
“I did surprising really well, for there,” Rauch said. “They said it was one of their favorite shows.”
Rauch has also shown his work at Kellergeist in Great Falls during the downtown Christmas Stroll. He promotes himself via social media, including Facebook and Instagram. He recently fell into using TikTok.
Last year, Rauch’s wife started sending him funny TikToks, but he said he thought it was a platform for the younger generation. Rauch said his wife pressured him into making an account, and an artist friend encouraged him to make art TikToks.
A year later, he has just shy of 27,000 followers, and TikTok has become one of his favorite platforms.
It hasn’t hurt sales, either. Rauch said a TikTok account with a half-million followers had to close its store for a bit, and the artist saw a post of Rauch’s about having trouble promoting his work. The artist recommended that followers to check out Rauch’s store, and he got around 40-45 orders in a week.
“It’s slowly growing,” he said. “It’s still not quite a livable income, per se, off of the art, but it’s definitely growing since I started.”
Rauch’s new studio gives him plenty of space to have multiple projects going and to try new endeavors such as sticker-making and 3D printing.
Having the studio has reinvigorated Rauch’s drive to make art, and the grant has freed up his own money to do other things for his art and for his life.
Rauch is doing more client work now and has taken on illustration work making beer labels for a brewery in Bozeman.
“It’s a really fun project because they were kinda like, ‘You can do anything weird (or) crazy,’ and so you could have like a polar bear riding a UFO shooting, like, spaghetti guns, I don’t know. You can do anything. It’s fun,” said Rauch.
On a shelf in his studio, Rauch displays a City Brew cup that he did the illustrations on, and he recently signed on to do six books for a children’s STEM magazine. He said he feels like it’s a good cause, and he’s learning things, as well.
A map of the U.S. on Rauch’s wall shows that he’s 11 states shy of having sold art to people in all 50 states. He’s also shipped work to New Zealand, the U.K., Germany and Switzerland.
In addition to the heating, Rauch said he still wants to add bookshelves and a cubicle inside the studio. His ultimate dream is to be successful enough to hire someone to do the non-art work such as shipping orders.
You can help get him there by buying his art at https://www.micahrauch.com/shop. Follow him on Instagram at @micahrauch and on TikTok at @micahrauch. | https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2022/08/31/american-rescue-plan-grant-gives-montana-artist-micah-rauch-studio-create-online-shop-tiktok/65464835007/ | 2022-09-01T06:44:07 | 1 | https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2022/08/31/american-rescue-plan-grant-gives-montana-artist-micah-rauch-studio-create-online-shop-tiktok/65464835007/ |
Despite $430 billion price tag, Montana seniors applaud Inflation Reduction Act
Montana Sen. Jon Tester stopped in Great Falls Monday to tout the expanded Medicare provisions of the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. In doing so the Senator highlighted the political muscle of senior voters who support its provisions, both in Montana and across the United States.
“We’ve heard time and time again from politicians, policy makers talking about making prescription drugs more affordable, but until a few weeks ago it was just talk,” Tester told a small gathering at the Alluvion Health Medical Center in downtown Great Falls. “The reason for that is because the policy makers were listening to the wrong people. They were taking their marching orders from somebody other than the people that are sitting in this room, somebody other than Montanans.”
Little more than two weeks ago President Biden signed into law the $430 billion Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The Act passed both Houses of Congress on a strictly party line vote with the White House asserting it will lower healthcare costs and encourage investment in clean energy technology without increasing budget deficits or taxes on families making less than $400,000 a year. The Inflation Reduction Act imposes a new minimum 15% tax on corporations making more than $1 billion a year and includes $80 billion in additional funding for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to help the agency crack down on wealthy tax evaders.
Senate Republicans have characterized the Inflation Reduction Act as “reckless tax and spend legislation.”
“As Montanans continue to struggle with sky-high prices on everything from gas to groceries to housing, every single Senate Democrat voted to raise energy costs, give taxpayer dollars to the rich for electric vehicles, increase taxes and supersize the IRS to go after small businesses and families,” said Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) following the Aug. 12 Senate passage of the bill. “It’s a slap in the face to Montana families.”
In his speech on Monday, Tester steered clear of the more controversial clean energy provisions of the Act, focusing instead upon caps in prescription drug prices for Medicare recipients.
“With the Inflation Reduction Act, we’re holding the big pharmaceutical companies accountable,” Tester said. “We’re cutting healthcare costs for Montanans with common sense steps like requiring Medicare to use its purchasing power to negotiate fair prescription drug prices of seniors. Allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drugs prices means that multinational pharmaceutical companies won’t be able to set the prices, and our seniors won’t have to eat it.”
“We also capped out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for Medicare patients at $2,000 per year,” Tester added. “Finally, insulin costs for Medicare patients were capped at $35 per month. The nice thing about this bill is that it doesn’t raise taxes on any Montanan and will ultimately put more money back in your pocket. We did this by making folks pay their fair share, particularly corporations … making billions and paying zero in taxes. That will change.”
Tester’s endorsement of the Inflation Reduction Act was echoed by Nancy Andersen, Outreach Director for the Montana Chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons. Nationally, AARP claims more than 38 million members over the age of 50, a figure that includes 135,000 AARP members in Montana.
“For decades Medicare has been legally prohibited from using its buying power to negotiate for lower drug prices, and up until now the pharmaceutical industry has been successful at keeping that prohibition in place,” Andersen said. “This new law includes many key AARP priorities that will save taxpayers and Medicare billions of dollars including, finally allowing Medicare to negotiate the price of prescription drugs, giving people in Medicare drug plans peace of mind knowing they won’t have to pay more than $2,000 a year for their medications, penalizing drug companies for raising their prices higher than the rate of inflation, limiting the cost of insulin to $35 a month for people on Medicare, and making many vaccines such as for shingles available at no cost to Medicare.”
“This law will also help keep health insurance affordable for millions of Americans who qualify for expanded financial assistance and will prevent a massive premium increase that would have affected nearly three million people,” she added. “This is so important for the AARP, especially for members who are age 50 to 64 who already pay up to three times more for their coverage than younger people. This is an enormous victory, but the fight is not over. Big drug companies will spend millions trying to overturn this new law so they can keep charging Americans the highest prices in the world. AARP will keep fighting big drug companies’ out-of-control prices, and we won’t back down.”
Speaking on behalf of the senior’s advocacy organization Big Sky 55+, former Great Falls City Commissioner Bill Bronson noted that roughly 60 million aging Americans currently depend upon Medicare for healthcare benefits, and that among those about 46 million have prescription drug coverage through the Medicare Part B program.
“We may be old, but we’re cranky and we vote,” Bronson said pointedly of the senior population’s political muscle.
Bronson referenced how a prior version of the Inflation Reduction Act extended price caps on prescription medications to all low-income Americans, not just those covered under Medicare Part B. That provision was stripped out of the bill’s final version.
“It’s taken us decades to get to the point where we are today,” Bronson said. “In many instances it has been a bipartisan effort, but there are still those who do not believe in the good works that we can do with this type of program. I urge Sen. Tester on behalf of this organization (Big Sky 55+) and others to keep up the fight to make sure that cap applies to everybody who needs that type of care in our system.”
Tester acknowledged that seniors will be the first to see significant improvements in healthcare benefits but argued that the Act’s impact will eventually trickle out to lower healthcare costs for all Americans.
“If Medicare is negotiating prices for our seniors its going to lower prescription drug costs for everybody across the board,” Tester said. “Do we need to do some things to make healthcare more affordable – absolutely and unequivocally, but I think this is a step in the right direction. I’m proud to stand by this law and I appreciate the support of the folks who made this happen.”
While some of the provisions within the Inflation Reduction Act will take effect early next year, most of the drug pricing caps will take longer. The provision capping insulin costs at $35 a month for Medicare patients won’t take effect until 2023. That’s also when the federal government will begin forcing pharmaceutical companies to pay a rebate if they raise drug prices faster than the rate of inflation.
The $2,000 cap on annual drug costs for Medicare Part B enrollees won’t begin until 2025, and the provision allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices won’t come into effect until 2026 – well after the next Presidential election and a likely 2024 run by Tester for a fourth term as U.S. Senator. | https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2022/08/31/sen-jon-tester-vows-to-keep-fighting-to-lower-healthcare-costs/65463770007/ | 2022-09-01T06:44:13 | 0 | https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2022/08/31/sen-jon-tester-vows-to-keep-fighting-to-lower-healthcare-costs/65463770007/ |
In a disturbing incident, a 78-year-old woman was pulled out of her Access-a-Ride car in the middle of the street after she and the driver got into a disagreement, according to police.
The incident occurred around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday near East 35th Street and Flatlands Avenue in Marine Park. Police said that the livery driver had passed the woman's destination, and when she asked him to go back, he refused.
The two got into an argument, and the driver eventually got out and pulled her out of the car, police said. A good Samaritan tried to intervene, but was struck by the driver after jumping in.
The driver has not yet been identified, and he has not yet been charged with any crimes. The woman was taken to a nearby hospital, where she is expected to recover.
A TLC spokesperson said that they are aware of the incident and are working with the NYPD. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/access-a-ride-driver-tosses-woman-from-car-in-brooklyn-after-dispute-police/3847206/ | 2022-09-01T07:08:30 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/access-a-ride-driver-tosses-woman-from-car-in-brooklyn-after-dispute-police/3847206/ |
Two people were stabbed just a few minutes — and a few blocks — apart in Manhattan, and police believe that the same man is responsible for both knifings.
Both victims were in Hell's Kitchen along 10th Avenue when they were stabbed Wednesday evening, according to police. The first stabbing occurred around 7:20 p.m., as a 28-year-old man was near West 50th Street. Police said he was stabbed in the back with an unknown object.
About a half hour later, around 7:50 p.m., a 27-year-old woman was stabbed in the chest while on West 47th Street.
The two victims, neither of whom were tourists, were taken to Roosevelt Hospital, where they are expected to survive. Police said that both attacks were unprovoked.
The suspect, a man believed to be in his 40s wearing a yellow plaid shirt and tan shorts, was taken into custody later in the evening. It was not immediately clear what charges he might face.
An investigation is ongoing. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/man-and-woman-stabbed-in-separate-unprovoked-hells-kitchen-attacks-police-ny-only-spec/3847160/ | 2022-09-01T07:08:36 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/man-and-woman-stabbed-in-separate-unprovoked-hells-kitchen-attacks-police-ny-only-spec/3847160/ |
With all the beautiful summer weather sticking around, Christmas is not exactly top of mind for most folks — except for those who make their living growing one of the most beloved holiday traditions: Christmas trees.
For those farmers in New Jersey, the long-lasting drought this summer has killed thousands of trees in the state and the outlook is bleak.
But what does that mean for those who will be in the market for one of the holiday trees, with the big day less than four months away? Will there be a new holiday tune, "No Christmas tree, no Christmas tree?"
Allen Patterson sure doesn't hope so. He and his family have been farming their land since the late 1700s. Once a dairy farm, it has since evolved, and Christmas trees have been a substantial part of that growth since 1987.
But growth is not something that Patterson has seen a lot of from some of his trees this year.
"They just didn't make the growth that we normally see, you hope for a foot a year. This year they just kind of maintained," he said.
There is a tract of land on the farm that is not irrigated, and Mother Nature hasn't delivered on much-needed rain for some time. Because of that, needles have turned brown and brittle, and some trees have just outright died — forcing Patterson's greenhouses to focus attention and water on flowers and vegetables, a.k.a. items that bring immediate income.
"You gotta take care of what’s gonna keep you going until next year," Patterson said.
Even the trees that are grown and look healthy are suffering from the lack of precipitation. Ones that look like potential Christmas trees are dry and haven't retained any moisture, meaning the needles will fall off easily.
So what do farmers recommend? Get the tree and put it up later in the season. Also, don't blame them — blame Mother Nature.
Lincroft Christmas Tree Farm is dealing with the same problem, as none of the three varieties of trees grown at the farm are growing like they should.
"These last two months, July and August, have been horrendous really. Feels like Phoenix, and they don't grow Christmas trees in Phoenix," said Bill Kohl, who runs the Monmouth County farm. "The color isn't as deep as it should be, a little deeper green ... we need a good spring rain, a couple days then every other day would be really good."
Kohl said he wants to see how (or if) the trees will recover when rain eventually does come. But the bottom line: Christmas trees will likely cost more this year, and could be harder to find.
"We have our Christmas tree growers summer meeting coming up next week, so I want to go speak to the farmers and see how they're faring," Kohl said.
Without about 5 to 10 percent of the crop lost, purchasers can expect to pay that much more to bring one home come December. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/oh-no-tenenbaum-drought-throughout-region-may-lead-to-christmas-tree-shortage/3847213/ | 2022-09-01T07:08:42 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/oh-no-tenenbaum-drought-throughout-region-may-lead-to-christmas-tree-shortage/3847213/ |
The Orlando City came out on top with a 3-2 finish against the Seattle Sounders Wednesday night.
Albert Rusnak managed to score a goal at the 26′ mark during the first half, bringing the Sounders into an early lead.
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While the rest of the match’s first half was relatively uneventful, with neither side scoring any points, the post-halftime segment of the game really amped things up.
Sounders scored another goal at the 52′ mark thanks to their No. 9 striker, Raul Ruidiaz. However, it wasn’t long afterward that City’s Facundo Torres nabbed a comeback goal one minute later at 53′.
As both teams battled for supremacy, City’s Ercan Kara received a penalty goal kick at 68′, evening the scores at 2-2.
The match eventually went into overtime, though City’s defender Kyle Smith cleaned up with an assist from Torres, bringing the match to a close at 90+1′.
City’s next game is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 7 at 8 p.m. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/09/01/orlando-city-triumps-3-2-over-seattle-sounders/ | 2022-09-01T08:18:14 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/09/01/orlando-city-triumps-3-2-over-seattle-sounders/ |
WATERLOO – The whir of sewing machines as Marian Cook and Judy McVey stitched together squares of quilting fabric didn’t mask the sounds of laughter and conversation in craft rooms at Central Christian Church.
Wendy Smith and Karen Hanson chatted and joked while pinning a long border to a quilt top spread on the table in front of them. At another table, Susan McGee, Carol Mayfield and Lani Yate sat, talking and making quick work of pinning together quilt squares.
All are members of the church’s Sew What group, which meets from 9 a.m. to noon on first and third Tuesdays. The group sews with charitable purpose. “The name came about because we never know what we’re going to sew next,” said Mayfield, smiling.
Cook, considered Sew What’s quilt expert, happily shares her skills and techniques. “It’s fun working with everyone. It’s more of a social time for me,” she said.
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For several years, Sew What made Days for Girls feminine hygiene kits for distribution to girls and women in underdeveloped countries and refugee camps across the globe. In 2017, the group donated 300 kits. It was a worthwhile project, Mayfield said, and Sew What became known for its quality workmanship.
But in the wake of the COVID pandemic, Days for Girls International ended up with a stockpile of kits. Sew What turned to making quilts for hospice and cancer center patients and veterans, as well as making 70 or more dresses for the Little Dresses for Africa charity.
Reaching out to meet community needs – whether it’s across the street or halfway around the world – is a chief tenet at Central Christian Church. The church, 3475 Kimball Ave., will celebrate its 125th anniversary Sept. 11. A special worship service and program will begin at 9:30 a.m.
“It’s a significant anniversary – 125 years is a long time. For the last five months through August, we’ve celebrated leading up to the anniversary by having members share their favorite memories and personal reflections,” said Sharon Gatewood, 80.
As a lifelong church member, Gatewood is familiar with the congregation’s history. The Disciples of Christ made several attempts from 1864 to 1896 to band together to start a church. In 1896, the Ladies Aide Society succeeded, and in 1897 the Waterloo Church of Christ was incorporated.
In 1900, the congregation’s first tabernacle was built on Grant Avenue.
“People used to be baptized in the Cedar River,” said Gatewood. In 1904, the church was moved and remodeled at Locust and South streets and became known as Central Church of Christ.
The church moved to the corner of West Fourth and South streets in 1908, and in the 1920s relocated to the corner of West Fourth and Locust streets. In 1943, it became known as Central Christian Church. As the congregation grew, the need for more classroom space became evident. The Kimball Avenue building was dedicated in 1964.
In November 2020, the Rev. Anna Brewer-Calvert and her husband, Henry Brewer-Calvert, became co-pastors. Anna leads Sunday worship services, offers pastoral care to members and leads educational programs. Henry leads children and youth programming, assists in outreach efforts and works as a bilingual patient care coordinator with VGM Group.
The couple began their ministry with online sermons and phone calls in the early months of COVID.
“It was a little difficult to work with people without knowing them in person, but members were welcoming and encouraging,” said Anna. “We shared faith and drew inspiration by reaching out to members every day,” Henry added. “The history and remarkable faith here is impressive and worth celebrating.”
There are about 100 members; 80 are active.
“Volunteering is big in our church. Our members are very community minded,” said Wendy Brudevold, a church member since 1969. Meals on Wheels, Newel Post, House of Hope and food pantries are among organizations receiving support from church members.
Music ministries are strong, as well, including the handbell choir and Alleluia Choir. “There continues to be a high bar set for music at the church,” said Sharon Longhorn, who joined the congregation 50 years ago.
The Gathering Space on the building’s west side is the church’s main entry. There are tables and chairs for sitting and enjoying coffee, and the Crafters group sells crafts to raise funds. An elevator on the east side makes the building fully accessible.
Small World Preschool is housed in the lower level.
Central Christian Church also became famous over the years for “oodles and oodles of chicken and noodles.” Church women began serving chicken dinners as fundraisers in the 1920s. The tradition stuck, and for many years the church ran the popular Noodle Nook at the National Cattle Congress Fair.
“It’s still a big tradition for us. Dozens and dozens of quarts of chicken noodle soup go out the door during our church bazaar. People look forward to that,” Gatewood noted.
This year’s Fall Bazaar is from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 1. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/central-christian-church-marks-125-years-with-faith-volunteerism-and-community-outreach/article_c6b9007b-bafd-5370-b16f-b8e1dda46638.html | 2022-09-01T08:39:01 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/central-christian-church-marks-125-years-with-faith-volunteerism-and-community-outreach/article_c6b9007b-bafd-5370-b16f-b8e1dda46638.html |
A Yonkers teacher was arrested after allegedly beginning an inappropriate relationship with an underage student that eventually led to physical and sexual violence, police said.
James Korwatch was arrested Wednesday and charged with criminal sex act and stalking, Yonkers police said. The 49-year-old is a carpentry teacher at Saunders Trades and Technical School, which is where he initiated a relationship with a 17-year-old student in 2021, according to police.
The relationship between the teacher and student continued, and in addition to the alleged physical and sexual violence, Korwatch engaged in intimidation and coercion as well, police said.
Korwatch, who lives in Ossining, was arraigned Wednesday. It was not clear if he had an attorney. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/yonkers-teacher-arrested-for-sexual-assault-of-teen-student-police/3847239/ | 2022-09-01T08:39:34 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/yonkers-teacher-arrested-for-sexual-assault-of-teen-student-police/3847239/ |
An hours-long police standoff in a New Jersey town ended with two people dead — one inside the home, and the other found on the front lawn.
Neighbors said their Woodbridge is typically a quiet neighborhood, but Wednesday afternoon that tranquility was shattered after police sources told NBC New York that a woman’s body was found outside, dead on the ground from a gunshot wound.
Woodbridge Police kept the residential block of Soren Street closed off well into the night, hours after officers were seen wearing bulletproof vests and holding tactical guns as they surrounded one of the homes.
"I’m like oh! They’re taking out guns, that means something serious is happening," said neighbor Jerrickson Manzueta. "A lady officer told me to evacuate the house, so I told my mom and my family, 'Let's go.'"
Chopper 4 flew over the scene during the afternoon, showing the intense law enforcement response. Police arrived a just after 4:30 p.m., after sources said neighbors heard two gunshots and saw the woman’s body on the front lawn. Officers then went door to door evacuating families who live along the street.
After an hours-long standoff, police moved in. The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office said another person’s body was found inside the home, and they are treating the incident as a murder/suicide.
"I can’t believe that even happened. To think, my neighbors have guns," Manzueta said. "To be honest, I’m very distraught."
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Shocked neighbors looked on as police continued their investigation, waiting for the OK to return to their homes.
Police still have not released the names of the two people who were found dead. An investigation is ongoing. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/woman-found-dead-on-front-lawn-of-nj-home-after-hours-long-standoff-sources/3847259/ | 2022-09-01T08:39:40 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/woman-found-dead-on-front-lawn-of-nj-home-after-hours-long-standoff-sources/3847259/ |
April 16, 1926—Aug. 20, 2022
LAKE ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Altha Seamons, 96, more recently of Lake St. Louis, Missouri and long-time resident of Rupert, Idaho, died Saturday, August 20, 2022.
Altha was born April 16, 1926, in Rupert, Idaho, the daughter of David and Florence Garner. She was raised on the family farm near Rupert, the third of 8 children. She drove horses in the fields and participated in the chores around the farm.
Altha graduated from Rupert High School in 1944 and then almost immediately began the 5-quarter teacher training program at Albion Normal School as there was a shortage of teachers due to the war. She began her teaching career in Burley in 1945. She later completed her advanced degrees in Education. She taught kindergarten in her home when the kids were little and later taught elementary students in Rupert schools for 22 years.
Altha married Burnel Seamons on August 12, 1948 in the Idaho Falls Temple. They are the parents of 4 children; Robert (deceased), Steven (Shari) of Declo, Dee L. (Wendy) of Burley, and Joan (Brian) Mackay of Lake St. Louis, Missouri. They are the grandparents of 14 and great-grandparents of 48.
Altha was a devoted member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Altha and Burnel served a mission to South Africa. They were temple workers in the Boise Temple and family history extractors and together they made more than 4,000 quilts for humanitarian donations.
Altha was widowed in 2010 and moved to Missouri to be near her daughter Joan in 2011.
She was known in her later years for making and sending hundreds of birthday and Christmas cards, each with unique water-color art and verse.
Altha is survived by 3 of her children and 5 of her siblings; Cora Mae, Dorothy, Ileen, LaJune and Lind. She was preceded in death by her husband Burnel, her son Robert, her brother Eldon Garner, her sister Norma Thompson and her great-grandson Zachary Blakemore.
Funeral Services will be held 11:00 a.m. Saturday, September 3, 2022 at the Rupert 1st Ward Chapel. 806 G Street Rupert, Idaho Visitation for family and Friends will be held for one hour prior to the services at the church. Services will conclude with burial in the Rupert Cemetery under the direction of Joel Heward Hansen Mortuary. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/altha-seamons/article_3c69eca5-8e4e-5456-bc18-b90397860003.html | 2022-09-01T08:49:44 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/altha-seamons/article_3c69eca5-8e4e-5456-bc18-b90397860003.html |
Carl Jay Greene, 78, died peacefully on August 25, 2022.
He is survived by his wife Sandy, three children, Richard, Steven, Carla, and his brother Chuck. He had 12 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.
We are deeply mourning but we know that the Lord will show us the path forward.
He cherished his family and was a huge influence on all of us.
He is proceeded in death by both of his parents (Kenneth and Lois), son Kenny, sister Pat and brother LaRay. He had numerous nieces and nephews. He will be greatly missed. 10-4 my love.
Celebration of Life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, September 3, 2020 at White-Reynolds Funeral Chapel, 2466 Addison Ave E. in Twin Falls.
In lieu of flowers, please give to your favorite charity in Carl’s name. To leave a condolence for the family visit www.whitereynoldschapel.com. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/carl-jay-greene/article_a9a8df45-099b-50e3-80d1-d410e59fbb1a.html | 2022-09-01T08:49:50 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/carl-jay-greene/article_a9a8df45-099b-50e3-80d1-d410e59fbb1a.html |
TWIN FALLS — Evelyn Reile Passed away in Twin Falls on July 3, 2022.
She is survived by her children, Calvin Reile of Twin Falls and Evelyn (Lynn) Amy of Puyallup, Washington, 3 grandchildren, and 6 great-grandchildren.
Evelyn has been laid to rest in the Elmwood Cemetery in Gooding. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/evelyn-reile/article_2c7b74c3-e71c-539f-a0af-12346932226c.html | 2022-09-01T08:49:57 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/evelyn-reile/article_2c7b74c3-e71c-539f-a0af-12346932226c.html |
June 9, 1934—Aug. 25, 2022
Fran passed away on August 25, 2022, surrounded by family, at St. Luke’s Wood River Medical Center in Hailey, Idaho. She and her twin sister were born in 1934 in Pocatello, Idaho, and they grew up in the Mackay area.
She married at 19 and moved to Twin Falls. Fran and her husband, Ray, had three children. They later divorced and Fran raised three girls on her own, something that was very unusual at the time.
Her love of travel was inspired by her partner, Pete Shawver, and she never tired of traveling the world.
Later in life, she met and married Dave Meyers, who shared her love of travel. They explored the world together aboard cruise ships. Senior citizens, they defied the odds and found new love late in life. May we all be so lucky.
Fran was an exceptional bridge player, achieving life master status. Bridge was vitally important to her during COVID, keeping her connected to her community and one of her loves. Fran continued playing bridge until just days before her death.
She was an accomplished professional who worked in accounting and real estate, and she also owned and operated two small businesses. Fran loved making Sun Valley her home, and she took full advantage of the natural wonders there, spending many years on the ski slopes and hiking all over the area.
Fran is survived by her three children: Vesta Maughan, Cindy Bond and Terrie Proni. She also leaves behind four much-loved grandchildren: Michael, Jessi, Elizabeth and Emily; and two great-grandchildren: Arlo and Georgie.
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YORK, Pa. — A bridge in East Market Street located by the Interstate-83 overpass between Belmont St. and North Hills Road in Spring Garden Township will be closed on Sept. 22 until the end of October.
"They're going to replace the bridge to do some approach work and some paving," said Dave Thompson with PennDOT.
PennDOT says they will replace the bridge on an accelerated schedule to reduce the impact on traffic. However, the impact of this construction will still be felt by some businesses near East Market St., like Belmont Bean Company and the Belmont Theater.
"It's going to be impactful for sure," said Jason Wehrle, who co-owns the Belmont Bean Company.
"It's just gonna add more time and general frustration for not only the staff here, but our patrons, our actors and actress, and other volunteers," said Shane Rohrbaugh, the executive director at the Belmont Theater.
Rohrbaugh says that there will probably be more chaos behind the scenes.
"If we're in the middle of the show, which we are now and will be in October, we do a lot of running around to Home Depot and Lowe's and those trips are going to be longer," said Rohrbaugh.
"We're going to have to allow more time for those types of things, some of our deliveries might be impacted, we've already noticed some delays, we're ordering things ahead of time," he added.
Wehrle believes that customers will continue to come despite having to take a longer route to get to the coffee shop.
"I trust and I know that we have built this brand around our community, we've given back and I strongly believe our community will support us," said Wehrle. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/portion-of-east-market-st-to-close-for-5-weeks-due-to-bridge-being-replaced-construction-fix-work-traffic-route-delay/521-3ecce59b-b94a-4af4-82da-4b12b286551d | 2022-09-01T09:29:29 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/portion-of-east-market-st-to-close-for-5-weeks-due-to-bridge-being-replaced-construction-fix-work-traffic-route-delay/521-3ecce59b-b94a-4af4-82da-4b12b286551d |
Although the Women’s Med Center in Kettering, the Dayton area’s only surgical abortion clinic, is closing, abortion and related services are still available.
“Planned Parenthood has 23 health centers across the state, and we have not closed any health centers,” said Iris Harvey, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio. Three of those provide surgical abortions, she said.
The Women’s Med Center is not affiliated with Planned Parenthood. The Cincinnati Surgical Center, operated by Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio, remains open.
Women’s Med Center operates clinics in Kettering and in Indianapolis. They are both slated to close Sept. 15, when Indiana’s new abortion law goes into effect. That’s a “heartbeat law,” similar to one already in effect in Ohio, banning abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detectable – usually five or six weeks into pregnancy, before many women even know they’re pregnant.
It’s part of a wave of restrictions in the wake of the June overturn of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court, which has forced the closure of many clinics.
The Kettering clinic, open for 35 years, previously provided several hundred abortions per month. But Ohio’s recent restrictions outlawed about 90% of those, according to a clinic representative. Now the facility mainly offers screening and pre-operative services. It has been referring abortion patients to the organization’s other clinic in Indianapolis, but that will end due to Indiana’s new law.
The Indianapolis facility saw its patients double, to about 500 per month, when Ohio’s “Heartbeat Bill” went into effect; and now its closure will likely send that surge on to Michigan and Illinois, according to the clinic representative.
Planned Parenthood works to “navigate” patients to where abortion remains legal, providing help to mitigate the emotional and financial strain, Harvey said. Now that Indiana is not an option the primary destinations are Pennsylvania and Illinois, but patients could be sent to New York or even California depending on their specific needs and gestational length, she said.
The group’s health centers plan to remain open, not just to provide early-term abortions at a few, but to offer all varieties of contraceptive care, breast and cervical cancer screenings, and gender-affirming care, Harvey said.
“We are a full-service reproductive healthcare provider,” she said.
State Rep. Jena Powell, R-Arcanum, issued a statement celebrating the closure of the Women’s Med Center and urging patients to go instead to the area’s “pregnancy resource centers.” Those centers, many religiously affiliated, do not provide any abortion services or referrals and often actively discourage patients from seeking abortions.
Democratic gubernatorial nominee and former Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley denounced incumbent Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, who signed the “Heartbeat Bill” and other restrictions targeting abortion clinics.
Kellie Copeland, executive director of Pro-Choice Ohio, said in a news release that Whaley has worked with the group for years to defend abortion access.
“Mayor Whaley was the first to step up and defend Dayton patients and providers,” Copeland said. “Every Ohio voter needs to know that Nan Whaley is committed to continue defending them.”
On the horizon
Ohio legislators have passed several bills restricting abortion in the past few years, most notably the “Heartbeat Bill” in 2019, which banned abortion after about six weeks of gestation but was blocked by the courts until the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe on June 24. Last year, the “Born Alive” bill, sponsored by state Sens. Terry Johnson, R-McDermott and Steve Huffman, R-Tipp City, which penalizes medical personnel who don’t take extensive measures to keep alive an infant born after an attempted abortion, also passed.
Many further restrictions await legislators in November’s lame-duck session, but if they don’t pass by year’s end they would have to be refiled for consideration in the 135th General Assembly. Those bills include:
· Senate Bill 304, introduced in March by Steve Huffman, which would prohibit anyone but a “qualified physician” from providing abortifacient drugs and specifically ban public schools and colleges from providing them. It would also require in-person exams of the patient and create an “Abortion-Inducing Drug Certification Program” for doctors through the State Board of Pharmacy.
· An “abortion reversal” bill, House Bill 378, introduced a year ago by state Reps. Kyle Koehler, R-Springfield, and Sarah Fowler Arthur, R-Ashtabula. It would require health officials to give patients information on using large doses of progesterone soon after the use of mifepristone, an abortifacient drug, to counteract mifepristone’s effects. Opponents denounce this as medically dubious and based on inadequate study.
· House Bill 421, introduced a year ago by state Rep. Jennifer Gross, R-West Chester, to require abortion patients to be given fetal ultrasound images and heartbeat sounds before using abortifacient drugs – the same requirement as before surgical abortion. Medical workers would also have to tell patients the unproven claim that abortion increases the risk of breast cancer and causes “psychological or emotional harm.”
· House Bill 480, sponsored by Powell and State Rep. Thomas Hall, R-Madison Twp., which would allow private citizens to file lawsuits against anyone who perform or “aids or abets” an abortion, or has “taken action or made statements” indicating they plan to do so.
· House Bill 598, sponsored by state Rep. Jean Schmidt, R-Loveland; and its Senate counterpart, Senate Bill 123, sponsored by state Sens. Kristina Roegner, R-Hudson, and Sandra O’Brien, R-Ashtabula. Those bills would make it a felony for doctors to perform abortions, without exceptions for rape, incest or the mother’s health.
· The “Personhood Act,” filed by state Rep. Gary Click, R-Vickery, as HB 704, which would make abortion illegal from the moment of conception, except when the mother’s life is in danger.
In May, Democrats introduced Senate Joint Resolution 7, seeking to write a right to abortion into the Ohio Constitution. It has no chance of passage, but sponsors said they would use it as a springboard for a state constitutional referendum on abortion.
Even before the “Heartbeat Bill’s implementation, most abortions were illegal in Ohio past 22 weeks of gestation.
In July, Attorney General Dave Yost said the “Heartbeat Bill” has three exceptions: “one to prevent the death of the mother, the second, due to a serious risk of the substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant mother, and the third in cases of an ectopic pregnancy.”
Adjacent states
Indiana: The law taking effect Sept. 15 has exceptions for cases of rape or incest – but only before 10 weeks of pregnancy – fatal fetal abnormalities or danger to the life or health of the mother.
Planned Parenthood, the owner of Women’s Med Center, another clinic operator and one doctor who performs abortions have filed a lawsuit against Indiana’s new abortion ban, arguing it violates the state constitution’s rights to privacy and equal privileges. The plaintiffs include operators of six of the state’s seven licensed abortion clinics. Women’s Med Center operated one clinic each in Ohio and Indiana.
Kentucky: Legislators in 2019 passed both a near-total “trigger ban,” anticipating the overturn of Roe; and a “heartbeat bill” similar to Ohio’s. Their implementation was briefly blocked this year but reinstated by an appellate court, forcing closure of the state’s only abortion clinic. Now abortion is illegal except to prevent the death of or permanent injury to the mother.
Michigan: An abortion ban on the books since 1931 remains blocked by the courts. An initiative to protect abortion via the state constitution may be on the state’s November ballot.
Pennsylvania: Abortion remains legal up to 24 weeks. There are bills in legislature to protect abortion, but also a possible constitutional amendment vote to ban it.
West Virginia: A 19th-century law banned abortions following Roe’s overturn, but courts have barred the state’s attorney general from enforcing it. An appeal may be heard this fall, but the state’s only abortion clinic is already closed. Legislators in a special summer session couldn’t agree on language for a new ban. Republican Gov. Jim Justice has dismissed the idea of a constitutional referendum on the subject.
Reporter Josh Sweigart contributed information to this story.
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TAMPA, Fla — Drowning is the leading cause of death for children ages 1-4 in the state of Florida. It's a statistic no one wants to find out for themselves.
Unfortunately for one Tampa Bay family, that became a reality in March 2020 when their 16-month-old daughter drowned in the family pool. Now they are sharing their story and their mission to help keep other families from experiencing such a tragedy.
Matt Strojnowski can't help but smile when he talks about his little girl, Aubrey.
"Aubrey was a very happy baby. Always smiling and she loved to eat. She would roam around the kitchen and she would just point to the pantry when she wanted something out of the pantry."
Aubrey's mom, Kristen talks about how affectionate she was. "And she loved to give hugs and kisses and she loved her big sister Olivia so much."
But in March of 2020, when everyone was getting adjusted to working from home, Kristen and Matt suddenly realized little Aubrey was missing. Matt described what happened.
"I thought she was with Kristen and Kristen thought she was with me. And she got out one of the sliding glass doors and through the pool fence."
Kristen says Aubrey had never shown any interest in trying to get outside or to the pool.
"We had no idea that drowning was the leading cause of death for children ages 1-4."
Now Kristen and Matt want to make sure others know that statistic and do everything they can to prevent it from happening to another child.
They are working with Water Smart Tots, a foundation that provides water safety programs and scholarships for swim survival lessons. They are holding a fundraiser on October 2nd called Walk For Aubrey.
"I want to educate people, but I also want it to be a celebration for her because since her accident did happen right around the time of Covid, with everything shut down, we were never really able to celebrate her life." | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/florida-children-drowning-prevention-walk-for-aubrey/67-f1698d58-5751-410a-8c98-fd9944d8f2ad | 2022-09-01T09:56:13 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/florida-children-drowning-prevention-walk-for-aubrey/67-f1698d58-5751-410a-8c98-fd9944d8f2ad |
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Live Music
Country music duo Bellamy Brothers will bring their seasoned sound to Steele's Dive in Tupelo on Friday, Oct. 14. The real-life brother duo released chart-topping hits like "Let Your Love Flow" and "Old Hippie" in the 1970s. In 2018, the brothers starred in the reality television show "Honky Tonk Ranch" which ran for three seasons. Tickets to the classic country music show can be purchased online ahead of time.
Events
New Albany's annual Tallahatchie RiverFest will return to the downtown area on September 24 and 25. The festival will feature three stages for musicians like Doug Stone, Ricochet and Garry Burnside along with other regionally and nationally known musicians. In addition to live music, Tallahatchie RiverFest will also host local food and art vendors for its anticipated 3,000 attendees.
The annual North Mississippi Out of Darkness Walk is scheduled to take place on Saturday, Oct. 1 at Veterans Park in Tupelo. Registration will begin at 10 a.m. and the opening ceremony will kick off at 11 a.m. The walk is aimed at promoting suicide awareness and prevention. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention spearheads the community walks that occur all over the United States.
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EPA moves to label 'forever chemicals' hazardous, kickstarting Superfund cleanups
In what has been a long awaited decision, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week moved to designate the two most common toxic “forever chemicals” once-widely used in firefighting foams and in consumer products as "hazardous substances" under the Superfund Act — the nation's premier environmental cleanup law.
If successful, the EPA designation of so-called PFOA and PFOS as hazardous would kickstart cleanups of sites contaminated with the compounds nationwide, including military installations such Patrick Space Force Base, where some of the highest levels of the compounds in the nation were found in recent years.
EPA to publish its plans
The EPA plans soon to publish its plans, which will start the clock on a 60-day public comment period. Though likely to face some legal challenges, the measures could change the landscape for two compounds considered by scientists to be among the most significant health and environmental dangers since asbestos, lead and mercury.
“Communities have suffered far too long from exposure to these forever chemicals," EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan, said in an Aug. 26 release.
EPA's proposal will improve transparency and advance the agency's efforts to clean up the two compounds, Regan added: “Under this proposed rule, EPA will both help protect communities from PFAS pollution and seek to hold polluters accountable for their actions.”
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The compounds fall under a broader family of compounds called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), They flow into groundwater from contaminated soil, sewage, reclaimed water, biosolids, and countless consumer products.
Experts say there’s no cheap or easy way of getting them out of drinking water, the environment, or of even measuring them.
You can't burn them away. Even bacteria won't eat them, and our bodies struggle to break them down.
Here in Brevard County the chemicals have contaminated the Indian River Lagoon where it can be found in the tissues of fish, alligators and even manatees. But what's been of most concern in recent years along the Space Coast is how they compounds can magnify within human biology, from the fish we eat, the water we drink and even the dust we breath. They build up in and remain in our blood and tissues for years, increasing lifetime risk of certain chronic health problems.
Chemicals can cause cancers and more
Evidence from animal and human studies shows they can cause cancers, reproductive, developmental (e.g., low birth weight), cardiovascular, liver, kidney and immunological effects. They also can worsen high cholesterol and blunt effectiveness of vaccines, studies show, raising the prospect of entire generations less immune to once eradicated diseases.
The agency's proposal to designate the two compounds as "hazardous substances" is based on "significant evidence" they "may present a substantial danger to human health or welfare and the environment," EPA said in its release.
If EPA's proposal goes through, PFOA and PFOAS falls under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, better known as Superfund.
The "hazardous substance" designation will help enable the agency to force PFAS polluters to contribute to cleanup costs, when federal cleanup funds come up short of finishing the job.
Taxpayers typically pay upfront costs, and sometimes the total costs, of environmental cleanups, via the Superfund program. But with limited money in the program, EPA finances many cleanups by suing the responsible polluters and then negotiates settlements for remaining cleanup costs. EPA can only do so, however, for pollutants designated hazardous substances.
Activists hope that if EPA's proposal is finalized, it could speed up cleanups such as the PFAS that lurks in military bases throughout the state and the country.
"This will finally help the Department of Defense manage the cleanup that is so desperately needed in Florida and at contaminated bases such as Patrick Space Force Base, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, and NASA," Stel Bailey, executive director for Fight for Zero, Brevard, wrote in a release.
Bailey, co-facilitator and leader of the National PFAS Contamination Coalition (NPCC), points to a 2018 DOD report as a watershed moment that helped a grassroots movement in Brevard grow. The report included PFAS levels as high as 4.3 million parts per trillion on Patrick Space Force Base's groundwater, which is not used for drinking water but still measured among the highest in the nation. The compounds are considered a lifetime health risk at just a few parts per trillion or less.
A hazardous substance designation by EPA would mean releases of PFOA and PFOS over a certain threshold would trigger reporting requirements, resulting in an investigation and potential cleanup.
"It can either be a very useful tool or it can cause years of delay," said Bob Bowcock, a California water consultant who helps Brockovich with environmental investigations. "There are other PFAS compounds that need to be on that list."
EPA getting the ball rolling on PFAS cleanups
With that caveat, Bowcock commended EPA for finally getting the ball rolling on PFAS cleanups. "By starting it now, as long as it takes the federal government to do anything, they're be glad they started it now. At least they've started it."
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Bowcock said that EPA needs a PFAS research and development facility and to incentivize companies that use innovative ways to reduce PFAS, giving some sort of financial credit to companies based on the pounds of PFAS removed per day. "If you put a bounty on it it's going to go away faster."
In June, EPA cut the safe level of PFOA by more than 17,000 times what the agency had previously said was protective of health, to now just four "parts per quadrillion." The safe level of its sister chemical, PFOS, was reduced by a factor of 3,500.
PFOA and PFOS are no longer manufactured in the United States, EPA says, but they are still made internationally so can be imported into the United States in carpet, leather and apparel, textiles, paper and packaging, coatings, rubber, plastics and other consumer goods.
Since Congress enacted the Superfund law in 1980, almost 700 substances have been added to the hazardous substances list.
Hollywood actor Mark Ruffalo, who starred in and co-produced the feature film, Dark Waters, weighed in on EPA's proposal, via press release the nonprofit Environmental Working Group issued after Friday's announcement. The film is a true-life depiction of a corporate lawyer's fight to expose PFAS pollution by DuPont.
“After knowingly poisoning their workers, neighbors and virtually every living being on the planet, PFAS polluters will finally – FINALLY – be held accountable,” Ruffalo said. “We have all paid for decades — in the forms of higher care costs and higher drinking water bills — for one of the greatest environmental crimes in history. Now, finally, the polluters must pay
Those polluters will inevitably "seek to shirk their responsibilities, and some legislators will inevitably act as their lackeys," Ruffalo added, but EPA's announcement sends an unmistakable message: "They were poisoning us, it must stop, and they must pay."
EPA's proposal also sends a "a loud, clear" message to the world that the U.S. finally acknowledges the danger to public health PFAS poses, Rob Bilott, the attorney who uncovered the widespread presence of PFAS and whose true-life story is portrayed “Dark Waters," added in his prepared statement alongside Ruffulo's.
“It took over two decades to get here, but the scientific facts and truth about the health threat posed by these PFAS forever chemicals have finally prevailed over the misinformation campaigns and corporate cover ups designed to mislead the public and delay action,” Bilott said in EWG's release.
“These are completely man-made toxins. We know who made them and pumped them out into our environment for decades, making billions of dollars in profit, all while exposing all of us to their ill effects and attempting to cover up the facts.”
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WATERLOO — Residents in Waterloo head to the ballot box Sept. 13 to vote on whether the city should issue bonds to finance part of a proposed fiber optic network.
The city is asking voters if it should use $20 million in general obligation bonds to pay for the municipal communications utility portion of the fiber backbone project. If approved, the bonds can be paid for using multiple revenue streams, such as utilities, sewer or stormwater revenues.
The project will move forward no matter what, but the city said a bond issue would provide a less expensive financing source. The referendum needs 60% voter approval to pass.
The City Clerk’s Office said the city has “no intentions of levying against any property taxes.”
The backbone project is expected to cost just more than $29 million. The rest of the plan will be funded through grants, federal American Rescue Plan Act funds and bonds, the clerk’s office said.
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A fiber-optic backbone would support municipal operations to increase efficiency. The Waterloo Municipal Communications Utility plans to build out from the backbone and deliver high-speed internet access to every home and business in the city.
The goal of the project is to provide faster internet speeds at lower monthly costs. The fiber will be locally serviced and the revenue will stay in the city, similar to Cedar Falls Utilities.
Fiber optics are strands of glass that transmit light signals to carry data, which results in faster speeds than the current combination of fiber and copper transmission lines. Waterloo plans to provide 10 gigabits-per-second service.
Construction will begin by the second quarter of 2023 – in April, May or June. The first households and businesses are expected to be connected sometime later next year. The entire project is expected to take at least three years.
The highest priority areas are in downtown Waterloo, neighborhoods near UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital and Gates Park — mostly the northeast side of the city.
In 2005, voters approved the creation of a municipal utility service, but no funding to move ahead with the system was provided.
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KENNER, La. — 26-year-old Jermani Thompson was working as a baggage handling supervisor Tuesday night. Her team was unloading a Frontier flight shortly before 10:30 p.m., when, according to her employer, Thompson's hair got tangled in the machinery of the belt loader. She was rushed to the hospital where she was pronounced dead.
It's still unclear what killed her. The Jefferson Parish Coroner's Office plans to perform an autopsy in the next few days to find out exactly what happened.
Thompson worked for GAT, a company that performs ground services for airlines. Mike Hough, CEO of GAT, says the company's leaders are "heartbroken and are supporting her family and her friends as best as we are able."
The timeline of the accident is still unclear. But multiple travelers at the airport questioned how it could happen in the first place. They questioned whether company safety policies go far enough. "You wear a hairnet in a restaurant," said Patrick Zertuche, who is visiting from San Antonio, "why aren't you doing a better job of protecting people in a workplace that is potentially so dangerous?"
Traveler Blaire Bass added the policies are, "something the airport itself needs to take on." Bass said she hopes authorities, "figure it out, and this never happens again."
WWL-TV obtained a copy of GAT's employee handbook. On page 30, it reads: "Long hairstyles should be worn with hair pulled back off the face and neck to avoid interfering with job performance." It is unknown whether Thompson was following this policy at the time of the accident.
Hough insists GAT would "never prioritize on-time performance above safety," adding that he reminded employees of that policy in a company-wide email last week.
In a follow-up question, WWL-TV asked how strictly the hair policy is enforced. Hough has yet to respond.
Spokespersons for both Armstrong International and Frontier Airlines offered their condolences to Thompson's loved ones.
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WOLF LAKE, Ill. — The U.S. Forest Service is preparing to close roughly three miles of road in southern Illinois due to a snake migration.
If you drive 90 miles southeast of St. Louis down Illinois Great River Road you’ll snake your way through the hills of the Shawnee National Forest.
“You’ll see a surprising number of out-of-state license plates,” said U.S. Forest Service Wildlife Biologist Mark Vukovich.
The reason they’re here might make your skin crawl.
“Forest Road 345 is the number,” said Vukovich. “Everybody knows it as Snake Road. It’s just a great place to come watch snakes.”
Biologist Mark Vukovich keeps a keen eye on the Snake Road for the US Forest Service.
“There are venomous snakes here,” said Vukovich. “Twenty-three species of snakes have been documented.”
There are so many snakes in the area that twice a year the US Forest Service shuts down the 2.7-mile stretch of road for a migration rarely seen anywhere else in North America.
“They hibernate in these limestone cliffs and they go to and from these cliffs every year into Larue Swamp,” said Vukovich.
Some may find these snakes spotted in this area of the Shawnee National Forest scary.
“The #1 snake you’re going to see here is going to be the Northern Cottonmouth,” said Vukovich. “The other two venomous snakes are Copperhead and Timber Rattlesnake. You have a good chance of seeing those.”
Despite the obvious danger, Vukovich said the area is safe.
“I always stress stick to the road,” said Vukovich.
Vukovich went on to add that if you look close enough you just may learn a southern Illinois secret.
“It’s a great way to get people over that feeling that snakes are bad and they’re nasty creatures,” said Vukovich. “They’re not. They’re not at all.”
Vukovich said if you want to see some serpents the best time to come out is in October.
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In September of 1922 Coos County became the first county in Oregon to establish a Public Health Department. This department consisted of one County Health Officer, Dr. Henry W. Irwin, two public health nurses and an assistant.
They were tasked with controlling contagious/communicable disease, health appraisals/immunization of school children, health education, and infant/child hygiene.
Prior to the creation of the Public Health Department these activities were performed by a single county health nurse who had to visit 92 schools, traveling by horseback, canoe, milk truck, or the engine of a log train.
100 years later, the Public Health Department still works diligently to improve the health of the community it serves.
Today, the Public Health Department provides a wide variety of services from life-saving vaccines to ensuring safe/healthy food on your plate.
Public Health serves as the steel beams of the healthcare industry aiming to save the community millions of dollars and protecting the quality of life for all our citizens.
The staff provide vital health services to the community including:
• Disease prevention and control through inspections, vaccination, investigation, tracing and community education.
• Injury prevention and community safety
• Medicaid education and enrollment
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Labor Day weekend at the Delaware beaches: Tips for planning the best end-of-summer visit
Anyone know what happened to August? Asking for a friend.
Labor Day weekend is already here at the Delaware beaches, and as beach businesses celebrate the end of their busiest season, everyone knows that the fun doesn't end when September rolls around.
If you're headed to Rehoboth, Dewey or any of the other beloved beaches this weekend, you may want a refresher on what to know before you go, or a reminder on what festivities are kicking off for the holiday weekend.
Don't worry: We've got you covered.
Delaware Online/The News Journal has been following the latest news at the Delaware beaches all summer, and we've rounded up a few things to know, including things to do, the latest weather report and updated travel trends.
For anyone looking to visit the Delaware beaches during Labor Day weekend, check out this guide for the latest information.
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Don't forget to pack your patience − especially at beach businesses
It's the time of year when restaurant owners and managers are helping out in the kitchen or pitching in at the front of the house as they face especially low staffing due to seasonal employees heading back to school.
"Be very patient," reminded Jeff Hamer, owner of Fins Hospitality Group, with restaurants throughout the Delaware beaches. It's the end of the summer, he said, and many people are tired, working multiple jobs or fitting in some hours after school or sports practices.
"Right now, people are doing two jobs in front of the house, and they're doing the same business they were doing a week ago with half the staff," Hamer said.
Because of this short staffing − something that many beach businesses experience routinely at this time of year − people may notice longer wait times or adjusted hours. And it's not just restaurants, as retail stores are seeing this, too.
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Staffing is an ongoing issue at the beaches, exacerbated by a worsening workforce housing shortage and growing numbers of visitors and residents at the Delaware beaches.
After a record-breaking summer in 2021, some business owners said they are seeing travel trends reach typical summer levels, but data from the Rehoboth Beach-Dewey Beach Chamber of Commerce show that visitation continues to grow at the beaches, too.
Based on the chamber's hotel and motel occupancy data, this has been the busiest August in at least the past five years. While that is only one snapshot of visitation, some restaurant owners echoed this sentiment that the end of summer has continued to be very busy.
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With this high visitation tending to extend further into the fall, it's likely that September and even October may continue to see activity at the beaches.
How about that Labor Day weekend weather?
While there might be a chance of rain on Labor Day Monday, most of the weekend is looking to be sunny and perfect for laying out on the beach.
As always though, don't forget to check the weather before making your way onto the sand. The National Weather Service even has a tool that shows people what the UV index and water temperatures are expected to be at several beach locations: https://www.weather.gov/beach/phi.
Here's a breakdown so far of what the National Weather Service is predicting for the Rehoboth Beach area.
August weather means the water temperature is warmer, reaching the mid-70s, according to the weather service. (As many people have noted on social media lately, that also means beachgoers should be extra cautious of jellyfish, which tend to like the warmer waters.)
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On Friday, the Rehoboth Beach area should expect sunny weather with a high near 80 degrees. A few clouds may move in as the day turns to night, but the skies should remain mostly clear. The low temperature is expected to hit 71.
Starting the weekend on a high note, beachgoers can expect an almost identical sunny forecast on Saturday, too.
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Sunday warms up a tad more with a high temperature around 83 degrees, but the great news is the sun should continue to stick around. Sunday evening is expected to be partly cloudy with a low near 72.
Spending Labor Day at the beach, too? Monday should be mostly sunny with a high near 81. Yes, there is a chance of rain throughout the day and night, but the weather service is only reporting a 30% chance as of Wednesday. The evening will be mostly cloudy.
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Attending the Jazz Funeral? What to expect in Bethany Beach
A Bethany Beach tradition for more than three decades, the Jazz Funeral is coming back on Monday, Sept. 5 and will kick off at 5:30 p.m.
The New Orleans-inspired event invites spectators to join in a funeral procession of "mourners," on the Bethany Beach Boardwalk. Accompanied by the three Dixieland Jazz Bands, participants will carry a casket with a mannequin representing "Summer of 2022" to its final resting place at the Boardwalk Bandstand.
One of the organizers described the funeral as "a little sad and a lot of silly." Those involved are known to dress in all black and wear dark sunglasses or even costumes. Mourners will often pretend to weep into handkerchiefs or carry “rest in peace” signs. While the music is typically somber during the procession, the bands pick up the tempo and truly celebrate the end of summer by the time they reach the bandstand.
Looking for some more ways to celebrate the end of summer in Bethany Beach? The festivities start even earlier on Friday with a silent auction at Bethany Blues, 6 N. Pennsylvania Ave., at 3:15 p.m. All proceeds from the auction will go toward the American Red Cross of Delmarva.
For more, visit www.jazz-funeral.com.
Grab your kazoo and wish summer goodbye in Rehoboth
The end-of-summer celebrations are continuing in the Nation's Summer Capital, too.
On Labor Day, the Rehoboth Beach Museum will host a Piping Out parade, recreating the parades of the 1970s and '80s.
Everyone is welcome to bring their musical instruments and gather on the Rehoboth boardwalk in front of the Henlopen Hotel at 5:30 p.m. Don't have a trumpet or guitar to join the festivities? No worries, the museum will be providing kazoos for participants.
The boardwalk parade honors a longtime tradition set by late bandleader and trombonist Sammy Ferro whose orchestra played for dances at the old Henlopen Hotel. At the last dance of the summer on Labor Day, Ferro would take his band out to the boardwalk, followed by the audience, and march in a musical procession toward Rehoboth Avenue.
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Staying safe at the beach during COVID-19 spike
While the Delaware Division of Public Health reported that COVID-19 cases were declining compared to the report in July, the public health officials reminded people that the virus is still making its rounds through the community.
Community spread of COVID-19 was still high in Sussex and Kent counties, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data tracker, which was last updated Aug. 25.
The average of tests coming back positive was 14.6%, according to DPH data updated on Aug. 30. However, this data does not include at-home testing that is not reported to the state. The state reported that 163 people were hospitalized with COVID at that point.
Public health officials remind Delawareans that vaccines are now available for all persons starting at 6 months old, and vaccination is highly effective at preventing serious illness, hospitalizations and death.
The Federal Drug Administration also recently announced that updated boosters may be available in the coming days.
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Beyond staying up to date on vaccines, outside activities and get-togethers are still safer than cramming into indoor spaces unmasked, according to DPH.
However, if you do have plans to be indoors or around a lot of people, DPH is suggesting people wear masks, distance as much as possible and keep up a good hand-washing regimen. And if anyone starts to feel sick or knows they were exposed to someone with COVID-19, they should get tested and stay away from others in the meantime.
Here is a roundup of advice to stay vigilant and avoid COVID this summer:
- Get vaccinated and boosted when you’re eligible. And don't wait until the fall when the updated vaccines are expected to be available. You will likely still be eligible for those boosters then.
- Stay home if sick and get tested if you have symptoms or were exposed to someone with COVID-19.
- Wear a mask indoors in public and if you are at higher risk for illness.
- Stay informed and turn to reliable sources for data, information, and treatment options.
Visit de.gov/coronavirus to schedule free vaccines and/or boosters.
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How Time Flies is a daily feature looking back at Pantagraph archives to revisit what was happening in our community and region.
100 years ago
Sept. 1, 1922: The Atlanta fair continued with a large crowd and great enthusiasm in both the ball games and the races. The Hon. Frank Gillespie took the occasion to discuss tariff and other issues at some length. The Logan County Farm Bureau cooperated with the University of Illinois to present agricultural information, including a list of promising new wheat varieties and samples of each kind of grain. The booth is decorated in Illinois colors, orange and blue. Read the story.
75 years ago
Sept. 1, 1947: Dr. Francis E. Townsend told some 1,000 people in Fairbury at his ninth annual homecoming celebration that the United States is faced with the possibility of economic disaster. He is advocating for a bill, the Townsend Plan, that would set up a system of national mutual insurance covering every citizen throughout life against the hazard of disability or old age. Funded by a 3% income tax, it would provide $100 a month for single people and $200 for married couples 60 or older. Read the story.
50 years ago
Sept. 1, 1972: Attendees of the five-day Threshermen's Reunion in Pontiac will be able to see old steam engines and tractors that were used in the "good old days." The event also includes a display by the U.S. Army that includes a 53-ton tank retriever. The event will also include music, a horse show, craft demonstrations, an antique auto display, china painting, a complete old-time blacksmith shop and other attractions. Read the story.
25 years ago
Sept. 1, 1997: For 124 years, HCC Inc. employees have been making components for machines used by farmers to harvest grain and separate the seeds from the weeds and other plant debris. Now, 130 workers at the Gridley plant and another 300 at the Mendota corporate offices are on an aggressive track to boost sales by $35 million in the next five years, upgrade machinery and production technology and enter the European market in a large way. Read the story.
Want more local history? Check out our searchable archives at pantagraph.newspapers.com.
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Santa Claus and his house will be coming to town in downtown Bristol after Thanksgiving
Hey, kids. Santa Claus is moving to Rhode Island.
That's right. He will move into a little place in downtown Bristol right after Thanksgiving.
The Bristol Santa House will "magically appear when the season starts," says Michael Rielly, who describes himself as "chief merriment officer" of the James D. Rielly Foundation.
"We're trying to give this to the community for kids with special needs," said Rielly, who started the nonprofit foundation in 2017. The foundation says its mission "is to bring a magical holiday experience — any time of the year — to those in need."
"The Bristol Santa House will be a one-of-a-kind place for children of all ages and abilities to share holiday wishes, drop off a letter to Santa, or even meet the head elf himself, regardless of physical, mental, or financial challenges," the foundation said in a press release.
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"The goal of the Santa House is to create a family-friendly holiday destination full of joy, whimsy, and nostalgia, where the season comes alive through interactive experiences and Hallmark-worthy moments," the foundation said.
Discussing the project on an 85-degree August day, Rielly said it's not too early to look ahead to Christmas. "I've been talking about doing this for like 10 years," Rielly said. "It's something I've always wanted to do."
Foundation created to honor 'Rhode Islands own Santa Claus'
Rielly created the James D. Rielly Foundation to honor and continue his grandfather's work as Santa Claus. According to the foundation's website, Jim Rielly was a lifelong Bristol resident and served as Town Crier from 1975 to 1989, but his "most notable role was that as Rhode Island’s own 'Santa Claus.' "
"His first appearance as Santa Claus was in the beginning of the Great Depression," the foundation says. "In 1927 at the age of 19, Jim Rielly appeared as Santa Claus for a family of 13 living in an abandoned chicken coup. For more than 60 years, he would bring cheer to orphanages, hospitals, nursing homes, schools, churches, charitable organizations, military bases and the Rhode Island State House."
Following in his grandfather's footsteps, Michael Rielly has played Santa for years, and he realizes that children with autism or other special needs might find it difficult to visit Santa in some of the traditional community meeting places.
"They can't go to the mall. They can't stand in long lines," he said.
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The Bristol Santa House, to be located at the corner of State and Thames streets, will be accessible, and families will be able to make appointments to avoid lines, according to Rielly.
The 20- by 14-foot structure is being built in Vermont and will be brought by truck to Rhode Island, where foundation volunteers will paint and add touches to make it look and feel like Santa's home, Rielly said.
"It will be like you stepped into Santa's workshop," he said.
The foundation is covering the cost of the house, about $20,000, but is asking for gift donations. The Santa House will be stocked with new unwrapped toys and clothing.
"I want to make sure every kid that can't afford it will get a toy," Rielly said.
Rielly said the town has supported the project, and the Santa House will be part of the annual Bristol Christmas Festival. The foundation said it will be available to other charities and community organizations that help needy families.
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The foundation believes it will become a "popular attraction in the East Bay and, possibly, all of Rhode Island."
“We believe the Bristol Santa House will create cherished and lasting memories for families and children for years to come," Rielly said.
After Christmas, about the time Santa returns to the North Pole, his little place in Bristol will, according to Rielly, "magically disappear."
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NEW BRAUNFELS — Fewer than 10 percent of divorces end up going to trial, but one of the splashiest cases ever to unfold in the San Antonio area appears headed down that path.
Rackspace co-founder and one-time billionaire Graham Weston, 58, and his wife of more than a quarter-century, Elizabeth Weston, 61, are slated to end their union in a New Braunfels courtroom in less than three weeks.
The oft-delayed trial had been shaping up to be quite the spectacle, a six-week affair complete with testimony from psychologists, psychiatrists, sex-addiction and domestic violence experts, as well as financial and computer forensic specialists, handwriting analysts and professionals specializing in art and collectibles.
But it all may be anticlimactic after state District Judge Dib Waldrip last month granted a request to strike the testimony of 10 of Elizabeth Weston’s expert witnesses. She failed to produce them for depositions or provide their reports to her estranged husband’s lawyers.
Graham Weston’s legal team now believes the trial will last no more than a few days.
That’s also due, in part, to Elizabeth Weston not having legal representation. A group of attorneys that had been representing her withdrew from the case en masse at the end of June. They blamed communication issues with their client and her failure to pay legal fees among their reasons for wanting out.
“I want an attorney, but I do not have an attorney, as yet,” she told the judge at a court hearing Friday. She has said she has no money to hire counsel.
She has repeatedly stated she doesn’t want to proceed without counsel and that she is not representing herself. She has addressed the judge during hearings from the courtroom gallery where the public sits rather than from one of the attorneys’ tables. It’s her way of showing she’s not acting pro se.
Multiple pretrial hearings have degenerated into odd episodes with Elizabeth Weston and Waldrip getting into testy exchanges. She’s called the judge “grossly biased to the other side” and demanded he recuse himself.
The judge has talked about acting in “an abundance of caution and fairness,” but has said he’s gone “way beyond what I should normally be doing to help any party.” He’s extended deadlines on multiple occasions so Elizabeth Weston and her witnesses could be deposed. But it’s all been for naught.
At the hearing Friday, Waldrip gave her one last chance to submit to questions from Graham Weston’s lawyers at a two-day deposition set for next week. If she doesn’t comply with certain requirements, she may not be allowed to testify at trial.
For his part, Graham Weston seems to be taking it all in stride.
“Welcome to the wild show,” he quipped as he headed into the courtroom last week. He’s represented by five attorneys.
Not a lot has gone Elizabeth Weston’s way since her lawyers dropped out.
“If you don’t have representation in a divorce case, and the other side has good representation, you’re going to get steamrolled a hundred percent of the time,” said Thomas Oldham, a University of Houston Law Center professor. He teaches family law and marital property rights.
The size of the marital estate and its assets haven’t been revealed in court documents but have been the subject of much debate.
While Elizabeth Weston said more than $1 billion in assets were amassed during the marriage, Graham Weston has valued the community estate at $10 million or less, her then-counsel told the judge during an early June hearing.
The Forbes billionaire
Graham and Elizabeth Weston wed on New Year’s Eve in 1994. There’s no prenuptial agreement.
Less than four years later, Graham Weston, a real estate entrepreneur, provided seed capital for what today is known as cloud-computing company Rackspace Technology Inc.
Six months after investing in Rackspace, he took the reins as CEO and went on to build it into the largest and most successful technology company ever launched in San Antonio.
Rackspace’s performance thrust him onto the pages of Forbes magazine, which ranked him on its annual billionaires list in 2013. It’s the only time he appeared in the ranking.
He remained with Rackspace until 2016, when New York private equity firm Apollo Global Management acquired it for $4.3 billion.
Since then, he has stepped up his involvement in real estate investment and development in downtown San Antonio through his company Weston Urban.
Combining properties it has already bought and planned acquisitions through a 2015 deal with the city and Frost Bank, the firm is set to own about 26 acres in the urban core.
Weston Urban’s portfolio includes office and retail buildings including the Frost Tower, Weston Centre and the Milam, Rand and Savoy buildings. More recently, the firm has focused on developing residential projects, with more than 600 apartments planned at two separate sites.
Graham Weston helped launch Geekdom, the for-profit co-working space in the Rand Building on East Houston Street, to foster startups and pair entrepreneurs with mentors.
He also has spearheaded various community endeavors. He co-founded nonprofit Community Labs to conduct coronavirus testing and has promoted entrepreneurship and education through his 80|20 Foundation. It says on its website it invests in “the 20% of the nonprofits driving 80% of the social impact.”
Elizabeth Weston has largely remained out of the public eye, though she has said in court she has exercised control over various family entities, including at least one that owns more than 200 acres in New Braunfels.
She’s managed a company that has owned horses and has been intimately involved in litigation with the city of New Braunfels over the years on behalf of a Weston partnership. The dispute centered on a contract awarded for drainage work.
She has “no outside employment or particular skills,” she wrote in an Aug. 23 filing with the court.
The couple have three adult sons, whom she home-schooled.
Ugly split
Graham Weston initiated divorce proceedings Oct. 19, 2020, to end their then-nearly 26-year marriage, but dropped the action less than 25 hours later.
A week later, Elizabeth Weston filed her petition for divorce. Both cases used the couple’s initials rather than names. Graham Weston filed a counterpetition that Dec. 23. They each used boilerplate language — “discord or conflict of personalities” — in seeking to end the marriage.
The split quickly turned ugly.
She accused him of sexually assaulting her and having several extramarital affairs with women in London — including one who may have tried to blackmail him. Other allegations are too salacious to publish in a family newspaper. He has denied her allegations, calling them “false and purely retaliatory.”
He alleged she recorded him and hired a private investigator to track him for a year and a half. At a hearing last month, one of his lawyers revealed the couple’s 2019 joint tax return is the subject of an IRS audit — an examination his side believes she triggered.
In an amended petition filed earlier this year, Elizabeth Weston said she wants a “disproportionate share” of the parties’ estate. Her reasons included: “fault in the breakup of the marriage,” the disparity of their “earning power,” and fraud by her husband. She has alleged that he diverted community assets without her knowledge — depriving her of her interest in them.
“G.M.W. utilized various methods, including, but not limited to, the guise of estate planning, formation of trusts, and the creation of various entities to effectuate his scheme, all with the intent to defraud E.W. and the community estate,” she alleged.
In addition, she said there were “innumerable business and financial opportunities” presented to Graham Weston that collectively were worth “hundreds of millions of dollars.” They represent “community opportunities” that benefited the marital estate, she said.
A maze of entities?
At a June 2 hearing, an attorney for Elizabeth Weston said Graham Weston had created some 90 entities that invested in more than 100 other entities. And there are more entities they invested in, he added.
Dallas lawyer Lawrence Friedman wondered about the purpose of the maze of companies and partnerships allegedly created by Graham Weston.
“They (Graham Weston’s lawyers say), and I use approximately, the billion dollars that was acquired during the marriage is his, and the community estate is $10 million or less,” Friedman said. “If that’s the case, was all the structuring and the creation of all these entities necessary? Well, not for an estate of $10 million or less.”
Graham Weston’s lawyers have disputed her side’s take on the size of the marital estate.
“Judge, this reference to a 200-entity list is another fiction created by the Elizabeth Weston team, just like the multi-billion dollar (estate) fiction,” said San Antonio attorney William Ford, who represents Graham Weston.
Waldrip, the judge, perhaps best distilled the case to its essence at a May hearing.
“It clearly appears to me that this is like business litigation,” he said. “One side’s got a very high number” (in mind). One side’s got a very low number. And until the expenses whittle away at the very high number such that they cross, we’re not going to settle this case.”
Lawyers’ exit
Any possibility of that appears to have evaporated when Elizabeth Weston’s lawyers made their exit.
Seven attorneys withdrew from representing her within weeks of the June 2 hearing. Friedman and Ryan Lurich, Elizabeth Weston’s lead lawyers, cited her “persistence upon pursuing an objective that (they) consider repugnant or impudent or with which (they) have a fundamental disagreement” as reasons for wanting out.
Exactly what alienated them has not been publicly disclosed. The lawyers met with Judge Guadalupe Rivera in chambers, a meeting Ford wasn’t allowed to attend. The judge also rejected Ford’s request that a record of the proceedings be made and placed under seal in case it becomes part of an appeal.
Their withdrawals brought the number of lawyers that have come and gone from representing Elizabeth Weston to at least 29. She has spent more than $4 million in legal fees, she has said, and needs an order for interim attorneys’ fees and support.
Ford has countered that Elizabeth Weston has access to more than $3 million to pay attorneys, which she has disputed. Meanwhile, Waldrip said the one time he was presented with a motion for interim fees, it was later withdrawn by her counsel.
The pretrial hearings have devolved since her lawyers’ departure.
At a July 7 hearing, Elizabeth Weston read a five-minute statement to the judge in which she said she was “struggling to make ends meet and have a fair and even playing field in this divorce.” She also complained about not getting files in the case from her former counsel.
She stepped up her attacks at a hearing the next week.
“Judge Waldrip, I ask that you recuse yourself from hearing any more matters in my divorce case because of your bias and the now clear indication that your impartiality may be reasonably questioned,” she said.
At that hearing, she alleged Graham Weston has hidden assets abroad and in cryptocurrency. In addition, she said her phone was being “illegally monitored.”
Threatening contempt
The proceedings took an even odder turn Aug. 8, when Elizabeth Weston got up from her seat near the front of the gallery and moved to the back row during a hearing.
“Your honor, I am not able to proceed without an attorney,” she loudly said later.
“Do not raise your voice at me,” the judge said.
“I am speaking loudly into the microphone,” she answered. Then, in a hushed tone, she said, “Would you like me to speak like this? I can.”
“Ma’am, if you try to patronize this court one more time, you will be held in contempt,” Waldrip snapped. “And that will mean that you will likely go to jail and spend the night on a very thin mattress.”
Waldrip called her sitting in the back row “an affront to the court” and said it demonstrated a “lack of respect” for him.
It turned out to be a bad day for Elizabeth Weston.
The judge heard Graham Weston’s motions relating to four trusts, later ruling in his favor.
The judge determined property held in the trusts — created by Graham Weston’s ancestors before he married and that he and others have a beneficial interest in — are not marital property that can be divided by the court. In addition, the judge ruled any distributions from the trusts to Graham Weston during the marriage are his separate property.
Notably, the trusts provided seed capital to Rackspace, his lawyers have said.
One of the trusts originated in 1939 after his paternal grandfather inherited a Toronto baking business, Graham Weston said in a recent declaration.
The judge gave Elizabeth Weston the opportunity to oppose the motions — as long as she gave legal arguments.
“Your honor, you’re painting me into a corner by saying if I want to respond with a legal basis,” she said. “I don’t want it to be characterized that I’m now appearing pro se, so I cannot do that.”
Nevertheless, she said she wished to respond to the motions.
“There’s no oral testimony,” an exasperated Waldrip said. “If you have some legal issue, citation to authority, I’m more than happy to listen to it. But we’re not just going to comment and editorialize.”
She never challenged the motions.
Depositions
The judge had ordered Elizabeth Weston to answer questions from Graham Weston’s lawyers during two days of depositions on Aug. 1 and 3.
The first day lasted nine hours. Ford called the majority of it “unproductive” because she repeatedly answered questions by saying she’s not a lawyer and is not representing herself.
The second day of the depositions didn’t last long.
“In response to my first question, Ms. Weston said she would not answer any questions, got up and stormed out of the room and slammed the door,” Ford told the judge Aug. 8.
Waldrip ordered the deposition rescheduled for Aug. 22 and 23, provided Elizabeth Weston pay $12,400 in court sanctions by an Aug. 19 deadline. She didn’t pay and the depositions weren’t taken.
The Westons had a mediation with a special master set for Aug. 11 and 12, but Ford told the court Friday that it was unsuccessful.
When the two sides reconvened that day, the judge once again reset Elizabeth’s deposition — this time for Tuesday and Wednesday. She first must pay the $12,400 by noon Friday, however.
Just days earlier, she gave notice to the court in a two-page document that she planned to testify at trial on a few matters, including that “GW promised in writing to pay me $25 million.”
She submitted as proof a 2019 email that Graham Weston sent to their attorney. “I want to transfer $25m to Elizabeth,” he said in the email. “Please meet w Elizabeth and me to determine the best way to do this. That is in Elizabeth’s interests.”
In addition, she alleged her husband deposited more than $5.1 million into a joint account and then withdrew most of it. The money was used “almost exclusively” to pay his divorce lawyers, she said.
“I rely on the presumption that this money became community property, and I should be entitled to a reimbursement of half which I could immediately use to continue to obtain counsel or pay costs in this case,” she wrote.
Finally, she said she “must save what little she has left of my separate property for my living expenses and retirement despite knowing I own many millions of dollars in Rackspace stock and that my divorce case lawyers seem to have (inexplicably) failed to bring to this Court’s attention.”
Whether she’ll ever get to testify to that remains up in the air. The judge ruled that if she doesn’t pay the $12,400, her testimony may be stricken from the trial.
There’s also the possibility Waldrip could postpone the trial date yet again to give her more time to prepare. It’s currently set to start Sept. 21.
“I can never say never,” the judge said on changing the date. “But I’m anticipating that this is a very real, firm date.”
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Q: Several months ago, we noticed bark splitting on a mature live oak in our yard. We figured it was the result of last year’s cold like some of the others we have seen you write about. However, recently we have seen swelling on the bark on the opposite side. We also are noticing swelling where branches have been removed, and I guess we’re getting paranoid. What should we do?
A: I would suggest that you have a International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) certified arborist look at this tree closely for any signs of weakening. You are probably correct that it is most likely some form of radial shake caused by the extreme cold of February 2021, but you need to have a professional to look at it on site. There are some elements of the trunk, 8 to 10 feet off the ground, that don’t look quite right.
Q: The front of our house faces west. We have hollies that have been there for 32 years. All of a sudden, the ones on the south side have areas that have turned brown and look dead. The plants on the north side look normal and healthy. We have kept them watered, and we have applied fertilizer with iron. What could the problem be?
A: I admit to being a holly fanatic and to having dozens of them around our landscape. I have had some of this random dieback in my dwarf Chinese and Carissa hollies this summer, and I’m sure it was due to the extreme heat and moisture stress. I have found no evidence of any insect or disease issues. Like you, I have watered faithfully, but the plants just haven’t been able to take the water up uniformly to meet the plants’ needs. It's happened on other species of plants as well. Trim out the dead wood and apply an all-nitrogen lawn fertilizer (with at least half of that fertilizer in slow-release form). Water them well and watch for new growth to fill in this fall and next spring.
Q: What is causing my geraniums to die back?
A: Since you sent your question to me in late August in Texas, my answer is going to be heat and dry weather. Geraniums do best where daytime temperatures rarely hit 90 degrees Fahrenheit and evenings are down in the 60s. They are not well suited to Texas in summer. Unfortunately, they need full or nearly full sun, so growing them in pots and moving them into shade doesn’t help.
Q: Thanks for the information on trimming my tropical milkweed plants by early September. I know that the wild native milkweed is preferable to the tropical type for monarchs, but where can I buy the plants or seeds?
A: You may be able to collect seeds from plants in native stands near you. You can also search for sources online. I found several. The National Wildlife Federation has sources listed, for example.
Q: Is there any way I can put microorganisms in grass clippings to make a mulch more rapidly? Could I mix yeast or vinegar?
A: I assume you’re talking about incorporating something in with the grass clippings as you put them into a compost pile. The best thing you can add there would be other compost that is already actively decaying. It will bring its own microorganisms in with it. Always include several forms of organic matter with your compost, including shredded tree leaves as they fall in a few weeks and well-rotted manure. The manure alone will bring copious levels of microorganisms. You’ll have no need to worry about adding yeast (and certainly not vinegar).
Q: I am confused. I just read your column that fertilizer now should be high in nitrogen, but I also saw something a while back saying that high nitrogen in cooler seasons promotes a fungal disease. I have bermudagrass. Please clarify.
A: You have a couple of wires crossed. The fungal disease gray leaf spot attacks St. Augustine that has been fed with nitrogen during the hot months of mid-summer. My recommendation has been, for the past 30 years, that we not apply nitrogen to St. Augustine turf between June 15 and early September. Bermuda lawns are not impacted by that schedule since gray leaf spot is not a factor with them.
Q: How can I prepare my Gold Star Esperanza for the winter? Even in mild winters, it still freezes to the ground, then comes back the next spring. How can I keep the top from dying back?
A: How Gold Star Esperanza reacts to a Texas winter depends on where we’re trying to grow it and how cold it gets there. It’s a Zone 9 plant, which means its top growth is cold hardy only in normal winters in South Texas. You can expect it to freeze to the ground in Central Texas, the Hill Country and North Central Texas; and it would be treated as a tender perennial or annual in colder parts of the state. If you’re trying to overwinter it where it typically would die to the ground, you’re either going to have to cover it, or heat it, or both during any hard freezes. Some people prefer to grow them in large patio pots and shuttle them into and out of the protection of greenhouses or sunrooms.
Email questions for Neil Sperry to SAENgardenQA@sperrygardens.com. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/San-Antonio-Texas-radial-shake-17407581.php | 2022-09-01T11:18:46 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/San-Antonio-Texas-radial-shake-17407581.php |
A movie about Charles Cullen, the nurse who admitted killing dozens of patients in the Lehigh Valley and New Jersey, is set to release next month.
“The Good Nurse” will debut in select theaters on Oct. 19, and will stream on Netflix beginning Oct. 26, the streaming service announced.
The film, based on the book, “The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder, by Charles Graeber, is directed by Academy Award nominee Tobias Lindholm. The film stars Academy Award winners Jessica Chastain as Amy Loughren and Eddie Redmayne as Cullen. Nnamdi Asomugha, a former Philadelphia Eagles defensive back, has a role in the film.
Chastain stars as Loughren, a Somerset Medical Center nurse who uncovered the truth after being suspicious that her colleague Cullen was responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, according to a synopsis on netflix.com.
According to the synopsis:
“Amy, a compassionate nurse and single mother struggling with a life-threatening heart condition, is stretched to her physical and emotional limits by the hard and demanding night shifts at the ICU. But help arrives when Charlie, a thoughtful and empathetic fellow nurse, starts at her unit. While sharing long nights at the hospital, the two develop a strong and devoted friendship, and for the first time in years, Amy truly has faith in her and her young daughters’ future. But after a series of mysterious patient deaths sets off an investigation that points to Charlie as the prime suspect, Amy is forced to risk her life and the safety of her children to uncover the truth.”
Cullen, who pleaded guilty to killing 22 patients in New Jersey and seven in Pennsylvania, worked in numerous medical facilities between 1993 and his arrest in 2003. He is serving consecutive life sentences.
During his 16-year career, he worked at several Lehigh Valley-area hospitals, including Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, St. Luke’s Hospital and Easton Hospital.
He slipped deadly overdoses of drugs into patients’ IVs, and may have killed many more patients than the 29 patients he was convicted of killing. | https://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-nws-charles-cullen-good-nurse-netflix-20220901-yotlln6mqzf7blszj6tvglkjsm-story.html | 2022-09-01T11:31:19 | 0 | https://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-nws-charles-cullen-good-nurse-netflix-20220901-yotlln6mqzf7blszj6tvglkjsm-story.html |
PLEASANTVILLE — As students prepare to return to the classroom, community members seek to inspire them for that first day back.
About two dozen children and teenagers gathered Tuesday night at Queen’s TRY, a youth center on Woodland Avenue, for a back-to-school event. The event offered not only free school supplies and food but speeches from city leaders and people with insights into the challenges students can face in education.
Board of Education Vice President Sharnell Morgan is the founder of Queen’s TRY, which stands for Teaching Redeemable Youth. The program began this summer. Morgan said she wanted to make sure students felt they were not fending for themselves as the school year begins and they have the material resources and social support to be successful.
“Our city needs another outlet for our youth and young adults,” Morgan said. “You can send your children here, and we’re going to take care of them.”
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The property where the center is located, which is managed by the Willows at Pleasantville, was decorated for the event with balloons and glitter. Students could pick up school supplies, including notebooks, erasers, pencils and bags the students decorated in an earlier session.
Raven Monae Johnson, 8, said she thought the program helped children become more social in a safe environment while exploring new interests. She said it was a place where kids could learn and have fun while getting free resources.
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“I think that it’s teaching how you’re supposed to be yourself,” Raven said. “Some kids (didn’t) even talk, and now they’re talking so much and communicating more. I think it’s a really cool program.”
Eli Henry, 12, said he appreciated the program’s support of the neighborhood and its children, giving them healthy activities during the summer and extending to them new opportunities.
“They’re actually trying to make a change to build up the community,” Eli said.
The center has featured prominent speakers from throughout the area who have talked to students about topics from peer pressure to poverty to violence to education. They were selected, Morgan said, as positive examples for young people who could sympathize with their experiences.
Democratic City Council nominee James Barclay spoke to the students Tuesday and gave them general advice for the year. He said they should respect their parents and teachers while taking their education seriously. Going around the room, he also asked students what they wanted to be when they grow up, receiving answers ranging from chef to police officer to cosmetologist to mechanic to football player. He congratulated and led applause for one student who said he had gotten all A’s in his last marking period.
Barclay, an immigrant from Liberia, spoke about his experiences and strategies for learning. He discussed his accent and how English was not his first language, underscoring how learning and communication were important skills for young people.
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“Five years from now, seven years from now, you’ll be a grown-up, you’ll have responsibilities, but today, you have to learn your lessons well and pay attention to instructions,” said Barclay, who is also a former school board member. “Don’t rebuke advice … because the future is yours, everything that is up here is for you, but you have to be prepared to be a part of it, to better yourself and you have to be educated.”
Other guest speakers have included Egg Harbor Township Committeeman Ray Ellis; Camden County College Professor LeRoy Stanford; Jamez King El, owner of the VIBE 609 radio station; and Rashid Kelly, owner of Kelly’s Koncrete.
Kelly told The Press he was focused on giving students hope and introducing them to opportunities in the construction trade.
“We’re starting by giving them some hope so that we can get them moving forward,” Kelly said. “It’s very important, very important to give back to the community.”
“It’s the beginning of the beginning of our future,” he added.
The center has hosted various events over the summer, including Zumba exercise classes, an all-day trip to Steel Pier in Atlantic City, painting classes and a drone demonstration.
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Morgan said she was inspired to do something for children after her experiences living in Woodland Terrace and the corruption, drug use and violence she had witnessed there.
“That’s why (Queen’s TRY) is going to be successful, because I know what’s needed,” Morgan said.
Barclay’s speech prompted an interjection from Tracey Barber, who helped decorate for the event Tuesday. Barber, who is 58 and Morgan’s cousin, told the students she had great difficulty reading. She said she missed much school as a child to help her mother, who she said was blind. Barber said she had spent about 30 years in prison, including a 10-year period that ended two years ago, which had further disrupted her life and opportunity to learn. Addressing the students, Barber pleaded with them to continue their school work and said they were an inspiration to her.
“I want to go back to school now,” Barber said. “I’m not going to be embarrassed anymore.”
The program will be open from 5 to 7 p.m. Mondays and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays during the school year. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/education/pleasantville-youth-center-prepares-students-for-return-to-classroom/article_9dfec056-2966-11ed-8221-cf08790ca732.html | 2022-09-01T11:37:00 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/education/pleasantville-youth-center-prepares-students-for-return-to-classroom/article_9dfec056-2966-11ed-8221-cf08790ca732.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_216b3716-2959-11ed-a3fe-df5bd5b4570e.html | 2022-09-01T11:37:06 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/icona-owner-to-take-plans-for-a-grand-hotel-at-the-beach-theater-site-to/article_216b3716-2959-11ed-a3fe-df5bd5b4570e.html |
'Work out' with Magic City Hippies; more things to do this weekend in Bloomington
This week in Bloomington, events range from quirky to serious. See Magic City Hippies at the Bluebird or Sam Butler's folklore musicians in Dunn Meadow (the latter is free). A 1953 Japanese film depicts the condemnation suffered by Japanese women who fell for American soldiers. A more happy-hearted film is playing at the Blockhouse where viewers will watch stunts performed to rock. Walking downtown on Friday night is more enjoyable during September's Gallery Walk. Comedians are encouraged to email the Comedy Attic to sign up for Thursday open mic nights, and what are summer's last days without a good old street dance and car show in Spencer?
Magic City Hippies to get down at The Bluebird
They squat, dance, work out in cute leotards, play music and sing. Magic City Hippies come to the Bluebird at 9 p.m. Thursday for $20. Doors open at 8 p.m. Must be 21 or older. Get tickets at https://bit.ly/3cytzIq. The Bluebird is at 216 N. Walnut St. Magic City Hippies' new album, the 1980s-ish romp “Water Your Garden” is now out. See these cuties at https://createmusic.fm/wateryourgarden.
Sam Butler's Folklore Sextet — free — in Dunn Meadow
Sam Butler mixes various jazz styles with funk, rock and folk. "Swing in September" hosts Sam Butler's Folklore Sextet at 6:30 p.m. Friday, at no charge, in Dunn Meadow on the Indiana University campus. If it rains the concert will move indoors to Recital Hall. WFIU hosts Mark Chilla, David Brent Johnson and William Morris will emcee these "September-Fridays" events. Bring lawn chairs, blankets or a picnic. Butler is a master’s student at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and an associate instructor in jazz studies. He graduated this year from the Jacobs School. As an undergraduate, he was a semi-finalist in the Jazz Division of the 2019 and 2020 National Trumpet Competition. Earlier this year Butler released an album of original compositions performed with his sextet.
Japanese film about war's wounds at IU Cinema
See a newly restored film about war's consequences, "Love Letter/Koibumi" (1953), at 7 p.m. Tuesday at IU Cinema. It's free but ticketed, at https://bit.ly/3RpxDcv. Director Kinuyo Tanaka shows us the life of Reikichi (Masayuki Mori) through challenges both personal and professional. Reikichi is a repatriated veteran trying to find his lost love (Yoshiko Kuga) while translating Japanese women's love letters to American GIs. The film stems from Fumio Niwa's novel "Love Letter." IU Cinema is at 1213 E. Seventh St.
Gallery walk showcases exhibits Friday
September's Gallery Walk will be 5-8 p.m. Friday with different galleries opening their doors for people to visit and view exhibits. Up to 14 galleries showcase art from local, regional and international artists. For more information, including a downloadable brochure and map, go to gallerywalkbloomington.com.
Street dance to live music, plus a cruise-in car show
On Friday, meet in front of the Tivoli Theatre, 24 N. Washington St., Spencer, for a summer evening street dance. Bring a lawn chair; food trucks will be nearby. Jeremy Sublette and the Rotations will provide live music starting at 6 p.m. A cruise-on-in car show on Spencer's downtown square starts at 5 p.m. It's free to all.
Cicada Cinema to show stunts performed to rock
This musical documentary satisfies both categories: life-endangering stunts and rock music. Watch cars drive off bridges and a flame-throwing wizard. This hats-off to Australian daredevil Grant Page thrills with its pyrotechnic tricks, romance and music. See it at 8 p.m. Friday at the Blockhouse, for $7. For those 21 and older. The Blockhouse is at 205 S. College Ave.
Open mic night at Comedy Attic
Bloomington is known for its comedy scene, and here's one of the reasons. At 8 p.m. every Thursday the Comedy Attic hosts as open mic night. Participants perform up to 5 minutes of all original material, and must omit anything racist, homophobic, transphobic or rape/female bashing related. "If you have to ask if it's racist, homophobic, transphobic or a rape joke, it probably is," says the website. Those who want to join in need to email comedyattic@gmail.com. If you are a newbie or not a paid pro, you must bring audience members to see you. (This is non-negotiable.) The Comedy Attic is at the corner of Walnut and Fourth streets. | https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/entertainment/local/2022/09/01/bloomington-bluebird-comedy-attic-shows-gallery-walk/65464252007/ | 2022-09-01T11:37:09 | 1 | https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/entertainment/local/2022/09/01/bloomington-bluebird-comedy-attic-shows-gallery-walk/65464252007/ |
Here's why Monroe County inmates are spending up to 23 hours a day in their cells
Monroe County Jail inmates spend most of their time locked up in their cells.
Newly booked-in people who don't post bond or get released by a judge spend five days in isolation cells, a COVID-19 precaution the local jail hasn't lifted, although some others in the area have.
People housed in minimum- and medium-security cellblocks spend four of every 24 hours in the dayroom area outside their two-person cells. That's where they can make phone calls, socialize, watch TV, access showers and use video conferencing kiosks to visit with family.
The other 20 hours are spent behind solid metal doors with small glass panels, with a cellmate always an arm's-length away. Each cell has a bunk bed, a stainless steel toilet and sink, and a small table. Meals, delivered around 5 a.m., noon and 6 p.m. are served inside cells instead of at the tables out in the cellblock commons area. It's more efficient, jail commander Sam Crowe said.
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Cellblocks crowded with 32 men charged with different levels of felonies leads to increased incidents of threats, aggression and fights inside a deteriorating and understaffed jail, Crowe said. Hence, the 20-hour lockdowns, which Crowe said conform to state jail regulations regarding inmate care.
Another 50 to 60 inmates who have gotten in trouble while in the jail, along with some who requested a more isolated existence, spend 23 hours locked down and just one hour each day outside their cells. The hour moves ahead every day; if someone is allowed out of their cell 1 a.m. today, it would be 2 a.m. the next day. These prisoners, too, eat breakfast, lunch and dinner in their cells.
COVID-19 safety concerns are not what led to the lockdowns beyond the five-day isolation window, but Crowe said the pandemic has played a substantial role.
Slow courts, longer jail stays, more serious charges
For the past two years, judges in Monroe County, like those around the country, have released many nonviolent pretrial inmates from local jails who in the past would have been held on bond or probation violations.
The practice helped keep the numbers down, and stemmed the spread of COVID-19. And because the pandemic has slowed the judicial system, the jail is housing more people charged with serious and violent offenses whose pending cases remain unresolved.
"We've had to reduce the total number of hours out to accommodate everyone getting out of their cells," Crowe said. "The dynamics have changed. We used to have 50 to 60% that were minimum security. Before the pandemic, we would have 12 to 15 maximum security inmates, and that has doubled or even tripled while our minimum security inmates have gone way down."
Before the pandemic struck in the spring of 2020, the jail housed an average of 280 people. Even reduced by 50 or so now — the jail population was 235 on Aug. 29 — the jail is still crowded, and struggling with an increasing number of people charged with serious crimes.
"So no, we don't have as many inmates but the ones here have much higher security needs, and we're still not fully staffed," Crowe said. "The way the jail is designed, 32 to a cellblock, we can't let them out at the same time. It creates too many problems."
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Inmates file formal complaint
While the lockdowns may make managing the jail easier, inmates spending most of their time inside a cell aren't happy. Count Kiel Sheppard and other prisoners in the jail's I-Block, for nonviolent offenders, among them. They filed a grievance in June challenging the policy, and still are waiting for a response from the jail hierarchy.
"We are let out, half of us, in the morning, for three hours and then three days later it switches to 7 to 11 in the evening," Sheppard said during a phone interview from the jail. "They lock us down for meals. We eat in there, one at the desk and the other guy sitting on the ground or with their tray on their lap on the bed," he said.
"There's tables in the cellblock. But it's easier for them (jail staff) to feed us in our cells. At other jails, they all sit down and eat together at a table."
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Sheppard knows. He's been incarcerated in stints at jails in Lawrence, Brown and Monroe counties since November. He has several criminal offenses pending, including possession of methamphetamine and resisting arrest. He pleaded guilty Aug. 25 in Lawrence Superior Court to possession of paraphernalia as part of a plea agreement that dismissed three other drug charges and gave him 36 days behind bars, already served.
Right now, he's in the Monroe County Jail with no bond for getting arrested while having other charges pending. He has a hearing set in November and hopes he can get his cases resolved with help from his public defender.
He said the five-day lockdown for new inmates is unfair. "The first five days we're locked up is the most crucial time. You have to try to get bail money together, tell your boss you won't be at work, call someone to let your dog out. The first five days set the pace for the rest of the stay. You get 15 minutes time out of cell a day in quarantine."
The five-day isolation most county jails implemented during the pandemic has been suspended at jails in Lawrence and Brown counties, where people being booked in are screened for COVID symptoms and tested if they have any. The jails in nearby Greene and Owen counties still isolate new inmates for five days. Morgan County has a 7-day COVID-19 isolation period for inmates booked into the jail there.
Crowe defended the policy, saying someone exposed to COVID-19 could test negative during the first few days of being infected. "We've done an excellent job keeping it (COVID) out of the jail and we will continue trying to do that," Crowe said. "There are still a lot of cases being reported in Monroe County."
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Sheppard complained there aren't any AA or NA meetings offered at the jail, where many in custody suffer from substance use issues. During a recent tour of the jail, Crowe confirmed that such space is lacking, and needed. He wants programming to return.
"There's nothing like that available to us," Sheppard said. "Even church, which they do let in, is just one cellbock tier every other week."
He said since there's been no in-person visits since the pandemic started, "People drift apart and they lose the connections they need when they get back out."
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Video calls home cost 21 cents a minute, and inmates without money in their jail commissary account can't pay for them. Cellblocks have phones that send text messages, but they cost, too.
"A lot of guys are in here for drugs and mental health problems, and they have messed-up relationships and they don't have no one on the outside to make calls like that to," Sheppard said.
No one acknowledged the inmates' grievance, Sheppard said. "We have a right to have it heard and resolved, and then to appeal. We waited three weeks and filed a written petition and we have not heard back. It was signed by 30 inmates."
Crowe said he's aware of the complaint, but it hasn't been all the way through the grievance process and hasn't reached his desk. When asked this week, Crowe said he stands by the current jail lockdown policy.
"I think they don't have much to stand on since the state standard is one hour per day and we give them (in I-Block) four," the jail commander said.
If he denies the demands in the grievance, which seeks 8 hours out-of-cell time, the prisoners can appeal to the sheriff.
Describing himself as "college educated, well-versed in the justice system and aware of what my rights are," 37-year-old Sheppard said he hopes to see the lockdown ease. He'll be jailed into November, maybe longer, so there's time.
Contact H-T reporter Laura Lane at llane@heraldt.com or 812-318-5967. | https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/local/2022/09/01/monroe-county-indiana-jail-inmates-seek-more-time-outside-cells/65463189007/ | 2022-09-01T11:37:15 | 0 | https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/local/2022/09/01/monroe-county-indiana-jail-inmates-seek-more-time-outside-cells/65463189007/ |
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