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EAST POINT, Ga. — Editor's Note: The video above is from Warren Powell's soil collection ceremony.
East Point is honoring a life taken while recognizing its history this Labor Day weekend.
The City of East Point Public Art Division is partnering with the Fulton County Remembrance Coalition to commemorate the life of Warren Powell Sunday.
Powell was lynched in East Point in 1889. He was 14.
On Sept. 4, 1889, a masked mob of around 20 white men took Powell from the East Point jail and lynched him. The teen had been arrested and jailed earlier that day for allegedly attacking Ada Brooks, a white girl who was walking through the woods on her way home from school, the city said.
Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit that documents the history of lynchings reports Powell is one of at least 35 African Americans lynched in Georgia's Fulton County between 1877 and 1950.
The county coalition has since partnered with EJU to "engage our community in a process of healing and reconciliation with our history of racial terrorism," their website reads. "We are committed to collecting soil at the sites of Fulton County's 36 documented racial terror lynchings, erecting historical markers, claiming our county's monument from the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, and fostering a lasting dialogue founded on truth and justice."
On Sunday, the group will work to live up to its mission.
The groups will host the ceremony at 12:30 p.m. at 2847 Main Street. They previously hosted a soil collection in Powell's memory in February, but on Sunday they will dedicate a marker to him. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/mynews/east-point/east-point-to-host-marker-ceremony-honoring-life-of-lynching-victim-warren-powell/85-e2ef55f8-2834-484f-9d78-08e987e3e35d | 2022-09-03T04:02:11 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/mynews/east-point/east-point-to-host-marker-ceremony-honoring-life-of-lynching-victim-warren-powell/85-e2ef55f8-2834-484f-9d78-08e987e3e35d |
TARRANT COUNTY, Texas — AAA Texas is expecting high volumes of travel this Labor Day weekend, and Friday will be the busiest travel day of the weekend.
According to a late-summer survey conducted by AAA, 32% of Americans plan to travel during Labor Day weekend, and 82% of them will travel by automobile.
AAA Texas spokesperson Daniel Armbruster told WFAA the number of travelers this year surpasses previous years.
“It’s pretty big for Labor Day,” Armbruster said. “It’s not as big as we would see 4th of July or maybe Memorial Day. Labor Day typically sees the least amount of volume, but it's big.”
Armbruster said the drop in gas prices has led to a busy Labor Day travel weekend. According to GasBuddy, the average gas price in Dallas was $3.26 on Friday. Fort Worth’s average gas price was $3.25.
AAA’s survey found 66% of people traveled less this summer than they typically would, while 80% said they made cutbacks to save money. People between the ages of 18 to 34 years old cut back the most, according to AAA Texas. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/aaa-expects-busy-labor-day-weekend-travel-texas/287-a212d4d4-234b-4d08-9e8e-44fed55fb948 | 2022-09-03T04:02:36 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/aaa-expects-busy-labor-day-weekend-travel-texas/287-a212d4d4-234b-4d08-9e8e-44fed55fb948 |
HOUSTON — A woman was injured Friday after a structure above the entrance to Houston's Downtown Aquarium collapsed.
The Downtown Aquarium is located on Bagby Street near the Gulf Freeway.
The structure above the entrance fell on top of the woman as she was standing underneath, officials said. She was taken to the hospital in an unknown condition.
No other injuries were reported.
A forklift had to be brought to the establishment to scoop up the debris from the collapse.
The aquarium remained open for guests.
Landry's, Inc. executive vice president and general counsel Steve Scheinthal gave KHOU 11 the following statement:
“We are not exactly sure what happened at the Downtown Aquarium this evening, but are committed to fully investigating. We immediately reached out to the family of the impacted individual and are doing what we can to support them. We have cleaned the area and our development team is committed to understanding what happened. The Downtown Aquarium will reopen tomorrow.” | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/roof-collapse-downtown-aquarium-houston/285-177bd7a4-f06c-4393-b3b9-0df245aed5f4 | 2022-09-03T04:02:42 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/roof-collapse-downtown-aquarium-houston/285-177bd7a4-f06c-4393-b3b9-0df245aed5f4 |
EAGLE PASS, Texas — At least eight migrants were found dead in the Rio Grande after dozens attempted a hazardous crossing near Eagle Pass, Texas, officials said Friday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Mexican officials made the discovery Thursday while responding to a large group of people crossing the river following days of heavy rains that had resulted in particularly swift currents. U.S. officials recovered six bodies, while Mexican teams recovered two others, according to a CBP statement.
The agency said U.S. crews rescued 37 others from the river and detained 16 more, while Mexican officials took 39 migrants into custody. Officials on both sides of the border continue searching for any possible victims, the CBP said.
CPD did not say what country or countries the migrants were from.
The Border Patrol’s Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass, is fast becoming the busiest corridor for illegal crossings. The sector may soon surpass Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, which has been the focus for the last decade. The area draws migrants from dozens of countries, many of them in families with young children.
The sector, which extends 245 miles (395 kilometers) along the Río Grande, has been especially dangerous because river currents can be deceptively fast and change quickly. Crossing the river can be challenging even for strong swimmers.
In a news release last month, CPD said it had discovered bodies of more than 200 dead migrants in the sector from October through July.
Surveys by the U.N. International Organization for Migration and others point to rising fatalities as the number of crossing attempts have soared. In the last three decades, thousands have died attempting to enter the United States from Mexico, often from dehydration or drowning.
In June, 53 migrants were found dead or dying in a tractor-trailer on a back road in San Antonio in the deadliest tragedy to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas/rio-grande-border-crossing-migrants-dead/285-0612f706-a828-4f76-ac75-3bc4155e4037 | 2022-09-03T04:02:48 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas/rio-grande-border-crossing-migrants-dead/285-0612f706-a828-4f76-ac75-3bc4155e4037 |
FREDERICKSBURG, Texas — You may have noticed something missing from local grocery stores this summer: Texas peaches.
Most of the peaches you may have seen in the produce section are from California.
The Texas harvest was delayed three weeks this year because of a mild winter, and the drought the state has faced this summer has led to fewer peaches.
But it's not all bad news.
Lindsey Jenschke's family farm in Fredericksburg has been growing peaches since the 1960s.
“It’s a 24-hour a day job. It’s a seven-day-a-week job and it’s a year-round job," Jenschke said. "We also do pick your own then we move into blackberries and peaches.”
She took us on a tour through her family's orchards to show us how this year is unlike any Hill Country farmers have seen.
“We are really dry right now and it’s been tough," she said.
The Jenschkes drilled two new wells this summer so that about half of their trees can be on a round-the-clock water drip to keep them alive.
“We average about 28 inches of rain a year," she said. "I think we might be at about five and a half right now.”
During any normal summer, customers can roam the Jenschke orchards and pick their own peaches from the trees, but because the trees are so stressed from the drought, that part of the business had to be canceled.
“Fredericksburg has kind of, it’s just known for the quality of the peach, it’s a very great tasting peach," Jenshke said.
Just up the road in Stonewall, Kristen Restani is behind the register at her family's peach business, Burg's Corner.
Quarter-bushel boxes of peaches have been placed throughout the store with a sign nearby telling customers what's different about this year's peaches.
“Texas is traditionally hot, but it got very hot for a long time," said Restani. "What you find is that slows down the ripening process.”
“The peaches are maybe a little bit smaller because the trees are just very stressed and thirsty.”
The drought has done more than just alter the appearance of the peaches, it's also made them the sweetest any of these Hill Country growers say they've ever tasted.
"Their sugar is just off the charts, so they’re about as sweet a peach as you can get," Jenschke said. “We use a refractometer that measures the bricks of sugar in our fruit, and these are all testing 20 percent or higher on bricks which is very very high.”
She says its not just one type of peach that's sweeter this year, it's all of them.
“We’ve tested multiple varieties of peaches and they’ve been testing higher than any other season," she said.
Although their sugary taste, this season may be pleasing to peach lovers. But the lack of water that caused the fruit to be so sweet is really bad for the health of the trees.
For the farmers whose livelihoods depend on the quality of their annual harvests, they need next year to be wetter.
“A whole lot of praying," Jenschke said. "We’ll get through this year. It’ll rain one day and we will be back on track.” | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-peaches-sweeter-drought/285-cd427047-3aa0-45c0-bd6a-44a4e5080094 | 2022-09-03T04:02:54 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-peaches-sweeter-drought/285-cd427047-3aa0-45c0-bd6a-44a4e5080094 |
Disturbance in stands at high school football game causes panic
Fans suddenly rushing from the stands stopped Friday night's high school football game between Delaware Military Academy and Howard High School at Wilmington's Abessinio Stadium.
With 7:33 to play in the third quarter and Howard leading, 8-0, chaos erupted as fans sprinted for the exits and ran onto the field. Play was stopped and the players retreated to their sidelines.
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The stadium falls under the jurisdiction of the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and a half dozen Delaware Natural Resources police officers were stationed at the game.
"There was a lot of confusion," said Capt. John McDerby, with Delaware Natural Resources Police. "It was a pretty large crowd tonight, several thousand people, a much larger crowd than we’ve seen in the recent past.”
McDerby said that Howard was the home team and for this game had a policy that no one would be admitted after halftime. He said a couple students snuck in through the fence and officers began escorting them out of the stadium. While they were taken through the crowd, a lot of students were taking cell phone videos and teasing the students.
"They weren't being unruly," McDerby said. "As we walked them out of the stadium, suddenly the crowd started running in different directions. We thought maybe a fight had broken out but we determined there was not a fight, there was confusion in the crowd, possibly spurred by social media posts."
He said fans started running all over the place, onto the field and toward the exits.
"We decided to open the gates to let people leave the stadium and maintain control of the crowd so nobody would get hurt. We determined there was no fight. There were no shots fired within the stadium."
He said whenever there are games at the stadium, his officers coordinate with Wilmington Police. When the chaos erupted, Wilmington officers arrived to help with the crowd.
After a lengthy delay and attempts to clear the stadium were unsuccessful, the decision was made to call the game for the night.
Decisions on finishing the game will be decided at a later time between the two schools.
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2 Kingman teenagers charged with felonies in connection with school shooting threat
Two teenage girls were arrested and charged with a felony after a threat to commit a shooting at Kingman High School was found to be legitimate, police said.
The Mohave County Sheriff's Department began investigating a school shooting threat on Wednesday. On Thursday, officers supplied additional security at Kingman High School and later identified the two students responsible for the threat.
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The students, aged 14 and 15, compiled a list of 14 students they intended to harm, some of whom were due to bullying instances and relationship problems, according to a release by the Mohave County Sheriff's Department. They were immediately suspended from school pending the end of the investigation.
The teens were charged with making a terrorist threat, which is a class 3 felony, and booked to the Mohave County Juvenile Detention Center. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/09/02/2-kingman-teens-charged-felonies-after-school-shooting-threat/7975847001/ | 2022-09-03T04:06:26 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/09/02/2-kingman-teens-charged-felonies-after-school-shooting-threat/7975847001/ |
As the spread of coronavirus continues, here are the latest updates from Southern Arizona.
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Federal offices: Closed Monday
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Greensboro Transit: GTA and Access GSO operate on a Saturday schedule, with services ending at 10 p.m. GTA will not offer service to GTCC’s Jamestown Campus. Regular service resumes on Tuesday.
High Point Transit: No service Monday.
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GARBAGE COLLECTION
(For week of Sept. 5)
Greensboro: No collection on Monday. Monday collection is on Tuesday. Tuesday collection is on Wednesday.
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_f7648a3a-294e-11ed-a490-973b434e9bcb.html | 2022-09-03T04:17:45 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/labor-day-closings/article_f7648a3a-294e-11ed-a490-973b434e9bcb.html |
Hope Street 'urban trail' experiment starts Oct. 1. Some merchants say they were left out
PROVIDENCE – A short-term experiment has become a long-term headache for local businesses locked in battle over plans to try a new "urban trail."
At the start of October, a mile-long lane will be established on Hope Street for bicycles, scooters, roller-bladers and pedestrians. The weeklong trial is just that – a trial. During that time, data will be collected to determine whether the lane is a good fit for the area, though the city has made clear there is no funding to make the project permanent, there is no timeline for doing so, and it is not a priority.
Here’s the catch: 132 parking spaces will be temporarily eliminated to make space for the trail.
For some area businesses still emerging from pandemic woes, losing those spots for even one week is too much.
“We’re all kind of waiting for fall for business to pick up, so Oct. 1 is terrible timing for that to happen,” said Joanne Vincent, owner of Tortilla Flats, a Mexican restaurant on the street.
As Vincent tells it, “In a post-COVID environment where we’re all still struggling pretty heavily, restaurants in particular, to lose half of my Hope Street parking for a trial without having any input on it is upsetting.”
However, according to the Providence Streets Coalition, a local organization that advocates for shared, safe streets, those 132 parking spaces include just 29 in the business district. Overall, the chunk of parking that will be temporarily lost represents 9% of the parking available in the study area.
Contradicting business people’s assertions that they haven’t had much of a chance to weigh in, the coalition’s organizer, Liza Burkin, said meetings have been held, people have been surveyed and outreach is underway.
Kim Clark, owner of gift shop Rhody Craft, tells a different story. In an August letter cosigned by Vincent and some 20 other business people, Clark said merchants “only became aware of this project a few months ago when word leaked out.”
Clark said she was “unable to identify any merchant or neighbor who was contacted for input on this plan.”
However, an email provided to The Journal shows a message from Burkin to Clark and another of the letter’s cosigners, inviting them to discuss the project in June 2021. Clark told The Journal she was unable to locate the email in her inbox.
Much as frustrations were aired over the construction of the South Water Street bike path – some from business owners saying outreach was not performed – a similar fight is emerging over Hope Street with familiar players.
Providence Streets Coalition says they did reach out to businesses
City planning spokesman Tim Rondeau said that initially Hope Street wasn’t included in what Mayor Jorge Elorza dubbed his Great Streets plan – a city-led effort to identify areas where corridors could be considered to expand lanes for cyclists, pedestrians and more.
According to Burkin, in 2019, once the city drafted a map of the potential trails, it opened a six-month window for public comment, hearing requests to move a trail from Morris Avenue to Hope Street.
“Based on community feedback during the Great Streets plan planning process, they made that change on the map, but they also shared with me that a massive amount of engagement would be necessary if that project were ever to get off the paper and into the streets,” Burkin said.
Eventually, the city left it to Burkin’s coalition to lead the engagement process, rather than the city helming the effort itself – a reflection of the coalition’s involvement in and promotion of non-automotive paths.
Burkin disputes that no area businesses were aware of plans for the Hope Street experiment.
“It’s kind of disingenuous to say that they weren’t informed when they have attended several meetings about this,” she said. “Certainly not everybody. Absolutely not everybody.”
Burkin said that both the Hope Street Merchants Association and the Summit Neighborhood Association were notified, and a community meeting was held last year with Councilwoman Nirva LaFortune, who represents the area, and is campaigning for mayor.
The coalition also conducted an online survey with nearly 500 respondents. Burkin said postcards were left in mailboxes to notify residents that they could participate.
The survey found that of the 16 businesses that replied, 10 opposed a permanent lane, yet nearly 64% of the total respondents were supportive. Most of the respondents live on Hope Street or within a quarter mile.
While some merchants contend there hasn’t been sufficient public engagement, Burkin said “the whole point of the temporary trail is community engagement itself.”
Among those eager to see the experiment is Stuart Meltzer, owner of Fearless Fish Market on West Fountain Street. Meltzer, who will soon open another location on Hope Street in the space that once housed Davis Dairy, said that when it comes to this proposal, he has “some optimism that it would be a net benefit for everybody.”
One benefit Meltzer already has? Dedicated parking spaces that won’t be in jeopardy. Still, he urged others to keep an open mind.
“It’s a one-week test, so my thought is, let’s just see what happens,” he said.
Yet not all business owners agree. Clark described the lane's supporters as “so zealous, so dogmatic and so unwilling to hear our point of view,” adding, “we don’t have trust that we will be heard or that they will accept that this is not a good location.”
City: Decision will be driven by data
Ultimately the city will decide whether to consider making the experimental lane permanent, but Burkin plans to collect data during the tryout. That includes measuring use of the route, taking parking counts and asking drivers how long it took them to find a space and whether their wait, if any, was acceptable. Burkin also plans to survey residents on side streets to see whether spillover from cars moving to side streets becomes a challenge.
Furthermore, businesses like Rhody Craft and Tortilla Flats are welcome to share their sales data from the week.
LaFortune, who has helped to inform the community at meetings on the project, said she understands the worries businesses have.
"I hear them because I understand that these businesses, they struggled throughout the pandemic … so I understand that," LaFortune said. "And it’s finding a balance to ensure that we’re creating multimodal streets, safe and complete streets for everyone. But whatever we do is driven by data."
The councilwoman said the choice would depend on where that data leads.
"Rather than the city [deciding] we’re going to put a bike trail here, we figured the best approach is to see if we can collect some data, see what works best, try it out, and then we can go from there."
Amidst the airing of business' frustrations, Burkin emphasized that the city remains weeks away from the brief experiment that may or may not lead to permanent change down the road.
"At this stage," Burkin said, "nothing has happened yet." | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/09/03/providence-hope-street-businesses-concerned-over-parking-bike-trail-rhody-craft/7960777001/ | 2022-09-03T04:18:48 | 0 | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/09/03/providence-hope-street-businesses-concerned-over-parking-bike-trail-rhody-craft/7960777001/ |
WATERLOO – The driver of a black Lincoln MKX led Waterloo police Friday night on a high-speed chase that ended in a crash and then a pursuit on foot.
The three people involved in the two-vehicle crash at the intersection of West Fifth and South streets sustained no serious injuries, according to police.
Lt. Michael Girsch said police initially pulled over the Lincoln MKX near the Kwik Star in the 300 block of Fletcher Avenue for an equipment violation at about 6:30 p.m.
After being stopped by police, the vehicle took off toward Byrnes Park and then northeast down West Third Street, said Girsch.
The driver, who was known to police, took a right turn onto South Street and was traveling southeast when the vehicle blew through the stop sign at the corner of West Fifth Street and struck a blue Kia Sportage traveling through the intersection.
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After hitting the Kia Sportage, the Lincoln MKX ended up losing a tire and hitting parked vehicles in the 700 block of South Street, where it then sat disabled.
Police said the driver of the Lincoln MKX got out of the vehicle and attempted to elude police on foot, but was located, subdued with a Taser in a private backyard, and eventually arrested and transported to UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital possibly for minor injuries.
A passenger in the Lincoln MKX and the driver of the totaled Kia Sportage were given medical attention and treated for minor injuries, Girsch said.
Neither are believed to have been transported for further treatment.
Police found narcotics in the Lincoln MKX, said Girsch. The driver, who also had a suspended driver’s license, is expected to be charged.
The chase lasted about five minutes, and the driver was clocked going 60 to 70 miles per hour down Third Street, said Girsch.
South Street, between West Fifth to West Sixth streets, was closed off for about 30 minutes after the crash. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/waterloo-high-speed-chase-ends-after-crash-pursuit-on-foot/article_28e26b08-fae5-58eb-ab61-065589783368.html | 2022-09-03T04:18:56 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/waterloo-high-speed-chase-ends-after-crash-pursuit-on-foot/article_28e26b08-fae5-58eb-ab61-065589783368.html |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Governor Gavin Newsom is expected to sign his CARE Court proposal into law any day now.
It’s a program he came up with to help address the homeless crisis. It requires court ordered treatment for Californians struggling with severe mental illness, but last minutes changes were made to the bill to address concerns before it made it to the governor’s desk.
One of the main concerns came from counties because even though it was the governor’s idea, the counties would be in control of setting up the court system and would be fined for poorly executing it.
Newsom first proposed the idea of Care Court in March. State Senator Tom Umberg (D-Santa Ana) volunteered to be the author of the bill.
“When I sort of saw the governor's vision, I thought I want to be part of both implementing and developing that vision,” Umberg said.
It’s an ongoing vision, but as of now, a family member, first responder, or medical and behavioral health professionals can ask a trained judge to evaluate whether a person with schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders meets the criteria to enter the CARE court system.
“Those who are in CARE court will have counsel, they will also have a supporter," Umberg explained. "That supporter can be a family member who acts in some ways as an advocate.”
For up to two years, the system will provide medication, housing, and social services.
“Initially, we counties had concerns over the structure and details of it," California Association of Counties Executive Director Graham Knaus said. "The emphasis on penalties, and having all counties do it essentially for free right out of the gate. We have workforce issues to be addressed.”
To address those concerns, last-minute changes to the bill include $63 million dollars to help with implementation.
The system will roll out in phases as well, with seven counties required to start by October 2023, and the rest by December 2024.
Early counties include:
- Glenn
- Orange
- Riverside
- San Diego
- San Francisco
- Stanislaus
- Tuolumne
“We're appreciative that there is time until October of next year for the seven initial pilot counties to build that," Knauss said. "It won't be easy. They will be stretching in order to make that happen."
Knauss called the program a tool to address the housing crisis.
“But we also cannot lose sight of homelessness, the larger homelessness issue," Knauss said. "California has no comprehensive system to address homelessness, and until we have that we will only make modest progress.”
The late changes did not address concerns raised by disability rights groups who believe this is criminalizing homelessness and mental health.
“First of all, it's not criminal in nature. It's not a criminal court. It's a civil court," Senator Umberg replied. "It's a civil court that is responsible and is accountable, and if if that support doesn't have the benefit that we anticipate, then one goes into conservatorship, not in the prison, not in the jail, not into some sort of custodial situation.”
But if Britney Spears taught the world anything, conservatorships aren’t perfect either.
“There can be abuses," Umberg said. "That's why we want to we want to make sure that we do everything possible before someone goes into conservatorship.”
He said there is an oversight component.
“One of the things that's not done often enough is to measure the successes or the areas that need improvement in any governmental program, and there are evaluation periods," Umberg said. "Number two, there are metrics to determine how many people are served, what the success rate in terms of stabilization is, all those things.”
As Political Expert Steve Swatt points out, lawmakers had to do something, anything.
“It's no no secret that homelessness is at the top of the concerns of the California public, and the Governor Newsom, he reads the polls, so to legislators," Swatt said. "So they felt that it was incumbent upon them to do something about it and perhaps go in a different direction than other states have been doing”
The independent Legislative Analysts Office predicted that of the 150,000 homeless individuals in the state, about one in four of them have severe mental illness and or chronic drug addiction.
The governor predicts this program will serve between 7,000 to 12,000 people.
WATCH RELATED: CARE Court, abortion bills and more | Hundreds of bills await returning California lawmakers (Aug. 2022). | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/newsom-expected-to-sign-care-court-proposal-into-law/509-86f0acc0-5fb2-4a94-b971-ff558bfd4ddf | 2022-09-03T04:24:32 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/newsom-expected-to-sign-care-court-proposal-into-law/509-86f0acc0-5fb2-4a94-b971-ff558bfd4ddf |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A family still reeling from a devastating loss in the Caldor Fire was dealt another blow Wednesday when the truck they saved from the fire was stolen right in front of their Sacramento home.
The last year has been difficult for Daniela Sigheti and her family after they nearly lost everything, including the retirement cabin she and her husband worked hard to build.
"We even didn't have time to make memories," said Sigheti. "It was a very traumatic event because it was unexpected."
The only thing Sigheti and her husband were able to save was their 2007 Ford F-550 Super Duty truck they used for DIY projects and to haul large items.
"You look at the truck, you say 'Goodness, it's an old truck. The paint is all gone,' but it's my truck," said Sigheti. "For me, it's like a treasure."
The truck was stolen from their home on Maccan Court early Wednesday morning and the theft was captured on home surveillance.
"I never thought that it was gone, and we didn't believe it was gone," said Sigheti. "We took the day off and my husband spent all day looking for the truck in the city."
The truck was recovered by police the next day, but its catalytic converter, along with many expensive tools like a welder, were all missing.
"And on top of that, we have to pay $600 to take our truck out of the yard," said Sigheti. "That would be another expense on top of what we lost already with what was on the truck."
Sigheti told ABC10 some of her neighbors also had their catalytic converters stolen in recent months. The couple is now left with more questions than answers and aren't sure what to do next. They hope whoever is responsible for the theft is held accountable for their actions.
"It's draining us mentally, financially. You get to the point where you say 'Ok, when will that stop?'" said Sigheti.
ABC10 reached out to CHP about the case but haven't received a response yet. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/family-reeling-from-fire-loss-truck-stolen/103-af6b2d76-d31a-47a5-a09b-97018aaa07c5 | 2022-09-03T04:24:38 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/family-reeling-from-fire-loss-truck-stolen/103-af6b2d76-d31a-47a5-a09b-97018aaa07c5 |
GAZELLE, Calif — A new fire in Siskiyou County has prompted evacuation warnings in additional areas of the county beyond the Mill Fire, which is on the east side of I-5.
According to Cal Fire, the Mountain Fire is about 600 acres and is near Gazelle-Callahan Road -- east of Gazelle Mountain and southeast of Gazelle -- on the west side of I-5.
The Mill Fire, which started at or near a lumber mill earlier Friday afternoon, has destroyed several homes and left several injured, according to officials. It also prompted Governor Gavin Newsom to declare a state of emergency in Siskiyou County.
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According to Cal Fire, the 2021 fire season started earlier than previous years, but also ended earlier, as well. January 2021 saw just under 1,200 acres burned from nearly 300 wildfires. Fires picked up in the summer when the Dixie Fire burned in five Northern California counties — Butte, Plumas, Shasta, Lassen and Tehama. The Dixie Fire started on July 13 and wasn't contained until Oct. 25, burning nearly 1 million acres. It has since become the second-largest wildfire in state history and the largest non-complex fire.
Overall, 2.5 million acres were burned in 2021 from 8,835 wildfires. Over 3,600 structures were destroyed and 3 people were killed.
If you live in a wildfire-prone zone, Cal Fire suggests creating a defensible space around your home. Defensible space is an area around a building in which vegetation and other debris are completely cleared. At least 100 feet is recommended.
The Department of Homeland Security suggests assembling an emergency kit that has important documents, N95 respirator masks, and supplies to grab with you if you’re forced to leave at a moment’s notice. The agency also suggests signing up for local warning system notifications and knowing your community’s evacuation plans best to prepare yourself and your family in cases of wildfires.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Students from the Sacramento City Unified School District returned to campus Thursday for the start of the 2022-23 school year and after school programs.
Choosing a good after school program is not just the responsibility of the student, but it is the responsibility of the parent as well, according Joseph Atman of the nonprofit Middle Tree.
"There are a lot of different options students have; community programs, clubs, other nonprofits," he told ABC10. "They all put on great programs that can kind of help carry that burden that we traditionally pass off to schools alone."
Middle Tree is a California-based education center with the stated mission of giving students an affordable, personalized educational path.
Good after school programs can supplement what a student is learning in school, Atman said, because teachers can't reach every student.
"After school programs can be a little bit more creative. They can be a little bit more outside of the box in their thinking and their approaches can be just more free in general," he said.
For information on before and after school programs offered by SCUSD Youth Development Support Services for the 2022/23 semester, click here. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/what-sacramento-students-should-know-about-after-school-programs/103-db044167-9a32-4914-bdb6-13e096473b26 | 2022-09-03T04:24:50 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/what-sacramento-students-should-know-about-after-school-programs/103-db044167-9a32-4914-bdb6-13e096473b26 |
LAPORTE — Authorities have arrested a repeat LaPorte County fugitive after he spent a year and a half on the run.
Timothy J. Bailey, 49, of Michigan City, was arrested Aug. 16 in Jacksonville, Florida. Prison Transport Services transported him to the LaPorte County Jail on Thursday where he is being held without bond, police said.
Bailey has multiple felony charges of security fraud and other theft-related charges against him.
Police issued a warrant for his arrest in October 2019 for security fraud, and he began serving his prison sentence in March 2020. He was released from the LaPorte County Jail and placed on GPS monitoring in May 2020.
In March 2021, he was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to surrender himself but failed to report. The Fugitive Apprehension Street Team sought his whereabouts and took him into custody in Yell County, Arkansas, where he posted a commercial bond and fled again.
"In those phone calls, Katalinic made specific references as to knowing the victim’s whereabouts, as well as other references regarding the well-being of their shared child," state police said.
Hammond firefighters also arrived on scene and attempts were made to revive the child, who was taken to Franciscan Health Hammond hospital, police said.
The truck driver told police he was traveling east on U.S. 20 in Gary when he stopped for a red light and two people in a red Ford Edge behind him got out and argued with him about a traffic issue.
"Kelsie stated she would never leave her children home alone during the daytime while they were awake, however she thought they were asleep, so she left them overnight," police said. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/laporte-county-fugitive-nabbed-in-florida/article_75b066b9-3cec-5b22-8948-9b7822145729.html | 2022-09-03T04:34:03 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/laporte-county-fugitive-nabbed-in-florida/article_75b066b9-3cec-5b22-8948-9b7822145729.html |
The first case of equine West Nile virus in the state this year has been confirmed.
The affected horse, in Gooding County, is recovering and is under the treatment of a veterinarian, according to the the Idaho State Department of Agriculture’s Animal Health Laboratory.
The most common signs of West Nile virus in horses are fever and weakness, usually in the hindquarters and characterized by a widened stance, stumbling, leaning to one side and toe dragging.
Mental conditions such as fearfulness, lip-smacking, chewing movements and fine muscle tremors may be noticed. Paralysis and inability to stand may follow in extreme cases of WNV infection.
West Nile most commonly is spread to people and horses through the bite of an infected mosquito. The ISDA urged the public to take precautions in areas with virus-carrying mosquitoes, and precautions should extend to animals.
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The state Department of Agriculture recommends two essential protections for equines and small camelids: Vaccination and physical precautions.
“The WNV vaccination continues to be an essential preventive measure and should be given annually to provide an adequate level of protection from the virus,” Dr. Scott Leibsle. “Nearly 98% of horses that test positive for WNV are non-vaccinated or under-vaccinated.
"Horse owners should speak with their veterinarians about the WNV vaccination and other necessary annual core vaccinations as well as how to follow an annual booster schedule," Leibsle said. "Horses that have been vaccinated for WNV in previous years must receive annual boosters; a one-time vaccination is not enough.”
Physical West Nile virus precautions include using fans and repellants to keep mosquitoes away from equines. Additionally, horse owners should remove or treat standing water on or near their property whenever possible.
“There is no vaccine for people,” said Leslie Tengelsen, State Public Health Veterinarian with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. “Although most infections in people are mild, some people can become quite ill. Avoid mosquito bites by taking simple precautions.”
Precautions can include using insect repellant according to the label, wearing long-sleeved shirts and long pants from dusk to dawn when mosquitoes are most active, and making sure house screens are in working order.
Additional information about the virus and a map of known affected counties is available from the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare’s website, www.westnile.idaho.gov. For questions regarding control of mosquito populations, please contact your local mosquito abatement district. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/first-case-of-equine-west-nile-virus-confirmed-in-idaho/article_3165b8d8-2b0e-11ed-88af-9b808ef66b6c.html | 2022-09-03T04:38:12 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/first-case-of-equine-west-nile-virus-confirmed-in-idaho/article_3165b8d8-2b0e-11ed-88af-9b808ef66b6c.html |
FILER — Clarabelle the cow has been nurtured and loved. Now it’s time for her to join a herd.
The heifer will be shown Saturday morning at the Twin Falls County Fair by owner Averee Silva, then later in the day be sold at auction, likely to a local dairy farmer who will put the Holstein into a dairy herd.
“I am going to be sad,” said Silva of Jerome. “She is literally like my little baby; she’s so sweet.”
Silva is taking part in the Magic Valley Dairy Heifer Program, a two-year program that involves youths raising yearling heifers, getting professional advice in the process. Through a number of educational events, they learn how to raise and groom the animal, in addition to learning about various aspects about the dairy industry, including available careers.
As the heifers grow into maturity, they are bred, and some will calve within a few weeks after Saturday’s sale.
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“I wish every kid could go through it,” Silva said of the program, which she said builds leadership skills and knowledge of the dairy industry. This has been Silva’s first time raising a farm animal. She is now enrolled at the University of Idaho, majoring in pre-veterinarian studies.
Silva’s father is a dairy farmer and she wanted to get more involved in agriculture. She entered the project when she was a junior at Jerome High School.
“It was worth the wait,” she said.
There are 40 openings per year available to 4-H and FFA students living in Twin Falls, Gooding, Jerome, Cassia, Minidoka and Lincoln counties. Because of the program extending close to two years, up to 80 students are participating at a given time.
Dairymen involved with the effort sell the young heifers that will be sent to the livestock barns of eager children ready to learn about the industry.
The youths, ranging from 8 to 18 years old, agree to attend regular education days where they learn from experts in the field.
“We do a lot of things with the kids,” said Deb Easterday, head of the program. “We’ve taken them to robotic dairies, and had veterinarians talk to them.”
Jim Pearson, a longtime dairyman with an operation northwest of Buhl, has been involved at some of the education days, and saw students learn how to milk a cow “the old-fashioned way” and learn about products made from milk.
“Hopefully some of the people who get involved with the program will be involved in dairy throughout their lives,” Pearson said.
For their hard work, the youths earn a reward at the end of the program when they sell the cows during the Magic Valley Replacement Heifer Dairy Sale, to take place at 6 p.m. Saturday at the fairgrounds, where most animals sell for much higher than market value. Students often use that money to help pay for college.
“It’s for a good cause,” Pearson said, who added that sometimes the dairy farmer who sold the heifer to the student is the one who ends up buying it back.
“The kids are very thankful for the buyers,” Easterday said.
In addition, several companies run scholarship programs for the students.
“We have a great industry,” she said, “not just farmers and dairymen but supportive industries, bankers and genetics companies.”
4-H and FFA students interested in applying to the program are encouraged to contact their county extension office. Applications will be accepted starting in November. Youths don't need to have an agriculture background to participate. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/program-educates-youths-about-dairy-industry/article_da557a08-2b06-11ed-827d-7b54f75184bc.html | 2022-09-03T04:38:18 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/program-educates-youths-about-dairy-industry/article_da557a08-2b06-11ed-827d-7b54f75184bc.html |
MARICOPA, Ariz. — A one-year-old boy is in critical condition after a family found him in the backyard pool in Maricopa Friday evening, officials said.
Maricopa fire crews say they were initially dispatched to the area near Maricopa Grand Highway and Porter Road for a pediatric code but it was updated to a drowning call while en route to the scene.
Officials say the family found the boy in the backyard pool and he was transported to the hospital in critical condition.
It is unclear how long the boy was in the pool.
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Drowning Prevention Tips:
Drowning is the leading cause of death for children between ages 1-4 aside from birth defects, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Three children die every day as a result of drowning. Here are some tips from the CDC on how to protect children around water:
Learn life-saving skills.
Everyone should know the basics of swimming (floating, moving through the water) and CPR.
Fence it off.
Install a four-sided isolation fence, with self–closing and self–latching gates, around backyard swimming pools. This can help keep children away from the area when they aren’t supposed to be swimming. Pool fences should completely separate the house and play area from the pool.
Life jackets are a must.
Make sure kids wear life jackets in and around natural bodies of water, such as lakes or the ocean, even if they know how to swim. Life jackets can be used in and around pools for weaker swimmers too.
Keep a close watch
When kids are in or near water (including bathtubs), closely supervise them at all times. Because drowning happens quickly and quietly, adults watching kids in or near water should avoid distracting activities like reading books, talking on the phone, or using alcohol and drugs | https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/1-year-old-boy-critical-condition-after-family-found-him-in-backyard-pool-maricopa/75-9a2395bd-c9f0-468f-8a25-0deda5a9a32b | 2022-09-03T04:41:25 | 0 | https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/1-year-old-boy-critical-condition-after-family-found-him-in-backyard-pool-maricopa/75-9a2395bd-c9f0-468f-8a25-0deda5a9a32b |
PHOENIX — One man is dead after being struck by a car in west Phoenix on Friday night.
Phoenix police responded to the scene near 51st Avenue and Indian School Road after reports of the man being struck by a car.
Officers that arrived on the scene found the man. He was transported to the hospital where he later died from his injuries.
Police say the fatal crash is one of three different incidents being investigated in the area Friday night.
The intersection is closed while police investigate the scenes.
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Deaths on Arizona roads
Data from the Arizona Department of Transportation shows that roadway fatalities have been gradually rising in Arizona over the last decade:
2011: 825 deaths
2012: 821 deaths
2013: 844 deaths
2014: 774 deaths
2015: 895 deaths
2016: 952 deaths
2017: 1,000 deaths
2018: 1,010 deaths
2019: 982 deaths
2020: 1,057 deaths
ADOT offers driving tips on its website to help keep people safe on the road.
"There’s always room for improvement when it comes to road safety," the department said on its website.
ADOT's suggestions include:
Don’t speed or drive aggressively
Never drive while under the influence of substances
Avoid distractions while driving
Wear your seatbelt and make sure all passengers are doing the same
When an emergency vehicle is on the side of the road, move over
Stay extra aware in work zones
Be prepared for weather conditions that make driving dangerous
"Real-time highway conditions are available on ADOT’s Arizona Traveler Information site at az511.gov, by calling 511, downloading the AZ 511 app and through ADOT’s Twitter feed, @ArizonaDOT," the department said.
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SAN ANTONIO — A violent confrontation caught on camera this week has sparked questions over potential law enforcement impersonation.
Officials with the San Antonio Police Department confirmed to KENS 5 they're searching for the man who can be seen grabbing the phone of a driver filming him, after implying he's an off-duty cop.
The driver behind the camera is Aaron Henderson, who says the man was tailing him when he moved over for him to pass. Henderson says the man instead got closer, and almost forced him into a curb.
Henderson said the man flashed what appeared to be a police badge. After that, the father started to record, making sure to get the car's license plate.
"This situation was uncalled for," he said.
Henderson said that, from what he could tell, the badge appeared real.
"This is a gold badge with a blue inlay," he said.
Henderson said he followed the man into a parking lot, and that's when the two had an exchange. The following is what can be heard in the cell phone video provided by Henderson:
Man: "You got a problem?"
Aaron: "Wondering why you flashed the badge at me? You are obviously off- duty."
Man: "It doesn't matter if I am off-duty. I am on duty 24 hours a day."
In the video, the stranger can be seen grabbing at Henderson's phone, at which point Henderson says he also grabbed his hand.
In the video, Henderson can be heard saying: "No, you do not grab my (expletive) phone."
Henderson then called 911, at which point the man took off.
SAPD confirmed the details of the incident, calling the man who confronted Henderson "a possible suspect" and saying he is not with the force.
"It is unknown if the suspect is actually employed by a law enforcement agency, or even if the badge shown was a real law enforcement badge," SAPD's statement reads. "No SAPD officers, on- or off-duty, were involved in this incident."
Henderson said what happened is not right.
"(If) it has happened to me, then how many other people has it happened to?" he said.
SAPD says the investigation is ongoing. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/san-antonio-texas-police-law-enforcement-video-assault/273-6506471f-c620-4053-beda-a3f6d9683b54 | 2022-09-03T04:44:09 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/san-antonio-texas-police-law-enforcement-video-assault/273-6506471f-c620-4053-beda-a3f6d9683b54 |
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TAMPA, Fla. — Just in time for Labor Day weekend, AAA is bringing back its Tow to Go program to keep drunk drivers off the road.
Anyone needing to get from point A to point B after having a few drinks will have a way of safely getting there.
When someone calls 855-286-9246, AAA sends out a tow truck to drive the would-be impaired driver and their car to a safe location within a 10-mile radius.
The program will be active starting from 6 p.m. Friday all the way up until 6 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6.
"This is a last resort, please find a designated driver, download a ride-sharing app so you have a safe ride home," Mark Jenkins, AAA spokesman, said in a statement. "But of course, if you're in that situation where you're trying to decide whether you're going to get behind the wheel because you have no alternative, call Tow to Go."
And the service will be available in other states, too — not just the Sunshine State. Celebrators in Iowa, Michigan, North Dakota, Nebraska, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Colorado (Denver), North Carolina (Charlotte), Indiana (Fort Wayne/South Bend) and Georgia (excluding Savannah) can use the Tow to Go program as well.
Approximately one-third of all deadly crashes in the U.S. involve drunk drivers. The program has removed more than 25,000 impaired drivers from the road and it's confidential. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/aaa-tow-to-go-program-labor-day-weekend/67-8934bb4a-5ee2-4d67-9d4d-9fec90fd0fdd | 2022-09-03T05:05:33 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/aaa-tow-to-go-program-labor-day-weekend/67-8934bb4a-5ee2-4d67-9d4d-9fec90fd0fdd |
The widely celebrated West Indian American Day Carnival parade is entering its 55th year and will be back in full swing after modifications due to the pandemic.
Participants are expected to flood the parkway this weekend for a range of events after celebrating virtually in past years. To say that many are happy to be back celebrating in person may be an understatement, with the excitement in Brooklyn palpable in the days leading up to the joyous time.
"For us Carnival is Life," said the Board of Directors for the West Indian American Day Carnival Association. "The pandemic provided us a reset and brought us all closer together to support many new initiatives as Cultural practitioners."
From plumes of feathers to strips of sequence, there is an exciting urgency at D'Midas International as designers apply finishing touches to some of the costumes.
"This is like a coming-out party for all the bands, because we haven't been around, people haven't seen us for a period of time," said Glenn Turnbull, who works at the designer. "It is exciting that it's back. To be on the parkway, seeing people, getting the folks back out."
At SVG Caribbean Bakery, just off the parade route, the employees are working overtime, making their beloved saltfish patties and other delicacies to keep revelers energized and full.
"It's important that they can celebrate once again, and I hope they celebrate in peace and everything goes well," said Zita Telemaque-Williams.
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In anticipation of the parade, the NYPD announced safety measures for the events. For J’Ouvert, everyone entering the area will be subject to screening by handheld metal detectors, from Sunday, Sept. 4, at 11 p.m. through Monday, Sept. 5, at 11 a.m. There will be 13 security checkpoints set up along the route for all, including participants, to be screened.
Bags and containers will be inspected for firearms and other dangerous weapons. Large backpacks, alcohol, or weapons will not be permitted.
"These music-filled celebrations of life and culture are back in-person this year for the first time since the onset of the pandemic. We fully expect thousands of people to be present," said NYPD Chief Jeffrey Maddrey.
The department said it is well-aware of the previous problems that have occurred at the weekend's events, and said the measures they are taking are just part of their preparations.
"We know historically the problems that we have had at these events. And it had nothing to do with the people that came out to celebrate their heritage and their culture or the people that just wanted to have a good time," Maddrey said.
The J’Ouvert parade begins at 6 a.m. and will go southbound on Flatbush Avenue from Grand Army Plaza.
The West Indian American Day Carnival Parade begins at 11 a.m., running westbound along Eastern Parkway from Ralph Avenue.
The Junior Carnival Parade will be held tomorrow at 9 a.m. and Pan In A Minor will be tomorrow at 7 p.m. Tickets can be found here.
For more information on events happening for Labor Day weekend, visit the West Indian American Day Carnival Association site. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/jouvert-and-west-indian-american-day-parade-back-after-2-year-hiatus/3849917/ | 2022-09-03T05:07:34 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/jouvert-and-west-indian-american-day-parade-back-after-2-year-hiatus/3849917/ |
BLOOMINGTON — A pedestrian has died after a collision with a motorcycle Friday night in Bloomington.
Police were dispatched at about 9:27 p.m. for a traffic crash in the area of Veterans Parkway and Empire Street, according to a news release from the Bloomington Police Department. Upon arrival, officers learned a motorcycle had collided with a pedestrian.
Both the motorcycle driver and the pedestrian sustained serious injuries and were transported to a local hospital, BPD stated. The pedestrian was later pronounced deceased at OSF St. Joseph Medical Center by the McLean County Coroner's Office, according to BPD. An autopsy is pending.
As of 11:30 p.m. Friday, the intersection of Veterans Parkway and Empire Street remained closed as the investigation continued.
No further information was available Friday night. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/pedestrian-dead-after-crash-with-motorcycle-in-bloomington/article_67a29252-2b42-11ed-9270-f782b621215d.html | 2022-09-03T05:12:30 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/pedestrian-dead-after-crash-with-motorcycle-in-bloomington/article_67a29252-2b42-11ed-9270-f782b621215d.html |
A police officer shot a man Friday evening matching the description of a person of interest in an earlier shooting in north Casper, the Casper Police Department said.
Police say they had been monitoring an apartment at a complex on the 600 block of South Walsh Drive in east Casper shortly before 8 p.m. after determining a likely location for the person of interest.
A man who matched that description soon left the apartment. Police tried to stop the man, and he began to flee through the complex. As the pursuit continued, the suspect turned and pointed a gun at the nearest officer, police said. The officer, identified only as a veteran of the force, shot the man.
The man was taken to Wyoming Medical Center. An update on his condition was not provided by police. No officers were injured.
The officer who fired the shot was placed on administrative leave, as is standard procedure.
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Around 4:30 p.m. Friday, police had identified Kenneth Elonzo Marion as a person of interest in a Friday morning shooting of a woman in a north Casper alley. The police statement concerning Friday evening's police shooting did not state whether Marion was the man police shot.
The woman called police at about 3:20 a.m. Friday to say she had been shot by someone in an alley of East K Street between North Durbin and North Wolcott streets. When police arrived, they found the woman with a gunshot wound to her head. She was taken to Wyoming Medical Center and later flown to Denver for additional treatment.
The police shooting was the second in less than a day. Two Casper police officers shot and killed a man at McKenzie Lake Park after they said he fired on them. The shooting occurred after the officer came across the man in a parked car near the lake.
Police say the man ran, and during the pursuit, fired at officers, who shot back and killed him. The Natrona County Coroner's Officer identified him as 38-year-old Casper resident Corey David Garriott.
The Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation will run the inquiries into both police shootings. Casper police say they will also conduct internal reviews into both incidents. | https://trib.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-shoot-man-while-investigating-earlier-north-casper-shooting/article_57a5705e-2b42-11ed-bf50-f36d015346eb.html | 2022-09-03T05:27:10 | 1 | https://trib.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-shoot-man-while-investigating-earlier-north-casper-shooting/article_57a5705e-2b42-11ed-bf50-f36d015346eb.html |
PORTLAND, Ore. — In the past two weeks there have been more than 15 fires that have started inside Mount Tabor Park in Southeast Portland.
Lt. Damon Simmons with Portland Fire & Rescue said several of the fires were started along the trails and most of them were set at night.
"It can easily start a wildland fire," Simmons said. "It starts small, it builds, if nobody notices it, it gets bigger and bigger."
Firefighters have been able to put the fires out but Simmons is concerned because the flames could get close to homes. He said investigators don't know who's starting the fires but since several of them were on the trail, he does not think they were an accident.
"In this case since we've got so many fires, fifteen to twenty in such a short period of time, it indicates that there's probably an arsonist in the area working," Simmons said.
Jynx Houston frequents Mount Tabor Park and said she saw some of the torched debris.
"I saw a patch maybe ten by twelve feet and it was burned," Houston said. "I couldn't understand why it was there."
Simmons said people should be vigilant when they are in the park and if they see anything suspicious to contact Portland Fire & Rescue at 503-823-fire.
Houston said she's disappointed someone would intentionally start a fire in the park.
"I love this park," Houston said. "I don't like this, everybody should be on alert." | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/wildfire/fires-mount-tabor-arsonist/283-7dbd6fb4-e092-40e2-9fcf-dec4ee7fcb9b | 2022-09-03T05:27:20 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/wildfire/fires-mount-tabor-arsonist/283-7dbd6fb4-e092-40e2-9fcf-dec4ee7fcb9b |
INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis police are investigating several shootings that left two people dead and three injured over a span of about three hours.
The most recent incident happened around 12:30 a.m. Saturday in the 8400 block of Southeastern Avenue. Officers who were called about a shooting found a victim with an apparent gunshot wound. Police didn't provide a condition for the person, but said they were taken to a local hospital.
At about the same time, police found a person down in the area of Southeastern Avenue and Hunter Road. That person had apparently been shot. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police haven't said if they believe the two incidents were related.
Within minutes of the incidents on Southeastern, police got a report of a person shot around 26th Street and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. A person suffering from an apparent gunshot wound was found and was pronounced dead at the scene.
At around 10 p.m. Friday, police were called to the 5900 block of Fieldcrest Lane to investigate a report of a shooting. Officers discovered a person with an apparent gunshot would. The victim was taken to an area hospital and was reported to be in critical condition.
A few minutes earlier, dispatchers got a call of a person shot in the 1800 block of Howard Street. Police found a victim who had apparently been shot. A police department spokesperson said that person was in "stable" condition.
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BOISE, Idaho — The Four Corners Fire west of Lake Cascade is still burning after lightning struck the area on Aug. 13.
As of Friday evening, the fire is over 13,000 acres and 34% contained. This is Pila Malolo’s third day on the fire. He said the combination of high temperatures and low humidity has made containing the fire difficult.
“Our burning conditions are as high as they've ever been for this time of year, in this area,” Malolo said.
Despite this, he said crews are making good progress – especially on the western and northern flanks of the fire. But the eastern side of the fire is posing some issues.
“You can put in a containment line, and then you'll have a tree torch – like fire runs up a tree – and it'll throw a bunch of embers, you know, possibly across our line,” Malolo said.
In order for those lines to work, Malolo said firefighters need to dig down to mineral soil, away from pine needles and other flammable material.
Malolo said their main goal is to keep the fire away from people and houses, but making sure they are prepared for the worst is also important.
Malolo said they are always watching weather forecasts to ensure they are prioritizing the correct areas. Crews are expecting strong winds on Saturday.
Public information officer Jennifer Diamond said there are 774 people on the fire; that number includes 18 crews, 43 engines and 10 helicopters.
Diamond said people usually work for fourteen days, then have two or three days off. Some return back home while others go straight to another fire, and they do this all while being away from loved ones; something Malolo said is difficult.
“It's not something we love, even though we love our jobs,” he said. “It's hard to be away from family.”
But he said that love for the job makes it worthwhile.
“Just having a job that you enjoy and take pride in is something to be thankful for,” Malolo said.
As we head into the holiday weekend, Diamond said it is important for travelers to keep track of weather conditions.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Apopka parents are standing behind Orange County Public Schools after the district came under fire for violating state laws concerning school safety, according to the Florida Department of Education.
A letter sent Monday by the department is calling for an in-person meeting sometime next week with the school district’s superintendent to discuss the systemic underreporting of criminal activity to the state.
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This comes after letters were sent to multiple school districts, including Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Duval and Orange counties, looking to hold them accountable for school safety measures.
In its letter to Orange County, the state said it wished to address “identified failures and concerns” within Orange County Public Schools.
State officials also singled out schools in Apopka that have suppressed incidents and hindered police investigations. In the letter, they said law enforcement had to obtain subpoenas when requesting video of recorded crimes, some of which involve firearms.
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News 6 spoke with both Jenifer Topinka and Donna Speck, two parents shocked by the allegations.
“Obviously we don’t know everything the administrators are sending to the Department of Education, but they are very open with us,” Topinka said.
Both said the administrators for Apopka High School have always been forthcoming with safety information and used Friday night’s football game as an example.
“We had a threat here tonight. That’s why we had more police presence and our principal sent out a thing to let all parents ... know there was a threat,” Topinka said.
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The letter and allegations stem from the final report from the Twentieth Statewide Grand Jury.
It’s the same report that led to Gov. Ron DeSantis dismissing four Broward county school board members last week.
DeSantis formed the grand jury in response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018.
The report does note education officials did not see widespread evidence of overt fraud in Orange County as they have in other districts, but it did call out some schools within the district.
In the report, OCPS violations are not mentioned until page 99.
According to state officials, Apopka police wrote a public letter to the school board in 2016 documenting “multiple incidents of teachers and administrators that received complaints of sex crimes (one student-on-student, one teacher-on-14-year-old-student), but failed to report the incidents to law enforcement or the Department of Child and Families.
The report then said the “situation got worse” in Apopka.
In 2019, DCF reported an elementary school student molested a disabled girl in a bathroom, even though educators knew not to leave the student unsupervised because of prior issues.
In 2018-19, there were numerous incidents where students physically attacked school resource officers or engaged in fights with the Apopka Police Department, and despite requests to remove the students, they remained in school.
The report also spotlights an incident during which a teen brought a gun to school and, after dismissal, shot another student in a neighborhood near the school.
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When asked for a comment on the letter and report, the school district responded, “Student safety is our highest priority, but we do not comment on specific security matters.”
Parents said in the end, they will stand behind their schools.
“All of my kids have gone to Apopka School and we always felt safe,” Topinka said.
Speck agreed, adding she loves the local schools.
“I wouldn’t think of any other place to send them around Central Florida,” she said.
It has not been made clear when this in-person meeting between the state and Orange County Public Schools will take place. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/09/03/parents-react-after-orange-county-public-schools-accused-of-underreporting-safety-incidents/ | 2022-09-03T05:42:41 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/09/03/parents-react-after-orange-county-public-schools-accused-of-underreporting-safety-incidents/ |
2nd Phoenix police officer released from hospital following shooting
A second Phoenix police officer has been released from the hospital after being shot in the shoulder during a shooting that occurred Sunday evening.
Sgt. Vincent Cole, a Phoenix Police Department spokesperson, said on Friday evening that the officer, who remains unidentified, was released and is recovering from home nearly one week after a shooting that left three people dead and five injured, including two officers.
Officers responded to the area of 27th Avenue and Deer Valley Road about 8:30 p.m. after receiving 911 calls about shots being fired. A suspect, later identified as 24-year-old Isaiah Williams, was decked out in tactical gear and gas mask and was armed with incendiary devices and a semi-automatic rifle.
Williams immediately shot at several marked police vehicles and struck one officer in the shoulder while shrapnel hit another officer in the face, police said. The latter officer returned fire while other officers evacuated nearby businesses.
Police said Williams fired at other officers and made his way through a parking lot before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Police identified 36-year-old Misael Arevalo and 44-year-old Karla Garzona as victims killed in the shooting. Three other bystanders were injured but have since been treated and released from the hospital.
Reach the reporter Perry Vandell at 602-444-2474 or perry.vandell@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter @PerryVandell.
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As a whole, Washington state has seen a relatively tame fire season so far, though there is still time left to go.
King County Emergency Management Director Brendan McCluskey said areas of concern in King County are those considered part of the wildland urban interface, which is the transition zone between undeveloped wildland and human development.
“We want people to be aware and know what to do in case there is a fire. We promote a ready-set-go type of evacuation protocols. We also want them to be aware of their surroundings and make sure they're careful when they're doing things outside and outdoors, especially with fire,” McCluskey said. Read more
Seattle Public Schools said it is already working on a contingency plan should school become delayed on Sept. 7 -- the first day of school -- due to a teacher strike.
While the union wants higher pay for the lowest paid staff, a bulk of its demands include better support systems for special education and multilingual programs, plus better control over class sizes.
SEA members are voting through the weekend and have until Tuesday, 9 a.m. to submit their vote to authorize a strike. Read more
Homeland Security is partnering with the state’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force – formed specifically to investigate and prosecute online predators.
Parents often serve as the front line of defense, a job that keeps getting harder.
Guardians are reminded to use parental controls on apps and limit the time young students spend online. When it comes to gaming, they should make sure students never share personal information. Read more
Built in 1965, the North Mountain Lookout towers 4,000 feet above sea level. It was abandoned in the mid-1990s and plans were being considered to tear it down.
But a group of volunteers from the Darrington area decided to save it.
“When I started, I don’t know if I necessarily thought we could save it, I just thought it was worth trying,” said Roselie Rasmussen, a project coordinator with Friends of North Mountain Lookout. Read more
“It’s like adults playing…really slowly…in the forest,” Cascadia Forest Therapy Founder Michael Stein-Ross said.
Decades of researching the physiological and psychological benefits of time spent in nature indicate that humans function best with regular, purposeful experiences in nature.
Forest bathing has been booming over the past couple of months. The sensory immersion experience became more and more popular during the pandemic and the last several sessions have been sold out.
Stein-Ross said it’s an experience that’s most effective if it becomes a regular wellness practice. He compares it to Yoga, meditation and even church. Read more
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ALTOONA, Iowa — A little more than a year ago, 11-year-old Michael Jaramillo drowned in the Raging River ride at Adventureland Park. Now, his parents are taking legal action against the state of Iowa.
The news comes after his mother and father previously filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a number of Adventureland managers for damages related to their son's death.
"Most important is the devastation of this family in such an unnecessary sort of way," said Fred Dorr, the family's lawyer. "I mean, if this had happened, it was what lawyers called an act of God or something that nobody could have avoided. That's one thing. But it's here, people not doing their job."
While investigating the case, Dorr found there were various items that the state of Iowa failed to take care of.
Dorr said one of those items involved the process of determining safety for the ride, saying the federal and state standards require that the operators of this ride make sure they are able to see the entire ride; so if something happens, they know how to respond.
"It's never been that way since the time this ride was installed," Dorr said. "And every year that this most recent inspector was inspecting that ride, he gave them a pass on that for over a decade."
Dorr said his team has filed their claims and now have to wait six months for the state to make a determination on how they would like to respond.
They say until that decision is made, himself and the Jaramillos will just have to wait and address the separate lawsuit against Adventureland.
Dorr also said the Jaramillo family is constantly reminded of the day they watched their beloved son take his last breath, saying they are using their strong faith to bring light to this dark time. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/adventureland-raging-river-death-jaramillo-family-sues-state-of-iowa/524-25340fd1-c160-41d7-8238-09c67b884ccf | 2022-09-03T06:08:20 | 0 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/adventureland-raging-river-death-jaramillo-family-sues-state-of-iowa/524-25340fd1-c160-41d7-8238-09c67b884ccf |
Jeffery Michael Gonzales, 28, of Twin Falls died Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022, at Huntsman Cancer Institute. Arrangements are under the care of White-Reynolds Funeral Chapel, Twin Falls.
Bernard J. Wetzstein, 94, of Buhl died Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, at his home. Arrangements are under the care of Farmer Funeral Chapel, Buhl.
Onnie “Lloyd” Deakins, 87, of Hagerman and formerly of Bliss, died Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, at Stonebridge Assisted Care in Hagerman. Arrangements are under the care and direction of Demaray Funeral Service—Gooding Chapel.
Jose Carranza, 28, of Gooding died Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022, at the North Canyon Medical Center in Gooding. Arrangements are under the care of Demaray Funeral Service—Gooding Chapel.
Keith Rumple, 66, of Twin Falls died Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, at St. Luke’s Medical Center in Twin Falls. Arrangements are under the care of Demaray Funeral Service—Gooding Chapel.
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Nov. 20, 1945 – Aug. 27, 2022
BOISE — David Bruce Lincoln, beloved father and grandfather, husband, brother, and friend, passed away on August 27, 2022, at his favorite place in the world, his family’s cabin in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area.
A third-generation Idahoan, David was born in Twin Falls on November 20, 1945, the second of five children born to Ray and Ida Mae (Gillenwater) Lincoln. Growing up, he played football for the Twin Falls High Bruins, single-handedly rebuilt a ‘52 Ford, and spent many early mornings working a surprise shift for his father on the family sheep ranch – usually following the nights he thought he had successfully snuck back into the house after a clandestine night out with friends. Twin Falls was also where he met the love of his life, Sheila Jeane Tipton.
After graduating high school in 1964, David attended the University of Idaho, where he found his brothers in life as a member of the Phi Gamma Delta (“Fiji”) fraternity. While missing no opportunity for a good time in college, David also made his grades. In 1968, he won a full scholarship to attend the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. Under the condition from his father that he successfully complete one year of law school before marrying, David made Law Review in his first year and then returned to Twin Falls to marry Sheila on May 31, 1969, thus beginning their 53-year marriage and partnership.
David graduated Order of the Coif in 1971 and moved to Boise, Idaho to work at the law firm of Elam, Burke & Boyd. He soon found himself working full-time for the firm’s client, Sun Valley Company, and he and Sheila lived for nearly three years in Sun Valley, Idaho, taking full advantage of the free ski passes for Company employees.
He became a partner at Elam, Burke, & Boyd, and later at Marshall, Batt, & Fisher, Moffatt Thomas, and Hawley Troxell. Specializing in real estate law, David was admired throughout the Sun Valley and Boise business communities as a lawyer of the highest ethical standards and was adored for his quick wit and great sense of humor. He was a gifted dealmaker and the most loyal of counselors.
David and Sheila had two children, Matthew and Amy, who were the greatest joys of David’s life. He encouraged in them the strong work ethic and love of sports and the outdoors that colored his own childhood. He was a constant source of quiet strength and encouragement in their lives, coaching tee-ball, smiling through squeaky violin concerts, and rooting from the sidelines throughout their soccer careers. He brought the same energy to his role as a grandfather, making sure his four California-born grandkids would know the quiet pleasure of the Idaho wilderness. He especially reveled in teaching his oldest grandkids, Ethan and Knox, how to fish at Stanley Lake.
Generous throughout his life in sharing his time and skills with his community, David served for many years in various leadership positions in the Boise chapter of Ducks Unlimited and as the celebrated “hot dog man” running the grill at the Boise Capitol Classic Kids Race. His passions included duck and pheasant hunting – especially with his beloved Springer Spaniel, Pepper – and watching football. A life-long San Francisco 49ers fan, he was rarely spotted in later years without his autographed Charles Haley hat.
A series of strokes suffered in December 2019 robbed David of much of his mobility and words, but his sense of humor and gentle spirit remained untouched, earning him new friends and fans in his recovery. David’s role as father and grandfather never changed either. He continued to lead his family, and every action he took was in the family’s interest. He took care of us to the very end. He leaves a life well-lived and a legacy of good memories – which was all he ever hoped for.
David was preceded in death by his parents, Ray and Ida Mae. He is survived by his wife, Sheila; son Matthew of Tiburon, California; daughter, Amy, of San Francisco, California; grandchildren Ethan and Maya Lincoln and Knox and Des Reduque; and siblings Steve, Lance, Linda, and Kathy.
The family is planning a private celebration of life to be held in the coming months. In honor of David’s memory, gifts can be made to Ducks Unlimited and the National Aphasia Association.
We invite family and friends to share a memory or leave a condolence at www.woodriverchapel.com. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/david-bruce-lincoln/article_729a45c7-e822-50fd-9a43-217b834a76af.html | 2022-09-03T06:12:42 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/david-bruce-lincoln/article_729a45c7-e822-50fd-9a43-217b834a76af.html |
TWIN FALLS — Catherine Mary Lang, 99, of Twin Falls, passed away August 24, 2022 at her home in Twin Falls. A Funeral Mass will be held Friday, September 9, 2022 at 10:00 AM at St. Edward's Catholic Church, 161 6th Ave. E, in Twin Falls. Inurnment will follow at Twin Falls Cemetery. Arrangements are by Parke's Magic Valley Funeral Home in Twin Falls. For full obituary and to leave online condolences go to: www.magicvalleyfuneralhome.com.
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LAS VEGAS — Colleen Mary (Nield) Rimer, 54, of Las Vegas formerly of Buhl, Idaho, passed away Sunday, August 21, 2022 with her family by her side.
A graveside service will be held at 1:00 p.m., Thursday, September 8, 2022 at West End Cemetery, 1547 East 4150 North, Buhl, Idaho. Memories and condolences may be shared with the family on Colleen's memorial webpage at www.farmerfunerachapel.com. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/funeral-notices/colleen-mary-nield-rimer/article_a1e53343-aceb-52bc-aa9c-d0716d6fc35d.html | 2022-09-03T06:12:55 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/obituaries/funeral-notices/colleen-mary-nield-rimer/article_a1e53343-aceb-52bc-aa9c-d0716d6fc35d.html |
IDAHO FALLS — Iris C. Perry of Idaho Falls, passed away Aug. 25, 2022 in Twin Falls. A Memorial Service will be held Fri. Sept. 9, 2022 at 11 AM at Parke's Magic Valley Funeral Home, 2551 Kimberly Ave. in Twin Falls. For a full obituary and to leave online condolences go to: www.magicvalleyfuneralhome.com
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While participating Friday in Purdue Fort Wayne basketball conditioning known as the “summer olympics,” team member Jojo Peterson, a sophomore from Atlanta, finishes his leg of a relay as he runs across the pedestrian bridge over Crescent Avenue between PFW’s main campus and Waterford Campus. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/basketball-conditioning-at-pfw/article_ebb41e3e-2b02-11ed-89de-675e24a9a679.html | 2022-09-03T06:25:47 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/basketball-conditioning-at-pfw/article_ebb41e3e-2b02-11ed-89de-675e24a9a679.html |
Demolition scene Sep 2, 2022 2 hrs ago Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email A man who gave only his first name, William, takes notice Thursday of the ongoing demolition work at the former St. Joseph Hospital downtown. Richard Sitler | The Journal Gazette Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Demolition scene Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Most Popular Moped crash sends juvenile to hospital Storms cause power outages for thousands in northeast Indiana Man charged with running drug trafficking network in northeast Indiana Demolition begins on Hall's Original in Fort Wayne 1 dead after Fort Wayne school crash Stocks Market Data by TradingView | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/demolition-scene/article_6f69ec4c-2b10-11ed-94e6-0f6b5c7f4729.html | 2022-09-03T06:25:48 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/demolition-scene/article_6f69ec4c-2b10-11ed-94e6-0f6b5c7f4729.html |
Arrest warrants have been issued for a Fort Wayne couple accused of videotaping sex with a juvenile runaway and with an 18-year-old after using alcohol and drugs to coerce them.
Kirk W. Depoister, 47, and Stephanie N. Followell, 39, of the 4000 block of Oliver Street, are each charged with felony promotion of human sexual trafficking and felony possession of child pornography. They face two to 12 years in prison on the first charge and six months to 18 months on the child pornography charge.
The two were charged Thursday but were not in custody as of Friday evening.
On July 21, police were called to the home about a domestic incident with an armed person, which turned out to be a physical altercation between Depoister and the 18-year-old, according to the probable cause affidavits written by Fort Wayne Police Sgt. Todd Battershell.
Depositer told police that he videotaped sexual encounters between the 18-year-old and his live-in girlfriend, Followell, and allowed it due to his erectile dysfunction. The 18-year-old said the couple gave him money, food, shelter and transportation to have sex with her, and they plied him with alcohol and drugs and threatened him, which led to police being called to the home.
The 18-year-old also told police he knew of a 17-year-old they’d had a similar situation with. Using a search warrant, police found a video of Followell with a juvenile male on her phone, court documents said.
The juvenile said he’d lived with the couple when he was 16 and had run away in July and that they both knew his age. They told him the video would be published, and he’d receive half of whatever it earned, the probable cause affidavit stated.
Followell was also charged Wednesday with other sexually related crimes, two counts of felony sexual misconduct with a minor and one count of incest. The incidents happened around May 7, according to court records.
Two teens were staying at the house and were given alcohol and a controlled substance. The younger teen told police he was given his own bottle of vodka and a marijuana cartridge and that he’d been drunk and high all day.
While Followell’s fiancée and the older teen were out getting more alcohol, Followell allegedly initiated sexual activities with the younger juvenile, according to the probable cause document.
No court date has been set and no bail amount is listed online. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/police-fire/fort-wayne-couple-charged-with-sex-trafficking-teens/article_1e624f44-2b04-11ed-9720-bf816cf57677.html | 2022-09-03T06:25:54 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/police-fire/fort-wayne-couple-charged-with-sex-trafficking-teens/article_1e624f44-2b04-11ed-9720-bf816cf57677.html |
A woman was sentenced Friday to 94 years in prison after being convicted of murdering one person and stabbing two others in Kosciusko County in 2020.
Vickie Louise Wooldridge, 45, of Nappanee, was found guilty by a jury in August of murder, attempted murder, aggravated battery, criminal confinement and battery by means of a deadly weapon.
Matthew Alan Lucas, 42, of Warsaw, died from multiple stab wounds to the neck, face and chest after the violent incident on Dec. 15, 2020, which was reportedly followed by Wooldridge attacking his parents, Bill and Diane Burr.
Wooldridge was Lucas’ girlfriend, court records say. Bill Burr said he had yelled at Lucas to keep it down as the couple was arguing before the attack.
Lucas was pronounced dead at the scene, and Bill Burr was airlifted to Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne with stab wounds to the chest. Diane Burr also required medical attention for facial injuries, cuts to her hands and loss of teeth from the attack, court records say.
Kosciusko Circuit Court Judge Michael Reed sentenced Wooldridge to 94 years in the Indiana Department of Correction.
Bill Burr said in a letter that the family appreciates the legal teams for “bringing this case to justice.”
“I would ask that you keep all the families involved in your continued thoughts and prayers,” Bill Burr wrote.
Brad Voelz, Kosciusko County chief deputy prosecuting attorney, said in a statement that he thinks it’s important for the community to know about the Burr and Lucas families’ story.
“They have suffered tragic loss, but through it all, they never lost their faith or their strength,” he said. “I hope after receiving a measure of justice they can now move on to try to find a measure of peace. They are an inspiration to us all.” | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/police-fire/homicides/woman-sentenced-to-94-years-for-deadly-attack/article_3d881106-2afa-11ed-aae4-6b77d4299a8a.html | 2022-09-03T06:26:05 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/police-fire/homicides/woman-sentenced-to-94-years-for-deadly-attack/article_3d881106-2afa-11ed-aae4-6b77d4299a8a.html |
Two area high school teachers are top-10 finalists for 2023 Indiana Teacher of the Year.
Jason Beer, an English teacher at Homestead High School, and Tara Cocanower, who teaches social studies at Bluffton High School, advanced to the top 10 after being named to the Top 25.
The Indiana Department of Education will announce the teacher of the year this fall. The 10 finalists will be interviewed by a panel of former teachers of the year and department of education staff.
Beer and Cocanower were both named teachers of the year in their respective school districts – Beer in Southwest Allen County Schools and Cocanower in Bluffton-Harrison MSD.
Beer previously taught at Chicago Public Schools, Columbia City High School, Eagle Tech Academy and New Tech Academy at Wayne High School. He has been at Homestead for seven years.
Along with standard English classes, Beer has taught travel writing and a novel and screenwriting course, which debuted this school year.
Cocanower has been an educator for 13 years and is in her ninth year with Bluffton-Harrison, where she teaches world history and advanced placement world history. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/2-area-teachers-in-top-10-for-teacher-of-the-year/article_3f7d6a8e-2af4-11ed-ba64-6f010ed733b9.html | 2022-09-03T06:26:11 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/2-area-teachers-in-top-10-for-teacher-of-the-year/article_3f7d6a8e-2af4-11ed-ba64-6f010ed733b9.html |
A New York City woman has filed a lawsuit after she said she thought she was buying a $19 million dollar penthouse in Tribeca, that was supposed to come with a full-time doorman.
But the lawsuit says the seven-story condo building at 37 Warren Street only has a part-time doorman on weekdays. During weekends, it's just a virtual attendant.
The unidentified buyer claims the Corcoran group, one of its brokers, and the seller did not disclose that there was not a full-time doorman. She backed out of the deal because the safety of having a full time doorman was key to her purchase.
Her lawsuit seeks to recoup her nearly $2 million dollar deposit. NBC New York reached out to Corcoran for a response, but did not get a response from the company. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/woman-who-bought-17-million-tribeca-penthouse-says-she-was-lied-to-about-doorman/3850264/ | 2022-09-03T06:42:53 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/woman-who-bought-17-million-tribeca-penthouse-says-she-was-lied-to-about-doorman/3850264/ |
Kenneth R. Zandstra
CROWN POINT, IN - Kenneth R. Zandstra, 71, passed away August 3, 2022, survived by his spouse; Marge Zandstra of Lafayette, IN.
Ken was quite the track star in his day winning multiple ribbons and honors. He ran as a competitor in the 1972 Olympics and as such an outstanding runner was asked to join the Chicago Bears training camp. He had to make a decision in 1974 Bears or marry his sweetheart. Ken and Marge were married for 46 years. He was quite the businessman too. In 1972, he graduated from Indiana University with degrees in philosophy and logic heading him into the law profession but his father who owned Zandstra Fruit company passed away from illness leaving him to run the family business that served all of Lake and Porter Counties and the greater Chicagoland area. He later became owner of a sales and creative marketing company called the AD Vantage and published numerous print media including the Bride's Guide magazine which became his registered trade mark. He won numerous achievement awards and served as President of the Highland Kiwanis Club and Lieutenant Governor for the Calumet Region respectively. Ken had multiple customers who praised his knowledge in organic gardening at farmer's markets throughout Lake and Porter Counties.
The family requests memorial tributes be directed to Marge Zandstra c/o CROWN CREMATION SERVICES, 850 Madison Street, Crown Point, Indiana 46307 to help assist with final expenses.
That perpetual Olympic flame is still shining. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/kenneth-r-zandstra/article_1a731faf-a7e7-57e3-b1a8-3e1031950f69.html | 2022-09-03T06:44:11 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/kenneth-r-zandstra/article_1a731faf-a7e7-57e3-b1a8-3e1031950f69.html |
Robert James Wojciechowski
Oct. 12, 1942 - Aug. 29, 2022
HIGHLAND, IN - Robert James Wojciechowski, born on October 12, 1942, in Hammond, IN passed away on August 29, 2022, in Highland, IN. He left this world peacefully with his wife, son, and loved ones by his side and in his heart.
Bob grew up in Hammond, IN, graduated from Hammond Tech H.S., and later became an expert at everything; to quote a great philosopher: "An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing." In 1964, Bob was drafted into the U.S. Army and proudly served in the 113th company. Appointed to the Military Police his career was short-lived while conducting a routine traffic detail. His orders were to detour all incoming traffic of the camp's main entrance and accidentally that included a parade of Brass Dignitaries and a 4-star general. Hence, he began his new detail as a radio operator on the front lines of Vietnam. He spoke highly of his tour abroad; he had a pet monkey, played softball, and spent nights in his hammock battling Pug-size insects. One day his platoon was supporting cover for the Corps of Engineers repairing a bridge. An enemy group attacked the bridge, a grenade exploded in his vicinity, and he was struck by shrapnel. Shortly after receiving The Purple Heart and an honorable discharge, he began a natural career as a tradesman working at steel mills and various manufacturing plants. Later, he discovered his entrepreneurial spirit in arts and crafts, and small start-ups in Video and Mattress stores. He loved engaging with his customers and many of them became good friends. He lit up a room with his larger-than-life personality and positive energy. He always had a "grate" story to tell and held court with any audience. He drove hours out of his way to pick up a friend for a card game, but really Bob just wanted to play cards, and his generosity knew no limits. No stranger in need went "thirsty" when they crossed paths with Bob, and his many silent donations were so vast that the St. Jude foundation should name a wing after him.
Bob was preceded in death by his parents: Frank and Anne Wojciechowski; brother Richard Wojciechowski; and sister Loretta York. He is survived by his wife, Cindy Wojciechowski; son, Eric (Sandra) Wojciechowski; daughter, Lisa Rain Phoenix; stepchildren: Dennise (Adam) Ivey, Shawn Brown, Tracy (Jerime) Wargo, nine grandchildren, three great-grandchildren; brother Thomas Wojciechowski (Gloria); sister Eileen Malia; and nine nieces and nephews. Bob was a life-long fan of the Chicago White Sox, Bears, and Blackhawks in which we all remember his ostentatious stories with his brothers and friends. Perhaps his heart couldn't take another losing season from his beloved sports teams.
Bob was an immense animal lover. He and Cindy would drive out to the beaches and feed the birds, or watch them and other critters dine on leftovers at home. Over the years he fostered dozens of dogs, cats, chickens, squirrels, raccoons, and an endless list of beasts. In remembrance of Bob's life, the family asks that any charitable donations be made to the Humane Society of Indiana https://humaneindiana.org/
A celebration of Bob's life will be announced soon for Family and Friends. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/robert-james-wojciechowski/article_5a5d3ec7-e762-5ce1-b1a0-c3b302e76394.html | 2022-09-03T06:44:17 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/robert-james-wojciechowski/article_5a5d3ec7-e762-5ce1-b1a0-c3b302e76394.html |
Sharon Ann Heinrich
Aug. 28, 1947 - Sept. 1, 2022
WHEATFIELD, IN - Sharon Ann Heinrich, 75 of Wheatfield, IN, passed away Thursday, September 1, 2022. She was born August 28, 1947, in Valparaiso, IN, to the late Charles and Allene (Johnson) Dewey. She graduated from Valparaiso High School and made her career as a school bus driver for Boone Grove Schools.
On August 12, 1967, she married Ralph E. Heinrich who survives along with their sons: Richard and Bradley Heinrich; brother, Steve Dewey; and grandson, Xander. She was preceded in death by her parents and son, Michael Heinrich.
A Celebration of Life will take place at a later date. MOELLER FUNERAL HOME has been entrusted with these arrangements. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/sharon-ann-heinrich/article_34b35b4f-ea1f-506e-a9e6-933b710ca212.html | 2022-09-03T06:44:24 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/sharon-ann-heinrich/article_34b35b4f-ea1f-506e-a9e6-933b710ca212.html |
Bianco Realty hire
Realtor Derek Mosset has joined Bianco Realty in Bismarck.
Glatt joins Cedric Theel Toyota
Kendra Glatt has joined Cedric Theel Toyota as an office assistant. Glatt provides essential administrative support to office management. She receives and routes calls, assists in motor vehicle paperwork and registrations and greets customers.
Glatt grew up in Bismarck and graduated from Century High School.
Starion Bank promotions
Kaya Engen has been promoted to commercial loan servicer I at Starion Bank. She joined Starion Bank in March as a universal banker II at the Bismarck south location. Engen earned an associate’s degree from Bismarck State College and came to Starion Bank with over six years of banking experience.
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Elka Herr has been promoted to senior universal banker at the Bismarck main and south branches. Herr joined Starion in August 2021 as a universal banker II. She earned a bachelor's degree in elementary and special education from the University of North Dakota and came to Starion with over nine years of retail banking experience.
Lindsay Enger has been promoted to credit lead. Enger joined Starion Bank in August 2014 as a credit analyst I. She earned a bachelor’s degree from North Dakota State University and had many years of banking and customer service experience before joining Starion.
Two promoted at senior care provider
Taylar Hack has been named operations vice president with senior care and senior living provider Benedictine. Hack has worked in the Benedictine system for eight years, previously serving as executive director at Benedictine Living Community-Bismarck (formerly St. Gabriel's Community), and as director of housing at Benedictine Living Community-Ellendale. He has a degree in social/political science from Valley City State University and is a licensed nursing home administrator.
Kurran Opp has been named executive director of senior care community Benedictine Living Community-Bismarck. Opp has worked at Benedictine Bismarck for 12 years, previously serving as director of housing, occupational therapist and certified nursing assistant. He has a master's degree in occupational therapy from the University of Mary and is a licensed nursing home administrator.
Commissioner appointed
The Electric Power Research Institute has appointed North Dakota Public Service Commissioner Julie Fedorchak to a three-year term on its advisory council.
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Submit businesspeople and business digest items to businessbeat@bismarcktribune.com. Deadline for submissions is noon Tuesday. | https://bismarcktribune.com/business/local/businesspeople---sept-3-2022/article_c50fb248-249a-11ed-9751-23c5d340127f.html | 2022-09-03T06:47:03 | 0 | https://bismarcktribune.com/business/local/businesspeople---sept-3-2022/article_c50fb248-249a-11ed-9751-23c5d340127f.html |
Lane split coming to Route 95N in Providence as traffic begins moves to new bridge
The one-lane split will last for two weeks
- The entire project will be completed by 2025
- The new bridge opening is being timed to avoid winter maintenance on the old bridge
PROVIDENCE — Big changes to Route 95N in Providence are coming Sept. 16 as traffic shifts onto a new, 1,300-foot bridge between West Exchange and Promenade streets.
Between Sept. 16 and Sept. 30, the far left lane, or high-speed lane, will split off from the other two lanes on Route 95N right after the Downtown Providence exit, currently Exit 22. (The state started renumbering the highway exits on Aug. 28, a project expected to last a month.)
For two weeks, the left lane will bypass the highway exits for the state offices and Route 146, as well as the merging traffic from Route 6/10 and Atwells Avenue.
"Drivers should not slow down or suddenly changes lanes at the split, as this unsafe behavior will cause traffic delays and could lead to a crash," Department of Transportation spokesman Charles St. Martin said.
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The two right lanes will have access to the exits for the state offices and Route 146 and will merge with the the far left lane after those exits.
Construction crews will use the former far-left lane to work.
Anyone who misses the exits can get off a mile down the road at Branch Avenue and take a right for the state offices or left for Route 146.
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Two weeks later, on Sept. 30, the state will shift the other two lanes of traffic onto the new bridge and the left-lane split will go away. Once all traffic is off of the old bridge, construction crews will demolish it, St. Martin said.
In early October, a temporary ramp will be built to link the Atwells Avenue/Dave Gavitt Way on-ramp to the new bridge.
The switch to the new bridge is timed with the change of the seasons to avoid filling potholes and other maintenance associated with snow, plowing and the freeze-thaw cycle, St. Martin said in an interview.
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The Route 95S bridge was replaced two years ago, St. Martin said.
After the old bridge is torn down, work will begin on a new "collector and distributor" road, which will handle the on-ramp and off-ramp traffic, which should ease congestion on Route 95N.
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Dealing with the weaving of traffic merging from the Route 6/10 and traffic exiting to Route 146 and the state offices exits won't be done until later in the project, in 2024. The entire $265-million project, which includes rebuilding 10 bridges and other improvements, is scheduled to be completed by fall 2025.
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Reach reporter Wheeler Cowperthwaite at wcowperthwaite@providencejournal.com or follow him on Twitter @WheelerReporter. | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/09/03/new-bridge-brings-lane-split-route-95-north-providence/7973892001/ | 2022-09-03T06:56:38 | 1 | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/09/03/new-bridge-brings-lane-split-route-95-north-providence/7973892001/ |
GARDEN CITY — If Boise is going to keep up with housing demand projected for the year 2060, it needs to build an additional 83% of its current housing stock.
It may sound daunting, but Chris Nelson, an emeritus professor of urban planning at University of Arizona, thinks there is some low-hanging fruit — converting single-family detached residences to multifamily, and building or converting accessory dwelling units, or ADUs.
Nelson addressed the topic as the keynote speaker at the Idaho Smart Growth 2022 Summit on Thursday afternoon.
“There’s an opportunity here and everywhere for rethinking how we use our existing housing stock,” Nelson said.
A housing shortage, and a changing housing landscape
Between 2012 and 2019, the U.S. needed to build 11 million housing units, but built only about 7 million, contributing to the housing crisis as we know it today, Nelson said.
During that period, Boise was about 32% short of the housing it needs, but that is not as bad as other cities in the West, he said. Seattle fell short 34%, Portland 43%, and Los Angeles 68%, according to data from Up For Growth. Idaho as a whole was 23% short of housing units compared, while Washington was short 33%, Oregon 43%, and California 60%.
Boise’s current shortage and projected growth through 2060 is why it needs to build 83% of its current housing stock to keep apace of demand.
But Nelson said it’s not as simple as just building more units. Anticipating the type of housing needed will be important too, he said.
Housing needs vary with age and tend to fall into three main buckets: under the age of 35, age 35 through 64, and 65 and over. Under the age of 35 is the “starter” category in which individuals may want a place to rent, or to purchase a starter home. Between the age of 35 through 64 is considered the “peak” when individuals generally need the most space. Over age 65 is the “downsizing” phase when individuals often need less space than in the peak period.
By the year 2060, the number of people over the age of 65 is expected to double, and these downsizing households will dominate demand, Nelson said. In the 2030s and 2040s, there will be a large number of seniors looking to sell homes, but few interested buyers, he said. Most of Idaho will be okay, but parts of Idaho and the rest of the country will see senior homeowners who want to sell, but struggle to, he said.
More density requires zoning and legal changes
This is where multifamily housing and adding accessory dwelling units comes in. Changing single-family homes to multifamily homes and creating ADUs would help provide enough of the right kind of housing that is needed now, and will be needed in the future, he said.
Cities and states around the country are already taking a variety of approaches to encourage development of housing other than single-family detached homes. In Oregon, the state legislature passed a law saying that any city with more than 25,000 people must allow up to fourplexes on existing single-family lots and new housing lots.
“That’s a stunning change at the statewide level,” Nelson said.
Between 2020 when the law kicked in and the end of 2021, 60% of new housing units created in Oregon were “attached,” which includes adding up to three additional units to an existing single-family home, he said.
In 2021, Utah lawmakers also passed legislation to allow internal accessory dwelling units, or essentially converting part of a single-family home into an additional housing unit. There are some exceptions, but virtually all cities and counties in Utah “are required to make this possible,” he said.
“But the one thing that strikes me is that unlike any other state that has done something like this, Utah’s law supersedes covenants, conditions, and restrictions of homeowner’s associations,” Nelson said, drawing murmurs from the audience.
“We’ll be tracking what happens in Utah, but this is a phenomenal stretch for a fairly conservative state,” Nelson said.
Change can also happen at a city level. For example, in 2019, Seattle began allowing accessory dwelling units in designated parts of the city, he said.
Allowing this kind of development also has the potential to save cities money, Nelson said. Instead of charging developers impact fees to pay for services like water infrastructure, that infrastructure is already in place, he said.
“We already have the water and the sewer and the roads and the fire and the police to handle that population,” Nelson said. But if new suburbs were built to house those people, a city like Boise would “have to spend the money all over again.”
As city or state leaders start pondering changes to ordinances or laws to allow denser housing, they should consider questions such as where converting to multifamily units and converting or building accessory dwelling units should be allowed — from specific parts of a city to statewide — and whether the process to convert or build units should be “ministerial” or “over-the-counter,” versus a hearing or “quasi-judicial” process, he said. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/meeting-housing-demand-professor-proposes-rethinking-how-to-use-existing-housing-at-summit/article_760ecd70-2afb-11ed-b074-0f7658167718.html | 2022-09-03T07:16:19 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/meeting-housing-demand-professor-proposes-rethinking-how-to-use-existing-housing-at-summit/article_760ecd70-2afb-11ed-b074-0f7658167718.html |
Editor’s note: This is the first in a periodic series on contested races and contests on Idaho’s November general election ballot.
BOISE — When two of the three candidates vying in the GOP primary to be Idaho’s next chief state elections officer denied the results of the 2020 presidential election, that drew national attention.
But neither won, and November’s contest for Idaho Secretary of State is a lower-key two-way race, pitting the longtime top election official in the state’s largest county against a North Idaho mortgage broker, political activist and first-time candidate.
“I was inspired to run because of all of the election deniers that are running across the country,” said Shawn Keenan of Coeur d’Alene, the Democratic nominee. “I saw this as a democratic emergency for our democracy. People need to stand up and ensure that crazy conspiracy will not rule the day.”
But Keenan said given the outcome of the Republican primary, in which Ada County Clerk Phil McGrane defeated two outspoken state legislators, Sen. Mary Souza and Rep. Dorothy Moon, he’s less worried now.
“It’s good to have competition. It’s good to give the voters a choice,” Keenan said. “But I am pleased to know that regardless of the results, I feel like Idaho will be in good hands.”
McGrane is making his second run for Idaho Secretary of State; he ran in a four-way GOP primary in 2014, coming in second to current GOP Secretary of State Lawerence Denney. Four years later, McGrane was elected Ada County Clerk, after eight years as chief deputy there.
“I think this is a great opportunity, with Secretary Denney retiring, to take that mantle and to help expand what we’ve been able to do successfully here in Ada County and share those resources across the state,” McGrane said. “I believe in the importance of elections. I’ve spent my entire career helping ensure people here in our community are able to exercise their right to vote.”
McGrane, 41, is a fourth-generation ldahoan and Pocatello native who holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Washington, a master’s degree in public administration from Boise State University, and a law degree from the University of Denver. An attorney, he served as a law clerk to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission while he was in law school.
But McGrane’s first job out of college, before heading off to law school, was working as an election specialist for the Ada County Clerk’s office. He returned there after law school as chief deputy.
“I think experience counts, especially in an executive role like this, where it is very much a functional role,” he said. “Secretaries of state … have jobs to do. When the county clerks contact the secretary of state for assistance, it’s because they’re looking for expertise and guidance to help make sure they can address their problems. And I think I bring that with all my years of experience, from training poll workers to working at polling places to counting ballots to helping run the Idaho Elections Conference.”
That’s an annual conference McGrane started that’s run for five years now, bringing together election officials and their staffs from across the state to discuss best practices and the law. McGrane launched the annual conference as the elections chair of the Idaho Association of County Recorders and Clerks.
Keenan, 45, holds a bachelor’s degree in communications and marketing from Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston. In addition to his work in real estate finance, he said, “I’ve been a political activist since I was 9 years old. I have been involved with elections at every level, from a simple volunteer making phone calls to door-knocking to actually running campaigns.”
“I understand the democratic process,” he said. “I have been working my entire life to give people access to the voting polls, give people information about their candidates and issues that will be on the ballot, and ensuring that the people’s will is expressed at the voter box on election day.”
Keenan said those efforts have included registering thousands of people to vote. “I believe that voting is the cornerstone of our democracy, and that giving people access is essential for our system to work properly. The more people that can vote, the more accurate the results will be.”
Keenan lists his top three issues as increasing training across the state for poll workers and county elections staff; establishing a “statewide voter guide issued from the Secretary of State’s office in a non-biased way;” and “equal, unobstructed access to voting.”
McGrane lists his top three issues as “protecting Idaho’s elections; protecting Idaho’s lands; and protecting Idaho’s values.”
The secretary of state, in addition to overseeing elections, serves on the state Land Board. Other duties include serving on other state boards; preparing session laws, filing all bills, proclamations and other official state documents; administering election laws and the “Sunshine Law” for campaign finance and lobbyist activity disclosure; filing business registrations and other business documents; and overseeing certain state registries.
McGrane said for him, Idaho values include limited government. In roles like county clerk and secretary of state, he said, “We often do our best work when we go unnoticed. That means things are going well.”
“The analogy I like to use is when you’re driving down the road, you should be thinking about your destination, not be thinking about the government that put it there,” he said. “But if you hit a pothole, you know government is not doing enough, and if you hit a speed bump, you know government is doing too much.”
“When you go vote, you should be able to go cast your ballot, have confidence your vote counts and not really think about the giant infrastructure that it took to actually make all that possible,” McGrane said. “I want our system to work so well that people have confidence in the system, have confidence that regardless of the outcome they are confident that their vote counted, and that it’s a reflection of the will of the community. I think we’ve done that well as a state, and I really want to build on that.”
McGrane partnered with the Idaho State Bar in a project in which volunteer lawyers attended county poll worker training 2020 in Ada and Gem counties, and developed a poll worker training manual for use statewide, in counties of any size. They presented it at the annual Idaho Elections Conference and distributed it to all 44 counties.
If elected, he hopes to work with the Legislature to strengthen and clarify Idaho’s voter identification laws, specifically with regard to voter registration; rewrite and clarify the state’s sunshine laws to make it easier to comply and enable uniform enforcement; and launch a statewide nonpartisan voter guide to be sent out to voters from the secretary of state’s office, a goal he shares with Keenan.
“One of the most common questions we get is about ‘where is my voter guide,’” McGrane said, “because other states provide them.” He noted that Idaho currently, by law, sends out a voter guide only for constitutional amendments and initiatives. “That’s it, that’s all you get,” he said. “But that’s not the questions most people have. They want to know who is running for assessor or who is running for their highway district or their school board or, heck, even their legislative candidates. I think that access to information produces greater participation, and I want to see people take advantage and exercise their right to vote.”
McGrane said voters should be informed of when elections occur, where to find information about how to vote, and “at least the tools to go look into the candidates. … Everyone can go do their own research, and maybe voters will or won’t avail themselves of the information, but getting that kind of uniform access to information so people know what they’re going to be voting on – I think that’s particularly important at a time like right now, and important to do it uniformly across the state.”
He noted that with redistricting, many voters in November will be in new legislative districts, and “voting for people that they don’t recognize, because they’re used to having voted for somebody else. But we need to make sure voters know your legislative district changed, and therefore you now have potentially new representation.”
A self-described “data junkie,” McGrane said he also hopes to increase transparency into campaign finance data by making it easier to access and sort for a variety of users.
“Transparency is so powerful, especially in this arena,” he said.
Keenan said he wants to counter “ridiculous claims” of election fraud in Idaho. “We know in fact that here in Idaho, they did two audits, including one up here in Bonner County, and found that there wasn’t any fraud,” he said.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The first Friday of September ahead of the Labor Day holiday weekend was a hot one across Northern California, with temperatures rising above 100 degrees.
In Sacramento’s Oak Park neighborhood, community members braved the heat to visit the community block party from 32nd and 36th Street along Broadway.
The event, called “First Fridays,” brought out street vendors, food trucks, artists and music. It's held on the first Friday of every month starting in the summer and running through October.
“It’s important because there is a lot of independent business owners here,” said Lonnie Horne, owner of the World Class Faders barber shop.
Horne says events like First Friday are great for building community and for bringing support to local businesses.
It’s a big leg up for Oak Park native and artist, Brey H., who sells her paintings, shoes, and other artworks at events. She says a lot of her weekend events have been canceled due to the heat.
“This is my only event for this weekend,” Brey said. “Due to the heat, all of my other ones had gotten canceled, so I’m glad to be out here right now and to spend time with the community while I can.”
Other events are adjusting for what’s expected to be a sweltering holiday weekend. Temperatures are expected to be well over 100 degrees through Tuesday.
Sacramento County Public Health and Emergency Services are advising all outdoor events from noon to 8 p.m. be postponed Saturday through Tuesday.
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STOCKTON, Calif. — Homelessness and food insecurity are a reality for many students at San Joaquin Delta College. In fact, the school says 42% of its students are food insecure, 31% are housing insecure, and 18% are homeless.
A new service is launching on campus next week to help students meet their basic needs so they can do well in the classroom.
"We can't really expect our students to graduate, focus on school, when they don't even know where they're going to stay that night. They don't know where their next meal is coming from,” said Delta College’s Basic Needs project manager, Ana Villegas.
Delta College’s Basic Needs Center is now collaborating with Loads of Hope to offer free laundry services on campus every Tuesday throughout the fall semester.
"We need to provide dignity to our students,” said Villegas. “Having fresh clothes is part of that."
Vans are essentially mobile laundromats packed with washing machines and dryers. They’re able to do 35 loads every visit.
"Unfortunately, we have students who are living in their cars and they utilize services, like showering at the gym,” said Villegas.
Her team also spoke with students about other things they need, which resulted in a slew of wrap-around services like hygiene kits, clothing, food cards and more. Villegas says the services can be life changing.
“Every student comes with their own story,” she said. “Some students have more obstacles than others and those are the obstacles we're trying to remove for them."
Students will be able to wash up to two loads of laundry in the H1 parking lot from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. every Tuesday through Dec. 6. They must have a student ID, be currently enrolled, and have a food pantry application on file.
Your financial donations are always welcome at the Basic Needs Center. You can write a check payable to Delta College Foundation -- just include “Basic Needs Center” on the memo line. The Delta College Foundation is a 501©(3) tax-exempt organization.
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Donald E. Baker, 84 of Mason City, died Friday, September 2, 2022 at Good Shepherd Health Center in Mason City. Arrangements: Hogan-Bremer-Moore Colonial Chapel.
Dawn Renee Dean, 64, of Mason City, died Wednesday, August 31, 2022 at the MercyOne North Iowa Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City. Arrangements: Hogan-Bremer-Moore Colonial Chapel.
Shirley A. Eibey, 93, of Clear Lake, died Thursday, September 1, 2022 at Good Shepherd Health Center in Mason City. Arrangements: Ward Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, Clear Lake.
Colleen Holcomb, 77, died Friday, September 2, 2022 at the IOOF Home in Mason City. Arrangements: Hogan-Bremer-Moore Colonial Chapel.
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Ohio Democratic and Republican candidates alike are panning President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel billions in student loan debt, though for differing reasons.
Incumbent Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, his Democratic challenger and former Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, and U.S. Senate candidates J.D. Vance and U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan all criticized Biden’s proposal. Vance, a Republican, and Ryan, a Democrat, are seeking the seat being vacated by U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, who is not running for reelection.
Following a two-year pause in federal student loan payments begun under then-President Donald Trump and cancellation of specific types of student debt, such as loans from “predatory” private college lenders, the Biden Administration announced a plan on Aug. 24 to forgive up to $20,000 in federally-backed loans to Pell Grant recipients, and up to $10,000 for those who didn’t receive Pell Grants.
“Borrowers are eligible for this relief if their individual income is less than $125,000 ($250,000 for married couples),” according to the White House. “No high-income individual or high-income household – in the top 5% of incomes – will benefit from this action.”
An analysis by the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania found that 99% of the plan’s benefits would go to the lower 90% of household earners, with about 75% going to those households making $82,400 or less per year.
The debt relief is expected to affect millions of borrowers, but how many is unclear because detailed eligibility criteria haven’t been set. About 43 million people hold loans backed by the U.S. Department of Education. That’s roughly 93% of all student loans, and the rest came from private lenders.
Biden’s proposal also includes cutting maximum monthly payments for undergraduate loans from 10% of borrowers’ discretionary income to 5%; offering credit toward loan forgiveness for those who have worked for a nonprofit, served in the military, or worked for any level of government; and continuing the pause on loan repayment through the end of 2022.
Republican officials in several states have announced they will challenge the debt-forgiveness plan in court.
Whaley
In December 2020, Whaley and 15 other mayors signed a letter urging President-Elect Biden and Vice President-Elect Harris to respond to COVID-19 by implementing public health measures, assistance to schools, protections for workers, and “student loan forgiveness.”
“Students (sic) loan debt is the second-highest form of household debt in the country, exacerbating the racial wealth gap and disproportionately impacting women,” the letter said. “Extending loan forgiveness to more low-wage earners will provide needed relief to the workforce and boost the economy.”
Now, however, Whaley has spoken out against Biden’s plan.
“I was the first in my family to graduate from college – and I graduated with loans,” she said. “For too many working families, the cost of higher education has now become unattainable. But this policy is not fair to the thousands of Ohioans who made the decision to not attend college because of the cost or for those who have already paid off their loans.
“We need to help students afford the education they want, whether that’s a college degree, an apprenticeship, or something else. That’s why we should be focusing on lowering interest rates and making sure banks can’t charge exorbitant rates that make the cost of paying loans back astronomical.”
Courtney Rice, communications director for Whaley’s campaign, said Whaley disagreed with forgiving student loans when she signed the letter but did so because most of its requests were for other economic relief which she did support.
DeWine
In a late-August forum for Ohio planning officials, DeWine said he was concerned student loan forgiveness would somehow increase inflation. Instead he urged making college more affordable.
DeWine has made some moves toward improving college affordability, such as requiring Ohio public universities to keep tuition steady for incoming freshmen through their senior years and increasing state grant funding for students with the greatest financial need.
Asked for details on DeWine’s position, his campaign communications director Tricia McLaughlin sent a news interview clip in which DeWine said, “I’m very sympathetic for anyone who has a student debt. I get it. But I’ve also heard from people who paid off their debt and they said ‘Well, what about me?’ Where’s the equity, where’s the fairness for that?”
McLaughlin also took the opportunity to assail Whaley.
“Gov. DeWine has been consistent on this issue. On the other hand, Mayor Whaley has long called for President Biden’s plan to redistribute wealth from the working class to high-earning Americans,” she said. “Now that Mayor Whaley realizes taxpayers footing the bill for blanket student loan relief isn’t popular with Ohio voters, she is flip-flopping and purporting to support those who work hard and save.”
Vance
Vance has characterized the relief as going to those “least in need,” with “six figure incomes” or couples making more than $250,000 a year, contrary to the White House’s announcement. In a statement via his campaign, Vance criticized college administrators as well as Biden.
“Biden’s plan is wrong on two major fronts. First, it lets the university cabal off of the hook for what they’ve done to radically increase the cost of college, all while they sit comfortably on hundreds of billions of dollars in endowment funds,” he said. “Second, at a time when low-income Americans are really hurting, Biden’s delivering aid to those who have significantly higher earning potential, while he makes people like Ohio’s plumbers, electricians, and factory workers foot the bill.”
Ryan
In October 2018 Ryan tweeted “Student debt is out of control. If we can bail out the banks who did everything wrong, we can help out the students who did everything right.”
Four days after Biden’s announcement, Ryan appeared on CNN and said loan forgiveness “prioritized the wrong people.” Instead he promoted cutting taxes or reducing medical debt.
“Tim believes using executive action to wipe away six-figure earners’ debt goes too far without actually addressing the skyrocketing costs of higher education that have caused this crisis,” Ryan campaign spokesperson Izzi Levy said. “Meanwhile, inflation remains high for all Ohioans, regardless of education level.
“Tim supports more targeted relief, as well as a host of proposals to rein in up-front educational costs, and believes the Administration would have been better served by prioritizing across-the-board economic relief that benefits all working- and middle-class Ohioans, whether or not they attended college.”
Ryan has cosponsored legislation in Congress to provide $25,000 in either student loan debt relief or education benefits to essential workers and their family members. The “Opportunities for Heroes Act” identifies “firefighters and first responders, health care providers, grocery store employees, transportation workers and more” as eligible. The resolution was introduced in May 2020 and referred to three House committees but has not budged in any of them, according to the congressional bill tracker.
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Football tailgating in the South has long been a tradition centered around family, friends and a general camaraderie among those donning their school's colors when game day rolls around.
The sacred ritual of a tailgate reaches beyond politics and personal backgrounds to forge a common bond among those that love the uniquely American sport of football. At its purest, tailgating offers an olive branch to the opposing team's supporters, all in the name of fellowship with one another.
This football season, three stellar tailgate experiences are returning to Mississippi's three largest universities. Read along as Ole Miss, Southern Miss and Mississippi State fans gear up for another fall full of good, or not so good, games and even better food.
The Zebra Tent
The University of Mississippi has never been known as frugal when it comes to tailgating. Each year, the Grove on Ole Miss's campus shows off some of the most extravagant, intricate tailgates in the country.
The Zebra Tent is no exception.
Jane Foster, Zebra Tent founder, said she created the extravagant animal print-themed tent more than two decades ago.
"I went to Mississippi State and my husband went to Ole Miss. When I started it, I wanted to something a little different because I was impressed with the way Ole Miss went over the top and did things big," she said.
Throughout the last 20 years, the Zebra Tent has grown exponentially with close to 10 families each year as the sponsors of the tailgate.
Foster said the goal for the tailgate is and has always been to create a space where all football fans can belong.
"We want to be welcoming to everybody," Foster said. "We want to welcome other people who wouldn't have somewhere else to go."
The Canton, Mississippi, native said the tailgate is especially a safe haven for new Ole Miss students who haven't found their niche quite yet.
"At orientation, they tell the kids, 'If you don't have a tent to visit, go the Zebra Tent,'" she said. "They come to the tent, and we introduce them to the other people there. I give them little jobs so they don't feel awkward. They get to know each other."
Foster said that after that initial tailgating experience, new students typically find their group and only visit every once in a while thereafter.
"Then about the fourth game they're stopping by because they have their group," she said. "That's been the most beautiful thing to come of it."
Foster gets heartfelt letters and wedding invitations from former students who visited the Zebra Tent during their first game.
"We really try hard to remember the kids' names so they feel welcome," she said.
Aside from each week's cuisine, the tent is known mostly for its extravagant decorations. However, the work that goes into the Zebra Tent isn't for the faint of heart.
"It's a really big group effort. A lot of hard work goes into it, and it's not just me," Foster said. "We have anywhere from 1,500 to 2,500 people that we feed for an SEC game."
For the Mississippi State graduate turned Ole Miss fan, the camaraderie that the tent provides has been the most rewarding part.
"We've become a family from working so hard together," Foster said. "People have met each other there and gotten engaged there because that's where we met."
As Foster always wanted, people of all ages from any background join the Zebra Tent tailgate. And even though the Zebra Tent is just a tailgate at the end of the day, it has provided some of her life's most rewarding moments.
"Never underestimate what you're doing," she said. "If you allow something to bloom where it's planted you never know what could come. You never know what God's plan is."
Dixie Darling
The University of Southern Mississippi might not be an SEC school, but that doesn't stop them from going the extra mile when it comes to hosting grandiose tailgates.
Since 1954, Southern Miss's Dixie Darling kick-line dance team has brought a special flare to the pregame and half-time shows at the Rock in Hattiesburg. Known as the "Rockettes of the Gridiron," the Dixie Darlings remain a stalwart for tradition at the University of Southern Mississippi as they bring their dancing talents to football fields near and far.
As for their team tailgate, the Dixie Darlings, nicknamed the DDs, host a festive pregame tent that's second to none on the University of Southern Mississippi's campus.
Tracy Smith has been the director of the Dixie Darlings for 19 years. Since 2010, she has seen the DD tailgate transform from a place for team members to snack quickly before the big game to all day affairs decked out with chandeliers and black and gold embellishments.
"It's been since about 2009 or 2010 since the tailgate started," Smith said. "I know we had it by 2010, and that is because one of the parents started it."
That would be Brenda Cumberland. Initially, Cumberland only asked for some donations and assistance as she assembled the team's tailgate. Her goal was to provide a place the girls could rest and reenergize before heading to the field.
"These girls have long days here, and Brenda wanted to provide a place where they could go," Smith said. "I thought that was an excellent idea, and I let her run with it."
As the years went by, the Dixie Darling tailgate continued to grow as more parents started helping with the weekly staple.
"It's a huge event that more people participate in each year," Smith said. "They'll usually send items or money to eat. The decorations have grown, and the event itself as grown. It's a nice little oasis where the girls can be for those hot days when they have practices and all the events on game day."
The primary purpose of the Dixie Darling tailgate is to serve as a source of nourishment for the team members as their days can end up being more than 12 hours long. The tent also provides a meeting place for the dancers' families to meet up with one another before cheering on the Golden Eagles.
For many Dixie Darling parents, the tailgate is not only a tradition but a way to connect with other DD families and share in the Southern Miss spirit.
"The parents have the best time with it," Smith said. "I know it's one extra thing for them to do, but they all seem so enthused to do it."
The Dixie Darling tailgate spread usually consists of themed food including breakfast, Mexican cuisine or something that relates to the opposing team that USM plays that weekend. Other times, the parents keep it simple with a potluck.
"But as it has progressed through the years, the parents have specialized it," Smith said.
The famous kick-line is known for their iconic white boots and gloves that they don for each performance. Parents have taken the Dixie Darlings' traditional apparel and incorporated it into every tailgate experience.
"I've had parents that will make boots and modify it to create white boots. Another parent took ballerinas and made them look like they're kicking and dancing," she said. Smith laughed recalling that one team member had a knee brace so one of the decorative dancers did too.
For those unfamiliar with Southern Miss' home game days, Smith said that when you finally make it to campus to catch the Golden Eagles play a football game, you can't miss the Dixie Darlings' setup.
"If you're on campus," she said, "you'll know it's the Dixie Darling tent."
The Gibens Family
Julie Gibens and her family have continued a tradition of tailgating at Mississippi State University football games since her children were small. This year, all three of her kids will be students at MSU.
Although tailgating has been a tradition for the Gibens' family and friends for years, this coming football season will be their second year to host a new tailgate.
"This is our second year to do this tailgate. We had a big Tupelo tailgate with a lot of people in it before," she said.
However, during the last home game of the 2019 football season, a strong wind came lifted most tents off the ground and destroyed them.
"At that time, a lot of the people we were in the group with had kids graduating, and it was up in the air about what we would do," Gibens said.
Now, the new, smaller Tupelo tailgate comprises a group of people who aim to keep it as simple as possible.
"This tailgate is just a group of Tupelo people, and we do our own food and different people are in charge different weeks," the Mississippi State University graduate said. "It's as simple as it can possibly be. We try not to overthink it."
For Gibens and her fellow tailgaters, the television is the focal point of the tailgate so they can watch other games.
Unlike many tailgates, Gibens said their group takes it easy when supplying food for everyone.
"Everybody can just bring whatever they want, but we always pick up Chick-fil-A each week," she said. "That was the deal when we started this so we can enjoy the game and each other."
Although the tailgate is one of the newest additions to Bulldog game days, the tradition of experiencing football together has been ongoing since Gibens' children were small.
"My kids just grew up doing it, and it's such a tradition with my family," she said. "Several of the families have multiple kids in school at Mississippi State."
At the end of the day, Gibens family are all just big Bulldog fans.
"I remember when my kids were small and going to the kids area," she said. "Mississippi State creates such a family oriented environment especially around the amphitheater area, and now it's just even more fun with college kids."
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You could say I lied. Unable to hear a soft-spoken friend in a noisy restaurant, I pretended to listen. Unable to hear a single word, I acted as though I heard and appreciated every word, responding to familiar cues with a laugh or a nod.
Recently Arizona Sen. Sinema insisted on preserving a loophole favoring the rich. Or she wouldn’t support the Inflation Reduction Act. She later claimed her action, which benefited the private equity donors who gave her over $5 million this election cycle, was not influenced, not one bit, no way, no how, by the deafening multi-million dollar jackpot ringing coin into her coffers.
Why pretend to give an ear to the two-thirds of Arizonans who favor raising taxes on the rich? Her favorite ring, “F- off”, says it all. It’s hard to hear anyone over the roaring Niagara of special interest silver.
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Forbes says, “Over the last five years Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema has received contributions from more than 50 billionaire supporters, all but one of whom hail from outside of her home state of Arizona.”
All but one billionaire. At least one Arizonan has her ear.
When Sinema returned for her annual checkup I heard she told her doctor, ”Everyone in Arizona thinks I’m a liar.”
He said, “Coming from you, I find that very hard to believe.”
We Arizonans have come to accept there are two types of politicians. There are the politicians who admit their votes are influenced by their donors. And then there are the liars. We understand why. What three words describe any maverick who bucks this charade and votes against the interest of their donors? One. Term. Loser.
We’re to blame. We prefer entertaining, comforting lies to dull, hard facts. We punish the quiet truth tellers and reward the vacuous soundbite peddlers, the jaw-clacking ventriloquist dummies, spineless dolls, animated by the mouth-flapping hands of their special interests cashing in on their quid pro quo purchased with their unlimited “free speech.”
In our plutocracy, perpetual fundraising is the chief duty of these Congressional concubines. This is why when Satan greeted a liar, a panhandler and a stooge at the gates of Hell he looked up from his red hot ledger and said, “Welcome home, congressman.”
We reward those public serpents who can say, with counterfeit conviction, “The donations I receive from special interest do not affect my vote.“ Right.. And you don’t like power. And Washington, and every state capitol, is not a parliament of perfidious prostitutes.
When the plutocrat’s Supreme Court ruled corporations are people, dark money’s dandy and money is free speech, the gavel fell, the bidding was opened and every hour, every day your democracy is sold, sold, sold to the highest bidder.
Example. Barre Seid, A right-wing tech magnate, recently floated a $1.6 billion donation through loopholes into the purse of the Federalist Society, the extreme right-wing cabal that grooms extremist jurists for our courts, radicals like Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett, who consistently overrule the will of the people by overturning reproductive rights, environmental codes, gun safety laws and your right to vote. Hammer out your song of danger and ring that bell of freedom all you want, it won’t be heard over the sweet sound of the coins jangling in the pockets of the plutocrats.
Our government of the plutocrats, by the plutocrats, for the plutocrats, secured by their handpicked jurists, poisoned by their propaganda media empires, successfully gerrymandered your vote into an inaudible whisper, giving us a vast moderate majority ruled by a radical extreme minority.
It would be easier if candidates wore jumpsuits like the ones worn by racecar drivers, with the logos of their corporate donors and the names of their billionaire backers clearly visible. But they don’t.
Some representatives are clean. Many are not. Here’s your path to enlightenment, patriot:
1. First, check the FBI’s “Most Wanted” site.
2. Visit azcleanelections.gov. In ’98, you, the people of Arizona, disgusted by your feckless lawmakers, assembled, organized, passed petitions, and voted to create the Citizens Clean Election Commission, an organization that provides public dollars to clean candidates who reject dark money. Watch the debates they will host. Study their informative site. Learn about the candidates.
3. Learn who donated money to them at opensecrets.org.
4. Their voting records are at justfacts.votesmart.org.
5. Learn what organizations endorsed them. Democrats and independents can look at bluevoterguide.org. Republicans can look to their anti-democratic criminal to see who he’s endorsed.
6. Support grassroots-funded candidates running on small-dollar donations from average citizens like yourself.
Our path to salvation is as plain as the nose on the face of every Pinocchio plundering the Potomac. Join the chorus of the disgusted. Raise up your voices. Be heard. Vote.
David Fitzsimmons, tooner@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/fitzs-opinion-when-libertys-song-falls-on-deaf-ears-raise-your-voices/article_24cfcff2-2a2b-11ed-b7de-6b6aad6eeefb.html | 2022-09-03T10:16:58 | 1 | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/fitzs-opinion-when-libertys-song-falls-on-deaf-ears-raise-your-voices/article_24cfcff2-2a2b-11ed-b7de-6b6aad6eeefb.html |
NORMAL — The southbound lane of Constitution Boulevard will be closed starting Tuesday due to building repairs in the area.
The road closure will run between Mulberry Street and College Avenue for exterior building repairs at 102 W. College Ave.
Drivers are urged to use caution when traveling through the area. The road is expected to reopen at 1 p.m. the same day if weather permits.
A map highlighting the road closures can be found online at https://arcg.is/1vWbSD .
Any questions should be directed to Darryl Barron, utility permit technician, at (309) 454-9741.
Congratulations to Pantagraph Week 1 Football Player of the Week Tashawn Ruffin of Bloomington
Tashawn Ruffin, Bloomington
With Bloomington trying to hold on for a season-opening win against Peoria RIchwoods, clinging to a 28-26 lead, Ruffin had an interception to seal the win.
Larell Fisher, Normal West
Fisher, a middle linebacker, led a Wildcats' defense that had 15 tackles for loss in a shutout, 42-0, of Champaign Central to open the season. Fisher had tackles for loss in the first quarter alone and was part of a Normal West defense that allowed 23 rushing yards in 35 attempts.
Larell Fisher, Normal West, who buried Bwandundu for a 7-yard loss.
Fisher also stopped Bwandundu for a 5-yard loss on the initial snap of Champaign’s second possession.
In all, Fisher and the Wildcats’ defense recorded 15 tackles for loss yardage in a dominant performance as West opened its season with a convincing 42-0 Big 12 Conference victory.
Kaleb Gibbs and Fisher recovered fumbles for a West defense that surrendered a net of 23 yards rushing on 35 attempts.
In all, Fisher and the Wildcats’ defense recorded 15 tackles for loss yardage in a dominant performance as West opened its season with a convincing 42-0 Big 12 Conference victory.
Kaleb Gibbs and Fisher recovered fumbles for a West defense that surrendered a net of 23 yards rushing on 35 attempts.
Alec Thomas, Ridgeview-Lexington
The Mustangs showed a balanced offense in a 21-8 win against Deer Creek-Mackinaw. Thomas threw for 140 yards and two touchdown in the win.
Kamren Schumacher, El Paso-Gridley
Schumacher accounted for four touchdowns and 239 yards in El Paso-Gridley's season-opening win against Meridian. He completed 7 of 10 attempts for 139 yards, including scores of 41 and 36 yards, and carried 15 times for 100 yards with two TDs.
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Ryan Hoeferle, Central Catholic
Hoeferle had two first-quarter scores, including a 29-yard TD catch and 5-yard TD run, to lead Central Catholic to a 33-12 win vs. Pontiac.
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Caleb Rogers, University High
Rogers led a University High shutout to open the season and contributed to the scoring with a 75-yard interception return for a touchdown in the Pioneers' 42-6 win.
CLAY JACKSON, THE PANTAGRAPH
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CARMEL, Ind. — Police in Carmel are attempting to locate a mother and daughter who were reported missing.
A Facebook post late Friday says 37-year-old Christina Tinson and her daughter, 13-year-old Kindell Phillips have not been seen for a week.
Neither Tinson nor Phillips are believed to be in danger.
Tinson was last seen driving her red 2011 GMC Terrain with Indiana license plate number GBJ430 east on Main Street near the Monon Trail on Friday Aug. 26, 2022 at approximately 8:05 p.m.
Christina Tinson is described as 5’5” tall, weighing 200 lbs with black hair and brown eyes.
Police say Phillips is 4’6” tall, weighs 90 lbs. and has black hair and brown eyes.
If you have any information on their location, please contact the Carmel Police Department at 317-571-2580.
Amber Alert vs. Silver Alert: What's the difference?
There are specific standards a person's disappearance must meet in order for police to declare an Amber Alert or a Silver Alert.
Amber Alerts are for children under the age of 18 who are believed to have been abducted and in danger. Police also need to have information about a suspect and their car to issue an Amber Alert.
Silver Alerts are for missing and endangered adults or children. They are much more common for missing people. It was not until last year when the standards for Silver Alerts were expanded to include children.
In both situations, these alerts must be issued by police. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/carmel-police-looking-for-mother-daughter/531-f7226012-5683-484c-afef-fa79ea84f322 | 2022-09-03T10:49:30 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/carmel-police-looking-for-mother-daughter/531-f7226012-5683-484c-afef-fa79ea84f322 |
DALLAS (KDAF) — One of the biggest hit industries during the COVID-19 pandemic was the movie theater industry, with some theaters being forced to close temporarily and, unfortunately, some closing permanently.
To show support for movie theaters and the people who love watching movies, major theater chains across the nation have all agreed to make Saturday, Sept. 3 National Cinema Day, with $3 movie tickets, no matter the movie, time or format.
That’s right, you can watch your favorite blockbuster in IMAX for just $3.
If you’re in North Texas and you want to get in on this deal of the century, here are some theaters participating in Cinema Day.
- Texas Theatre
- EVO Entertainment in Southlake
- Marcus Theatres which owns Movie Taverns
- Regal Movies
- AMC Theaters
- Cinemark Theaters
- Alamo Drafthouse | https://cw33.com/news/local/north-texas-theaters-participating-in-3-movies-saturday/ | 2022-09-03T11:10:19 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/local/north-texas-theaters-participating-in-3-movies-saturday/ |
100 years ago
Sept. 3, 1922: A large delegation from Bloomington will attend the 53rd annual convention of the Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias of Illinois, which will be held in Decatur on Sept. 26-28. The headquarters for the grand lodge will be the Orlando Hotel and headquarters for the Knights of Khorassan have been arranged at the St. Nicholas hotel. It is expected that there will be in the neighborhood of 4,500 Pythians assembled.
75 years ago
Sept. 3, 1947: More than $182,000 was paid out in Bloomington-Normal on Tuesday to 750 World War II veterans who visited banks on the first day they could cash their terminal leave bonds. The rush of veterans, many of whom were waiting at bank doors at opening time, overtaxed staffs of several banks.
50 years ago
Sept. 3, 1972: A quiet landscaped area in downtown Bloomington where flowers bloom and benches offer rest is the small area just east of Second Presbyterian Church, 200 E. Monroe. Called the Everett Kent Memorial Garden, the area is planed with maple and redbud trees, shrubs and begonias. Two benches are angled at the spot.
25 years ago
Sept. 3, 1997: Two teachers were hired to cut the 80-student waiting list that for the prekindergarten program at District 87's Raymond School, formerly the Early Childhood Center. The school expects to enroll 150 in the program, as well as 60 special education students. The state will pay about $4,300,000 of the cost, while the district will kick in $55,000.
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Residents near Mirabeau Lamar Elementary School were startled to learn that a church had rented space there for Sunday services — and even more startled by the openness of its pastor about his desire to use the school to convert their graceful, shady and very-much-gentrified Mahncke Park neighborhood away from its alleged hostility to the gospel.
The use of school facilities by a religious group is allowed by San Antonio Independent School District policy, but nobody was very clear on how the district came to reach this agreement, when or why. The district wouldn’t say much about it — until Friday afternoon, when a letter sent by “Lamar Leadership” to parents announced that the deal was off.
The “church planting” project of a larger congregation on the far West Side, the new Garden City Church had been slated to open in January. Questions about it spread rapidly though the gently-sloping 1920s-era neighborhood north of downtown after residents noticed an online interview with the pastor, Carl Young, who identified himself as an Alamo Ranch Community Church leader and spoke of the advantages of locating at the school.
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Young also spelled out his ambitions for bringing the word of God to a place he said might not be receptive to it. Residents, for various reasons, weren’t receptive to his plans, and they were getting organized this week.
“I have no problem with congregations who need a place to meet, meeting at a school,” said Francille Radmann, a longtime Mahncke Park resident, as she waited outside the old red brick Lamar Elementary campus to tell people that a quickly-called community meeting there had been postponed Thursday evening. “But it does not sound like he has a congregation that needs a place to meet, it sounds like he is looking for a place to proselytize.”
The meeting was rescheduled to 5 p.m. Tuesday in the school’s library. Residents said they were told SAISD Superintendent Jaime Aquino will attend to answer questions. The letter to parents said the district would use the meeting to describe the process the district uses for such arrangements.
Young declined comment via email Friday, but on a YouTube channel called The Time & Place, he said the school was purposefully chosen for its well-known neighborhood and surrounding demographics.
“We can start on Mahncke Park, we know exactly the people God is calling us to, and we start there and we pray that every person in Mahncke Park comes to know Christ, and let’s see what he does after that outside of it,” Young said in the interview.
The church is an Acts 29 affiliate, he said, a network known for an evangelizing technique that researches new locations to keep planted churches spread out and growing, each creating “disciples” to plant new ones in the next five years.
What really has some in Mahnke Park talking is the way Young appears to categorize his new territory. In the recording he was asked to describe the neighborhood and the reasons why he expects some hostility to his message.
“People who live in that area kind of consider it like a mini-Austin, so it’s a progressive neighborhood,” Young answered. “You go through each street, and you see signs on each yard (with) the rainbow colors with each of the five, people call it the secular creed.”
“It can be intimidating to say, ‘Man, I just, from experience, know this is going to be more hostile than living in Alamo Ranch,’ right?” Young said. “So changing the mindset to say, ‘They have a sign on the yard, I know exactly what they believe, and so, I know what idols they have. I know what story is framing their life and we can have a conversation with these people and show the true story of the gospel.”
SAISD spokeswoman Laura Short released a statement confirming the school district’s agreement with the pastor and his church. The district receives multiple requests for use of its facilities by different organizations, including religious groups, which are allowed under its local policy and state regulations, she wrote.
“SAISD and Garden City Church no longer plan, nor have a formal agreement, to utilize the space at Lamar Elementary,” the letter from Lamar leaders stated, hours later.
“After concerns surfaced, Superintendent Aquino and campus leadership began a productive conversation with Pastor Carl Young. He expressed respect for the Lamar Elementary School community, and regret, because it was not his intention to cause the school or district harm. We are pleased to be working on a solution that works for everyone involved and does not involve a campus-based site. At the end of the day, we all want what is best for the community.”
Radmann has lived in the area for more than 45 years, long enough to know a lot of people who attended Lamar — everybody does, she said, because the campus has always been a landmark of the community.
Lamar became known for innovation and adopted an early start to the school year several years ago. It received a B grade and 87 score in the latest state ratings.
Short did not respond to a question about what the district would charge for the Lamar facilities, but Young described the financial aspect of the deal as a big part of the church’s strategy.
“We think God is calling us to be a generous church, financially,” Young said in the recording. “So, how do we bless the school — like its teachers, and the students, and the admin, and everything there — to where in two years they couldn’t imagine us not being there anymore?”
“We want to be able to share the gospel with all of them, but we want them to think, ‘Man, if they leave, this is going to go downhill very quickly,’” he continued.
Cindy Reidinger, a Mahncke Park resident and parent of a 5th grader at Lamar, became a liaison between the campus, area residents and families with children at the school, some of whom don’t live in Mahncke Park but needed to be aware of the arrangment, she said.
She said Young was not open about his intentions when he introduced himself to the community via a Facebook group.
“The way this person very insidiously wormed his way into our community was about a year ago when he innocuously (asked) in a Facebook post about the demographics and where to find the demographics of this neighborhood,” Reidinger said, recalling some in the group happily shared the information.
“Then, I think in February of this year, he said, ‘Hey, we are moving into this neighborhood,’ again, using very vague language,” she said. “Never with any word about the true intention of using Lamar as a church for his teachings.”
Speaking before the district announced the church would no longer be locating at Lamar, Reidinger said she had been in contact with campus officials but heard little from district administrators and hoped to get more answers from them at Tuesday’s meeting.
Her main questions included how the church group was vetted before being allowed to use the school and whether the deal was safe for students and the community, considering the current political climate.
“Especially after Uvalde, should we be allowing anybody to just take up school space?” she asked. “Even though the students will not be there at the time, that leaves the school very vulnerable, and honestly, as a parent, that scares me.”
Reidinger and Radmann had a different view of their community than the impression Young described in the online interview. It’s an open, accepting and kind community whose residents look out for each other and are proud of its diverse demographics, they said.
“So to be targeted because someone had a preconceived notion that we needed to learn the teachings of God, when some of us are Christians and do believe — he just made assumptions about all of us needing to be saved,” Reidinger said.
danya.perez@express-news.net | @DanyaPH | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/San-Antonio-church-Mahncke-park-17416501.php | 2022-09-03T11:20:20 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/San-Antonio-church-Mahncke-park-17416501.php |
Beacon UU Sunday Service: “Wear it On Your Sleeve” Sep 4 — Beacon Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 510 N. Leroux St., Flagstaff. (928) 779-4492. 10-11 a.m., ALL ARE WELCOME! You BELONG at Beacon. Spiritually open and intentionally inclusive since 1958. Rev. Robin returns to the pulpit for our service entitled “Wear it On Your Sleeve.” Members of the Social Justice Allies will speak about their individual Social Justice passions. In a time of death threats and divisive ideologies, what belief or conviction are you willing to proclaim on your clothing, bumper sticker, or home? What brave UU exemplars can show us the way? You are encouraged to wear a T-shirt, hat, pin or other item (or bring a banner or sign) that proclaims your Social Justice commitments. During the service, Rev. Robin will facilitate a talk back discussion. Rev. Robin Landerman Zucker, preaching with Worship Associate Pia Driessen-Knittle, and music from Austin Shaw. September 11 preview Our ingathering and water ceremony is September 11! Rev. Robin will lead the service with a sermon entitled “Standing Knee Deep In Life.” For the water ceremony, please bring a small amount of water that symbolizes a place that is spiritual or special to you (even from your own faucet). We’ll have some available, too. After the service, we’ll have a “Sweet Ingathering” Social Hour, for which you are invited to bring a pastry or other baked item for sharing. Invite your friends who may find a home with us at Beacon. https://go.evvnt.com/1303980-0.
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Unity of Flagstaff Sep 4 — Unity of Flagstaff Spiritual Center, 1800 S. Milton Road, Flagstaff. 10:30-11:30 a.m., What can we find in the spaces of Infinity? The James Webb telescope is sending us some new thoughts about the Universe. Expanding our awareness. Does it take a bazillion dollar telescope to do that? Or is it about seeing the infinite depth to our Divine Nature? Seeing that in each other? To Infinity and Beyond, this Sunday with Rev. Penni Honey. Let's take a peek out there and within to find the gifts of Infinity. www.unityofflagstaff.org youtube.unityofflagstaff.org Live and LIVE STREAM. https://go.evvnt.com/1311551-0.
The Episcopal Church of the Epiphany Sep 4 — The Episcopal Church of The Epiphany, 423 N. Beaver St., Flagstaff. 928-774-2911. WELCOMING ALL: All ages, all colors, all abilities, all orientations. All people are welcome here. Saturday evening is a small group that meets outside in our Labyrinth, when weather permits or in our Parish Hall otherwise. Sundays 8:00 am service has occasional special music provided when musicians volunteer, Sundays 10:30 am service has music and is online at epiphanyaz.org. Come and join us anytime. Choir resumes in the fall. https://go.evvnt.com/1266925-0.
Flagstaff Federated Community Church: Please join us for in person services Sundays at 10 a.m. We are located at 400 W Aspen Ave. on the corner of Aspen and Sitgreaves in Downtown Flagstaff. All are welcome to our services. For more information about Flagstaff Federated Community Church please call our office at 928-774-7383, Mon – Thurs 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Church of the Resurrection Sunday Church Services: May 8 — 740 W. University Heights Drive S., 740 W. University Heights Drive S., Flagstaff. 928-853-8522. 10-11:30 a.m., Church of the Resurrection Presbyterian Church in America (PCA): We invite you to join us for worship at 10 a.m. on Sundays at 740 W. University Heights Drive South as Rev. Joshua Walker preaches through the book of Acts. Please feel free to contact us for information on our mid-week gatherings and for more information on our church. You can find us at www.cor-pca.org and www.facebook.com/CORFlagstaff or we can be reached at corflagstaff@gmail.com and (928) 699-2715.
Living Christ Lutheran Church: Living Christ Lutheran Church is a diverse and LGBTQ-affirming community of disciples embraced by God's unconditional love and enduring grace. You are invited to celebrate with us God's love and presence in your life, grow in your discipleship, and leave empowered to be God's hands in the world. We worship through music, teaching, prayer, and the sacraments each Sunday at 10 a.m. with Rev. Kurt Fangmeier leading. We offer worship both in-person (masks are respected, not required; encouraged for unvaccinated) and online. Learn more about us at our new website: lclcflag.org.
Leupp Nazarene Church: The church, near mile post 13 or Navajo Route 15, has been holding services by teleconferences and doing drive-up meetings. For information, call pastor Farrell Begay at 928-853-5321. Teleconference number: 1-7170275-8940 with access code 3204224#. Services are 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sundays and 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays.
Christian Science Society of Flagstaff: 619 W. Birch Ave. The Christian Science Society of Flagstaff has opened for Sunday services while continuing to have them available via Zoom for online and phone. Wednesday testimony meetings are available only via Zoom. For phone Sunday Services: Dial: 669-900-9128, Meeting ID: 369 812 794#, Passcode: 075454#. For phone Wednesday meetings, dial: 669-900-9128, Meeting ID: 971 672 834#, Passcode: 894826#. The access for Zoom on Sundays is: https://zoom.us/j/369812794. The Zoom access for Wednesdays is: https://zoom.us/j/971672834. The password to use to enter both is CSS. We welcome all to attend our Sunday Services in person, or live by Zoom, at 10:00 o’clock, and to attend our Wednesday Testimony meetings live by Zoom, at 5:30 o’clock. Our Reading Room will be open on Wednesdays from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 10-12 noon. For further information please call 928-526-5982. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/flagstaff-religion-news-for-september-3/article_ced8ba04-2b02-11ed-8774-c3802c2edc72.html | 2022-09-03T11:37:03 | 0 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/flagstaff-religion-news-for-september-3/article_ced8ba04-2b02-11ed-8774-c3802c2edc72.html |
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After a 49-year career at Clear Lake Bank & Trust, I am stepping off the board of my family-owned company. I have been the board chairman for 24 years. During this time, I have been given the honor of transitioning my role as CEO to my son, Mark Hewitt, in 1998.
When I reflect back on the growth and success of Clear Lake Bank & Trust, the main factor in our achievements has been our employees. We take pride in hiring great community-minded, honest, hard-working individuals who know the value in helping others. We strive to provide them with opportunities to grow, build a life in North Iowa, and love their job. We feel that happy employees provide event better customer service experiences for our customers. And the feedback we’ve received over the years from customers strongly supports that statement.
Owning a local company, I’ve been given the opportunity to work with so many other local businesses. We have supported each other, cheered each other on, and worked to ensure each other’s success. We have a culture at Clear Lake Bank & Trust of being a local bank, keeping our purchases local as much as we can, and working to make our communities prosperous. We love to support our area schools, our city projects, and want to be involved in their successes.
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Over the years, there have been many ups and downs, as comes with any company. But the one thing Clear Lake Bank & Trust has never wavered on is their commitment to their employees, customers, and communities of being a strong leader. Our bank plays a crucial role in promoting the success of our communities – Clear Lake, Garner, and Mason City.
I would like thank our communities, our employees, our customers, our partners, and our friends. Without your support and loyalty over the years, we would not be the financial leader we are today.
Clear Lake Bank & Trust is led by my son, Mark Hewitt, CEO & Chairman of the Board; Paul Stevenson, President; and Matt Ritter; COO. I could not be prouder of where Clear Lake Bank & Trust stands, and will continue to look forward to our future success. | https://globegazette.com/business/local/hewitt-announces-retirement-from-clear-lake-bank-trust-board-of-directors/article_a224e317-551d-5f5a-96ed-59f00405c27c.html | 2022-09-03T12:15:38 | 0 | https://globegazette.com/business/local/hewitt-announces-retirement-from-clear-lake-bank-trust-board-of-directors/article_a224e317-551d-5f5a-96ed-59f00405c27c.html |
Plant people, rejoice: the Sarasota Succulent Society's Labor Day sale is here
A hand-painted sign sits at the corner of Myrtle Street and Coconut Avenue in Bayou Oaks, welcoming gardening lovers and the plant-curious.
The sign is hoisted in front of a wall of bushy greens, mossy oak trees, and skinny trunks twisting parallel to the ground.
A hidden gem sits protected behind the leafy barrier: the Sarasota Succulent Society, a rolling hills garden homing hundreds of plants, ranging from more common easy-to-care-for greens and rare, exotic succulents.
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The garden has limited hours for visits but will swing open its gates from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Labor Day for one of three annual markets. Visitors can find charming houseplants at low prices and enjoy the stunning scenery.
"These are things you won't find at Home Depot," said Susan Palmieri, the society's president.
Palmieri joined the garden as a volunteer after moving to Bradenton nine years ago, looking for community involvement pertaining to gardening as a way to settle in.
Now, she's president, but she's quick to point out that her leadership role is due to a lack of candidates.
"We have a nice roster of members but only a handful actually come and help us maintain the garden," she said.
"We've really built a nice following for the sales, but I don't think people appreciate or even comprehend the lack of involvement for volunteers to help maintain the property," Palmieri said, emphasizing the need for helpers.
The Succulent Society sprawls out on the grounds of a historic depression-era home — recently restored to its 1950s/60s peak — and embraces visitors into a serene atmosphere.
The nonprofit hosts its annual sales to fund its scholarship program and holds free educational programs regarding the study of succulents and home gardening.
Walter Sparkman, a Sarasota resident, started the garden in 1950 with a group of horticulturalists. Sparkman tended to imported succulents, carefully watching their growth in the Suncoast's bright, humid climate.
Wilda Meier is the group’s historian. She moved to the area in 1967, joining the volunteer roster after a gardening gaffe.
“I told my husband, ‘Why don’t you go over to the nursery and get some petunias?’ This was April. He went over and comes back with all these flowers I had never seen before. He said, ‘You don’t plant petunias in April in Florida,'" Meier said. "Oops."
This sparked a fascination with plants, prompting Meier to join a local garden club. Soon after, her husband found the Succulent Society, where the couple joined to indulge in their new hobby. Decades later, Meier's still there.
"I just loved it. I love that place. I'd adjust my schedule so I can get to the monthly meetings," she said.
Visitors can see the garden's mesmerizing beauty every Monday from 9 a.m. to noon as well as the third Saturday of every month with no-cost entry. Those interested in volunteering can show up on one of those work days to introduce themselves, no formal procedure is necessary.
Stefania Lugli covers a little of everything for the Herald-Tribune. You can contact her at slugli@heraldtribune.com or dm her on Twitter at @steflugli. | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2022/09/03/labor-day-sale-sarasota-succulent-society/7953026001/ | 2022-09-03T12:22:02 | 0 | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2022/09/03/labor-day-sale-sarasota-succulent-society/7953026001/ |
It’s National Cinema Day and, to celebrate, movie theaters around the country — including our local theaters — have admission for $3 today. Wow. We might just have a few bucks left for popcorn!
It will be a busy day in Downtown Kenosha today, starting with the Kenosha HarborMarket and the Kenosha Public Market, which both are open 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturdays. HarborMarket is located on Second Avenue between 54th and 56th Streets. The Public Market can be found at 625 52nd St. Both outdoor markets feature a wide variety of vendors and live entertainment.
The annual Kenosha Classic Cruise-In car show is 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Downtown Kenosha. Bonus: Streetcars will operate free of charge from 10:35 a.m. to 6:35 p.m. today. Admission is free. The car show is sponsored by Kenosha Classic Street Machinesa.
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Also Downtown today: the Cheese-A-Palooza festival is 3 to 11 p.m. in Veterans Memorial Park, 5220 Sixth Ave. at the harbor. There will be live music and food vendors.
Today is your final chance to catch a free water-ski show by the Aquanuts. The show starts at 6 p.m. in Lance Park on Lake Mary in Twin Lakes.
This weekend (including Monday) is also your last opportunity this season to don your best suit of armor and strut around the Bristol Renaissance Faire. www.renfair.com. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/todays-events-for-saturday-sept-3/article_0242111c-2a34-11ed-8056-3fd0929059a4.html | 2022-09-03T12:26:35 | 0 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/todays-events-for-saturday-sept-3/article_0242111c-2a34-11ed-8056-3fd0929059a4.html |
VALPARAISO — A youth mentoring program sponsored by the Northwest Indiana African American Alliance and the Valparaiso Police Department and a Valparaiso storytelling festival were awarded launch funding at a ValpoNEXT pitch night this week.
Wynton Jones, program manager for the alliance, made the presentation for the mentorship program. It would begin as a pilot program with three police officers — including Chief Jeff Balon and Assistant Chief Mike DeHaven — and six youths ages 11 to 14, in middle school through early high school.
“The key is to engage young people while they’re young” before their mindset is fully formed, Jones said.
Why police? “This is our response to keep our young people safe,” Jones said. It could help the mentors even more than the youths, he said.
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“These are the two entities that have really been driving forces for the events that at ongoing today,” he said.
DeHaven said he hopes the program would begin in early October. Ideally, it would spread to other police departments in the county, he said.
Jones stressed the need for training to make sure the program is launched successfully. He’s a mentoring success story.
“Being born and raised in Gary, Indiana, I have seen a lot of perspectives in my life,” he said. Jones went through a series of mentorship programs, including youth sports. Rev. Gregory Jones “has been a guiding light for me. He’s always presented me opportunities to step into leadership.”
“We’re supposed to serve the world in a greater capacity,” he said.
The ValpoNEXT funding will go toward T-shirts, marketing and other expenses.
ValpoNEXT, a nonprofit group, is dedicated to serving as the on-ramp for civic engagement in Valparaiso. It helped Valparaiso put together its 2014 strategic plan.
Paul Schreiner pitched his storytelling idea at the event. Valparaiso’s population has grown 22% since 2020, and it is more diverse now. Stories are no longer similar. “Valpo is beginning to look a lot more like America,” he said.
Schreiner, a founder of Project Neighbors, said he got a lesson in different experiences when he was helping a formerly homeless woman, around 50 years old, into her tiny efficiency apartment. They were halfway up the stairs when Schreiner turned around to look at her. “Being Mr. Insensitive, I didn’t notice she had a limp and a cane.” There was an elevator at the other end of the hallway.
She walked into the apartment and turned on the light switch. “She turned around to me, and it was like the sun coming through the clouds,” he said.
“This was the first time I ever switched a light on and it was my own space,” she told him.
Stories like this are what Schreiner will be looking for.
“We want these stories to be uplifting. We want them to resonate, and we want to make connections with each other.”
Details of the storytelling festival have to be worked out yet. WVLP, a community radio station of which he is also a part, will air the stories as well as their performance for the festival.
“I think the event has drama, and I like drama,” he said.
City Councilman Robert Cotton liked the idea. “This is a very inclusive program that will be attractive to people,” he said.
“It’s going to take some resources to find the kind of passionate stories we’re looking for,” Schreiner acknowledged.
The other two ideas pitched were for a recycling and education program that would make waste filament from 3D printers usable again, helping students learn about the complexities of recycling, and a dinner to bring together Valparaiso officials and families with differently-abled children.
Allison Clemens of the new Kyle’s Legacy nonprofit said the discussion could lead to things like a text notification system to alert parents of children with sensory issues when fireworks displays would be held, for example.
PHOTOS: Valparaiso hosts LaPorte in football
Valparaiso played host to LaPorte Friday night.
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Valparaiso’s Travis Davis (9) runs for the end zone with LaPorte’s Keegan Anderson (31) in the first quarter at Valparaiso High School Friday night.
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LaPorte quarterback R.J. Anglin (11) passes upfield in the second quarter against Valparaiso at Valparaiso High School Friday night.
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Valparaiso’s Connor McCall (17) gets a hand on Nathan Donah (24) as he runs the ball in the first quarter at Valparaiso High School Friday night.
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LaPorte head coach Bob James gestures to an official before play resumes against Valparaiso in the second quarter at Valparaiso High School Fr…
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Valparaiso’s Travis Davis (9) is caught by LaPorte’s Brennan Balka (44) and Javelle Broome (8) in the first quarter at Valparaiso High School …
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Valparaiso’s Tyler VerSchure (16) intercepts a pass intended for LaPorte’s Ollie Kring (14) in the second quarter at Valparaiso High School Fr…
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Valparaiso’s Justin Clark (5) celebrates Travis Davis (9) after Davis’ touchdown gave the Vikings a 7-0 lead in the first quarter at Valparais…
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Valparaiso’s Travis Davis (9) runs with a block from Isaak Schuitema (67) in the second quarter against LaPorte at Valparaiso High School Frid…
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LaPorte’s Dylan Salisbury (7) hauls in a reception against Valparaiso’s Tyres Morris (15) on LaPorte’s early in the first quarter at Valparais…
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Valparaiso’s Keegan Begley (89) runs off a reception with LaPorte’s Jon Laine (32) in the second quarter at Valparaiso High School Friday nigh…
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Valparaiso’s Jackson Kopp (93) punts the ball away near the goal line in the first quarter against LaPorte at Valparaiso High School Friday night.
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LaPorte’s Dylan Salisbury (7) hauls in a pass with coverage from Valparaiso’s TJ Watkins (27) in the second quarter at Valparaiso High School …
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Valpariaso’s Rocco Micciche (38) is brought down by LaPorte’s Jon Laine (32), Brennan Balka (44) and Javelle Broome (8) in the second quarter …
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Valparaiso quarterback Justin Clark (5) holds off LaPorte’s Kyle Freel (40) as he nears the sideline late in the second quarter at Valparaiso … | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/porter/valparaiso/valponext-takes-swing-at-project-pitches/article_d909200d-77bc-598c-9bba-c3ff9d65de4a.html | 2022-09-03T12:33:23 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/porter/valparaiso/valponext-takes-swing-at-project-pitches/article_d909200d-77bc-598c-9bba-c3ff9d65de4a.html |
LEASES
Colliers reports the following leases:
- Light Wave Dental Management expanded 2,720 square feet at 3400 Hayden Park Lane in Henrico.
- Frank Ventures LLC leased 2,093 square feet at 12020 W. Broad St. in Henrico.
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Commonwealth Commercial Partners LLC reports the following leases:
- 4C Health Solutions Inc. leased 2,400 square feet at 6500 Harbour View Court in Chesterfield.
- Xuygen Van Tran leased 2,700 square feet at 115 and 119 Hill Carter Parkway in Hanover.
- Lex’s of Carytown leased 5,185 square feet at 3020 W. Cary St. in Richmond.
- Oak Park Med LLC leased 2,139 square feet at 8921 Three Chopt Road in Henrico.
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Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer reports the following leases:
- Roof Services Corp. renewed its lease of 11,520 square feet of industrial space at 2621 Cogbill Road in Chesterfield.
- Zoom Room leased 6,349 square feet of retail space at The Shoppes at Wellesley, 3400 Lauderdale Drive, in Henrico.
- Phenix Salon Suites leased 6,000 square feet of retail space at Harbour Pointe Village Shopping Center, 13700 Hull Street Road, in Chesterfield.
- Mosaic renewed its lease of 4,607 square feet of retail space at River Road Shopping Center, 6201 River Road, in Henrico.
- Aqua Living Factory Outlets leased 3,200 square feet of retail space at 6414 Horsepen Road in Henrico.
- Homeward leased 2,490 square feet of office space at Stony Point Office Building I, 9211 Forest Hill Ave., in Richmond.
- Saffron Indian Cuisine leased 2,000 square feet of retail space at Bermuda Crossing in Chesterfield.
- Hair Cuttery renewed its lease of 1,875 square feet of retail space at Southgate Square, 44-100 Southpark Blvd., in Colonial Heights.
- Chipotle Mexican Grill leased retail space at Cosby Village Square at 15701, 15711 and 15901 Cosby Road and at 15810 Hull Street Road in Chesterfield.
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Porter Realty Co. Inc. reports the following leases:
- Archer Integration LLC leased 3,112 square feet of office space at 880 Technology Park Drive in Henrico.
- Kank’s Store leased 2,225 square feet of office/warehouse space at 245 Granite Springs Road in Chesterfield.
- Municipal Direct Sales leased 2,250 square feet of office/warehouse space at 239 Turner Road in Chesterfield.
- Carytown Tobacco Inc. leased 2,046 square feet of retail space at 4100 W. Hundred Road in Chesterfield.
- Galadmia LLC leased 7,452 square feet of retail space at 3302 Williamsburg Road in Henrico.
- Thurston Spring Service Inc. leased 9,500 square feet of office/warehouse space at 1307 Willis Road in Chesterfield.
- Children’s Dentistry of Virginia PC leased 6,279 square feet of office space at 2160 John Rolfe Parkway in Henrico.
SALES
Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer’s Capital Markets Group reports the following sale:
- Windsor II Investment Co. L.P. purchased the Windsor Business Park II, 8570 Magellan Parkway in Henrico, for $8.8 million from Magellan Investors LLC. Gregg Beck represented the purchaser; Bo McKown and Eric Robison represented the seller.
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Colliers reports the following sale:
- West 300 North Associates LLC purchased the Stratford Hills apartment and town-house complex at 2517 W. Tremont Court in Richmond from Stratford Bethany LLC for $76.5 million.
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Commonwealth Commercial Partners LLC reports the following sales:
- Turn Two LLC purchased 2,700 square feet at 2570-B Gaskins Road in Henrico from Three Chopt Gaskins LLC for $625,000. Tucker Dowdy and Russell Wyatt represented the seller.
- KLS Properties LLC purchased 2,100 square feet at 603 England St. in Hanover from Paul C. Carey and Alesia R. Carey for $627,500. Ben Bruni represented the purchaser.
- Elevate Apartments LLC purchased 12.85 +/- acres at 12301-12313 Jefferson Davis Highway in Chesterfield from Caldwell Reese Enterprises LLC and Partners Investment Group LLC for $2,750,000.
- Crozier Land Co. LLC purchased 15.5 +/- acres at 2240 Oilville Road in Goochland from M. Garland Anderson II for $943,950. Ben Bruni represented the purchaser; Joe Buhrman and Chris Jenkins represented the seller.
- 2227 Station Road LLC purchased 9,800 square feet at 2227 Station Road in Chesterfield from James River Real Estate Co. LLC for $2,750,000. Ben Bruni represented the purchaser.
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Have Site Will Travel and The Man With Square Feet reports the following sale:
- Craneworks Inc. purchased 4.935 acres on the south side of state Route 697, Bermuda Hundred Road, in Chesterfield from the Keck Trust for $275,000.
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Porter Realty Co. Inc. reports the following sales:
- MacTavish 1708 LLC purchased 2.92 acres of land on Cool Spring Road in Hanover from Mongo Properties LLC for $225,000. Robert Porter III represented the buyer.
- KTB Properties LLC purchased 4,898 square feet at 11267 Air Park Road C-1 and C-2 in Hanover from MIDS LLC for $735,000. Byron Holmes represented the seller. | https://richmond.com/business/local/commercial-real-estate-highlights-windsor-business-park-ii-flex-industrial-building-in-henrico-sold-for/article_b317f372-b47f-5e07-a770-44a856a85f2b.html | 2022-09-03T12:41:03 | 1 | https://richmond.com/business/local/commercial-real-estate-highlights-windsor-business-park-ii-flex-industrial-building-in-henrico-sold-for/article_b317f372-b47f-5e07-a770-44a856a85f2b.html |
Whether handing out books by Ezra Jack Keats and Meg Medina at the Dominion Christmas Parade, or titles by Jacqueline Woodson at Chimborazo Elementary School, Maya Payne Smart used her platform as the 2014 Richmond Christmas Mother to share her love of multicultural children’s books.
“I thought that I had really found my calling or my mission in life to encourage kids to become readers and to cultivate that love of literature,” Smart recalled of her time in Richmond. But she was concerned about disparities in reading skills between Black and white children and impoverished and wealthier ones. And she wondered if she was doing enough to nurture the reading development of her then-preschool daughter, named after literary icon Zora Neale Hurston.
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New parents are told to read every day to their children, take them to the library and keep books around the house.
“I knew a lot of people who did those things and their kids weren’t stellar readers,” Smart said during a Zoom call Thursday from her Milwaukee home. “So I knew that there had to be more to it.”
Smart, an affiliated faculty member in the College of Education at Marquette University, began researching the “more.” The result is her new book, ”Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Six.”
We need a plan to combat what the book calls a “quiet crisis” in U.S. literacy.
Richmond Public Schools students, with a reading pass rate of 47%, struggled on the most recent Standards of Learning tests. And National Assessment of Educational Progress test results released Thursday showed that reading scores of 9-year-olds fell by the largest margin in more than 30 years, according to The New York Times.
But Smart, an alumna of Harvard and Northwestern universities, writes in her book that “standardized assessments are valuable, but limited, alert systems,” adding: “Alarms ring; they don’t teach.”
A primary takeaway of her book is that literacy lessons start at birth with the verbal give-and-take between parents and infants.
Evidence from anatomical, physiological and gene-expression studies “all suggest that basic brain architecture is in place by around 2 years old...,” she writes. “And, critically, it’s caregivers’ nurturing, supportive back-and-forth verbal engagement in a child’s first years that literally stimulates brain function and shapes brain structure.”
“It was interesting for me to hear how important talk was with babies,” Smart told me. “And I think a lot of people culturally don’t know to talk to babies. You think they don’t understand or you think you have to do ‘baby talk’...Parents don’t know automatically to respond to a baby’s coo or their babble as if it’s conversation, but that really is how their brains are built and developed.”
Smart says the seeds of her book were planted during her time in Richmond when her husband, Marquette basketball coach Shaka Smart, was running the hoops program at VCU.
She has been making the rounds in book stores and on podcasts. A Forbes magazine article on how COVID-era babies are talking less cited her work. She has been interviewed on NPR and CBS Mornings. She hopes to speak in Richmond at some point.
About one in six U.S. adults have low literacy skills — 36 million people “who can’t compare and contrast written information, make low-level inferences, or locate information within a multipart document,” Smart writes. Worse, ‘socially disadvantaged parents in the U.S., compared to those in other countries, are more likely to pass on weaker skills to their children.”
Reading among young people was in decline even before the pandemic. Smart notes that in 2020, 29% of 13-year-olds surveyed nationally said they “never or hardly ever” read for fun, compared with 8% in 1984.
Technology is part of the problem, she says, noting the extent that cell phone scrolling has supplanted book reading. “But it’s not fun to read if you’re not a skilled reader.”
For parents who fit that category, Smart recorded an audio version of her book.
“What should be encouraging is that even parents who don’t read much themselves and parents who don’t read well themselves are fully capable of teaching these early lessons that kids need,” she said.
For this literacy plan to take root, cities must provide greater support and education for parents on pre-literacy skills. Schools need to re-emphasize phonics instruction. And America must not only embrace affordable childhood education, but paid parental leave so that parents can actually be at home to have those essential conversations with their infants.
Smart writes that literacy affects our health, wealth, employment, housing and even the likelihood of incarceration.
“We have to be the kind of society that wants everyone to read, to participate, and to have opportunities to have jobs and flourish and raise healthy families and children,” she said.
Toward that end, reading is fundamental. The quality of our lives depends on it. | https://richmond.com/news/local/education/williams-the-decline-in-child-literacy-is-a-crisis-author-maya-payne-smart-says-the/article_6b556778-fc45-5d14-85a0-42299ab92a54.html | 2022-09-03T12:41:09 | 1 | https://richmond.com/news/local/education/williams-the-decline-in-child-literacy-is-a-crisis-author-maya-payne-smart-says-the/article_6b556778-fc45-5d14-85a0-42299ab92a54.html |
The scummy green film often seen atop the water at Fountain Lake in William Byrd Park has made it hard for Melissa Logsdon to be proud of living by what she thinks should be recognized more widely as Richmond's crown jewel.
The lake nestled between Arthur Ashe Boulevard and South Robinson Street in the approximately 275-acre park remains a major attraction for the city. Logsdon and some of her neighbors, however, say that the city in recent years has failed to adequately maintain the lake, as algae blooms turn the water an ugly green color and sometimes produce a rancid odor.
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"The absolute neglect is just mind boggling," said Logsdon, 58, who lives nearby in the Fountain Lake Condominiums. "The algae has been there way too long."
Though the city has performed spot dredging and treatments in recent years, officials and neighborhood advocates say a more long-term solution to address the algae is on the way, potentially as soon as this fall.
"We are working with lake management firms to determine the best course of treatment, that is most protective of aquatic life and water quality," said Tamara Jenkins, a spokesperson for the Parks and Recreation department. "Recommendations are to treat the nutrient levels in the lake to prevent continued algae growth and remove the algae via environmentally sustainable chemical treatment as well as hydro-raking."
Algal blooms and cyanobacteria, microscopic organisms also known as blue-green algae, usually forms in warm, shallow and nutrient-rich bodies of water. It is not always harmful, but certain types produce toxins that are dangerous to fish, animals and people who are exposed to it by direct skin contact or breathing in airborne water droplets, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Jenkins said consultants typically advise if the algae reaches a toxic level. She said "currently this is not an issue," but the odor and unsightly appearance has unsettled residents and visitors.
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"Algae in Fountain Lake is certainly a perennial issue that hits hard each summer," said Conor Shapiro, president of the Friends of William Byrd Park, a community group that volunteers time and money to helping the city maintain the park and all three of its lakes: Fountain, Swan and Shields.
Fountain Lake is over a century old, originally designed when the city first started building what is now known as Byrd Park in 1874 to create a new reservoir.
According to the nomination form that was submitted to the Department of Historic Resources to add the park to the National Register of Historic Places in 2016, Fountain Lake was originally excavated to provide fill for the earthen construction of the reservoir. The city then filled it to create the park's first lake.
The fountain in the lake was built about 50 years later when in 1925 a group of citizens donated it so that it could be placed in the center of the lake.
Marion King, one of Logsdon's neighbors, has lived in the Fountain Lake Condominiums for 33 years. She said the algae in the lake wasn't a major issue through most of that period, and that it's only become a more troubling issue in the community in the past decade or so.
"It's disgusting to look at," she said of the algae.
King, 77, said it wasn't always that way, and that she still thinks about how stunning the lights in the fountain looked when she would visit the park when her family first moved to the Richmond area from the Eastern Shore when was about eight years old.
She said algae has been a problem before, but that the city had been able to address it more substantially in the past, including one time when the lake was emptied.
"I'm just just disappointed that nobody seems to be too worried about it," she said. "It would be nice if they could just do that again and clean the place up."
'Feet to the fire'
Fifth District Councilwoman Stephanie Lynch, who district includes the Byrd Park area, said she has constituents who often share concerns about the lake.
Lynch said the City Council two years ago allocated an additional $500,000 to improve maintenance of the lakes at Byrd Park, but she and Shapiro said the city has struggled to sign a contract with a firm to perform the work.
"Like with a lot of our projects, it got caught up in procurement. There were delays in getting a contract going," Lynch said. "I think we'll see some action soon. I think Melissa and the rest of the community did a good job of coming together and drawing attention to this issue."
Shapiro shared similar sentiments and said he was encouraged that "a plan is now firmly in place" to clean up the algae.
"We've been working with P&R for years to dredge the lake to mitigate the algae's impact, but the responses to [the city's request for proposals] were astronomic and the disposal of collected debris posed a major challenge," he said. "I believe we have the right P&R staff in place who are working hard now to rectify the issue. It is our job to hold their feet to the fire in that task."
Logsdon said she is pleased that the city is planning to perform a more thorough cleaning of the lake soon, but still contends with bad feelings about how it got to this point.
"I've been programmed for the past three years to talk negatively about it," she said. "I'm tired. ... But they committed to doing it this fall, and that's what counts." | https://richmond.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/richmond-planning-to-clean-up-algae-build-up-in-fountain-lake/article_83e625cf-6070-5450-8d8c-d00f16005a09.html | 2022-09-03T12:41:15 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/richmond-planning-to-clean-up-algae-build-up-in-fountain-lake/article_83e625cf-6070-5450-8d8c-d00f16005a09.html |
Ah, the beginning of autumn! Time to finish summer chores, conduct yard clean-up and, perhaps, cut wood for the winter’s woodstove. As anyone who’s hand-sawn boards, lopped limbs, felled trees, or split firewood knows: wood can be sturdy stuff.
Wood starts out as the woody plant’s vascular system. Of course, materials need to move around in a large land plant. Water from the soil needs to be transported up to the leaves where food is produced using the sun’s energy; that food then needs to be moved to non-productive parts of the system, such as the roots. The vascular system are the tubes those materials move through.
Development of soft new tissue in a tree or shrub’s trunk and limbs takes place shortly under the protective bark. The key role of trunk tissue is to provide support while allowing the fluids to move up and down. Cells produced by this cambium layer swell and grow to form the vessels and other structures, then the cell walls thicken and start to take on lignin fibers. As the cells continue to accumulate lignin, the fibers adhere to each other, strengthening the wood. With each growing season, new tissue develops outside the last season’s tissue layer (but beneath the bark) and the trunks and limbs get wider as they grow.
The active layers are called “sapwood” for the fluids that pass up and down the vessels. The inner layers eventually become inactive as the tree grows bigger, forming the “heartwood.”
Most wood has rings in cross-section because the rate of tissue development changes through the year. Cells and vessels that develop quickly, such as in spring and early summer, swell a lot and tend to make weaker, lighter-colored rings; cells and vessels that develop more slowly, such as in late summer and autumn, swell less and tend to make stronger, darker rings. The tree’s growth history can be read in the wood by comparing the amount of growth from year to year -- the width of the rings.
Trees in temperate regions are usually dormant in winter and produce no new cells -- and no rings -- in that season. Rings may not develop at all in wood formed by trees living without cold/warm or wet/dry seasons, such as certain tropical areas.
Rings in wood can also be interrupted. Major damage to the bark and wood can leave scars on the wood -- scars that may later heal as new tissue grows over the scar, inching in from the edges until the scar is sealed.
A cross-section of such damage may reveal the section of broken rings, perhaps with a black scorch if the damage was caused by fire.
Knots in wood are the remains of a branch that was overgrown by successive layers of new growth of the trunk or bigger limb.
Firewood splits “with the grain” (down the rings, rather than across them) because the vertical connections are generally stronger than the horizontal connections. The difference in strength between the vertical and horizontal connections varies with the species. Cedar splits well; holly does not.
Some of the larger pieces of sturdy wood I culled during our yard’s cleaning will become campfire fodder, others will join the chunks of tree trunk on the woodpile to season for the fireplace.
Buried deep in our over-grown laurel hedge were the decaying remains of a long-dead rhododendron. Though bigger than my arm, these trunks were easy to break out of the ground. Soft and crumbly, some pieces still had the dried remains of the shelf fungi that had digested the wood.
The dead rhododendron wood was being recycled; in retrospect, I probably should’ve left it there under the hedge. The fungi had grown its fine white threads through the wood, breaking down the connective material and unlocking the nutrients. The softened wood had soaked up the water, storing it and making it available to other organisms that had begun to inhabit the now musty trunks. Shelter, nutrients, water -- a fertile combination.
Depleted of the stored energy by organic breakdown, plus the soaking water, means the punky rhododendron trunks wouldn’t be the best firewood.
Bigger, firmer branches would make decent kindling and burn well, however, once kept dry long enough to let the plant’s water seep out.
It’s the energy stored from past, sunny summers in the wood that warms us when we burn it on the hearth on chilly winter nights. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/nature-guide-journal-wood-rings-true/article_20f289dc-2969-11ed-8db6-93ce1463418a.html | 2022-09-03T13:06:23 | 1 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/nature-guide-journal-wood-rings-true/article_20f289dc-2969-11ed-8db6-93ce1463418a.html |
Florida Polytechnic expands program for Italian scholars
Florida Polytechnic University leaders have solidified an agreement with the U.S-Italy Fulbright Commission to provide educational opportunities between the University and Italy, the school said in a news release.
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A memorandum of understanding will allow Italian scholars to conduct research at Florida Poly and work with the University’s faculty and students, the release said. The agreement follows the existing framework already in place for collaborations between Florida Poly and several international Fulbright partners.
The agreement with the U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission is the most recent in a series of agreements between Florida Poly and Fulbright member nations, the release said. Florida Poly has existing agreements with Spain, Canada, Australia, Luxembourg and Belgium and has hosted Fulbright Scholars from Iraq and Germany.
The international Fulbright Program, overseen by the U.S. State Department, works with more than 160 nations around the globe to increase educational and cultural exchanges to study, learn and pursue academic and professional projects. Since its creation in 1946, the program has been used by more than 400,000 scholars. | https://www.theledger.com/story/news/local/2022/09/03/florida-polytechnic-lakeland-expands-program-italian-scholars/7971980001/ | 2022-09-03T13:09:03 | 1 | https://www.theledger.com/story/news/local/2022/09/03/florida-polytechnic-lakeland-expands-program-italian-scholars/7971980001/ |
Lakeland looks to charge youth athletes for field use, increase rental fees for inflation
LAKELAND — Lakeland officials are expected to vote on a list of changes to the city's parks and recreational fees on Tuesday morning, including a new fee of $10 per player for youth leagues that use city facilities.
Bob Donahay, the city's director of parks and recreation, said his suggestion to implement a new fee for the use of youth athletic fields and raise facility rental fees are largely aimed at keeping pace with inflation.
The consumer price index found average prices have risen 8.5% over the past 12 months ending in July, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was worse for some grounds-keeping and maintenance supplies, Donahay said.
"Fertilizer costs have risen over 100% in the last year. A $73 bottle of concentrated RoundUp is now $184, and we have some of the nicest athletic fields in the county," he said. "We're proud of that, very proud of that."
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Donahay has asked the commission to approve a new $10 charge per child per season using the city's athletic fields. The parks director said neighboring municipalities already have a similar fees in place. He said Plant City charges $30 per player per season and Polk County is $10 per youth player, $15 per adult.
The funds collected through this new athletic fee would go into a fund to help maintain the fields, Donahay said, helping control costs without the parks and recreation department asking for additional funds in the annual budget.
"It's just something everybody else has been doing for years," he said.
If approved, the cost of renting municipal-owned facilities, including the Lake Mirror Auditorium, Magnolia Building, Peggy Brown Building and Coleman-Bush Building spaces, will increase to adjust for inflation with one exception. The city is looking to lower its price for renting Lake Crago Complex's large room by about $550 on Fridays and Saturdays.
Lake Crago Park's recreational complex features a large banquet room with an attached room that has capacity for approximately 120 people and features a floor-to-ceiling view of the lake.
City Manager Shawn Sherrouse said the site is attracting some rentals for events, but he thinks a lower price could generate more interest. Notably, Commissioner Phillip Walker argued for a lower rental price when the facility was first opened.
"We do think it's time to make that adjustment and maximize the usage out there through those rentals," Sherrouse said.
The commission will meet to discuss and vote on the fees at 9 a.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 228 S. Massachusetts Ave.
Sara-Megan Walsh can be reached at swalsh@theledger.com or 863-802-7545. Follow on Twitter @SaraWalshFl. | https://www.theledger.com/story/news/local/2022/09/03/lakeland-considers-raising-fees-using-city-fields-and-facilities/7973926001/ | 2022-09-03T13:09:10 | 1 | https://www.theledger.com/story/news/local/2022/09/03/lakeland-considers-raising-fees-using-city-fields-and-facilities/7973926001/ |
Polk State hosts Hispanic Heritage Month events
Polk State College will host Hispanic Heritage Month festivities beginning with a kickoff event Sept. 15 at noon in the Lakeland Technology Building at 3425 Winter Lake Road.
The opening event will feature Polk County Public Schools Superintendent Frederick Heid as keynote speaker, as well as food and performances. The event is free and open to the public.
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Other events will be held through Oct. 15. The annual celebration was held virtually the past two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Polk State’s Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion plans an array of opportunities to celebrate and educate students, faculty, staff and members of the community about Hispanic culture, inclusivity and more each year, the school said in a news release.
Polk State is designated a Hispanic-Serving Institution by the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, the release said. The designation provides the College with eligibility to apply for Title V and HSI STEM grant funds from the U.S. Department of Education. The student population at Polk State is 28% Hispanic, up from 19% in 2017, the school said. | https://www.theledger.com/story/news/local/2022/09/03/polk-state-college-opens-hispanic-heritage-month-events-lakeland/7972031001/ | 2022-09-03T13:09:16 | 1 | https://www.theledger.com/story/news/local/2022/09/03/polk-state-college-opens-hispanic-heritage-month-events-lakeland/7972031001/ |
If you are a military veteran with a story to share, we want to hear from you.
The News & Record is again publishing a special “Honoring Our Veterans” section for Veterans Day.
We’re asking veterans to submit information and photos about their service. All submissions will be included in an online gallery featuring local veterans. Some will be chosen to be profiled in stories and photos in the special section.
The project will focus on living veterans who served in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Middle East and other conflicts ranging from the Cold War to military interventions in places like Grenada and Panama.
The intent is to archive the stories of those who served, and who often go unrecognized for their sacrifices and service. This is not a telling of war stories. It’s a tribute.
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Send information to jennifer.fernandez@greensboro.com with “Honoring Our Veterans” in the subject line. Or mail to Jennifer Fernandez, c/o News & Record, 3001 S. Elm-Eugene St., Greensboro NC 27406 with “Honoring our Veterans” on the envelope. For any photos, please include information identifying who is in the photo and when and where it was taken. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/military-veterans-asked-to-share-their-stories-with-n-r-readers/article_3e6c0db4-2a07-11ed-98a8-b3184126187e.html | 2022-09-03T13:25:30 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/military-veterans-asked-to-share-their-stories-with-n-r-readers/article_3e6c0db4-2a07-11ed-98a8-b3184126187e.html |
At least two people were killed and several others hurt as gun violence continued to strike in Philadelphia overnight.
The shootings took place across the city from Kingsessing to Tioga to Fairhill.
Around 3:45 a.m., two men were shot near 52nd Street and Woodland Avenue in the Kingsessing neighborhood of Southwest Philadelphia, with one man in his 20s pronounced dead at the scene. A 39-year-old man was taken to Penn Presbytarian Medical Center and also pronounced dead.
One victim was shot in the leg during an attempted robbery on W. Westmoreland Street in the Tioga neighborhood of North Philadelphia, police said. The victim checked himself into a hospital and is currently listed in stable condition.
A man was also reportedly shot in the back on W. Indiana Avenue and N. Broad Street in North Philadelphia, police said. His condition was not immediately clear. A total of 60 shell cases were found at a scene, police said.
A 29-year-old woman was also shot in the cheek inside a house on the 6700 block of Jackson Street in Tacony, police said. She is in critical but stable condition.
Another man was also shot multiple times on N. Franklin and W. Cayuga Streets in the Hunting Park neighborhood early Saturday morning. His condition was not immediately available.
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A man was also shot in the shoulder on American and Somerset Street in Fairhill. His condition was also not immediately known.
A count by the Philadelphia Office of the City Controller, last updated Sept. 1, shows at least 337 fatal and 1,275 non deadly victims of gunfire in 2022. The Philadelphia Police Department had recorded at least 364 killings, a 2% increase from the same time in 2021, which ended as the year with the most killings in Philadelphia's recorded history.
There are additional resources for people or communities that have endured gun violence in Philadelphia. Further information can be found here. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/2-dead-several-hurt-during-another-violent-night-in-philly/3353199/ | 2022-09-03T13:31:32 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/2-dead-several-hurt-during-another-violent-night-in-philly/3353199/ |
Maricopa County Attorney's Office now requires prison time in gun crime plea deals. But what does that mean?
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office changed its policies starting Sept. 2, that will make prison time mandatory to plea agreements on violent gun crimes.
"Violent crime in Maricopa is soaring,” Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell said in a press release.
Mitchell said her office believes that this change will curb the rising violent crime rate while changing the way these cases are prosecuted and defended. She is the Republican candidate on the November ballot for the county attorney's seat.
Between Aug. 19 and Aug. 29, 16 homicides had come in for prosecution; 15 involved using a gun, according to the office.
"We had 16 homicides in ten days," Mitchell said, "If you expand that out over a 365 day year, that's 584 homicides."
"Now, we haven't kept that pace throughout the year," Mitchell said, "but (16) is just an absolutely, unacceptably high number."
Gun-related homicides nationwide have increased 35% from 2019 to 2021 according to data collected by the Gun Violence Archive.
Making an extrapolation on such a short amount of time is flimsy, said ASU Criminology and Criminal Justice Professor Dustin Pardini. Looking at gun violence data over time allows for a better understanding of the impacts.
Here's what this new policy means.
How do plea agreements work in criminal cases?
Criminal case plea agreements, where a defendant pleads guilty to charges before or while a trial takes place, are essentially a contract between the state and the defendant, negotiated by each side's lawyers.
The state wants to avoid an expensive and resource-consuming trial, according to MCAO director of communications, Jennifer Liewer. On the other side, the defense wants to relate concerns of the defendant and get the least punishing consequences to their life after the case, said president of Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice Armando Nava.
The U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance estimates that about 90 to 95% of federal and state cases end in plea agreements.
“A lot of times, the miscount involving weapons charge is used as a way to kind of cudgel a defendant into taking a higher offer flee, because those are easier charges to prove," said Nava.
The new policy's effect on plea agreements
The reworked policy, which went into effect Sept. 2, is found in the office's Prosecution Policies and Procedures, specifically in Prosecution Policy 7.3.
The provision explains this new rule applies to the use of a gun, or brandishing of a gun, in the following list of crimes:
- First degree murder;
- Second degree murder;
- Manslaughter;
- Aggravated assaults that are a Class 2 or 3 felony;
- Arson of an occupied structure;
- Armed robbery;
- Burglary in the first degree;
- Kidnapping;
- Drive-by shooting;
- Discharge of a weapon at an occupied structure;
- Prisoners who assault with intent to incite a riot; and
- Sex Trafficking and Trafficking for Forced Labor and Services.
Nava explained that even without the prison mandate, "a lot of those are usually going to come with prison term as part of plea offers."
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Mitchell said she seldom found cases end in no prison time, but she wanted "any such deviation to be reviewed at a higher level of supervisor."
One of the changes makes it so that if a prosecutor wants to drop prison time, they would have to get approval from a bureau chief.
This potentially means that more cases will go to trial, Nava said.
"Not having the kind of discretion for line attorneys in the situation, I think is the real issue," he said. "There's a lot of good prosecutors out there who are hamstrung, because the orders coming down from on high that they can't be compassionate."
Facing a mandated prison time plea, defendants may be more inclined to go to trial with their case, Nava said.
"For example, if someone gets a nine-year offer and they're looking at 15 years after trial, some clients will say 'You know what, that's about the same to me, I don't really care. So let's go to trial.'" Nava said.
Will the policy change rising gun violence?
Mitchell intends to curb the rise in violent gun crime with these changes. She points to her own experience with these kinds of actions capping certain kinds of crime.
"When I was a line prosecutor under Rick Romley," she said, "when we were having a lot of gun violence, there was a similar policy, not completely the same, but similar policy imposed, and it cut back on the gun violence."
Pardini said changing plea bargaining rules to deter people from committing gun violence is "completely unfounded."
"it's dealing with the problem after it already happened," Pardini said.
The Republic previously reported on the effect prison sentences had on the state: increased the prison population, upped the amount spent on prisons into the billions and had minimal effect on actual crime rates.
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The research arm of the Department of Justice, the National Institute of Justice, published a briefing in 2016 on deterrence. That publication said increasing the threat of punishment has little effect on deterring crime compared to increasing the certainty of being caught in the crime.
"Effective policing that leads to swift and certain (but not necessarily severe) sanctions is a better deterrent than the threat of incarceration," the report reads. There is no evidence, according to the report, that people avoid committing a crime "when the likelihood of imprisonment increases."
Reach crime reporter Miguel Torres at Miguel.Torres@arizonarepublic.com or on Twitter @TheMiguelTorres. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2022/09/03/prison-time-gun-violence-mandatory-maricopa-county-attorney/7965181001/ | 2022-09-03T13:32:32 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2022/09/03/prison-time-gun-violence-mandatory-maricopa-county-attorney/7965181001/ |
SAN ANTONIO — While responding to a call about a body in the road, police subsequently arrested a woman who was driving while intoxicated on the northeast side Saturday morning.
Just before 1:45 a.m., San Antonio Police received a call about a possible body in the road. SAPD and the San Antonio Fire Department responded to Northeast Loop 410 and Harry Wurzbach and found the woman on the shoulder of the highway. She was pronounced dead on the scene, officials said.
While police were handling that scene, officials said a woman crashed into the back of a TxDOT vehicle. That woman was evaluated for DWI and arrested.
Police said the person that hit and killed the female pedestrian drove off after the crash, but they were spotted a short time later and detained.
No other injuries were reported. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/person-detained-after-hitting-killing-woman-on-highway-woman-arrested-for-dwi-news/273-74bcf415-37ef-42ad-abfc-0e469f9cb0c9 | 2022-09-03T13:41:54 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/person-detained-after-hitting-killing-woman-on-highway-woman-arrested-for-dwi-news/273-74bcf415-37ef-42ad-abfc-0e469f9cb0c9 |
FREDERICK, Md. — When Emily Kerr walks into Beyond Comics to pick up her subscriptions for the past two weeks, her order is waiting for her before she even makes it to the counter.
“It’s just it’s amazing that he can just retain all that information about his return customers,” Kerr said.
After 25 years in business, Cohen knows his regulars but aims to be just as welcoming and helpful to first-time visitors. The shop is all about spreading passion for comics and graphic novels as far as possible — for curious newbies, longtime fans and serious collectors alike.
Cohen opened the first branch of Beyond Comics in February 1997 at Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg. The store was 920 square feet and in a non-traditional location for a comic store. Most comic book stores are in “dungeons behind corners,” Cohen said — locations that offer the cheapest rent possible, he added. Cohen wanted a location that would help “legitimize” his store, as he put it.
Cohen noticed that many of his customers were driving in from Frederick, so he opened his Frederick store in 2007, which has become the flagship location.
To celebrate the store’s 25th anniversary, Beyond Comics worked with Marvel to release two variant covers for the first issue of a “Daredevil” reboot and the first issue of the mini-series “Edge of Spider-Verse.”
Cohen put his own twist on the covers: They connect to create one image. He hopes to expand this image to a total of six comic book covers with various publishers, and all the covers will come together to make a poster.
Cohen had been in the comic book industry for 16 years when he opened his store. While working at a different store, he realized that the industry was missing stores that were more focused on comic and graphic novel content.
“My vision was bigger,” he said. “We named it Beyond Comics because we wanted people to understand that there’s way more to comics than just what you think there are. We felt that comics as a medium have way more to give than just collecting comic books.”
His store was one of the first to sell graphic novels, which Cohen said he recognized as a rapidly growing market in the ’90s.
Comics are usually released in a periodical fashion, where a new issue comes out regularly — weekly, biweekly, monthly, or anything in between. A subset of these comic books will go through a complete story arc, Cohen said.
Take “The Sandman,” which was adapted from the comic book series for the recent Netflix series. The series contains 75 issues, released over the course of 75 months. If a person wanted to read the full story, they would have to find every issue from 1989 to 1996.
Graphic novels, however, combine one story arc into a single book, rather than a series of issues. Graphic novels may also be fully original stories, including Raina Telgemeier’s “Smile” and Cece Bell’s “El Deafo.”
Graphic novels combine a few of the issues into one book that comprises one of the story arcs in the series. Instead of digging up all 75 issues, some of which are likely out of print, a reader can purchase the 10 graphic novels.
Graphic novels are also beneficial for collectors, who may not want to pull out their expensive or rare comic books and read them. Many comic collectors will buy expensive comics and store them in boxes or filing cabinets.
New Market resident Brian Alt started reading comic books when he was young and his grandmother bought them for him at flea markets. He began avidly collecting at 13 but took a break for a while when the store he used to frequent closed during the 1990 market crash, he said.
When Cohen opened his store in Lakeforest Mall, Alt started buying from him. In 2012, he got back into collecting. Since then, he is in the store every Wednesday, which is new comic book day.
His collection has grown to between 35,000 and 40,000, which he stores in a spare room in his townhome. To keep the older comics preserved, especially those that are on newsprint, Alt also purchased the graphic novels.
“The damage can be done, and these things are really becoming scarcer and scarcer, and more and more valuable ... so a lot of times I have graphic novels of entire collections that I have,” Alt said.
Beyond Comics has sold comics valued at $20,000 Cohen said. However, he doesn’t cater the store to collectors. Instead, he focuses on the average customer.
Cohen believes that women’s passion for graphic novels has been integral to the rise in popularity of his store. Just 20 or 30 years ago, Cohen recalls shop owners who would get angry if a woman came to their store.
When he opened the store, women were going to bookstores and reading novel-length content much more than they would read comic books, he said. He decided to design the store to seem like a bookstore, with many graphic novels at the front of the shop.
Robert Slick, who has collected comic books since he was a child in the 1970s, said he loved walking through the Frederick store. “The atmosphere is awesome — just walk in and look at his walls and marvel at what he has, as far as statues and everything else,” Slick said.
Cohen wants the store environment to be welcoming for everyone. He doesn’t want anyone to be “hit in the face with testosterone” when they enter the store, he joked.
Comic book culture has grown to encompass all kinds of people. If Cohen had worn a superhero shirt when he was in high school, he would have spent the day in his locker, he said. Things have changed because superhero stories have become so mainstream.
“You don’t have to be an outcast or introvert to read comics (anymore),” Cohen said.
TV shows and movies don’t help sell comic books and graphic novels since, most of the time, the content doesn’t match the storyline of a comic book, he said, but they do help legitimize the product.
When newcomers to comic-based content come into his store looking for the comic storyline that a Marvel film or TV show is based on, Cohen or one of the other staff members try to recommend something that they might enjoy. They aim to cater to everyone, not just hardcore collectors.
“If you (want) to make money and buy expensive back issues, great,” Cohen said. “But we’re just as happy, if not happier, when you come in and you buy your stack of comics and you read them and you come back and tell us, ‘Those were really good.’” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/comic-book-store-franchise-aims-to-expand-passion-for-comics/2022/09/03/9c309754-2b8c-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html | 2022-09-03T13:45:06 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/comic-book-store-franchise-aims-to-expand-passion-for-comics/2022/09/03/9c309754-2b8c-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html |
CHARLES CITY, Va. — At Promise Land Pastures, a working farm and outreach center in Charles City County, Reuben Smith is busy with the honey harvest.
“There are probably about 60,000 bees in one of these boxes,” Smith said.
The bees on the farm were not always so prolific. In the beginning, bees were purchased, said Smith, executive director of the nonprofit organization. But then they found bees that swarmed in an old pecan tree on the property.
A swarm can consist of 30,000 to 60,000 bees. To capture the bees, they cut the limb holding the swarm and shook it until the bees dropped down into the hive box.
The queen bee is usually at the center of the swarm. If she is captured, an entrance excluder will prevent her from getting out of the hive box, because she is larger than the other bees.
Once she is inside the box, other bees will take up residence. The queen will then lay eggs to repopulate the colony. The colony consists of worker bees; drone bees, which mate with the queen; and nurse bees, which keep the hive clean and the brood safe.
As the bees busily fly in and out of the boxes with some congregating at their entrances, Smith uses a smoker to calm them. He lifts the lid off the box and raises each frame to inspect the honeycombs.
Honey-laden frames are brought to the kitchen where volunteers from the Promise Land Storehouse, a food pantry, retrieve a portion of the honey. Some is always left for the bees to help them survive the winter months.
Alice Starke takes a heated knife from the stove and begins uncapping the honeycomb as Tom Bragg holds the frame for her. The wax taken off can be made into candles. Starke then collects the exposed honey into a dish.
Since some honey remains on the frame, Veralyn Ruttley places two frames at a time into an extractor. As she turns its handle, honey is drawn out of the frames and drips into a bucket below.
The unfiltered, raw, non-pasteurized honey is then bottled for locals who can gain the most health benefits.
The bees are “collecting pollen and nectar from all manner of wildflowers, and clovers and blooming trees,” Smith said. “People that take the honey can actually have almost an immune-boosting response because of all that pollen — that local pollen.”
At the end of the harvest, 140 pounds of honey were extracted. Next year, Smith hopes to produce more of the native nectar after new hives become more established.
Beekeeping is but one of the experiences locals can have at Promise Land Pastures, which works to promote community agriculture and education.
Job training in trade skills, such as diesel mechanics, welding and arboriculture, is taught as well as organic gardening.
“The idea is that the farm is all sorts of experiences that can be a learning center for local youth as well as educating people that are interested in various activities,” Smith said. “The experiences that we are giving can help to ignite passions in young people that they might not even realize were there.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/promise-land-pastures-busy-with-honey-harvest/2022/09/03/9c62eb7c-2b88-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html | 2022-09-03T13:45:12 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/promise-land-pastures-busy-with-honey-harvest/2022/09/03/9c62eb7c-2b88-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html |
DAMASCUS, Va. — After 15 years, the Damascus Trail Center has finally opened its doors to all trail hikers, bird watchers, nature enthusiasts, and tourists.
“The Damascus Trail Center is a place of welcoming. It will serve as the hub of education and conservation throughout Southwest Virginia and its surrounding areas,” Marra said. “The future of the Appalachian Trail, quite frankly all of our natural world, and our hope is that everyone who steps into the Damascus Trail Center feels a part of that with us, that they walk in feeling like they’re nature lovers, hikers, artists just somebody driving through town and they leave feeling like, ‘wow I am all those things, but I am also part of something.’”
Visitors to the Damascus Trail Center, located at 209 W Laurel Ave in downtown Damascus, will be able to learn through a series of exhibits covering not only the history of the Appalachian Trail dating back to 1921, but also about the seven other trails that cross through Trail Town USA, including the Virginia Creeper Trail, and the Overmountain Victory Trail.
Mike Reynolds, the deputy director for congressional and external relations for the National Park Service, emphasized the importance of trails and the communities that conserve them across the country.
“Our national trail system tells a story of community in partnership across the United States, and many of us in the service think of things like the 18 like Damascus as golden threads in the tapestry of America because it’s the users that help to weave these things together, but it also helps to build community over time,” Reynolds said. “What you have in Damascus and this center is really special when I think about the Virginia Creeper, the Over Mountain Victory, the Appalachian Trail, three kinds of national trails, scenic, historic, recreational, all in one place, here.”
U.S. Senator Tim Kaine stopped by the ceremony and recounted his 42-day hike of the Appalachian Trail, including how he earned the nickname “Dog Bowl” because of his repetitive use of a collapsible dog bowl for personal hygiene and drinking water. He said he and his friend came to the realization the trail was more than a trail, it was a community.
“I really believe there’s maybe never been a project, the volunteers, the hikers, the journalists, the writers, the organizations, the trail clubs, the shuttle drivers, the outfitters, there may never have been a project that stitched together a community in such a powerful way as the Appalachian Trail,” Kaine said. “To all that have been part of the trail and who have been part of bringing us to this important day, I just want to say thanks.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trail-center-celebrates-community-of-hikers/2022/09/03/953c4a32-2b88-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html | 2022-09-03T13:45:18 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trail-center-celebrates-community-of-hikers/2022/09/03/953c4a32-2b88-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html |
Average daily flows
Snake River at Blackfoot 3,655 cfs
Snake River at American Falls 8,708 cfs
Snake River at Milner 0 cfs
Little Wood River near Carey 207 cfs
Jackson Lake is 29% full.
Palisades Reservoir is 30% full.
American Falls Reservoir is 6% full.
Upper Snake River system is at 23% of capacity.
As of September 2. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/average-daily-streamflows/article_1de7c488-2adf-11ed-9e23-abfe423eb1b5.html | 2022-09-03T13:59:23 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/average-daily-streamflows/article_1de7c488-2adf-11ed-9e23-abfe423eb1b5.html |
TWIN FALLS — City officials are urging better communication between TDS Telecommunications and city residents affected by its fiber-optic network under construction.
City spokesperson Josh Palmer said he has heard complaints from several residents claiming they had not being made aware of the project, which includes digging in rights of way as the fiber-optic line is laid.
A TDS spokesperson said the company makes efforts to notify affected residents of the project.
“Before any construction on our fiber internet network occurs, we notify residents several days and weeks in advance,” Mark Schaaf said. “Residents received multiple mailers and a door hanger informing them of upcoming construction in their neighborhood.”
Schaaf said he appreciates the feedback.
“We take public input seriously and are increasing our communications to ensure residents have the most detailed and up-to-date information possible,” he said.
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TDS has a legal authority to access rights of way, Palmer said, while acknowledging that digging can be disconcerting to residents when it is going on in their backyards. Another complaint involved spray-painting on the grass as crews marked various utility lines.
“Mostly, our concern is that people feel safe,” Palmer said.
The city asked that TDS work with its contractor to improve communication.
Palmer asked residents with concerns to call TDS at 1-855-259-8576 or go to tdsfiber.com/construction for more information. If complaints aren’t resolved, he urged residents to call the city.
The fiber-optic network is also being constructed in Jerome and Burley. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/complaints-heard-about-tds-network-construction/article_5a4ede16-2ae4-11ed-97ec-a302dd57493b.html | 2022-09-03T13:59:29 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/complaints-heard-about-tds-network-construction/article_5a4ede16-2ae4-11ed-97ec-a302dd57493b.html |
Lupe Gil Anaya, who has spent most of her life in this city raising a large family and teaching many, celebrated her 100th birthday with a party at her home in Flagstaff this week.
Anaya first moved to Flagstaff around 1925 when she was a toddler. Her family had come from New Mexico, where they had moved from Mexico a few years earlier. Her father worked at the Saginaw Sawmill in Flagstaff, so when the family first arrived, they lived in company housing where the university shopping center is now.
“She was only maybe 2 years old when she got to Flagstaff,” her son, Frank Anaya, said.
About a year later, Lupe’s father became the caretaker for Our Lady of Guadalupe and the family moved into the church.
“By this time, she was a little bit older and she remembers they had a well right there, a big garden,” Frank said.
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His grandfather, Lupe’s father, painted two images of the Virgin Guadalupe for the church -- the first was too small for the priest’s taste, so he made another. The redone painting now hangs in San Francisco de Asis Church in Flagstaff.
One of family historian Valerie Kraft’s favorite stories from her grandmother is about her love of dance -- which continues to this day.
“When she was a little girl, she used to sneak out to watch the dances at the armory," she said. "... She would sneak over there as a little girl, peek out the windows and watch the dancers, and then her mom would come find her and take her home."
When Anaya married, she moved into a house that her husband and father helped build on Tucson Avenue. The family moved in around 1947 and she still lives there today, with a rotating set of her descendants taking turns spending the night to help take care of her.
She spent years as a single mother to her six children, who are now in their 60s and 70s. To this day, the family has expanded to include 16 grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren and 12 great-great-grandchildren.
Many in her family mentioned her dedication to teaching and affinity for kids. Anaya helped found Head Start in Flagstaff, and after “studying up a storm” to become a U.S. citizen at age 75, put that effort into helping others study for their own citizenship.
“My mother was always involved with people, helping people,” Frank said. “Whoever came by and needed help, she was always willing to help. My mother had her own car and drove, so she was always driving people to the doctors, whatever they needed. ...There was of course also a lot of poor people that needed help, so there was a lot of caring of children that had nowhere to go. At our little house there on Tucson Avenue, we always had all kinds of people, young kids and stuff. She was like a foster mom.”
Granddaughter Danielle Portillo said Anaya was part of what inspired her to become a kindergarten teacher.
“A lot of that has to do with her stories and how she cares for the children, and how she knew early childhood was so important. She might have been one of the very first early childhood Head Start educators here in Flagstaff," Portillo said.
Kraft said she still hears adults saying "Mrs. Anaya" from her years with Head Start.
“Every kid in the world gravitates to her,” she said.
Both granddaughters have good memories of Anaya from their own childhoods.
“She spoiled me rotten,” Kraft said. “... I was her oldest grandchild, and she always really took care of me. I just always remember her being the hardest worker ever, and there was always somebody in the kitchen eating because she never stopped cooking.”
Cheesy frijoles is a favorite dish for Kraft from these times, she said.
“She was funny and outgoing and very adventurous,” Portillo said. “We would take hikes out in the woods for hours and hours. We would go woodcutting. We would hike. She loved being outdoors, she loved gardening, she loved planting things.”
Around 1970, Anaya began attending Northern Arizona University to get more training for her work with Head Start. She then spent additional time in California furthering her education. In all, she spent at least 30 years teaching with the organization.
“She was always involved with kids. To her, that was important to keep kids out of trouble and stuff, even though all of us were always giving her a hard time,” Frank said.
Part of why Anaya decided to spend so much of her life in Flagstaff has to do with her love of the outdoors, Frank said.
“The San Francisco Peaks, those are her mountains, she says,” he said. “When we were kids, she had a car but no pickup, so no truck, and we used to go out into the woods all the time. We’d even climb all the way to the top of the Peaks. We used to go to the top of what was then the Weatherford Road -- it used to take you up quite a ways -- and from there we would just set up the camp right there, and then climb all the way up to the Peaks. One of the things we used to make fun of her was she’d be in high heels and be climbing mountains.”
“She loves her high heels,” his wife, Lydia Anaya added.
The celebration took place the day of Lupe's 100th birthday: Aug. 28.
“There was lots and lots of food, and lots and lots of people,” Frank said.
Portillo said it was originally a small family celebration that ended up growing.
“We planned it to be small, just the family, and then word of mouth it ended up being 100 people. It was 100 people for 100 birthdays,” she said.
All but three of Lupe’s grandchildren were able to make it.
It was a potluck, with a surprise serenade from a mariachi band, Chapala.
“She loves all that kind of music, so we surprised her by having them come and they serenaded her. She was just in heaven; she really enjoyed it,” Lydia said.
Heels and bouquets were set on the tables as centerpieces.
“She loved gardening. If you passed by her house, everybody would stop by and admire all the flowers and everything she had growing. She loved to be outdoors and gardening,” Lydia said.
“Even her trees were sculptured and stuff, and by her house there was one certain tree that everybody was always admiring because it was in three layers,” Frank added.
Portillo said Lupe holds her family together. All of her kids now live in Flagstaff, as do many of the younger generations.
“I just love how she keeps the family together,” Portillo said. “ ... She just always brought us together for Christmas, for Thanksgiving. We usually had it at my parents house, but it was usually my grandmother’s thing: ‘Let’s get together, let’s do this.’ It just shows you how much it meant to her to have all of us together. ... She really is the glue that holds the Anaya family together. It’s a wonderful thing.” | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/flagstaffs-lupe-gil-anaya-celebrates-100-years/article_608ca006-2b16-11ed-86dc-8f7e9519ff60.html | 2022-09-03T14:00:33 | 0 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/flagstaffs-lupe-gil-anaya-celebrates-100-years/article_608ca006-2b16-11ed-86dc-8f7e9519ff60.html |
Many people have expressed concerns to me over the state of food supply chains, the decrease in pollinators, and water availability. Because of this, I’m getting more questions than usual about what fruit and vegetable seeds I think they should plant.
If I only have 30 seconds to answer them, I tell them to plant what they like to eat. If I have more time, I share that I too have worries about the status of our food and the decline of pollinator species. Both concerns are huge topics — ones that would take a semester each to answer — but to the best of my ability, I’m going to answer some of those questions here.
What seeds do I need?
One thing I encourage most new growers to do is to stick with easy edibles that have proven track records for northern Arizona. These include beans, squash, and leafy greens. To choose just one, I can’t say enough about beans. There are many beautiful varieties that can be dried and eaten all year. They don’t need as much water as other foods, and they can be just as attractive as flowers used in landscaping!
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My other suggestion is to pick the right varieties, with short-season plants for colder areas and heat-tolerant varieties for those in hot spots. To check this information, look on the packets for a “days to maturity” value. This will give you an idea how long you’ll have to wait for ripened food. For example, Siberian tomato varieties are a good choice for gardeners and farmers in higher elevations because many of these will provide red fruit in less than 80 days. The same is true for some corn varieties. Always, always read the seed packets and follow the suggestions there. If they don’t provide enough information, perform an Internet search.
How do I care for them?
Some seeds are recommended to be started indoors. If so, provide plenty of full spectrum light and water from the bottom in a pan or on a capillary mat. This will cut down on disease and keep your seedlings watered more evenly. To speed up germination, a warming mat can be used underneath the seeds.
Should you choose to bypass starting seeds indoors, which is okay. Plant seeds out in the garden after all fear of freezing has passed, or plan on covering plants with some sort of insulating material until it is. Though I'm opposed to plastics in the garden as much as possible, plant insulators and frost cloths can be growers’ best friends in cooler climates.
How do I cut down on my water use?
Another plastic I still use in the garden is drip tape irrigation tubing. Using this to water rather than overhead watering has cut my water consumption down by half. Burying the tape just under the surface and near plant roots decreases water use even more, plus keeps the plastic from breaking down in the sunlight faster. I also remind myself that our food is often coming from far away, and at least I know how much water (and other resources) are going into their growing. Meaning, it takes a lot fewer resources than an industrial farm halfway around the nation or world.
How can I provide for the pollinators?
Please, please don’t forget to plant things that will help pollinator species. We have a symbiotic relationship with most bees, moths, and butterflies, and if you attract them to your garden, they can help pollinate your flowering foods like squashes, melons, tomatoes, beans, etc. Include in your garden plants like sunflowers, beeplant, borage, salvia, and poppies to keep habitat for our sensitive allies. My husband wasn’t sold on the value of flowers in the garden until I started a flower farm, and he saw the hordes of pollinators now visiting our whole garden. I assure you, build it, and they’ll come.
If you’re still nervous about starting your own garden, take a class online. Many are offered on seed starting and food growing. Another option is to volunteer for one of the amazing local farmers around our community to learn some growing skills. There are a few local (and free) seed libraries in our community where you can get seeds and learn how to use them. One to visit is the Grow Flagstaff! Seed Library. Check out the library’s booth in the Floriculture building at the Coconino County Fair for more information on how to use the seed library, how to save seeds, and how to start seeds.
Jackee Alston has been gardening and farming in the Flagstaff and Verde Valley since 2005 and 2015, respectively. In her past lives, she was a wildlife biologist, botanist, and backcountry ranger. Now she is the co-editor of the Gardening Etcetera column, owner of Nevermore Gardens, a Coconino Master Gardener, founder of the Grow Flagstaff! Seed Library, children's author, and the mother of three remarkable humans. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/gardening-etcetera-how-to-start-your-food-growing-journey/article_273bc482-2b05-11ed-9ec8-e3e18084b494.html | 2022-09-03T14:00:34 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/gardening-etcetera-how-to-start-your-food-growing-journey/article_273bc482-2b05-11ed-9ec8-e3e18084b494.html |
The Flagstaff Eagles girls volleyball team fell in a sweep to the Arcadia Titans in a freedom match at home Thursday.
Arcadia won each set in relatively dominating fashion, 25-17, 25-20, 25-17, against the young Eagles team still looking to find its footing this season.
Flagstaff's loss came just a day after its 3-1 road victory over Paradise Honors in Surprise on Wednesday.
The Eagles (1-2, 0-0 Grand Canyon) will play another freedom match at Deer Valley in Glendale on Wednesday.
Warriors 3, Spartans 2
Northland Prep Academy blew an early lead Wednesday night, dropping its away match at Tuba City in a tiebreaker.
The Spartans led the match, 1-0 and 2-1, but fell in the fourth set and tiebreaker to lose a close contest against the Warriors.
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Tuba City seniors Ellyce Begay and Lyrissa George each had 21 kills, tied for the most in the match. Warriors senior Asia Sixkiller played well at the setter spot, assisting on 30 points won. Senior Bella Moseng led the way for the Spartans with 19 kills.
The Spartans lost their second straight match, dropping their record to 1-2 (1-0 Central). Northland Prep was set to play in an exhibition tournament over the weekend at Payson High School.
Boys soccer
Spartans 3, Lobos 1
Northland Prep Academy won its third straight match to begin the season Thursday, defeating Snowflake in a freedom contest at Sinagua Middle School.
In total, the Spartans have outscored their opponents 9-2 in three matches, and started the regular season with a three-game win streak for the first time since 2015.
Northland Prep (3-0, 1-0 North) will visit Blue Ridge for its first road match of the season on Tuesday. | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/local-roundup-flagstaff-high-volleyball-swept-at-home/article_3d0dc776-2af4-11ed-baea-a7ffc53ea7ed.html | 2022-09-03T14:00:37 | 0 | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/local-roundup-flagstaff-high-volleyball-swept-at-home/article_3d0dc776-2af4-11ed-baea-a7ffc53ea7ed.html |
Beginning on Tuesday, Ardurra, a consulting engineering firm for the city of Albany, will conduct smoke testing from Roosevelt Avenue to Pine Avenue between Jackson Street and Front Street.
ALBANY – Beginning on Tuesday, Ardurra, a consulting engineering firm for the city of Albany, will be conducting smoke testing from Roosevelt Avenue to Pine Avenue between Jackson Street and Front Street. Door hangers will be passed out with additional information for affected structures.
Smoke testing is the process of blowing a smoky material into the sewers to determine which buildings or inlets are connected to that particular sewer pipe as evidenced by smoke exiting the plumbing vent pipe or inlet structure.
The testing is part of the combined sewer separation project and will be done throughout the week.
Anybody connected to the sewer system in those areas could be impacted. However, there should not be any issues for correctly installed plumbing systems. If the smoke does enter a structure, it is nontoxic and will just need to be aired out.
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ALBANY – Recent changes have been made to a couple of the city of Albany's garbage roll-off sites. Extra garbage roll-off containers are located at various sites throughout the city. This service is to provide for the additional garbage being generated in the community as we continue to recover from the COVID pandemic.
These locations are meant strictly for residential household garbage and yard debris.
Recent changes to roll-off sites:
• The roll-off at Avalon Park has been relocated to the end of Canal Street at the cul-de-sac.
• And the roll-off at the intersection of Patrol Drive and Rosser Lane has been relocated to the end of Mercantile Drive, near the cul-de-sac. Remember that all garbage should be placed inside the roll-off and nobody should place items around the container.
The following items are not meant to be placed in or around the container:
• Any debris generated from commercial businesses (i.e., contractors and landlords): Call Public Works Solid Waste for more information at (229) 302-1800;
• Tires: Call Public Works Solid Waste for more information at (229) 302-1800;
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Let’s be honest, we have all been there. Our hearts have all felt that drop when the check engine light turns on.
You assure yourself that the light doesn’t mean anything and that it will eventually turn off, but that pesky little light should be of concern, as it could be warning you about something potentially wrong and costly for your car.
According to a new report from CarMD, the average cost for a check engine light-related car repair costs Texans $397.53, ranking as the 15th highest repair cost in the nation.
“Several factors contribute to a state’s average repair costs, including vehicle year, make and model, the repair difficulty and associated parts cost,” David Rich, technical director, CarMD, said in the report. “It makes sense that as people hold onto their vehicles longer than ever before, cars and trucks start to outlast their parts and need more costly repairs. Staying current on maintenance can help vehicle owners reduce surprise car repair bills, while fixing check engine light problems quickly can improve fuel economy and reduce the likelihood of additional repairs down the road.”
The states with the highest repair costs were:
- Connecticut – $418.37
- Colorado – $417.14
- California – $415.66
- Washington D.C. – $411
- Georgia – $407.71
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A collision between a Long Island Rail Road train and a vehicle left one person dead Saturday morning, transit officials said.
The incident occurred around 6:40 a.m. after an "unauthorized" vehicle entered onto the tracks west of Huntington Station, an MTA Police Department spokesperson said.
A person inside the vehicle died as a result of the crash, but there were no reported injuries to anyone on the train, the spokesperson added.
Port Jefferson Branch service was suspended for several hours Saturday morning between Hicksville and Huntington as officials investigated the incident and cleared the scene. Service resumed roughly three hours later.
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Warren Buffett may not be the most quoted financial icon ever, but he is in my world.
Each weekday, my long-running podcast has the “Money Life Quote of the Day,” and Buffett has gotten that honor 60 times in nearly 2,600 shows, which is two to four times more quotes than we’ve used from legendary investors Peter Lynch, Sir John Templeton and Jack Bogle. There’s also no denying that famous billionaires from John D. Rockefeller to J. Paul Getty to Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk combined have contributed far less to the investor’s lexicon than the Oracle of Omaha.
Buffett, the chairman and chief executive officer at Berkshire Hathaway, recently turned 92 , at a time when the market was snuffing a bear-market rally, souring investors struggling with high inflation, rising interest rates and more.
With over a billion dollars in net worth for each of his 92 years, according to Forbes, Buffett has more money than quotes, but the great part about his words is that he has hammered them home for decades. His best lines have been repeated countless times, tweaked and refined.
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Buffett’s words are real, and proven.
No one questions whether Buffett came up with his chestnuts. There is no proof, for example, that Albert Einstein actually said anything suggesting that “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world,” and many other fabulous quotes may not be true and accurate, but Buffett’s axioms are readily found in his annual letters to Berkshire shareholders or in interviews readily accessible on YouTube.
Buffett’s words work. While they’re not guaranteed to make you a fortune, no one can blame their financial woes on following the man’s thinking and having it turn out to be flawed.
With that in mind, and in honor of Buffett’s birthday, here are a half-dozen of my favorite Buffett quotations for today’s times. Note that the hard part of this list was cutting the man’s legacy down to six; my show has used 10 times that many and has barely scratched the surface.
“If you stick around long enough, you’ll see everything in markets.”
This doesn’t just apply to someone as long-lived as Buffett, it’s what most investors are living now, experiencing the worst inflation in 40 years and interest rates rising shockingly fast.
No, the current situation is not a repeat of ancient market history; while the market and economy are whistling a familiar tune to old-timers, there are differences. What is the same is that investors have faced rough conditions in the past and have come through strong.
Time will play this story out the same way.
“Wall Street makes its money on activity, you make your money on inactivity.”
This one is harder to remember these days because commission-free trading means that Wall Street makes less money on your activity than it did in the past; it’s easy to believe that most moves are cost/fee free.
They’re not, however, largely because investors have a long history of terrible timing, following the herd into something hot and exiting once they get burned by it.
Remembering that less is more when it comes to trading and shaping a portfolio is going to make long-term investors a lot of money right now; they just won’t recognize those profits until the market gets happier.
“Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.”
While it sounds a bit like an echo of the last message — holding for a decade feels like a lot of inactivity — Buffett’s point is different.
Make investment decisions that will age well. No matter your feelings about cryptocurrency, for example, the “hold on for dear life” crowd (known as “HODLers”) may have a good laugh at the expense of the skeptics and day-traders in the end. But they must be able to stick it out to that end.
The same applies no matter whether you are buying stocks, bonds, real estate or alternatives. Leave the short-term thinking to the pros and the sharks.
If thinking about your investments in the long-term doesn’t give you reason to smile confidently, that should alarm you.
“Unless you can watch your stock holding decline by 50% without becoming panic-stricken, you should not be in the stock market.”
Another variation on a theme, but this is about your temperament and is particularly apt today, when it’s easy to find pundits suggesting that a coming recession, coupled with a bear market, could push valuations a lot lower — and they are already down significantly from the peaks reached in the first week of 2022.
The bigger point is to internalize this, to recognize that you understood that a 50% decline was possible and a part of your thought process when you invested. With that in mind, living through a big downturn stinks but it shouldn’t shake your confidence that the long-term, 10-year-plus strategy will pay off.
“Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.”
Plenty of investors feel like we’re living through crisis now. While that is open to debate, Buffett’s point isn’t.
When times call for courage, cash will bolster your resolve. While many investors hate holding cash — especially when it is losing ground to inflation — think of it as an investment in your resolve and emotional discipline.
It may not be the “smart move” when measured against inflation, but as Buffett himself has noted many times: “We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.”
“Money has no utility to me. Time has utility to me.”
There’s not much sense in being the richest miserable cuss in the cemetery. Make the most of your time, even if doing that requires spending money now; don’t be so cowed by today’s inflation that you waste time in an effort not to spend money.
In a lifetime of being mostly prudent about savings, spending and investing, nearly everyone runs out of time long before they run out of money.
Chuck Jaffe is a nationally syndicated financial columnist and the host of “Money Life with Chuck Jaffe.” You can reach him at itschuckjaffe@gmail.com and tune in at moneylifeshow.com. | https://richmond.com/business/local/your-funds-celebrating-buffett-s-birthday-with-his-best-lines-for-today/article_48c6b416-20ae-5b36-90b3-66b8793e60a5.html | 2022-09-03T14:17:44 | 1 | https://richmond.com/business/local/your-funds-celebrating-buffett-s-birthday-with-his-best-lines-for-today/article_48c6b416-20ae-5b36-90b3-66b8793e60a5.html |
NORMAL — One Illinois State University graduate student had a different summer vacation than most: He traveled to Poland to help Ukrainian refugees.
Jeff Walsh is a second-year student in the Applied Community and Economic Development program at ISU’s Stevenson Center. He was in Warsaw, Poland, from June 6 through Aug. 5 while working with UNICEF, the Polish Red Cross and a refugee center there.
With the Red Cross he worked in a cash center, distributing funds to refugee families. His UNICEF position was as a teacher, and then he helped out in various ways with the refugee center, largely on weekends.
“In a labor of love way, you were never really off the clock,” he said.
He had been a UN volunteer before, as a virtual volunteer working with a school in Kenya. He was also familiar with the Red Cross through his time as an Army medic. He retired from the military in 2005.
Those past experiences were useful as he organized his own volunteer activities in Poland. He also handled his own accommodations.
Walsh’s experiences, including his willingness to go to Poland without established contacts there, have impressed his professors back at ISU.
“It was amazing to me. He just went,” said Frank Beck, director of the Stevenson Center.
Walsh’s time in Poland came during what he described as the second wave of the crisis, after the initial exodus in which 2 million people left Ukraine in less than two weeks.
The refugee camp had grown to be able to provide a wide array of services, including places where people could look for jobs. Many who were there were heading to other places.
“It’s more of a way station and not a camp; there were 2,000 to 4,000 refugees there,” Walsh said.
The refugee crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the largest in Europe since World War II with more than 7 million refugees total, including more than 1.3 million who are in Poland as of this week, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reports.
“Once they get to Poland, a lot stay, lots go to points beyond,” Walsh said.
As a sociologist, Beck is not surprised by the mass migration, though it is still “disconcerting,” he said.
“No surprise that a war would lead to people moving,” he said.
Beck is also not surprised that the crisis has received increased media and public attention in the United States compared to other ongoing crises in Africa and Asia.
“I also think it has received a lot of attention because it is in Europe,” he said. “(…) The people who are displaced are like you and me (white), so I think that’s playing a role in people’s response to this.”
At 59, Walsh is older than most of his fellow students in the ACED program. He brings a lot of real world experience to the program, too, including eight years as a medic in the Army, and time in the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps and teaching English abroad. The ACED program at ISU caters to students with experience in the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps or other service organizations, but Walsh's background stands out.
“In Jeff’s case, his resume carries the day. It tells one that he’s interested in this as a career,” Beck said.
Walsh's background has been helpful to the students he interacts with at ISU, Beck said. That includes working as a teaching assistant for undergraduate classes.
“There’s a lot of weight, a lot of power, with the wealth of experience that they do and then share it with undergraduates,” Beck said.
While in the Peace Corps, Walsh served as a teacher in South Africa. His AmeriCorps experience was in Great Falls, Montana, where he worked with veterans, including in finding medical care. He had also served in Thailand, where he taught Thai and Burmese refugees after the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
Being in Poland gave him a better understanding of the Ukrainian people, he said.
“I don’t think you can know what a country is like, or its people, until you go there,” he said.
While he was not in Ukraine itself, he worked constantly with Ukrainians. Their attitude toward the war stood out to him, as he never saw anyone show public signs of distress.
“I guess the best description: stoic and optimistic,” he said. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/education/watch-now-isu-grad-student-helps-ukrainian-refugees-in-poland/article_0f67aa90-2a1c-11ed-91a1-03c72d487f7d.html | 2022-09-03T14:19:48 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/education/watch-now-isu-grad-student-helps-ukrainian-refugees-in-poland/article_0f67aa90-2a1c-11ed-91a1-03c72d487f7d.html |
Filomena Castillo spent the last week of her life at an East Chicago hospital listening to her granddaughter, Sarahi Unzueta, tell her stories and sing religious hymns.
“She couldn’t talk or really move,” Unzueta said. “But I could tell she was listening.”
For one month, Castillo, 75, was treated for COVID-19 at St. Catherine Hospital in East Chicago. She died Oct. 30.
“The day she passed, I had this feeling that she was not going to make it,” Unzueta said.
Unzueta had just returned home from the hospital with her mother when they received a call from one of the nurses telling them to come back.
“Less than three minutes after we got back into her room, she passed," she recalled.
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The Times conducted a computer-assisted analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mortality data over a 22-year span. In 2020, 937 residents of Lake, LaPorte and Porter counties died of COVID-19. Per 100,000 Region residents, about 5.2 died due to COVID-19 that year. Nationally in 2020, 350,831 people died from that coronavirus.
As of Sept. 2, 2022, 24,454 Indiana residents have died from the virus and its various mutations, according to the New York Times COVID Tracking Map.
In 2021, life expectancy figures in the U.S. dropped for the second year in a row, according to provisional data released by the CDC this week, a decline largely driven by the coronavirus pandemic. Though the effectiveness of vaccines has been the center of political debates, CDC guidance states vaccines and boosters are effective at protecting people from “getting seriously ill, being hospitalized and dying.”
A special bond
There is something special about having grandparents as next-door neighbors, Unzueta learned.
The 27-year-old Hammond resident fondly recalls her childhood revolving around food and delicious memories. Her grandmother routinely whipped up a variety of dishes: northern-style Mexican burritos, tamales, pozole, menudo, rice, meatballs and signature spicy entrees. Unzueta’s favorite was Castillo's authentic refried beans, which took hours of preparation.
“My grandpa would be up at the crack of dawn to start boiling the beans. And then when they would come home from dialysis, my grandma could finish making them,” Unzueta said.
The couple didn’t have to venture out of Castillo’s kitchen for delicious meals, but they loved dining out and ordering takeout from local Mexican and Chinese restaurants.
When pandemic restrictions forced the older couple into their home, Castillo left the house only for doctor appointments. Unzueta recalls that time as emotionally difficult. Unzueta and other family members stood outside Castillo’s house so her grandmother could see their faces. They also shared video calls and left groceries and other necessities on the couple's porch.
When Castillo first showed COVID symptoms, Unzueta could sense a shift.
“The first sign was that she didn’t want to eat. It was strange,” Unzueta said. “Despite all of her struggles or the times she got sick, she always wanted to eat.”
Not even her favorite indulgence, Burger King Whoppers, could entice Castillo to eat.
At one point during the pandemic, the majority of their family ended up testing positive for COVID-19, according to Unzueta. The situation became even more emotionally painful when she couldn’t visit her grandmother in the hospital due to visitor restrictions.
“Knowing she was at the hospital and we had to stay away was so difficult,” she said.
As soon as Unzueta was healthy and able, she visited her grandmother in person. It meant the world to her because she wasn't able to do so with her grandfather Ray Castillo who died shortly before his wife from complications of Wegener's disease, a condition causing inflammation of blood vessels.
“I was scared,” Unzueta said. “This was before vaccines and everything, so I just kept sitting there thinking that one day they are going to figure out how to fix this, and she won’t be here for that.”
Near the end of her grandmother's life, Unzueta spent eight days in the hospital room with Castillo, who couldn’t speak and barely moved. Yet it didn’t stop Unzueta from making those eight days meaningful and memorable. She sang to her. She read reflections out loud. She talked about the day's weather and called multiple family members, including those living in Mexico.
Unzueta did everything possible to keep her grandmother comfortable and to assure her that she was not alone. Although she was dying, Castillo knew she was loved, cared for by loved ones and soon entering the afterlife.
“I would pray with her,” Unzueta said.
Nearly two years after her grandmother's death, Unzueta remembers it all with vivid clarity and touching poignancy. She expressed how grateful she is to have been there with her mother, for her grandmother, when she passed. Still, similar to millions of Americans who've lost loved ones to COVID-19, her grief lingers like symptoms from the pandemic.
“I am obviously not over the whole grieving process," she said. "I don’t think I ever will be."
COVID-19 by the numbers
COVID-19 contributed to nearly 74% of the decline in life expectancy from 2019 to 2020, according to CDC estimates.
According to a Lancet Infectious Disease study published earlier this year, the first year with vaccines prevented 19.8 million deaths.
Vaccines first arrived in Indiana in December 2020, with hospital workers receiving the first doses.
Last summer, the Indiana Department of Health reported that not a single ZIP code in Lake, Porter or LaPorte counties reached the 70% vaccination rate that experts said was needed to minimize the spread of COVID-19 among unvaccinated individuals.
Currently, 3,821,535 Indiana residents are fully vaccinated, meaning they completed a multi-shot or single-shot series of a COVID-19 vaccine. The most recent U.S. Census Bureau population estimate puts the state at over 6.8 million residents.
In 2021, Beacon Health received a $3.7 million grant of which $164,500 was allocated to Franciscan Health to support mobile vaccination clinics, community health workers and COVID-19 educational campaigns throughout LaPorte County. Franciscan Health Michigan City will host a vaccine clinic Sept. 9 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Pleasant Hill Ministries, 715 E. 10th St., to increase education and vaccination rates in underserved communities. Pfizer's first- and second-dose vaccines, and booster shots, will be available for anyone age 5 and older.
For more information about the vaccine clinic, visit franciscanhealth.org. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/watch-now-whats-killing-the-region-covid-19-claimed-over-900-region-lives-in-2020/article_0e3694ed-ee71-50f6-a4d4-a65f89075fbf.html | 2022-09-03T14:20:18 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/watch-now-whats-killing-the-region-covid-19-claimed-over-900-region-lives-in-2020/article_0e3694ed-ee71-50f6-a4d4-a65f89075fbf.html |
WATERLOO — The Waterloo Public Library is hosting the free eight-week seminar Get Retirement Ready with Mike Finley starting on Wednesdays in September. It will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in Meeting Room AB.
This free 8-week seminar teaches adult participants "how to retire" financially and psychologically as they embrace the next stage of their lives. The information discussed includes pensions like IPERS, investing wisely and efficiently with an eye toward taxes and withdrawal strategies, the 4% rule, Social Security strategies, the ins and outs of insurance to include Medicare, what to do with the home, and more. No registration is required to participate.
The following topics will be discussed this month:
Sept. 7 – How to identify the necessary steps and numbers that can lead to a happy and successful retirement.
Sept. 14 – How to create and manage the best low-cost, tax-efficient portfolio leading into and through retirement.
Sept. 21 – How to withdraw from a portfolio in a cost and tax-efficient way using the 4% rule as a guide.
Sept. 28 – How to make the most of your fixed income and insurance policies during your retirement years. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/library-hosts-free-retirement-seminar/article_ef0756c9-9641-5cfc-befc-c1679029483b.html | 2022-09-03T14:21:08 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/library-hosts-free-retirement-seminar/article_ef0756c9-9641-5cfc-befc-c1679029483b.html |
Bexar County Sheriff's Office is asking the public for help locating the driver of a light gray 2015 Dodge Ram that is accused of causing bodily injury of another driver.
BCSO says the suspect cut off the victim when merging onto Highway 90 West after pulling out of Grosenbacher road on the Far West Side. Both vehicles took the Montgomery exit and a "disturbance" continued between the two drivers.
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The suspect was pulling flatbed trailers, and struck the victim's vehicle with the trailers causing serious bodily injury. The suspect did not stop and instead took the turnaround to continue on Highway 90 East.
The victim got a photo of the truck, but BCSO is asking for assistance is locating the owner.
Anyone with information is asked to contact BCSO at (210) 335-6000 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Driver-injured-after-disturbance-with-17417302.php | 2022-09-03T14:27:14 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Driver-injured-after-disturbance-with-17417302.php |
WASHINGTON — A video showing a large group of white students singing lyrics, including offensive terms, and banging on the ceiling of the railcar has gotten the attention of many on Twitter, including a D.C. private school.
Two videos of the large group of teens were posted on Twitter Thursday evening.
"What is this mess on my train?!" said José Romero, who posted the video. The user followed it up with a second video calling out Landon School, a private college preparatory all-male school in Bethesda.
"They just got off at Union Station," Romero tweeted."[Landon School] control your students lol."
The song the boys appear to be singing is Freestyle by Lil Baby, which contains lyrics repeatedly using the n-word, which Romero claims the boys didn't shy away from using.
(Editor's Note: Due to the age of the teens in the video, WUSA9 has opted not to link to the tweets)
WUSA9 reached out to Landon School Thursday night to ask if school personnel were aware of the video. The following day we received a statement from the school.
"We expect our students to follow our Civility Code inside and outside the classroom," Director of Communications Meredith Josef wrote.
Landon School also responded to the video in a statement posted on Instagram Friday. The school said they are deeply concerned by the video and the students' behavior on the D.C. Metro, calling their conduct and the offensive words unacceptable and antithetical to the school's values and Civility Code.
"We absolutely do not condone or tolerate the behavior displayed in this video, and we deeply regret the hurt it has caused. We are looking into the matter," the statement reads. "As we begin the school year, we look forward to continuing our work to build in our boys the characteristics of respect, honor, and kindness that are so essential in preparing the next generation."
Romero said they were African-American riders on the train at the same time the students sang the word too.
“There was a young African American girl sitting in front of me and the look on her face, like her jaw was just open, like in shock of what she was seeing and hearing,” he said.
Romero said he appreciated one of the students yelling to tell others in the group to stop. However, he said shortly after, some of the students began to laugh.
“They really trivialized what they did,” Romero said. “They knew it was bad and laughed about it and then went on to another song.”
Romero said he spoke with Landon’s dean of students about the incident for 10 minutes on Friday. He said the administrator told him the school was continuing to investigate the incident and that it had already identified two students in the video.
He added he believes this can be a teaching moment for Landon and its students.
“It does make you wonder what kind of bubble these kids have been raised in,” he said. “A lot of it is probably ignorance, they don't realize what they're saying. They haven't been taught that. They haven't grown up around minorities or people of color.”
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