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Providence Journal wins 45 awards from Rhode Island Press Association
NORTH KINGSTOWN — The Providence Journal captured 45 awards — 17 first-place, 13 second-place, 10 third-place honors and five honorable mentions — on Friday night in the Rhode Island Press Association’s presentation of 131 awards to journalists throughout the state for writing, design and photography in 2021.
In addition, retired Journal sports columnist Bill Reynolds was one of two new members inducted into the association’s hall of fame. He was joined by Bruce Burdett, longtime managing editor of East Bay newspapers.
WRITING
Business story
First: Patrick Anderson, "Where did all the homes go?"
Arts/entertainment story
Second: Amy Russo, "Grief into art"; Third: Mark Reynolds, "Heading home"
Arts/niche columnist
Second: Gail Ciampa
Arts review/criticism
Third: Susan McDonald, “'Hamilton': Worth Seeing Again?"
Feature story/in-depth
First: Paul Edward Parker, "Miracle girls"; Third: Antonia Noori Farzan, "The future of the ethnic social club"
Feature story/short
First: Paul Edward Parker, "Airbnb in a tree"; Third: Jack Perry, "Santa Claus shortage"
Headline writing
First: Kurt Mayer
News/features columnist
Second: Amy Russo. Honorable mention: Mark Patinkin
News story/in-depth
Second: Amy Russo, "Out in the cold"; Honorable mention: Tom Mooney, "Father’s Day tragedy"
Reporting on the environment
First: Alex Kuffner, "Higher ground"; Honorable mention: Tom Mooney, "Tagging great white sharks"
Single-topic series
Second: Antonia Noori Farzan, Beach access; Third: Katherine Gregg, Eleanor Slater Hospital
Sports columnist
First: Mark Daniels; Second: Bill Koch; Third: Eric Rueb
Sports feature story
First: Mark Daniels, "Stadium bucket list"; Third: Eric Rueb, "High school football player with prosthetic leg"
Sports story
First: Eric Rueb, "From a refugee camp to the Colts"; Second: Mark Daniels, "She’s an NFL agent"
Spot news story
First: Tom Mooney and Antonia Noori Farzan, "Social club shooting"
Unique/most unexpected story
First: Patrick Anderson and Paul Edward Parker: "Car vs. ferry"
PHOTOGRAPHY
Feature photo
First: Kris Craig, "Senior night"; Second: Bob Breidenbach, "A run in the park"
Food photo
Honorable mention: Kris Craig, "Lemon cupcakes"
General news photo
Second: Bob Breidenbach, "They treat him like a human being here"; Third: David DelPoio, "Take it outside"
Photo series/picture story
First: Kris Craig, "Wine time"; Honorable mention: Bob Breidenbach, "Catches of the day"
Sports photo
Third: Bob Breidenbach, "Gameday souvenir"
Spot news photo
First: Bob Breidenbach, "Water search"; Second: Kris Craig, "Taken by storm"
Weather photo
First: Bob Breidenbach, "Swirling clouds at Gillette"; Second: David DelPoio, "Bonjour Henri"
DESIGN
Best newspaper front page
First: Staff, "Code red"; Second: "Heart-wrenching"
Best sports front page
First: Staff, "Worth the wait"
DISTINCTION
Photographer of the year
Third: Kris Craig
Distinguished journalist
First: Tom Mooney; Second: Katie Mulvaney | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/06/04/ri-press-association-award-winning-providence-journal-wins-45/7488765001/ | 2022-06-05T01:52:31 | 1 | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/06/04/ri-press-association-award-winning-providence-journal-wins-45/7488765001/ |
SAN FRANCISCO — Brittney Griner hasn’t been forgotten at the NBA Finals.
The WNBA star has been detained in Russia for more than 100 days — wrongfully so, U.S. officials insist — and some members of the Boston Celtics are using their platform at the NBA’s title series to add their voices to the chorus of those demanding she be allowed to come home.
Several players wore black T-shirts with “We Are BG” on the front in orange letters for their practice session at the NBA Finals on Saturday. Game 2 of the title series between the Celtics and Golden State Warriors is Sunday.
“It’s extremely tough seeing what she’s going through,” All-NBA forward Jayson Tatum of the Celtics said. “I know everybody sees and feels that, and obviously we’re all together in support trying to bring her back to her family and things like that. Yeah, wearing those shirts today in support of her.”
The shirts also had a QR code on the back, linking to an online petition seeking 300,000 signatures in support of the notion of bringing Griner home.
“We felt like it was a good idea to use our availability and our platforms to bring attention to certain matters,” said Celtics guard Jaylen Brown, an officer within the National Basketball Players Association. “I always stand for that. Being an athlete, we’re not just up here just to entertain you guys. We also have a voice. I always appreciate and applaud athletes, entertainers, my teammates who plan to do something with that. I’m not sure if we’ll wear it for the rest of the time, but today was a good day to bring attention to a topic that was necessary.”
Griner, who plays for the Phoenix Mercury, has been detained since February after vape cartridges containing oil derived from cannabis were allegedly found in her luggage at an airport in Moscow.
Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist for the U.S., faces drug smuggling charges that carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
“It’s been now over 100 days since she’s been illegally held in Russia,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said. “I think it’s something that all of us should be heard on, contacting your representatives and others. I will only say we are working in lockstep with the U.S. government and outside experts on trying to expedite her release in any way we can. Certainly our hearts go out to her and her family, and we are just as eager for her safe return.”
Russian officials have described Griner’s case as a criminal offense without making any political associations. But Moscow’s war in Ukraine has brought U.S.-Russia relations to the lowest level since the Cold War.
Despite the strain, Russia and the United States carried out an unexpected prisoner exchange last month — trading former Marine Trevor Reed for Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the United States.
While the U.S. does not typically embrace such exchanges, it made the deal in part because Yaroshenko had already served a long portion of his sentence. The Russians may consider Griner someone who could figure into another such exchange.
Celtics guard Grant Williams helped coordinate Saturday’s effort, working with the NBPA and the WNBA’s player association as well to make it happen.
He said it’s important NBA players show “that love and support” for Griner.
“They sent them overnight to get them here for today,” Williams said. “They did a phenomenal job, and want to credit them to make that process happen. We just wanted to do that as a team. It was one of those things where no one questioned it. Everyone said, ‘Let’s do it. Everyone put the shirt on immediately when we got them, fresh off the box. They were ironed and good to go.’”
The WNBA has acknowledged Griner's absence this season in a number of ways, including social media posts from many players and the league placing a decal with her initials and number on the home floor of all 12 of that league's teams.
“Don’t forget, y’all," Celtics guard Marcus Smart said as he pointed proudly to Griner's initials on his chest. “See this shirt. We are with BG."
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More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/brittney-griner-wnba-boston-celtics/103-b481f4e0-541c-46cd-891e-dbb92aacc371 | 2022-06-05T01:56:27 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/brittney-griner-wnba-boston-celtics/103-b481f4e0-541c-46cd-891e-dbb92aacc371 |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Due to having an overflow of animals, the Front Street Animal Shelter in Sacramento will be offering free adoptions through June 10.
The shelter posted about the opportunity to give the animals a forever home on Facebook Thursday.
"Our kennels are completely full, and we are overwhelmed with homeless pets," the shelter wrote. "To help save lives, all pets will be free to adopt through Friday, June 10th."
For more information about pet adoption, click here. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/front-street-animal-shelter-free-adoptions/103-d6416262-b4c6-47a3-ba8b-5ea079a1fba2 | 2022-06-05T01:56:33 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/front-street-animal-shelter-free-adoptions/103-d6416262-b4c6-47a3-ba8b-5ea079a1fba2 |
As an angler on the south bank of the James River tugged her line nearby, Josh McDonough fished a Heineken beer bottle out of the water with his trash grabber, as his wife, Becky McDonough, cheered him on.
The McDonoughs were among approximately 100 volunteers wielding trash grabbers and garbage bags as they removed bottles, cans, cigarette butts, fishing line and other debris at Ancarrow’s Landing and along the adjacent Richmond Slave Trail as part of Clean the Bay Day, in conjunction with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
“This is our community. This is where we live. It’s the world overall,” Becky McDonough said. “We should be taking care of it.”
“It’s getting there, for sure,” her husband said. And, indeed, the freshly mowed greenspace was looking downright pristine, with no litter in sight.
It was a scene replicated across Virginia on Saturday as more than 3,000 volunteers — on foot and by boat — removed 65,500 pounds of litter as part of the cleanup, an annual event since 1989 that has been curtailed the past two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Saturday’s cleanup took place at nearly 200 sites over an estimated 250 miles of shoreline and trails. Since its inception, the cleanup has picked up about 7.1 million pounds of debris from over 8,000 miles of shoreline in Virginia, according to the foundation.
Ancarrow’s Landing is named for Newton Ancarrow, a speedboat builder who became an unlikely advocate for the cleaning of the James during the 1960s.
“It’s a very precious site in Richmond for anglers and people who want to know all the city’s history, good and bad,” said Peggy Sanner, Virginia executive director of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
Its growing popularity had been accompanied by a growing litter problem.
“It was pretty gross” upon her arrival Saturday morning, said Megan Garland, who is taking a class by the foundation and studied marine biology and coastal zone management in college.
One of her wishes was for “people not here for this, seeing us out here cleaning up, wondering what we’re doing ... just getting people to think about that.”
Teresa Weaver was among the volunteers from C&F Bank participating in the cleanup, along with her teenage daughters, Riley and Raegan.
“Anything we can do to give back to the communities we serve is important to us,” she said.
Aaron Armwood, a merchandising manager for PepsiCo, thought the cleanup would be a good opportunity for a family activity while giving back to the community.
The cleanup had Armwood, for the first time, walking the trail that enslaved Africans marched upon their arrival at Manchester Docks. As he and his family cleared the trail of bottles, food wrappings and other debris, he took stock of its legacy.
“I try to keep things in perspective,” he said. “It’s a piece of history. It’s still something we in this country have to face and deal with.”
But, “being here, for a good purpose — I’ll take that.” | https://richmond.com/news/local/this-chesapeake-bay-cleanup-produced-a-clean-landing-in-richmond/article_2152936b-11d6-58be-b2ba-936c690cc982.html | 2022-06-05T01:57:03 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/this-chesapeake-bay-cleanup-produced-a-clean-landing-in-richmond/article_2152936b-11d6-58be-b2ba-936c690cc982.html |
The RWGA will stage its 94th City Amateur beginning Monday, with a full field of 80 golfers expected.
Salisbury Country Club will play host to the tournament on its Huguenot and Monacan courses. The two nine-hole designs will offer different challenges to the golfers.
“The course is in wonderful shape,” tournament director Cathy Plotkin said. “It’s just a great place to have this tournament.”
Monday’s qualifying round will set the 16-player field for the championship flight, which begins match play on Tuesday and leads to Friday’s championship match.
The competition should be strong, with seven past champions and 29 golfers who have an index of less than 20.
The tournament is one of the longest-running amateur events in the state and has been held every year since 1926, with the exception of 1944, 1945 and 2020.
Only one player won’t have to participate in Monday’s qualifying. That’s defending champion Kristine Rohrbaugh, who will begin Tuesday with the No. 1 seed in the championship flight.
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LINCOLN CITY, Ore. — Lincoln City’s seven miles of coastline are now even more accessible to anyone who feels the call of the Pacific. The coastal town brought in three beach wheelchairs for public use, along with three portable "Mobi-mats."
The effort to improve accessibility to the beach is a collaboration between multiple city departments including Public Works, Explore Lincoln City and the Parks and Recreation department.
“Accessibility has long been a priority in Lincoln City,” said Jeanne Sprague, Lincoln City Parks and Recreation director. “The addition of the Mobi-mats and beach friendly wheelchairs extends an invitation to our beaches to everyone.”
The portable ocean-blue mobility mats are 450 feet long and 6 1/2 feet wide, and they increase beach access by creating temporary pathways. They are now installed at three different locations: Southwest 51st Street in the historic Taft District, the D River Wayside in the Delake District and Southwest 33rd Street in the Nelscott District.
They’ll be laid out there every year moving forward from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
"That will be the schedule for the Mobi-mats and the beach wheelchairs are available year-round — every day, people can reserve them for free," said Sprague.
Three beach wheelchairs are available for rent on Southwest 51st Street. They allow people with limited mobility to travel over sand, shells and rocks to visit Lincoln City’s Taft Beach and Siletz Bay.
"It was great to see a means for accessibility to the beach," said Charl Norloff.
Norloff sometimes uses walking poles to get around. She was one of the first people to give the new installations a try.
"Since we’re all at a point in our lives where balance and walking in the sand is difficult, it was just great to have this path down to where the sand was firmer," Norloff continued, "so it absolutely makes it a lot easier to walk on."
The idea is to create a path for one and all to access the coastline.
"Our beaches are here for everyone no matter what your ability is," said Sprague.
Prague says the Mobi-mats were around $20,000 each, while the three beach wheelchairs with their lockers came to about $15,000 each. Funding for one of the wheelchairs was granted from the Oregon Coast Visitors Association.
Lincoln City joins other Oregon coast towns that lend them out, including Seaside, Cannon Beach, Manzanita and Pacific City. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/lincoln-city-beach-accessibility-disabled-wheelchair/283-19d6e558-67be-4cc3-8cec-02c3ca3a9867 | 2022-06-05T01:57:18 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/lincoln-city-beach-accessibility-disabled-wheelchair/283-19d6e558-67be-4cc3-8cec-02c3ca3a9867 |
PORTLAND, Ore. — It is safe to say that going to the Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles is not everyone's favorite errand. But sometimes, you've got to go in person. Unfortunately, that's not possible right now at six locations that are closed for the next few months, and six more that have cut back their operating days and hours.
This week, KGW found people waiting outside of the downtown Portland DMV office who were unaware it is closed Monday through Wednesday right now. The reason? Not enough staff during the DMV's busiest customer service season.
“And that leaves all of our offices in a bind ... so to make sure that offices are staffed and able to serve customers, we're consolidating where our staff are working,” said Lauren Mulligan, public information officer for the Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles.
Mulligan says the DMV is doing the best it can. But like a lot of places, it just does not have enough workers right now.
“If they know they need to come into a field office for something that can’t be done online, like being issued a Real ID, to plan ahead and either make an appointment or go online and check the office hours for the office they plan to visit,” Mulligan advised.
The Lake Oswego office is currently open Monday through Wednesday, but closed Thursday and Friday. If you do go there, Mulligan asked that you to remember the folks behind the counter are your friends and neighbors.
“And we really appreciate your patience when you come in; people are working very hard to serve you and we just want our customers to know about some of these changes before they come in so they are not surprised and frustrated when they arrive,” Mulligan said.
And, appropriately, the Oregon DMV also wants you to know they're hiring.
“DMV is a great place to work and we're hoping that people who are interested in joining the DMV team will apply today,” said Mulligan.
These are the DMV offices that are closing entirely through the summer:
- Ashland
- Cave Junction
- Lebanon
- Redmond
- Sandy
- Stayton | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/oregon-dmv-locations-closed-hours-cut-staffing-shortages/283-525fcc8f-1990-4f23-88b2-708aaeb62a2e | 2022-06-05T01:57:24 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/oregon-dmv-locations-closed-hours-cut-staffing-shortages/283-525fcc8f-1990-4f23-88b2-708aaeb62a2e |
Veterans of Washington weather, along with sophisticated visitors to our area, could probably sense on Saturday that something important was missing.
If it is not now summer, it is close to it, but the sogginess, the steaminess, the sweaty stickiness seemed nowhere to be found.
We often gauge summer miseries less by the temperature than by the heat index. The index, a numerical measure of discomfort, blends thermometer readings with the humidity to describe the true undesirability of our circumstances.
The index gives a “feels like” figure, and in summer we may ruefully revel in how far it often exceeds the actual temperature.
But for many hours on our surprising Saturday, the heat index seemed to run in reverse. It fell short of the thermometer.
Just before 4 p.m., a blazing sun beamed with a power befitting the date, only 17 days from the solstice. At that moment, the actual temperature was 85.
Yet, so dry was the air, so quickly was perspiration whisked away, so well did evaporation keep us cool, that according to the heat index, we did not feel as if we were enveloped by 85-degree heat. it felt as if the temperature was only 82.
As of 5 p.m., Saturday’s high thermometer reading had reached 86, four degrees above average. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/against-our-experience-and-expectations-saturday-proved-dry/2022/06/04/cb11b7d4-e45f-11ec-be47-cbd01021a7bb_story.html | 2022-06-05T02:14:43 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/against-our-experience-and-expectations-saturday-proved-dry/2022/06/04/cb11b7d4-e45f-11ec-be47-cbd01021a7bb_story.html |
While the barrage of onlookers who annually line O Street to watch cars cruise Lincoln's main drag is a spectacle unique to Memorial Day weekend, area residents say the perilous driving behavior that accompanies it rolls on all summer.
The unsanctioned cruise night May 29 resulted in tragedy for the second time in two decades, when an 18-year-old Omaha man in a Ford Taurus struck a Toyota Corolla turning in front of him at the 52nd Street intersection, killing both of the Toyota's occupants and sending both cars into a crowd of people gathered along the sidewalk, 20 of whom required treatment at local hospitals.
A day later, the city's police chief said the crash "would have happened whether" onlookers were there or not, acknowledging the persistence of dangerous driving on O Street.
"We need to curb that, through education, and also enforcement," Chief Teresa Ewins said during a Memorial Day news conference. "So we have been doing that. We've taken the complaints from the O Street corridor, which many of you know about, and have been very active in trying to stop this behavior."
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Area residents, though, say those efforts haven't worked — and the scope of the behavior is not limited to Memorial Day, weekend evenings or even the summer months.
"Every single night, there's something," said Jordyn Vavak, who moved into her house a block away from the crash site a year ago and expected the behavior — racing, cruising, the sounds of tires screeching and engines backfiring — to die down as summer gave way to fall.
Instead, she said, "it's an every night occurrence," one that peaks during Memorial Day weekend but never seems to completely cease.
She's only called the police once, she said, when the humming bass of a blaring car stereo kept her and her children up past midnight. She doesn't like to complain. And she knew O Street was the city's main cruising spot when she moved to the area from near 52nd and Adams streets, she said.
But Vavak didn't know how bad it was until she lived on N Street.
"I was hopeful that Labor Day would be the end," she said. "I've heard that (Memorial Day) starts it off and by Labor Day it's supposed to die down, but it doesn't."
Most residents on Vavak's street don't bother calling in noise complaints, said Ron Zimmer, who has lived across from Vavak's house for 12 years and, most years, is among the onlookers who line O Street every Memorial Day weekend.
"We get noise 24/7," he said, chalking the inconvenience up to life along O Street.
"Whoever does it is gone by the time the police would get here," Zimmer said.
Authorities have spent decades combating the behavior plaguing O Street, which former Lincoln Police Chief Tom Casady said dates back as far as he can remember, estimating the corridor became a cruising hotspot as early as the 1940s.
"It's hard for a lot of people, particularly people my age, to realize that there will be a traffic jam — an honest-to-goodness traffic jam — at 33rd and O in Lincoln, Nebraska, at 2:25 a.m. on a Wednesday," he said.
Casady, who served as police chief from 1994 to 2011 and was the city's public safety director until 2019, said the department has poured immeasurable resources into policing O Street, and late in his tenure as chief began deploying the Nebraska State Patrol's helicopter on holiday weekends to monitor the antics.
He described the annual and nightly enforcement efforts on O Street as a longstanding game of cat and mouse between officers and street racers, tire burners and bad actors. The mice, most often, win.
"Here's the problem: There's only so much you can do with law enforcement," Casady told the Journal Star. "For every person you catch and give a ticket to, there are 35 others who get away with it. Probably more than 35."
The weekend following the deadly crash, O Street was seemingly devoid of street racing Friday night. A significant police presence was in place, with officers patrolling popular meeting spots for cruisers such as the Kohl’s parking lot at 84th Street or the Barnes & Noble near where last week's fatal crash occurred.
The police department and State Patrol in recent years have sought grant funding to cover overtime costs on summer holiday weekends, increasing patrol efforts along O Street, focusing on the stretch from 17th to 84th. The enforcement detail was in place for Memorial Day weekend, but no officers witnessed the crash at 52nd and O, police said.
Emily Siebenhor, 20, and her passenger, Edith Hermosillo, 22, died in the crash while attempting to complete a turn. In the crash report, police said Kyvell Stark was speeding above the 40 mph limit when he went through a yellow light headed west.
No citations associated with the Memorial Day weekend crash have been reported.
In 2020, the last year in which full data is available, LPD issued 750 citations for speeding, or reckless or careless driving on O Street.
And last summer, in a three-month O Street enforcement campaign that began Memorial Day weekend, the department's officers and State Patrol troopers made contact with 362 drivers, issuing 88 speeding tickets and tracking two criminal violations.
Despite those efforts, there were more crashes on O Street between 17th and 84th last year than any of the previous four years, according to a Journal Star analysis of department data. Police responded to 326 collisions on that section of O Street in 2021, up from 287 the year before, 288 in 2019 and even fewer in 2018 and 2017.
"I've just got to say that, for the most part, those efforts to enhance enforcement, in my estimation, have not solved the problem," Casady said. "Because the risk of getting caught is too small, and the cost of getting caught is still too low."
For the residents of Trailridge Court, a cul-de-sac of duplex-style townhomes adjacent to the Kohl's near 84th and O streets, police enforcement efforts have been futile, as the store's parking lot has often become an arena of sorts for burnouts and "cookies."
Unlike those living near 52nd and N, though, the tight-knit block of mostly retirees in east Lincoln do call the police when drivers burn rubber 20 yards or so from some of their backyards, filling the air with smoke and the nearby street with angry residents.
Diane and Ellis Willadsen have lived next to Kohl's since the winter of 2014, and more often than not, they've had their lives interrupted by the screeching tires across Russwood Boulevard, they said. When they first moved in, the couple naturally slept in their house's master bedroom but soon moved their sleeping quarters downstairs.
In the years since, Diane Willadsen has written letters to the mayor, the former police chief, City Council members and executives at Kohl's and Burger King, she said. She never heard back from the city officials or company executives, she said, and she hasn't stopped hearing the burnouts.
"We don't mind if they gather there," she said, standing in her former master suite that's now a spare bedroom. "We just wish they were quiet."
Seven residents on the block all said that groups as large as 20 to 50 people gather in the parking lot some nights, forming makeshift arenas for burnouts and other stunts, sometimes performed with passengers sitting in the car windows with half their bodies hanging out.
When police do come — often in response to more than one neighbor calling per night — the Willadsens said the cars in the lot scatter in different directions, most of them heading back toward O Street.
Dan and Bonnie Forst, who have lived across the street from the Willadsens' home for nine years, said they've watched other neighbors on the block sell their townhomes "solely because of Kohl's" and the noise problem they said has gotten worse over time.
They built a deck they can't always use at night because of the constant screech of tires. Dan Forst wears earplugs to bed. But they don't call the police as often as they used to, they said, decreasing calls from about twice a week to twice a month.
"It's gonna be just like this thing on O Street," Bonnie Forst said of the chaos outside Kohl's. "Until somebody dies over there, nothing's gonna happen."
Tom Casady's list of the 10 most infamous crimes in Lincoln history
Crimes of the times
This is simply one man’s perspective from the early 21st century (first written in 2010). I had to make a decision about crimes that occurred at locations that are inside the city today, but were outside our corporate limits at the time they occurred. I chose the latter.
Before beginning, though, I have to deal with three crimes that stand apart: the murders of three police officers in Lincoln. I’m not quite sure how to place them in a list. They all had huge impacts on the community, and on the police department in particular. Because these are my colleagues, I deal with them separately and in chronological order.
Patrolman Marion Francis Marshall
Shot in the shadow of the new Nebraska State Capital, Gov. Charles Bryan came to his aid and summoned additional help.
Lt. Frank Soukup
Marion Marshall was technically not a Lincoln police officer, so Lt. Soukup was actually the first Lincoln police officer killed on duty. One of his colleagues who was present at the motel and involved in the gunbattle, Paul Jacobsen, went on to enjoy a long career and command rank at LPD, influencing many young charges (like me) and leaving his mark on the culture of the agency.
Lt. Paul Whitehead
In the space of a few months, three LPD officers died in the line of duty. Frank Soukup had been murdered, and George Welter had died in a motorcycle crash. Paul Whitehead's partner, Paul Merritt, went on to command rank, and like Paul Jacobsen left an indelible mark at LPD and the community.
No. 1: Starkweather
The subject of several thinly disguised movie plots and a Springsteen album, the Starkweather murders are clearly the most infamous crime in Lincoln’s history — so far. One of the first mass murderers of the mass media age, six of Charles Starkweather’s 11 victims were killed inside the city of Lincoln, and the first was just on the outskirts of town. I didn’t live in Lincoln at the time, but my wife was a first-grader at Riley Elementary School and has vivid memories of the city gripped by fear in the days between the discovery of the Bartlett murders and Starkweather’s capture in Wyoming.
The case caused quite an uproar. There was intense criticism of the police department and sheriff’s office for not capturing Starkweather earlier in the week after the discovery of the Bartletts' bodies. Ultimately, Mayor Bennett Martin and the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners retained a retired FBI agent, Harold G. Robinson, to investigate the performance of local law enforcement. His report essentially exonerated the local law officers and made a few vanilla recommendations for improving inter-agency communication and training.
Now I know that many readers are mumbling to themselves “how obvious.” Hold your horses, though. It’s not quite as obvious as you might think. I had two experiences that drove this fact home to me. The first was a visit by a small group of journalism students. Only one member of the class had any idea, and her idea was pretty vague. You need to remember that the Starkweather murders were in 1957 and 1958 — before the parents of many college students were even born.
The second experience was a visit by a Cub Scout den. I was giving the kids a tour of the police station one evening. We were in the front lobby waiting for everyone to arrive. As I entertained the boys, I told the moms and dads that they might enjoy looking in the corner of the Sheriff’s Office display case to see the contents of Starkweather’s wallet — discovered a couple of years ago locked up in the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office safe. After a few minutes, one of the confused fathers asked me who Starkweather was, and why it was significant.
No. 2: Lincoln National Bank
On the morning of Sept. 17, 1930, a dark blue Buick carrying six men pulled up in front of the Lincoln National Bank at the northwest corner of 12th and O streets. Five of the men entered the bank, while a sixth stood outside by the Buick, cradling a machine gun. Observing the unusual events, a passerby called the police. The officer who responded, Forrest Shappaugh, was casually instructed by the machine-gun-toting lookout to just keep going, which he wisely did. Returning with reinforcements, he found that the robbers had already made good on their getaway, netting $2.7 million in cash and negotiable securities.
Ultimately, three of the six suspects were arrested. Tommy O’Connor and Howard Lee were convicted and sentenced. Jack Britt was tried twice but not convicted by a hung jury. Gus Winkeler, a member of Al Capone’s gang, winged a deal with County Attorney Max Towle to avoid prosecution in exchange for orchestrating the recovery of $600,000 in bearer bonds. The following year, Winkeler was murdered in Chicago, the victim of a gangland slaying. The final two robbers were never identified.
The Lincoln National Bank robbery stood as the largest cash bank robbery in the United States for many decades. It precipitated major changes at the Lincoln Police Department. Chief Peter Johnstone was rapidly “retired” after the robbery, the department’s fleet was upgraded to add the first official patrol cars, the full force was armed and a shotgun squad was organized. Forty-four years later when I was hired at LPD, the echo of the Lincoln National Bank robbery was still evident in daily bank opening details, and in the Thomspon submachine guns and Reising rifles that detectives grabbed whenever the robbery alarm sounded at headquarters.
No. 3: The Last Posse
My first inkling about this crime came when I was the chief deputy sheriff. One of my interns, a young man named Ron Boden (who became a veteran deputy sheriff), had been doing some research on Lancaster County’s only known lynching, in 1884. I came across a reference in the biography of the sheriff at the time, Sam Melick, to the murder of the Nebraska Penitentiary warden and subsequent prison break. Melick had been appointed interim warden after the murder and instituted several reforms.
Several years later, a colleague, Sgt. Geoff Marti, loaned me a great book, Gale Christianson’s "Last Posse," that told the story of the 1912 prison break in gory, haunting and glorious detail.
To make a long story short, convict Shorty Gray and his co-conspirators shot and killed Warden James Delahunty, a deputy warden and a guard on Wednesday, March 13, 1912. They then made their break — right into the teeth of a brutal Nebraska spring blizzard. Over the course to the next few days, a posse pursued. During the pursuit, the escapees carjacked a young farmer with his team and wagon. As the posse closed in, a gunfight broke out and the hostage was shot and killed in the exchange, along with two of the three escapees.
There was plenty of anger among the locals in the Gretna-Springfield vicinity about the death of their native son, and a controversy raged over the law enforcement tactics that brought about his demise. Lancaster County Sheriff Gus Hyers was not unsullied by the inquiry, although it appears from my prospect a century later that the fog of war led to the tragedy.
Christianson, a professor of history at Indiana State University who died earlier this year, notes the following on the flyleaf:
“For anyone living west of the Mississippi in 1912, the biggest news that fateful year was a violent escape from the Nebraska state penitentiary planned and carried out by a trio of notorious robbers and safe blowers.”
Bigger news on half the continent than the sinking of the Titanic during the same year would certainly qualify this murder-escape as one of the most infamous Lincoln crimes in history.
No. 4: Rock Island wreck
The Aug. 10, 1894, wreck of a Rock Island train on the southwest outskirts of Lincoln was almost lost in the mist of time until it was resurrected in the public consciousness by author Joel Williams, who came across the story while conducting research for his historical novel, "Barrelhouse Boys."
The wreck was determined to be the result of sabotage to the tracks, perhaps an attempt to derail the train as a prelude to robbery. Eleven people died in the crash and ensuing fire, making this a mass murder, to be sure. G.W. Davis was arrested and convicted of the crime but later received a full pardon. The story was told in greater detail earlier this year by the Lincoln Journal Star.
A historical marker is along the Rock Island Trail in Wilderness Park, accessible only by foot or bike from the nearest trail access points about a half-mile away at Old Cheney Road on the north, or 14th Street on the south.
Here’s the big question that remains unanswered: Was there really significant evidence to prove that George Washington Davis committed the crime, or was he just a convenient scapegoat? The fact that he received a gubernatorial pardon 10 years later leads me to believe that the evidence must have been unusually weak. If he was railroaded, then my second question is this: who really pried loose the tracks with the 40-pound crowbar found at the scene?
No. 5: Commonwealth
On Nov. 1, 1983, the doors to Nebraska’s largest industrial savings and loan company were closed and Commonwealth was declared insolvent. The 6,700 depositors with $65 million at stake would never be fully compensated for their loss, ultimately receiving about 59 cents on the dollar for their deposits, which they all mistakenly believed were insured up to $30,000 through the Nebraska Depository Insurance Guaranty Corporation, which was essentially an insurance pool with assets of only $3 million.
The case dominated Nebraska news for months. The investigation ultimately led to the conviction of three members of the prominent Lincoln family that owned the institution, the resignation of the director of the State Department of Banking and the impeachment of the Nebraska attorney general and the suspension of his license to practice law. State and federal litigation arising from the failure of Commonwealth drug on for years.
At the Lincoln Police Department, the Commonwealth failure led to the formation of a specialized white-collar crime detail, now known as the Technical Investigations Unit. At the time, municipal police departments in the United States had virtually no capacity for investigating financial crime and fraud of this magnitude, and we quickly became well known for our expertise in this area. The early experience served LPD very well in the ensuring years.
No. 6: Candice Harms
Candi Harms never came home from visiting her boyfriend on Sept. 22, 1992. Her parents reported her as a missing person the following morning, and her car was found abandoned in a cornfield north of Lincoln later in the day. Weeks went by before her remains were found southeast of Lincoln.
Scott Barney and Roger Bjorklund were convicted in her abduction and murder. Barney is in prison serving a life term. Bjorklund died in prison in 2001. Intense media attention surrounded the lengthy trial of Roger Bjorklund, for which a jury was brought in from Cheyenne County as an alternative to a change of venue. I have no doubt that the trial was a life-changing event for a group of good citizens from Sidney, who did their civic duty.
I was the Lancaster County sheriff at the time, involved both in the investigation and in the trial security. It was at about this time that the cellular telephone was becoming a consumer product, and I have often thought that this brutal crime probably spurred a lot of purchases. During my career, this is probably the second-most-prominent Lincoln crime in terms of the sheer volume of media coverage.
No. 7: Jon Simpson and Jacob Surber
A parent’s worst nightmare unfolded in September 1975 when these two boys, ages 12 and 13, failed to return from the Nebraska State Fair. The boys were the victims of abduction and murder. The case was similar to a string of other murders of young boys in the Midwest, and many thought that these cases were related -- the work of a serial killer. Although an arrest was made in the case here in Lincoln, the charges were eventually dismissed. William Guatney was released and has since died.
No. 8: John Sheedy
Saloon and gambling house owner John Sheedy was gunned down outside his home at 1211 P St. in January 1891. The case of Sheedy, prominent in Lincoln’s demiworld, became the talk of the town when his wife, Mary, and her alleged lover and accomplice, Monday McFarland, were arrested. Both were acquitted at trial. The Sheedy murder is chronicled in a great interactive multimedia website, Gilded Age Plains City, an online version that builds upon an article published in 2001 by Timothy Mahoney of the University of Nebraska.
No. 9: Patricia McGarry and Catherine Brooks
The bodies of these two friends were found in a Northeast Lincoln duplex in August 1977. Their murderer, Robert E. Williams, was the subject of a massive Midwest manhunt during the following week. Before his capture, he committed a third murder in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, and raped, shot and left for dead a victim who survived in Minnesota. He is the last man to be executed in Nebraska, sent to the electric chair in 1997.
No. 10: Judge William M. Morning
District Court Judge William Morning was murdered in February 1924. He was shot on the bench by an unhappy litigant in a divorce case. His court reporter, Minor Bacon, was also shot, but a notebook in his breast pocket deflected the bullet and saved his life.
Many other crimes
Choosing Lincoln's 10 most infamous crimes was a challenge. Although the top two were easy, the picture quickly became clouded. We tend, of course, to forget our history rather quickly. Many of the crimes I felt were among the most significant are barely remembered today, if not completely forgotten.
Some readers will take issue with my list. In choosing 10, here are the others I considered, in no particular order. They are all murders:
-- Mary O'Shea
-- Nancy Parker
-- Charles Mulholland
-- Victoria Lamm and Janet Mesner
-- Martina McMenamin
-- Regina Bos (presumably murdered)
-- Patty Webb
-- Marianne Mitzner
I also thought about the five murder-suicides in which a mother or father killed multiple family members before taking their own life. Though tragic, these crimes did not command the same kind of attention as the others, perhaps because there was no lengthy investigation, no tantalizing whodunit, no stranger-killer, nor any of the details that come out in the coverage of a major trial.
Jenna Ebbers contributed to this report.
Reach the writer at 402-473-7223 or awegley@journalstar.com.
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AUSTIN, Texas — American Airlines just launched a new nonstop flight from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) to a Caribbean destination just in time for summer vacation.
Starting Saturday, Central Texas travelers could fly from Austin to Montego Bay, Jamaica and land at Sangster International Airport. Flights depart from Austin year-round on Saturdays on an Embraer 175 aircraft headed directly to Montego Bay.
“AUS is committed to connecting Austin to the world and this brand new destination helps further our promise to do so,” Jacqueline Yaft, CEO for AUS, said in a release. “We know that the local demand for air travel is as strong as it has ever been and we are grateful for our partners at American Airlines for continuing to invest in our community by launching more destinations and more nonstop flights.”
Nonstop service to Montego Bay is American Airlines' eighth international route from AUS, adding to more than 40 nonstop destinations for Austin travelers offered by the airline.
“We’re proud to launch new nonstop service from Austin to Montego Bay, offering customers another tropical destination for their travel plans,” said Brian Znotins, American Airlines VP of network planning. “We’re eager to continue building on our record growth in Austin and look forward to connecting customers with the splendors of Jamaica and beyond.”
The summer travel season is expected to be a busy one for AUS, so airport officials are encouraging domestic travelers to arrive two and a half hours before boarding and international travelers should arrive three hours before boarding.
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SEATTLE — Thousands of people traveled to Volunteer Park on Saturday, for Seattle’s “Pride in the Park,” kicking off the area’s Pride celebration throughout the month of June.
"It feels amazing to be back, a little bit surreal honestly, but I think that building community is more important now than ever," said Cookie Couture, who was named "Miss Gay Seattle" in 2021.
Couture said the last couple years have been very difficult.
"Definitely a troubling time for all different kinds of marginalized groups," said Couture.
She said there are other places in the country with even fewer LGBTQ+ protections.
"I have friends, fellow drag performers, scattered all over the country. Places like Florida right now are really scary for Trans people, for Queer people," said Couture.
According to Rayven Vulpes, who attended Saturday’s event, believes there are still plenty of issues here in Washington state.
"I still personally see some of that stigmatism and it can be disheartening to be like this is one of the queerest cities in the country," Vulpes sid. “We still have so many problems."
Vulpes argues one of the biggest problems, is the lack of protection and understanding for LGBTQ youth. She said she's heard too many stories of youth being forced to leave home for being their true selves.
“It would be nice to see more people take responsibility in saying we should be trying to prevent that, rather than allowing parents to still have that level of say it literally can be a matter of life and death," Vulpes said.
Vulpes and Couture acknowledge hopes that Washington and throughout the country will continue turning the page on hate, one day at a time.
"I'm here to live my life and I'm here to lift other people up and treat people how I want to be treated. And unfortunately, there's some people that you can't really bring with you and that kind of bubble of equality and acceptance, that's their loss," Couture said.
Seattle’s Pride Parade is later this month on Sunday, June 26 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/pride-in-the-park-kicks-off-seattle/281-92b53ee0-8426-461f-a837-f6e491e4cb9f | 2022-06-05T02:51:32 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/pride-in-the-park-kicks-off-seattle/281-92b53ee0-8426-461f-a837-f6e491e4cb9f |
MOUNTAIN CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – Mountain Dew has returned to its roots. The beverage founded in the hills of Tennessee has come home and opened an outpost in Mountain City.
Officials with Mountain Dew said the new outpost is a destination where people can come and have fun in the outdoors with friends and family while trying a slew of never-before-released flavors like pickle, s’mores, huckleberry, summer pop and more.
The Mountain Dew Outpost is located at 1203 Harbin Hill Road.
“Mountain Dew wanted to help outdoor enthusiasts get outside in nature and open up different trail systems for them to explore so Doe Mountain was the perfect candidate where also the history of Mountain Dew goes back 80 years where it was founded in Tennessee,” said Donovan De Leon, The Mountain Dew Outpost Ranger.
The Outpost is open daily until June 12th. The hours are 8 a.m. until dusk. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/mountain-dew-outpost-officially-opens-in-mountain-city/ | 2022-06-05T02:53:06 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/mountain-dew-outpost-officially-opens-in-mountain-city/ |
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – It was a busy night on the motor mile Saturday as officials with Autonation brought back ‘Tri-Cities Cars and Coffee After Dark’.
The event featured a slew of vehicles, food, merchandise and more. Organizers told News Channel 11 that the goal of the car show is to bring out as many car enthusiasts as possible.
AJ Towsley said he wanted to share his love for cars with others, he was one of the people in charge of the event.
“I’m a car enthusiast through and through. I like them all. I have no real preference. I love a lot of different cars from Japanese to German, to American, just all sorts of different stuff and because I like so many cars, I wanted to see as many as possible come out tonight,” he said.
According to Towsley, there were over 4,000 people in attendance.
He said they hope to grow the event nationwide. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/thousands-of-car-enthusiasts-attend-tri-cities-cars-and-coffee-after-dark/ | 2022-06-05T02:53:12 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/thousands-of-car-enthusiasts-attend-tri-cities-cars-and-coffee-after-dark/ |
WFLL Camo got a complete game from pitcher Teyan Clerry and used a late surge of runs to win the Flagstaff Little League Majors city championship Saturday at Continental Park with an 11-1 win over WFLL Black.
After a close battle in the semifinals earlier in the day that ended in a 9-4 victory, Camo was happy with its effort in the final game to win the nine-team championship tournament.
“We had our ace on the mound in this one, and we knew that they were going to come out swinging and we were going to challenge them. Overall our defense made plays today in both games, and especially in this one,” manager Colby Huffmon said.
Clerry 12, gave up one run in the first inning but went scoreless the rest of the way by controlling the game on the mound. His team won the city tournament in 2021 at age 11 -- against Huffmon’s squad -- with a late RBI, and he didn’t have to think that hard about which of the two championships was his favorite in his Little League Career.
“This year, because it was my last year,” Clerry said.
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Camo took an early lead, 2-1, after the first inning, and neither team scored in the second or third. Clerry kept up his solid performance, while Black’s Brisson Burcar was great early as well.
In the top of the fourth inning, with just one out, Camo loaded the bases. Gunner Babbitt hit an RBI single, Luke Huffmon hit a 2-RBI single and Camo scored two more on a pair of passed balls to take a 7-1 lead.
“These kids were ready to battle today, and they got on the plate and were ready to hit,” Colby Huffmon said. “I think we put the pressure on the other team, and we know when that happens they’re either going to make the play or not. You just have to put the ball in play and make them do it.”
Black almost scored a run in the bottom of the fourth inning in response, but Clerry fielded a ground ball and threw it to Babbitt, who tagged the batter out before he could slide safely home. That would be Black’s best chance to score.
Camo tacked on four more runs in the next two innings, and Clerry finished the game on the mound. It was one of his favorite memories from the year, but he said nothing could top the home run he hit during the season.
“It was really fun,” he said. “But I wish I could have hit another one.”
Clerry, along with the rest of the West Flagstaff Little League All-Stars, will play in the Arizona District 1 tournament later in the month.
More than winning, though, Huffmon said Little League baseball in Flagstaff was a success strictly because of the increase in participation. In 2021 there were just five Majors teams combined between WFLL and Continental Little League. In 2022, WFLL alone had five, while CLL had four.
“This season, with the amount of kids playing in the league compared to last year, it was a huge difference and these kids put in the effort,” he said. | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/wfll-camo-wins-majors-city-tournament/article_9ccf4288-e47d-11ec-8bdb-a3438b81f418.html | 2022-06-05T03:31:22 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/wfll-camo-wins-majors-city-tournament/article_9ccf4288-e47d-11ec-8bdb-a3438b81f418.html |
CENTERVILLE, Texas — A GoFundMe account was set up for the families who lost five of its members Thursday during the midst of the search for escaped Leon County inmate and convicted killer, Gonzalo Lopez.
On Friday, police identified the five who were found dead in a Centerville home as 66-year-old Mark Collins and his four grandsons, Waylon, 18, Carson, 16, Hudson, 11, and Bryson, 11. Officials said the four boys were visiting their grandfather on his ranch off Highway 7.
Waylon, Carson and Hudson were brothers and Bryson was their cousin, officials said.
Tomball ISD sent a letter to parents on Friday, confirming all four grandsons were students at their district, per KHOU.
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During a news conference Thursday, TDCJ Chief of Staff, Jason Clark, said Lopez was the main suspect in their deaths. He said authorities believed Lopez killed the family that day before taking off in a 1999 white Chevy Silverado.
Later, Atascosa County officers noticed Lopez driving the Silverado, Clark said. Lopez and the officers were then involved in a chase, which ended with Lopez crashing the vehicle after officers spiked his tires, Clark said.
When Lopez got out of the vehicle, he exchanged gunfire with the officers, Clark said. He was then shot to death by the officers, he added.
No officers were injured during the shooting, Clark said.
"We are very saddened that the murders happened, but we are breathing a sigh of relief that Lopez will not be able to hurt anyone else," Clark said.
The organizer of the GoFundMe, Stacie Barron of Tomball, Texas, said in the fundraiser's description that it was created after several people asked in the community on how to help. She added that the money raised will go toward the three Collins families that were impacted.
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SAN ANTONIO — A man is in custody after a kidnapped woman escaped from a residence located on the southwest side of Bexar County, according to Bexar County Sherriff Javier Salazar.
BCSO and SWAT responded to the 11200 block of Briggs Road Saturday morning after receiving information about a woman being taken against her will.
The man in custody is 46-year-old Jason Steele, according to Salazar.
Authorities say the woman told them she was a migrant farm worker and was doing work at a farm in Pearsall, TX. She was in a relationship with Steele but ended the relationship and then worked at another property in Pearsall, Salazar says.
Steele went to the farm kidnapping her by forcing her into an 18-wheeler, drove to Tempe, Arizona and got her out of the vehicle where he was going to abandon her according to Salazar. She then was able to force her way back into the 18-wheeler and convince him to bring her back to Texas.
Salazar says once Steele brought her back she was held against her will in a locked bedroom, beaten, threatened with a weapon and experienced an attempted sexual assault. She was unsuccessful in trying to free herself after a struggle in the home where Steele was cut, Salazar says.
"She wasn't fed for several days," Salazar says.
After Steele and other people in the home were using drugs she was able to escape and get help, Salazar says.
Jason Steele already has a warrant for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and is charged with aggravated kidnapping and domestic violence.
Salazar says four people including Steele were found at the residence.
"At this point we do have some indication that at the very least these other three people knew that this lady was being held against her will, they were checking on her throughout the time."
SWAT was called out after the residents inside the location closed the door and refused to comply with demands, officials say. The SWAT team used tear gas, but the suspect still refused to exit the residence. SWAT breached the front door and then the suspects surrendered, according to Salazar.
BCSO was conducting a search warrant at the residence Saturday afternoon.
When asked about the condition of the woman who escaped Salazar said, "she's okay, she's hungry, she hasn't eaten for days, she was beaten over the course of the couple of days, she's certainly terrorized, but she's safe and sound now."
Authorities say the location is the same place where officials busted a human smuggling case in February. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/bcso-one-person-in-custody-following-woman-taken-against-will-news/273-163432de-4b4e-4f8a-b828-bc9fce36fc8e | 2022-06-05T03:50:41 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/bcso-one-person-in-custody-following-woman-taken-against-will-news/273-163432de-4b4e-4f8a-b828-bc9fce36fc8e |
Scott Williamson kicked off KUZUthon V, a 12-hour marathon livestream simulcast, by telling listeners about the types of memberships available through KUZU. The host of The Miracle Witness Hour then told viewers what the KUZU-FM (92.9) station truly means to him.
“I love coming in here each and every week,” Williamson said. “It has been five years, I’ve been here before the beginning, and I’ve loved every single minute of it.”
On Saturday, KUZU’s annual 12-hour membership drive featured an old-school, 80s live telethon filled with Interviews, performances from local bands, KUZU DJs, visual art manipulators and poets.
Listeners can either tune in through the 100-watt nonprofit radio station that reaches Denton’s three-mile radius or watch on the station’s website.
“The work that we do for this event generates interest, it sustains interest and it also helps us raise the money that keeps our doors open,” said Ashley Bender, KUZU’s co-founder. “Since we’re 100% volunteer, we live on donations and the generosity of the community to help us stay afloat and pay the bills that keep the station running, so that we can stay on the air.”
Rachel Weaver, a KUZU volunteer, said during the event listeners are able to hear local artists perform at the station, in addition to interviews with producers. Weaver also said producers and show hosts will talk about why community radio is important.
“Producers from the station will be getting on the air and sort of talking about the membership drive and why community radio is important,” Weaver said.
Peter Salisbury, the chairman of the board running the station, founded Real Waves Radio Network, the nonprofit behind KUZU, in 2013 with board members Erin Findley and Sashenka Lopez. KUZU officially hit the airwaves four years after its conception.
Weaver said the membership campaign initially started as a Kickstarter campaign. The station has done membership campaign drives every year to help keep the radio station going.
Weaver said KUZU is important to the community because it can give a voice to producers and artists to share stories and music with viewers.
“We interview people sort of in the music, art and entertainment professions and we bring on poets and authors,” Weaver said. “So, it’s a really diverse array that’s on the radio whereas so much of radio nowadays is conglomerate … this really provides diversity and gives community members the opportunity to have that airspace.”
While the station is about to celebrate its fifth year next month, Bender said the station will continue to bring in more community members and station programs. There have been talks about children’s educational programs, such as radio camps.
“That would teach kids all aspects of radio from the science of sound and how sound waves work … like what’s the physics of the radio waves,” Butler said.
The 12-hour membership drive will run until 2 a.m. Sunday. KUZU’s goal is to raise over $5,000, according to the station’s website.
“We want to continue to be accessible and increase our accessibility to the community,” Butler said. “We want to increase the variety of programming.” | https://dentonrc.com/news/local/local-radio-station-airs-12-hour-donation-marathon-drive/article_3719ba33-4ef4-5777-8c2e-46876f732e58.html | 2022-06-05T04:29:21 | 0 | https://dentonrc.com/news/local/local-radio-station-airs-12-hour-donation-marathon-drive/article_3719ba33-4ef4-5777-8c2e-46876f732e58.html |
BOISE, Idaho — More than 1,200 kids from throughout the Treasure Valley laced up their shoes and ran a mile in Boise Saturday for the 38th annual Capitol Classic Kids Race.
Runners between the ages of 6 and 14 enjoyed a one-mile course from the Boise Train Depot to Cecil D. Andrus Park, formerly known as Capitol Park, across the street from the Idaho Capitol Building.
Saturday's race also featured two adaptive courses - one mile and three blocks - for kids of all abilities. The event returned to in-person for the first time in more than two years due to COVID-19 concerns.
Proceeds from the Saint Alphonsus and Treasure Valley Family YMCA Capitol Classic Kids Race benefit YMCA’s Child Development Programs.
Each participant was given a T-shirt and an "Olympic-style" medal. Refreshments were also offered at the end of the race at the "Finish Fair."
The race began in 1983, when 1,000 Treasure Valley kids ran from the State Capitol Building to the Union Pacific Depot.
"We got it in just before the rain and it was so wonderful to see everyone," Capitol Classic Kids Race emcee, Gerald Bell said. "It's just a community event every year in June and these kids are gonna remember this."
Urban Air Adventure Park, Norco, Big Al's, My 102.7 and BobFM sponsored Saturday's Capitol Classic Kids Race.
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BOISE, Idaho — The Sun Valley athletic and adventure community are mourning the loss of a beloved athlete and leader, James "Jimmy" Grossman.
Idaho County Sheriff's Office said Grossman died in a kayaking accident in the Fall Creek area on the Salmon River on May 30. He was 56 years old.
"He was such a bright light," Jimmy's ex-wife and close friend, Pirie Grossman said.
"The guy was so endlessly positive, you know? You would have to put on some sunscreen sometimes because he was just so stoked," Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation Executive Director, Scotty McGrew said.
Being positive and a bright light are just some of the many things friends, family and community members around Sun Valley and Idaho said they will remember Grossman as.
"He's just such a competent, capable, fluent, inspired man, and you just meet very few people like that in your life," McGrew said.
McGrew said Grossman influenced a whole generation of athletes in Sun Valley. Grossman grew up with Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation, winning various accolades and competitions. Later in life, Grossman took the time to help coach and teach new athletes in the area, according to McGrew.
"These sports are tough and there are tougher days than there are easy days," McGrew said. "They're dangerous and they're scary. However, Jim was there for all of these kids, he would take the kid who had the roughest day and pull them aside and lift them back up."
It was his kind uplifting nature that Pirie said made others around him, including herself, stronger, confident people.
"I think that was probably the most favorite thing to do is to teach skiing or to teach kayaking," Pirie said.
Jimmy didn't just teach, he excelled in those sports even traveling and becoming the best in the world for surf kayaking.
Pirie said he passed that love for those sports onto his children, Buey and Saba.
"Their father will live in them forever," Pirie said.
However, one of the things Jimmy was best known for was his love for the Gem State and highlighting it.
"Jim Grossman was probably the single-most influential person who brought the 2009 World Winter Special Olympics Games to Idaho," Opey Penaloga, the chief operating officer for Special Olympics Idaho said.
Jimmy and Pirie were co-chairs of the 2009 World Winter Special Olympics Games, helping raise $7 million in just two weeks, according to Penaloga.
"I think it's important for us to honor his passions and his commitment to Idaho, I think it really stands out the force of nature that he was," Penaloga said.
Pirie said he got involved in the Special Olympics because of his sister Courtney, who has intellectual disabilities.
"His ability to have others believe they could do things was who he was," said Pirie. "It's who he was."
Pirie added they plan to have a celebration of life for Jimmy on August 7 at the River Run. She said anyone who knows or has ever met Jimmy is invited.
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The Florida Department of Health in Osceola County has issued a Health Alert for the presence of harmful blue-green algal toxins in Lake Marian, south of the boat ramp.
This is in response to a water sample taken on June 1. The public should exercise caution in and around Lake Marian.
Blue-green algae are a type of bacteria that is common in Florida’s freshwater environments. A bloom occurs when rapid growth of algae leads to an accumulation of individual cells that discolor water and often produce floating mats that emit unpleasant odors.
Blue-green algae blooms can impact human health and ecosystems, including fish and other aquatic animals.
Residents and visitors are advised to take the following precautions:
- Do not drink, swim, wade, use personal watercraft, water ski or boat in waters where
there is a visible bloom. - Wash your skin and clothing with soap and water if you have contact with algae or discolored or smelly water.
- Keep pets away from the area. Waters where there are algae blooms are not safe for animals. Pets and livestock should have a different source of water when algae blooms are present.
- Do not cook or clean dishes with water contaminated by algae blooms. Boiling the water will not eliminate the toxins.
- Eating fillets from healthy fish caught in freshwater lakes experiencing blooms is safe. Rinse fish fillets with tap or bottled water, throw out the guts and cook fish well.
- Do not eat shellfish in waters with algae blooms. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/05/health-officials-issue-blue-green-algae-bloom-alert-in-lake-marian/ | 2022-06-05T04:34:29 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/05/health-officials-issue-blue-green-algae-bloom-alert-in-lake-marian/ |
AUSTIN, Texas — The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health recently announced that it has awarded more than a million dollars in grants to ten nonprofit advocacy groups to expand mental health advocacy across the state.
The Austin-based foundation awarded a total of $1.4 million to groups so they can hire in-house policy fellows, the foundation said. The fellows will receive intensive training, education and experience in mental health advocacy and policy work.
Each fellow is provided with an experienced mentor. Fellows and mentors attend the Hogg Mental Health Policy Academy where they receive training and support.
Organizations in Austin, Waco, Houston, El Paso, Dallas and Elgin received grants.
“We’re looking forward to working with these amazing organizations to increase their capacity to impact mental health policy and support the well-being of all Texans,” said Alison Mohr Boleware, director of policy at the Hogg Foundation.
The grant program, called the Mental Health Policy Academy and Fellows, was first launched in 2010 and builds individual and organizational capacity to further mental health policy and advocacy work. In 2016, the initiative was expanded with the launch of the peer police fellows program.
“Our communities continue to face challenges related to the pandemic and the health care inequities it exposed,” said Dr. Octavio N. Martinez, Jr., executive director of the Hogg Foundation and senior associate vice president for diversity and community engagement at The University of Texas at Austin. “We all stand to benefit from the difficult and important work that these policy fellows will be doing.”
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AUSTIN, Texas — Gun safety advocates rallied near the Texas Capitol on Saturday calling on lawmakers to pass tighter gun laws.
This comes in the wake of recent mass shootings across the nation, including one in Uvalde, Texas where 19 students and two teachers were killed at an elementary school.
Liz Hanks, one of the organizers with Texas Moms Demand Action said it's crucial for everyone to come together.
"We are victims of this gun violence epidemic at every level, and I have a voice and I am going to use it," Hanks said.
The event was part of Wear Orange Weekend and National Gun Violence Awareness Day on June 3. Nearly everyone at the event wore the color orange to honor the lives of those affected by gun violence.
Hanks said they're calling on the U.S. Senate to take action.
"The goal tonight is to talk directly to Sen. John Cornyn because he is in charge of these bipartisan talks about maybe passing some sort of background checks bill, and we want to encourage him to do that," Hanks said.
The speakers at the event included local lawmakers, teachers, health professionals, survivors of gun violence and community organizations.
"It's crazy what happened in Uvalde. It makes me sick and I'm so full of sorrow and the laws have to change," Normal Laird said, a former teacher who attended the event.
Laird said it's hard to feel safe when mass shootings continue to happen.
"We've had shootings in supermarkets, malls. I mean, come on, people. There's a big problem and we can no longer sweep it under the rug. We need to take action," Laird said.
Organizers said they hope there is real change so there can be a future where they won't have to host another rally against gun violence.
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Arizona lottery numbers, June 4
Associated Press
These Arizona lotteries were drawn Saturday:
Pick 3
6-8-3
Fantasy 5
14-15-24-25-36
Estimated jackpot: $416,000
The Pick
04-09-10-27-39-40
Estimated jackpot: $1 million
Triple Twist
02-03-08-30-34-42
Estimated jackpot: $350,000
Mega Millions
Estimated jackpot: $207 million
Powerball
14-16-36-52-60, Powerball: 16, Power Play: 3
Estimated jackpot: $184 million | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/06/04/arizona-lottery-numbers-june-4/7520296001/ | 2022-06-05T05:03:14 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/06/04/arizona-lottery-numbers-june-4/7520296001/ |
Federal judge weighs Arizona prisoner Frank Atwood's request to delay execution
A federal judge is considering whether to postpone the execution of an Arizona prisoner who argues the state's death penalty procedures would violate his rights by subjecting him to unimaginable pain.
Attorneys for Frank Atwood said their client would undergo excruciating suffering if he were strapped to the execution gurney while lying on his back because he has a degenerative spinal condition that has left him in a wheelchair. Atwood is scheduled to be lethally injected Wednesday for his murder conviction in the 1984 killing of 8-year-old Vicki Lynne Hoskinson.
At a court hearing Friday, Atwood's lawyers questioned whether the compounded pentobarbital to be used in the execution meets pharmaceutical standards and whether the state has met a requirement that the drug's expiration date falls after the execution date. They also are challenging Arizona's protocol for gas chamber executions.
Prosecutors say Atwood is trying to indefinitely postpone his execution through legal maneuvers.
Judge Michael Liburdi said he will likely issue an order over the weekend.
Two weeks ago, Atwood declined to choose between lethal injection or the gas chamber, leaving him to be put to death by lethal injection, the state's default execution method.
Even though he didn't pick the gas chamber, he is still challenging the state's lethal gas protocol that calls for the use of hydrogen cyanide gas, which was used in some past U.S. executions and by Nazis to kill 865,000 Jews at the Auschwitz concentration camp alone. His lawyers say hydrogen cyanide gas is unconstitutional and produces agonizing levels of pain in executions.
Without explicitly saying Atwood wants to die by the gas chamber, his lawyers argue he has a right to choose between methods of execution that are constitutional and said the state should switch its lethal gas from hydrogen cyanide gas to nitrogen gas because nitrogen would produce painless deaths.
"They could do that tomorrow," Joseph Perkovich, one of Atwood's attorneys, said about nitrogen gas.
Arizona, California, Missouri and Wyoming are the only states with decades-old lethal-gas execution laws still on the books. Arizona, which carried out the last gas chamber execution in the United States more than two decades ago, is the only state to still have a working gas chamber.
In recent years, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Alabama have passed laws allowing executions with nitrogen gas, at least in some circumstances, though experts say it has never been done and no state has established a protocol that would allow it.
Atwood's lawyers also said Arizona could take up executions by firing squad — a method of execution not used in the state.
Prosecutors say Atwood's challenge is not aimed at minimizing the pain he will feel when he is put to death, but rather to delay the execution indefinitely by requesting alternative methods of execution that he knows the state is unable to provide without changes to its execution protocol and the state Constitution.
Prosecutors say Atwood can alleviate pain caused by lying on his back by propping himself up with a pillow and using the tilt function on the execution table. They say he will be allowed to continue taking pain medications and will be provided a mild sedative before his execution.
Arizona prosecutors also said nitrogen gas remains untested in executions and that Atwood's attorneys hadn't established that nitrogen gas or a firing squad would reduce the risk of severe pain.
Jeffrey Sparks, a lawyer for the state, argued Atwood's legal claims about lethal gas are moot, saying the execution will be carried out by lethal injection.
Authorities have said Atwood kidnapped Hoskinson, whose remains were discovered in the desert northwest of Tucson nearly seven months after her disappearance. Experts could not determine the cause of death from the remains that were found, according to court records.
Atwood maintains that he is innocent.
Protested: Arizona violates journalists' rights to witness executions, attorney says
Last week, a federal appeals court denied a request by Atwood's lawyers to make new arguments in a bid to overturn his death sentence.
Atwood's lawyers have said that last summer they discovered an FBI memo describing an anonymous caller claiming to have seen the girl in a vehicle not associated with Atwood, but which could be linked to a woman. A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it couldn't conclude that the disclosure of the unreported anonymous call would have had any effect on Atwood's trial and conviction.
On Friday, Atwood's lawyers also asked the Arizona Supreme Court to stay his execution, making similar arguments about what they said was new evidence of his innocence related to the woman.
Until last month, Arizona went almost eight years without carrying out an execution.
The hiatus has been attributed to the difficulty of securing lethal injection drugs as manufacturers refuse to supply them and to problems encountered during the July 2014 execution of Joseph Wood, who was given 15 doses of a two-drug combination over nearly two hours. Wood snorted repeatedly and gasped before he died. His attorney said the execution had been botched.
The hiatus ended on May 11 when the state executed Clarence Dixon for his murder conviction in the 1978 killing of Deana Bowdoin, a 21-year-old Arizona State University student. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/06/04/federal-judge-weighs-arizona-prisoner-frank-atwood-request-delay-execution/7519309001/ | 2022-06-05T05:03:20 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/06/04/federal-judge-weighs-arizona-prisoner-frank-atwood-request-delay-execution/7519309001/ |
BLOOMINGTON — “You have to put your name in it to win it,” Brandon Caffey of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity said to college scholarship recipients on Saturday.
He represented one of 16 organizations that awarded a total of $81,000 in educational assistance to over two dozen high school graduates and college students during a Joint Scholarship Celebration.
The event was coordinated in part the Bloomington-Normal chapter of the NAACP, and hosted at Mount Pisgah Baptist Church in Bloomington. Chapter President Linda Foster remarked to the audience that at the heart of the NAACP’s mission is to eradicate racism and discrimination.
Once that is done, she said “we can live in peace.
“We can exhale and we can be as human beings should be: in harmony.”
As they continue to fight that war on racism, Foster said they need to keep bringing in young people brave enough to apply for scholarships.
Superintendents of both public school districts in the Twin Cities were also present Saturday.
Kristen Weikle, head of McLean County Unit 5, gave her congratulations to all graduates in Bloomington-Normal, and noted she was particularly biased toward Unit 5 graduates. Weikle said she looked forward to them receiving their scholarships.
Barry Reilly, superintendent of Bloomington School District 87, said the scholarships were truly meaningful to the kids in our community, and he’s personally excited for them.
Reilly told recipients there are many who have invested in their futures, and they shouldn’t be afraid to take advantage of those relationships.
“Take the good things that you see in people, learn from those and don't hesitate to reach out and learn from those folks,” he said. “Continue to do that. You’ve got great mentors around you.”
Rhonda Johnson, of Normal, told The Pantagraph that her family established the Dr. Dominique Lawson Scholarship fund as a gift for her daughter, a psychologist in Maryland.
That was done, she said, because they wanted more representation of people of color in her profession, noting only 4% of the psychology field are African Americans. Johnson said they raised money to help encourage students to go into that field.
Michael Coleman, a graduate of Normal Community High School, received the Lawson scholarship.
Another recipient present was Tahigee Floyd, 2022 graduate of Normal Community West High School. He told The Pantagraph that he felt shocked and blessed by the awards.
“I just thank God that I was able to win,” he said, adding that he hopes to help other youth down the road and pass the blessings on.
Floyd said he learned about the scholarship awards a few years ago and had seen others win. And, he said it’s crazy that he can win one too.
Floyd plans to study marketing at North Park University in Chicago.
Receiving the Mentoring And Providing Scholarships Program fund was Jasmyn Jordan, a 2021 NCWHS graduate who’s double-majoring in criminology and political science in the pre-law track at the University of Iowa.
Jordan spoke at the event about her initial takeaways from her freshman year. She quoted civil rights activist Audre Lorde: “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept and celebrate those differences.”
Drawing parallels between how our bodies need an array of food groups to be healthy and strong, she said, it’s imperative we surround ourselves with people who demonstrate a variety of mindsets, personalities and abilities.
Without that, Jordan said we’ll remain emotionally, spiritually and physically sad.
“Every single human is unique and serves a purpose that is unique, and if all of humankind were identical, our race could not survive,” she continued, noting that a homogeneous humankind is unable to solve the world’s problems.
She said diversity and unity allow us to flourish, though groups of certain characteristics will gravitate toward each other. Jordan said they need to learn to be receptive toward the differences of others around them.
“Often humans choose to do what is wrong, because doing right is much harder,” she said. “Some people do not like the differences of others that will directly affect them and challenge their status and power.
“Therefore, it's arduous for humans to find worth in each other's diversity.”
Awarding organizations included:
• Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Omicron Delta Omega Chapter
• Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Nu Psi Lambda Chapter
• Bergner’s (Laurie and Ray) Scholarship Fund
• “B”radley ”E”ncourages — B.E. Kindness Awards
• Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Alumnae Chapter
• Dr. Dominique Lawson’s Scholarship Fund
• Dr. Cedrick Williams’ Legacy Scholarship Fund
• Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Alumni Chapter
• Links, Central Illinois Chapter
• Mentoring And Providing Scholarships Program
• NAACP Bloomington-Normal Branch
• Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Alumnae Chapter
• 100 Black Men of Central Illinois
• Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Kappa Mu Sigma Alumni Chapter
• Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Kappa Epsilon Sigma Chapter
• Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Beta Iota Zeta Chapter
You got plans?
James Harden, executive director of engagement and social learning with the Champaign Unit 4 School District, was the keynote speaker during Saturday's event.
The key message he drove home to the audience, especially graduates, was to continually ask themselves: “What (are) you doing? Where are you at? You got plans?”
He then instructed the audience to put those plans on paper.
“If it ain’t written, it ain’t real.”
Next, Harden said to affirm those plans with phrases of “I am...”
“I am blessed. I am gifted. I am God's child. I am highly favored. I am amazing. I am unstoppable,” Harden said.
“I am, I am, I am.”
This story will be updated with a full list of scholarship winners.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Thousands flocked downtown for Portland’s brightest night with the return of the CareOregon Starlight Parade. A century-long tradition, locals and visitors, alike, say rain or shine, this parade was a welcome return to downtown Portland.
A tradition since the 1900s starting with electric trolley cars, the Starlight Parade is now made up of around 100 entries of glowing floats, costumes and marching bands. The parade and Rose Festival were cancelled the past couple years because of the pandemic.
“We’ve been around 100 years so even just not having a few years was such a stark difference to what we’re used to,” said Starlight Parade Manager Dani Hammond.
Despite the rain, families said it’s a tradition they weren’t going to miss this year.
“The Portland rain, of course, during the Rose Festival, that’s how it normally is. You don’t get a lot of nice ones so it’s been fun to finally be back,” said Jarod Hansen, a longtime resident whose family comes each year.
Organizers said it’s a long-awaited return to see people back enjoying the Rose Festival and everything that comes with it.
“Seeing people back downtown, back on the waterfront, is so amazing and encouraging,” said Hammond. “We’re just really excited to bring the tradition back.”
From electrified beards to boats and everything in-between, it seems many were just as excited for this Portland tradition to return.
In addition to road closures along the parade route, the city also closed the ramps to the Hawthorne and Morrison bridges earlier Saturday evening through 10 p.m.
The Portland Police Bureau said there were more than 150 officers of varying ranks patrolling the parade route. | https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/rain-no-worries-starlight-parade-is-back-in-portland/ | 2022-06-05T05:11:30 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/rain-no-worries-starlight-parade-is-back-in-portland/ |
STOCKTON, Calif. — Stockton police are investigating a shooting near the 3200 block of Allston Way.
Officer Joe Silva, Stockton police spokesperson, said the shooting happened around 6:30 p.m. Saturday.
"An adult male was transported to a hospital," Silva told ABC10. "No update on his condition."
At this time, information is limited.
STOCKTON CRIME IN CONTEXT
The increase in homicide cases in Stockton during the early months of 2022 came on the heels of a decline in 2021, where police reported fewer homicides ending the year with a total of 38 cases.
While that’s not the lowest number the department has dealt with in the past 12 years, it is below the annual average of 40 homicide cases per year since 1995.
In response to the rise in homicides, community groups held prayer vigils and outreach events meant to unite Stockton residents against violence.
Activists have called on the community to show up to such events and work with local organizations such as Advance Peace, Faith in the Valley, Lighthouse of the Valley and the Office of Violence Prevention to discourage crime and help impacted communities heal.
Click here for a map of crime statistics.
In an interview with ABC10 in March, Stockton City Manager Harry Black said the Stockton Police Department is trying to prevent more deaths by working more on intelligence gathering and cooperating with federal partners such as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. Marshall's Service.
The city is also working to improve its crime prevention, intervention and fighting strategy, Black said. Representatives with the city's Office of Violence Prevention are working to be more present in communities impacted by crime. The office's 'peacekeepers program' places mediators and mentors in high crime areas.
Watch the full interview: Stockton City Manager Harry Black talks recent crime in the city | Extended Interview
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Nov. 4, 1947 - May 30, 2022
SAINT JOHN - Deacon Daniel Walter Zurawski, 74, passed away at his home on May 30, 2022, with his wife and children at his side after a long battle with cancer.
He is survived by his loving wife, Mary Lou (nee Trgovich); his son, Brian (Jeannie) Zurawski; and daughter, Ann Marie (late Ken) Rhineberger. He is also survived by his grandchildren: Jacob Zurawski, Nathan Zurawski, Evan Scheiwe, Kayla Zurawski; his sister, Diane (late Richard) Zuraweic; many nieces; nephews; cousins; brothers-in-law; sisters-in-law; as well as many fellow deacons in the Gary Diocese; dear friends; former co-workers; and fellow parishioners of Saint Thomas More Catholic Church.
He is preceded in death by his mother and father: Josephine and Walter Zurawski.
Dan and Mary Lou were married for nearly 54 years after meeting at Bishop Noll High School in 1965 in Hammond. Born in Hammond, IN on November 4, 1947, Dan grew up in Hammond and attended St Casimir grade school and Bishop Noll high school before going on to study Pharmacy at Purdue University. After graduating from Purdue in 1970, he was the first Director of Pharmacy at Community Hospital in Munster before opening Fairmeadows Pharmacy, also in Munster.
Dan worked hard to grow Fairmeadows over the years and also helped to start and grow other home health related businessses in the Chicagoland area.
Dan retired after 46 years in 2016, however, before retirement, Dan was ordained a Roman Catholic Deacon on June 6, 2009 and served the Diocese of Gary at St. Thomas More Parish in Munster, IN until stepping down from the Deaconate in 2017 due to his health issues. Dan was a 4th degree Knight in the Knights of Columbus and was a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre. Over the years, Dan touched many families throughout Northwest Indiana through the time that he spent serving others as a deacon at St Thomas More as well as at Fairmeadows where he helped others generously.
Dan was a devoted husband, caring father, and supportive Papa. He was a friend and mentor to many family members, friends, parishoners, and co-workers. He was deeply loved and appreciated by the many lives he touched along his life journey. Papa was especially fond of his grandchildren whom he loved dearly. Dan will be greatly missed.
Visitation will take place at St. Thomas More Church, 8501 Calumet Ave., Munster, IN on Monday June 6, 2022, beginning at 3:00 p.m. and ending with an evening prayer service at 7:00 p.m. and again on Tuesday June 7, 2022, from 9:30 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. at St. Thomas More Church. Mass of Christian Burial will take place on Tuesday June 7, 2022, immediately following a prayer service at 10:00 a.m. at St. Thomas More Church, the Most Reverend Bishop Robert J. McClory presiding. Interment will take place at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 7, 2022, at Holy Name Catholic Cemetery, 11000 W 133rd Ave, Cedar Lake, IN. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to St. Thomas More School or Hospice of the Calumet Area. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/deacon-dan-zurawski/article_d9920411-1fc6-50c2-94fb-ee163a7e053a.html | 2022-06-05T06:02:24 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/deacon-dan-zurawski/article_d9920411-1fc6-50c2-94fb-ee163a7e053a.html |
Elaine Gehring "Skip/Lady Elaine"
WHITING - Elaine "Skip/Lady Elaine" Gehring, 95, of Whiting, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at Casa of Hobart. She was the beloved daughter of the late Leo and Nellie (Duffy) Gehring and was preceded in death by her brother, Thomas Gehring. Loving aunt of Marcia Gehring, Michelle (Todd) Gervase and Cynthia (Justin) Sawochka; cherished great aunt of Amanda (Jake Hoefnagel) Gehring, Dharma Niles, Todd and Evey Gervase, and Madelsyn and Emeline Sawochka; dearest sister-in-law to Carole (late Thomas) Gehring; dear cousin of Eileen Kennedy, late Robert (Lidiane) Maginot, Thomas (Nadaline) Maginot and the late Mary Alice Martin.
Funeral services will be on Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at 9:30 a.m. at the BARAN FUNERAL HOME, 1235-119th Street, Whiting. A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 10:00 a.m. at St. John The Baptist Catholic Church, Whiting, with the Rev. Stanley J. Dominik, officiating. Private interment to follow. Visitation is at the funeral home on Monday from 3:00 to 8:00 p.m. (Due to the current health situation face masks are encouraged by discretion of attendees at both the funeral home and church.) The St. John Rosary Society will offer prayers Monday at 4:00 p.m. The Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana will conduct memorial services on Monday at 6:00 p.m. Expressions of sympathy may be placed online at www.baranfh.com.
Elaine Gehring was born on February 28, 1927 and was a lifelong resident of the Whiting-Robertsdale Community. She was a graduate of George Rogers Clark High School, Class of 1945 and went on to earn her Bachelor and Masters of Arts Degrees in Education from State University of Iowa and Indiana University Bloomington. She was a retired counselor from Thornton Township High School, Harvey, IL. She was an 88 year member of the Girl Scouts of America. Elaine was past president of the Board of Directors of the Girl Scouts of the Calumet Council and the former Whiting-Robertsdale Kiwanis Club. A life member of the PTA, she was a member of Save the Dunes, Friends of the Dunes, Sacred Heart and St. John Rosary Societies, Whiting-Robertsdale Historical Society, Sand Ridge and Indiana Audubon Societies, Nature Conservancy, Whiting-Robertsdale Chamber of Commerce and many other civic and charitable organizations. In February of 2009, Elaine was presented the City of Whiting, Carl A. Binhammer Award for outstanding community service.
Devoted to her family, Elaine will be sadly missed by all who knew and loved her. In lieu of flowers, memorials to the Ronald McDonald House, 435 Limestone, Indianapolis, IN 46202 or to the charity of your choice, would be appreciated. (219) 659-4400 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/elaine-skip-lady-elaine-gehring/article_b147ba4c-504a-517d-8978-6b60543de167.html | 2022-06-05T06:02:30 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/elaine-skip-lady-elaine-gehring/article_b147ba4c-504a-517d-8978-6b60543de167.html |
Oct. 25, 1932 - June 1, 2022
CROWN POINT, IN - Ellennora Faye Speers (nee McCollum), age 89, of Crown Point, IN, passed away on Wednesday, June 1, 2022.
Ellennora is survived by her children: Terry (Cindy) Fogleman, Linda (Daniel) McGrew, Diana (late David) Burr, Gail (William) Piekarski, Brian (Debra) Speers; 11 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; and 2 great-great grandchildren.
Ellennora was preceded in death by her husband: Lester Speers, Jr.; parents: Jess and Ruby McCollum; sisters: Dora "Bea" Brown, Doris Thompson, Mary Lou Quigg; and granddaughter, Melissa Piekarski.
Ellennora was a devoted member of Adventure Christian Church. She worked for 21 years at Burrell Color Lab. Ellennora enjoyed watching her grandkids play sports. She also loved coaching softball. Ellennora will be dearly missed.
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, June 6, 2022 at GEISEN FUNERAL, CREMATION & RECEPTION CENTRE, 606 E. 113th Ave., Crown Point, IN 46307 from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
Funeral Services will be at 10:00 AM on Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at the Funeral Home with Pastor John Starr officiating. Interment to follow at Calumet Park Cemetery in Merrillville, IN.
Visit Ellennora's online guestbook at www.GeisenFuneralHome.com 219-663-2500. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/ellennora-faye-speers-nee-mccollum/article_2a7e34b6-a0f9-5a1b-b4a3-a3a75194780a.html | 2022-06-05T06:02:37 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/ellennora-faye-speers-nee-mccollum/article_2a7e34b6-a0f9-5a1b-b4a3-a3a75194780a.html |
SCHERERVILLE, IN - George T. Hayes, age 73, of Schererville, IN, passed away peacefully Wednesday, June 1, 2022. Beloved husband of the late Nancy A. Hayes, nee Schiller. Devoted father of Melissa (James) Mangrum and the late Michael Hayes. Proud grandfather of Will and Charlie. Dear brother of William (Patricia) Hayes, Marilyn McDole, Robert Hayes, and Janis (Rick) Bianco; half-brother of Henry "Ben" (Sue) Benson. Kind uncle of many nieces and nephews. Preceded in death by his parents, Richard and Irene Hayes.
Memorial visitation Saturday, June 11, 2022 from 12:00 p.m. until time of the Memorial Service at 4:00 p.m. at SMITS FUNERAL HOME, 2121 Pleasant Springs Lane, Dyer, IN. George was a Vietnam Army Veteran. Memorial contributions may be given to Muscular Dystrophy Association (161 N. Clark, Suite 3550 Chicago, Illinois 60601). For further information, please contact 219-322-7300 or visit our online guestbook and obituary at www.SMITSFH.com | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/george-t-hayes/article_2a16ad52-c882-526b-9565-b28e5d501e1a.html | 2022-06-05T06:02:43 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/george-t-hayes/article_2a16ad52-c882-526b-9565-b28e5d501e1a.html |
HIGHLAND, IN - Joseph Rivich, 94, formerly of East Chicago passed away Friday, April 29, 2022. He is survived by his five children: Alice (Milan) Momcilovich, Nancy (Brian) Fritzsche, J. (Marilu) Rivich, Mary Kay (Frank) Pukoszek, Michael (Rebecca) Rivich. Proud Papa to 11 grandchildren: Marc (Ashlee) Momcilovich, Morgan Momcilovich, Brina (Bronson) Tiwanak, Dana (Keoni) Bush, Caitlin, Joseph, Sarah Rivich, Lauren, Matthew Gaskey, Michael, Olivia Rivich; six great-grandchildren: Amelia & Luka Momcilovich, Braxton & Bryce Tiwanak, Owen & Lei'a Bush; brother, Bill (Leona) Rivich; Sister-in-law, Bernie (Darrell) Kidwell; loving cousin & uncle to many nieces & nephews. Preceded in death by his loving wife of 62 years, Sally (McHale); parents, Joseph & Anna Rivich; in-laws, James & Alice McHale; sisters: Mary Ann (Steve) Toth, Dolores (Art) Bobrowski; brother, Bob (Barbara) Rivich; brothers-in-law: Jim (Ginny) McHale, Tom (Jane) McHale, Pat (Holly) McHale; son-in-law, Mike Gaskey.
Joe was born & raised in East Chicago. Graduate & baseball player for East Chicago Roosevelt. After serving in the Military he went on to earn his B.S. in Education from Michigan State University where he lettered in baseball. He went on to Indiana University where he received his Masters. Dad's love of the game took him to Minnesota where he played Minor League Baseball. He returned back to the region to marry his love Sally, then started his career as a Teacher, Coach & Administrator for 36 years in the East Chicago Public School System. He taught at Carrie Gosch Elementary School and was the Baseball Coach for East Chicago Roosevelt for 21 years. He coached American Legion Baseball for 30 years where he remained active as manager even after his retirement.
Joe was a very active member of the American Legion: twice Post 369 Commander; First District Commander, Northern Vice Commander; State Membership Chairman; American Legion Baseball Chairman (6 yrs) and member of the 40/8 Voiture Club. He was a member of St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Munster, the Croation Fraternal Union Lodge #154 and the Croation Catholic Union #28. He was involved in many organizations over the years and served on the E.C. Sanitary Board & the Foundations of East Chicago.
After retiring Joe & Sally moved to Highland closer to Wicker Park where they would take their daily walk in the park. You would also find Joe weekly on the golf course or hitting a bucket of balls. He especially loved golfing with his kids & grandkids. His love of playing golf any chance he could stayed with him well into his later years and even golfed last September on his 94th birthday. The past few years he really enjoyed meeting the guys for morning coffee, family gatherings and dining out with family any chance he could. He was a loving & devoted husband, a wonderful father and papa, a kind person and a great friend to many. He will be deeply missed.
Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, June 12, 2022 from 3:00 PM-7:00 PM at SOLAN PRUZIN FUNERAL HOME, 14 Kennedy Ave in Schererville. 1st District American Legion memorial service will be at 4:00 PM. A Funeral Memorial Mass will be held Monday, June 13, 2022 at 10:00 AM at St. Thomas More Church, 8501 Calumet Avenue, Munster, Father Michael Yadron officiating. Friends can meet with the family at 9:30 AM before Mass. Interment will be at Abraham Lincoln Cemetery this summer.
Memorial donations may be given to the Share Foundation or to the American Legion. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/joseph-coach-n-rivich/article_9eb5ccd2-04ae-58c9-b97f-1cd038423883.html | 2022-06-05T06:02:49 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/joseph-coach-n-rivich/article_9eb5ccd2-04ae-58c9-b97f-1cd038423883.html |
June 11, 1935 - May 26, 2022
PORTAGE, IN - Lavinia "Ruth" Pullen, 86, of Portage passed away Thursday, May 26, 2022, at Brentwood in Hobart. She was born June 11, 1935, to Delmar & Margaret (Smith) Richards. She grew up in Gary, IN and graduated from Emerson High School where she was a majorette. Ruth was close with her dad growing up and loved to visit and swim in Lake Michigan with friends. Her sister, Donna, was a constant comfort to her throughout her life. Their shared interest in Genealogy brought them great joy and travel opportunities. Ruth loved flowers and designed many beautiful gardens throughout her lifetime. She had a warm and welcoming heart, loved all children and animals. She never turned anyone away. She raised all her children and grandchildren with endless love.
Ruth was preceded in death by her first husband, George Benjamin (married 3/2/1957-1/1/1972); husband, Paul E. Pullen (8/25/1974-6/24/2004); son, Mark Benjamin; brother, Bob Richards; sister, Donna Casko; step-son, Jeff Pullen; step-grandkids: Bruce Cooper and Todd Cooper.
Survivors include her grateful children: George Benjamin (Patricia) and their wonderful sons: George (Bethany) and Alex, Teresa Horvath and her beautiful daughter, Mary (Brandon Gremaux), Wanda Lanter (Jim) and their lovely daughter, Lisa Sanders (Cain), Jennifer Pullen and her adored daughter, Jillian, Clint Pullen (Christine) and his amazing children: CJ, Logan, and Natalya, step-son, Dave Pullen (Dawn) and their precious kids: Tiffany Woynaroski (Adam), David Pullen (Jackie), Heather Tillman (Zach), Ashley Garcia (Luis), Chad Cooper, Holly Paul (Matt), Paul Pullen (Becky), Joe Pullen (Sarah), Brianna Pullen, Nathan Pullen, Kruiz Pullen; and many beloved great-grandchildren and dear friends.
Private burial will take place at Angelcrest Cemetery, Valparaiso. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/lavinia-ruth-pullen/article_3f334971-2f32-50d1-bbfe-94c9f65d6b98.html | 2022-06-05T06:02:55 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/lavinia-ruth-pullen/article_3f334971-2f32-50d1-bbfe-94c9f65d6b98.html |
WHITING, IN - Maxine A. Kruk (nee Brzezinski), age 81. Late of Whiting, IN., formerly of South Chicago, IL. Passed away on June 2, 2022.
Loving mother of Richard (Tina) Kruk, Todd (Sandy) Kruk, and Mark Kruk. Cherished grandmother of Matthew, Nathan, and Joshua. Dearest sister of Charline (Keith) Pacourek and adored aunt of Zachary Pacourek. Fond aunt of many nieces and nephews.
Preceded in death by her parents Charlotte and Max Brzezinski.
Maxine was a dedicated employee for the Town of Whiting as an office manager. Longtime parishioner of St. Adalbert Catholic Church, member of St. Adalbert Rosary Society, Ladies Auxiliary Member of American Legion Post #80. She will always be remembered for her passion for reading and doing ceramics.
Visitation Thursday, June 9, 2022 from 2:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Funeral Services Friday, June 10, 2022 9:15 at the ELMWOOD CHAPEL 11200 S. Ewing Ave. Chicago, IL to St Adalbert Catholic Church for Mass of Christian Burial 10:00 a.m. Entombment Holy Cross Cemetery Mausoleum. www.elmwoodchapel.com 773-731-2749 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/maxine-a-kruk-nee-brzezinski/article_7ebc79fc-8469-5b03-939a-c84ee6403e52.html | 2022-06-05T06:03:01 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/maxine-a-kruk-nee-brzezinski/article_7ebc79fc-8469-5b03-939a-c84ee6403e52.html |
Nov. 5, 1929 - May 28, 2022
CROWN POINT - Patricia Ann Learman, 92, of Crown Point, IN passed away peacefully on Saturday, May 28, 2022.
Preceded in death by her husband, Robert Russell Learman, her parents and siblings, and son-in-law, John Lepper.
Patricia is survived by her children: Diane (Adolf Ferbar) Henn and Lori Lepper; grandchildren: Robert (Lisa) Henn, Bree (Chris Lakomek) Henn, August Poppe; and great-grandchildren: John (Jessica) Henn, Jessica (Wayne) Henn, Victoria Surprise, Brody Henn, Lexi Roop, KD Poppe and Cali Poppe. Arrangements entrusted to CROWN CREMATION. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/patricia-ann-learman/article_96f85f12-b824-52c1-9ace-a4be1ba7c39a.html | 2022-06-05T06:03:08 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/patricia-ann-learman/article_96f85f12-b824-52c1-9ace-a4be1ba7c39a.html |
Oct. 28, 1928 - May 11, 2022
MERRILLVILLE, IN - Sally Muradas of Merrillville, IN, passed away peacefully in her home on May 11, 2022 at the age of 93. She was born on October 28, 1928 in Valongo, Pontevedra, Spain, to Manuel and Palmira Cabanelas. Sally's family came from Spain to make a life for themselves in the United States in 1938. She was the oldest of three children.
Sally graduated from Froebel High School in Gary in 1950. She worked at U.S. Steel in the Engineering Department for 11 years.
Sally met Placido "Pete" Muradas in 1960 and they married on June 9, 1962. Pete passed away on October 19, 2000. Sally loved being a wife, a mother, a sister, a daughter, and a friend to all. She was a devoted homemaker and especially enjoyed sharing her love for cooking, particularly the Spanish dishes of her native land.
Sally is survived by her son, Mark Muradas; and sister, Connie Rettig; nephews: Daniel (Lisa) Rettig, David (Sheila) Rettig, and Douglas (Jennie) Rettig; five great-nephews, three great nieces, and one great-great niece.
She was preceded in death by her father and mother; husband, Placido Muradas; younger brother, Lino Cabanelas; and brother-in-law, Roger Rettig.
Sally has been reunited with her loved ones that have gone before her and is now under God's careful watch; she will be sadly missed but never forgotten by those of us who remain to cherish her memory.
Friends may visit with the family on Saturday, June 11, 2022, at GEISEN FUNERAL, CREMATION & RECEPTION CENTRE, 606 E. 113th Ave., Crown Point, IN 46307 from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM to celebrate Sally's life.
There will be a Memorial Service and prayers at 11:00 AM officiated by Shirley J. Short, Chaplain and Spiritual Director.
Interment to follow at Calumet Park Cemetery in Merrillville, IN.
Visit Sally's online guestbook at www.GeisenFuneralHome.com 219-663-2500. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/sally-muradas/article_99a521a0-e207-5ff3-a302-0b1b6b6fbbdd.html | 2022-06-05T06:03:14 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/sally-muradas/article_99a521a0-e207-5ff3-a302-0b1b6b6fbbdd.html |
VALPARAISO - Sidney John Reggie, age 88 of Valparaiso, passed away on Friday, May 27, 2022. He was born in Zghorta, Lebanon on July 24, 1933 to the late John Amine Al-Araijeh and Shahideh Barbar El-Zaatini. Sid was born "Sayed John Amine" and his family immigrated to the USA in 1933, adopting the surname, Reggie.
He spent his childhood in Springfield, MA and Lafayette, LA, and his family later moved to Los Angeles. He graduated from Manual Arts High School, and then joined the US Air Force, serving as a Mechanic in the 66th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing in Sembach, Germany during the Korean War. Sid played football for the Sembach Tigers, the Air Base's football team that competed across Europe Bases. During his final year of service, he was selected as "Outstanding Lineman" and a Germany All Star.
Afterwards, Sid walked on at Purdue University and earned a Football Scholarship under Coach Mollenkopf. He was selected as "Outstanding Lineman" his Freshman Year. Sid earned the nickname "Cheerio" for his humor and good nature. He was a member of Theta XI Fraternity. He received two Master degrees. Sid met Maredith Michel his Freshman Year in 1956 and then married "His Love" in 1960.
Sid started the first Football Program at Centerville, IN. Sid and Maredith settled in Valpo in 1964, after a stop through Princeton, IN.
Sid served the Community as a World History Teacher and Coach at Valparaiso High School for 41 years. As Head JV Football Coach, he had an 80% winning record of 103-25-2. Highlights include 4 Undefeated Teams and the 1975 3A State Football Title. He coached Wrestling for 8 Years and Track for 1 Year. Sid retired in 2005. In 2012, he was inducted into VHS Athletic Hall of Fame. Sid was one of those teachers that students remember for their entire lives, profoundly influencing the way they view themselves and their place in the world.
Sid and Maredith established Emmabay Newfoundland Dog Kennel in 1982. Sid trained numerous "Gentle Giant" Newfs in AKC Conformation, AKC Obedience, NCA Water Rescue and NCA Draft Dog Titles. Seven of their Newfs achieved the prestigious Versatility Newfoundland (VN) Title.
Sid is survived by his four children, Erica, John, Lisa, and Peter; seven grandchildren, Sid, Corran, Mara Jade, Nathan, Noah, McKinley and Milad; his siblings, Joe, Rosie, Pete and Emily, and countless friends. He is preceded in death by his wife of 54 years, Maredith, by his parents John and Shahideh, and his siblings; Nazha, Tommy, Charlotte, and Bobby.
A Celebration of Life Service will be held on Saturday, June 25, 2022, at the Valparaiso High School Auditorium. Visitation will begin at Noon Central Time followed by the Service at 1 p.m. A remote viewing link will be provided on the Sid Reggie Memorial Facebook Page.
Sid's ashes will be interred with Maredith's in a Private Ceremony at Eden Cemetery in Schiller Park, IL.
Memorial Donations may be made to: Valparaiso Schools Foundation, Valparaiso Boys & Girls Club, Duneland Exchange Club, and Newfoundland Club of America.
Anyone who wishes to participate in Sid's Service, kindly contact Helen Lucaitis, VHS Class of 1981
Mobile: 312.550.2077 Email: hlucaitis@aol.com | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/sidney-john-reggie/article_8532233a-d566-596a-9ed5-44fa8604f5f7.html | 2022-06-05T06:03:20 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/sidney-john-reggie/article_8532233a-d566-596a-9ed5-44fa8604f5f7.html |
Oct. 26, 1949 - June 1, 2022
CROWN POINT, IN - William B. Renschen, 72, of Crown Point, formerly of Griffith, passed away on June 1, 2022.
He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Shirley (Teliga); daughter, Renee (Frank) Sutherland; son, Randy (Carrie) Renschen; grandchildren: Riley, Grace, Will, Reese, Reagan, Kate and Reid; sisters: Judy (late Daniel) Knezevich and Dolores (Robert) Foster; sisters-in-law: Sandra (Paul) Fenton and Joyce (late Dennis) Trelinski; and several nieces and nephews.
Preceded in death by his parents, Ralph and Madonna; and sister Juanita.
Memorial mass will be held on Tuesday, June 7, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. at St. Helen Catholic Church, 302 N Madison Street, Hebron, IN. Visitation with family will begin at 10:00 a.m.. William generously donated his body to the Anatomical Education Program at Indiana University School of Medicine. This gift will contribute significantly to the advancement of health science education in the state of Indiana. Donations in William's memory may be made to: Anatomical Education Program, 635 Barnhill Drive, Room MS 304, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46202. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/william-b-renschen/article_bef450a1-ce25-563f-b2d5-3df0042c026a.html | 2022-06-05T06:03:26 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/william-b-renschen/article_bef450a1-ce25-563f-b2d5-3df0042c026a.html |
DALLAS — A Dallas drag show that promoters called family-friendly and appropriate for kids brought both supporters and protesters to it on Saturday afternoon.
Dallas bar Mr. Misster held the event "Drag the kids to pride" drag show Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the city's Oak Lawn neighborhood. The organizers called it a family-friendly spin-off of their Champagne Drag Brunch that would allow kids to dance with performers on stage.
During the event, drag performers danced and walked down the aisle in the center of the room. At times, the dancers would take dollar bills from some of the children. Kids also walked with the dancers down the aisle during the event.
Protesters also showed up outside the event, many saying they were upset that kids were involved with the drag show.
One woman who was protesting, Dasy, who didn't want to give her last name, first saw the poster for the event near where she lives. She was at the bar after the event with a "Stop grooming the kids" poster.
"I live in this community," Dasy said. "I have for several years. I don't believe that I should be seeing signs advertising for children to be dancing on stage with men in thongs and in inappropriate clothing and makeup. I do not in any way condone the behavior that these people are engaging in, but what drags me out here is its kids now."
The organizers said this event was a safe environment separate from their normal operations. After the event, Mr. Misster released this statement:
"We host our Champagne Drag Brunch every Saturday at 2pm for guests that are 21+ but we have partnered with some of our major community partners to host a special Pride Drag Brunch for all guests, including guests that couldn’t normally attend our regular show because of the drinking age restriction, to raise money for a local LGBTQ+ youth organization. We are more than happy to open our doors to celebrate Pride in a family friendly, safe environment, separate from our normal operations of 2 p.m. - 2 a.m. on Saturdays because we believe that everyone should have a space to be able to celebrate who they are. Mr. Misster is a place where everyone is welcome to feel accepted, safe and included. We had a group of protestors outside yelling homophobic threats, transphobic remarks and vile accusations at these children and parents. It is so sad to see that in 2022, there are people that still want to protests others celebrating who they are, but our staff and wonderful officers helped keep us safe and kept the protestors at bay.
AJ Crews has been working at Mr. Misster for about two years. He said Saturday's event allows people to express themselves.
"There were a lot less people drinking today so that would make it more kid friendly just because there were so many people here," Crews said. "Everyone just came from all walks of life, and you know, just enjoyed pride."
One of the groups protesting the event Saturday was the organization Protect Texas Kids. They also provided a statement:
"We decided to organize this protest when we saw advertising for the event a few weeks ago - we researched the bar and quickly found out that it’s a gay bar, and we were also pretty concerned when we saw the signage on the bar’s website that says “it’s not gonna lick itself.” We just launched our organization and this was our first event.
The mission was to raise awareness that an event like this, a drag show for children, was happening right in Dallas. We also hoped that if we raised awareness, the event might be canceled or modified so that children couldn’t be present.
We were very happy with how the event went overall. The police were able to come in and remove all of the children and their families from inside of the bar. There were a lot of people in attendance who didn’t have kids, so those people were able to stay and the event continued."
Contrary to part of this statement in regard to removing children and families, the Dallas Police Department said officers showed up to "assist with crowd control" and help the crowd "disperse in a safe manner."
Mr. Misster also said the bar had received several hundred threatening emails, Google reviews and phone calls from protestors. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dallas-family-friendly-kids-drag-show-mr-misster-protest/287-c7984c66-6141-4690-97b1-ec0b9882b4bb | 2022-06-05T06:09:16 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dallas-family-friendly-kids-drag-show-mr-misster-protest/287-c7984c66-6141-4690-97b1-ec0b9882b4bb |
Motorcyclist in serious condition after accident
Wichita Falls Police officers and first responders were at the scene of a serious motorcycle accident at approximately 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
According to police on-scene:
A motorcyclist was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after he was involved in an accident on Kemp Boulevard Saturday afternoon.
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According to Sgt. Danny Wiggins, the motorcycle was traveling north on Kemp at a high speed when he hit a passenger vehicle.
No one in the passenger vehicle was injured but the cyclist was transported by ambulance with life-threatening injuries. Northbound Kemp at Avenue O was closed while police investigated the scene. Accident investigator Sgt. Paul Newton said the motorcyclist was wearing a helmet.
Stay with the Times Record News for more information. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/06/04/motorcyclist-serious-condition-after-accident/7519188001/ | 2022-06-05T06:24:01 | 0 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/06/04/motorcyclist-serious-condition-after-accident/7519188001/ |
At least thirteen people were shot, three of them killed, when a gunman opened fire on South Street in Philadelphia late Saturday night.
According to police, it happened at the intersection with 4th Street and South Street shortly before midnight.
Police told NBC10 at least ten people were injured and three are dead.
This story is developing. Check back for updates.
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/13-people-shot-3-dead-after-shooting-on-south-street-in-philly/3261464/ | 2022-06-05T06:31:29 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/13-people-shot-3-dead-after-shooting-on-south-street-in-philly/3261464/ |
Alice N. Gratias
November 28, 1924-May 13, 2022
Alice N. Gratias (97) of West Des Moines, IA (formerly of Mason City & Nora Springs, IA) passed away on May 13, 2022 at her apt. in WDM, IA. Alice (daughter of Elbert & Ellen Dissmore) was born on November 28, 1924. She was preceded in death by husband (Arthur L. Gratias), both parents, and 3 brothers. She is survived by sister Lulu Brown & 3 sons Tom (LaDonna) Gratias of Clive, IA, Jim (Connie) Gratias of Alexandria, Minn., Doug (Val) Gratias of Bradenton, Fl, 6 grandchildren, 18 great grandchildren, and 4 great-great grandchildren. A memorial service with visitation luncheon shall be held at the Eden Presbyterian church located at 3105 Glass Avenue, Rudd, Iowa on June 10, 2022 @ 11:00 am. In lieu of flowers, family requests donations to Eden Presbyterian Church, Mason City YMCA, or any other Charity of choice. | https://globegazette.com/news/local/obituaries/alice-n-gratias/article_00789c6d-0d47-54a0-a167-afbb2ee14aa4.html | 2022-06-05T06:40:06 | 1 | https://globegazette.com/news/local/obituaries/alice-n-gratias/article_00789c6d-0d47-54a0-a167-afbb2ee14aa4.html |
Bryan B. Byre
October 8, 1974-June 2, 2022
BONDURANT-Bryan B. Byre, 47, of Bondurant, Iowa, passed away in a motor vehicle accident on Thursday, June 2, 2022, south of Des Moines. A visitation will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, June 9, 2022, at Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N Pennsylvania Ave. A funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 11, 2022, at Hickey Funeral Home, 215 S Main Street, Chamberlain, South Dakota. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service time. Interment will be held in the Riverview Cemetery in Chamberlain. Memorials may be directed to the family of Bryan Byre. Online condolences may be left for the family at www.majorericksonfuneralhome.com.
Bryan was born on October 8th, 1974, in Mitchell, SD to Dale and Gail Byre. He attended high school in Mason City, IA and graduated in 1993. He then attended NIACC in Mason City for a short term. He then went on to work at several different businesses, eventually making a career working on billboards for the past 22 years at Lamar Advertising in Des Moines, IA. He was united in marriage to Stacy (Avise) Vasquez in 2001, and later divorced.
He enjoyed drag racing his Dodge Demon, gardening, cooking, and spending time with his dogs Gunner and Dixie. He also enjoyed going to South Dakota to pheasant hunt with his dad, brothers, and cousins. The trips were all memorable, though not always productive, as sometimes the pheasants refused to cooperate.
He is survived by his mother, Gail Byre of Mason City, his brother Dean (Ra'Londa) of Lincoln, NE, his brother Jesse (Holly) of Mason City, his nephews Dillon and Kasin, special friend Brenda Jones and best bud Chad Osegera.
Bryan was preceded in death by his father Dale, his big brother Brett, sister Laurel, both sets of Grandparents, cousin Wade Byre, and great friend Matt Ward.
Arrangements are with Major Erickson Funeral Home & Crematory, 111 N. Pennsylvania Avenue, Mason City, Iowa 50401,
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Glen E. Bandel
February 11, 1929-June 3, 2022
MASON CITY-Glen E. Bandel, 93, of Mason City passed away on Friday, June 3, 2022 at the IOOF Home in Mason City.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Saturday, June 11, 2022, at Christ's Church, 710 N Kentucky, Mason City. Burial will be at Memorial Cemetery.
Visitation will be held one hour prior to services at the church on Saturday. Major Erickson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Glen Edward Bandel was born in Rochester, Minnesota, February 11, 1929, to Cecil Donald and Lottie Emma (Tesca) Bandel. He grew up on the farm in Orion Township and attended country school for eight years and then high school in Chatfield, graduating in 1947. Glen went to Minneapolis attending Minnesota Bible College to study for the ministry in preparation to serve Churches of Christ and Christian churches. The following year his high school sweetheart, Virginia Kester, joined him in college. They were married at Marion, Minnesota, October 29, 1948. Over the next 11 years four children were born to the couple. Glen started preaching in 1950 at Tamarack, Minnesota. In 1952, they moved to Bemidji to work with a young church, to rural Canby, Minnesota in 1956 and to Mason City in 1962 where he resided the rest of his life. In 1966, he resigned from full time ministry and started serving other congregations as a part time preacher while working other jobs. Some of the churches he served were in Greene, Hampton, Bristow, Goldfield, Mason City and Nora Springs. Over the years he worked at the Post Office, Armour's and as administrator at Odd Fellows Home and Americana Care Centers, retiring from secular work in 1991. He enjoyed time camping, vacations, visiting family and friends and was always quick with his dry humor, jokes and stories. Glen also continued to do what he loved the most: preach and teach the Word of God.
Glen is survived by his children and their spouses, Dean (Pam) Bandel of Centerburg, OH, Judy Kroneman of Osage, Dale (Lu Ann) Bandel of Gary, SD and Betty "BJ" (Robert) Hoffman of Lake City, MN; ten grandchildren; twenty great grandchildren; seven great-great grandchildren; a sister, Beverly Mundell of Rochester, MN; and many nieces, nephews and loved ones.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Virginia; his parents; one sister; two brothers; a son-in-law, Lowell "Butch" Kroneman; and four great grandchildren
The family wishes to thank the staff at IOOF Home, Dr. Jerry White and Dr. Kevin Rier for the excellent care. www.majorericksonfuneralhome.com | https://globegazette.com/news/local/obituaries/glen-e-bandel/article_15955427-6060-57f3-9ef9-10a8b011490a.html | 2022-06-05T06:40:19 | 0 | https://globegazette.com/news/local/obituaries/glen-e-bandel/article_15955427-6060-57f3-9ef9-10a8b011490a.html |
Ida Godges
1925-2022
Born at home in the immigrant enclave of Lehigh Row on the outskirts of Mason City, Iowa, in 1925, Ida (Di Gregorio) Godges died at the age of 96 on May 26, 2022. She left this earth amidst a communal sendoff by family members and caregivers gathered by her side at Nazareth House Senior Living Community in Los Angeles, California.
The top girl in her Class of 1943 at Mason City High School, Ida rode the Union Pacific Railroad to Los Angeles in January 1944. In 1948, she met her husband, Joseph, a Polish immigrant and World War II U.S. Marine Corps veteran who was then studying at Loyola University on the GI Bill, when he offered to help carry her grocery bags home from Jim Dandy Market in Westchester. On October 29, 1949, they were married at the South Los Angeles Church of St. Frances X. Cabrini, the patron saint of immigrants. They were married for 66 years until Joseph's death in 2016.
As founding members of St. Lawrence Martyr Catholic Parish in Redondo Beach, Ida and Joseph raised six children just seven doors north of the church. Whenever her children's lives would allow, Ida enthusiastically returned to work outside the home, from managing payroll at TRW to cooking at Augie's Italian Restaurant in Torrance to being a crossing guard in view of her house to cleaning the United Airlines airplanes and terminals at Los Angeles International Airport.
Each job gave Ida great joy, and Ida gave great joy to the friends she made at each job, but nothing like the joy she derived from raising children and the joy she gave to them. Ida often taught her children that the most important things in life are “to enjoy our time together” and to cultivate wisdom.
For Ida, “enjoying our time together” meant making munificent meals so that family and friends could take delight in each other's presence, lured by her handmade spaghetti, lasagna, pizza, gnocchi, biscotti, popcorn balls, and Polish golabkis. For Ida, wisdom could be found in the Prayer of St. Francis, which she cross-stitched into elegant patterns for family and friends and which she sang at Mass in reverence and ardor: “Where there is hatred let me bring your love.”
Ida was preceded in death by her immediate family members: her parents, Serafino and Maria (Baccanale) Di Gregorio, originally from Farindola, Italy; her sisters Mafalda Janswick, Leola Von Wald, Bessie Kaemmerling, Elsie Di Gregorio, and Angeline Boss; and her brother, Ralph Di Gregorio.
She is survived by her children and their spouses (Stanley and Catherine Godges, Eugenia and David Killoran, Geralyn Godges, Joe and Arlette Godges, Mary Jo Godges and Renee Sotile, and John Paul Godges); her grandsons and their spouses (Jonathan Killoran and Kathryn Kocarnik, Daniel Killoran, Maximilian Godges and Connie Kwang-Godges, and Mark and Ryan Godges); and her great-granddaughter, Audrey Killoran. She is also survived by her nephew, Frank Di Gregorio; her nieces Karen York, Mary Kay Blanke, Sally Dolash, Cyndi Wells, and Lynne Kaminski; and her godfamily of Dr. Patricia Jersin, Colette McLaughlin, Cecile Huggins, and Mark Jersin.
The family would like to convey heartfelt thanks to the caregivers, nurses, med techs, sisters, chaplains, activities directors, cooks, and staff of Nazareth House Los Angeles; to the nurses, social workers, spiritual care providers, and volunteers from Silverado Hospice; and to all the doctors, therapists, health care providers, and in-home assistants who helped Ida in her journey over the past six years. Everyone who accompanied Ida ensured that she could—and did—go in peace. Her charismatic personality shone through to the end. “Everybody loves Ida” was the common refrain, said with glee.
Informal viewing, praying, and visiting will take place at Luyben-Dilday Mortuary, in Long Beach, on Tuesday, June 7, from 4-8 p.m. The Rosary, Mass of Christian Burial, and interment will take place at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Culver City, California, on Wednesday, June 8. The Rosary will begin in the Chapel of Holy Redeemer at 11:30 a.m. The Mass, also in the chapel, will begin at noon. The burial will immediately follow the Mass.
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Larry Benton Eckhoff
July 17, 1951-June 2, 2022
BELMOND-Larry Benton Eckhoff, 70, of Belmond, IA, passed away Thursday, June 2, 2022, at the Iowa Specialty Hospital-Belmond with his family at his side following a long battle with cancer. Public funeral services will be at 11 AM, Wednesday, at the Andrews Funeral Home, Belmond. The Rev. Leila Blackburn will be officiating. Burial will be in the Belmond Cemetery. Public visitation will be Tuesday from 5-7 PM at the funeral home and will continue one hour prior the funeral on Wednesday. Funeral service will be live streamed on the Andrews Funeral Homes Facebook page for those who may not be able to attend in person. Just LIKE the page to view.
Larry, the son of Stewart and Connie (Sjoberg) Eckhoff, was born July 17, 1951, at Belmond, IA. He grew up on a farm east of Belmond, IA, before eventually moving in to Belmond.
On March 14, 1992, he married the love of his life Joanne Heginger and the couple's union was blessed with two daughters, Tena-29 and Ashely 27, along with Joanne's son Chris Heginger. Larry and Joannes had just celebrated 30 years of marriage this past March 14th.
Larry worked at Central Soya for many years and worked at Wright Materials 20 years. He enjoyed spending time with his family. He also enjoyed riding his Goldwing motorcycle, Hill Billy Auctions, garage sales and many other things. In earlier years of life he looked forward to spending times in the outdoors hunting pheasants and squirrels. Other past times included treks to the Clay County Fair, grilling, watching classic TV shows, westerns, war movies and going out to eat. Larry was also fond of animals and loved their cats.
Larrry is survived by his wife and life partner of 30 years Joanne of Belmond, IA, son Chris (Kim) Heginger, Des Moines, IA, daughters Tena Eckhoff, Clear Lake, IA, and Ashley Eckhoff (Tim), Excelsior Springs, MO, a granddaughter Arie, and four grandsons: Colton, Detric, Hunter and Jebadiah, and our futures grandkids, cousins and their families. Also surviving is his mother-in-law Shirley Heginger, Belmond, IA, and his brother and sister-in-law Bob (Teri) Eckhoff, Belmond, IA and family.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Stewart and Connie, grandparents Marvin and Dora Sjoberg, Ernest and Tena Eckhoff, brother Steve, aunts and uncles, and father-in-law LuVerne Heginger.
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Lincoln J. McCormick
November 7, 2013-May 29, 2022
FOREST CITY-Lincoln J. McCormick, 8 1/2 passed away May 29, 2022 wrapped in the arms of his loving parents.
A Service to Celebrate his life will be 10:30a.m. Monday, June 6, at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 246 South Clark Street, Forest City.
Visitation will be held 1:00p.m.-4:30p.m. at the church on Sunday, June 5. The family will be present until 3:30p.m.
Comfortable attire is suggested; seeing others in Super Hero, Minecraft and Forest City Indian gear always made Lincoln happy!
Lincoln Joseph McCormick was born November 7, 2013 in Mason City, the eldest son of William Joseph Elias and Danielle Mae (Dolphin) McCormick. He grew up in Forest City with his siblings, Elizabeth, Ana, Evie and Elias. He just completed 2nd grade at Forest City Elementary. He had dreams of becoming an engineer and utilizing his unmatched problem solving skills to change the world.
From a young age, Lincoln shared his gift of compassion with everyone around him. He cared deeply for his siblings, always watching over them (even if they squabbled just a little). His love for people was shared with his classmates, making friends with anyone and packing extra lunches, just in case. Lincoln was always ready to help, whether it was fixing toys and tinkering or assisting his teachers and fellow students in class. His body and mind never stopped moving. Lincoln was constantly researching his next goal or project and finding the resources necessary to complete it. Whether it was long video game conquests or 3D printing new nerf guns, his eyes were always set on success.
Living on the acreage taught Lincoln how to depend on his family. He took great pride in helping in the garden and providing the harvest to feed them. His smile and laugh were nothing short of contagious. You could see his huge heart through his smiling eyes.
Prior to his untimely passing, Lincoln had a fun and eventful weekend with his family. He was quoted saying “This was the best weekend ever!”
Those left to carry on his story are his parents, William and Danielle; siblings, Elizabeth, Anastasia “Ana”, Genevieve “Evie”, and Elias; paternal grandparents, Philip Lincoln and Christi Rae (Feddersen) McCormick of Clear Lake; maternal grandparents, Dale Eugene and Cynthia “Cindy” Mae (Gamble)Dolphin of Britt; great-grandmother, Delores Mae Gamble; as well as numerous beloved aunts, uncles and cousins.
In Heaven he was reunited with his maternal and paternal great-grandparents, a younger sibling who passed before birth, and his dog, Jax.
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At least 14 people were shot, three of them killed, when gunmen opened fire into a crowd on South Street in Philadelphia late Saturday night.
According to police, it happened at the intersection of 2nd and South streets shortly before midnight.
An officer responding to the scene saw several gunmen firing into a crowd of people, Philadelphia Police Inspector D. F. Pace said.
That officer then fired his gun at one of the shooters, Pace said. It is not known if the suspect was struck, however they did drop their gun and flee.
Pace said the officer was "within 10 to 15 yards of the shooter, watching this person shoot into the crowd" when he decided to engage.
Police said at least 11 people were injured in the shooting, and two men and a woman were pronounced dead at the hospital.
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"There were hundreds of individuals just enjoying South Street, as they do every weekend, when the shooting broke out," Pace said.
The search for the gunmen continued early Sunday morning, police said. One of the shooters was seen running south on American Street.
Pace said two guns were found at the scene, one of them with an extended magazine.
"I want to emphasize that South Street is manned by numerous police officers," Pace said. "This is standard deployment for Friday and Saturday night - weekends - and especially during the summer months."
Officers had the area between 2nd and 5th streets on South Street blocked off overnight.
This story is developing. Check back for updates.
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Los Jefes owners speak in support of staff; Dighton Cow Chip Festival returns: Top stories
Before we begin the new week in earnest, we're taking a look back at the week that was, and the stories that led the news with Taunton Daily Gazette readers.
Our top story this past week was about Los Jefes: Comida, and how owners Nikki and Eduard Miralrio's gave a public show of support for their staff after some rude words from a customer on the phone.
Other top stories included:
A look at the plan to eradicate invasive weeds in Lake Sabbatia. Those weeds are about to get their reckoning. With the city securing a contract with vendor Solitude Lake Management, lake-wide treatment of Sabbatia is set to happen in mid-June, according to the mayor's office.
Investigators say they’ve disrupted a sophisticated drug ring in Bristol County, in a major drug bust that spanned multiple jurisdictions and led to seven arrests and the seizure of about $350,000 worth of illegal drugs. The investigation was called Operation Shore Thing, and it lasted more than a year. The Taunton Police Department was part of the collaborative effort; read all about the investigation, right here.
These were the top stories of the past week, according to Gazette readers:
Customer’s rude words prompt Taunton café to speak out in support of staff
After Los Jefes: Comida barista Nadine Soares had an encounter with a customer who was being rude on the phone, Los Jefes owners Nikki and Eduard Miralrio wanted to make one thing clear:
Such treatment of their staff will not be tolerated.
They made a public statement of support on the restaurant's Facebook page, and the response from their staff and the community alike has been positive.
'That is not OK here':Customer’s rude words prompt Taunton café to speak out in support of staff
Dighton Cow Chip Festival returns
With the Dighton Cow Chip Festival making its triumphant return this weekend, have you ever wondered just what the cow chip festival is?
You're in luck, because we take a look at the history of the event, and what you can expect this year.
Like bingo...only with cows:So just what is the Dighton Cow Chip Festival?
Taunton man charged in vending machine scam
A Taunton resident who owns a food and beverage vending machine company has been charged with defrauding “multiple victims who purchased vending machine routes from his company.”
A Bristol County Superior Court grand jury on May 6 indicted Kevin Lennon, 54, president of KBL Inc., on three counts of theft over $1,200 and two counts of “publishing false or exaggerated statements.”
Investigators allege Lennon defrauded multiple victims. Gazette Reporter Ed Baker has the story, here.
Facing charges:Taunton man charged with 'defrauding multiple victims' in vending machine scam
Taunton cannabis cultivation plan shot down amid odor concerns
Boston-based Greater Goods' request for a special permit to open a marijuana cultivation manufacturing site in Myles Standish Industrial Park fell one vote short of being approved by the Taunton City Council.
The Council voted 5-3 in favor of allowing planting in an area of the site, but the special permit fell short of the needed two-thirds majority.
Previously, there had been odor concerns voiced regarding the potential facility.
Falling short:Taunton cannabis cultivation plan shot down amid odor concerns
After 180 years, Taunton area labor trailblazer, 'Female Preacher' gets gravestone
After more than 180 years, Salome Lincoln Mowry, who led an early labor demonstration in Taunton, and drew thousands from all over New England to hear her preach, has a gravestone.
Until now, her grave in Pleasant View Cemetery in Tiverton, Rhode Island, did not have a marker indicating who this impressive woman was.
'At rest with the Lord':After 180 years, Taunton area labor trailblazer, 'Female Preacher' gets gravestone
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Area boards of elections are undertaking the herculean task of preparing for a statewide Aug. 2 primary to decide a handful of local races and issues.
Local elections boards certified candidates and issues last week. Besides party central committee races, there are no contested primaries in Montgomery County, one Republican race in Greene County, two Republican primaries and a Democratic primary in Warren County, two Republican primaries in Butler County and one Republican primary in Champaign County.
Some of these races will determine candidates to fill empty statehouse seats, and all of them are important. State lawmakers determine Ohio’s laws on hot-button topics such as abortion, guns, and responding to COVID-19.
The issues on local ballots are a Xenia city charter amendment, a levy for Ross Local Schools in Butler County, and a levy for Clark-Shawnee schools in Clark County.
The primary for statehouse races was originally scheduled for May 3, along with the primary for Ohio governor and U.S. Senate. But this year legislative maps are being redrawn as they are after every 10-year census, and maps created by the Ohio Redistricting Commission were repeatedly ruled an unconstitutional gerrymander favoring Republicans by the Ohio Supreme Court.
An impasse led a federal court on May 27 to order the state to have a primary for state House, Senate and party central committee seats using rejected maps this year while they come up with new maps for 2024. The Ohio Secretary of State issued a directive saying that while the election date changed to Aug. 2, the filing deadline for candidates was still in February.
Elections officials are now trying to find tens of thousands of pollworkers statewide to handle this unusual summer election. Montgomery County alone needs 900 to 1,000 pollworkers
“In the beginning of August when everybody else is thinking about baseball or camping trips or family road trips or every other thing we do in the summer… it’s going to be a challenge to recruit enough pollworkers,” said Secretary of State Frank LaRose in a recent interview with this newspaper. “I’m confident we’ll do it.”
Pollworkers are paid for training and working Election Day. Pay averages about $100 to $150 and could be as high as $200 in some counties.
The Ohio General Assembly last week appropriated $20 million to LaRose’s office to help county elections boards cover the cost of the August election. LaRose previously said this special election will likely cost between $20 million and $25 million statewide.
Another obstacle is securing polling locations. Some places that normally host voting are booked for other events in August. Out of more than 100 polling locations in Montgomery County, so far six have said they won’t be available Aug. 2.
Montgomery County Board of Elections Director Jeff Rezabek said the county will send postcards notifying anyone whose polling location has moved.
Rezabek said he expects turnout to be “extremely low.” But he encouraged people to vote.
“It is always a great practice, whether it’s a primary, general election or special election that people get into the habit of participating in an election no matter what it is,” he said.
Old and new Ohio House maps (Partisan lean source: Dave’s Redistricting)
Credit: Mark Freistedt
Credit: Mark Freistedt
Credit: Mark Freistedt
Credit: Mark Freistedt
Competitive races
The trick for candidates in the Aug. 2 primary will be getting supporters out to vote without the top-ticket statewide or federal races that usually drive turnout.
One of the most competitive races is for the 56th House District in Warren County, where incumbent Rep. Paul Zeltwanger, R-Mason, is term-limited. That race has both a Democratic and Republican primary.
The two Republican candidates are former Mason mayor and current Councilwoman Kathy Grossmann and current Lebanon Vice Mayor Adam Matthews.
Both Grossmann and Matthews said they would have preferred to run in May, and are contemplating how best to introduce themselves and their conservative credentials to voters outside their respective cities.
“We will be reaching out to everyone that voted in May, and everyone we know on our Christmas card list,” said Matthews.
Matthews said he is running on his record of achievements in Lebanon and hopes residents vote early or on Election Day “between their trip to the pool and Kings Island.”
Grossmann, who is term-limited on Mason city council said: “I wanted to seize this opportunity to continue serving the public.”
“I think this is largely going to center around the get-out-the-vote effort really,” she said.
The Democrats vying for the 56th House District are Joy Bennett and Sam Cao, both of Mason.
“We hope to turn out voters through grassroots activism and going door to door,” Cao said. “We also hope to use YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter as means of engaging our voters, especially the ones we cannot reach physically otherwise.”
Bennett did not return a message seeking comment.
Another three-way primary for House District 85 — which includes Champaign County — will decide who will replace term-limited state Rep. Nino Vitale, R-Urbana. No Democrat has filed to run for that seat.
Old and new Ohio Senate maps (Partisan lean source: Dave’s Redistricting)
Credit: Mark Freistedt
Credit: Mark Freistedt
Credit: Mark Freistedt
Credit: Mark Freistedt
Voter confusion
That 56th House District is the only Democratic primary in the region. In fact, several local races have no Democrats running at all. This includes the state Senate district including parts of Butler, Montgomery, and Darke counties and all of Miami and Preble counties. Incumbent Sen. Stephen Huffman, R-Tipp City, faces no Republican or Democratic challenger.
Likewise, state Rep. Willis Blackshear Jr., D-Dayton, is unopposed by any other Democrats or Republicans to represent most of Dayton and now Riverside.
Montgomery County Board of Elections Chairwoman Rhine McLin, a Democrat who previously served in Huffman’s Senate district, said the redistricting made it hard to find candidates because it wasn’t clear what the boundaries of the districts would be until after the filing deadline.
“You couldn’t recruit with any specificity,” she said.
The only competitive primary in Greene County is for House District 70. Incumbent state Rep. Brian Lampton, R-Beavercreek, said he is concerned the new maps will confuse voters and these important races will be decided by tiny turnout.
“In this case, the votes of a potentially small minority will decide who represents them in the State House,” he said. “The top priority of my campaign is to get out the vote. We want to encourage every registered voter to participate and vote in the primary.”
Lampton’s Republican challenger, Katherine Shutte of Beavercreek, didn’t return a message seeking comment.
Here are the competitive races and issues in the Aug. 2 ballot:
House District 46 (Northeastern Butler County, including Monroe and Middletown)
Republican primary
- Thomas Hall (Incumbent)
- Matt King
House District 47 (Central and northwest Butler County including Hamilton and Oxford
Republican primary
- Sara Carruthers (Incumbent)
- Cody Harper
House District 55 (Eastern and northern Warren County, including Springboro)
Republican primary
- Thomas Goodwin
- Scott Lipps (Incumbent)
House District 56 (Central and southwest Warren County, including Lebanon and Mason)
Democrat primary
- Joy Bennett
- Sam Cao
Republican primary
- Kathy Grossmann
- Adam Mathews
House District 70 (Western Greene County, including Beavercreek)
Republican primary
- Brian Lampton (Incumbent)
- Katherine Shutte
House District 85 (Champaign, Shelby and part of Logan counties)
Republican primary
- Lilli Johnson Vitale
- Tim Barhorst
- Rochiel Foulk
Issues
- Ross Local School District will ask voters to decide on a 5-year, 7.99-mill, emergency property tax levy.
- Clark-Shawnee Local School District will ask voters to approve a substitute 12.1-mill property tax levy to replace two existing emergency levies.
- The city of Xenia is asking voters to approve amendments to the city charter to clarify rules for city council members and filling vacant seats, adding language that the city must comply with Ohio’s Uniform Tax Levy Law, and specifying that Ohio Ethics Law applies to all city officials and its employees.
Aug. 2 Primary Election Key Dates
Today: Voters can submit or mail written requests for absentee ballots to vote in the Aug. 2 election to their local board of elections.
July 5: Deadline to register to vote in Aug. 2 election
July 6: Early in-person absentee voting begins; Boards of election begin mailing requested absentee ballots.
July 30: Applications for absentee ballots to be mailed for Aug. 2 election must be received by noon. Though this is the deadline set in law, election officials warn that waiting until this deadline may make it hard to vote by mail because of delivery times.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — We don’t care what you call them. Sausage rolls, pigs in a blanket, or whatever you call them, they’re delicious and that should be celebrated.
June 5 is National Sausage Roll Day and we think that is an appropriate time to celebrate. So here is a list of the best places in Fort Worth to get a sausage roll, according to Yelp:
- A & H Donuts
- Central Donuts and Bakery
- Best Donut
- Hurts Donuts
- Kenner’s Kolache Bakery
- Paul’s Donuts Subs & Gyros
- Momma’s Donuts
- The British Emporium
- Busy B’s Bakery | https://cw33.com/news/local/best-places-in-fort-worth-to-get-a-sausage-roll-according-to-yelp/ | 2022-06-05T09:27:43 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/local/best-places-in-fort-worth-to-get-a-sausage-roll-according-to-yelp/ |
Once upon a time, as stories often begin, a Northampton County hospital supervisor acquired a trio of drunken gnomes in an impulse, online purchase.
During downtime last winter, Mike Ryan built a wooden pavilion for the tipsy, fairy-tale dwarves to rest on, and placed the pavilion on a tree stump.
Creating the tiny landmark outside his home “was fun and silly and stupid, so I kept going with it,” Ryan said.
The Bushkill Township resident’s work then grew into small village with a menagerie of buildings, a bridge and more for a host of the 3-inch creatures outside his home. There’s a gnome beach, cabana, treehouse, hammock, lake complete with sand and pier, and suspension bridge.
Ryan refers to the approximately two dozen gnomes, miniature houses, animals and accessories as his “Gnomedom,” or kingdom.
“That’s what I have been affectionately calling it, because the joke is it will keep growing and just take over everything,” said Ryan, 33, who lives in a ranch house with his wife, Kaelyn on Creamery Road.
For now, Ryan has set aside about 20 square feet in front of their home for the diminutive creatures, but the gnome village has room to expand on the Ryans’ 1.5-acre property, he said. It might grow; it might not. It’s a labor of fun for him to devote a couple of hours on a weekend for what he calls “mindless activity.”
Ryan said it’s been mostly neighbors stopping by so far to look at the village. Nearby resident Laura Haffner said the intricate and cute village draws parents with their kids, who “get a big kick out of it.”
He has also posted his creations on social media. On TikTok at Mike Ryan Creations, people have started to follow his posts and comment on his musings.
Gnomes are seemingly trendy one minute, and then not so much. During the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia, people were gobbling up this year’s version of a caddy gnome, according to The Associated Press. Gnomes made their Masters debut in 2016 and were a quick hit, though nobody seemed to remember them being as much of a phenomenon as they were during the April tournament.
Back in Bushkill Township, Ryan said he has been pleased with some of his creations, such as the 7-foot suspension bridge and a pergola. The village is shaded under ash and maple trees, and he also rigged solar lights with sensors to brighten the village at night.
“The pergola I’m jealous of,” he said. “My wife is like, ‘Can you make one for us?’ ”
When he’s not working on the village, Ryan manages 13 nursing supervisors at St. Luke’s Hospital-Anderson Campus in Bethlehem Township. It’s a job that he said requires dealing with staff and patients, and it presents challenges and stress.
Some of his co-workers found out about Gnomedom and “it’s given them insight about how crazy I am,” he said. But they also have contributed gnomes or accessories for his village, such as slate, which he uses on roofs for tiny houses. He said he’s also bought gnomes at retailers or on Amazon.
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His wife, who helps Ryan with some of the layout, also tells him if a part of the village makes sense or is stupid.
“It’s hard in nursing, because you’re working all day but you’re not creating anything tangible,” Ryan said. “So it’s very therapeutic to work with my hands, and have a product at the end.”
Ryan said the tiny village hasn’t sustained any damage from nasty weather — perhaps some gnome magic? The gnomes in more precarious areas are hot-glued in place, he said, but the substance enables him to move them easily if needed.
“I lost one that fell and got hit with a lawnmower,” he said, sounding like someone who hasn’t lost sleep over the unfortunate accident.
Ryan, who grew up in Lower Nazareth Township, said he learned woodworking from his father, Pat Ryan, a carpenter and contractor.
“I love doing stuff with my hands and being creative,” he said, [but] “I’m fully aware how weird this is.”
Morning Call journalist Anthony Salamone can be reached at asalamone@mcall.com. | https://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-nws-nazareth-area-gnomedom-20220605-5rs5uf5clvaexjm3yikcfcvjai-story.html | 2022-06-05T09:38:45 | 0 | https://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-nws-nazareth-area-gnomedom-20220605-5rs5uf5clvaexjm3yikcfcvjai-story.html |
Five questions with ... speech and debate national winner Abreanna Blose
Abreanna Blose is a freshman studying journalism at Ohio University. She was born and raised in Canton. She graduated from Perry High School last year.
"I graduated high school with the support from my wonderful family including my mother and father, Daunel and John, and my two siblings, Jacob and Lydia," Blose said. "I hope to use my (college) degree to continue doing what I love: writing and advocating."
She is a member of Ohio University’s speech and debate team. In March, the team competed in the 2022 Pi Kappa Delta National Tournament hosted by the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. The team won third place.
Blose stood out in the event because she was awarded one of the highest honors of the competition. She took home one of two national titles given to the best of the best. She earned the highly prestigious National Champion award in informative speaking.
More:Five questions with ... Jackson High senior class President Jarod Matronia
Did you participate in speech and debate at Perry High School and why?
I competed for the Perry High School speech and debate team all four years in high school. My senior year, I was a speech captain.
I chose to join speech and debate with the encouragement of my older brother who also competed on the team. Though I was hesitant at first, I ended up loving the sense of community the coaches and my teammates provided.
Winning a national award as a freshman in college is spectacular. Are you planning to compete in future years in college?
I plan to continue competing through college not only to pursue further individual success, but also to thrive alongside my teammates.
I truly love utilizing the platform the forensics community provides to speak about subjects that I care about.
More:Five questions with ... Lynn Shimko, co-creator of 720 Market
Why did you select the topic you did for your informative speech?
My topic for my informative speech was about the incel mindset. Incels are involuntary celibates who often blame women for their own lack of intimacy and lash out at society in return.
I chose this topic because incel terrorism has peaked over the past decade and is a growing cause for concern. The shocking content included in my speech allowed me to capture the attention of audiences and spread awareness.
Why do you feel speech and debate is important for students to take?
Speech and debate is extremely important for growth in many areas. It obviously allows students to grow as a public speaker, but also acts as a tool for expression. It is a great community for developing as a writer, researcher, performer and professional.
What does winning this national honor mean to you?
Winning the national honor was important to me because it was a measurement of the growth I have experienced over the past five years as a public speaker.
For supporting my efforts, I would like to thank my family, my high school speech coaches who dedicated so much time to me and to my current coach Jennifer Talbert who has helped me adapt my speech and perform to the best of my abilities.
Editor's note: Five questions with ... is a Sunday feature that showcases a member of the Stark County community. If you'd like to recommend someone to participate, send an email to newsroom@cantonrep.com. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/2022/06/05/abreanna-blose-pi-kappa-delta-national-tournament-five-questions/9943832002/ | 2022-06-05T10:07:52 | 1 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/2022/06/05/abreanna-blose-pi-kappa-delta-national-tournament-five-questions/9943832002/ |
TUPELO • Jody Edwards always had a love for adoption, despite no one in her family having been adopted.
"I guess the Lord just put that love in my heart early on, knowing what was to come," she said.
She and her husband, Jeremy, recently joined Tupelo-based adoption agency New Beginnings International Children's and Family Services, where they help birth mothers considering adoption and families looking to adopt children.
It’s a process through which they’ve been themselves. The couple adopted their daughter, Jaylee, now 2 years old, in January 2020.
Now, as part of New Beginnings, they see birth mothers through their most difficult times and help families through the hoops and hurdles of adopting a child.
'She has been such a blessing'
Jeremy and Jody, both 37 years old, faced fertility issues after deciding they'd like to have a child.
One day in October 2019, Jody Edwards was upset with the situation and turned, as they often do, to prayer.
“She was just really praying, 'God, we really want this child,'” Jeremy Edwards said. “Then our pastor, just out of the blue, texted her and said, 'I really feel like you're going to get your miracle this week.'”
Turns out, their pastor was right; they received a text from Jaylee's birth mom the next day.
Three months later, they brought Jaylee home from the hospital on the day she was born.
"Jaylee's birth mother was just in a situation where she could not parent, so she chose adoption for her," Jody Edwards said. "Once she chose us, she decided she wanted us at the hospital and to be with Jaylee from the very beginning."
Although the couple opted for a private adoption and handled much of the process themselves, New Beginnings conducted their home study — a comprehensive review conducted by a licensed social worker. Over the course of three home visits, they conduct personal interviews, perform background checks, ensure the home is safe and that there is adequate space for an additional family member.
The couple still maintains open communication with Jaylee's birth mother and family, staying connected through social media.
"She has been such a blessing, and she really is a blessing to everyone she meets," Jody Edwards said of her daughter. "Everybody loves her. She's full of energy, full of personality, loves laughing. She really is the greatest thing."
The couple's own new beginnings
In mid-April, the Edwardses joined New Beginnings as full-time employees where they guide others through the same process they went through.
Jeremy Edwards is the nonprofit's chief operating officer, overseeing the budget, finances, fundraising and donor relations.
He previously did insurance work for a behavioral health company and served as full-time music minister for Jesus Name Community Church in Walnut, where he continues to serve in a part-time capacity.
Jody Edwards oversees domestic and international adoptions, along with home study programs.
This is her third time working for New Beginnings. She started out as the secretary years ago and left to pursue a degree in social work. She came back as a social worker in the domestic department before marrying her husband. The drive from Walnut to Tupelo proved too far, so she found work closer to home, working as a children's therapist with Region IV Mental Health Services and later as a medical social worker with Legacy Hospice.
During that time, she stayed on as a contract social worker with the organization to help with home studies or birth-mother work when needed.
After they both joined New Beginnings, the couple moved to New Albany, where Jody Edwards' family is from, because it's the perfect halfway point between their workplace in Tupelo and their church in Walnut.
Faith and celebrating life
Faith drives everything the Edwardses do at New Beginnings.
They see their work as a ministry, and the entire staff tries to show the love of Christ to their clients.
Or, as their former pastor's wife used to say, they "keep the main thing the main thing," meaning they always strive to put God first in all they do.
"I heard somebody say recently that physical adoption is such a parallel to spiritual adoption," Jody Edwards said. "And it is. We're all adopted into God's kingdom. For us, it did not matter how Jaylee came to our family, whether that was biological or through adoption. What matters is that she's here. We love her and we want to train her up to love the Lord and serve him."
The Edwards' church family rallied around them during their struggle with infertility and celebrated with them when they found out about Jaylee and the adoption.
The couple does the same on a smaller scale at New Beginnings with birth moms and adoptive families.
"We used to say 'We hold your hand through the process,'" Jody Edwards said. "And we try to do that for both parties."
Adoption is never a Plan B, she said. It's simply the plan.
"The Lord is in control," Jody Edwards said. "I believe he brings both parties to us. He brings us the birth moms we need to work with and brings us the adoptive families as well.
"In the end, we get to celebrate life," she added. | https://www.djournal.com/news/local/two-years-after-adopting-child-new-albany-couple-guides-others-through-process/article_761e96b5-515a-5987-8a82-b870435a7349.html | 2022-06-05T10:12:44 | 1 | https://www.djournal.com/news/local/two-years-after-adopting-child-new-albany-couple-guides-others-through-process/article_761e96b5-515a-5987-8a82-b870435a7349.html |
100 years ago
June 5, 1922: Three men, two from Peoria and one from Chicago, awaited trial on charges of transporting liquor on a public highway. Bloomington police said the men were arrested with 30 gallons of pure grain alcohol. It was believed that they planned to combine the alcohol with juniper juice to make gin as they were also found with 192 empty Gordon gin bottles.
75 years ago
June 5, 1947: The first full-time physical therapist was hired by St. Joseph's Hospital. Miss Gladys Tirrell replaced two others who had been employed temporarily by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis for polio convalescent work at the hospital. Now able to provide many kinds of physical therapy, the hospital also ordered a whirlpool tub for the new program.
50 years ago
June 5, 1972: Three people were killed in a violent crash within 20 miles of their homes. The victims were Edward W. Warsaw, 25-year-old father of six from Saybrook, and Mr. and Mrs. Vernon L. Ralston, 49 and 46, of Gibson City. It appeared that Warsaw had missed a stop sign at the intersection of Illinois 9 and the Ellsworth-Cooksville Road, authorities said.
25 years ago
June 5, 1997: Kirlin's at Eastland Mall plans to hold an event selling its more than 1,000 Beanie Babies — but only to children under 12. The store's management created the special opportunity because of requests from parents, who said the large number of Beanie Baby collectors meant that children often didn't get a chance to buy the popular toys themselves.
Compiled by Pantagraph staff | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/history/100-years-ago-3-arrested-for-transporting-30-gallons-of-grain-alcohol/article_5f64ffde-e3ae-11ec-b54d-875d02cc60d5.html | 2022-06-05T10:45:56 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/history/100-years-ago-3-arrested-for-transporting-30-gallons-of-grain-alcohol/article_5f64ffde-e3ae-11ec-b54d-875d02cc60d5.html |
DALLAS (KDAF) — June 5 is National Veggie Burger Day and the veggie burger has made quite an improvement over the years.
Nowadays you could eat a vegetable-based burger without even knowing you weren’t eating meat. In celebration of how far we have come in terms of creating tasty veggie burgers, here is a list of the best places to get a veggie burger in Dallas, according to Yelp:
- Hopdoddy Burger Bar
- Vegan Food House
- Son of a Butcher
- Rodeo Goat
- Grub Burger Bar
- Twisted Root Burger
- Dugg Burger
- Maple and Motor
- Uncle Uber’s
- PinPoint Burger Bar | https://cw33.com/news/local/best-places-to-get-a-veggie-burger-in-dallas-according-to-yelp/ | 2022-06-05T10:50:17 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/local/best-places-to-get-a-veggie-burger-in-dallas-according-to-yelp/ |
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YORK, Pa. — Residents flocked to Penn Park in downtown York on Saturday afternoon for the 8th Annual Stop the Violence event. The event comes as surging gun crimes have gripped the country in the past month.
The House of Reconciliation Church hosted the event. The church works to help provide resources to families who have lost a loved one due to gun violence.
Senior Pastor Yahaira Albarado says the event is a way to bring residents together to call for an end to gun violence in the City of York.
“Every day someone is being killed, a life is being taken," said Albarado. "But just seeing the community support us and coming and seeing families here is, to me, I feel like, ‘we already did what we wanted to do, and it’s happening right before our eyes.”
“We still have the power over our streets and over our parks. We can work together, embrace love, embrace peace, embrace unity, and stop killing one another because it’s not worth it," says Debra Martinez with Stop the Violence.
The event has grown in popularity over the years, with hundreds of people showing up to the event each year.
Debra Martinez says the event shows the ability for York residents to come together in order to raise awareness.
“Regardless of your color, regardless of your language, regardless of your nationality, we can all come together and live in peace," says Martinez.
The House of Reconciliation Church will hold another Stop the Violence event in West York this August. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/8th-annual-stop-the-violence-event-in-york/521-f58ac873-dda5-4aa5-a060-7d5e8650a8ad | 2022-06-05T11:39:40 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/8th-annual-stop-the-violence-event-in-york/521-f58ac873-dda5-4aa5-a060-7d5e8650a8ad |
It’s World Environment Day, and what better way to celebrate the natural world than by heading out to one of our beautiful local parks? Or, visit a state park or state forest. Here’s an incentive: Admission to all state parks, state forests and state trails is FREE today!
The Outta Sight Kite Flight, featuring stunt kite flying teams, the “Kids Candy Drop” and the “Kids Mad Dash” kite launch, is 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today in Kennedy Park, 40th Street and the lakefront. Admission is free.
A “Track 101” clinic is noon to 3 p.m. today at the Washington Park Velodrome, 1821 Washington Road. Participants will learn about the track bicycle, velodrome basics, proper track etiquette, group riding skills and mock racing. No racing experience is needed, but participants must be at least 9 years old. For details on what to bring and to sign up, go to kenoshavelodromeracing.com. The cost is $10 per clinic. The next clinics are July 9 and Aug. 7. Racing on the track is Monday and Tuesday nights.
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Today is the final performance of the Fleeing Artists Theatre’s production of “Far Away.” The troupe describes the play as “a dystopian drama that’s like ‘Hunger Games’ meets ‘Fahrenheit 451,’ with the British wit and charm of Caryl Churchill.” The play runs just 45 minutes, with a 15-minute talkback after the show. 2 p.m. at the Rhode Center for the Arts, 514 56th St. Tickets are $10 general admission or $7 for senior citizens, students, educators, first responders and members of the military. Tickets can be purchased at the door or online at fleeingartists.org.
Road trip: Milwaukee’s PrideFest wraps up today at Henry W. Maier Festival Park, 200 N. Harbor Drive on Milwaukee’s lakefront. The festival features live music on several stages. pridefest.com | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/todays-events-for-sunday-june-5/article_beb25d18-e388-11ec-92ce-0fac4025af64.html | 2022-06-05T11:46:29 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/todays-events-for-sunday-june-5/article_beb25d18-e388-11ec-92ce-0fac4025af64.html |
Name: Joshua Cao
School: Indian Trail High School & Academy
Parents: Li Zhu and Ching Yu Cao of Pleasant Prairie
Most memorable high school moment: Out of all my memorable moments in high school, I particularly enjoyed my AP Government’s mock presidential campaign. It was a two week project that included making ads, posters, and campaign buttons that culminated in a presidential debate. It was an exhilarating experience to debate politics respectfully and constructively rather than with the aggressive rhetoric we see in the media and online.
Most influential teachers: Ms. Katie Phillips and Ms. Amanda Johnson, in AP English Literature (Phillips); AP English Language and Composition (Johnson); Both teachers had tremendous impact in developing the writer and person I am today. They really helped me hone my writing style all the while teaching me invaluable critical thinking skills through literary analysis. Together, they guided me through all my English courses and prepared me to express my thoughts as a curious, considerate student.
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School activities/clubs: National Honor Society, wind ensemble
School athletics: Swimming, tennis
School offices held: President of National Honor Society; Treasurer of Junior Class
Honors, letters or awards: National Merit Finalist; 1st Place Civic Games Editorial Writing Contest; 1st Place Women’s Suffrage Essay Contest; Varsity Swimmer; Varsity Tennis Player; Delegate for Wisconsin Senate Scholar Program
Out-of-school activities/hobbies: Youth in Governance; Piano; Hospital Volunteer; Baking; Playing Video Games
College choice: Undecided
Intended major/field of study: Political Science or Economics
Role model: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Three words that best describe my role model: Tough, Thoughtful, and Compassionate
What I hope to accomplish in my lifetime: I am often an indecisive person with a million different ideas floating around in my head, so it’s hard for me to answer this question. Someday, I hope to truly understand who I am, what I want, and what I stand for. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/todays-teen-for-june-5/article_3e36c1bc-e2a5-11ec-bfb3-433edca702c4.html | 2022-06-05T11:46:36 | 0 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/todays-teen-for-june-5/article_3e36c1bc-e2a5-11ec-bfb3-433edca702c4.html |
Kris Kochman has been very busy these past weeks.
And that’s a great thing for area residents.
As the City of Kenosha’s community relations liaison, Kochman has organized local activities since 2011, including the Civic Veterans Parade, Fourth of July fireworks show, outdoor concerts and events like the Fall Festival.
So far, for this summer, “We have 64 events through Labor Day — and applications for events are still coming in,” she said.
On the heels of a very quiet season in 2020 (when COVID-19 restrictions shut down almost everything) and a busier summer in 2021, Kochman is optimistic about 2022.
“We have some new events this season,” she said, listing the Pop-Up German Beer Garden at Celebration Place (June 16-18) and the Civil War Museum’s Living History Day (June 25) — “it’s outside, and I think they’ll be shooting off cannons” — and returning events like the Taste of Wisconsin Festival (July 28-30) and the Homecoming Car Show (July 26-30).
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“For outdoor events, it feels like everything is going pretty much back to normal,” she said. “I’ve been getting a lot of phone calls from people interested in scheduling events.”
The city’s outdoor concert season will again feature longtime favorites — the Kenosha Pops Concert Band, “Tuesdays at The Shell,” Peanut Butter & Jam and Lincoln Park Live! — and “the Kids from Wisconsin are coming back to perform July 24 on the band shell in Pennoyer Park,” Kochman said. “They did a show on the band shell in 2021, too. It was a very hot day, but they still had a really good turnout.
“They are so impressive, with a lot of energy and talent. It’s a free show, which is such a gift to the community,”
Parade news
The biggest change for the city’s 2021 Civic Veterans Parade was the route. Instead of starting on 22nd Avenue and 60th Street in Uptown, the parade stepped off from Washington Road and Seventh Avenue.
The new route returns this year, for the July 3 parade.
The parade marches south on Seventh Avenue into Downtown, heading toward Library Park.
“We had very positive feedback after the parade,” Kochman said. “It’s such a pretty area, going along Seventh Avenue and the harbor. I was surprised more people didn’t sit in Union Park, but maybe they will this year.”
Kochman was hoping to get 99 parade entries and, as of June 1, “we have 90 acts,” she said. “And some will still trickle in, even though we’re officially past the entry deadline.”
This year’s parade will again feature the KUSD summer marching bands, which were absent in 2021.
“The Band of the Black Watch and Rambler Band are both back,” Kochman said. “And the big news is that we got the Navy Band Great Lakes for the parade. They are difficult to get because they are in such high demand, and they like to spread the joy. This will be the band’s first visit to our parade in about six years.”
Also coming back on July 3 is the Lutheran Vanguard marching band, from a school in Appleton.
“They were one of the few bands performing last year and were in our parade,” Kochman said. “We’re happy to welcome them back.”
As for Kochman’s own summer plans, at this point, she says with a laugh, “I always think I am going to attend everything. I won’t do that, of course, but it’s nice to have so many options.”
Get out today
One of the first summer festivals is still going on today, in Kennedy Park.
The city’s Outta Sight Kite Flight, which started Saturday, continues from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. along the Lake Michigan lakefront.
“This is a really good, family friendly event,” Kochman said. “Scott Fisher, who organizes it, has been very loyal to us. He’s a busy guy, working at events like Summerfest and the State Fair and operating his stores in Milwaukee, but he always comes here for this.”
The Kenosha kite festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary this weekend, and Kochman credits Penny Haney, her predecessor with the city, for bringing the festival to Kenosha.
Fisher said Haney came to one of his kite events in Milwaukee “and told me she wanted to bring it to Kenosha,” he said. “Twenty years later, we’re still coming. And she comes to the festival some years, to check up on us and see how it’s going.”
As for why the kite festival is still thriving, Kochman chalks it up to a great location, free admission and a casual, happy atmosphere.
“People can pop in and come and go as they like,” she said. “Some people bring their own kites to fly, plus they enjoy seeing the giant octopus and whale kites.
“You can stay for an hour or stay the whole afternoon,” she added. “And there’s just something happy about kites flying in the sky.” | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/watch-now-kenosha-gearing-up-for-busy-summer-season/article_7114db8a-dd34-11ec-9eb1-8be3aaea42d0.html | 2022-06-05T11:46:42 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/watch-now-kenosha-gearing-up-for-busy-summer-season/article_7114db8a-dd34-11ec-9eb1-8be3aaea42d0.html |
“The weather is our biggest concern each year.”
So said Scott Fisher, who has brought the Outta Sight Kite Flight to Kennedy Park every June for the past two decades.
He made those comments a few days before the weekend festival, adding that the lakefront park “is probably one of the top 20 areas in the country for kite flying because of that wind off the lake.”
Having no wind? “That’s rare, but every once in a while, it does happen,” he said.
Saturday, unfortunately, was one of those rare, wind-free days.
Luckily, the free festival continues today from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the park, at 40th Street and the lakefront.
The “Canadian Dream Team” of Alex Dagenais and Vincent Duquette, who came to Kenosha from Montreal, are hoping to get their giant kites into the sky today. They brought with them two 150-foot octopus kites, a 100-foot manta ray and a 100-foot whale kite.
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“I’ve been flying giant kites for about 20 years,” Dagenais said.
The two also go to kite festivals near their home in Canada, but there “we mostly do winter ice fests,” Dagenais said. “Our nearby parks all have big trees or power lines, so we fly the kites in the winter, when we have access to lakes and rivers and open skies.”
The two admit, somewhat sheepishly, to not flying kites much when they were children.
Instead, they picked up the hobby as adults.
“It’s a fun, colorful activity for kids and families,” Dagenais said. “And it gets you outside, which is always nice.”
If the wind cooperates today, look for the Canadians to bring out more of their seafood combo of kites, including a starfish, a crab and a lobster.
“It’s not for dinner,” Dagenais said, “but it’s to seem like you’re in the water — but in the air instead.” | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/watch-now-kenosha-kite-festival-mostly-grounded-on-first-day/article_63384092-e42d-11ec-b5dc-f3821dba518b.html | 2022-06-05T11:46:48 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/watch-now-kenosha-kite-festival-mostly-grounded-on-first-day/article_63384092-e42d-11ec-b5dc-f3821dba518b.html |
The year 2022 may be remembered as the year that life started to get back to normal — whatever passes for normal these days. COVID-19, contention and controversy were no match for our community — thanks in large part to the inspiring leadership we saw from women across all sectors of our city and state.
We saw governmental leaders make crucial decisions to secure our safety and prosperity — in city hall, from the floor of the Legislature and in dozens of other places.
We saw business leaders navigate a challenging economy and supply chain issues to keep goods and services provided and people employed.
We saw philanthropic and nonprofit leaders jump in when new crises brought new needs to our most-vulnerable populations.
We saw education leaders inspire the next generation of leaders.
And we saw — some of us firsthand and others from a distance — the dedication and commitment of leaders, formal and informal, within our health care community.
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There is, indeed, much inspiring leadership to celebrate.
The year 2022 marks the eighth year for the Inspire Awards, which celebrate women's leadership across several sectors, including business, entrepreneurship, government service, education, philanthropy, health care, nonprofit, as well as the Young Leader's Award, Inspire Scholarship and Woman of the Year.
All nominations will be reviewed by the Inspire Advisory Board, which has the difficult but rewarding task of selecting the 2022 finalists and winners in each category. I am joined on the 2022 Inspire Advisory Board by: Ashley Abramson, Aakriti Agrawal, Connie Edmond, Robin Eschliman, Peter Ferguson, Charlie Foster, Staci Haas, Jen Landis, Meagan Liesveld, James Overcash, Diane Temme Stinton, Natalia Wiita and Sarah Wischhof.
We are excited to return to Pinnacle Bank Arena for this year's awards luncheon Wednesday, Sept. 14.
Please visit InspireLincoln.com to nominate the "inspiring" women in your life. Whether it is a leader in your business organization, a neighbor, friend or associate, please share their story with us so we can recognize them for their contributions to our community. The nomination deadline is July 31.
Thank you to the current Inspire sponsors for making this recognition event possible: Ameritas, Doane University, Purdue Global, Union Bank & Trust, Woodhouse and Woods Aitken. If your organization would like to join them, call 402-473-7442.
There are leaders everywhere among us, and it’s our privilege to tell their stories and help their lights shine for all.
Ava Thomas is president and publisher of the Lincoln Journal Star and Omaha World-Herald. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/letter-from-the-publisher-help-us-honor-inspiring-women/article_11835d81-90c7-58ef-ae20-e19c9df96e66.html | 2022-06-05T13:11:25 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/letter-from-the-publisher-help-us-honor-inspiring-women/article_11835d81-90c7-58ef-ae20-e19c9df96e66.html |
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A feeling of bliss overflows students all across the nation every time the school year draws to a close and summer vacation creeps closer. But for the 19 children massacred at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, their bliss was cut short.
We are high school students in Tucson, and watching children being slaughtered in their own schools makes us afraid. As students, our safety, our lives, our futures remain uncertain as gun violence surges in America.
For us and our classmates, these tragedies no longer surprise us, we expect them. But we must not accept school shootings as the new normal. Shootings like the one that took the lives of these children in Uvalde are not inevitable — not in Texas, not anywhere.
As far as we can see, there is an established pattern: The more accessible guns are, the more violent shootings that arise. We need stronger gun safety laws to protect us when we go to class.
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The Uvalde shooting came nearly a decade after a gunman killed 20 small children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, making the shooting in Uvalde the second-deadliest at an elementary, middle, or high school on record in the United States. Last fall, we were horrified by the mass shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan. NPR reported that Uvalde was the 27th school shooting so far this year.
On an average day in the United States, at least 35 people are murdered with a gun, according to the New York Times. So far this year, 213 mass shootings have taken place. Just a few weeks ago, we saw the grocery store shooting in a predominantly Black neighborhood of Buffalo, New York.
We must realize that this is not normal. No other industrialized nation in the world has a gun homicide rate nearly as high or has mass shootings at a similar frequency.
It is far too easy for high-risk individuals like the 18-year-old shooter at Uvalde to legally get their hands on destructive weapons. Republican officials and NRA advocates may claim that “a lack of security in public spaces” is the cause of such tragic events, but that isn’t the problem. The problem is how easily these young and unstable individuals can get assault weaponry that is designed to maximize casualties and wreak havoc.
The state of Texas, especially, has very few gun restrictions compared to the rest of the country. Last summer, Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill, despite objections from law enforcement agencies, that allowed anyone 21 years and older to carry a handgun in public without a permit or training. With laws like that, there can be no oversight over whether dangerous people like the 18-year-old at Uvalde abuse their weapons.
Giving weapons to teachers and staff is not the answer. What reassurance do parents have knowing their children spend eight hours a day with an armed gunman as a teacher? That’s not in the job description. They aren’t paid enough for this. No amount of money will ever be enough.
In order to keep school shootings like Uvalde from happening again, we must prioritize prevention and that begins with addressing the threat firearms pose when they are in the hands of young, dangerous people who have no training.
The Sandy Hook shooting was almost a decade ago, and it was considered a turning point in the gun violence prevention movement. We are now at another critical point.
It is time to voice our dissatisfaction with the laws and policies of this nation. We must demand change.
So join us as we rally and as we march all over the country on Saturday, June 11. If you’re in Tucson, join us at El Presidio Plaza as we rally from 5-7 p.m. Volunteer to register people to vote. If you haven’t yet, register yourself to vote. We can’t do this alone.
For more information on March for Our Lives Tucson, visit marchtucson.com.
Fida Bijin is entering the 12th grade at Basis Tucson North High School. Ellie Dorland is entering the 11th grade at City High School. Mallika Sunder is entering the 12th grade at Catalina Foothills High School. Jeffrey Williams is entering the 12th grade at City High School. | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-sadly-we-expect-gun-violence-at-our-schools-but-we-dont-accept-it/article_239e6b82-e2b6-11ec-90d3-7bc22be015ac.html | 2022-06-05T13:19:25 | 1 | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-sadly-we-expect-gun-violence-at-our-schools-but-we-dont-accept-it/article_239e6b82-e2b6-11ec-90d3-7bc22be015ac.html |
The following is the opinion and analysis of the writer. Lindell is a professor at the University of Arizona and a deacon in the Episcopal Diocese of Arizona:
Thoughts and prayers.
How trite are these words in response to tragedy! What is missing in this invocation? There is no personal action associated with this saying.
Clearly, we resonate with those who are experiencing tragic, unheard-of events, leaving us paralyzed for lack of an effective way to respond. And prayers for what? Are we asking some deity in the sky to fix something or someone so we will not be burdened with doing it ourselves? I feel sorry for those who have placed all their eggs in this basket.
We humans have become enamored of yearning for a leader who will take over what we seem unable or unwilling to do for ourselves. For example, many have given over to God control of everything, so we do not have to assume control of our own lives. We have allowed ourselves to become subjects, if not supplicants. Jews have been searching for a messiah since the origin of Judaism. Early followers of Jesus hoped that he would militarily lead them against the Roman overlords, to conquer and liberate them from subjugation. However, Jesus did not fit the stereotype of a Jewish messiah.
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Instead, Jesus sought to instill in his followers that if change was possible it would have to be accomplished through their personal intervention — without micro-managing from Jesus (or God for that matter). Jesus invited his followers to action.
Two thousand years later, we are still looking for a messiah, a leader who will take over and assume control so we don’t have to. What is the matter with this picture? We humans need to assume control of our own destiny. Our future is through action. It means assuming personal responsibility for our own actions, it means voting to voice our opinions, it means standing for human rights for every human being, it means respecting the dignity (autonomy) of everyone to choose for themselves, it means democracy in action, entering into politics to effect change. We cannot sit back and let those obsessed with power and control determine our fate.
Ethics is not about you and me; it is about the other. Therefore, we need to be cognizant of our actions in the theatre of life. How we live and act matters. Whether we like it or not, we are role models. Our lives are on stage. Any attempt to influence or control another impinges on their right to live their own lives. We are not solitary, independent individuals. We are, instead, invited to be in community with others. Unfortunately, some of those communities, e.g., churches/religions are also obsessed with literal biblical belief and domination over those who gather under the safety net of their self-made “umbrellas.”
Communities that are transparent exist to invite participation by all who are involved. They operate under democratic rights of those who wish to gather together. They exist to invite participants into the questions. They also know how to share leadership with everyone in the group. Leaders are not threatened by sharing responsibility with others but seeking a healthy community that exists for the good of the group.
When will we begin to exercise our personal responsibility, without looking for something or someone whose sole agenda is to control us? This will require praxis or action on our part. We cannot afford to be passive; we must assume responsible personal intervention into the broader arena of life.
Thomas J. Lindell, Ph.D., is an emeritus professor of molecular and cellular biology at the University of Arizona. He has taught courses in bioethics and science and theology. He is a deacon in the Episcopal Diocese of Arizona. He is also a member of the Society of Ordained Scientists (SOSc). | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-thoughts-and-prayers-cant-replace-action/article_5454eada-e12b-11ec-9b5e-3799ae0efca1.html | 2022-06-05T13:19:25 | 1 | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-thoughts-and-prayers-cant-replace-action/article_5454eada-e12b-11ec-9b5e-3799ae0efca1.html |
The following is the opinion and analysis of the writer. Ascher is the associate vice president for the Arizona End of Life Care Partnership:
For many years before the onset of my psychiatrist father’s dementia, he would talk to me about his favorite book, one which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1974. That book, “The Denial of Death,” focuses on the strategies we humans create to avoid awareness of our own mortality. My dad was convinced the book explained the root cause of most human suffering.
I now work in the realm of death and dying every day. People often comment, with a heavy sigh, that it must be depressing. In fact, it’s the most inspiring, grounding, life-affirming work I’ve ever done.
Throughout the pandemic, judgement; anger; violence; and economic woes have soared. Blame abounds without awareness or discussion that fear of death may be at that core.
When young, we’re consumed with thoughts about our futures; how we’ll live when X goals are attained; proving we’re good people, parents, employees, children. We’re so busy worrying about it all that we frequently miss what’s right in front of us.
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As we age, our bodily changes signify the beginning of our inevitable end. We grow tired from ambitions and the energy we expend on the wheel. We start to focus on the past and the special moments for which we may not have been fully present. We begin to pay attention to the little things.
The little things are the meaning.
The journey is the point.
The destination is the same.
Maybe thinking and talking about this universal natural connection could improve the way we live each day of our lives.
The Arizona End of Life Care Partnership (EOLCP), anchored at United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona, was built on the glaring need to improve end of life care systems in our community and nationwide.
The pandemic ignited a spark in our conversations about death and dying, compelling us to reflect on what matters most to us as individuals. How do we want to live each day of our lives and with whom? How do we ensure that our loved ones and caregivers know our priorities and aren’t left with the burden of wondering how or where we wanted to die?
The EOLCP provides resources to help people talk to loved ones and healthcare professionals, complete advance care plans, access support for more days at home, and receive help while grieving the losses of people they love.
Throughout the past two years of complex uncertainties, the strength of our community remained constant and bolstered the foundation for the ongoing, essential work of this model partnership.
Please join us in normalizing these conversations: azendoflifecare.org.
Sarah Super Ascher is the associate vice president for the Arizona End of Life Care Partnership, anchored at United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona. She lives in Tucson. | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-we-should-normalize-thinking-talking-about-death/article_c914ef8e-e1d3-11ec-837b-b304c786d5bf.html | 2022-06-05T13:19:31 | 1 | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-we-should-normalize-thinking-talking-about-death/article_c914ef8e-e1d3-11ec-837b-b304c786d5bf.html |
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When I was about 10 years old, my uncle, drunk and distressed — as most of my male relatives were in those days — put a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. He was found by his two pre-teen children, blood and brains all over the room. Naturally, they were never the same. How could you be after seeing such brutality?
The first responders who went into the Uvalde, Texas, elementary schoolroom and saw the damage a high-velocity, high-capacity weapon does to a classroom of fourth graders also will never be the same. Certain things, after all, you cannot un-see.
Unfortunately, the rest of us — especially lawmakers — will never see that carnage, so, just like after Sandy Hook, Columbine and Parkland, nothing will change. In the United States we accept massacred children as the price of the Second Amendment.
I think it’s time to remedy that. I want the folks for whom guns are God and the legislators who bow at the altar of the National Rifle Association to see — as a Texas sheriff described to reporters — “piles of children,” bloodied and covered by the lifeless bodies of teachers trying to protect them. I want them to see tiny humans so destroyed by an AR-15 that they had to be matched to their parents by DNA samples because they were unidentifiable any other way.
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Graphic images have changed public policy in the past.
Pressure to end the Vietnam War spiked when a photograph of a naked, screaming girl running from her napalmed village was distributed throughout the world on newspaper wire services.
The civil rights movement was sparked by photos in 1955 of a 14-year-old boy who’d been brutally murdered by a group of white men for flirting with a white woman. Emmett Till’s mother chose an open casket so photographers — and thus the world — could see her child’s mutilated face.
Most recently, a 9-minute cell phone video in 2020 of a cop casually kneeling on George Floyd’s neck brought sweeping reforms to Minneapolis policing and launched a nationwide conversation into police brutality.
Perhaps photos of the Uvalde classroom scene, blown up on banners and paraded in front of Congress, state legislatures, the NRA headquarters and corporate offices of gun manufacturers — like aborted-fetus photos in front of abortion clinics — could change hearts and minds so legislators finally do something about this insanity.
I get that guns don’t kill people — people kill people — but it’s also true that a person can’t do what happened in that Texas classroom with a broom, a bat, nunchuks, his bare hands or even a machete. Heck, the fact that 19 armed law enforcement officers didn’t break down a door because two of their officers had been injured by bullets coming through that door speaks volumes about how dangerous AR-15s are. (It also pretty much obliterates the ‘good guys with guns’ argument.)
Yes, it’s not just guns. It’s also absent fathers, mental health issues, isolation, bullying, the lunacy of social media, understaffed school counseling offices and YouTube channels that foment anger and hate. In Uvalde, it is also about the frailty of human response, as the shooter’s grandmother had called police before he got to the school and 911 calls were coming from inside the school throughout the incident to no avail.
But research — controlled for things like poverty, race, age and other factors — has shown that the U.S. isn’t any more mentally ill than other developed countries, we don’t play more violent video games and we’re not more violence-prone. We also don’t have more violent crime than other developed nations, but our crime is more deadly because — you guessed it — we have more deadly weapons.
In other words, people in other countries get angry, have family squabbles, play “Call of Duty,” subscribe to racist propaganda, are lonely or suffer from mental instability. What makes life more lethal for a 10-year-old sitting at a U.S. kitchen table than it is for a 10-year-old in Sweden — which has one of the world’s highest rates of gun ownership — is that our country makes it super easy for just about anyone to get any kind of weapon, few questions asked and no education or training required.
Congress can’t do anything about absent fathers, legislate that parents teach their kids how to reach out to the loners in the lunchroom, or require every male between the ages of 30 and 65 to become a mentor at their local Boys and Girls Club.
They can, however, establish federal gun policy like every other developed nation has, some as recently as last week (Hi, Canada!), taking it a tiny step at a time. Raising the minimum age to purchase all guns to 21 and restricting the number of rounds a gun magazine can hold to six would be a good start, even though we also need permit-to-purchase programs, universal 10-day waiting periods, required gun safety classes and yes, banning high-velocity, high-capacity weapons such as the AR-15.
As the saying goes, a picture is worth 1,000 words. We need a sea change for lawmakers to have the political will to put children before their careers and the gun lobby, and to get there, we need the shock wave that comes with graphic reality. Show us the photos.
Renée Schafer Horton is a regular Star op-ed contributor. Reach her at rshorton08@gmail.com | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/ren-e-schafer-horton-images-can-shock-and-spark-change/article_083dd690-e287-11ec-9bdb-c77ec312ed2f.html | 2022-06-05T13:19:39 | 1 | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/ren-e-schafer-horton-images-can-shock-and-spark-change/article_083dd690-e287-11ec-9bdb-c77ec312ed2f.html |
SAN ANTONIO — A man in his 20s was taken into custody after allegedly shooting at law enforcement.
The incident happened around 11 p.m. on Saturday on the city's west side.
The Bexar County Sheriff's Office K9 Division was reportedly conducting a training with the K9 in the area.
Authorities said shots were fired from the park at law enforcement. Park police and BCSO searched the park and found the alleged shooter. When authorities told him to stop, he tried running with his dog, police said.
BCSO and park police chased the suspect to the 400 block of General McMullen, where he reportedly fought authorities. They were able to restrain the man and he was taken into custody.
Authorities are still investigating if he is the actual shooter as they did not find a gun on him. No injuries were reported. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/man-arrested-firing-shots-san-antonio-park-police-officer/273-c4d36bcd-04c0-4496-bc51-ff9fa859abb8 | 2022-06-05T13:41:16 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/man-arrested-firing-shots-san-antonio-park-police-officer/273-c4d36bcd-04c0-4496-bc51-ff9fa859abb8 |
SAN ANTONIO — A man is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries after he was hit by a car on the city's north side, the San Antonio Police Department said.
The incident happened around 9 p.m. on Saturday at the corner of Parliament and Blanco Road.
The man was reportedly crossing Blanco Road when he was hit by a vehicle. The person driving the car stopped, but a second car also hit the man, and kept driving, authorities said.
Police said witnesses got the vehicle plate number and stayed with the man until authorities arrived. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/man-hospitalized-hit-by-car-crossing-street/273-5e7af156-6215-4462-813c-c217281d1984 | 2022-06-05T13:41:22 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/man-hospitalized-hit-by-car-crossing-street/273-5e7af156-6215-4462-813c-c217281d1984 |
ORLANDO, Fla. – In the wake of the recent mass shootings in Buffalo, Uvalde and Tulsa, there’s a renewed debate surrounding gun control in America.
During a fiery speech last week, President Biden called on Congress to pass a number of measures to curb the violence, including a ban on assault weapons.
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Pulse nightclub survivor Brandon Wolf joined anchor Justin Warmoth on “The Weekly” to discuss the shootings and the legislation he’s been pushing for since June 12, 2016.
“The first thing I feel is heartbreak for the families who are going to go through hell for the rest of their lives,” Wolf said. “I also felt rage, and I still feel rage today because these people are paying the price for this nation’s inaction on gun violence.”
Watch the full interview in the video player above. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/05/pulse-survivor-discusses-recent-mass-shootings-gun-reform/ | 2022-06-05T13:42:35 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/05/pulse-survivor-discusses-recent-mass-shootings-gun-reform/ |
DALLAS (KDAF) — Buttery, flaky and full of flavor: sausage rolls have become a staple food in America, popularly paired with donuts; but did you know that this is not an American invention?
Wrapping meat bread is obviously not new but what we think about when we hear sausage roll is a French invention from the 19th century. This food dish made its way to Britain and in consequence, made its way to America.
But we’re not here to discuss history, we’re here to eat and what better day than on National Sausage Roll Day, June 5. So here are some of the best places in Dallas to get a sausage roll according to Yelp:
- Proper Baking Company
- The British Emporium
- Sunrise Donuts
- The Kolache Bake Shop
- Jarams Donuts
- Shin’s Donuts
- Kolache Heaven
- Hypnotic Donuts
- Yummy Donuts
- Gaston Donuts | https://cw33.com/news/local/best-places-in-dallas-to-get-a-sausage-roll-according-to-yelp/ | 2022-06-05T13:57:29 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/local/best-places-in-dallas-to-get-a-sausage-roll-according-to-yelp/ |
FORT WORTH (KDAF) — June 5 is National Veggie Burger Day and if you’re an avid vegetarian, vegan or you just want to try a vegetarian option, today’s the day to go get a veggie burger.
If we have convinced you to ‘treat yo self’ to a veggie burger, then here is a list of some of the best places to get one in Fort Worth, courtesy Foursquare:
- Dutch’s Hamburgers
- Pacific Table
- MOOYAH Burgers, Fries & Shakes
- Old Neighborhood Grill
- Rodeo Goat
- Fly Saucer Draught Emporium
- Tommy’s Hamburger Grill
- Blue Cherry
- Swiss Pastry Shop
- Cat City Grill | https://cw33.com/news/local/best-places-in-fort-worth-to-get-a-veggie-burger-according-to-foursquare/ | 2022-06-05T13:57:35 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/local/best-places-in-fort-worth-to-get-a-veggie-burger-according-to-foursquare/ |
With the rain, it was a great day to be inside and play in the Coquille Chess Tournament on May 28. Seventeen kids and one brave adult took on the challenge to compete over the chess board for the prize of dragons and dinosaurs. Sebastian Newby came from Bandon to take on the Coquille players.
In the advanced section, Dustin Herker was once again undefeated and won first place. He will be a teacher at summer chess camps on Portland this summer. McKinley Warncke whose only defeat was against Dustin Herker placed second. Jason Herker placed third.
These three champions, as well as Frank Morse who was unable to attend this tournament, will be driving to Las Vegas on June 7 for the International Chess Festival to play in the four day National Open U1300 Championships.
In the Coquille Tournament reserve section, Shaleena Crawford and Jordan Florez beat all their opponents and drew against each other so both share first place.
Ari Ish-Shalom, a kindergarten student, won second place.
June 4, the Coquille Chess Club will have a Squirt Gun Fun Zone fundraiser at the Gay 90’s celebration.
After the parade, cool off on Alder Street near the fire hall. They will also have novelty chess sets to play with.
July 9, they will hold a chess tournament at LaVerne Park with outdoor toys as prizes. Come with the whole family and besides chess, play badminton, Frisbee and more squirt gun fun. Lunch is a potluck with hot dogs supplied for a $5 entry fee. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/coquille-chess-club-hosts-tourney-plans-summer-events/article_b01bcc1c-e1d5-11ec-896b-1bd3c7d3a043.html | 2022-06-05T14:02:35 | 1 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/coquille-chess-club-hosts-tourney-plans-summer-events/article_b01bcc1c-e1d5-11ec-896b-1bd3c7d3a043.html |
WFW Post 3182 and its auxiliary wish to send a huge thank you to the Scouts, the Christian Home School group and their families for placing more than 2,000 flags and crosses on veterans' graves at the Sunset Cemetery in Coos Bay on Friday. Organizers reported 30 children, 27 adults and seven VFW and auxiliary members participated. The local VFW is hosting the 2022 state convention June 9-11 at the Mill Casino. Post 3182 now meets every third Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the North Bend Masonic Center, 2002 Union Ave. on the corner of Union and Virginia.
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At least 14 people were shot, three of them killed, when gunmen fired into a crowd on a popular stretch of South Street in Philadelphia late Saturday night.
It happened on South Street between 2nd and 3rd streets shortly before midnight. Hundreds of people were out enjoying the night when officers said they heard multiple gunshots, then saw several gunmen firing into a crowd.
An officer fired his gun at one of the shooters, Philadelphia Police Inspector D. F. Pace said. It is not known if the suspect was struck; however, they did drop their gun and flee.
The officer was "within 10 to 15 yards of the shooter, watching this person shoot into the crowd" when he decided to engage, Pace said.
At least 14 people were struck by the barrage of gunfire, police said. Three of them, two men and a woman, were shot multiple times and died at the hospital.
South Street is a popular area in Philadelphia lined with restaurants, shops and bars. It is highly trafficked among both locals and tourists.
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"There were hundreds of individuals just enjoying South Street, as they do every weekend, when this shooting broke out," Pace said.
Pace said two guns were found at the scene, one of them with an extended magazine.
The search for the gunmen continued Sunday morning, police said. One of the shooters was last seen running south on American Street between 2nd and 3rd streets.
Police are hoping businesses along South Street captured the shooting on surveillance video
"I want to emphasize that South Street is manned by numerous police officers," Pace said. "This is standard deployment for Friday and Saturday night - weekends - and especially during the summer months."
Philadelphia police said a separate shooting incident happened nearby around 11 p.m. Officers found 13 bullet casings at 4th and Bainbridge, a couple blocks away. Pace said investigators are looking into whether there's a connection in the two shootings.
Last Tuesday, video captured the moments a woman and other gunmen opened fire on the 400 block of South Street – less than two blocks away from Sunday's shooting. One man was injured.
"Furious. I am furious, not just for my neighborhood, for the whole country. If I hear one more time ‘thoughts and prayers’ – bull---," neighbor Maureen Long said through tears. "We cannot disagree about this. We have to do something. I don't care what your political leanings are. We can't continue to let people kill people."
As of Sunday morning, there were at least 212 homicides in Philadelphia this year, down 6% from the same time last year which was ultimately the deadliest in the city on record.
This story is developing. Check back for updates.
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/14-shot-3-dead-in-mass-shooting-on-south-street/3261464/ | 2022-06-05T14:04:04 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/14-shot-3-dead-in-mass-shooting-on-south-street/3261464/ |
Flagstaff City Council provided direction for staff to move forward with a controversial roundabout project after ample discussion during Tuesday’s meeting.
Council also asked for further analysis on certain safety points on the project at Lockett, Cedar Avenue and Fourth Street, but the current design was ultimately deemed acceptable.
Construction on the roundabout is set to begin in 2023.
Tuesday’s discussion began with a recap of the roundabout project, which is being funded in part by a 2018 grant award from the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) for highway safety improvements. The grant was awarded because the current signalized intersection at the location had been deemed problematic due to its high frequency of collisions. According to the agenda summary submitted by project manager Jeremy DeGeyter, the new roundabout has been designed to “improve safety, slow speeds, help avoid angle crashes, and add a crosswalk at the 4th-leg of the intersection.”
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Over the last couple weeks public participants have expressed concern over the safety of the new roundabout design, particularly as it pertains to usage by children.
The intersection is situated between three schools and a public library, and currently sees a high volume of pedestrian traffic consisting of children.
Similar concerns were reiterated by public participants during Tuesday’s meeting after DeGeyter provided a presentation that broke down the safety benefits of the roundabout design.
“I think we can all intuitively agree that children present special challenges when crossing a street,” DeGeyter said. “The primary thing we want to achieve in the area of a school is reducing those speeds.”
According to DeGeyter’s presentation, vehicle speed is the most significant factor in the frequency and severity of collisions. The current design of the roundabout will permit a speed of about 22 mph in the “fastest lane,” but most users are expected to us the roundabout between 15 to 20 mph. A reduction in speed, combined with other roundabout features such as improved sight lines, could reduce total collisions by 35%, pedestrian collisions by 45%, injury collisions by 76% and fatalities by 90% -- even in school zones.
“Back in 1990 there were no roundabouts near schools,” DeGeyter said. “Since then we have installed 160 roundabouts near schools nationwide. To date there have not been any serious injuries reported.”
Nonetheless, public participants maintained that the roundabout was a bad idea.
“Do I think that this intersection can be safe? Yes, absolutely,” Erica Martin said. “Do I feel that a roundabout is a safer solution? No, not at all.”
Other participants from the Pine Forest School -- which will lose a portion of its schoolyard under the current design — expressed disdain for an encroaching roadway.
“Our green space is very important to us,” said teacher Johanna Peyton. “We don’t want to lose it. I don’t know what else to say. I’m just pleading from the bottom of my heart.”
Executive Director of the Pine Forest School Cindy Roe expressed concern that the construction schedule would interfere with the charter school’s ability to attract new students.
“Springtime is our time for enrollment,” Roe said. “When we’re tearing apart that area next year, I want everyone to consider the impact it will have on our enrollment.”
After public participation, city council discussion kicked off with a statement form Vice Mayor Miranda Sweet, who spoke to the defense of the substantial research done by city staff.
“As we move into this conversation, I want to remind all of us that we have traffic engineers who work in the city and who have been putting countless hours on this project,” Sweet said. “Last time I checked, those of us sitting up here are not traffic engineers, and I am certain that none of us can say we are experts. What I can tell you is that our engineers live here, have families here, and to assume that the staff who works hard for our community wouldn’t have the interests of kids, bikes, pedestrians, cars, I find it kind of offensive.”
Council discussion circulated largely around the possibility of “tweaking” the design to enhance safety elements. Tweaks would be difficult, explained traffic engineer Jeff Bauman, as the design already represented a delicate “balancing of competing interests” where an adjustment in one element could impact serviceability elsewhere in the design. Furthermore, he explained that any substantial design changes would trigger new intergovernmental agreements between the City of Flagstaff and ADOT.
Councilmember Adam Shimoni expressed personal discomfort with the current design and stated that he would not show support moving forward. The remaining majority of Council agreed to move forward with the design with the added request that staff explore raised crosswalks and pedestrian crossing beacons on all four legs of the intersection, the latter of which is estimated to add $750,000 to the project.
“Let’s not let perfect be the enemy of the good,” said Mayor Paul Deasy. “This is, as designed now, safer than the current intersection. That is data.”
The property acquisition ordinance required for the roundabout project is scheduled for its second read on June 7. Public information meetings are tentatively scheduled for mid- to late-August, with exact dates to be determined. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/community/city-of-flagstaff-moves-forward-with-roundabout-design/article_f1168720-e1fd-11ec-8027-e3b17fd9d12b.html | 2022-06-05T14:15:17 | 0 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/community/city-of-flagstaff-moves-forward-with-roundabout-design/article_f1168720-e1fd-11ec-8027-e3b17fd9d12b.html |
Experts believe that recent advancements in quantum computing will make existing cybersecurity systems obsolete within the next few years. Researchers at Northern Arizona University's School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems (SICCS) are looking to the future to develop new technologies that will be used to help secure information against new threats.
Bertrand Cambou, a professor in the Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science, is the project lead for NAU’s cybersecurity program.
“The cryptography that we use right now as a society has been, essentially, invented in the '80s," Cambou said. "It’s beautiful but it has been proven that when quantum computers are strong enough, they are going to destroy it.”
It is because of this imminent advancement in technology that he has spearheaded the university’s first post-quantum cryptography curriculum.
Cambou added: “I want to prepare NAU students to be able to operate in this new environment.”
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The cybersecurity program is a multidisciplinary project consisting of a diverse team of dozens of faculty and students from many departments.
“In my research team, we have the largest group of Ph.D. students attending the university,” Cambou explained. “They are very diverse -- we have some physicists, mathematicians, electrical engineers, computer scientists, and they’re all working together to create cybersecurity systems.”
Traditionally, cybersecurity systems use software-based encryption keys to secure information. NAU’s team is looking beyond existing technologies to create new encryption techniques that utilize a combination of both hardware- and software-based methods.
In order to secure information, computers use encryption keys developed using random number generation.
Andy Wang, the dean of the College of Engineering, Informatics and Applied Sciences (CEIAS), talked about the problem with software based random number generation.
“Normally with software-based research, when you generate a key, the key was generated with an algorithm, based on a random number. There is no truly random number in the world, because every random number is generated by a mathematical equation," Wang said. "So it’s a quasi-random number, and because it’s a quasi-random number, a hacker can break it as long as they have enough computing power.”
The cybersecurity team has been working on a hardware-based solution to this problem in the form of physically unclonable functions (PUFs). Julie Heynssens, a senior lecturer in the SICCS, described the concept behind how PUFs take advantage of a systems unique properties to generate truly random numbers.
“When you manufacture something, even like a digital chip, there are small variations in the output and in the manufacturing process that are a unique fingerprint of the device. From one chip to another chip in the same lot, in the same line they can be different," Heynssens said. "So we found a way to do analog readouts on the digital chip, to read that fingerprint to look for the variations, and then we have encryption algorithms on top of that.”
Heynssens is in charge of the team's quantum key distribution project.
“The most secure way to encrypt data is if you have symmetric keys. It’s not as breakable with quantum computers, like most encryption is going to be in about five years. But to transmit symmetric keys, you have to transmit them, normally, over public channels," Heynssens said. "People can eavesdrop on that and then it’s not a good key anymore.”
Heynssens’ work with the team is focused on finding a more secure method of transmitting keys -- which entails using quantum physics concepts to communicate information with ternary code.
Most existing computer systems use binary code, which represents data using zero and ones, to store and transmit data in bits. Ternary code adds a third value to this, representing data as zeros, ones and negative ones, often referred to as trits. This is allows the team to transmit data in a more secure way.
“In order to implement keys with very low error rate, we essentially developed a ternary method to reduce the bit error rate, and then we use protocols for additional obfuscation," Cambou said.
In the quantum key distribution process, trits are transmitted using a single particle of light, known as a photon.
Heynssens described how this works: “I take a single photon out of a laser, and I line up its polarization state and I send it through a fiber. It’s just one photon, so any attempt to eavesdrop on it is going to affect that single photon and it’s going mess up the message. The information is encoded in the polarization angle of that photon.”
Using this technique, the team is able to transmit encryption keys, generated using their PUFs, in a way that is virtually unbreakable by quantum computers.
The team’s research has led to incredible innovations in their field and is drawing a lot of attention to NAU’s cybersecurity program.
“In the last several years, 50% of the patents granted by NAU were granted by this team,” Cambou said.
In all, the team has had 20 patents granted for their inventions, with another 30 patents still pending. They have also managed to secure millions in funding from both the private and public sector, including the U.S. military and most recently the tech company Intel. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/looking-to-the-future-siccs-program-at-nau-enhances-cybersecurity-options/article_01e50c2c-e445-11ec-b210-d780acc37080.html | 2022-06-05T14:15:23 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/looking-to-the-future-siccs-program-at-nau-enhances-cybersecurity-options/article_01e50c2c-e445-11ec-b210-d780acc37080.html |
HOBART — They have battled in hand-to-hand combat with their instructors. They have been pepper sprayed. They've undergone intense physical training and tested their precision on the gun range.
From action-packed days to long nights of studying, thousands of officers patrolling the Region streets have started as recruits at the Northwest Indiana Law Enforcement Academy.
Jim Markle, executive director of NILEA, has seen 47 graduating classes come through the academy halls, held at the Hobart Police Department.
As he looked around at the latest class of recruits who graduated in May, he saw 41 individuals he can trust to protect not just the Region, but those he loves most.
"Can they apply it to the streets? Can they apply in a real setting with actual calls for service with other officers who are going to be evaluating them? It’s huge," Markle said. "And I tell the recruits this and stress this: It is a foundation that we give them, but I have to trust when they leave, if my loved ones are dialing 911 and need help, are they going to be able to do their job? And I trust that when they leave, that they can. And, to me, that is the ultimate test.”
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Markle said that beyond cutting a path to their future careers, the recruits have undergone a journey from starting out as strangers to becoming a family.
Q: How long have you been involved with NILEA?
A: I have really been very fortunate. I started as an adjunct instructor in 1999 when they first started. I came on staff full-time 2008, and I became the executive director in January of 2017.
Q: How did you first get involved with NILEA?
A: I worked for the Schererville Police Department, and I went through the academy in 1995 in Plainfield. Shortly after I became an instructor in physical tactics, and in 1999 when NILEA first had their academy, I became their first lead physical tactics instructor.
Q: Because you were there when the academy first began, how have you seen it grow and change over time?
A: Well I think we’ve definitely grown. Our footprint is bigger now than when I first started out. It was mostly in Lake and Porter counties, with some from Jasper, Newton and Starke counties. We have expanded all the way out to the South Bend area now. We are at 11 counties. We service 63 agencies now, which is about 2,300 officers that come through the doors for training annually.
Q: What has been your favorite part about being a part of the academy and leading it?
A: I really enjoy the way the process of seeing these young people begin the academy — the unknown. Then having a direct impact on their development and feeling confident that they can go and begin their field training and begin the next stage of their training with their agencies, serving the communities of Northwest Indiana.
Q: How would you describe the length and intensity of the academy?
A: Basic training is 15 weeks, so it comes out to about 600 hours of training total in various components from firearms to vehicle operations; physical tactics; criminal law is a huge portion; de-escalating training; and scenario-based training is another big component we have added to the academy. So we go through every component you can think of while they’re here.
Q: What are some of your favorite subjects to instruct?
A: For me, I cut my teeth in training in physical tactics, and I have a background in that, so I really do enjoy that week of train with them. I also like to see how they do in moot court, where they testify in a mock trial. Most of them don’t really understand the components of that, so it’s really interesting. Firearms training is always a lot of fun for them. The class really seems to come together that week. Those are some of my favorite ones. I have to say, honestly chemical weapons is a very fun block because you get to see some very unique reactions to the chemical weapons that are deployed.
Q: Going back to the physical tactics exam we witnessed, what did the recruits have to accomplish?
A: We like to call it our “red man drill” because the instructor in the ring with the students is wearing a red man suit. It’s kind of the final exam for the recruits because they have to deal with a subject played by an instructor, and the instructor is trying to be a noncompliant subject with them. They’re using verbal commands, they use their impact weapons and eventually they have to go hands-on with the instructor to get them in custody and under control. It lasts four minutes total, which doesn’t seem like a long time, but when you’re fighting and trying to give commands, it can be very taxing on them and they realize that training can be really important.
Q: What are some fighting styles they train in?
A: They learn everything. We have to look at each student at a ground zero level. Some of them come into it with a lot of experience, and some come in with none. So they learn how to read body mechanics and see when someone is becoming a threat. They train in open-hand techniques, upper body strikes, lower body strikes, ground control techniques, pressure point control techniques and tactical handcuffing — so there’s all kind of components they do. Once they learn that throughout the week, we look to see if they’re able to recall the training during the scenario.
Q: When it comes to the K-9 training portion of the academy, how many recruits do you see light up and decide that’s what they want to do?
A: I think it’s really good to expose them to different components of law enforcement training while they’re here. With basic academy and the K-9 training, it’s really important they know the role of the K-9 and what to expect when they show up. Obviously to respect that weapon, because it is a weapon being used. But we see a lot of recruits who are like, ‘Yeah, that’s what I want to do.’ They get really impressed in seeing what the K-9 handlers can do and what the animal can do as well. There have been several recruits who have come through who have become K-9 handlers themselves.
Q: Going into graduation day, what are some of your favorite parts of that, and what do you see when you look around you in that moment?
A: I like to see the look of pride on the faces of families who are there. You can see that they’ve been a major part of the process for the students that have come through, and you can see it on their faces. You can see the pride on the recruit who is now evolving to become a certified officer on that day. It’s a big step in their career path. And I absolutely love — it touches me every time — when they all individually stand up and take the oath. I think it’s important they do that in front of their families, they do it in front of their chiefs and sheriffs and they each individually take the oath, which I think is a very big moment of the ceremony.
Q: The ceremony happened on a Friday and, with a lot of them, it seemed they were reporting for work on Monday. How would you describe the rate of recruits able to immediately jump into police work?
A: Some of them were starting the very next day on a Saturday morning. Depending on what their level of training was prior to coming to the academy, most on average start with their field training, which is their next phase where they train with a veteran officer and they learn to be the police on the street. We give them a foundation, and then they evolve and go to the next phase which is field training. Basic training has to end at some point, but we want to be confident they have a good foundation to go out and start the next step of their training. And then, hopefully, we have instilled in them that training never ends. They’re going to have to continue to train through their career to be the best officer they can be to protect and serve their communities in the best capacity.
Q: How do you see that transformation of the recruits going from being strangers to becoming almost like family by the end?
A: We get a very diverse groups. We have officers from 11 counties with different backgrounds. Of course there’s a lot of hesitancy at the beginning. There’s a lot of seeing individuals from one agency staying together and not really interacting with others at first. Eventually we break them up into squads so they have a small family there, where they might have a squad 10 or 12 recruits. Eventually it gets to the point where they have to find some kind of common ground as to why they’re all here. And I think that buy-in is really important for them to realize this is a calling and its bigger than themselves. It’s bigger than their class. It’s the law enforcement community, family, if you will, that they are becoming a part of and that’s a huge part of it.
Q: What are your hopes for NILEA as it continues on?
A: As we continue to expand, obviously our membership has grown, we have had more agencies become involved, and we have had more eastward expansion. So our hope is to run an additional recruit academy to meet the demands of the agencies that are involved, or have recruit classes that are larger. Currently we can accommodate up to 50 recruits at a time — just logistically that’s what we can do. And we run two recruit classes a year. Hopefully in the near future, we can expand and run an additional recruit class or larger classes. These are things we are in hopes of working out in the near future. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/watch-now-riding-shotgun-with-nwi-cops-inside-the-regions-sole-police-academy/article_8368166c-1f7d-5d3b-bf26-481863cd74fa.html | 2022-06-05T14:26:37 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/watch-now-riding-shotgun-with-nwi-cops-inside-the-regions-sole-police-academy/article_8368166c-1f7d-5d3b-bf26-481863cd74fa.html |
CROWN POINT — Just three years after unveiling a $34 million addition to the Dean and Barbara White Southlake YMCA, the Y has completed yet another expansion.
Crossroads YMCA CEO Jay Buckmaster did not expect to start another addition so soon, but the demand was there.
When the 80,000 square-foot expansion was completed in 2019, Buckmaster said, the Southlake Y had about 12,000 members — now it has 41,000. With a gymnastics waitlist full of around 800 names and a 300-spot ninja class that sells out in four minutes, the Y knew it needed more space.
"I think there is a gap in Lake County in opportunities for kids that are affordable and accessible," Buckmaster said, adding that the Y's programs "give you the opportunity, for $25 a month to try something new every month, to be able to build confidence, to work as a team, to be around positive role models. ... I think there is more of an appetite in Lake County for kids and families to do that than ever before."
In November work began on a 15,000 square-foot expansion that includes two new dance studios, an outdoor sensory courtyard and a new gymnastics center.
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The gymnastics center will also be used for cheer and ninja classes. Complete with two spring floors, a foam pit, uneven bars, balance beams and warp walls, the space is about three times bigger than the old gymnastics center.
The sensory courtyard will be catered toward the Y's pre-K programs, though it is open to all members. Slated to be completed in mid-June, the courtyard will help children learn using all five senses. The outdoor space will have a music wall adorned with instruments such as bongos and chimes. There will be a sand and water station, a treehouse, a paint and chalk wall, a garden and a calming area complete with a hammock.
Children will be able to tend to plants growing from raised beds. The Y's Director of Early Learning Christina Davidson-Kurec said the garden will feature a wide array of plants that engage the senses — everything from lambs ear to cherry tomatoes.
"Sensory learning gives kids who aren't necessarily table, paper and pencil learning-style an opportunity to explore and learn in different ways. It meets all learning styles, all learning levels," Davidson-Kurec said. "It taps into that more curious side of kids, giving them more experiences to try new things."
Most of the expansion will be ready by the time summer classes begin Monday morning. However, Buckmaster said the changes will have a "domino effect."
Over the next few months, the Y will be transforming the current gymnastics center into an indoor turf fitness area, the former pre-K center will become a youth studio with some STEM programming and activities, the family gym will become a cycling studio, the current, smaller cycling studio will become a boxing gym and the dance studio will become a family gym.
The changes will happen gradually, but should be completed by the start of September, Buckmaster said.
All of the expansions have been driven by unprecedented growth. Buckmaster said the increase in members began before the pandemic but has really skyrocketed in the past few years.
"Sometimes people see us as just a gym," Buckmaster said, but during the pandemic when the Y had to limit programming, "people really missed something. I don't know if people missed their treadmill, I don't know if people missed their spin class. ... Tt's (the Y is) an experience. During the pandemic, I think we learned that community is important, having a place to belong is important." | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/crown-point/watch-now-crown-point-y-unveils-another-expansion-to-accommodate-increase-in-membership/article_1e4d076b-bf1c-586c-8d0e-7ef11eb5fad3.html | 2022-06-05T14:26:43 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/crown-point/watch-now-crown-point-y-unveils-another-expansion-to-accommodate-increase-in-membership/article_1e4d076b-bf1c-586c-8d0e-7ef11eb5fad3.html |
ABINGDON, Va. (WJHL) – As crews work to repair and replace sections of Interstate 81, officials say lane closures will be in place throughout the month.
According to a press release from the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), work will begin at Exit 17 around 8 p.m. next Sunday. Crews will be on-site until 6 a.m. on June 16, weather permitting. Repair efforts during this period will focus on the left lane and shoulder of I-81 N’s bridge at Mile Marker 17.
Starting at 8 p.m. June 19, crews will work to repair the right lane and shoulder of the same bridge. Work is expected to continue until the morning of June 23.
VDOT officials asked drivers to find alternate routes through the area to avoid interstate traffic, and to keep a close eye on signs and messages posted around the work site. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/vdot-i-81-bridge-repair-lane-closures-begin-sunday/ | 2022-06-05T14:29:26 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/vdot-i-81-bridge-repair-lane-closures-begin-sunday/ |
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A battleship gun barrel used by the Navy in WWII that seemed destined for the scrapyard will get a second life in Virginia Beach.
The 120-ton gun barrel, which was used on the USS Iowa battleship, is the last of nine that remained at a storage facility in Chesapeake. It fired projectiles weighing 1,900 to 2,700 pounds with a range of up to 24 miles.
The Navy brought the USS Iowa, as well as the group of Iowa-class battleships, back into service in the 1980s but retired the gun barrels permanently a decade later.
In 2011, when the Navy was preparing to purge its inventory from the battleships, the nonprofit stepped in to find the barrels new homes. They enlisted the help of veterans groups and other organizations to preserve most of them, which are now on display at memorials and parks in various states.
“They’re historic artifacts,” said Terry McGovern, spokesperson for Coast Defense Study Group. “Why just cut them up into chunks of steel?”
Here in Hampton Roads, McGovern is working with the veteran’s group associated with the USS Iowa to relocate the last barrel. It’s no small feat. Lifting and transporting the barrel, which is 68 feet long, will require special permits and equipment.
The USS Iowa battleship was based in Norfolk. The veterans group wanted to relocate it to the USS Iowa Memorial at Naval Station Norfolk, which is dedicated to the 47 sailors who died during an accidental turret explosion while training in 1989.
However, limited public access to that naval installation, and unfavorable soil conditions for displaying it there, forced the group to look elsewhere.
Fort Story, where visitors take tours of the historic Cape Henry Lighthouse, was selected instead. Plans are underway for the battleship barrel and two 16-inch projectiles to be displayed in a field next to the lighthouse parking lot.
The site will feature signage about the USS Iowa and its heritage.
“We’re glad to give it a home,” said Capt. Michael Witherspoon, commander of Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story. “All this history to sit in one location is going to make it a pretty amazing place.”
Cape Henry is the site of the First Landing, when the English settlers arrived in 1607, before moving on to Jamestown. The original Cape Henry Lighthouse, authorized by George Washington, was the first federally funded public works project of the newly formed U.S. government.
Fort Story has deep roots in Virginia Beach, too. It became a military installation in 1914. In WWII, American soldiers at Fort Story defended the Virginia coast and the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay.
McGovern thinks it’s a natural fit. The barrel was the first one produced for the Iowa-class ships during WWII, and was mounted to the ship’s main turret in 1942. After the ship returned from Korea in 1955, the barrel was removed.
To date, approximately $100,000 has been raised for the project, which will be used to paint, transport and display the barrel. McGovern is trying to raise an additional $50,000.
“Adding a 16-inch barrel to the current memorial area at Fort Story will honor the veterans that defended our homeland in both WWI and WWII, and will allow Fort Story visitors to experience the massive size and power of these coast artillery guns,” he said. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/battleship-gun-barrel-to-get-second-life-in-virginia-beach/2022/06/05/a5bda004-e4cf-11ec-a422-11bbb91db30b_story.html | 2022-06-05T14:30:35 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/battleship-gun-barrel-to-get-second-life-in-virginia-beach/2022/06/05/a5bda004-e4cf-11ec-a422-11bbb91db30b_story.html |
RICHMOND, Va. — Behind a church in Church Hill stands a pink and blue cabinet; inside are tampons, socks, toothpaste, deodorant, sunscreen and other hygiene essentials for community members to use. On the glass it says, “Take what you need, leave what you can.”
“We wanted to do something that was needed and hadn’t been done,” Gore said. “We kind of merged the idea of the book nooks into something that was an essential need, which is hygiene products.”
Feed the Streets RVA provides a plethora of support to the community, including organizing angel tree drives, providing hot meals, handing out hygiene kits, hosting clothing drives and helping people pay their bills during the pandemic. Recently, it helped restore a basketball court behind Mount Olivet Church, which is where the hygiene pantry resides.
“We believe that we should respond and support people to meet their basic human needs, so we do a lot of outreach with feeding folks; feeding the mind, feeding the body and feeding the soul,” Gore said.
Located at 1223 N. 25th St., the hygiene pantry is the first of what Gore hopes will be many around the city. There’s another in the works, and she says the group would love to have a pantry in each major area of Richmond.
“We want to make sure all the logistics are taken care of, so that it can be functional and that it can be a long-term thing,” Gore said. “We don’t want to put up a pantry and then forget about it. We really are interested in making these pantries accessible around Richmond — so people can take what they need, leave what they can, judgment-free — and spread a little love around the community.”
The hygiene pantry has been open for about a month, and Gore says the support from the community has been “heavy” on both the volunteer and the community-use side.
“We have gotten so many shares on Instagram and Facebook,” she said. “We have had community members come in and refill the pantry. We had people donate monetarily, and asking, how can we help?”
The pantry is checked and restocked daily. Gore says Feed the Streets RVA spoke with the community to determine what specific items are needed; socks were a top request.
“We really believe that everyone deserves to feel clean, to look their best and to have what they need,” Gore said. “It’s summertime, things are expensive, inflation is hitting us, and we just don’t want anyone to feel self-conscious or not have access to a way to take a shower or a way to smell good.”
Health was another factor behind the pantry, Gore says, because poor hygiene can lead to health problems.
Feed the Streets RVA was started by a group of friends who grew up in Richmond and share a passion for giving back. Most of them attended Old Dominion University with Gore and, in 2016, they filed to be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
“My passion has been to give back for as long as I remember,” Gore said.
The executive board is a team of eight who volunteer their time on top of their full-time jobs to organize communitywide service projects. Feed the Streets RVA also has a roster of 250 volunteers.
“Sometimes we don’t realize how easy it is to do something,” Gore said. “You know building the pantry seems like such an out-of-the-box idea which a lot of people had never seen before, but when you bring people together to do it, you just have to have heart and awareness. So we are all about educating the community.”
Gore says that in order for Feed the Streets RVA to be community conscious, the group has to involve the community members. Looking ahead to summer, Feed the Streets RVA has more events and outreach planned. For more information about the group’s work, visit www.feedthestreetsrva.org. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-nonprofit-opens-hygiene-pantry/2022/06/05/a262a40e-e4cf-11ec-a422-11bbb91db30b_story.html | 2022-06-05T14:30:41 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-nonprofit-opens-hygiene-pantry/2022/06/05/a262a40e-e4cf-11ec-a422-11bbb91db30b_story.html |
BALTIMORE — At first, Michelle Rogers thought the Craigslist ad she’d stumbled upon was a scam.
“When you or I get flu, we don’t know exactly when we were exposed, right? We don’t know exactly how much flu got into our nose and there are just lots of variables that we can’t control,” said Dr. Kathleen M. Neuzil, director of the school’s Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health. “So in this way, we can say we know we put X amount of flu virus in somebody’s nose at X time, and this is what happens.”
Studies like this are common fare for the center, which frequently provides critical vaccine research with the help of groups of paid volunteers. And following a hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, the studies are back — complete with eye-catching marketing campaigns.
For an upcoming study on the flu, which requires a 12-day hospital stay, ads include a cartoon hotel sign with the words “Hotel Influenza,” and the word “vacancy” illuminated in bright red. To advertise a study requiring a dengue fever infection, an animated mosquito dances beneath a disco ball in a white “Saturday Night Fever”-style suit. For a study testing a dysentery vaccine, it was a graphic inspired by the computer game Oregon Trail: a covered wagon pulled by an ox. And below it: “You have died of dysentery.”
For Rogers, a 24-year-old who drove to the School of Medicine from Chantilly, Virginia, the flu study was a way to make some extra cash between jobs ($3,410, to be exact). The downside? Nearly two weeks away from family and friends, plus her beloved yorkie and golden retriever mix — and a nasty case of the flu. But even after the headaches and congestion, the nasal washes and blood draws, Rogers felt she’d made the right decision.
“I thought about COVID and how it was super important to have people be a part of the study,” Rogers said. “Otherwise, we may not have gotten a vaccine as quickly as we did.”
The center did administer early coronavirus vaccine doses for clinical trials, though notably without infecting anyone.
“People were talking about doing challenge studies for COVID early on, to help accelerate vaccines, and I was very much against that,” said Dr. Wilbur Chen, chief of the adult clinical studies section at the University of Maryland Center. “We didn’t have therapeutics at that time. We didn’t have vaccines at that time. We also had a lot of cases around the world and across the U.S. and even in the state of Maryland at that time. So I could not, in my mind, justify the use of a challenge study.”
The idea is to test vaccines with “challenge studies,” as they’re known, in places where the disease is relatively rare and to ensure that all participants won’t be vulnerable to severe disease. For flu studies, that means screening possible participants for respiratory issues. For Chen’s study on dysentery, that meant checking for abdominal problems — and conducting genetic testing for HLA-B27 to ensure participants weren’t predisposed to contracting reactive arthritis after bacterial infections.
The Oregon Trail advertisement for Chen’s study caught the eye of 26-year-old Jake Eberts on Instagram. But his eventual stay in the dysentery ward provided the center with something possibly more valuable than the paid ads: a viral Twitter thread.
His first tweet about the study, days before he drank a Shigella bacteria “smoothie” that left him sicker than he’d ever been, was liked about 4,000 times. Before he even left the hospital ward, a nurse told him 20 people had signed up for the next phase of the study and mentioned his thread, which carefully documented his experience on the ward as a self-described “fancy little lab rat s---posting (no pun intended) his way through the maze.”
“Within 48 hours of my first thread, it had already gotten back to the researchers and nurses themselves, who asked me about it,” Eberts said. “And they were very chill with it. Like, I was terrified that they would tell me to stop and like would get really angry.”
But all the tweets about dysentery might have been bad luck. Eberts suffered one of the worst cases in his 16-person cohort and was plagued by painful bouts of diarrhea and powerful fatigue. Perhaps his Twitter feed fared better for it.
“It would have been kind of hilarious if I had been building up all the tension and ended up with an anti-climactic ‘I didn’t get it. Sorry everyone. Bye.’” he said.
The stomach pangs started in the middle of the night, some 40 hours after Eberts drank his shot glass’s worth of bacteria, which he said tasted “slightly saline and a bit oily but not bad.” (Some of the headlines stemming from his tweets called it a ”poop smoothie.” It wasn’t.)
By that afternoon, rising for a vitals check and trips to the restroom, which required stool samples, were Herculean tasks, he said. After one walk, a mere 15 feet down the hall, Eberts found himself lying on the bathroom floor, utterly exhausted.
“I was lying down in this bathroom that I share with other people and just like taking a cat nap and just trying to recuperate my energy for like five minutes — at which point the nurses were like, ‘OK, something’s wrong here.’”
Eberts’ return to his hospital bed in the communal facility brought IV fluids, several extra blankets and a space heater, along with a visit from the attending physician. By 6 p.m. that evening, doctors determined that Eberts had reached a threshold for severe illness, which meant he’d receive antibiotics to help his body fight the disease.
By the end of the ordeal — with the help of a league of new Twitter followers — Eberts had raised nearly $25,000 for The Water Project, a nonprofit that constructs reliable water systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. Some of Eberts’ reward money from the study went to the nonprofit as well.
“When I was in the midst of the disease, I was like, ‘Wow, this really sucks,’” Eberts said. “I would like to use my 15 minutes of viral fame to fundraise for this.”
For 32-year-old Rebecca Jimenez, an engineering consultant living in Rockville, getting sick for a study wasn’t quite as harrowing.
Jimenez had planned to do the March flu study with her partner, but after they arrived, researchers determined he had a cold, which rendered him ineligible to participate. So she endured the hospital stay sans roommate, with the near-exclusive company of a collection of doctors and nurses, a yoga mat and Hulu shows.
She was heartened, though, by the study’s importance. As a young Hispanic woman, Jimenez was hopeful that her participation would increase the diversity of study participants.
Jimenez was also able to work remotely from Hotel Influenza, taking meetings in between the occasional blood draw and nasal lavage. Just as she was preparing to close her laptop that Friday, though, it became apparent: She was sick. Over the weekend, she felt achy, feverish and just plain exhausted. But she didn’t regret her decision.
“It’s probably the safest way I’ve ever had the flu,” she said.
But she had to test negative for the flu before she could leave the ward. By the time she was finally cleared to leave the facility that Thursday, she was eager for some fresh air. That, and a tasty meal.
“I’m pretty sure I went to Five Guys,” she said. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/volunteers-help-researchers-test-vaccines/2022/06/05/ac68737a-e4cf-11ec-a422-11bbb91db30b_story.html | 2022-06-05T14:30:47 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/volunteers-help-researchers-test-vaccines/2022/06/05/ac68737a-e4cf-11ec-a422-11bbb91db30b_story.html |
‘We’ve been crying out’: Attorneys, activists, Black community demand transparency from Brevard police
In a little barber shop in the heart of Titusville, conversation is mostly muted amid the hum of electric clippers and television news, with the scent of Barbicide and aftershave hanging in the air.
Sammy Lincoln — longtime owner and operator of Lincoln Barber Shop on South DeLeon Avenue — said there's been little conversation over the arrest of a Titusville cop this week but he expects people will talk.
"There's trust in the police as long as they're doing right," Lincoln said from his barber chair where he was taking a needed break. "When they don't do right, that's when there's problems."
Many in Titusville and elsewhere in the county have felt dissatisfaction over the past six months over what they feel has been a prolonged investigation into the shooting death of James Lowery by Joshua Payne, a Titusville police officer, on Dec. 26, 2021.
A spate of shootings and deaths involving police officers and young men of color over the last years — and a lack of prosecutions — have created a sense that local families are unable to get justice when Black men die at the hands of police or while in police custody.
But Payne's arrest last week in the shooting death of Lowery has been greeted with cautious optimism by Black community leaders in Brevard who long have been calling for more transparency and accountability from law enforcement when it comes to policing their own.
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Many of the people with whom FLORIDA TODAY spoke said that while they see Payne's arrest as a positive first step, they say there is much that still needs to happen before they are willing to believe that justice on the Space Coast truly is blind.
All point to a desire for better communication between investigators and victims' families, routine releases of bodycam videos and vigorous prosecutions that lead to convictions of guilty police officers to restore faith in Brevard policing. Without these, they say, justice on the Space Coast will remain little more than a dream.
Bill Gary, a long-time community activist and member of the North Brevard NAACP, said he sees the frustration when evidence is not released to families for an extended length of time.
"Families become frustrated when they can't get information from authorities when someone gets killed in this manner," he said. Especially because Lowery was not the suspect police were seeking at the time of his death, Gary said any family would be angry if it took months to clear their loved one's name.
"If you can't get any concrete information around the circumstances of that death, it's so frustrating," he said. "It's really incumbent on law enforcement to understand that point-of-view."
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Mistaken identity by young officer
James Lowery was walking home to his mother's place on the night after Christmas when suddenly a Titusville PD patrol car pulled up. The arriving officer, Joshua Payne was searching for a Black man who reportedly attacked a woman near DeLeon Avenue when he saw Lowery.
Lowery, Payne would later tell investigators, fit the description. When Lowery saw the officer, he ran and a foot chase ensued.
Payne deployed his Taser but Lowery ran for a fence. This time Payne drew his weapon and fired at Lowery, striking him in the back of the head.
Payne has pleaded not guilty through his lawyers.
FLORIDA TODAY reached out to Payne who referred inquiries to his attorney, Kepler Funk, a criminal defense attorney based in Brevard.
"While the death of any human being is tragic, our office will conduct our own investigation and withhold any judgment until all of the facts are gathered. Our process of evaluation does not change based on the nature of the accusation or the individual or company we represent," Payne's attorneys wrote in a statement to FLORIDA TODAY. "We will continue, as we have for 30 years, to respect all of the individuals affected."
A look into Payne's personnel file with the Titusville Police Department shows some commendations and one disciplinary memo during his nearly two-year stint with the agency.
Payne's commendations were for training tests he completed during the course of his time with the department. Many of the courses were on safety matters such as handing hazardous materials, using PPE and driving safety.
Alternatively, Payne incurred his one disciplinary action when he was responding to a call driving at an unsafe speed, and he crashed his own patrol vehicle into a pole in June of 2021.
The report from the incident states that Payne was responding to a fight in progress with his emergency lights activated when he failed to "safely negotiate a turn" and crashed into the pole, leaving him uninjured but the vehicle damaged.
At the time of the emergency response, Payne also didn't put on his vehicle's camera, something that is required protocol for officers traveling at a high speed with lights on when responding to calls.
Payne's punishment for the violation was a verbal reprimand.
Need for investigative transparency
After the shooting in December, Lowery's family and members of the community wanted to see footage from the bodycam that Payne was wearing. The Titusville Police Department, although allowed by state law to release the video if they wish, has chosen not to make it publicly available or show it to Lowery's family members yet.
In a provided statement, police said the video will be released after the completion of their internal investigation soon.
That decision impacts trust with the community, said Stacey Lincoln, the cousin of Sammy Lincoln, the barbershop owner.
"I don't feel like it was done in a timely manner for how we feel, but we aren’t privy to all the processes," Stacey, a lifelong resident of Titusville, said.
Though Stacey acknowledged that a balance between police work during investigations and transparency is difficult to pull off, residents feel that Lowery's family had a right to know what that footage contained.
"In our particular case, we have a chief that might not get it right all the time. I feel like his intention to be transparent and fair is genuine," he said.
To date, Lowery's family has not been shown the video nor have they been told that the foot chase and the shooting were the result of mistaken identity by Payne, facts known by police early on in the case. But there was no significant communication between investigators and the family.
Within days of the deadly shooting, Lowery’s family reached out to community activist Dwight Seigler. Seigler then contacted attorneys who work with the high-profile civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump.
"Too often you find that the police or the higher-ups don't respect us to even apologize. You think Wayne Ivey apologized to the parents of those two teens who were killed because of a mistaken traffic stop? No," said Seigler, a one-time candidate for the Brevard County Commission.
"Like everyone, we want the prosecutors to do their job, to serve and protect us too. But someone has to be accountable," he added.
Crump, known for taking controversial cases of police shootings of Black victims, has made several appearances in Brevard County over the last few years, starting with the case of Gregory Lloyd Edwards, who died in December 2018 after he got in a fight with deputies in the Brevard County Jail.
Then Crump came in person to Cocoa to bring attention to the case of Angelo Crooms, 16, and Sincere Pierce, 18, who were shot and killed by BCSO Deputy Jafet Santiago-Miranda during an attempted traffic stop in November 2020.
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In both cases, State Attorney Phil Archer decided that the actions of the deputies were justified under the circumstances and there were no charges or prosecutions filed, though civil suits are working their way through the courts.
Crump was back in Brevard on Friday, this time for the Lowery case.
Standing on the steps of the Vassar B. Carlton Historic Titusville Courthouse before a crowd shouting, "No Justice, No peace," Crump lauded the arrest of Payne but demanded more from police and prosecutors.
"We acknowledge the (state) attorney for doing his job and saying that it's going to be about equal justice and that the police officer isn't going to be above the law just because he has a gun and a badge," Crump said. "This is just a first step. What we want is a conviction."
He also said that the release of the bodycam footage was essential to seeing justice done.
"You all have a right to see the video. (His mother) has a right to see the video. It's important to know if the police department intentionally tried to deceive this family," Crump said, adding that equal justice was the goal.
In a news release sent out after the charges were filed Wednesday, Titusville Police Department Chief John Lau said the department could not release the bodycam footage before an internal affairs (IA) inquiry had been completed.
"Once the IA has been completed, all non-exempt evidence in this IA, including body cam of the incident, will be released. We estimate the completion to be 7 days or less from today," Lau stated in the release.
Some members of the community see Lau's handling of the Lowery shooting as above board.
Travis Williams, a former felon and current activist who works to combat gun violence, offered sincere praise for Chief Lau's handling of the case.
"The chief was real transparent with the investigation," he said. "The City of Titusville even tried to get him not to give the family his condolences, and his words to me were how could he not?"
But while Williams doesn't fault police leadership, he said trust is built on the ground and in the neighborhoods by individual cops on the beat.
"When every interaction with a cop is an arrest, that's what creates problems," he said.
"When cops ride through the community and look at somebody’s face and don't even speak to them, I don't like that. I’ll wave or nod my head at an officer in the neighborhood and they won’t even acknowledge me."
Little things like that build up over time and create distrust between people in the community and cops more the handling of an individual high-profile case, Williams said.
Past cases cast a shadow
Over the last several years, Brevard County has seen officer-involved deaths raise the ire of families, friends and the community at large.
Those families and their attorneys have expressed frustration, sadness and anger when, time after time, charges were either dropped or never filed to begin with.
Perhaps the case that captured the public's outrage more than any other was the death in Brevard County Sheriff's Office custody of Gregory Lloyd Edwards, a decorated Army medic and combat veteran suffering from severe post traumatic stress disorder. The handling of the case by Sheriff Wayne Ivey drew the anger and criticism of veterans, civil rights activists, transparency groups and Edwards' family.
Arrested after what his wife said was PTSD episode outside of a Walmart in West Melbourne, Edwards ended up in a confrontation with as many as nine corrections deputies who punched, kneed, pepper sprayed, and tased Edwards before putting him in a restraint chair with taser barbs still in his back, pepper spray on his face and a spit hood over his head.
Edwards was then left alone in a cell without medical attention in violation of the BSCO's own policies for 16 minutes before being found unconscious and unresponsive. Edwards died the next day in a local hospital.
The local medical examiner ruled Edwards' death an accident, saying he died of excited delirium. The BSCO conducted its own investigation. Ultimately, no charges were filed and jail security footage of the incident from the jail was only released by BCSO after a lawsuit filed by FLORIDA TODAY ended with a judge ordering the department to find a way to release the video.
The Edwards case and then Archer's decision not to prosecute the deputy who shot Crooms and Pierce, but to prosecute Edwards' widow Kathleen for manslaughter after her toddler son drowned in her pool, led many African Americans on the Space Coast and around the country to believe that justice for Black people in Brevard was unobtainable.
But now some see signs that things might be changing, at least a little.
Officer Payne's arrest is one of those developments that have given rise to hope. Another occurred Friday, when a Brevard judge sentenced Cocoa resident Suzanna Norris to six months in jail for driving under the influence when she struck and killed Passion Lucas, a mother of six as she was walking back to a rehab clinic early one morning in June last year.
But the case almost never came to trial. Last year, Lucas' sister, Makita Lucas, took her frustrations with the slow pace of investigations. The complaints led the Cocoa Police to prioritize the case, which had originally ended when an inebriated Norris, was let go without charges.
After charges were finally filed, State Attorney Archer's office dropped the manslaughter charge and was pressing during the trial for a sentence of 30 days in jail or 30 days in an inpatient treatment facility that would deal with alcohol-related issues.
But Judge Judy Atkin handed down a stiffer sentence than the one recommended by prosecutors.
Members of Lucas' family were pleased that the sentence included jail time for Norris. However, it was less than what they were seeking: the maximum allowable sentence of nine months in jail for the second-degree misdemeanor charge of DUI, with a blood alcohol content of more than 0.15%, a level that enhances the penalties. A test on Norris after the accident showed her blood alcohol content was 0.19% — more than twice the level of 0.08% that is the minimum threshold for a DUI charge.
This kind of disconnect is what still bothers some activists, who say that one arrest and one judge's ruling amid a sea of dropped charges and acquittals doesn't assuage the concerns of many in the Black community about law-enforcement interactions overall.
Titusville activist Stacey Lincoln, at 50 says he's seen too many negative interactions between individual cops and citizens to feel like Payne's arrest will end all tension and suspicion between Black residents of Brevard and their police and prosecutors.
"We feel like the police and policy is what needs to be addressed. As community members, the number of unlawful contacts with police we always get the short end of that stick," Stacey Lincoln said.
Although Lincoln said he believes Titusville Police Department, particularly Chief Lau, were fair in their actions, he said the work is hardly over.
"It’s the justice system as a total that’s failed, not necessarily the individual police department."
A break in the wall
For a number of observers, Joshua Payne’s arrest resonates as a small break in the legal wall of qualified immunity that has shielded officers even in police cases with questionable claims of self-defense. Some point out that it is possible to be pro-law enforcement while calling for accountability and transparency.
“This is really rare,” said Robert Johnson, a longtime civil rights advocate based in south Brevard. Johnson has talked behind the scenes with law enforcement, marched and raised questions about the handling of officer-involved shooting cases.
“What happened with the Titusville case is truly uncommon but hopefully this is a positive change. This was unimaginable before. We've been crying out. But thank God we have these body cameras," Johnson said.
Across the nation, Johnson pointed out, once trusted police narratives in controversial cases are being challenged by video. On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was shot to death in a racially motivated hate crime while jogging in Glynn County, Georgia. Police and prosecutors did not bring charges until after a video of the deadly shooting turned up.
In May of the same year, George Floyd died with an officer pressing a knee into his neck. A video from a bystander challenged the story put forward by the Minneapolis Police Department.
In Brevard County, Payne was the first on-duty police officer to be charged in a fatal deadly force case since the Brevard County State Attorney’s office began compiling records in 1986. In 2017, an on-duty Rockledge police officer who shot and wounded—but did not kill—a 17-year-old in December 2016, was charged with attempted manslaughter in that case.
In that investigation, the police chief, Joseph LaSata, also allowed community leaders to see dash-cam video of the shooting before making it public early on. It was a move that drew praise from community leaders and bucked the longstanding practice by some in law enforcement of withholding information.
Back at the Lincoln Barber Shop in the heart of Titusville only a few blocks away from where Lowery's life was taken in December, business on Friday ahead of a tropical storm coming was slow.
Stacey Lincoln reflected on Payne's arrest and what it means for the community.
"We have anxiety every time we see a police car. This is way past a single conviction," he said.
Even though many have taken some consolation from Officer Payne's arrest, Stacey said the pain never truly goes away.
"Even with this one particular win, it's not really a win for us. It’s not a win because we have this tremendous loss—a brother, a son, a father a friend."
Business Editor Dave Berman contributed to this report.
Tyler Vasquez is the North Brevard Watchdog Reporter at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Vazquez at 321-917-7491 or tvazquez@floridatoday.com. Twitter: @tyler_vazquez
J.D. Gallop is a Criminal Justice/Breaking News Reporter at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Gallop at 321-917-4641 or jgallop@floridatoday.com. Twitter: @JDGallop.
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ATLANTA — Two people were killed early Sunday morning in a crash on the Downtown Connector, police said.
Atlanta Police responded to the two-vehicle wreck near Fulton Street in the southbound lanes. They said the two drivers were killed. No passengers were in either vehicle.
The crash shut down the connector for several hours during the investigation.
The identities of the two deceased drivers were not released.
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Employees were left to clean up the mess after a criminal's terrifying hammer attack on their restaurant in Queens.
A security camera captured the man smashing in the restaurant's glass windows with a hammer Saturday afternoon.
The 56-year-old, who has a history of harassment at the location, then went inside and started smashing the plexi-glass panels around the food.
Police said the hammer-wielding man hit the Flushing restaurant around 5 p.m.
Officers arrived and arrested the man, who has a restraining order against him by the restaurant's owner, according to police.
He's now facing charges of criminal mischief, criminal contempt and multiple counts of criminal possession of a weapon.
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AUSTIN, Texas — One person has died after a suspected collision between a pedestrian and a vehicle Sunday morning in southeast Austin.
Austin-Travis County EMS (ATCEMS) said at 7:15 a.m. Sunday that medics had obtained a deceased on scene pronouncement for an adult from a suspected auto vs. pedestrian collision between 4710 and 5604 E. Ben White Blvd.
ATCEMS said drivers should expect closures in the area and seek alternative routes.
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OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. – A shooting Friday evening in Poinciana killed one person and sent another to the hospital, according to the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies responded around 7:46 p.m. to the area of Saint Tropez Court, where they said one victim was determined dead at the scene.
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The shooting appeared to be isolated, deputies said. No other details about the incident were shared with News 6.
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MOUNT DORA, Fla. – The Mount Dora Police Department on Saturday said it was investigating reports of people being shot at in downtown Mount Dora that day and the previous night by men in moving cars with airsoft guns.
Friday, men in a blue Honda CR-V shot at two groups of people walking in the downtown area, and another incident Saturday saw a man struck in the face by an airsoft BB shot by men in a small, burgundy sedan, police said. No injuries were reported in either incident, police said.
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Police said no other information was available about the suspects or their vehicles. Investigators have reportedly reached out to local businesses to review surveillance footage.
Officers asked those who know or see anything related to the description of the vehicles to contact the department at 352-735-7130. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/05/people-walking-in-downtown-mount-dora-shot-at-by-men-in-cars-with-airsoft-guns-police-say/ | 2022-06-05T15:13:48 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/05/people-walking-in-downtown-mount-dora-shot-at-by-men-in-cars-with-airsoft-guns-police-say/ |
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – Seminole County leaders are looking to the future with Envision Seminole 2045.
“What (is) the next chapter of our life in this county supposed to look like?” Seminole County Commission Chairman Bob Dallari said.
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Dallari said they’re updating the county’s comprehensive plan, which is a document required by the state that lays out the framework for future growth.
“The comprehensive plan looks at development, it looks at where development should go and how it should go,” he said.
It features several elements, including future land use, conservation, housing, transportation and parks.
According to the University of Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research, Seminole County could add 90,000 residents by 2045, in both the cities and in unincorporated areas. According to the county, 16,000 new homes will be needed over the next 23 years.
“Development is on the forefront of everyone’s conversation, good development instead of runaway development,” Dallari said.
As the county plans for the next two decades, Dallari said they want to hear from residents and stakeholders. The county hosted listening tours and is asking the public to participate in online surveys.
“We want to make sure that you’re a part of it. We also want to make sure that it’s part of your vision for your family and for your home,” Dallari said.
While Dallari wishes he could see into the future, he said he knows with community input, Seminole County will move in the right direction.
“It’s not what we want it to be, it’s what the community wants it to be,” he said. “We want to make sure that you’re as much proud of the county as we are.”
Commissioners are expected to get an update on Envision Seminole 2045 during a work session on June 14. In the meantime, residents and stakeholders can participate in the online surveys through June 8. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/05/seminole-county-asks-for-public-input-on-countys-future-growth/ | 2022-06-05T15:13:49 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/05/seminole-county-asks-for-public-input-on-countys-future-growth/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brad Johnson, who jumped from rodeo cowboy to portraying the Marlboro Man in cigarette spots and film and TV roles including Steven Spielberg’s “Always” and “Melrose Place,” has died. He was 62.
Johnson died Feb. 18 in Fort Worth, Texas, of complications from COVID-19, his agent, Linda McAlister, said Saturday.
Johnson played opposite Holly Hunter in 1989’s “Always,” a remake of a 1943 film (“A Guy Named Joe”) about firefighting pilots. He played a pilot again in the 2000 religious apocalyptic thriller “Left Behind,” starring Kirk Cameron, and was in its two sequels.
He worked regularly on TV, including in the recurring role of Dr. Dominick O’Malley in “Melrose Place”; “Rough Riders,” “Soldier of Fortune, Inc.” and “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.”
Johnson was born in October 1959 to parents Grove, a horse trainer, and Virginia, in Tucson, Arizona. After competing in rodeos as a youth, he began his professional rodeo career in 1984 and was discovered by a movie scout, according to a family biography.
His work as an actor and as a Marlboro Man — one of a succession used by the brand — brought Johnson and his wife, Laurie, to California. They eventually moved their family to a ranch in New Mexico and the Colorado mountains before settling in north Texas. He sold ranchland real estate there.
“As much as he loved cowboying and the outdoors, Brad loved nothing more than his family. He put them before himself in every way and they know that they could not have been blessed with a better husband and father,” his family said in a statement.
“Although he was taken too early, he lived life to the fullest,” they said.
Johnson’s survivors include his wife of 35 years, Laurie, as well as their children Shane, Bellamy, Rachel, Eliana, Eden, Rebekah, Annabeth and William, and Johnson’s stepmother, Teresa Johnson. | https://www.cbs42.com/local/brad-johnson-of-melrose-place-marlboro-man-ads-dies-at-62/ | 2022-06-05T15:13:48 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/local/brad-johnson-of-melrose-place-marlboro-man-ads-dies-at-62/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The MTV Movie & TV Awards return Sunday with a live show that could see “Spider-Man: No Way Home” snag some trophies.
The 2021 sensation enters the show as the leading nominee with seven. With almost $1.9 billion earned at the box office, “No Way Home” was the biggest film of the year and a fan favorite, though it was largely overlooked by the major awards shows.
MTV’s celebration of films and television shows is a lighter, breezier show. Vanessa Hudgens is hosting this year and the show will be broadcast live from Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, California, beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern on MTV, BET, Comedy Central, VH1 and other Paramount networks.
Jack Black will receive the Comic Genius honor, while Jennifer Lopez is this year’s Generation Award recipient, which celebrates actors whose diverse contributions in both film and television have turned them into household names.
HBO’s “Euphoria” has six nominations while “The Batman” has four. In all, 26 awards will be handed out in gender-neutral categories during the two-hour show.
This year the show has added best song and “Here for the Hookup” awards.
Diplo and Swae Lee will perform “Tupelo Shuffle” from the upcoming “Elvis” biopic from director Baz Luhrmann.
The ceremony is returning to a live format after being pre-recorded for several years. | https://www.cbs42.com/local/mtv-movie-tv-awards-return-sunday-spider-man-leads-noms/ | 2022-06-05T15:13:56 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/local/mtv-movie-tv-awards-return-sunday-spider-man-leads-noms/ |
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — “Tiger King” star Bhagavan “Doc” Antle was arrested by the FBI and expected to appear in court Monday to face federal money laundering charges, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
Federal agents arrested the controversial wild animal trainer Friday and he has been in custody at the J. Reuben Long Detention Center in Conway, South Carolina throughout the weekend.
Antle, the owner of the Myrtle Beach Safari in South Carolina, is featured prominently in “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” a 2020 Netflix documentary miniseries that focused on tiger breeders and private zoo operators in the U.S. The series focused heavily on Oklahoma zoo operator Joe Exotic, who also was targeted for animal mistreatment and was convicted in a plot to kill a rival, Carole Baskin.
The charges against Antle, 62, were expected to be formally announced during a court proceeding Monday afternoon in Florence, South Carolina. The charges relate to allegations of money laundering, a person familiar with the matter told the AP on Saturday. The person could not discuss the matter publicly and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity.
Animal rights advocates have accused Antle of mistreating lions and other wildlife. He was indicted in Virginia in 2020 on animal cruelty and wildlife trafficking charges.
In May, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals asked the IRS to probe Antle’s Rare Species Fund, a nonprofit raising money for wildlife conservation. PETA alleges he uses some of the fund’s money to subsidize his safari site in Socastee outside Myrtle Beach.
“It’s fitting that “Doc” Antle is behind bars after years of locking up the endangered animals he uses in tawdry photo ops. His legal woes are mounting, as PETA recently blew the whistle on his apparent ‘charity’ scam, and the end to his reign of terrorizing tiger cubs can’t come soon enough,” said Debbie Metzler, associate director of PETA’s Captive Animal Law Enforcement division, in a statement.
Meanwhile, in Virginia, Antle is facing two felony counts of wildlife trafficking and conspiracy to wildlife trafficking charges, as well as 13 misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to violate the Endangered Species Act and animal cruelty charges tied to trafficking lion cubs. Those charges are scheduled to go to trial next month.
Antle has a history of recorded violations, going as far back as 1989, when he was fined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for abandoning deer and peacocks at his zoo in Virginia. Over the years, he has more than 35 USDA violations for mistreating animals.
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Associated Press writer Michael Balsamo in Washington contributed to this report. | https://www.cbs42.com/local/tiger-king-star-doc-antle-to-face-money-laundering-charges/ | 2022-06-05T15:14:03 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/local/tiger-king-star-doc-antle-to-face-money-laundering-charges/ |
Lily's Pad suffers setback in goal to build a clean play center for immunocompromised kids
The Valley's housing crisis hit home for a Tempe-based nonprofit in an odd way.
In 2021, Lily's Pad received a $25,000 grant from the Gannett Foundation-sponsored A Community Thrives program to build out a clean, safe space where immunocompromised kids could play.
But then the donated space was sold off and demolished to make room for new home construction.
"It’s hard to accept the reality that we are back at the beginning of the building process when we had come so far before," said director Dawn Garza. "Additionally, we have the added expense of rent which we were so fortunate to have had donated before."
A new location has already been identified.
Apply for the program:Arizona nonprofits can begin applying for Community Thrives grants on June 1
"There is also a bright side. This new location has better access for families with a variety of freeway connections nearby," Garza said.
Lily's Pad was one of 16 Arizona nonprofits that shared more than $333,000 in A Community Thrives grants last year.
A Community Thrives is an initiative of the Gannett Foundation, Gannett Co., Inc.'s charitable arm. Gannett owns The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com. The 6-year-old Community Thrives program supports education, arts and culture, wellness and community building in cities across the country.
Arizona Gives Day 2022:More than $6 million raised for nonprofits
Non-profits have until June 30 to apply for 2022 grants, which can be as high as $100,000.
Garza said Lilly's Pad used last year's grant to help secure a new location. The group has set an ambitious goal to have the playcenter completed this year.
Lily's Pad was named after Garza's niece, who at age three was diagnosed with leukemia in 2017. Medical treatments forced her to stay away from playgrounds and other public places. The lack of interaction negatively affected her social development. Lily has been cancer-free since 2020.
"It’s incredible how powerful human connections can be and how important it is for our emotional and mental health to find comfort in others," Garza said.
"Lily’s Pad will fill this missing piece in the holistic approach to healing. We will be an oasis where kids can put aside the pain of their medical battles and focus on just being kids."
A Community Thrives 2022 timeline:
Application period, June 1-30.
Crowdfunding by qualified nonprofits, July 18-Aug. 12.
Grants will be announced on Oct. 5.
Nonprofits can find more details about A Community Thrives and apply at: acommunitythrives.com. Learn more about Lily's pad at https://lilyspadaz.org.
Roxanne De La Rosa writes about nonprofits for The Republic and azcentral.com. Reach her at rdelarosa@azcentral.com. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2022/06/05/nonprofit-lilys-pad-suffers-setback-building-clean-play-center/7475214001/ | 2022-06-05T15:20:50 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2022/06/05/nonprofit-lilys-pad-suffers-setback-building-clean-play-center/7475214001/ |
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Arizona Lottery and other groups meet in Tonto National Forest to rehabilitate saguaros
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How these groups are rescuing saguaro cactuses and restoring a wildfire burn scar
A plan to rescue damaged saguaro cactuses and help restore a wildfire burn scar was unveiled last week by a coalition of government agencies, non-profit groups and businesses.
The coalition intends to replant cactuses, some of them salvaged from construction sites, on a wildfire burn scar in northeastern Maricopa County. They also want to rehabilitate cactuses damaged in the fire, something that has rarely been done before, according to Bec Veerman, a zone partnership liaison with the U.S. Forest Service.
Veerman said Maricopa County Parks and Recreation had attempted to rescue a few burned cactuses and had some success. The Forest Service decided to experiment themselves with cactuses that had been injured by the 2020 Bush Fire.
To rehabilitate a cactus, Veerman and her colleagues have to determine whether to cut a healthy arm off the injured cactus or the top part of the trunk that hasn't yet died. They will then plant the piece of the original cactus in a hole and cover it with soil, tamping it down to eliminate any air pockets. After that, they water it and hope roots grow.
“We’re just sciencing it really at the moment,” she said. “A lot of it’s an experiment.”
Natural Restorations, a non-profit organization started by wife and husband duo Nicole and Justin Corey, had begun rescuing cactuses from construction sites soon after an engineer named Jenny Vitale contacted them about saguaros destroyed during construction work.
Vitale reached out to construction companies and Boyce Thompson Arboretum to see if the group could salvage the cactuses and move them to the burn scar.
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The couple started the organization in 2017 after becoming tired of seeing trash and graffiti outdoors in the places they loved. But after Nicole’s husband went camping with a friend who had returned from serving several military tours abroad, they decided to recruit veterans to their cause.
“Their parents had always taught them to leave the areas better than they found them, so they started picking up trash that had blown into their camp from a storm the night before,” Nicole Corey said. “About 15 minutes into it, the friend said to Justin, ‘Is this what you were referring to for your organization?’"
Justin said yes. His friend wanted in. "I've stopped thinking about all the things that I'm trying to numb myself from and I'm just thinking about, 'oh there's a piece of trash, oh there's a piece of trash,'” he told Justin that day.
Other partners include the National Forest Foundation, Four Peaks Brewery and the Arizona Lottery.
The lottery carved out $45,000 from its advertising dollars to help fund the project, according to John Gilliland, a spokesperson for the agency.
“We thought this cactus nursery was great because not only does it help protect these cactuses, but it's going to help restore the fragile Sonoran Desert ecosystem and this iconic landscape of Arizona for generations,” Gilliland said. “There's a permanence here that goes far beyond today, and that's what we strive for with our Give Back sponsorships.”
The cactuses will be replanted in the burn scar of the Bush Fire, which swept through more than 180,000 acres in northeast Maricopa County.
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Veerman took The Republic to one section of the burn scar where they’ve started to replant cactuses.
The cactuses have taken to the burn scar unlike trees in replanting efforts elsewhere in the state because the soil didn't become hydrophobic, or glass-like, after the fire.
“These fires aren't gonna burn as hot because there's not as much fuel to burn. They'll burn through, and they burn, but they don't burn as hot," Veerman said. "So this the soil here is fine.”
The scars of the fire are evident, with few of the tall saguaros iconic to the Sonoran Desert in the area.
Veerman pointed to a burned palo verde tree, huddled over the blackened stump of a saguaro. Palo verdes are known as nurse trees, protecting the plants that live beneath them. When the fire swept through the land, that palo verde's branches arched over the saguaro, appearing to hug it, before they burned together.
Zayna Syed is an environmental reporter for The Arizona Republic/azcentral. Follow her reporting on Twitter at @zaynasyed_ and send tips or other information about stories to zayna.syed@arizonarepublic.com.
Environmental coverage on azcentral.com and in The Arizona Republic is supported by a grant from the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust. Follow The Republic environmental reporting team at environment.azcentral.com and @azcenvironment on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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